That’s what she said?
That is pretty cool. These two pictures from Wiki’s Gallery section give an even better sense of the impressive scale. Kind of funny that the ship/platform part (but not the radar gear) was built in Russia.
Question that just crossed my mind…
When that thing is in operation, do all the crew have to stay in lead-lined rooms, or what?!
Lead wouldn’t be what you’d use as a shield; it’s radar, not ionizing radiation. A giant microwave. I expect a shield against it would look rather like what you have in the window of your microwave oven. And this machine probably projects its radar in a beam, not omnidirectionally; so as long as they stay out of the beam they’d likely be safe.
On the other hand, if they foolishly stood in front of the beam they’d cook like a steak.
That’s obviously the Machine from Contact, in a dome so we don’t see what they’re really doing.
They say that thing is designed to be used in high seas but it sure looks like it would tip over to me.
It looks like the lair of one of the less-fashionable Bond villains.
I have a phobia of large mechanical things with mysterious volume so THANK YOU for pegging my creep meter so early this fine morning. And I’m with voltaire, that does not look like a cruise that would be good for your genetic health – not the big one apparently but how about all the other little radars?
Meh. If it cloud fly, then I’d be impressed.
From the linked article:
I am astonished by this. A baseball at 2,900 miles away. Wow!
And yes, it does look like it would tip over in a storm, but remember, it is on a oil derrick platform. There is a lot of metal under the water to stabilize it.
Still, you have to admit that thing makes one hell of a target.
In today’s economy everybody is having to watch their budget.
That thing is pretty damn impressive.
I once worked shortly with a guy that almost died from getting zapped by a Navy radar. His health was never the same after that (IIRC the story he told). His coworker died.
ISTR what happened was they were working somewhere on one ship when another came in and that ship’s radar wasn’t turn off (or not turned off soon enough).
Oh gosh yes.
However, I assume it isn’t just cruising about unattended. I know little of modern naval strategy and tactics, but you don’t usually put a nearly billion dollar radar platform out there without support.
Yep, I’m sure it is heavily screened.
Do not rotate, radiate, or otherwise energize. That is all.
Just curious. Is that a joke line (which I always like) or is it one of the Navy/military phrases?
We took a harbour cruise in Seattle a couple of years ago, and went by it. Yeah, pretty big structure.
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It’s a paraphrase of a standard Navy announcement.
Speaking of announcements, dad liked to say ‘All hands forward, lay aft. All hands aft, lay forward. All hands amidships, stand by to direct traffic!’