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[SuperMappy]

Very powerful video, especially the number one fact is equal to roughly 62 miles!

[Whiteball]

You would think they would be more careful with this kinda stuff...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Palomares_B-52_crash

[F-ZeroOne]

Couple other odd things about atomic weapons; it sounds very weird when talking about a weapon of mass destruction, but the one dropped on Hiroshima was, by the standards of the day, an incredibly accurate drop (one of the reasons for the lower death toll in Nagasaki is that until the last moment the city was "socked in" by cloud and the weapon detonated away from the aim point, with some of the blast being "absorbed" by a mountain).

Also, the first atomic weapons were, to a quite amazing degree, virtually hand built by some of the finest scientific minds on the planet. One of the biggest challenges the US military faced after the war was designing atomic weapons that could be put together and handled by ordinary personnel and not Nobel prize candidates.

This isn't as obscure as it once was (thanks to the "Metal Gear" games), but introducing the real life Fallout 3 "Fat Man" - the Davy Crockett recoil-less nuclear "rifle":

[SuperMappy]

I guessed the number one spot!

[F-ZeroOne]

CHK DNGR ZNE, LT.

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[Rhythm]

15 year old attempts Comfortably Numb solo:



And Vai/Macchio/Cooder's Crossroads duel:

[Firefox]

Surprisingly interesting explanation of why many people have ADHD and why giving (what is effectively) speed to kids with it isn't as massively stupid as it sounds. (But then goes on to say it still isn't right.)

[(o)(o)]

Insight into the mind of a troubled man.. who yesterday went on a murderous rampage and is no longer living.



Skip forward to 5 mins on the following one.. The grin on his face at the end is.. ugh...



His 'retribution' video was pulled as I'm writing this. Here's a copy - this will probably get pulled too.

[Deckard]

Scary as

[Firefox]

I made myself a Conway's Game Of Life program when I was a kid and dabbled with Gliders and Blinkers and stuff. I had no idea you could do stuff like this on a larger scale, though!

[pogo]

You can do all that yourself. Or more precisely you can download Golly

http://golly.sourceforge.net

And run all of the patterns yourself, study them more closely to see how they work, read up on what they do (some are really clever). It eventually gets a bit dull though as the patterns people have made are so complex you've no hope of making anything to match them unless you invest far more time and energy than most of us can afford.

[gumboot]

Insight into the mind of a troubled man.. who yesterday went on a murderous rampage and is no longer living.

Apparently a classic case of "went off his meds". Worrying what the moral-panic legal implications might be if that issue gets attention.

I made myself a Conway's Game Of Life program when I was a kid and dabbled with Gliders and Blinkers and stuff. I had no idea you could do stuff like this on a larger scale, though!

Here's a larger scale:

[Chuffmeister]

Thats amazing

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9 year old lands 540 – on her 75th attempt.