[-] sicarius@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Yep, that's close enough. Although we mostly use a gamma radiation source as x-rays are electronically generated, we aren't near a plug and the equipment is often cumbersome.
There are portable x-ray generators that run off a 20v dewalt battery. But their effective penetrative power means it's only viable for very thin walled pipes.

[-] sicarius@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Not quite. We climb / rappel structures, mostly oil rigs. And use a gamma radiation source to check for weld defects.
We're known as bombers because the source container, a techops sentinel 880 or a SCAR projector look a lot like bombs and we blast radiation all over the place causing issues to the nucleonic sensors so over the place.

[-] sicarius@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm a rope access industrial radiographer.
Edit: colloquially known as a "bomber"

[-] sicarius@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Steel toe capped crocks

[-] sicarius@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

I just got a new puppy and when she poops she starts facing one directing the turns 180 while pooping then scoots over to the side a bit to finish.
Is she broken? Should I do an RMA?

[-] sicarius@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I did some work at a place called The hollow mountain that does this. But seeing as it looked like an underground James Bond bad guy base and I was a rope access mook in a boiler suit, I felt like I could die at any moment by tuxedo clad hero.
It wasn't solar they used to power pump the water back up though. They just, hmm I want to say, bought cheap electricity when no one was using it.

[-] sicarius@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago

The lead engineer at a site I work on from time to time is on a 3 on 3 off rotation (weeks) on an offshore oil rig.
It turns out he was having to miss some of his trips because he had to 'look after his ailing father'.
It turns out he was spending this time working another lead engineer job, for the same oil company but in a different country.
He got away with it for months until some issue came up and he had to call into the office and they noticed his number was from another country, Saudi Arabia.
Haven't been back to that site in a while so I don't know what happened to him but he's certainly not working there any more.

[-] sicarius@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

Try a tab of lsd and go for a nice walk in the woods

[-] sicarius@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

I travel a lot for work with a not very big weight allowance so it has replaced my laptop as my daily machine.
I game on it, use it for discord and dndbeyond to play dnd at work, have jellyfin on it to stream media to my phone+ar glasses, and use it to access my home server to deal with downloads and my main jellyfin server.
It's an awesome tool.

[-] sicarius@lemmy.world 54 points 3 months ago

My wife gave birth like this, right on the living room floor and my daughter came out in an egg. The whole thing happened so quick, the midwife only arrived a few moments before she dropped, lucky as she needed to cut the egg open and get my daughter out.
Meanwhile I was lying on the sofa with a broken leg trying to stop our cat from eating everything.

[-] sicarius@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

I'm on an oil rig in the north sea and last time this happened I was stuck out here for an extra week. I'm due home on Friday. Really really hoping this time isn't at bad.

[-] sicarius@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

In that case Felix Baumgartner is the fastest human being.
With a top speed of 843.6 mike's per hour.
Ussain Bolt and suck it.
Edit: if the autocorrect mistake is funny, just leave tit as tit is.

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