Post your ominous signs
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Sometimes I think my alt text is funny but other times I am certain it needs an editor.
(This is a real elevator in Toronto, btw. Just a few minutes from Broadview station. Hey, this is like geocaching with poor coordinates!)
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Post your ominous signs
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Post your ominous signs
@liamvhogan do plaques count?
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Post your ominous signs
@liamvhogan Every sign tells a story.
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Post your ominous signs
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Post your ominous signs
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Post your ominous signs
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@joannaholman @liamvhogan This feels like someone tried to argue that the consistency of melted ice cream made it neither Food (solid) nor Drink (liquid) and they were just done with that person’s shit.
@trixter @joannaholman @liamvhogan ice cream isn't a food, it's a treat
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@c_9@mstdn.ca @liamvhogan@aus.social
Pretty sure that would be a building code violation. Those "stop" buttons are mandated by code and by the lift manufacturer. -
@c_9@mstdn.ca @liamvhogan@aus.social
Pretty sure that would be a building code violation. Those "stop" buttons are mandated by code and by the lift manufacturer.@mike @liamvhogan Oh yes, 1.5 inches of tape and printouts are definitely contrary to code. It amuses/scares me it’s been this way for years.
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Post your ominous signs
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Post your ominous signs
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Post your ominous signs
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Post your ominous signs
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@liamvhogan
An oldie but a goodieGood advice as long as you have that one remaining eye
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Post your ominous signs
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Post your ominous signs
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Post your ominous signs
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Post your ominous signs
@liamvhogan sadly I can no longer find the photo of the sign described in this toot
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@liamvhogan For anyone that's wondering, the phantom that room contained was this thing, the UK Schmidt Telescope's phantom. It is a specialised electro-mechanical computer, used by the telescope's original control system to keep the telescope dome and its windscreen aligned with the telescope itself. It has since been exorcised from the phantom room and banished to an unused office.
The pointer in the middle of the phantom was linked to the telescope drives, and pointed in the direction the telescope was looking. As it moved it pushed the white arch (representing the dome) and the D-shaped frame (representing the dome windscreen) around. Sensors on the arch & frame were linked to the dome & windscreen drives, making them follow the telescope. The phantom enabled the UK Schmidt Telescope to do real time coordinate tranformations without needing an electronic computer at all from 1973 to 2013.
Photos by me, from 2019.
@spacelizard @liamvhogan
Fascinating! Looping in fellow astronomy enthusiasts @anna , @astronomerritt , @nyrath and @isaackuo ... and everyone I forgot!
