Earth-shattering kaboom

[azurelunatic]

Me two weeks ago: "Technicians will be performing a routine 5-year safety test of the elevators. ... This is not expected to cause an audible disturbance inside [Borg] space."

Me today: "Soooooo... it turns out that it does 'cause an audible disturbance' because they load the elevators up with bricks and then drop them."

My people prairie-dogged to see what was going on.

Comments

[momijizukamori]

That sounds both extremely startling and very interesting, heh.

[azurelunatic]

I looked at the elevator when it was loaded up with these jobbies and went "Huh." I assumed there was some sensible purpose.

Then after the kaboom, I went and looked up the weights and the paperwork for Seattle 5 year elevator tests.

[momijizukamori]

That is 100% something I would do too, I think.

[frobisherw]

That is an EXCELLENT link, BTW. The same company offers two forms of heavy-things for testing cranes -- a cheaper one made of steel, and a more expensive one filled with lead, which they recommend when space is a concern, because lead is EVEN HEAVIER.