Posted on 04/10/2022 8:43:22 PM PDT by upchuck
It appears to be changing human DNA pretty well too. 😏
I don’t remember that but they were in k-rations. That I remember
Back in 1962 or so a shipmate (US Navy) and I were cleaning up a 50' utility boat and found WWII survival rations in a storage compartment. That also contained cigarettes.
So much for Zero Carbon.
C-Rats too.
I remember when doctor’s offices had ashtrays so you could smoke in the waiting room AND when you were seeing the doctor. Even elevators had ashtrays built in...
Different world.
“ Flying robots and micro robo-snipers don’t really need armor.”
Maybe just around their vitals, to make them more survivable.
Actually, I looked, and folks are already selling body armor and cut protection work gloves with graphene.
https://citizenarmor.com/collections/male-body-armor
https://ppe4work.com/collections/kyorene®-cut-protection-gloves
I can tell you about fiber reinforce concrete. Even after twenty-five years it is about five times as difficult to remove with a concrete breaker. Be there — done that.
Carbon fiber laminate is one of the ways that they retrofit elevated concrete slabs that are found too weak for (1) modern earthquake design codes and, (2) anti-terrorism blast protection.
They are adding a high tension element below a compression strength element. Almost like post-tensioned cable.
It is not as though asbestos was continually shedding into the air where people were. It was mostly behind walls anyway. So you are correct. Those who worked with asbestos. In factories and installing it. Yes, this was hazardous. Lead paint in homes and apartments was also innocuous, unless it was peeling off and kiddies were eating the chips. How often do you see interior paints peeling off? I have not.
I worked for about ten years in an MCI telecommunications facility that had asbestos in the floor tiles. The installers had to take measures against it. When drilling holes in the floor to install new telephone relay racks they had to put shaving cream from an aerosol can where the hole was drilled to trap the shavings, then scrape it up and put it in a plastic bag to sent it to a company that would properly dispose of it. In another facility where I worked there was blown in asbestos insulation on the poured concrete ceiling and anytime we needed to anchor the cable ladders and trays into the ceiling we had to get a professional company to assure the asbestos was properly contained.
I was wondering where and where but then I saw you put up a link. Tnks.
Elevators to low earth orbit.
Who predicted that?
5.56mm
They are adding a high tension element below a compression strength element. Almost like post-tensioned cable.
The front wall of my 60 plus year old basement had an open crack the whole length. I contacted an engineering group that advertised Carbon fiber bands like I had seen in an old episode of "This Old House." They installed the six inch wide bands about every ten feet anchored to the basement floor and the rim joists. I covered the rough edges of the bands with Lexel, filled the crack with cement, painted the wall with Drylok and then regular finish paint.
The episode of "This Old House" had Bob Vila showing an old Massachusetts tavern that was restored with a two story wall strengthened with Carbon Fiber vertical bands. That was way back when.
Here is the link you want >>>>> https://www.thejamesbonddossier.com/content/solo-the-ian-fleming-connection.htm
That refers to the killing of gangster Mr. Solo in Goldfinger ....... That naming him Solo was a swipe at The Man From Uncle on TV at the time, that had Robert Vaughn as Napolean Solo. This was known by movie goers (and me) back then. It is no mystery, sleuthed out via today’s internet.
I found a “brand new” unopened roll of asbestos wrap on top of a duct awhile ago. It had a list of all the applications it could be used for on the packaging. I rolled it in Saran Wrap and gave it to my sister-in-law for Christmas but she didn’t find it funny but hopefully useful.
Your account shows that proper precautions were taken regarding asbestos. But really, with the shaving cream. This could have been disposed of in the common trash. It looks like the asbestos was OK unless disturbed via drilling tiles and anchoring into asbestos coated beams.
Good do-it-yourself. You saved yourself 1-2 thousand dollars.
I fervently watched The Man From Uncle. David McCallam as Illya Kuryakin and Leo G. Carroll as Mr. Waverly.
LSMFT
“David McCallam as Illya Kuryakin” >>>>> Still alive and kicking at age 88. He has recently had a continuing role on one of those CSI shows.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3228550/Charles-Bronson-stole-wife-man-U-N-C-L-E-returns-original-heartthrob-David-McCallum-speaks-filming-spy-classic-time-around.html
It might have sounded like standard crystal-ball flattery. But decades later, his mother would remind him of this encounter as he was mobbed by screaming female fans from Tallahassee to Tokyo, swamped under the biggest fan mail any actor has received in the history of MGM Studios.
The young British star was dubbed the ‘Blond Beatle’ in the Sixties, for his floppy fringe and boyish good looks but also his alarming effect on young women, who would mob department stores and climb through lavatory windows to get at him.
The Soviets would have loved to have got their hands on him, too, for his portrayal of a Russian agent working alongside the Americans at the height of the Cold War.
And all because he starred in a stylish, but silly, television spy series which became an international phenomenon.
Hmmm.
It’s a good thing I waited to talk to Freepers before taking that job.
I’m no scientist either, (nor comic either) but people who speak from experience beat the ruminators any day.
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