Dr. Rachel Pawling 🌈

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
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He is a COLOSSAL nerd. Big anime fan.

The only MAGA I support is Make Aircushionedvehicles Great Again.

It’s that time of year again… time for SUBMARINES.

Also “shine a light on it” was used as a method to try and get an idea of aircraft features that dominated RCS, before computing methods and hardware were available.

Well this is a problem and means that, much like with other model testing (ship resistance for example) there is a minimum scale you can possibly go to. This model was 1:50 and to examine radio comms antennas was using microwave frequencies. Fortunately MW covers a couple of orders of magnitude!

Good old Hipstamatic app for iOS :D

The wavelength has to be the same size relative to the object under test as it would be at full scale. So as model size decreases, so does wavelength. This means model frequency increases. Some other parameters are scaled, some are not, such as antenna gain.

A waterline model of a Type 22 frigate, made of copper. Shiny.

Rummaging through my Hipstaprints. One from when we got to play with a copper model. These are highly detailed models used to assess EM performance via exposure to frequency scaled RF radiation.

"NORAD 35mm presentation slides," slide 23 of 41 [gallery]

You need the sunglasses.

Slides from presentations that never were...

Messing around with 35mm slide effects.

35mm was an absolute A E S T H E T I C.

An aerial color photograph of the Stanley R. Mickelesen Safeguard Complex at Nekoma, North Dakota, the only operational Safeguard site ever built. The Missile Site Radar is the pyramid-shaped building in the background at center (a cooling pond is behind and to the right). The small square launch area in the foreground contains launchers for 16 Sprint antiballistic missiles. The larger rectangular area immediately behind it contains launchers for 30 Spartan antiballistic missiles.

A black and white graphic and map showing the location of the various facilities comprising the Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex in relation to each other and to Grand Forks Air Force Base, as well as how the system was designed to conduct long- and short-range intercepts of incoming ICBM reentry vehicles using Spartan and Sprint antiballistic missiles, respectively.

Fifty years ago today, the Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex at Nekoma, ND, became fully operational, defending 150 Minuteman III ICBMs at Grand Forks AFB with 30 Spartan and 70 Sprint antiballistic missiles—armed with 5-Mt W71 warheads and 1-kt W66 enhanced-radiation warheads, respectively.

A long-haired cream cat lies sleeping on its side in a sunbeam.

If you could use a floof enjoying a sunbeam.

Go-faster stripes, to help them achieve their contracted trials speed. ;-)

Well, I mean Of Robots. I think operational concept is a more useful designator than simply size.

More taxonomically useful: if it operates from another craft, it’s a UUV. If it operates from a port, it’s an SSU?

ULUUV (ultra), MLUUV (mega), SLUUV (super), VLUUV (very). Or in more contemporary language; HCUUV (heckin chonker).

I am shocked, SHOCKED at this development.

Gib Ron. Yr sosig.

After getting the seasonal jab, I rewarded myself with a Greggs' vegan sausage roll, which remain peak, as one would expect. I am always, however, reminded of this:

The black bands show they are inert training replicas.

OOOHHH it’s about THAT kind of fat bear. Riiiight. Mistakes were made.

A photo of a very large lizard laying like lizards do in the sun on sand and leaves, but it has a big old CRT on its head. It's a lace monitor, a type of monitor lizard, with a monitor on the lizard.

Monitor Lizard

A leaf removal train, named Ctrl Alt Deleaf. GEDDIT?!

Sometimes, I love this country of mine.

When you’re near misses by an RPG in #arma3

The M stands for Mecha, right?

China’s New Giant Underwater Drone Increases Naval Mine Threat Around Taiwan - Naval News China unveiled its AJX002 underwater minelaying drone, signalling a significant expansion and modernization of its capabilities. The dedicated platform enhances blockade potential, particularly around...

***New Analysis***

China’s New Giant Underwater Drone Increases Naval Mine Threat Around Taiwan

The AJX002's covert, almost deniable nature, increases the likelihood that China will use naval mines.

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I refuse to attribute efficiency to a nation that was still demanding documents be sent by fax well into the teens.