The World's Largest Computer in 1951

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The discussion centers around two significant machines: the ENIAC, an early computer that was 10 feet tall, weighed 30 tons, and required 150 kilowatts of power, and the Russian Ekranoplan, a ground effect vehicle that could travel over 400 km/h and weighed 540 tons. The ENIAC utilized a vast number of electronic components but had less processing power than a modern pocket calculator. The Ekranoplan, developed by the Soviet Union, operates just above water using a shock wave principle, allowing it to travel over various terrains. The conversation also touches on trivia and historical facts about these machines, highlighting their unique engineering and capabilities. Overall, the thread showcases a blend of technical details and engaging quiz-like interactions.
  • #101
Ivan Seeking said:
go to http://www.io.com/~mlangsdo/RPGs/Minis/GunNuns.html

Sorry, the link is fixed now.
Oh, thank goodness! I was afraid he was going to link this:

http://imageuploader.milbrathnet.net/uploads/EvilEvo.JPG
 
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  • #102
Tsunami said:
Oh, thank goodness! I was afraid he was going to link this:

http://imageuploader.milbrathnet.net/uploads/EvilEvo.JPG
Damn, I didn't realize that I looked that good in a bikini! Just photogenic I guess. :biggrin:

Ivan Seeking said:
go to evilevo.org
Uh oh. :eek: :biggrin:

Sorry zooby - In about 1676 a namesake of one of the star trek captains discovered an interesting electrostatic effect. What did he observe and what was his name?

Got another hint?
 
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  • #103
Evo said:
Damn, I didn't realize that I looked that good in a bikini! Just photogenic I guess.
What does this say? Sorry, I am nearly blind now.
Got another hint?
It involved the element mercury.
 
  • #104
zoobyshoe said:
What does this say? Sorry, I am nearly blind now.

It involved the element mercury.
I don't know what it's called, but it was the glowing effect noticed by astonomer Jean Picard when he moved a barometer containing mercury. I vaguely remembered this, but I'm more brain dead than usual tonight.
 
  • #105
It was steam-engine powered, 144 ft long and 39 ft in diameter, contained 88,000 cu ft of coal gas, and could go up to 6.7mph.
 
  • #106
Evo said:
It was steam-engine powered, 144 ft long and 39 ft in diameter, contained 88,000 cu ft of coal gas, and could go up to 6.7mph.
Henri Giffard's steam powered dirigible.


In addition to his famous equations, Maxwell was the first person to make a particular kind of visual representation that is ubiquitous nowadays. What was it?
 
  • #107
zoobyshoe said:
Henri Giffard's steam powered dirigible.
Damn you're good! Yep, it was considered the first successful dirigible that was controlable, back in 1852.
 
  • #108
In addition to his famous equations, Maxwell was the first person to make a particular kind of visual representation that is ubiquitous nowadays. What was it?[/QUOTE]

colour photography, but didn't SUTTON? share in this achievement.
 
  • #109
it covers approx 900 hectares, and is nearly 2500 YRs old
what is it?
 
  • #110
wolram said:
it covers approx 900 hectares, and is nearly 2500 YRs old
what is it?

The world's largest living thing. A fungus?


Edit: added question mark to sound less pompous.
 
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  • #111
wolram said:
it covers approx 900 hectares, and is nearly 2500 YRs old
what is it?
Nikopolis? Or Saqqara, perhaps more famous.
 
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  • #112
i thought that one would take a few guesses, you guys are just to
good.
 
  • #113
So, was it the fungus among us or Saqqara? (I'm an ancient history, archaeology buff)
 
  • #114
Dating back to 1400 BC it was considered to be the omphalos of the world. It was built around a natural spring.
 
  • #115
So, was it the fungus among us or Saqqara? (I'm an ancient history, archaeology buf
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/869808.stm
Researchers in the US have found what is probably the largest living organism on Earth.

It is a fungus that is growing through the Earth and roots of trees in the Malheur National Forest in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon

ever been on a dig EVO?
 
