i had forgotten how specifically kodak was able to tell that trinity happened: fallout from the test in new mexico contaminated water that was used in a cardboard plant in indiana, and that cardboard was used to package xray film, which fogged because of the radiation
pictured: fedgov not caring about the effects of nuclear testing
can't find any copies of this online; i /need/ some
via: https://twitter.com/ilianathewitch/status/1539998957064953857
`ffmpeg` introduced some weird color artifacts into the gif, but it looks kinda cool
anyway this is a sketch of a decimal time analog clock: the dial displays 100 divisions, the red arm tells seconds, the arm with the circle tells hectoseconds (~1.5 minutes), and the third arm tells myria-seconds (almost 3 hours)
while dekaseconds (the red hand's MSD) aren't that useful imo, kiloseconds (about 17 minutes) and lakh-seconds (about 28 hours) are quite useful when it comes to human timekeeping
ah, that's more like it
`github.com/llgcode/draw2d.Matrix.TransformRectangle` was swapping the vertices around in a way i didn't expect
this kind of service is generally called a "car float"
there is an operational freight car float service across the new york bay, run by a subsidiary of the port authority
attached photo shows some hoppers waiting for the barge to arrive so they can cross from brooklyn to nj
this teleprinter portrait of dag hammarskjold isn't used on his page on english wikipedia, but it is on swedish wikipedia
via: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dag_Hammarskj%C3%B6ld_-_ASCII_-_teleprinter_art_-1962.jpg
another, as yet unknown program