In the US, a patent application for a perpetual motion device must be accompanied by a working prototype. I Danish law, it is just automatically rejected.
Once while we were building a house on Daily on Island Alabama , we were told by an engineer who drew up the plans for a house to nail straps with certain nails . Nails we never used before . We told him this and he said that was what HIS plans called for and we were required to use them . So we used them . A month or so later he comes back and tells us we have to replace ALL nails in the straps as they were rusting . Needless to say , I had no part in replacing those nails .
The couple that wanted a fireplace in their apartment could probably have gotten a fake one, although they might have had to use fake brick/stone depending on the loadbearing capacity of the floor. They may not have liked it as much as a real fireplace, but it seems like the best option for them.
It isn't their best option...it's their ONLY Option... Modifying the building to install a wood burning fireplace on the 4th floor will require a new footing directly under the fireplace and structural steel columns from the footing up to the floor supporting the fireplace...THEN you need to punch a chimney AND Fire/Heat Insulation for that Chimney all the way up to the roof... Depending on it's weight, a gas burning fireplace would be simpler to install since they're usually lighter than a wood fireplace (so the structural reinforcement required would be a LOT less drastic) and the chimney can be routed straight out the side of the apartment on the 4th floor... Either way, you're going to need a LOT of Permissions from the City, the building Owner AND the residents of the Apartments below yours... Good Luck with getting the Permissions... Buy a Lottery Ticket instead, you have a FAR better chance of winning enough money to buy a chunk of land and build a custom home with a fireplace in it... 😄😁😆😅😂🤣
A flat screen TV with a fireplace on the screen would have been a good idea inside. Could have had a casing built around the TV to *look* like a fireplace and had a "fireplace" at the push of a button.
When in Belize in '95 locals told me of a recent fiasco - the Belizean government decided they wanted to build a dam to control waters when the annual flooding rains came. They hired a Canadian engineering firn who examined the area and toldcthe Belizean government that they could build a good dam at a certain crucial point in the river that would do the job. The Belizean government however stated, " Oh no, we want you to build it in this other location." The Canadian firm informed them that for logistical reasons an effective damn couldn't be built there, it needed to be in a certain location. Well the Belizean government finally said, " No, justcbuild it where we want you to. " so the firm built a dam at the incorrect point and basically took the money and said, " Good luck! ...idiots." ..and low and behold, the next rainy season came, flood waters overcame and destroyed the ill-placed dam. The engineers were like, " Well, we told you so."
Parallel… I gave out some late in the spring tomato plants, most advanced ones were starting to try to bloom. It is June 29th. A woman asks me if it’s possible for her to have tomatoes (full sized and fully ripe) by July 4th. My immediate answer was “From the store!” (Bloom to set can take that long, then the fruit has to grow and ripen) I further told her it would take at least three weeks to have the tomatoes grow, expect end of July to enjoy the delicious red tomatoes…. Wedding photographers having a fit because no sunset over the water at a US east coast beach in their evening wedding photos. I’ve actually defied nature to photoshop one in and fix the lighting for a few photog friends of mine. (Don’t ask, I consider it in $$$$$ PITA work)
When the engineers told our never satisfied supervisor that if said supervisor forced the brand new million dollar machine to run faster than its designed maximum capacity then the warranty would be voided and he'd be personally responsible for any damage caused to the machine.
My dad had to go inspect some cranes, found put maintenance was barely done on it and they were using a crane that holds up to 14 tons to pick up 17 ton objects. He said the structural damage was not salvageable and had to shell 1.4 million to replace it. But instead of doing that, he just decided they will have to make due with the smaller cran e. They complained that will double their workload and slow progress. He just told them that maybe they should have treated their tools better.
I hope your Dad reported them to OSHA (or Local Equivalent) if they chose to keep overloading their Crane that way...Hell, I hope he reported them anyway BECAUSE they routinely overloaded the crane...OSHA would Crucify them...IF they're lucky... Regularly lifting 17 Tons with a 14 Ton Rated Crane that hasn't been properly maintained...How in HELL has it not collapsed yet dropping several Tons of stuff on the Idiot Squishies (AKA the Employees) around it?
@@HappilyHomicidalHooligan my dad was an equipment specialist for the government. So when his reports go in, he doesn't really get to see the punishments. He did have to take a 14 hour flight to Anchorage in Alaska because some guy got crushed by a shipping container. Turns out the guy was standing in front of the vehicle too close and would have survived if he had been wearing his helmet. He also had to deal with a crane that fell over for the same reason somewhere else, however he had no choice but to allow a brand new crane, which was a huge loss of money. He tends to find a lot of issues with a lack of maintenance.
