The empty container at the arrival point was the first clue.
How it "jumped out" is the mystery.
PP
The gauge was being transported by a subcontracted company, which picked it up from the mine site on 12 January to move it to a storage facility in the north-east suburbs of Perth.
When it was unpacked for inspection on 25 January the gauge was found broken apart and the radioactive capsule was gone. One of four mounting bolts and screws were also missing.
Authorities said vibrations during transit may have caused the bolts to become loose, allowing the capsule to fall through gaps in the casing and truck.
I'm not generally a conspiracy theorist, but I'm sure there is more to the loss of this than meets the eye. There's now going to be an inquiry into how it was lost. I wonder what will be found/covered up.G-CPTN wrote: ↑Wed Feb 01, 2023 11:47 amI find it amazing that the Australians managed to find the radioactive capsule that fell off the back of a truck as it was being transported 1,400 kilometers (870 miles) along the Great Northern Highway from a mine - I guess radioactive was the clue - but it was only 6mm diameter!
It was found two metres from a remote road by crews using radiation detection equipment.
It was initially detected by staff inside a car that was travelling at 70km/h past the capsule. A handheld radiation device was then used to find the exact location on the ground.
The question is - was the capsule really 'loose' on its own rather than being packed into a carrier?
They still have collars on, it's just that the fur is growing out and you can't see them any more unless you look closely. The one with the white toes has a black collar, so you probably wouldn't see it anyway. She's over 6kg now, ten times her birth weight in just under six weeks.
It's a liability thing. If you measure and the replacement doesn't fit then they'd want to charge you for the error. If one of their people measures and it doesn't fit then it's clearly their fault.4mastacker wrote: ↑Thu Feb 02, 2023 11:08 amBlitish Glass man arrived on time to survey our leaking radiator. Filling in the paperwork took longer than doing the "survey", i.e. measuring up for a replacement. I had passed the measurements when I reported the leak but it has to be one of their own who does the "official" measuring - funny old thing, my measurements and his were the same. Still, keeps someone in a job. Now waiting for a day when they will come a fit the replacement.
April the 20th 1980, the day I inadvertently celebrated Hitler's birthday with a drunken group of German's in a secluded bar in Luderitz Bay in what was then South West Africa. One of the assembled 'Kameraden' was the grandfather of a friend who had invited me to the party (nobody had mentioned that it was in honour of "Der Fuehrer" and the fact that it was a Nazi party mind you). The grandfather had flown Messerschmitt 109's during the war (a fact which nobody had mentioned to me before either) and who had upped sticks to SWA after the war. It was an "interesting" evening resulting in me becoming extraordinarily drunk and being thrown into the bay to cool off and sober up at the end of a long evening!