Blow Stuff Up, Indoors

Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 14, 2001 @07:44AM from the quick-and-painless dept.

marmaluke writes: "Check out this story at Techtv.com. They built an explosion containment facility at Lawrence Livermore Lab that can take a punch and won't wake up the neighbors. They are going to use it for 'assessing the performance of the non-nuclear, or "primary," component in stockpiled nuclear weapons.' I just think it would be cool to have a little room to blow stuff up in! Anyone got any old PCs that you just don't know what to do with?" Also sounds like a good Dr. No / Dr. Evil unseen-extermination chamber.

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It seems pretty cool, but... by greesil · 2001-08-14 08:24 · Score: 3, Interesting

The place sounds nify, but one has to wonder at the cost effectiveness of this place. I mean sure, the tests aren't subject to the vagaries of weather, but how much did it cost to build?

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