@@soulessslime433 I've gotten on the case of various contractors I work for when they don't care and maintain equipment. Forklifts to hydraulic table benders, they all need love and daily/ weekly/ monthly inspections. And how crews treat man lifts (scissor lifts, etc) makes me so cranky. How do you expect to get the job done with broken shit?
Not an engineer, but my grandma's husband had his own huse built. As he was having it built, he decided he wanted the foundation to be on a big concrete slab. My dad advised against it (he'd built houses from scratch) but he did it anyways. Turns out, they poured the concrete before they hooked up the hot water to the master bathrom. Now they have a master bathroom bigger than a normal hotel room, but it has to have the hot water heater turned on an hour before you shower. -_-
I was helping setting up lights for a dance program. I over heard the dance instructor telling the lighting manager that she only wanted the dancers lit from their knees down. No light was to be seen on anything else. SMDH
I understand that not everyone understands certain aspects of engineering, but to not have a grasp of the most basic laws of physics is ridiculous (but entertaining and extremely amusing!) 🤣
Whoever it was back in the 1880's who decided my house didn't need a crawlspace to be more than 2 feet high because frick ever needing to regain access to things like plumbing.
When I was 8 years old my dad told me that one of his clients wanted him to build the floor for a shower room. Rectangular room with a rectangular drain in the middle from which the floor goes up with the same angle in all directions so that the edge to the wall is at the same height everywhere. When I told him that this isn't possible in a rectangular room he just laughted and told me that's what he tried to explain to the client for half an hour. After that my father just gave up, acted confused and asked the client (a retired architect) if he could draw him a plan for that so he won't mess it up. It was only then that the architect realised
I'm an Electrician, retired, and would get asked all the time to change a breaker. So, I'd go out, expecting to find a breaker that won't reset for one reason or another. And what I find is: The Microwave, refrigerator, covfefe pot, rice cooker, toaster, and others all all plugged into the same circuit, often the same outlet with a power strip or worse. Turns out what they really want is me to drop a 30 Amp breaker onto 14 gauge wire. Sorry, man, I'm not helping you burn your house down.
I was asked to fix a trailer hitch on a pickup I had to tell the owner it was not the hitch that was bent it was the frame of his half ton truck that was bent I think he loaded it up with two tons on the front of the boat he was pulling with it the only straight part was where he bolted the hitch on the truck frame
Magical thinkers who graduated from Dunning-Kruger University provide most of the comedy, and tragedy in the world. Hindenburg? Titanic? Challenger? Columbia? Chetnobyl? All these disasters were caused by twits ignoring the laws of physics. 'Let's fill a balloon with hydrogen, then paint it with thermite!' (Hindenburg) 'Let's build the biggest ship in the world out of substandard iron and race it thru an ice field at full speed!' (Titanic) 'Let's build rockets, then ignore safety regs to get our spy satellites in place for the Gulf War!' (Challenger and Columbia). 'Let's build a flammable graphite nuclear reactor, test it up to ignition temperature, then leave the test running without telling the second shift!' (Chernobyl) Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Booooom. It would be funny if it didn't kill people.
My daughter worked for a company that did building plans and site details. She was the one who went out to verify the contractor followed specs. Any time something didn’t get done or was inconvenient to do the builder would try to get her to just mark it off so they could go on. Her reply was always “I’m signing a legal document that the building and the plans match. If anything ever happens it will be my fault if the building doesn’t match the specifications. I’m not taking liability for your screwup and if you don’t like it you can call my boss to remove me. But I will tell him why I won’t sign off and you can try to convince him to sign the paperwork.” They didn’t like it but they couldn’t argue it either.
Mostly just replicating designs (which were already kind of suspect) of other engineers, but with extra holes cut out of them, stricter specified requirements, and a lower budget.
I have an idea on how to beat information transfer that is faster than the speed of light the problem is it would require a ton of energy and I mean like at least a black hole amount of energy. So no sadly we stuck at the speed of light
When I was in welding school, we got the blueprints for a hot water tank. It was made in two halves with a 2" hole on one end. The engineer specified that it was to be welded from the inside.
I mean... Samsung DOES offer bigger batteries on some of their newer models. I don't know how it changes the thickness, but they're definitely heavier, more expensive, and I assume they get hotter when in use.
That thing with the geothermal plant at 24:35... the deepest hole ever dug was 12.2 km deep as a science project by the soviets... it took them 5 years to get to s depth of 7 km
13:08 When some guy makes a TH-cam channel with a python script, TTS, and some light AI work with no human review or Fs given and still gets 300k subs while people like FearOfDark have 30k subs after a decade of amazing effort.
