This is not a place of honor. There aren't even any esteemed deeds commemorated here or anything of value. This place is best shunned. Would not recommend. ★☆☆☆☆

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another day volunteering at the nuclear weapons lab. everyone keeps asking me if they can ride the rocket sled. buddy, they wont even let me ride it.

Do not look into array of heliostats with remaining anything.

@th "im not owned! im not owned!!" i continue to insist as the rocket sled slams me into a concrete slab at ten thousand miles an hour

@phooky @th ...and this, my child, is where corncobs come from

@th what if we kissed at 215 m/s (immediately finds out)

@th @phooky what did they think would happen if a plane slammed into a concrete block?

@piggo @th I think it's trying to answer one of those "who would win in a fight, Batman or a concrete slab" kind of hypotheticals

@piggo @phooky they were testing the concrete, not the plane. unlike the F4, the block was fine afterwards.

@th But will they let you fuck the rocket sled?

@ranjit the Starfire Optical Range looks like it is trying to blind the satellite

@th every time I see a heliostat array I think of Shirow's old Appleseed comics, where a city's AI decides to commit civic suicide by focusing all the heliostats on a nearby nuclear reactor

@th you know they used to do that, right? Back in the 50s they'd strap some sucker to the sled and shoot him down the track. They were trying to see how the human body reacted to extreme g-forces. I used to work in the archives at UNM and I saw a high speed image taken at the moment of impact. It looked like the guys teeth were flying out of his mouth.

@th "Ride the rocket sled?! You think you're some kind of Mythbuster?"

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