Sorry, I took a while typing that. You beat me to it. #1 is definitely Chernobyl.

I can't identify the specific array in #2, but I'm quite sure it's some kind of low-frequency radio antenna.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Woodpecker

Cool shiz

Wow, I'd never heard of that particular system, which is weird as cold-war-era defense technology is particularly fascinating to me.

Looks like my OTH radar hunch was right.

I take it this was in some videogame that I'm not aware of?

Yeah, a game called Stalker. I'm not so much a buff, but cold war era stuff is pretty interesting to me as well. I recall seeing this on a History channel show, back when they actually showed that kind of thing, when it was still a good channel. I'm also fascinated with Chernobyl, so of course I immediately recognized both of these. Well not immediately, until I noticed the familiar red and white tower, then it clicked.

read some stuff about Pripyat and tell me you don't get the Centralia, PA heebie jeebies

Wow, I've never heard of that disaster, somehow. That kind of thing really captures me. I'm gonna have to do some reading on Centralia.

I've been catching up on past episodes of Top Gear. Good to know the US isn't the only place where ICP fucktards roam freely. Too bad Jeremy didn't call the guy out.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...9&d=1317537051

that dude is so industrial

What the fuck, man??

:facepalm:


Hahaha.. Yes and Yes. So much for that game. :loser:

I knew that it'd never work to give ground level photos of either because they're both pretty easily recognized.

For those curious who don't know..

http://www.artificialowl.net/2008/12...m-antenna.html

A radio friend forwarded me that link of the Duga array. I've read much about the "Woodpecker" but haven't ever seen one on google maps so I checked out the link from that article.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=e...=lmc:panoramio

That's the google maps link to the Duga array, but after zooming out I noticed Prypyat wasn't far away so I started looking..

http://jugrnot.com/prypyat.jpg

First thing I saw was the pickup tube extended out into the lake which clicked in my head, "wait a second.." Then I zoomed in...

http://jugrnot.com/cooling.jpg

Nuclear cooling towers?!? WTF? I've seen hundreds of pictures and read numerous books about Chernobyl but never remember mention or sight of cooling towers. Guess I had a retarded moment, but I completely forgot the Chernobyl Nuclear facility wasn't actually in the town of Chernobyl, so I googled the plant:

http://anonymousradioshow.files.word.../chernobyl.jpg

Yep, that unique guyed tower next to reactor number 4's cover was familiar.. :facepalm: Doh!

I guess the two cooling towers were never completed? I found a couple photos of them in an online album http://uk.photos.com/search?freetext_field=Chernobyl where you can buy pictures, but sadly you can't see very large versions of them..

People seem to be making a habit of this:



:-/


Ah, My favorite kind of honda..



Here bro, allow me to put your car out with my beer..


Sucks you can't see it, but this is supposedly an armed robbery at a poker game. Worlds first INTERESTING poker game:

dude slams on the brakes and jerks the wheel. wtf does he expect to happen?

We dont have corvettes in Oz, but am I right in saying that they are like our SS commodore drivers (upspeccd G8's).. and all totally useless?

Dann

:rofl:

Camera guy doesn't even take his attention off the Grand Natty to show the now totaled Vette that almost rolled... hahah


Jesus christ, do C6 owners just not know how to fucking drive? Look, I'm 90 degrees right of where I *was* going, I'll just give it MORE throttle!!

WTF Russia?? How do Commies get these things? :rofl:

:facepalm:
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That would be pretty awesome if the wheels were installed correctly.

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lol at old spice.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...1&d=1317570262

Well, it seems that in the US, a large percentage of Corvette owners are either the newly rich or the middle-aged / retired wealthy. Both of these groups are accustomed to always being right, and seem to feel that being good at lawyering or investment banking automatically makes them good at everything else, including driving. This also holds true for some of Harley-Davidson's higher end stuff, such as the V-rod. For example: http://bikerpunks.com/mediaviewer/12...nice-bike.html

This man is fairly typical of a first-time Harley owner. He has selected a V-rod as his first bike.

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I'm not quite sure why they would be there. The Chernobyl station (like most of the other Soviet-era RMBK power plants) uses a once-through cooling design, where water is drawn in from a lake or river, flowed through the condenser, and then dumped straight back out again.

Can you identify this?

