Besmet Kalkoen wrote:
> On Feb 28, 6:34 pm, "contrex" wrote:
>
>>The stupid fool Besmet Kalkoen didn't even read the story he stole.
>>
>>He asks,
>>
>>"....check the film first instead of waiting for a crash ? "
>>
>>Which is not grammatical English. If he means "Why didn't they check
>>the film first instead of waiting for a crash?", the answer was in the
>>story he stole. And it's not film, it's digital video files.
>>
>>"But the video footage is not used on a day-to-day basis. It is only
>>used as a reference point to go back to for checking."
>>
>>He added that the measurement trains run at up to 125mph and there
>>would be "no point somebody watching it at that speed as they wouldn't
>>be able to pick up any faults".
>>
>>He went on: "It has to run in super-slow motion to spot faults. The
>>train runs for up to 18 hours a day, seven days a week. It would
>>probably take someone most of the month to watch one day's-worth of
>>data. It's not what it's there for. It's a backwards reference tool."
>
>
> Perhaps they should just study the film of the 'points', since these
> have long been identified as a problem area.
>
Or, perhaps they could hire a couple of dozen folks to check the film.
That should manage to let them keep up.
If they would place some simple ID flag near the points a computer could
easily cut the film needing scanning sown to size.
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