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.
  • #2,161
matthyaouw said:
Was it the failed attempt at a postal rocket in the Western Isles?

Yes and so quick :biggrin:
 
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  • #2,162
matthyaouw said:
Nope, not it.
I'm now quite terrified at the prospect of a 7 meter penis rampaging around... If I have nightmares, I'm blaming you!
Can I wish you sweet dreams instead?
 
  • #2,163
There are just so many statues etc, i thought Lenin or napoleon but no luck
yet,
 
  • #2,164
"Standing 7 metres tall, this imposing figure seems out of this world. It towers over the place it terrorised over 100 years go."

Note emphasis
 
  • #2,165
No takers?
It first terrorised the area in 1898 (perhaps not literally), and made another more notable appearence in 1938, terrorising people in a more literal sense.
 
  • #2,166
matthyaouw said:
No takers?
It first terrorised the area in 1898 (perhaps not literally), and made another more notable appearence in 1938, terrorising people in a more literal sense.
Still trying mathyaouw, but is outside my area.
 
  • #2,167
Zepplin ?
 
  • #2,168
something alien? an alien perhaps?
 
  • #2,169
honchbunkers? though I don't know what they have to do with 100 years ago.
 
  • #2,170
The Woking Martian

http://www.cix.co.uk/~sjbradshaw/martian/
 
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  • #2,171
haha, of course, H.G. Wells publications. The radio broadcast in 1938 that fooled so many people into thinking they were under attack by aliens :smile:
 
  • #2,172
It weighs over 200 tonnes.

It was completed over a decade ago

It is built on an island

Your hint is, swastika...

Shouldn't be too hard...good luck :smile:
 
  • #2,173
manhattan project?
 
  • #2,174
Smurf said:
manhattan project?

no...interesting suggestion though...
 
  • #2,175
hmmm, well I havn't a clue so I'm shooting in the dark here but does it have something to do with a big canon and the english channel?
 
  • #2,176
Smurf said:
hmmm, well I havn't a clue so I'm shooting in the dark here but does it have something to do with a big canon and the english channel?

sorry...

I don't want to give you any more hints...you have more than enough to figure it out... :smile:
 
  • #2,177
On July 4, 1889 the American community in Paris offered the French people
a gift of a bronze replica of the Statue of Liberty, 1/4 scale,
about 35 feet high. It still stands now, on Ile des Cygnes an island in the
Seine River, next to the Pont de Grenelle, a bridge crossing the Seine,
1.5 km downstrean (South) of the Eiffel Tower.

?
 
  • #2,178
ooooooooooo
 
  • #2,179
wolram said:
On July 4, 1889 the American community in Paris offered the French people
a gift of a bronze replica of the Statue of Liberty, 1/4 scale,
about 35 feet high. It still stands now, on Ile des Cygnes an island in the
Seine River, next to the Pont de Grenelle, a bridge crossing the Seine,
1.5 km downstrean (South) of the Eiffel Tower.

?


Let me refine some of my clues a bit...

It was over completed over a decade ago and less than 20 yrs ago.

It is more than 200 tonnes and less then 250 tonnes...

Probably the most important clue is the swastika...
 
  • #2,180
I've run it through google and not really found anything that looks right. Maybe one more little clue?
 
  • #2,181
TheStatutoryApe said:
I've run it through google and not really found anything that looks right. Maybe one more little clue?

The swastika I'm talking about is not the same as the Nazi swastika...
 
  • #2,182
Couple more:

The island is pretty small...I had to take a subway to get there, and I was nowhere near the United States...
 
  • #2,183
Townsend said:
The swastika I'm talking about is not the same as the Nazi swastika...

I guessed that, the swastika has lots of meanings, it relates to Budda also.
 
  • #2,184
wolram said:
I guessed that, the swastika has lots of meanings, it relates to Budda also.

...go from there...
 
  • #2,187
Derived from "Hard Lightning" , the people are cheese on toast ?
 
  • #2,188
wolram said:
I guessed that, the swastika has lots of meanings, it relates to Budda also.
Damn, I knew that one off the top of my head! Should have been PFing more!
 
  • #2,189
Mk said:
Damn, I knew that one off the top of my head! Should have been PFing more!

Yep, it took me ages and several wrong turns, i suppose a certain lady would
have also solved it a lot quicker.
 
  • #2,190
wolram said:
Derived from "Hard Lightning" , the people are cheese on toast ?

Something to do with the Welsh... And Arthur's sword...
 

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