Fake_William_Shatner t1_j6jof3b wrote on January 30, 2023 at 8:28 PM

Reply to comment by NuGundam7 in TIL In the 60s/60s NASA would use brooms to detect flames from Hydrogen leaks as they were odorless & colorless. by Wandering_Lights

I can imagine that the "new guy" at any place is told some really stupid things and this sounds like one of them.

I'm also sure a few people have died trying to to look like fools. "Oh, you were SERIOUS about the broom thing?"

NuGundam7 t1_j6jsw8v wrote on January 30, 2023 at 8:56 PM

I was a contractor doing some controls work on an HVAC system that was onsite in a military base. They used a (relatively) high pressure steam system for the heating loop. The subject came up, and the guy I was with learned it as a machinist in a destroyer, from another old navyman, who might've actually been around long enough ago that it was an important skill to know!