Arquivos de Tag: Tank

Super Kamiokande Golden Water Tank Buried in Japan Seeks Answers to Cosmic Matter Mystery

Buried a full kilometer beneath Mount Ikenoyama in central Japan, a stainless steel cylinder roughly forty meters across and just as tall holds fifty thousand tonnes of water so pure it can slowly dissolve metal. Walls, floor, and ceiling carry more than eleven thousand photomultiplier tubes the size of large beach balls. When sodium lamps […]

Quiet Nerd Builds an Eight Wheel Electric Tank Camper That Spins Within Its Own Footprint

Building an electric 8×8 camper from scratch looks impossible until Quiet Nerd opens a workshop and starts cutting square punch tubing into a lightweight frame. Eight separate 48-volt, 1000-watt brushless differential motors soon sit under that frame, each one ready to push its own wheel. Differential gears generally allow wheels to move at different speeds, […]

Alleged Jalisco cartel leader and fuel smuggler dubbed “The Tank” is arrested in Mexico

Security forces in Mexico have arrested an alleged leader of a notorious cartel who is accused by the U.S. of drug trafficking and a large-scale fuel smuggling operation, authorities said Tuesday. Ivan Cazarin Molina (a.k.a. “El Tanque”—meaning “The Tank”), was captured on Monday in the town of Zapopan in Jalisco state, security minister Omar Garcia […]

StratoBuilds’ AI Fish Tank Packs a 14 Million-Parameter Fish Brain in Your Pocket

Real water and live fish refuse to share a pocket without making a mess. Strato Doumanis, who posts as StratoBuilds, built Pocket Tank instead: a 1.8 inch AMOLED aquarium you can hold in one hand, where every high level choice a fish makes comes from a language model that lives entirely on the board. A […]

General Atomics’ Mojave STOL Turns a Korean Tank Trail Into a Runway

North of Seoul on September 16, a 29-foot uncrewed aircraft left a conventional Army runway, joined air operations over a live-fire range, then settled onto a rough maneuver trail normally reserved for tanks and artillery. Ground-station pilots sent it rolling again. It lifted off in less than 200 meters, resumed the sortie, and flew back […]