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CBS Telecine patch bay, sometime in 1950s-60s




The Runit Dome, also called the Tomb, is a 115 m (377 ft) diameter, 46 cm (18 in) thick dome of concrete at sea level, encapsulating an estimated 73,000 m3 of radioactive debris, including some plutonium-239. The debris stems from nuclear tests conducted in the Enewetak Atoll by the United States between 1946 and 1958. And it is slowly leaking.


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Technician Joyce Cade working inside a UNIVAC I computer casing calibrating delay-line memory tanks that stored data as sound pulses in tubes of mercury, the process was temperature sensitive so this small chamber was always maintained at a very constant temperature during computer operations. On average, the UNIVAC had a malfunction about two to three times a day which kept her quite busy. Typically, the most time consuming part of her repair jobs was tracking down which vacuum tube had blown, sometimes in the most inaccessible of places. This United States Census Bureau computer installation is being used to tabulate the results of the 1954 Census of Business, Suitland, Maryland, USA. (October 19, 1955).
The UNIVAC I (Universal Automatic Computer I) was the first general-purpose electronic digital computer design for business application produced in the United States. It was designed principally by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the inventors of the ENIAC, and the US Census Bureau was Remington Rand's first client.


Whales have arm, wrist & finger bones in their front fins. This is the front fin bones of a Grey whale.
All cetaceans (Whales, Dolphins, Porpoises) and Pinnipeds (Seals, Sea Lions, Walruses) have flippers. However, inside those flippers are bones that resemble a human hand, thumb included.

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