And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, March 23, 2020
Not sure what this is meant to protect against. Anyone know?
Rotating Target Neutron Source (RTNS-II) Door 1979. A Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory employee is opening the world’s heaviest door on a hinge – a 97,000-pound concrete filled door—which was used to shield the Rotating Target Neutron Source-II (RTNS-II) at the Laboratory.
RTNS-II was the world’s most intense source of continuous fusion (14 MeV) neutrons. Scientists from around the world used it to study the properties of metals and other materials that could be used deep inside fusion power plants envisioned for the next century.
The door was eight feet thick and nearly twelve feet wide at the outside. The door could be opened or closed both manually or by remote control. A special bearing in the hinge allowed a single person to move the door, which weights as much as 32 automobiles (at 3,000 pounds each).
While I don't know for sure, it looks like a nuclear bunker door. It is heavier than the doors I've seen on Austrian nuclear shelters.
ReplyDeleteActually to protect everyone outside from a very strong neutron source
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Rotating Target Neutron Source (RTNS-II) Door
ReplyDelete1979. A Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory employee is opening the world’s heaviest door on a hinge – a 97,000-pound concrete filled door—which was used to shield the Rotating Target Neutron Source-II (RTNS-II) at the Laboratory.
RTNS-II was the world’s most intense source of continuous fusion (14 MeV) neutrons. Scientists from around the world used it to study the properties of metals and other materials that could be used deep inside fusion power plants envisioned for the next century.
The door was eight feet thick and nearly twelve feet wide at the outside. The door could be opened or closed both manually or by remote control. A special bearing in the hinge allowed a single person to move the door, which weights as much as 32 automobiles (at 3,000 pounds each).
It is used to hide from Hillary Clinton if you have dirt on her, probably won't work.
ReplyDeleteWinner, winner, chicken dinner!
DeleteI am guessing there is a years supply of toilet paper in there
ReplyDeletenot first place but at least honorable unmentionable
DeleteThe most disturbing thing about it is that it appears to be made from Lego ...
ReplyDeleteEverything.
ReplyDeletePelosi and the democrats....
ReplyDeleteI think this was shot in a scene in the original Tron movie.
ReplyDeletethe bracket for the hinge tapers from outside to inside. you see more allen head screw top on the left, flush at the right.
ReplyDeleteNuclear Covid-19 of curse.
ReplyDeleteThe more important question is; "How did you get in my backyard?"
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