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| Benta:
Dr. Strangelove. An absolute favorite of mine. "Gentlemen, please! No fighting, this is the War Room!" |
| chris_leyson:
Thanks schmitt trigger, interesting documentary, and yes, the early 1960s instrumentation was fascinating and all done with valves. Anyway going off topic, after a 10 year hiatus I've started reverse engineering a WWII MK45 proximity fuze again. I don't know why anyone would bother doing a teardown of a WWII proximity fuze but a grainy photograph of a sectioned view in a text book doesn't do the engineering any justice, so I think that is one of the reasons why I started in the first place. I know they helped kill Japanese and German infantrymen in their thousands and that is always at the back of my mind every time I sketch out another piece. Attached is a view of an incomplete oscillator triode assembly and you can see the mouse trap spring that kept the single wire tungsten filament in tension. It's much better to document this stuff in 3D, but why when John Hopkins University still have the original drawings archived somewhere. |
| Canis Dirus Leidy:
Educational film at similar topic: "Control test of the long-range missile R-5M with a nuclear charge." |
| schmitt trigger:
Fascinating! Спасибо Wish I could understand Russian. |
| VK3DRB:
--- Quote from: Tadas on September 04, 2020, 12:01:07 pm --- --- Quote from: VK3DRB on September 03, 2020, 02:51:28 pm ---One of my favourite Twilight Zone episodes is The Shelter (episode 68, first aired in the US on 29th September 1961) that dramatised what happens to civilisation when it is directly threatened by a nuclear attack. It serves as a warning, as does Fail Safe, Dr. Strangelove and The Day After. --- End quote --- I'd add the docu-drama Threads to this list (can be watched @ archive.org). One of the darkest/gloomiest creations I've ever seen. --- End quote --- Thanks for the link. I watch the film. You are right - very gloomy. Similar to The Day After. All the countries that stockpile nukes pose a massive risk to us all. There should be a pact by the people in every country that ensures the leaders of any nation that uses nukes on populations are then immediately executed along with all of their immediate family members. There also needs to be a deadline for all countries to eliminate all their nuclear weapons. |
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