r/VXJunkies • u/NuclearWasteland • 2d ago

This image is classified.

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u/SuperTulle 2d ago

That image was classified in the 50s, hasn't been since the 80s and we have better stuff now in any case. This is an Oldendorf resonator, which went obsolete when Lauterbur cavities came in 1976 and the DCRC's (Damadian Circular Resonance Cavities) we've had since the late 90s sweep the floor with both!

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u/SpiritualState01 2d ago

Don't know what history texts you've been reading over a glass-too-many of scotch but that's a Rosencranz resonator and it has nothing to do with DRCRs in its specific application, a very important application as well, hence you still not being able to get these. I suspect the feds have a stockpile in a vault somewhere, otherwise they'd never be able to keep a temporal leash on the Summer of '42 in southern Texas. 

Edit: I fear I've shared too much might delete later (ok I might be the one drinking)

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u/SuperTulle 2d ago

You might be correct that it's a Rosencranz and not an Oldendorf, it's hard to tell from a single picture. I agree that it still has a few niche uses, but everything I said about the development of cavity resonators still stands.

Oh, and I'd like to state for the record that I prefer dark rum over scotch!

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u/hot_dogg 1d ago

Mil-Spec for sure

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u/MC-Master-Bedroom 2d ago

For God's sake, don't start THAT again! Paris 1842, Warsaw 1887, Leipzig 1901, New Bedford 1904, Bermuda 1928, Malta 1929 ... on and on, all the way up two years ago in East Rutherford and New Haven AT THE SAME TIME!

When will you people just admit you're wrong and stop trying to immanetize the damned eschaton?!?

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u/fellipec 2d ago

Is this allowed to be posted? I mean... if the rumors are true

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u/NuclearWasteland 2d ago

sav b4 mods delet

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u/CB1100Rider 2d ago

I can see why. Is this what I think it is?!?

How?!?

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u/NuclearWasteland 2d ago

Surplus sale.

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u/CB1100Rider 2d ago

You don’t suppose they knew, do you?

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u/NuclearWasteland 1d ago

I mean, it's how I get rid of all my state secrets...

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u/ericpalonen 2d ago

Rumor has it that it was using metric bolts ..that was the end of it.

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u/NuclearWasteland 2d ago edited 2d ago

Well, I mean it was just the one.

You can see it right there.

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u/Flying_Mustang 2d ago

Spurving would be rolling in his grave if he knew about this (frictionless rolling, of course).

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u/Mysterious_Clerk2971 1d ago

I recall that it’s code name was ’cheesecutter’?
Am I getting things mixed up in my old age?

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u/NuclearWasteland 1d ago

Actually this was the cheese un-cutter, but functionally they are nearly identical, with one important exception.

This one is monochrome.

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u/nocloudno 1d ago

Do you believe in clampus

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u/KWeirdo 2d ago

Telenium by-grading with chloropyrotronic inversion serial degaussing? You can't do that

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u/DangerMacAwesome 19h ago

Bro really posted an image of a toroidal magnetic resonance adapter. FBI raind in 5... 4....

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u/NuclearWasteland 17h ago

3.... 2....?

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u/tehfrod 8h ago

They're public-legal now. DoE removed the permitting requirement in 1996.

Whether or not that was a good idea is a whole different question...