Comments by "SeanBZA" (@SeanBZA) on "Curious Droid" channel.

Factoid about that early British research is that they needed to dump all that microwave energy during testing, and did not want to radiate it out. So they buried a lossy coaxial cable into a nearby salt marsh, where the late night testing caused unusual heating of the salt marsh, and a fog bank that was only over the dummy load area.
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@GeorgeDolbier Yes those tubes being removed almost hurts more than the operation. They also will tell you that the tube will be coming out on the count of three, and pull on one, because everybody will tense up on two.
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Yes standard for Dakotas with P&W engines if it was dripping oil on the runway get in and go, if no oil it has all run out. Those oil coolers always leak, no matter what you do, and the semi official fix is a set of wooden plugs and a mallet to fix the leaky tubes on the flight line.
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Probably will go back to the tallboy concept, drop next to the bunker, penetrate deep into the ground, then detonate, and the cavity formed will damage the bunker so severely it is unusable. Collapse the entry and exit points that way and even the hard bunker is useless. Or we will be seeing mach 5 capable bombs, that are dropped from altitude with rocket assist, so they will penetrate deep before exploding under the bunkers, having guidance that brings them in at an angle to detonate under the bunker, as likely the floors are not as thick, and thus the blast will reflect off the roof, destroying all in the cavity.
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Well by me in South Africa the common phone box was a copy of that K6, but made in aluminium or coreten steel, with windows installed using common truck and caraval glass sizes and rubbers. Then there were a few oval fibreglass units, mostly indoors,, and then the last were steel with tempered glass (later polycarbonate, as that was a lot more vandal proof) panels. There is still one near me, vandalised of course, and non working. Yes I did use them a lot, with a few variants of phone instruments in them, from the grey coin operated ones, to the later electronic coin operated ones, and then the last generation ones that used coin or phone card, though the last versions tended to be card only, and nobody sells the cards any more, only using them to receive calls.
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@paoloviti6156 You did not change them, merely removed, cleaned and put back, because they were hard to get, and a lot of them were actually serviceable, in that you could take them apart to remove carbon build up.
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Already is used to make the flash memories, they rely on it to both charge and discharge the buried gate structures. Larger structures needed higher voltages, which in turn would damage the insulating silicon dioxide used in the gate. Thus you had to get to small resolutions to get the flash devices we all use, which run on under 1V internally, but interface to the 5V world outside.
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Just got the test and passed. My father had prostrate cancer, but that was not the cancer that killed him, but an aggressive lung cancer likely cause by his wartime experiences. Sadly, like him, I am also insensitive to opiates, and probably am also allergic to them, just like he was.
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You will also find with those road transports there might be 8 trucks moving in convoy, but only one will have the actual device inside, the others will have either a dummy or simply have a large concrete block loaded, so that they measure the same mass on a weighbridge.. Same number of escorts per vehicle as well, so your chances of an accident are much lower, as the escorts are well known, and legally enabled, to simply run off the road any vehicle that is remotely threatening to the convoy. Also are permitted to shoot at them and kill the driver. When you see one pull over to the slow lane, lest you find yourself spending a few weeks in a military hospital
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There are however many digital computers that are very much single purpose, not being easy to change the programming to use for other purposes. The exception to that was the minuteman missile, where the old computers were given to universities to be used as minicomputers, as they ad enough complexity and programming ability to act as a general purpose computer. I did work on digital computers, which were designed to replace analogue computers, and they were solely able to do that, replacing a old flight control system, navigation system and weapons system with new ones that were nearly a tenth the size, using all TTL logic inside, and able to equal the old one with much better stability, longer life, and much better accuracy, along with the upgrades also adding in a moving map display and HUD, plus much better aiming, and actually being able to hit the target most of the time, pilot training being the drawback for the misses.
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