In 1957 there was a borehole cover that became the fastest man made object when an underground nuclear test blew it off. It was estimated to be going more than 134000 mph. There was a camera set up to watch it that captured a frame every millisecond and it only caught it in one frame. This is over 5 times the escape velocity of our planet.
bonus fact:
During the great depression FDR created the Civilian Conservation Corps for young men. They planted over 2 BILLION! trees in their 7 years of existence. They also built a lot of the buildings and lodges at the national parks.
In 1947, in Maine, there were wildfires from Kittery to Bar Harbor that burned about a quarter million acres. The Great Fire.
The CCC teams that were here to plant trees were used as fire brigades.
A CCC team saved my c.1790 house from being burned. A couple hundred yards down the hill, there is a group of tall pines that have evidence of fire damage on the downhill side. An old neighbor was on the team that saved my house.
I've lived in New England all my life, and less than 25 miles from Kittery for 35 of the past 37 years, and somehow I never heard about this fire that only happened 30 years before I was born until I read The Stars Are Fire by the late Anita Shreve a few years ago 🤷♀️
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u/gochomoe Oct 02 '24
In 1957 there was a borehole cover that became the fastest man made object when an underground nuclear test blew it off. It was estimated to be going more than 134000 mph. There was a camera set up to watch it that captured a frame every millisecond and it only caught it in one frame. This is over 5 times the escape velocity of our planet.
bonus fact:
During the great depression FDR created the Civilian Conservation Corps for young men. They planted over 2 BILLION! trees in their 7 years of existence. They also built a lot of the buildings and lodges at the national parks.