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Head Tracking for iPad: Glasses-Free 3D Display
[YOUTUBEhd]bBQQEcfkHoE[/YOUTUBEhd]
[YOUTUBEhd]bBQQEcfkHoE[/YOUTUBEhd]
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- NG9
- Shin_Roh
Wow
USA and Russia are nuts. Meanwhile, UK perfected the tech in 45 hits
Seriously though do the Yanks and the Reds have nothing better to spend money on!? jesus
USA and Russia are nuts. Meanwhile, UK perfected the tech in 45 hits
Seriously though do the Yanks and the Reds have nothing better to spend money on!? jesus
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- Inland Empire SoCal
- SOLID_LIFTERS
I just don't understand why we had to do it over a thousand times! What did we learn more from the 100th time compared to the first and the 1,000th!? Were we 'manufacturing' something with all these blasts? Some byproduct we needed?
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- Hollywood
Remember that the U.S shared a lot of findings with the U.K and the U.K shared with France. Maybe the U.S was slightly excessive with testing, but it was the cold war era!
Russia is thought to have shared with certain countries too.
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- Lisbon,Portugal
- IRT_hordeR35
- Whats an Xbox??
I had no ideia of the amount of blasts you guys made, and thats just stupid! What a waste of energy, and to learn/find out what?! The russians are no better... Like kids whatching things blow up
! That amount of energy could feed the planet for years and years to come:idea:! (not to mention the money spent)
! That amount of energy could feed the planet for years and years to come:idea:! (not to mention the money spent)
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- Ealing-London
Alot of it was for research, some of it was for propoganda. Take the Tsar Bomba for example. There was no way this thing could ever be deployed as an effective weapon, but it is probably the single scariest thing ever created by mankind.
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- RykonZero
Yus! America is dominate!
That said, wow. I was expecting the total number of explosions to be hovering right around 500, not 2000.
That said, wow. I was expecting the total number of explosions to be hovering right around 500, not 2000.
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- Hollywood
I had no ideia of the amount of blasts you guys made, and thats just stupid! What a waste of energy, and to learn/find out what?! The russians are no better... Like kids whatching things blow up
... really?
Having a huge nuclear bomb has probably stopped potential situations where world war 3 could have developed. Whoever launches that NICBM knows without doubt that his actions will result in the destruction of earth as we know it. Not even the Soviet Union wanted that on their shoulders.
Yes, having nuclear weapons has probably saved thousands of lives, both military and civillian and saved hundreds of thousands/millions of *insert currency here* in repairs to war torn lands.
But that's just my opinion.
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- Frankfort, KY
- GTP_FoolKiller
- FoolKiller1979
A combination of things:
Science: Different magnitudes, different types of explosions (surface, underground, underwater, etc) or testing how certain things held up to the explosions. You don't think the military learned that underground wires connecting a network of computers together for communication was immune to the EMP effects of various types of nuclear weapons with one test do you? This is how the Internet was invented (despite what Al Gore says).
Cold War: Flex your muscles to remind your enemies you have a whole bag of whoopass just waiting for them. Heck one of the tests was just to display and prove the effectiveness of ARPANet to the Russians. That left a clear message that a first strike by Russia guaranteed their own annihilation.
Money: "We are running under budget. They will take that money away next year if we don't show that we need it. Do another test with the media present, and buy them all dinner."
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- zedextreme8177
Talking about the Tsar Bomba:
WeinerSchnitzel
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- GTP_W-Schnitzel
An amazing song and video. One of my all time favorites.
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- Hanover/Germany
- alexpkas
Untrue. Unfortunately. The guy, who was supposed to "hit the trigger", when the order would come, actually did NOT hit it. Yes, that means, he was ordered to push the button to release numerous nuclear rockets on the USA, Russia confused some weather phenomenon with American nuclear rockets.
This man is one of the biggest heroes in history. So, what did happen to him you make ask? Well, he was decapitated from the military and lives now in poverty in a flat in Moscow, alone.
True story.
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- Ealing-London
Untrue story.
I assume you are talking about the event during the Able Archer exercise of 1983. A NATO exercise practicing nuclear war. The Soviet's readied themselves incase it was a cover for a first strike. One radar officer detected an incoming missile, but correctly assumed that it was computer error as a real attack would not consist of a single strike. However, if he had reported it, it is unlikely that the Soviets would have returned fire as there were many chains of command above him, most of which would have come to the same conclusion that he did.
Also, he didn't have his head cut off!
If there were a Russian that saved the world, it would most likely be Vasili Arkhipov, although there is still some debate about that.
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- Hollywood
I'm aware of both of the near-launches... if the U.S had seen the same thing on their radars, they would have hit the big red button too - this is how mutually assured destruction works. Stories about both 'heroes' are probably best not to be believed totally - very little contact was made with either after the incidents.
The USSR always acted like they'd push the button over any disagreement - this proved not to be the case in any situation - even the Cuban Crisis. They would never launch without a nuclear attack already underway against them.
EDIT: Just read what DQuaN posted - yup, Petrov just did what he was trained to do. Arkhipov did more, maybe a lot more than we realise.
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- Ealing-London
You don't...?
Nup.
Although I am really interested by cold war stuff like this, there is a better forum to discuss it.
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- Paris
http://videos.rofl.to/clip/neulich-auf-der-nordschleife
I need to do this...just once in my life. #winning
I need to do this...just once in my life. #winning
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