Atomic Aerials
@atomicaerials.bsky.social
Just lookin for neat stuff to show you www.atomicaerials.com
There is no North American city more beautiful. Fight me.
Oil tanker Maersk Trieste is fitted with "suction sails" - essentially a vertical wing that rotates to point into the wind, and then uses suction fans to keep the boundary layer of airflow pulled tight against the airfoil thereby increasing the lift coefficient and boosting the ship along.
Lokomotywownia Krakow Plaszow - what remains of a split roundhouse and railroad graveyard in the Plaszow area of Krakow.
Socialist realist should be called Soviet Sprawl. And that's not a neg, Nowa Huta is incredible and beats the heck out of our five-over-one hellscape.
It's a tragedy that the Portland's Centennial Mills burned. There were a lot of really cool concept renders to reclaim and preserve and re-use the building. The past deserves better treatment than we give it. You will be missed.
I listened to a pre-alzheimer's voicemail from my mom today, I think from around 2019, maybe earlier, and I fully realized that I will never really get to talk to her again.
"You always told me to stay off the freeway." "Yes, that's true." "You said it was suicide." Managed to fly out to what remains of the fake freeway built for The Matrix Reloaded filming out at Alameda Naval Air Station.
I got to see so many examples of goddamn wacky British engineering on this trip. I'll never say no to a ferry, and a CHAIN ferry, while loud as shit, is a pretty cool solution to ensure fast-landing in a narrow gap with big currents. CLANK CLANK CLANK - Sandbanks Chain Ferry - Dorset, UK
Two Titans Antonov An-124 and a mothballed MD-11 at KBFI in Seattle
Antonov An-124 roaring out of Seattle - Слава Україні! 🇺🇦
Goddamn what a cool day. What a wonderful noise. Ukrainian Antonov An-124 departing KBFI - Seattle for Leipzig.
🇺🇦 Ukrainian giant visiting Seattle tonight! I really hope I can catch this thing taking off. 🇺🇦
I started travelling internationally to see Cold War wastelands, abandoned cities, and the sites of nuclear disasters - how did I turn into the type of dork that giggles gleefully and gets all fuzzy about visiting grocery stores in foreign countries? Does the arc of my life end at "konbini pics?"
The weird mirrored timing of @wtyppod.bsky.social episodes and my own travels continues. Please rate this waste-to-power/heating steam plant I stayed a whole extra day in Krakow to see. I think it looks straight out of SimCity 4; we'd never use an aesthetic that goes this hard.
I have a shoe with soil samples from this crater permanent stuck to it, because I accidentally stepped on a gluetrap for rats inside the ICECAP drill tower while visiting the NNSS. I would die to put that shoe into a research-grade radiation spectrum analyzer.
Stephen Schwartz@atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 4mo agoToday in 1962, the US conducted the semi-underground SEDAN nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site. The blast from the 104-kiloton device, buried ~635' underground, threw 12,000,000 tons of rock and dirt into the air, 8,000,000 tons of which fell outside the crater from a cloud that rose 12,000' high.
Patriotism has never been about pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent. Loving your country means fighting for the best version of it. Happy 250th from Seattle!
The USS Iowa (BB-61) was the lead ship of the Iowa-class battleships. Built for speed as well as firepower, she could reach nearly 33 knots, making her one of the fastest battleships ever built.
While as a society we are moving toward greater inclusion and equality for all people, the tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.
On this date in 1946, Harold Dahl claimed a man in a dark suit warned him not to discuss his Maury Island UFO incident from the previous day, creating the foundations of the Men in Black mythos.
So cool to see the business end of a heavy icebreaker when it is out of the water! - USCGC Polar Star in Seattle
