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| Kiwi Reactor |
| Thursday, September 30, 2010 |
"Kiwi-A Prime is one of a series of atomic reactors for studying the feasibility of nuclear rocket propulsion, in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Developed by the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, the reactor underwent a highly successful full-power run on July 8, 1960, at Nevada Test Site in Jackass Flats, Nevada. Kiwi was a project under the National Nuclear Rocket development program, sponsored jointly by Atomic Energy Commission and NASA as part of project Rover/NERVA (Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application). The main objective of Rover/NERVA was to design a flight rated thermodynamic nuclear rocket engine. Kiwi was a prototype for a nuclear rocket reactor that could be used in space travel. Gaseous hydrogen was used as a propellant on the Kiwi-A tests that began in 1959. Kiwi-A served as a learning tool to test specifications and to discover changes that needed to be implemented in the next phase of study, the Kiwi-B series. This project began in December 1961 and used liquid hydrogen as a propellant. In the late 1960's and early 1970's, the Nixon Administration cut NASA and NERVA funding dramatically. The cutbacks were made in response to a lack of public interest in human spaceflight, the end of the space race after the Apollo Moon landing, and the growing use of low-cost unmanned, robotic space probes. Eventually NERVA lost its funding, and the project ended in 1973." - NASA
Do you like giant rockets? Nuclear reactors? Nuclear explosions? Nuclear reactor rockets that explode? Check out all of these things, plus flames and smoke, at Highpower Rocketry. |
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| The internet is great... |
| Wednesday, September 29, 2010 |
... but sometimes the internet is not so great. |
| posted by R2K @ Wednesday, September 29, 2010 |
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| Katy Perry sings Hot n Cold on Sesame Street... |
| Thursday, September 23, 2010 |
... then Elmo motorboats her rack. No seriously people are complaining about her outfit in this segment, and it has been removed from TV. I do understand the concerns about her cleavage here, the jiggling is great for an adult but not really for 3 year olds. In any event, the new Sesame street is shite compared to what it once was, and the decline has revolved around elmo and the dumbing down of children's tv. WTF is Burt? Snuffy? Seriously. |
| posted by R2K @ Thursday, September 23, 2010 |
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| More ant circles of death (ant vortex) videos |
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For some reason people love these ant spirals of death, ant circles of death, or ant vortex videos, or whatever they should be called.
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| posted by R2K @ Tuesday, September 21, 2010 |
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| Tokyo |
| Saturday, September 18, 2010 |
Way up in the sky
Over the city, over tokyo
Silver light, summer moon
You’ll be over somebody’s winter this afternoon
-Pretenders |
| posted by R2K @ Saturday, September 18, 2010 |
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| Cock the gun baby (best video of the week plus some other video) |
| Friday, September 17, 2010 |
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| posted by R2K @ Friday, September 17, 2010 |
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| Cartoon nip slip Wednesday |
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Since google isn't offering ads on this page anymore, might as well go all out into the world of nip slips. |
| posted by R2K @ Wednesday, September 15, 2010 |
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| Streets is watchin |
| Tuesday, September 14, 2010 |
They say the game has the belly of a beast
Blunts for fingers and hollow tips for teeth
Wire taps for ears,
Nike Airs for feet,
Blasphemy for prayers, a system for a heart
Rap music for beats, heroin for a son and it's married to the streets
Crack pipes for lungs, and he never sleeps
Just spies, wit dice in his eyes
Loves life cuz he likes when it dies
Wit a baking soda soul, he cough up pleasure
Clothes made out of dollar bills that he sewed together
He knows, he's clever, jealous his house
All the liquor that's poured out, goes right in his mouth
Rides around on a stray bullet;
Wit prostitutes, pimps, dope dealers and killers tied to it to pull it
A TV in his head, stripper slides down his legs
And he's known to ride around wit feds, and he's out there
Out There
Out There
-Lupe Fiasco |
| posted by R2K @ Tuesday, September 14, 2010 |
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| Ant circle of death |
| Monday, September 13, 2010 |
"The vortex of ants, called the ant death spiral by some, is a circular mill where a group of ants (sometimes hundreds to millions of ants) get separated from the main swarm and ended up following each other’s scent in a circle. It’s called the death spiral because they continue to go in circles until they’re exhausted and die." |
| posted by R2K @ Monday, September 13, 2010 |
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| The chain saga continues |
| Saturday, September 11, 2010 |
The South Dakota Crips (aka G. Malone), who snatched Mistah FAB's chain, get jacked back by some jackers in Melbourne, Australia. |
| posted by R2K @ Saturday, September 11, 2010 |
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