If it wasn't for Venetian blinds it'd be curtains for everybody.
Tobacco companies spend the most money on advertising during the month of January because that's when most people try to quit smoking, as New Year resolutions.
Nuclear robot lighthouses
The Soviet Union decided to build a chain of lighthouses to guide ships finding their way in the dark polar night across uninhabited shores of the Soviet Russian Empire. So it has been done and a series of such lighthouses has been erected. They had to be fully autonomous, because they were situated hundreds and hundreds miles aways from any populated areas. After reviewing different ideas on how to make them work for a years without service and any external power supply, Soviet engineers decided to implement atomic energy to power up those structures.
So, special lightweight small atomic reactors were produced in limited series to be delivered to the Polar Circle lands and to be installed on the lighthouses. Those small reactors could work in the independent mode for years and didn’t require any human interference, so it was very handy in the situation like this. It should be clarified that by nuclear powered they mean with radio thermoelectric generators, rather than a full on fission reactor. It's the same sort of technology we put on space probes and other machines that need long term power supplies with little maintenance.
It was a kind of robot-lighthouse which counted itself the time of the year and the length of the daylight, turned on its lights when it was needed and sent radio signals to near by ships to warn them on their journey.
Not exactly nuclear reactors. Isotope batteries, or RTGs, that produce heat by decay of radioactive isotopes. The kind that still powers the Voyager probes and now the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers. But interesting enough. The RTG NASA uses are so rare and expensive that their use is very restricted even in their billion $ interplanetary probes. These materials must have been byproducts of their nuclear weapons program.
"don't attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence"
Pepsi PRODUCTS.
What else do they make ? Gatorade, for one. Also chips. Maybe the Russkies like chips with their Pepsi ?
Last edited by Latindancer; 09-04-2021 at 10:42 AM.
Not a strange and unusual fact......but a bizarre news headline.
John Clabburn, Aussie TV director, dies after hedge trimming accident.
Director John Clabburn dies after hedge trimming accident
Why would you even say that ?
Oh....because : Cujo. And Dutch genes.
Longest thumbs on Earth.
Father born in Indonesia, Grandfather born in Surinam.
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