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An 18 litre (1098 cu in) Ford GAA V8 petrol engine, used in American tanks during the Second World War. It is one of the largest petrol V8s ever made.
This engine produced around 500 hp and mountains of torque, and was used in tanks such as the M4A3 Sherman and the M26 Pershing. It was one of the best Allied tank engines of the war.

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera (Post 11947973)

I'm not an engineer but 500 hp doesn't seem like all that much power for a tank.

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Stevie Wonder weld that?^^^^^^

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera (Post 11948202)

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And yet spell checkers add them.

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This volcano mountain is on Mars. It is called Olympus Mons. It is the tallest mountain in our solar system. It is three times larger than Mount Everest ( 26 km long and 600 km wide Amazing.

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So I used to think the "Front Toward Enemy" stamped on Claymore mines was the most morbidly interesting thing written on a piece of equipment...and then I learned about the stamp on Cobalt 60.
"Drop and Run" is now the most morbidly interesting thing I've seen written on something.
For the record, that little thing in the picture is radioactive enough that just over 10 minutes within a meter of it is enough to unalive you.
Have a nice day.

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera (Post 11948964)

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"Drop and Run" is now the most morbidly interesting thing I've seen written on something.

While not 60-Co, we used these quite a bit for radiography in the field. I think they're more sustainable than Cobalt's ~5y half life. Never happened to us but I guess there's some decent drama if the source pellet gets stuck outside of the pig.

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As the hippies are dying off we get less action from protesters here in Los Alamos but I find it hilarious that they'll prattle on about plutonium remaining deadly for tens of thousands of years yet they have no idea of what's on that construction site or well logging truck. I'll take Pu any day - that other stuff will jack you up!

A fun rabbit hole, in the manner of "Drop and Run" is the archaeological/sociological study of how to label nuclear waste so that someone, long after english is forgotten, will know not to mess around there. We do have a few places on the mesa with "don't ever, like ever, dig here" signs where there might be some interesting stuff in the ground. Not, and will not ever be, publicly accessible. Luckily not reactor waste...