Titan II Missile Site Coordinates. Titan II Missile Site Coordinates Titan: A person or thing of enormous size or power (Random House dictionary). An excellent history is "Titan II: A History of a Cold War Missile Program" by David K. Stumpf (2000). A nice collection of stories is "Titan Tales: Diary of a Titan II Missile Crew Commander" by John H. Womack (1997). "The Titan II Handbook" by Chuck Penson is partly historical and partly a detailed description of what made up a Titan II site including the missile. Lots of photos, including site interiors that have been dug out long after retirement.
"Command and Control" by Eric Schlosser (2013) deals largely with the disaster at Damascus, in great detail. See also: "SM-68B Titan II", a short history with many photographs. Titan II was also known as Weapon System 107A-2 and LGM-25C, and at first SM-68B (Stumpf page 52). The Titan family was more than an ICBM. Titan II missiles on display: Above: an unknown Titan 2 site. Resources: 10 Creepiest Abandoned Cold War Missile Silos. Amazing Mind / Brain Tricks. Mind is the aspect of intellect and consciousness experienced as combinations of thought, perception, memory, emotion, will and imagination, including all unconscious cognitive processes. Mind manifests itself subjectively as a stream of consciousness. Neuroanatomists usually consider the brain to be the pivotal unit of what we refer to as mind.
The Human Brain tricks us whenever it can. You don’t actually see what it is in real or you don’t even actually hear or smell the way it should be. 10. At first this might sound like a bad practical joke. 9. In case you experience an injury, then see the injured part with an inverted binoculars, soon your pain will seem to be decreasing in its magnitude. Recently, a reasearch at Oxford University has lead to the discovery of a new pain killer – the inverted binoculars. Source: ( Link) 8. This requires two chairs and a blind fold. 7. Lift your right foot a few inches from the floor and then begin to move it in a clockwise direction. 6. Pages: 1 2. The Internet Portfolio of Joe Sabia. Using YouTube annotations, I inserted over 1,300 annotations, some of them rotating ever 2 tenths of a second, to recreate the infamous slot machine from Super Mario Brothers 3.
Surprisingly functional, the game was a promotion for Mana Energy Potions. People get amused when Mario has Yoshi's legs. 3MM views / LINK. The Scale of the Universe 2. Bill Nye the Science Guy. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser – review. On 11 March 1958, in Mars Bluff, South Carolina, a man called Walter Gregg was building shelves in his shed with his son, when a Mark 6 atom bomb landed in his yard. Mrs Gregg was inside, sewing. The little Gregg girls were playing outside. The fissile core of the bomb had been removed for safer transit, but the explosives that powered it nonetheless blew the Gregg house to bits, killing half a dozen of the Gregg chickens.
In military talk this sort of thing is known as a "broken arrow", an accident involving nuclear weapons that falls short of causing risk of war, and Schlosser's book is about the several dozens of these that have happened – counting only those of US origin – since the atomic bomb was invented in 1945.
The next-up sort of accident is called a Nucflash. So far, it hasn't happened, but Schlosser considers this due as much to luck as anything else. Eric Schlosser is most famous for Fast Food Nation (2000). The story alternates between two main strands.