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Swing and a miss
Here is a picture of a toyota corona:

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@Braineack swung and missed recently.
we were discussing the purchase of nike shoes and he was encouraging me to purchase all the options with the intent to return most of them:





SO CLOSE.

Yes, I quoted the picture.

My wife and I were just discussing plagues and diseases and death rates. She noted HIV/AIDS was on this list and asked why it was there and why there were no other fatal sexually transmitted diseases. So I looked up syphilis for death rates and found this in wiki: " During 2015, it caused about 107,000 deaths, down from 202,000 in 1990.[5][9]". Holy crap, that's a lot of people dying of something easily cured.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...HO2012.svg.png

Darker colors indicate higher death rates. Yellow is zero (reported).

That's racist.

:giggle:

It's interesting that Mexico figured it out and some of these others didn't.

Kitty enjoys open windows.

And relatively easily avoided.

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...f811699502.jpg

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Makes you wonder if she's hiding 80 rolls of toilet paper in those pants or just a "brave and thick"

A new gadget showed up in Studio 3 yesterday.

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...61c68db37a.png

I'm not even sure what to call this thing. Maybe @sixshooter knows?

It's basically a robotic demolisher. Runs on 3 phase AC power, and has a wired remote kind of like an RC airplane controller. They're using it to knock down a concrete-block wall. The image above is technically the second floor of the building, inside of studio 3, which is two stories tall. About a decade ago, they built these rooms inside the studio, now they're taking them out. The upper level wall is already gone.

Kind of interesting to watch it do its thing.

Any videos? I appreciate the pay and stability that comes from working in tech, but I miss being able to get my hands on stuff like this when I still did manufacturing/defense work.

Joe,

I haven't seen that particular one. There's a lot of new technology entering use in construction. At the big show in Vegas a couple of weeks ago they had a couple of the freaky Boston Dynamics robots walking around with laser range finders on them. They are just as unnerving to see in person.

https://www.equipmentworld.com/spot-...tion-succeeds/

Found some info. https://www.brokk.com/us/product/brokk-170/

Turns out that it is, in fact, merely called a robotic demolition machine. I was hoping it would have a cooler name.

It was interesting watching the crew drive it out of the freight elevator on the 2nd floor, through a nice carpeted hallway past a bunch of offices, towards the jobsite. It was even more fun watching them negotiate the tight turn at the end of the hallway. Needless to say, the carpet in that area is completely destroyed. And there's now a rather large hole in the drywall which wasn't on the demolition print.

Not my videos, but this is the same unit we have:







That's an interesting application of Spot. We had the empty space on the 2nd floor of the building laser-scanned about a month ago, in preparation for building it out. About 12,000 ft^2. Not nearly as sexy as having a robotic dog do it, they just hung a few dozen paper targets with something similar to QR codes printed on them at various reference points, then spent a day carrying a tripod with a scanner at the top around to different locations, letting it do its thing for a few minutes, moving it to the next location, etc. The end-product was a very cool 3d visualization.

They also put manlifts on those little tracked undercarriages.

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...a1c722a79.jpeg

Nothing at all about that seems utterly terrifying.

Wanna know a funny thing? I have a fear of heights.

But it's highly selective.

I have no problem at all with being on the roof of Sears tower near the edge, since I know that it was designed by engineers, verified by other engineers, and constructed under the wrathful scrutiny of yet more engineers.

What honestly gives me the willies is being on a 15 foot ladder that was designed by Steve, built by Marge, and verified by Ken in the shipping department.