Engineering Humor

[JohnW63]

If we could pan down... would the owner of the bolt cutters still be there?

 

[chazmo]

If we could pan down... would the owner of the bolt cutters still be there?

Arson: no. Darwin award: yes.

 

[GAD]

Lot’s to unpack here

 

[geoguy]

Huh . . . a miniaturized wall-mounted air compressor. The only logical explanation.

 

[GAD]

Huh . . . a miniaturized wall-mounted air compressor. The only logical explanation.

I want one!

 

[geoguy]

Yours would probably show the supplied air pressure . . . via a Nixie-tube display!

 

[JohnW63]

Is that romex coming out of the wall, with the red paint and then going right? I don't get the air hose clamped into the electrical box and clamped like is was romex. I suspect they used it for insulation of something electrical.

 

[GAD]

Is that romex coming out of the wall, with the red paint and then going right? I don't get the air hose clamped into the electrical box and clamped like is was romex. I suspect they used it for insulation of something electrical.

Yeah - with all the boxes involved there's Romex just punched through the wall.

The best idea I've seen as to what's going on in the pic is that there's a pressure switch in the top box that's triggered by whatever the quick-disconnect is supposed to connect to.

 

[chazmo]

Yeah - with all the boxes involved there's Romex just punched through the wall.

The best idea I've seen as to what's going on in the pic is that there's a pressure switch in the top box that's triggered by whatever the quick-disconnect is supposed to connect to.

Can you contact the prior owners, GAD? I'm not sure, but that looks like a quick disconnect hydraulic hose, but that makes no sense at all. It certainly doesn't look like a power cord. And, whatever it is looks pretty badly crimped coming out of the box.

Let us know when you find out. I've never seen that before.

 

[GAD]

Can you contact the prior owners, GAD? I'm not sure, but that looks like a quick disconnect hydraulic hose, but that makes no sense at all. It certainly doesn't look like a power cord. And, whatever it is looks pretty badly crimped coming out of the box.

Let us know when you find out. I've never seen that before.

It's a picture from the Internet, so probably not.

 

[chazmo]

It's a picture from the Internet, so probably not.

 

[GAD]

OK this one is a bit out there.

The joke is that refractor telescopes (all glass lenses in a long tube) resolves detail better than a catadioptric telescope (built using lenses and mirrors) telescope:



Another comic along the same lines:

 

[geoguy]

RE: the first picture . . . possibly also because vampires don't make a reflection in a mirror?

 

[JohnW63]

^ That one!

I was going to say the big one wouldn't focus close enough, but geoguy nailed it!

 

[GAD]

RE: the first picture . . . possibly also because vampires don't make a reflection in a mirror?

D’oh!

That makes much more sense. I totally overthought that one. LOL

 

[Opsimath]

D’oh!

That makes much more sense. I totally overthought that one. LOL

When have you ever overthought anything?

 

[GAD]

When have you ever overthought anything?

First time!

 

[GAD]

 

[chazmo]

possibly. took me a minute...

 

[geoguy]

Hah . . . both a feature AND a bug!