Balls of steel and brains of mush.
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Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
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Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
It looks completely insane to us because we live in a risk-avoiding culture. We often associate taking a risk with being an idiot and admitting that people can make mistakes is a taboo. I've a site in Vietnam where they were building an artificial lake for an hydroelectric dam. Since the whole valley was going to be flooded, they build new roads on the mountaintops and they had Chinese contractors connect them with an insanely high bridge. You really wouldn't believe the things I saw those Chinese builders do. They tie a rope around a girder and use it as an elevator. One guy standing on a plank, so the other guy could weld on the outside. One can rightly argue that while they create new things ten times faster than a European or American company, they have lots of unnecessary accidents resulting in deaths and that it's cruel or even barbaric. On the other hand, those people actually seem to enjoy their work a lot more, because it's more motivating to just go out there and make stuff happen than to fill in risk assessments, sit through endless lectures, sweating yourself to death wearing heavy equipment and everytime someone farted the insurance company requires to bring in a team of experts to find out why.
Giraffes are not real.
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Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
Don't they have the internet, and beer, and women in Switzerland?
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. " — Hunter S. Thompson My comedy.
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It looks completely insane to us because we live in a risk-avoiding culture. We often associate taking a risk with being an idiot and admitting that people can make mistakes is a taboo. I've a site in Vietnam where they were building an artificial lake for an hydroelectric dam. Since the whole valley was going to be flooded, they build new roads on the mountaintops and they had Chinese contractors connect them with an insanely high bridge. You really wouldn't believe the things I saw those Chinese builders do. They tie a rope around a girder and use it as an elevator. One guy standing on a plank, so the other guy could weld on the outside. One can rightly argue that while they create new things ten times faster than a European or American company, they have lots of unnecessary accidents resulting in deaths and that it's cruel or even barbaric. On the other hand, those people actually seem to enjoy their work a lot more, because it's more motivating to just go out there and make stuff happen than to fill in risk assessments, sit through endless lectures, sweating yourself to death wearing heavy equipment and everytime someone farted the insurance company requires to bring in a team of experts to find out why.
Giraffes are not real.
0bx wrote:
On the other hand, those people actually seem to enjoy their work a lot more,
I'd say ask the orphans...
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. " — Hunter S. Thompson My comedy.
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It looks completely insane to us because we live in a risk-avoiding culture. We often associate taking a risk with being an idiot and admitting that people can make mistakes is a taboo. I've a site in Vietnam where they were building an artificial lake for an hydroelectric dam. Since the whole valley was going to be flooded, they build new roads on the mountaintops and they had Chinese contractors connect them with an insanely high bridge. You really wouldn't believe the things I saw those Chinese builders do. They tie a rope around a girder and use it as an elevator. One guy standing on a plank, so the other guy could weld on the outside. One can rightly argue that while they create new things ten times faster than a European or American company, they have lots of unnecessary accidents resulting in deaths and that it's cruel or even barbaric. On the other hand, those people actually seem to enjoy their work a lot more, because it's more motivating to just go out there and make stuff happen than to fill in risk assessments, sit through endless lectures, sweating yourself to death wearing heavy equipment and everytime someone farted the insurance company requires to bring in a team of experts to find out why.
Giraffes are not real.
0bx wrote:
It looks completely insane to us because we live in a risk-avoiding culture. We often associate taking a risk with being an idiot and admitting that people can make mistakes is a taboo.
Which is 80% of the reason we've done essentially nothing in space. Too afraid to take chances. Kind of icky to say it, but we lost what? Two dozen people in 50 years? Walmart probably loses more than that every year due to accidents, and they're not tossing people at ridiculous speeds for incredible distances into non-life-sustaining environments. Space exploration isn't supposed to be safer than retail.
I thought you had to go to Pittsburgh for that. My Mu[sic] My Films My Windows Programs, etc.
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It looks completely insane to us because we live in a risk-avoiding culture. We often associate taking a risk with being an idiot and admitting that people can make mistakes is a taboo. I've a site in Vietnam where they were building an artificial lake for an hydroelectric dam. Since the whole valley was going to be flooded, they build new roads on the mountaintops and they had Chinese contractors connect them with an insanely high bridge. You really wouldn't believe the things I saw those Chinese builders do. They tie a rope around a girder and use it as an elevator. One guy standing on a plank, so the other guy could weld on the outside. One can rightly argue that while they create new things ten times faster than a European or American company, they have lots of unnecessary accidents resulting in deaths and that it's cruel or even barbaric. On the other hand, those people actually seem to enjoy their work a lot more, because it's more motivating to just go out there and make stuff happen than to fill in risk assessments, sit through endless lectures, sweating yourself to death wearing heavy equipment and everytime someone farted the insurance company requires to bring in a team of experts to find out why.
Giraffes are not real.
Risking your life for a bloody record is senseless.
Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
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Don't they have the internet, and beer, and women in Switzerland?
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. " — Hunter S. Thompson My comedy.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
In Swiss relatable terms; Precisely. So why the fuck is he doing that silly shit? Now if he was in China where there is 5 single woman per 200 single men, maybe I'd understand it. Fun fact, relatable is flagged as misspelled.
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. " — Hunter S. Thompson My comedy.
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Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
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0bx wrote:
It looks completely insane to us because we live in a risk-avoiding culture. We often associate taking a risk with being an idiot and admitting that people can make mistakes is a taboo.
Which is 80% of the reason we've done essentially nothing in space. Too afraid to take chances. Kind of icky to say it, but we lost what? Two dozen people in 50 years? Walmart probably loses more than that every year due to accidents, and they're not tossing people at ridiculous speeds for incredible distances into non-life-sustaining environments. Space exploration isn't supposed to be safer than retail.
I thought you had to go to Pittsburgh for that. My Mu[sic] My Films My Windows Programs, etc.
GenJerDan wrote:
Kind of icky to say it, but we lost what? Two dozen people in 50 years?
NASA spent too much time and effort creating an image of perfection. We knew, when we were testing rocket-planes instead of spam in a can that test-pilots would die, and be mourned, and be memorialized by their successor flying faster and higher. Later, of course, NASA's mission was reinterpreted as providing job security for NASA administrators.
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." ~ Albert Einstein
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Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
My sphincter would be so drawed up so tight around the cable you'd have to use the Jaws-of-life to get me off.
Now that food has replaced sex in my life, I can't even get into my own pants.
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Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
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Slacker007 wrote:
Balls of steel and brains of mush.
Only if he falls and lands head first. :laugh:
Actually if he falls it would not make any difference which part hit first, it would all be mush.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
