Shot Baker was the most famous of the various tests of Operation Crossroads where the US tested various nuclear bombs on Bikini Atoll after World War II.
A fleet of more than 90 decommissioned and captured warships were targets and part of the study. Because the shot was underwater, the blinding flash of the blast was not observed and the scale and action of the shot can be plainly viewed. The dark mass on the right-hand side of the spray column in this photo is the Battleship Arkansas (563 feet long, 27,243 tons) having been upended by the blast.
Currently it's at a level where it will maintain the standby battery charge, depending on the EM noise of your particular environment of course, but they hope to increase the capacity and put the thing to market in 3 to 5 years.
If the picture is of the prototype then I'm all over this thing, I like tiny monotasking phones.
Story Highlights - British scientists are using a new way to pinpoint penguin colonies in Antarctica - Satellites pick up images of penguin waste as actual penguins cannot be seen - The method helped scientists identify 38 penguin colonies -- of those, 10 were new
Here's a sweet little project. A 2mhz pc that's entirely hand built.
"Big Mess o’ Wires 1 is an original CPU design. It does not use any commercial CPU, but instead has a custom CPU constructed from dozens of simple logic chips. Around this foundation is built a full computer with support for a keyboard, sound, video, and external peripherals."
"Rob Spence looks you straight in the eye when he talks. So it's a little unnerving to imagine that soon one of his hazel-green eyes will have a tiny wireless video camera in it that records your every move.
The eye he's considering replacing is not a working one -- it's a prosthetic eye he's worn for several years. Spence, a 36-year-old Canadian filmmaker, is not content with having one blind eye. He wants a wireless video camera inside his prosthetic, giving him the ability to make movies wherever he is, all the time, just by looking around.
"If you lose your eye and have a hole in your head, then why not stick a camera in there?" he asks.
Spence, who calls himself the "eyeborg guy," will not be restoring his vision. The camera won't connect to his brain. What it will do is allow him to be a bionic man where technology fuses with the human body to become inseparable. In effect, he will become a "little brother," someone who's watching and recording every move of those in his field of vision..." Full article
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What happens to the brakes when you land a 600,000 lb jet overloaded with 600,000 lbs of payload at 90 meters per second, absorbing 125 megajoules of energy?
zer0vector I think the most interesting part of this video is that the sled is moving so fast that the back of the car doesn't even know it's being hit until the sled is already there. The shockwave can't propagate through the car fast enough. Basically, the car doesn't even move backwards as a whole before it's destroyed.
TyPower I like the part where the red paint vaporized/decoupled from the car body and formed a red arc above where the car used to be.
Awesome.
ModernRonin I tell you what I like; If you look at about 3:06-3:10 in the video, you can see the sled going by the zebra-stripe board that's behind it. (They use the board to help measure distance as they count frames from the high-speed camera, and then they can do math to get the speeds of various things.)
As the sled goes by the board, its aerodynamic wake TEARS THE STRIPES PARTIALLY OFF THE BOARD.
That thing has so much energy, its slip-stream is casually tearing paint off wood!
Once we only had to worry about the Large Hadron Collider creating a black hole and destroying the Earth. Now we also have to worry about an accidental ablation cascade that could wipe out all our satellites and make space travel too hazardous!
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