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| 916 - More nuclear test footage |
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I have never seen this 2nd video before, nor have I heard much about these tests.
"Two nuclear detonations performed in a subterranean salt dome formation in Mississippi, as part of a 1960's Atomic Energy Commission Test. The test program, called Project Dribble, called for creating an underground cavity, using a nuclear bomb to do so, then later detonating a second nuclear device, as well as two gas explosives, inside the cavity. The purpose of the test was to measure the patterns of the shock waves generated by the explosions, to be better able to detect and calculate yields of similar underground tests that might be performed by the USSR.
The first detonation, to form the cavity, code-named Salmon, took place in 1964 using a 5.3 kiloton bomb, placed at the bottom of a sealed 2,710 foot shaft. The second nuclear blast, a relatively small 0.38 kilotons yield shot code-named Sterling, was exploded within Salmon's 110 foot diameter cavity more than two years later. The two conventional explosives shots were performed in 1969 and 1970."
Mississippi?!? This is all news to me, sadly my sources don't really spend much time discussing underground tests. While 5.3 and .38 KT don't sound large, they represent the explosive power in about 10 million and 750,000 lbs of TNT respectively.
Yes, those poor cows! Much larger underground blasts seem to have killed animals by ground shock effects alone.
Salmon Test Site Today |
posted by High Power Rocketry @ Sunday, February 28, 2010  |
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| 915 - A fully loaden Ilyushin IL76 needs whole the [sic] runway |
| Saturday, February 27, 2010 |
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| posted by High Power Rocketry @ Saturday, February 27, 2010 |
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| 911 - Two feet of snow! |
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Actually the city has between 6 inches and 12 inches of snow. Those with "snow on the brain" or "bored with life so need to have something to complain about" or "the big fish syndrome" have been coming in to work claiming anywhere from 16 inches to 24 inches. 24 inches is two rulers, people. /fail. |
| posted by High Power Rocketry @ Friday, February 26, 2010 |
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| 910 - Religion and income |
| Thursday, February 25, 2010 |
Jews and Hindus kicking ass! |
| posted by High Power Rocketry @ Thursday, February 25, 2010 |
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| 905 - Where does R2K (A quake 3 blog) fit in? |
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It was the best of blogs, it was the blurst of blogs. |
| posted by High Power Rocketry @ Wednesday, February 24, 2010 |
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| 900 - ILT the remix |
| Sunday, February 21, 2010 |
This kid looks nothing like the "turtle zombie." Coincidence? Zombies are known for eating brains, and turtles have brains. Coincidence? Many sheeple were fooled by this 2nd video. They will likely be the first victims of the turtle revolution. |
| posted by High Power Rocketry @ Sunday, February 21, 2010 |
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| 897 - Spool of cable rolled up stairs, then back down |
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How these two guys expected to roll something so heavy up the stairs is beyond me, at the very least they should have had a third person on hand to wedge the bottom off so they could rest. But really this should have been tied at the top with someone removing slack across a pulley. Dangerous because a person near the bottom could have been crushed by this. |
| posted by High Power Rocketry @ Saturday, February 20, 2010 |
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| 892 - Snooch to the Nooch |
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Or as they say in Spanish, Acabo de snoochando y noochabe con un avatard. |
| posted by High Power Rocketry @ Thursday, February 18, 2010 |
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| 891 - You wanted Azusa Shiratori hentai? |
| Wednesday, February 17, 2010 |
People get here on some very strange google searches. |
| posted by High Power Rocketry @ Wednesday, February 17, 2010 |
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| 887 - What it means |
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Nothing. When your military equipment list reads something like: "Sneakers, AK-47, black mask, explosive vest", you don't really need a top-down, pyramid style leadership system. |
| posted by High Power Rocketry @ Tuesday, February 16, 2010 |
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