ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
volcanoes are next week

 miamizsun wrote: 
I dropped a Pakistani nuke on Denver and I'm good.

 miamizsun wrote: 
 It's actually quite comforting.  Indianapolis, Louisville, Cincinnati, even Terre Haute and I'm still outside the thermal zone for even the biggest bomb the Russkies ever designed.  A little sunscreen and I should be just fine.  

relax! it's just a website with an interactive blast map...

Nukemap uses blast radiuses to send us a wakeup call

 

What if North Korea managed to develop long-range missiles that could target the United States? What would it look like if Los Angeles were nuked?

Nukemap, developed by Alex Wellerstein, a historian of science at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J., allows us to make the threat of nuclear attack personal. It is easy to ignore the nuclear threat if it's just a vague notion. It is another thing to see how much of your closest city and the surrounding areas would be devastated by a nuclear weapon.

Wellerstein, who probes into the secrecy behind America’s nuclear programs on his blog, created Nukemap to help people understand the reality of the devastation nuclear weapons would cause, and the long term effects they would leave in the wake of an attack.

The picture above is what it would look like if New York was hit with an 800 kiloton Topol nuclear weapon, which is currently part of the Russian arsenal. The small, yellow circle represents the fireball generated by the detonation. The blue-grey circle is the airburst radius that would flatten most buildings. The orange circle is the thermal radiation radius that would cause third-degree burns.

Nukemap allows the user to select a target, and to either pick a warhead yield manually or choose from a list of historical nukes or weapons that are currently in nations’ nuclear arsenals. The user can choose to see the immediate effects of one weapon or a multi-warhead device like a MIRV (multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle) on a target city.

Some interesting contrasts, but that milk price is over double what it should be.  I pay about $3.75 for a gallon of whole milk.
Coffee is now at $4.91 - woo-hoo!!

 Proclivities wrote:1938 probably isnt a great comparison year given the depression and all, but here's a rough conversion to 2015 $:

 Proclivities wrote: 
Livin' it x2 right now.

 Proclivities wrote: 
That was my experience with the Invention Convention, too.

 RichardPrins wrote:Been there 3 times.
Do you know the shoreline of that lake has more miles than the west coast of the U.S?

 RichardPrins wrote: 
Very cool, thanks.

Landsat-live goes live | Mapbox
Today we’re releasing the first edition of Landsat-live, a map that is constantly refreshed with the latest satellite imagery from NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite

Enter your city via the looking glass...

 Lazy8 wrote: 

 When you put URLs into the RP editor they need to have the "http://" at the start.  Most browsers will work without it and some like Chrome don't display it in the address window.  If the editor doesn't see it then it will assume that it is supposed to be an RP link and appends "http://www.radioparadise.com/" to it.  That's the only thing I know that would cause it. 

 Prodigal_SOB wrote:

I edit it and it's fine. I hit "submit" and it throws the RP ahead of the URL. Can't seem to fix it.

It's here.

Edit: and fixed. Had to break the link and make a new one. Hmm.

 Lazy8 wrote: 
You've got a bad URL.  It somehow put the radioparadise.com on it.

Click to visit/embiggen.