I AM BENEATH YOU, BUT NOTHING IS BENEATH ME! posted by Scoo at 11:12 AM on July 21, 2008
Anyone know if it's safe, from a radiation standpoint, to visit these sites? Weren't nuclear weapons supposed to leave their targets uninhabitable for thousands of years? posted by jsonic at 11:19 AM on July 21, 2008
I don't think they're boring at all! posted by Mister_A at 11:27 AM on July 21, 2008
they should do that in london more often. wi need ur tunnlz. posted by krautland at 11:44 AM on July 21, 2008
tunnel interesting posted by DU at 12:08 PM on July 21, 2008
jsonic, access to the Nevada test site is controlled the same way as access to reactors and accelerators. If you want to go, you have to have a reason (beyond "that'd be nifty"), get some credential and a dosimeter, don't walk past the DANGER RADIATION AREA ropes, and six months later get a report that says you weren't exposed to anything. I don't remember offhand whether access to the Nevada test site still requires a security clearance. I know the Trinity site, at White Sands in southern New Mexico, is open to tourists one day a year or suchlike.
A lot of the data collected during nuclear tests comes from electronics that, of course, get destroyed in the blast. These data have to be transmitted to the surface in real time, and one limiting factor in how much you can learn is whether your signal or your blast moves faster along the cable. My friends at Los Alamos tell me that before weapons testing ended they had a steady supply of very long coaxial cables with one connector gone. posted by fantabulous timewaster at 12:22 PM on July 21, 2008
interesting site, but it totally looks like a case of the pepsi blues. wolfdog should know better. posted by taumeson at 12:25 PM on July 21, 2008
When I first read "Tunnel boring machines" I thought this was about ssh and library computers. posted by shmegegge at 3:06 PM on July 21, 2008
I'd love to have one of those tunnel boring devices sitting in my driveway. Not even the giants pictured here, I'd be more than happy with one that was merely eight feet across. Periodically, I'd move it from view in an effort to convince my neighbors that I was tunneling under all their properties for some nefarious purpose.
You know... just to keep them sufficiently paranoid.
Plus, think of how much storage space you'd have if you had a tunnel that went down fifty feet and then a mile in either direction. posted by quin at 3:08 PM on July 21, 2008
And just in case you think Dr. Deagle isn't wack...Even Alex Jones thinks Dr. Deagle peddles snake oil (Dr. Deagle talks about the tunnels in some of his MP3's. Feel free to try and figure out which ones - I'm not about to sift through the morass and point ya'll to the correct ones. Hint however: The heat at the depths he mentions is enough to kill humans, so no real need to consider him correct.) posted by rough ashlar at 4:28 PM on July 21, 2008
That neutrino detecting room is awesome to the power of awesome. Still, all I could think of was the first chapter in Ellison's Invisible Man where he describes his secret basement room covered in brilliant light bulbs. posted by Fiasco da Gama at 4:34 PM on July 21, 2008
Why didn't they include Taylor detonating the Alpha Omega? posted by Tube at 4:54 PM on July 21, 2008
What happens if a tunnel and an anti-tunnel collide? posted by ...possums at 5:01 PM on July 21, 2008
I'm in the mood for a gimlet. posted by Curry at 12:45 AM on July 22, 2008
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