Sunday, March 30, 2008

Starfish Prime


Clooney in a shoot m up...I think it's a stolen bomb one...


Had to up my bid on ebay...it looks to be a good book...the one with the maps of the early Valley...and, another search turns it up on the web...so even if I dont get it...I've got it!...brb...




brb!...can't find it anywhere else...none of the used book dealers or Amazon...unusual!...I wont win unless everyone goes to sleep...
I had this thought today...that it's worth repeating that the "Neolithic" or "Golden" age isn't gone...it's what's called "wilderness"...and granted there's not much left of that!...but the world of the Dinosaurs isn't a "Lost World"...the self same wilderness they lived in we live in...
And now there's a lawsuit a foot (as if there weren't enough!) to save not just wilderness...but the whole planet from being gobbled up by microsopic black holes...brb...
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The builders of the world's biggest particle collider are being sued in federal court over fears that the experiment might create globe-gobbling black holes or never-before-seen strains of matter that would destroy the planet.
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Odd thing is the atom smasher is in Europe and the lawsuit is here...on the news was the Texas case where the World Court tried to influence the case of foriegn fellow who was found guity of capital crimes...our court said that court has no jurisdiction in the US...some how Bush sided with the World Court...brb...
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The Supreme Court yesterday issued a broad ruling limiting presidential power and the reach of international treaties, saying neither President Bush nor the World Court has the authority to order a Texas court to reopen a death penalty case involving a foreign national.
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There were fears when the first A bomb was exploded that it would cause a chain reaction in the atmoshphere..brb...
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Teller also raised the speculative possibility that an atomic bomb might "ignite" the atmosphere, because of a hypothetical fusion reaction of nitrogen nuclei. Bethe calculated, according to Serber, that it could not happen. In his book The Road from Los Alamos, Bethe says a refutation was written by Konopinski, C. Marvin, and Teller as report LA-602, showing that ignition of the atmosphere was impossible, not just unlikely.[6] In Serber's account, Oppenheimer mentioned it to Arthur Compton, who "didn't have enough sense to shut up about it. It somehow got into a document that went to Washington" which led to the question being "never laid to rest".[7
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Well...in fact a test in the high atmosphere is suspected of screwing with things..brb...
sheessh...this I didn't know...there were many tests high up...right up to jfk...and the test ban...
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The Soviets detonated four high-altitude tests in 1961 and three in 1962. During the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, both the US and the USSR detonated several high-altitude nuclear explosions as a form of saber-rattling.
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And it's curious...the high explosions could destroy incoming missles...and satellites...so there's always been a kinda use once and hope defense if the wrong button is pushed!...sigh...but what I was thinking about was a test that effected the van allen belts...brb...
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In the 1961 movie Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, the Van Allen radiation belt catches fire, threatening Earth.
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That movies been replayed a lot lately!...
Clooney running atop cars in NY...trying to catch the bomb thief...brb...
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In 1963, Brown et al. reported in the Journal of Geophysical Research that Starfish Prime had created a belt of MeV electrons, and Bill Hess reported in 1968 that some Starfish electrons remained for five years. Others reported that radioactive particles from Starfish Prime descended to earth seasonally and accumulated in terrestrial organisms such as fungi and lichens.
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Well..lemesee if I can hook that one up with global warming...brb..
here's a page that I see here and there..the threat of emp...
but that's not global warming!...brb...
quote from a blog comment!...
Adam Rogers Says: August 10th, 2006 at 2:56 pm
I interviewed Van Allen years ago for a story on one of his proteges, the NASA global warming scientist James Hansen - the guy who says the Bush Administration has tried to get him to clam up about climate trouble. Van Allen was cool, smart, and nice until I asked my last question, about the 1960s movie “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,” in which an experimental submarine attempts to save the Earth after the Van Allen radiation belts catch fire.
No, seriously. That was what it was about.
Anyway, Van Allen’s tone changed. Not sure I recall the quote exactly, but it was something along the lines of, “that was the stupidest thing I have ever seen.”
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It was an obit on Allen page...
anyway...the thought is across I think!...that tinkering with things and not knowing for certain what can happen...is a little maddening..!!
Oh...shes digging at the wires with a knife..."I need your gun..." "Easy Easy."..countdown......voom!..."Are you okay!"...violins and horns play....
Here's the "Paul Revere" of global warming...
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''It became quite clear this summer,'' Dr. Hansen said, ''that what we had been predicting is just what's happening.'' By Way of Venus
A scientific report on the data supporting his statements will be published soon in the Journal of Geophysical Research.
Dr. Hansen came to the study of the earth's atmosphere by way of Venus. After earning a Ph.D. in physics at the University of Iowa, where he worked under Dr. James A. Van Allen, who discovered the radiation belts encircling earth, Dr. Hansen joined the Goddard Institute, which is operated as a research center by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. One of his major projects was the spacecraft study of Venusian atmosphere, where a rampant greenhouse effect has produced surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead.
Asked what NASA's reaction has been to his recent bold statements, Dr. Hansen gave a nervous smile. ''They're still trying to make up their minds,'' he said.
His Bold Statement Transforms the Debate On Greenhouse Effect
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Published: August 23, 1988
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Now AI is on...
Anyway...Hansen sounded the alarm there in 1988...that's...thirty years ago!...no wait..just twenty...whew!...
But there was another problem woken up to back then...ozone...brb...
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On January 23, 1978, Sweden became the first nation to ban CFC-containing aerosol sprays that are thought to damage the ozone layer. A few other countries, including the United States, Canada, and Norway, followed suit later that year, but the European Community rejected an analogous proposal. Even in the U.S., chlorofluorocarbons continued to be used in other applications, such as refrigeration and industrial cleaning, until after the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole in 1985. After negotiation of an international treaty (the Montreal Protocol), CFC production was sharply limited beginning in 1987 and phased out completely by 1996.
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So...
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His best-known work is the discovery that chlorofluorocarbons contribute to ozone depletion. Rowland theorized that manmade organic compound gases combine with solar radiation and decompose in the stratosphere, releasing atoms of chlorine and chlorine monoxide that are individually able to destroy large numbers of ozone molecules. Rowland's research, first published in Nature magazine in 1974, initiated a scientific investigation of the problem. The National Academy of Sciences concurred with their findings in 1976, and in 1978 CFC-based aerosols were banned in the United States.
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I remember reading that Rowland thought he found how the world was to end...and soon.
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Effects of Nuclear Weapons on the Atmosphere
F. Sherwood Rowland, 1985
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That's an interview...part of a series...
DavidDavid


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