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Answer: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=55.604...h&z=16&vpsrc=6



Our own little teakettle here in San Onofre has the largest cooling system in the world- the Pacific ocean:

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I haven't read nearly as much on Chernobyl as some other incidents. Frankly, the Chernobyl meltdown explosion, while catastrophic, wasn't very interesting from a human-factors standpoint. It was a stupid design (graphite-moderated yet water-cooled, no containment, positive void-coefficient, poorly designed control rods, unstable at low output) and thus, was basically just an accident waiting to happen. While the event was triggered by human error, it wasn't a complex error- just push one button and *boom*, the genie is out of the bottle.

TMI-II, by comparison, is a really fascinating case study on human behavior in complex systems. Yes, there were a lot of underlying design flaws. But every one of them was actually quite minor in the grand scheme of things. It took a fascinating comedy of errors for the initial event to be set in motion, and once it had begun, the operators spent several days trying to comprehend and then control the system. It is that time, particularly the first six hours after the event began, which is particularly fascinating.

This is probably the best (eg: most accurate) simplified overview I have found on the TMI-II incident: http://www.engineering.com/Library/A...le-Island.aspx

wow.

Maybe it was an auxillery tower for a secondary system?

Oh dude, that’s hilarious. And accurate. The clip-on shades are capital. However, I must credit this guy for not wearing painfully bright white New Balance kicks or a black leather fanny pack, both of which are commonly found on the modern professional hardass in my area.

stop with the motorcycle posts and discussion in this tread, keep it to the mt cycle thread............................................ .............

it's the shorts, bro. the shorts.

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Can anyone see what pusha just posted? Not working for me.

Nope. He fails.

that's odd, it all shows up fine on my end

Never mind, reloaded the page 3x and it didn't work, now it does. It's Braineack's fault.

I'd like to post every picture from here, but there are too many.

Nothing.

Hotlinking. It's a bitch:

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Free image hosting is your friend.

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They were planning to add two more units before the accident, and using the lake as the ultimate heat sink would put too much thermal load on it; or at least that what they thought since they were building cooling towers.

you are the second person ever I have heard refer to a nuclear reactor as a tea kettle. The other is my Boss and has been in the industry for 30 years.

Really? I honestly can't recall where I picked up the phrase, but I'd thought it was fairly common slang. Is your boss Navy or civilian?

Also, I previously referred to "the Chernobyl meltdown" and realized that this is technically inaccurate. While a partial meltdown did occur, this was actually a secondary failure which occurred after the explosion had destroyed the reactor.

The principle failure mode at Chernobyl 4 was an uncontrolled power excursion which caused superheating of the core, flash vaporization of the coolant, and a steam explosion. This is what lifted the upper biological shield and caused the distribution of the core into the surrounding environment. After that had taken place, the fuel which hadn't been ejected melted down, and the graphite moderator (both inside the remains of the core and all over the ground outside) caught on fire and added to the problem by dispersing radioactive ash.

In essence, imagine you have a pressure cooker on the stove. It's sitting there at low heat, and then all of a sudden, you focus the whole power of the sun directly onto it. The water inside will try to all boil at once, raising the pressure vaster than the relief valve can operate, and within just a few milliseconds, the whole lid will blow right off the top, causing most of the radioactive potatoes inside to be splattered all over the kitchen.


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Here is what the Exclusion Zone looks like today, it's actually turned into a remarkable wildlife sanctuary:

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civilian.

Hmm.

Sidebar: There is a firm called NUKEM Technologies.

http://www.nukemgroup.com/fileadmin/...ogies_Logo.gif

They specialize in nuclear fuel processing and sequestration along with plant decomissioning and cleanup.

http://www.nukemgroup.com/index.php?id=270&L=1

I just thought that was interesting.




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Meanwhile...

That is brilliant!

That is fucking wrong...

I still laughed.

Guess to which member this plate belongs to.
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Farmer Brown?


If you aren't on Miataforumz.com you might have missed this:

http://www.miataforumz.com/attachmen...ine=1317392298

Link for info on that pic sixshooter?


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NSFW

Flynt Flossy & Yung Humma

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This just in: Denmark has officially began collecting "fat tax"

http://www.independent.org/blog/wp-c...Fat_Person.jpg

This is a REAL step in reducing health care costs!!!

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Pretty sick moves... repost?

Good.

Gaybike is gay.

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Needs more cowbell...

Needs more helmet...

Needs moar Les Twins!



and this guy!