The World's Largest Computer in 1951

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In summary, the ENIAC was a massive machine weighing 30 tons, occupying 1,000 square feet of floor space, and containing over 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors, 6,000 switches, and 18,000 vacuum tubes. It required 150 kilowatts of power to run, which was enough to light a small town. The final machine was less powerful than a $5 pocket calculator. The Russian Ekranoplan, also known as the Caspian Sea Monster, was a ground effect vehicle that could travel over 400 km/h and weighed 540 tons fully loaded. It was used as a high-speed military transport and could transport over 100 tonnes of cargo. The
  • #736
Gokul43201 said:
'Monoclinal' must be the geogolists' adjectival form of the already happy adjective, 'monoclinic' (which is a crystal lattice structure familiar to physicists and materials scientists).
Thanks for that clarification. I was figuring that monoclinal must mean 'flat'.

Gokul43201 said:
Ayers Rock sounds like a winner...
But he said that it was discovered in the 1800's. There were Aboriginies in Oz thousands of years before that.
 
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  • #737
It's not Ayers rock, but I also take issue with the word "discovered".
 
  • #738
The sioux aquifer
 
  • #739
Not the sioux aquifer. The geography has gotten worse.
 
  • #740
Hell's Half Acre fault?
 
  • #741
hypnagogue said:
Hell's Half Acre fault?

Hey stranger!

No, but since I tried it first, I was waiting for that link to come up. :biggrin:
 
  • #742
I don't know why I was thinking volcanic. 'Upthrust' is more indicative of crustal shifts. So this is some honkin' huge chunk of pumice or something that is remote enough to have gone unnoticed until the 19th century.
 
  • #743
But we were doing quite well down under.
 
  • #744
...and monoclinal is a word that only a geologist could love.
 
  • #745
A direct clue: A world's record
 
  • #746
btw, this is not a clue, why doesn't this thread have a rating yet? It should I think. I voted for five stars. :approve:
 
  • #747
Kursk Magnetic Anomaly (a giant iron ore)...?

Daniel.
 
  • #748
Great Barrier Reef?
 
  • #749
Nope, nope.

Lets see if this kills it.

discovered June 3, 1858.
 
  • #750
brewnog said:
Great Barrier Reef?
First thing that I thought of, but that's organic, not geological.
 
  • #751
Ivan Seeking said:
Nope, nope.

Lets see if this kills it.

discovered June 3, 1858.

Aaaaahhhh!

Got it, but this time I feel like I cheated.


Edit: No wait, I don't. Carry on...
 
  • #752
brewnog said:
Got it,

Edit: No wait, I don't. Carry on...
Your decisiveness is what makes you such a great leader. :-p
 
  • #753
How do you cheat on this thread?
\
 
  • #754
Danger said:
Your decisiveness is what makes you such a great leader. :-p

Why does nobody ever follow?!
 
  • #755
brewnog said:
Why does nobody ever follow?!
We will. Right now, we're all just milling around waiting for you to pick a direction.
 
  • #756
"...about 200 miles west of Carnarvon..."
 
  • #757
I'm outta this one, guys. My geography is almost as bad as my math.
 
  • #758
Ailsa Craig?!

Getting vague now, cos that's wrong wrong wrong too.


Some kind of oil field?
 
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Kormoran? whatever that is?
 
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My clues came from the 1976 Guinness Book of World's Records, but this is the beast.

Mount Augustus, or Burringurrah as it is known by the local Wadjari Aboriginal people, is about 850 kilometres from Perth and midway between the Great Northern and North West Coastal highways. One of the most spectacular solitary peaks in the world, it rises 717 metres above a stony, red sandplain of arid shrubland—dominated by wattles, cassias and eremophilas—and is clearly visible from the air for more than 160 kilometres.

The rock itself, which culminates in a small peak on a plateau, is about eight kilometres long and covers an area of 4,795 hectares. At about twice the size of Uluru [Ayers Rock] it is the biggest 'rock' in the world...
http://www.calm.wa.gov.au/national_parks/previous_parks_month/mount_augustus.html

I defer to anyone who wishes. Gotta go for now.
 
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  • #761
Ok, this one is a bit vague.

In April 1982, the number "392" got into the Guinness Book of Records. Why?
 
  • #762
Your backyard (assuming you have one) is plagued by these lobster cousins.

What are they?
 
  • #763
DaveC426913 said:
Your backyard (assuming you have one) is plagued by these lobster cousins.

What are they?
Brew noggin already posted a quetion.
 
  • #764
Indeed I did, but I'll take a guess at Dave's anyway.

Earwigs?
 
  • #765
Tallest woman Zeng Jinlian (China) measured 8 ft. 1.75 in. (2.48 m) when she died on February 13, 1982.
The tallest woman in the world?
 
  • #766
Huckleberry said:
The tallest woman in the world?

Nope. Another decent guess and you can have clue 2.
 
  • #767
A peak discharge of daily rainfall in massawipi of 392 m/s took place in 1982


too much googleing
 
  • #768
Wow, I'm impressed, but no. Did you make that up?!


Clue 2: You might find one of these leading a tribe of Native American Indians.
 
  • #769
c-can-nt...d-d-d-do..a-anymo-ore...g-g-goo-ogli-ing-g
 
  • #770
Heheheh.

The 392 record is a score.
 

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