Interesting Wikipedia articles?

[mrtwisty]

16th Century 'rocket cat' proponent......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Helm

[Brother D]

Nuclear warheads 'abandoned' on the sea floor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Scorpion_%28SSN-5...

[Brother D]

On the nuclear theme - The Cactus Dome, fascinating stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enewetak_Atoll

[DavePieman]

Best not to read this one if you've just eaten, but still an intriguing case - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage

[Magog]

Two incidents of 'broadcast signal intrusion'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Television_b...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_broadcas...

[guitarcarfanatic]

This is interesting...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski

[FredClogs]

Not what it sounds like...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Canal

[Asterix]

You wouldn't want to drop the 'C' as a typo.

[Halb]

Horrocks said:

I read on an old forum about interesting articles so I thought it would be a good time killer!

Basically, the idea is to post a link from Wikipedia with a short briefing underneath as to what the link is all about (Unless the link is self-explanatory


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bloop
"The Bloop is the name given to an ultra-low frequency and extremely powerful underwater sound detected by the U.S. in 1997. The source of the sound remains unknown.

The bloop is interesting. It was the basis of the book, Fluke: Or Why the Winged Whale Sings.

The Eltanin Antenna is another interesting sea thingy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eltanin_Antenna

[Stedman]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat

Always a good read :nod:

[Mastodon2]

A German heavy tank being worked on towards the end of WWII. If they'd developed and engine that could have moved it effectively, and of course, not lost the war, the bruiser could have seen action on the battlefields of Europe. It would have been vulnerable pretty much only to air attack with heavy bombs, if the Maus was deployed with AA gun vehicles it would have been pretty untouchable in a head on assault.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_VIII_Maus


And a demonstration of quite how mad the Nazis had become in trying to develop super-weapons:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landkreuzer_P._1000_R...

[Halb]

Love the wunderwaffen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wunderwaffen

I have a book that lists them, including the nuclear stuff and the more esoteric crazy-ass stuff.

[Silent1]

Halb said:

Horrocks said:

I read on an old forum about interesting articles so I thought it would be a good time killer!

Basically, the idea is to post a link from Wikipedia with a short briefing underneath as to what the link is all about (Unless the link is self-explanatory


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bloop
"The Bloop is the name given to an ultra-low frequency and extremely powerful underwater sound detected by the U.S. in 1997. The source of the sound remains unknown.

The bloop is interesting. It was the basis of the book, Fluke: Or Why the Winged Whale Sings.

The Eltanin Antenna is another interesting sea thingy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eltanin_Antenna

and this is what it looked like!

[Silent1]

Super Heavy Tanks, the russian Troyanov looks like the work of a heavily drunk person







The American T28 Super Heavy Tank is far more impressive though!








http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-heavy_tank

[mrtwisty]

On the subject of tanks - all you need to defeat them is sand (and air superiority...)



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Longewala

[Halb]

Love the Chinese Overlord!

Silent1 said:

and this is what it looked like!

That's ace, put it on the page!

[GTIR]

All you need to ok bout spark testing.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark_testing




I didn't know that!

[TheEnd]

Well I'll be a monkey's uncle...
I knew titanium had white sparks, but I didn't realise there was so much studying done into it.

[Negative Creep]

Halb said:

Love the Chinese Overlord!

Did they just steal a picture of the Mammoth tank from the Command & Conquer games?

[Silent1]

Negative Creep said:

Halb said:

Love the Chinese Overlord!

Did they just steal a picture of the Mammoth tank from the Command & Conquer games?

I can't find any mention of it outside of c&c and also the barrels don't appear to be fitted in a way that's functional.