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  • #116
Delphi. i remember seeing or reading an article not to long ago
 
  • #117
ever been on a dig EVO?[/QUOTE]No. :frown: A friend of mine did get me an invitation to go on one here some years ago, but I wasn't able to due to work conflicts. :frown: :frown:

I've wanted to be an archaeologist since I was three, my bookshelves are lined with every book imaginable on ancient history, antiquities and archaeology. My dad wouldn't pay for my college if I wanted to go into a field of science, he said I wouldn't make any money (my other love is astronomy). So, now I make money and hate my job.

Delphi is correct! They now believe that there was a gas that causes severe hallucinations that was emitted from the spring, which caused the Oracle to have visions.
 
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  • #118
its been an un fullfilled passion of mine to go on a dig, we have a program called TIME TEAM on tv, I've watched every one.
i can't think of a what was is it, open to anyone.
 
  • #119
Where I currently live was once under sea and fossils from the ordovician period are quite easily found near the surface. I have quite a collection of brachiopods, Crinoids (one almost 12 inches long), etc... bryozoans from the Upper Pennsylvanian period. I am going out tomorrow to collect more samples.

My neighbors must think I am nuts, coming home with a car load of rocks and sitting with my hose and a magniying glass and camera examining them.
 
  • #120
My neighbors must think I am nuts, coming home with a car load of rocks and sitting with my hose and a magniying glass and camera examining them.
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and your neighbors are probably more knowledgeable of tv programs,
you are lucky to live in fossil rich area, the only ones i see are inbeded
in concrete.
 
  • #121
anyone have a what was, is it?
 
  • #122
These provide a pulsed peak power of some 200 milliwatts at 77 Fahrenheit (25 Celsius) and about 100 milliwatts at 127 Fahrenheit (50 Celsius).
 
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  • #123
wolram said:
colour photography, but didn't SUTTON? share in this achievement.
Correct about Maxwell. I don't know if anyone else was involved.
 
  • #124
These provide a pulsed peak power of some 200 milliwatts at 77 Fahrenheit (25 Celsius) and about 100 milliwatts at 127 Fahrenheit (50 Celsius).
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this has to be a laser the PPP is a give a way.
 
  • #125
two furlongs each way, with gates of solid brass; BC.
what was it?
 
  • #126
wolram said:
These provide a pulsed peak power of some 200 milliwatts at 77 Fahrenheit (25 Celsius) and about 100 milliwatts at 127 Fahrenheit (50 Celsius).
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this has to be a laser the PPP is a give a way.

But what LASER? She must have something special in mind.
 
  • #127
wolram said:
two furlongs each way, with gates of solid brass; BC.
what was it?

The stadium at Olympia?
 
  • #128
Ivan Seeking said:
But what LASER? She must have something special in mind.
hmmmmmmmm didn't think about that, and to be honest i don't have
a clue so EVOs question is unanswered.
 
  • #129
The stadium at Olympia?
no, you will have to work religiously hard to find this one, :biggrin:
 
  • #130
These provide a pulsed peak power of some 200 milliwatts at 77 Fahrenheit (25 Celsius) and about 100 milliwatts at 127 Fahrenheit (50 Celsius).
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The new devices, called quantum cascade (QC) lasers, are examples of a fundamentally new type of laser invented here only two years ago. The new versions are about 25 times more powerful than their predecessors.
 
  • #131
wolram said:
two furlongs each way, with gates of solid brass; BC.
what was it?

Within the ancient city of Babylon, "the sacred precinct of Jupiter Belus, a square enclosure two furlongs each way, with gates of solid brass".

From The History of Herodotus
http://www.bibleprobe.com/herodotus.htm


*my garden is calling me. wolram - take it away!
 
