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Originally posted by LeLeu
Can you post the link to your thread on here
Originally posted by zorgon
For all those wanting to take a trip....
Maybe we can find out what Adniral Byrd did with his SNOW CRUISER
The immediate purpose of the Snow Cruiser, however, as part of the U. S. Antarctic Service under Admiral Byrd's command, is to speed up exploration work and scientific investigation as well as to claim the continent as a United States possession by maintaining colonies there for three years as required by international agreement. Assisted by a five-passenger airplane, it is believed that the Snow Cruiser will add as much to the knowledge of the South Polar regions in two or three months as all previous expeditions combined. This plane, along with others, is expected to map most of the South Polar Continent by means of aerial cameras. The Snow Cruiser, world's newest and largest automobile, has almost nothing in common with conventional cars except that it runs on four pneumatic tires, but even this comparison is not exact because the tires are so large and soft that a spring suspension is unnecessary. Unlike an ordinary car, it has two engines instead of one, four-wheel drive, four-wheel steering by two levers instead of a steering wheel, two accelerator pedals, two brake pedals, a builtin hydraulic jack on each wheel, enough Diesel fuel for a 5000-mile run (2500 gallons), 1000 gallons of airplane gasoline, bunks for four men and food for a year.
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WHEELS are driven individually by 75 hp electric motors in their hubs. Dr. Thomas C. Poulter, designer of the Snow Cruiser, is shown directly behind the motor.
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ADMIRAL BYRD is shown in the driver's seat grasping the two steering levers. Right lever is for front wheels and left for rear. The four conical buttons directly in front of him are lined up at the center, indicating that all four wheels are pointed straight ahead. The 10 valves at the right and another 10 at the left are for raising and lowering the wheels. Lever to left of cushion operates a controller switch for rear wheel motors. There is a similar lever at right for front motors.
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KINGPIN, about 10 inches in diameter, is shown just to right of front wheel. Note that both wheels are pointed to right to guide vehicle into the parking area.
HELPS ITSELF OUT ... Snow Cruiser came to rest in bed of stream near Lima, Ohio, as shown at left. Hydraulic jacks built into kingpin assemblies lifted body (right) permitting it to be to allow vehicle to be blocked up with timbers. Then wheels were lifted by jacks and timbers placed under wheels. By this method a plank road was constructed to allow vehicle to be backed onto highway.
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TYPICAL CROWD at a country filling station near Pavilion, N. Y., where the Cruiser was stopped for repairs on the right front brake.
The Snow Cruiser was built in three months by the Research Foundation of Armour Institute of Technology which owns the ship. Its construction, costing $150,000, was financed by friends of the Institute and 80 manufacturers. Principal units in its makeup include a special alloy steel body built by the Pullman company, two six-cylinder 672 cubic inch, 150 hp Cummings Diesel engines, General Electric generators and. motors, and controls for steering, braking and jacking, by Hydraulic Controls Inc. The airplane is a specially designed Beechcraft with a 350 hp Wright Whirlwind engine.
This was reprinted from an old magazine article
MoToR Magazine - December, 1939
First Hand Impressions of How World's Largest Automobile Is Operated
By HAROLD F. BLANCHARD
Technical Editor of MoToR
A full copy available HERE
I just wish I had the time or the staff to sort out the 80% of stuff I haven't processed yet
Maybe we can find out what Adniral Byrd did with his SNOW CRUISER
Originally posted by _Phoenix_
I don't think the whole earth is hollow.
But I believe there are huge caves, hollow parts on earth where who knows what could live there. Just like how we find new species of fish in deep water every year. There must be something down inside earth that we don't know about right? Just think about how much space could be hidden down there.
Originally posted by LeLeu
Originally posted by Shadowalker
You realize the Nazi SS built the buildings next to the mouth of that cave right? And the photos have been around for a couple years?
Are we all on the same page here?
That sounds interesting! Can you point them out?
Originally posted by Starchild23
Oh, come on now. If that were the case, how come snowballs aren't hollow on the inside after you roll one down a hill?
Originally posted by HeywoodFloyd
Not to mention the fact that at least 70 Nazi U-Boot were missing at the end of WW II.
Where did they go?
Originally posted by zorgon
Originally posted by HeywoodFloyd
Not to mention the fact that at least 70 Nazi U-Boot were missing at the end of WW II.
Where did they go?
There was one UBoat sunk off Norway carrying tons of Mercury. Mercury was rumored to be needed to power the Mercury Vapor vortex drives of those elusive NAZI saucers That Mercury is now leaking into the ocean and causing a hazard
The great flood was actually those oceans rising up to the surface by some sort of fish god/merman.
Lava tubes are natural conduits through which lava travels beneath the surface of a lava flow, expelled by a volcano during an eruption. They can be actively draining lava from a source, or can be extinct, meaning the lava flow has ceased and the rock has cooled and left a long, cave-like channel
The interiors of lava tubes could protect human explorers from different aspects of the lunar environment, including cosmic rays, meteorite impacts, and the extreme temperature differences between the lunar day and night. Just like caves on the Earth, lunar caves, including lava tubes, have benign temperatures that are constant. These are extremely favorable environmental conditions for human activities and industrial operations.
As an option Lava tubes as habi-tation structures might give future manned mis-sions to the Moon greater flexibility by increasing the number of potential sites for small stations.