Originally posted by zerb
This looks like a moudel of some kind possibly a super computer:
That was probably snapped back in the 50's - 60's I bet for that time period those comps (assuming thats what they are) were pulling in about 3 gigahertz for the most advanced of the time which is unheard of for that time period but you have to remember its top secrete. Nowadays they are probably pulling in about 2 teraflopes, which is unheard of considering our brain process at 1 teraflop.
Hate to disappoint you, but the first supercomputers came up in the 60's with processing power of around 2 megaflops.
Speed measured in hertz also isn't that much of a scale as it is with pc's. There are a lot of tasks that are done using highly specialized IC's where hertz doesn't mean a thing. For example, the NSA is using specialized components designed for voice recognition. They are designed and built for a single task, but they do that task extremely fast. This stuff died on the open market decades ago since it is way to expensive for business, but is still loved for certain purposes.
Oh, yeah, and the human brain is said to have processing power of around 100 teraflops (just think about how much information you have to process just typing this).
Oh really? thanks for clearing me up on that. I'll stick to posting pictures.
Pictures of inside the base: www.roadrunnersinternationale.com...
Pictures outside of groom lake of trucks caring preassembled concrete rooms, Ideal for building underground bunkers.
"the Shack"
Recent picture of experimental plane flying over groom lake.
Can't confirm this is inside area 51 thats what the goggle image search suggest though.
Experimental craft flying over groom lake.
[edit on 7-6-2005 by iksmodnad]
[edit on 7-6-2005 by iksmodnad]
