January 21, 2006

• Over on the flickr account, I posted a re-tweak of an image I've posted here before. Here's the new version:

  

  Oddly, I can't seem to find the old one here on Xanga.

  Looking around on the web for something to put in the description field for the picture (which is of nuclear-powered heat-exchange airplane engines for really huge airplanes that were never built), I discovered a web site that attracted me instantly: The Bureau of Atomic Tourism. Now I want to go to all those places and experience the madness as firsthand as a tourist can experience it.

  The proposed airplanes, by the way, were so huge that in order to be able to fly, they were designed without radiation shielding, meaning that whoever was piloting the thing would be exposed to the radiation from the on-board nuclear reactor. War makes people crazy.

  • 12:37 pm
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