The Titan II Missile Underground Launch Complex (Large Image) is classic Cold War-era cutaway stuff. At the Titan Missile Museum in Arizona, you can tour the entire facility. As their brochure states: The Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) was the first liquid propellant missile that could be launched from underground. Equipped with a nine-megaton… Continue reading Titan Missile Underground Launch Complex Cutaway
Month: June 2009
“Fail-Safe’s” Secret Spaces
Fail-Safe, the 1964 movie with Henry Fonda, Walter Mattheu, and yes, Dom DeLuise, is full of secret places. In fact, with the exception of the very beginning (when Walter Mattheu, tough guy that he is, slaps a woman and says, “You’re not my kind”), most everything takes place in the President’s bunker, the War Room,… Continue reading “Fail-Safe’s” Secret Spaces
Hidden Room Latch
90% of this video is worthless–mostly, a slightly pudgy guy looking around suspiciously, as if someone were following him. There’s also the not-insignificant matter of the Indiana Jones soundtrack. But at the :48 second mark you do get to see how the interior latch of a secret door works. After the guy pulls the book… Continue reading Hidden Room Latch
Pripyat, Abandoned City of Chernobyl
I’ve seen a number of images of Pripyat, the city that was summarily abandoned after Chernobyl, but this one takes the cake. I love the starkness and contrast of black and white. What is Pripyat? Pripyat was a planned town and a factory town. It was an artificial town that was built from scratch in… Continue reading Pripyat, Abandoned City of Chernobyl
Covert Drug Smuggler Submarine
In September 2008, the U.S. Coast Guard seized a 59-foot submarine 370 miles SW of Guatemala. The submarine contained four crew members and 237 (!) bales of cocaine. An anomaly? No, because less than a week alter, another 60 footer was seized. Between the two submersibles about seven tons of coke worth nearly $200 million… Continue reading Covert Drug Smuggler Submarine