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Originally posted by Kr0n0s
Awesome pics of some awesome aircraft.
No matter how many times I see the SR71 Blackbird I am still in awe of this beautiful aircraft.
Its hard to believe that its first flight came in 1964, truly way, way ahead of its time, especially when you take into account that from its design to production time may have been about 10 years, which means that they possibly started building this craft in the early 1950's.
Thats one of the things that I consider when I try to understand exactly how far ahead we actually are in air/space travel.
Think about it, this is the first truly stealth aircraft that STILL holds speed records and it has been around for at least 50 years, that we know of.
And look at those exhaust trails, I think thats what they refer to as the "donut on a rope"
edited to add smaller pic..
[edit on 4/1/2008 by Kr0n0s]
Originally posted by iksmodnad
Originally posted by zerb
This looks like a moudel of some kind possibly a super computer:
That was probably snapped back in the 50's - 60's I bet for that time period those comps (assuming thats what they are) were pulling in about 3 gigahertz for the most advanced of the time which is unheard of for that time period but you have to remember its top secrete. Nowadays they are probably pulling in about 2 teraflopes, which is unheard of considering our brain process at 1 teraflop.
Hate to disappoint you, but the first supercomputers came up in the 60's with processing power of around 2 megaflops.
Speed measured in hertz also isn't that much of a scale as it is with pc's. There are a lot of tasks that are done using highly specialized IC's where hertz doesn't mean a thing. For example, the NSA is using specialized components designed for voice recognition. They are designed and built for a single task, but they do that task extremely fast. This stuff died on the open market decades ago since it is way to expensive for business, but is still loved for certain purposes.
Oh, yeah, and the human brain is said to have processing power of around 100 teraflops (just think about how much information you have to process just typing this).
Oh really? thanks for clearing me up on that. I'll stick to posting pictures.
Pictures of inside the base: www.roadrunnersinternationale.com...
Pictures outside of groom lake of trucks caring preassembled concrete rooms, Ideal for building underground bunkers.
"the Shack"
Recent picture of experimental plane flying over groom lake.
Can't confirm this is inside area 51 thats what the goggle image search suggest though.
Experimental craft flying over groom lake.
[edit on 7-6-2005 by iksmodnad]
[edit on 7-6-2005 by iksmodnad]
Originally posted by illuminatiwatcher007
Anybody know where Area 53 is? I've heard of it but haven't been able to find anything on it. I've seen Area 52, but not 53...