Oh, that big 1982 Siberian explosion?

Fort Worth Star-Telegram / The New York Times ^ | 2/3/04 | William Safire

[Marine_Uncle]

Rather interesting article to say the least.

[hinckley buzzard]

some of the so-called mistakes aren't mistakes at all. The successes are never publicized

Yeah. Well, eventually the results speak for themselves, don't they. And our intel has't exactly been hitting it out of the park lately.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

After all these years....just amazing.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I had heard about this but could never see the stuff...

[Marine_Uncle]

Agree. I may just obtain the book in due time.

[mad_as_he$$]

I worked for a photolithography company for many years. I have seen hundreds of works of “art” on wafers. Too bad much of it was in scribe lines so it was destroyed when the wafer was sectioned up.

[driftdiver]

Soviet quality tests? Exactly what planet are you talking about?

[Non-Sequitur]

bump

[driftdiver]

“And our intel has’t exactly been hitting it out of the park lately. “

Oh I dunno, we haven’t had a major attack in the US since 2001.

[SunkenCiv]

A 2004 thread, very interesting and pertinent (given the Stuxnet thing), with this link leading to an interesting sidebar by blam:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1071087/posts?page=54#54

and a new, similar topic:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2594959/posts

[rodgaskins]

This is when they noticed the big increase in the hole in the ozone.
http://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/monthly/monthly_1982-08.html

[nuconvert]

lol. Wow. How did you find a 7yr old thread?

[SunkenCiv]

It’s really seven years and (nearly) five months old, to be a little more precise. ;’)

[TXnMA]

And, from the other end, I worked on constructing gas pipeline compressor stations. The pipeline was in place well in advance, with the intake side terminated in a pig trap and the discharge side terminated at a valve -- to which we ran several hundred of feet of new line from the compressors. That line was elevated for cooling the gas before the compressed gas went underground.

I would not have been too hard to overspeed those two high-speed centrifugal compressors and blow out that elevated section...

But, doing so would mostly only disturb the rattlesnakes, jackrabbits and kangaroo rats that inhabited the remote New Mexico desert where the station was sited...

[TXnMA]

And, from the other end, I worked on constructing gas pipeline compressor stations. The pipeline was in place well in advance, with the intake side terminated in a pig trap and the discharge side terminated at a valve -- to which we ran several hundred of feet of new line from the compressors. That line was elevated for cooling the gas before the compressed gas went underground.

I would not have been too hard to overspeed those two high-speed centrifugal compressors and blow out that elevated section...

But, doing so would mostly only disturb the rattlesnakes, jackrabbits and kangaroo rats that inhabited the remote New Mexico desert where the station was sited...

[Interesting Times]

Cold War win ping.

[zot]

Thanks for the ping. I wonder about some of the big Soviet space rockets that blew up on the pad.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

bkmk

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 02/03/2004. Thanks Valin. See the "in reply to" link for blam's additional story. Just an update for the GGG list, and I thought I'd ping The Usual Suspects instead.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the Good News Ping!

Glad we are both here to enjoy it.