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To: NicknamedBob
Bob, you're The Imperial Weatherman, not The Impervious Whatchacallit. You could be The Insidious Welding Master. Or not.
762 posted on 12/03/2007 8:12:21 PM PST by Monkey Face (If we are what we eat, I'm cheap, fast and easy.)
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To: Monkey Face
"Bob, you're The Imperial Weatherman, not The Impervious Whatchacallit. You could be The Insidious Welding Master. Or not."

I was a part-time welding inspector. We had a lot riding on the skill of our welders.

Many of them are still at work. The Habs need a lot of refinement.

Some of the welding is done "outside". It's funny to see. First a full-size spiderbot goes out, gives birth to a minibot carrying the electric welding equipment, and then watches motheringly as the welding takes place.

It's all done by teleoperators, of course. But it beats having to suit up and try welding in space, while hanging under the hull of a rotating habitat.

773 posted on 12/03/2007 8:30:43 PM PST by NicknamedBob (I had the solution for everything, but it got out of its container.)
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