This popped up on my computer this morning.
Why Every Map of China is Just Slightly Wrong
I found it an interesting, but not particularly surprising, watch - just ignore the initial and final advertising...
Shouldn't it be "Why Every Map of China is Slightly Wong"?
When I was just a little tyke the official highway map put out by the DOT for that year omitted the little town that had our post office.?ÿ That really upset a few local people.?ÿ Someone contacted the State Senator representing our area and demanded action to fix this problem.?ÿ The information he obtained was the DOT would pick three little towns with each new printing to leave off the map, and return the ones omitted previously.?ÿ The reason was that other map printing companies would copy a DOT map and sell it as their own work.?ÿ This is how the DOT could nail those printing companies.?ÿ Apparently it worked for them.?ÿ Sucked for the little towns for a year.
The information he obtained was the DOT would pick three little towns with each new printing to leave off the map, and return the ones omitted previously.?ÿ
Some of the best horror/sci-fi movies had that as a lead in ..
Hey there's a town up there, where are we ?
I don't know, it doesn't show up on the map.
Maybe we could find a room and just stay for the night.
The perfect setting would be somewhere between Needmore and Popcorn, Indiana.?ÿ Those two unincorporated communities are in Lawrence County.?ÿ Believe it or not.
At Needmore you can find Salt Creek Brewery a short distance down the road from Gullet's Creek Baptist Church.
At Popcorn, which is near Popcorn Creek, you can find the Popcorn Christian Church on Byer's Cemetery Road.
Ya jist cain't make dis stuff up.
@holy-cow?ÿ ?ÿSounds like when I worked for a large engineering company. We would leave off a few things for the nit-pickers to bust us on, then they would never see the iffy things we were hoping to get through.
Interesting stuff, can they explain why the local GIS is off?
They could accomplish the same thing with misspellings instead of omissions, with less hardship to users.
@holy-cow ahhh, but is an unincorporated town actually a town, or, is it actually a village name?
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The reason was that other map printing companies would copy a DOT map and sell it as their own work.
I believe the generic terms for this practice are "map traps" and "copyright traps."
Technically, they cease to be a town when they stop having elected officials.?ÿ But, there are unincorporated towns that have far more population than many incorporated towns.?ÿ The term village seems to be reserved for subdivision names, with one exception, in my State.
I suggested that the movie be set in a town between Needmore and Popcorn.?ÿ Springville would appear to be the best choice for a horror movie.?ÿ It even has a name that befits a horror movie title.?ÿ Bedford is another potential selection but not on the shortest path between Needmore and Popcorn.
@jim-frame?ÿ Both the old '70s Thomas Guide maps and when bought out by Rand McNally had "Easter Egg" errors for copyright protection.?ÿ Personally, I think China's dithering of national public maps concerning exact location is a good idea,?ÿ makes it harder to deliver a JDAM right down your chimney.?ÿ Can't dither the GPS signals so instead dither the base map.?ÿ Clever.
In China, OpenStreetMap is a criminal offence/organsation.
But it does look like GCJ-02 has been cracked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_data_in_China
makes it harder to deliver a JDAM right down your chimney.?ÿ
So just use bigger munitions - an extra couple of dozen megatons should do the trick 🙁
makes it harder to deliver a JDAM right down your chimney.?ÿ
So just use bigger munitions - an extra couple of dozen megatons should do the trick 🙁
Not true.?ÿ Conventional munitions fail against hardened targets if they miss by150+ feet.?ÿ Even 25 kiloton nuclear bombs are not 100% effective within the blast zone.?ÿ ?ÿAn estimated 14% of people within 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) of Hiroshima's ground zero 15 megaton blast survived the?ÿexplosion. Other?ÿ survivors included ten people in a streetcar 750 metres (820 yd) from ground zero, and a woman in a bank 260 metres (280 yd) away from the blast.?ÿ
?ÿModern nukes are ~6-20 kilotons because of MIRV and cruise missile delivery weight limitations and the fact that a dozen MIRVs can wreak GPS guided havoc on military targets compared to one big?ÿ heavy bomb targeted at a population center.?ÿ Huge 15+ megaton bombs are a no go because their near earth damage is devastating locally but limited laterally by the atmosphere?ÿ and most of the energy released?ÿ pops up into the upper atmosphere like a bubble in in a boiling coffee pot.?ÿ?ÿ
Don't get me wrong, I live on San Diego Bay and a a few 15 kiloton bombs targeting the Navy facilities would force me to bug out immediately to inland refuges but I'd probably survive.
Back in my "beating plow shares into swords" days we were gearing up for the production of a weapon that used depleted uranium.?ÿ When it reached the desired location there would be a gigantic explosion that would push the ambient air so far away from the site before being able to return that air-breathers would suffocate and die.?ÿ The pressure wave would have a minor effect on all flexible items such as grass and trees while rigid items would crumble.
Modern nukes are ~6-20 kilotons .?ÿ .?ÿ .?ÿ
I correct myself.?ÿ ?ÿThe typical active warheads in Trident and Minuteman missiles are 100 and 170 kilotons, but some Minuteman ICBMs are fitted with a single 340Kt bomb for those "special" targets.?ÿ It has to do with the bomb weight/yield ratio,?ÿ and the better damage of smaller MIRV'ed?ÿ bombs concerning shipping/delivery to your door costs.?ÿ 100-170Kt is the sweet spot.
were gearing up for the production of a weapon that used depleted uranium.?ÿ When it reached the desired location there would be a gigantic explosion that would push the ambient air so far away from the site before being able to return that air-breathers would suffocate and die.
That is hard to believe.
Depleted uranium was used in thermonuclear bombs to increase yield due to its low price but the cost/benefit/weight numbers pencilled out to using more U-235 or Plutonium-239 as the fissile material because, well, the DOD has lotsa money.?ÿ BTW, did you know French sailboat racers used depleted uranium keels?ÿ in the '70s because they were heavier than lead (banned rather quickly)?
A "gigantic" depleted uranium hydrogen bomb would be much more gigantic if conventionally tamped with U-235 & P-239.?ÿ The idea that a nuclear explosion would suffocate victims far away from the site from asphyxiation is bunk.?ÿ More likely is immediate fatal damage to lung tissues and internal organs due to the enormous shock wave.?ÿ ?ÿAgreed a firestorm that consumes all available oxygen causes more deaths by suffocation but that's an ancillary effect, hours after detonation.
Please post references.
That's about all I remember.?ÿ My part of the job involved converting an existing production facility to be able to assemble the product-----if the contract was awarded to do so.?ÿ We didn't get that contract, but did land a much bigger contract for a different weapon.?ÿ Can't recall the exact name but it was a three-faced cluster bomb unit that created three superheated brass cones that could penetrate something over 14 inches of steel.?ÿ Forget the total number to be loaded into each shell/canister.?ÿ That was about 35 years ago.
My primary role in that time frame was to evaluate how to reactivate a high-capacity production facility constructed to produce lead azide with an intermediate step producing sodium azide.?ÿ The goal at the time was to produce massive quantities of sodium azide as the only similar facilities for such large quantities were in Canada and India.?ÿ Hardcore chemical engineering required plus a conversion of the control systems.?ÿ That effort went away when I left as no one else with the firm had any knowledge on that facility.