  • #132
wolram said:
These provide a pulsed peak power of some 200 milliwatts at 77 Fahrenheit (25 Celsius) and about 100 milliwatts at 127 Fahrenheit (50 Celsius).
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The new devices, called quantum cascade (QC) lasers, are examples of a fundamentally new type of laser invented here only two years ago. The new versions are about 25 times more powerful than their predecessors.
Wolram, you are phenomenal! :smile:
 
  • #133
Tsunami said:
Within the ancient city of Babylon, "the sacred precinct of Jupiter Belus, a square enclosure two furlongs each way, with gates of solid brass".

TSUNAMI
correct *** *** and i thought that was difficult
 
  • #134
Wolram, you are phenomenal!

is that some new kind of green fuel :smile:
 
  • #135
which made it possible for the system to produce vacuums exceeding one millionth of an atmosphere.
what was it?
 
  • #136
wolram said:
which made it possible for the system to produce vacuums exceeding one millionth of an atmosphere.
what was it?
The Geissler mercury vacuum pump with improvements by Crookes.
 
  • #137
The Geissler mercury vacuum pump with improvements by Crookes.
OK you are zooby correct
 
  • #138
A little more that 180 feet high, this was destroyed to prevent its suspected use by the Germans.
 
  • #139
Russia's Zaporozhe Dam?
 
  • #140
Ivan Seeking said:
A little more that 180 feet high, this was destroyed to prevent its suspected use by the Germans.

A machine that generates amusing jokes?
 
  • #141
Tsunami said:
Russia's Zaporozhe Dam?
Ivan just came up from the office. He says 'wrong answer'.
Rats.
 
  • #142
It was first constructed at the expense of J. P. Morgan.
 
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  • #143
cragwolf said:
A machine that generates amusing jokes?
Ok, you made me snort Fresca up my nose. :frown:
 
  • #144
Evo said:
Ok, you made me snort Fresca up my nose. :frown:

They still make Fresca? :eek:

I thought that disappeared with Angel Flight pants and mood rings.
 
  • #145
Ivan Seeking said:
It was first constructed at the expense of J. P. Morgan.
Oh. I bet it was Tesla's magnifying transmitter in N.J. They may have thought German u-boats were using it as a landmark.
 
  • #146
Ivan Seeking said:
They still make Fresca? :eek:

I thought that disappeared with Angel Flight pants and mood rings.
Yeah, I thought it had disappeared with Tab (remember Tab? :eek: ), but it's still around and I've finally taking a liking to it, well at least when mixed with vodka. :wink:
 
  • #147
He was not told to remove the tower. Tesla removed it at his own loss. Because it was thought it would be used against the U.S. by the Germans. (WWI).
 
  • #148
As with so many stories about Tesla, the reported facts about this story seem to vary a bit.

SUSPECTING that German spies were using the big wireless tower erected at Shoreham, L. I., about twenty years ago by Nikola Tesla, the Federal Government ordered the tower destroyed and it was recently demolished with dynamite. During the past month several strangers had been seen lurking about the place.

Tesla erected the tower, which was about 185 feet high, with a well about 100 feet deep, for use in experimenting with the transmission of electrical energy for power and lighting purposes by wireless. The equipment cost nearly $200,000.

The late J. P. Morgan backed Nikola Tesla with the money to build this remarkable steel tower, that he might experiment in wireless even before people knew of Marconi. A complete description, revised by Dr. Tesla himself, of this unique and ultra-powerful radio plant was given in the March, 1916, issue of THE ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER. Everyone interested in the study of high frequency currents should not fail to study that discourse as it contains the theory of how this master electrician proposed to charge this lofty antenna with thousands of kilowatts of high frequency electrical energy, then to radiate it thru the Earth and run ships, factories and street cars with "wireless power." [continued]

http://earlyradiohistory.us/1917tes.htm

1917tes.jpg
 
  • #149
Ivan Seeking said:
They still make Fresca? :eek:

I thought that disappeared with Angel Flight pants and mood rings.
Hey! Remember that mood ring you got for me? When I was in a good mood it was green and when I was in a bad mood it left a BIG freakin' red mark on your forehead? :biggrin:
 
  • #150
OMG I had forgotten. All this time I thought that mark was my third eye. :eek:
 

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