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I actually touched the one that is/was sitting on the USS Intrepid (in NYC)! Granted to most its just an airplane, a hunk of old metal...but too me it was tota
by mxuribe 11y ago
I actually touched the one that is/was sitting on the USS Intrepid (in NYC)! Granted to most its just an airplane, a hunk of old metal...but too me it was totally awesome; I touched something that - besides actual rockets - was the fastest thing that humans have ever built! (Yes, my wife loves me but totally called me a nerd that day! :-)
- mikeash 11y agoRockets, and one manhole cover: http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Brownlee.html http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Brownlee.html
- mirimir 11y ago> Later we were to see that if the hole is deep enough and the yield is high enough, an empty hole will close completely, allowing nothing whatsoever out except the initial light, which is not radioactive of course. That is very cool. But I wonder. The "light" does include neutrons, I suspect. So neutron activation?
- mikeash 11y agoNeutrons are absorbed by air, so at some sufficient depth they'll all be stopped before they escape. I don't know what that sufficient depth would be. People working on nuclear testing in the 1950s may not have been so strict about their idea of perfect containment, though.
- stcredzero 11y agoI actually touched the one I touched the end of one of the shock cones in front of the air inlets at Wright-Patterson. Literally sharp enough to kill a person who walks into it by accident.