Level Crossings

[Cudzoziemiec]

Thank you Yorkie
This is what's great about YACF someone, somewhere knows stuff!

And not just on the obvious topics; it's a community of cyclists rather than a cycling forum. 

[Kim]

Keeping track of trains up to a failsafe, safety critical standard *is* apparently rocket surgery.

Rocket 'surgery'?

'Rocket engineering', surely.

This joke is now in orbit.

Also, the joke^[1] became real back in 2018: https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/12/11/russian-eva-45a/


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_{"Rocket science" and "brain surgery" are both held up as examples of extremely difficult things.  It therefore follows that combining the two - "rocket surgery" - is even more difficult.  ("Brain science" being much less funny, on account of being an actual thing.)}

[ElyDave]

One of my ex-colleagues used the phrase"come on, its not rocket science" at n environmental audit of a USAnian facility that did...

Yes, you've guessed it

[ian]

A friend of mine is (or was¹) a rocket scientist. She was dead set on marrying on brain surgeon just for this reason².

¹Turns out the majority of rocket science jobs concern stuff that goes bang on earth or near to it, unpleasantly for those in the vicinity.

²Surgeons, it turned out, tend to be egotistical jerks. But points for trying.

[quixoticgeek]

Getting rid of level crossings is a nightmare for those who can't do stairs.

Stairs are probably the biggest cause of injury on the railways after level crossings...

Stairs in general are just dangerous. They are one of the most dangerous things we interact with in every day life in the home. It's not helped that the design is such a compromise. They could be made a lot safer if they were designed to have one set for going up, an one for going down.

Curiously you also get interesting variation across age groups and also across countries with where people get hurt on stairs.

Obviously the roads are more dangerous overall. But if stairs were invented today, they'd never get past a health and safety evaluation...

J

[ian]

I got the better part of £1000 out of Southern trains some years back when I landed painfully on my coccyx on un-gritted stairs. Evidently, weather forecasts were for other people and despite the obvious problem none of the station staff were qualified to put grit on the platforms and steps.

Reminds me of the other week, passing through West Croydon station, someone had spilled a drink and there was a little warning board next to it. Six hours later? It was still there, unmopped. Literally a ten-second task.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Keeping track of trains up to a failsafe, safety critical standard *is* apparently rocket surgery.

Rocket 'surgery'?

'Rocket engineering', surely.

This joke is now in orbit.

Also, the joke^[1] became real back in 2018: https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/12/11/russian-eva-45a/


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_{"Rocket science" and "brain surgery" are both held up as examples of extremely difficult things.  It therefore follows that combining the two - "rocket surgery" - is even more difficult.  ("Brain science" being much less funny, on account of being an actual thing.)}

That link is disappointing. I thought it was going to be a case of emergency brain surgery performed on a rocket.

[Tigerbiten]

Try this link for a case of emergency rocket brain surgery from the Apollo era -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4TXNZW3JBo&ab_channel=ScottManley

[HTFB]

That link is disappointing. I thought it was going to be a case of emergency brain surgery performed on a rocket.

I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that.