Floating Roof Tank

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• Noite_Etion@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Its a Bird

  Its a Plane

  Its Russia getting bombed again!

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  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    can you contextualise this? I thought it was about the flying manhole cover

    During the Pascal-B nuclear test of August 1957,[8][9] a 900-kilogram (2,000 lb) steel lid was welded over the borehole to contain the nuclear blast, despite Brownlee predicting that it would not work.[8] When Pascal-B was detonated, the blast went straight up the test shaft, launching the cap into the atmosphere. The plate was never found. In a conversation with Bill Ogle, Brownlee estimated its velocity as “six times the escape velocity from the Earth”—approximately 67.2 km/s (150,000 mph).[10]

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbbob#cite_ref…

    hence this thing being posted here more than once.

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    • janus2@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I know that thing definitely got some fancy physics flavor of fucking vaporized, but in my heart it’s out in space just still zooming at breakneck fuckin speed as a testament to human engineering hubris

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    • jackal@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Here you go (from earlier this week): sopuli.xyz/post/47426503

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s the floating roof of an oil storage tank outside Moscow, Russia that got destroyed earlier this week. The video makes that gigantic piece of steel look like it thinks it’s Wash from Firefly. Just a leaf on the wind.

      Terrifying.

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• HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What’s most interesting is that the Ukrainians didn’t even hit that tank, it wqs hit by a anti air defense missile fired from Russia

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  • Eric@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Apparently smoke skatters IR, so you shouldn’t use MANPADs near burning refineries

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    • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Who’d have predicted that heatseekers go towards fire.

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• bmpvy@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Still wondering if someone died from this. Kinda like the sky actually fell on their head

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