10:59: the light speed is around 300000km/s, if the minimum time for a signal over a fiber cable was 45ms, then... I know USA is big and american ego is even bigger, but I don't think they are 13500km (8300 miles) big...
On top of the above reply, there is also the delay in converting the signal from wire to fiber and back at each end. The 60ms the fiber actually achieved was probably the result of at least a few junctions slowing the transfer
You both are right, I didn't consider the media difference, still it's around 124000miles/s. The hypothesis of having one single uninterrupted fiber pair (hence with no optical repeaters in the middle) is already unrealistic because repeaters are needed over around 60km distances, hence we may calculate just based of the speed of light into fiber. Which would be ~5590miles = ~9000km. Still too much. But yes, we don't know if he calculated the routers speeds and added latency
In the US, a patent application for a perpetual motion device must be accompanied by a working prototype. I Danish law, it is just automatically rejected.
2:11 EVERY design engineer has been here at some point.
Business people just don't seem to get that you can't get something for nothing in physics.
13:51 had a similar issue at my last place.
15:11 bonus point if there is no conceivable reason why you would want wifi on that device.
Once while we were building a house on Daily on Island Alabama , we were told by an engineer who drew up the plans for a house to nail straps with certain nails . Nails we never used before . We told him this and he said that was what HIS plans called for and we were required to use them . So we used them . A month or so later he comes back and tells us we have to replace ALL nails in the straps as they were rusting . Needless to say , I had no part in replacing those nails .
The customer who wanted a 5mg antifreeze pill was right.
Changing the laws of physics would, indeed, be a gamechanger. A major one, too.
I'm surprised OP didn't offer the best case scenario, which is a concentrate 35% the size of the existing mix
Customer: "Engineer, I need more insanity!"
Engineer: "I CANNAE CHANGE THE LAWS OF PHYSICS!!!"
"DAMN IT JIM! I'M AN ENGINEER NOT A MAGICIAN!!"
"Have you tried inverting the polarity and overclocking the turbo mode?"
The couple that wanted a fireplace in their apartment could probably have gotten a fake one, although they might have had to use fake brick/stone depending on the loadbearing capacity of the floor. They may not have liked it as much as a real fireplace, but it seems like the best option for them.
Electric fake firelogs can put out a surprising amount of heat if you get a good one
It isn't their best option...it's their ONLY Option...
Modifying the building to install a wood burning fireplace on the 4th floor will require a new footing directly under the fireplace and structural steel columns from the footing up to the floor supporting the fireplace...THEN you need to punch a chimney AND Fire/Heat Insulation for that Chimney all the way up to the roof...
Depending on it's weight, a gas burning fireplace would be simpler to install since they're usually lighter than a wood fireplace (so the structural reinforcement required would be a LOT less drastic) and the chimney can be routed straight out the side of the apartment on the 4th floor...
Either way, you're going to need a LOT of Permissions from the City, the building Owner AND the residents of the Apartments below yours...
Good Luck with getting the Permissions...
Buy a Lottery Ticket instead, you have a FAR better chance of winning enough money to buy a chunk of land and build a custom home with a fireplace in it...
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
A flat screen TV with a fireplace on the screen would have been a good idea inside. Could have had a casing built around the TV to *look* like a fireplace and had a "fireplace" at the push of a button.
When in Belize in '95 locals told me of a recent fiasco - the Belizean government decided they wanted to build a dam to control waters when the annual flooding rains came. They hired a Canadian engineering firn who examined the area and toldcthe Belizean government that they could build a good dam at a certain crucial point in the river that would do the job. The Belizean government however stated, " Oh no, we want you to build it in this other location." The Canadian firm informed them that for logistical reasons an effective damn couldn't be built there, it needed to be in a certain location.
Well the Belizean government finally said, " No, justcbuild it where we want you to. " so the firm built a dam at the incorrect point and basically took the money and said, " Good luck! ...idiots." ..and low and behold, the next rainy season came, flood waters overcame and destroyed the ill-placed dam. The engineers were like, " Well, we told you so."
Parallel… I gave out some late in the spring tomato plants, most advanced ones were starting to try to bloom. It is June 29th. A woman asks me if it’s possible for her to have tomatoes (full sized and fully ripe) by July 4th. My immediate answer was “From the store!” (Bloom to set can take that long, then the fruit has to grow and ripen) I further told her it would take at least three weeks to have the tomatoes grow, expect end of July to enjoy the delicious red tomatoes….
