> The glassworkhop referenced earlier is working with liquid that is over 1500c!
Nonsense, you might want to check both the liquid and the temp claims with an actual glass blower.
That quibble aside, glass is a joy in the sense that it doesn't spit and doesn't stick to the skin unlike molten metal.
Further, I know many glassblowers who have worked small hot shops for decades with members of the public mere feet away, several with no barriers to stop the public from reaching out to grab hot glass ... something that still hasn't happened to any that I've heard of / reported on group, etc.
I'd prefer a doctor's brain being actively engaged in the second pass summary checking phase that follows the first pass infomation gathering phase.
You know, keeping a skilled human actively in the oversight loop and not being encouraged by time pressures or apparent conveniences to slide further and further out of the active loop.
ie. Always catching that passing jokes about Coke don't end up as cocaine usage notations etc.
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I'd seriously suggest / trial delibrately injecting (with doctor's knowledge) some N +/- 2 significant (meaning reversed) transcription errors in either each transcript or in the run of transcripts for a shift.
Now it's a game for a doctor to pick out the {N} known errors as they check the transcription points with penalties for missing known errors and a bonus for finding unknown not delibrately made errors.
Don't allow the doctors to easily fail into the trap of trusting transcription and don't fall into he trap of making easy to spot obvious errors that can be auto hind brain ticked off.
Xenobiology is a field of research in the study of the universe- lots of biology, speculative chemistry, and instrumentation design for detecting trace signatures and furious debate about whether observed signature imply life .. or something else.
Building a SKA radio telescope network has many challenges, not the least being increased noise from the LEO shell.
TBH there's a long long list of 'interesting' parts to the modern study of everything "out there", the greater question is what kinds of things do you find interesting?
Eg: Maggie Aderin found her way in via Engineering and then applied work on satellites and telescopes .. but is that really "astronomy" or just watchmaking for astronomers?
Either way, there's still a tonne of research that goes into the gadget building side of things, this goes hand in hand with those that theorise about black holes eating out the centres of galaxies, the cosmic background, on so on.
In Australia the root cause is likely policy that rewards rather than penalises multiple home ownership as investment, leading to flow on effects that raise prices and doesn't boost building.
However not all would agree with that and each stake holding group has a different take on things.
eg: The Australian home builders industry group, the HIA, throw shade on increased costs and government fees and push back on other hot takes here:
I lived through my peers struggling to get a single house built or rennovated in early 80's and later and watched finnancial incentives made it easier and easier to get a second, a third, a fourth house just as happens in Monopoly
Hand in hand with that, those people with houses as assets could afford to bid higher against each other for that fifth house .. pushing out those younger and just entering the scene.
It's hard to discount the rapid rise of a landlord class as being a significant factor.
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Nonsense, you might want to check both the liquid and the temp claims with an actual glass blower.
That quibble aside, glass is a joy in the sense that it doesn't spit and doesn't stick to the skin unlike molten metal.
Further, I know many glassblowers who have worked small hot shops for decades with members of the public mere feet away, several with no barriers to stop the public from reaching out to grab hot glass ... something that still hasn't happened to any that I've heard of / reported on group, etc.
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