1979 photograph shows a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory employee opening what was thought to be the heaviest hinged door in the world. With a weight of 44 tons, a thickness of 2.5 meters and a width of 3.6 meters. A special bearing on the hinge allowed a single person to open or close the door filled with concrete.
According to Guinness World of Records, the heaviest door in the world is actually the radiation shield door at the National Institute of Fusion Sciences in Japan. It weighs 720 tons, is 11.73 m high, 11.4 m wide and 2 m thick.
The heaviest door in the world, is not designed to keep people out, but to protect the outside world from the contents behind it.
Credits to whom it is due.
That’s where all the world’s F*cks are kept.
Uhhh…tron?
Trying to keep your mom out of the fridge.
How much WD-40 per year do you think this needs?
Tron door, yes?
This looks a lot like the one in the original Tron.
This door is in both Tron movies.
Now that is a big door. — Jeff Bridges in Tron
Wasn’t strong enough to hold bell bottoms, wedge/platform shoes or disco. They’ve all made comebacks since the ’90s.
I blame the lady operating the door, she’s got that “Saturday Night Fever” stride.
Anyone know where this picture was taken? Presumably, that door is still there to this day.
so much lego
The Greenbrier WV
Vault 101
Looks like a nuclear imaging room or something similar. Had one at the IRB building in Chapelhill, that I worked on several years ago. I was told at the time that there were no straight paths into or, more importantly, out of the room. And all of the rebar used in that section was stainless steel.
I want that door for my house.
“Hey Doris, can you pull the door off the hinges, I’m going to put a sectional in there.”
Orange door hinge
In a couple of thousand years, they will ask his did these people make this.
I’m having significant trouble understanding what this is needed for.
This was from the Shiva era, which expected performance on the order of a couple of MJ, about a single stick of dynamite. The system is laser powered, with little individual energy.
So what is this for?
That’s where I want to lock all the fruit flies in my kitchen
Fake, that’s clearly legos
Is it NM…