Wedding photographers having a fit because no sunset over the water at a US east coast beach in their evening wedding photos. I’ve actually defied nature to photoshop one in and fix the lighting for a few photog friends of mine. (Don’t ask, I consider it in $$$$$ PITA work)
When the engineers told our never satisfied supervisor that if said supervisor forced the brand new million dollar machine to run faster than its designed maximum capacity then the warranty would be voided and he'd be personally responsible for any damage caused to the machine.
Yeah, I’m an engineer
Engi-nearing my FUCKING LIMIT
best comment here
My dad had to go inspect some cranes, found put maintenance was barely done on it and they were using a crane that holds up to 14 tons to pick up 17 ton objects. He said the structural damage was not salvageable and had to shell 1.4 million to replace it. But instead of doing that, he just decided they will have to make due with the smaller cran
e. They complained that will double their workload and slow progress. He just told them that maybe they should have treated their tools better.
I hope your Dad reported them to OSHA (or Local Equivalent) if they chose to keep overloading their Crane that way...Hell, I hope he reported them anyway BECAUSE they routinely overloaded the crane...OSHA would Crucify them...IF they're lucky...
Regularly lifting 17 Tons with a 14 Ton Rated Crane that hasn't been properly maintained...How in HELL has it not collapsed yet dropping several Tons of stuff on the Idiot Squishies (AKA the Employees) around it?
@@HappilyHomicidalHooligan my dad was an equipment specialist for the government. So when his reports go in, he doesn't really get to see the punishments. He did have to take a 14 hour flight to Anchorage in Alaska because some guy got crushed by a shipping container. Turns out the guy was standing in front of the vehicle too close and would have survived if he had been wearing his helmet.
He also had to deal with a crane that fell over for the same reason somewhere else, however he had no choice but to allow a brand new crane, which was a huge loss of money. He tends to find a lot of issues with a lack of maintenance.
@@soulessslime433 I've gotten on the case of various contractors I work for when they don't care and maintain equipment. Forklifts to hydraulic table benders, they all need love and daily/ weekly/ monthly inspections. And how crews treat man lifts (scissor lifts, etc) makes me so cranky. How do you expect to get the job done with broken shit?
Not an engineer, but my grandma's husband had his own huse built. As he was having it built, he decided he wanted the foundation to be on a big concrete slab. My dad advised against it (he'd built houses from scratch) but he did it anyways. Turns out, they poured the concrete before they hooked up the hot water to the master bathrom. Now they have a master bathroom bigger than a normal hotel room, but it has to have the hot water heater turned on an hour before you shower. -_-
I was helping setting up lights for a dance program. I over heard the dance instructor telling the lighting manager that she only wanted the dancers lit from their knees down. No light was to be seen on anything else. SMDH
I understand that not everyone understands certain aspects of engineering, but to not have a grasp of the most basic laws of physics is ridiculous (but entertaining and extremely amusing!) 🤣
Whoever it was back in the 1880's who decided my house didn't need a crawlspace to be more than 2 feet high because frick ever needing to regain access to things like plumbing.
The thing is that in 1880 people were generally narrower than two feet, and indoor plumbing was only for the wealthy.
When I was 8 years old my dad told me that one of his clients wanted him to build the floor for a shower room. Rectangular room with a rectangular drain in the middle from which the floor goes up with the same angle in all directions so that the edge to the wall is at the same height everywhere. When I told him that this isn't possible in a rectangular room he just laughted and told me that's what he tried to explain to the client for half an hour. After that my father just gave up, acted confused and asked the client (a retired architect) if he could draw him a plan for that so he won't mess it up. It was only then that the architect realised
Hold up. Don't you need a license to operate a boiler? Like, couldn't that person lose their license if they found they ignored the boiler inspection?
And loose all of their liability protection and God help them if someone dies
I'm an Electrician, retired, and would get asked all the time to change a breaker. So, I'd go out, expecting to find a breaker that won't reset for one reason or another. And what I find is:
The Microwave, refrigerator, covfefe pot, rice cooker, toaster, and others all all plugged into the same circuit, often the same outlet with a power strip or worse. Turns out what they really want is me to drop a 30 Amp breaker onto 14 gauge wire. Sorry, man, I'm not helping you burn your house down.
Carpet installed on the ceiling. I still don't know the idea behind that one...
i physically cringed at that
I was asked to fix a trailer hitch on a pickup I had to tell the owner it was not the hitch that was bent it was the frame of his half ton truck that was bent I think he loaded it up with two tons on the front of the boat he was pulling with it the only straight part was where he bolted the hitch on the truck frame
I’ve seen that before, lot of people don’t understand the point of 3/4 And 1 ton pickup trucks, They’re not just for bro dozers
9:07 Menards is a butcher chain here in Australia lol
3:55 They don't come to professionals for advice, they come to them for affirmation.
