notmyusualuserid
Poster Extraordinaire
I suggest you read what I wrote again.
80 Years Ago Today, Near Alamogordo, New Mexico...
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I suggest you read what I wrote again.
fjblair
Friend of Leo's
AAT65
Doctor of Teleocity
It’s a few years since I read it, but the role of British and British-based scientists and engineers is acknowledged (including the rescue of Neils Bohr from Sweden in an RAF Mosquito).
SPUDCASTER
Doctor of Teleocity
Played in Tonopah, Nevada and on the TV would be warnings on nuclear tests that day. Stay inside.
Always wondered if the casinos had paid to have those warnings put on TV so people would stay inside?
Always wondered if the casinos had paid to have those warnings put on TV so people would stay inside?
John Backlund
Doctor of Teleocity
John Backlund
Doctor of Teleocity
"Everybody's a WINNER"!!!!
John Backlund
Doctor of Teleocity
Dang! I can almost hear the wind whistling in that shot.
John Backlund
Doctor of Teleocity
John Backlund
Doctor of Teleocity
"Now I am become Deaf, the destroyer of words"
John Backlund
Doctor of Teleocity
John Backlund
Doctor of Teleocity
buster poser
Doctor of Teleocity
This is happening with "AI" right now. Funny that
Happy Enchilada
Poster Extraordinaire
My older son the engineer briefly flirted with going to work at Los Alamos, the spot in the New Mexico desert near Santa Fe where they developed the bomb and where the government is still doing ... well, no idea what. I thought if it was me, I'd go in a heartbeat - what an adventure! Great exciting job with wonderful resume potential, and get a Jeep and a rifle and a dog and spend the weekends camping out in the mountains. Alas, he didn't share my enthusiasm, and ended up in Connecticut ... and now in Pittsburgh. Maybe he's more practical like his Mother ...
John Backlund
Doctor of Teleocity
They'd be safer nighttime pedestrians.
Bob Womack
Friend of Leo's
My uncle worked as a nuclear chemist on the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, TN, at the Y-12 nuclear production faciliity. He was one of only a handful who knew what they were building. I grew up one ridge over in Knoxville. Since Oak Ridge was a Cold War first strike target, they didn't even waste time on duck and cover exercises. We did have a fighter squadron and radar emplacements to protect Oak Ridge.
But think about this: 500,000 Purple Heart medals were minted in anticipation of the casualties expected from the invasion of Japan (Operation Downfall). As of 2003, there were still 120,000 left from this stockpile. Though many remain, they are just now getting around to minting new ones. Given that the Japanese had mobilized the entire civil population and demanded that they fight to the death, Japanese deaths were estimated at between five and ten million. My brother's mother-in-law was a teen on the outskirts of Hiroshima when the bomb was dropped. Given the orders and training she and all civilians had been handed, she felt that use of the bombs was the only rational decision for Truman to make.
Fun facts: The three most expensive projects in the U.S.leading up to and during WWII were the atomic bombs, the rush development of the B-29 bomber, and the Norden bombsight.
Bob
But think about this: 500,000 Purple Heart medals were minted in anticipation of the casualties expected from the invasion of Japan (Operation Downfall). As of 2003, there were still 120,000 left from this stockpile. Though many remain, they are just now getting around to minting new ones. Given that the Japanese had mobilized the entire civil population and demanded that they fight to the death, Japanese deaths were estimated at between five and ten million. My brother's mother-in-law was a teen on the outskirts of Hiroshima when the bomb was dropped. Given the orders and training she and all civilians had been handed, she felt that use of the bombs was the only rational decision for Truman to make.
Fun facts: The three most expensive projects in the U.S.leading up to and during WWII were the atomic bombs, the rush development of the B-29 bomber, and the Norden bombsight.
Bob
Or easier targets.
On a street where I walk in the evening, I often see young people out riding bicycles, electric bicycles, electric scooters, and skateboards. They are often unlit nor do they have reflectors, and the riders are wearing dark clothes.
I also see at least two or three vehicles per night exhibiting what seven hundred horsepower provides in automotive performance. One night, I fear these two factions will meet up, and it will not be pretty.
I also see at least two or three vehicles per night exhibiting what seven hundred horsepower provides in automotive performance. One night, I fear these two factions will meet up, and it will not be pretty.
bigbreak
Tele-Afflicted
I saw giant ants there.