Scout: Need a dispenser here! Need a dispenser here! Need a dispenser here! AAAhhh!
Engineer: Sorry, string bean.
Magical thinkers who graduated from Dunning-Kruger University provide most of the comedy, and tragedy in the world.
Hindenburg? Titanic? Challenger? Columbia? Chetnobyl? All these disasters were caused by twits ignoring the laws of physics.
'Let's fill a balloon with hydrogen, then paint it with thermite!' (Hindenburg)
'Let's build the biggest ship in the world out of substandard iron and race it thru an ice field at full speed!' (Titanic)
'Let's build rockets, then ignore safety regs to get our spy satellites in place for the Gulf War!' (Challenger and Columbia).
'Let's build a flammable graphite nuclear reactor, test it up to ignition temperature, then leave the test running without telling the second shift!' (Chernobyl)
Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Booooom.
It would be funny if it didn't kill people.
Gotta love the Engineer from TF2 being in the thumbnail. XD
Just needs more gun
*playing More Gun* Hey there.
that was the only reason i clicked on this video lol
The wild adventures of engineers
That sounds like an awesome tv show
My daughter worked for a company that did building plans and site details. She was the one who went out to verify the contractor followed specs. Any time something didn’t get done or was inconvenient to do the builder would try to get her to just mark it off so they could go on. Her reply was always “I’m signing a legal document that the building and the plans match. If anything ever happens it will be my fault if the building doesn’t match the specifications. I’m not taking liability for your screwup and if you don’t like it you can call my boss to remove me. But I will tell him why I won’t sign off and you can try to convince him to sign the paperwork.” They didn’t like it but they couldn’t argue it either.
*GREEN IN MY REGREEN IN MY REGREEN IN MY REGREEN IN MY REGREEN...*
Mostly just replicating designs (which were already kind of suspect) of other engineers, but with extra holes cut out of them, stricter specified requirements, and a lower budget.
When someone asks to pootis spenser here... AAAAAAAA!
But I'm ze medic!
POOT DISPENCER HEER
I need some dog gone help!
Finally, a good thumbnail.
I have an idea on how to beat information transfer that is faster than the speed of light the problem is it would require a ton of energy and I mean like at least a black hole amount of energy. So no sadly we stuck at the speed of light
OBJECTION!
Contractors with a backhoe are NOT the BEST means of Locating Utilities...
They ARE however, the most effective...
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
Anyone who get blueprints from engineers, what are some outrageous things engineers have tried to get you to do
When I was in welding school, we got the blueprints for a hot water tank. It was made in two halves with a 2" hole on one end. The engineer specified that it was to be welded from the inside.
@@michaelbujaki2462 That takes some real dedication from the welder.
@@michaelbujaki2462 time to get the skinny kid
@@acewarbringer4295 and get him to invent a Star Trek transporter to get him back out.
re: costs, in my country the general rule of thumb for any home repair or upgrade is the final cost will be 3 times the original estimate.
IM ENGI-NEARING MY FUCKIN’ LIMIT!!!
I mean... Samsung DOES offer bigger batteries on some of their newer models. I don't know how it changes the thickness, but they're definitely heavier, more expensive, and I assume they get hotter when in use.
That thing with the geothermal plant at 24:35... the deepest hole ever dug was 12.2 km deep as a science project by the soviets... it took them 5 years to get to s depth of 7 km
...In my-rill green, in my-rill green, in my-rill green...
more gun.
13:08 When some guy makes a TH-cam channel with a python script, TTS, and some light AI work with no human review or Fs given and still gets 300k subs while people like FearOfDark have 30k subs after a decade of amazing effort.
10:59: the light speed is around 300000km/s, if the minimum time for a signal over a fiber cable was 45ms, then... I know USA is big and american ego is even bigger, but I don't think they are 13500km (8300 miles) big...
That's speed of light through vacuum, it's a lot slower through cable.
On top of the above reply, there is also the delay in converting the signal from wire to fiber and back at each end. The 60ms the fiber actually achieved was probably the result of at least a few junctions slowing the transfer
You both are right, I didn't consider the media difference, still it's around 124000miles/s. The hypothesis of having one single uninterrupted fiber pair (hence with no optical repeaters in the middle) is already unrealistic because repeaters are needed over around 60km distances, hence we may calculate just based of the speed of light into fiber. Which would be ~5590miles = ~9000km.
Still too much. But yes, we don't know if he calculated the routers speeds and added latency
Yeah.....
I'm getting tired of how overused "many moons ago" it no longer sounds original, it just makes me roll my eyes.
Try "EONS AGO"
Because that's totally original
silly ahh thumbnail
hello early