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5,461 posted on 02/22/2006 3:33:58 PM PST by Tax-chick (My remark was stupid, and I'm a slave of the patriarchy. So?)

To: NicknamedBob

My birthmark is now covered by a tattoo...;o]

5,462 posted on 02/22/2006 3:34:45 PM PST by Monkey Face (When in doubt, wear red spike-heeled boots.)

5,463 posted on 02/22/2006 3:37:01 PM PST by Monkey Face (When in doubt, wear red spike-heeled boots.)

Thanks :) That is Ivy Mike in the late phase of fireball formation. The fireball is THREE MILES wide. The clouds surrounding it are condensation clouds left behind the shock wave, which by that stage, has flattened an area as wide as Manhattan is long (about 15 miles).

Ivy Mike is the first thermonuclear weapon using the Teller Ulam design where the heat from the fission part of the weapon, called the Primary, causes an implosion of thermonuclear fuel in seperate stage called the Secondary. Its yield was 10.4 Megatons. roughly 800 times more powerful than the 20 kiloton bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

I got that image from Atomic Forum, which is a forum about nuclear weapons. I post there under the name Lahav. That place has all sorts of rare images. You can access it through here: http://www.atomicforum.org/

5,464 posted on 02/22/2006 3:50:43 PM PST by Paul_Denton (Every single troll is now an enemy of the Republic!)

To: the Marshal; Monkey Face; Tax-chick; Alice au Wonderland; Dead Corpse; King Prout

"Be careful where you park your flying castles on my stolen domain"

We plan to park the Flying Castle for a short time in a crater just North of the Martian equator in the vicinity of Valles Marineris.

It's near that dark splotch to the right in the photo.

After we finish with our expeditionary projects, we plan to leave the crater with a domed cover, (like ours), some robots, and perhaps a small contingent of hardy settlers.

If this is not acceptable to you, our Plan B is to locate to an island in what will be the Northern Ocean, to establish an administrative center.

As Imperial Weatherman for Earth and Mars, I am providing the following forecast for the weather on Mars:

"Cold and Sunny for the next decade, followed by forty years of rain and cloudy weather."

No puny five-day forecast here -- five decades!

5,465 posted on 02/22/2006 3:59:13 PM PST by NicknamedBob (Islamists say we shouldn't make a mockery of religion -- funny, that's the problem I have with them!)

To: NicknamedBob

Great photo, Bob. Would that be "Fog In An Ice Storm In Antarctica"?

5,466 posted on 02/22/2006 4:01:56 PM PST by Monkey Face (When in doubt, wear red spike-heeled boots.)

Never mind...there it is...

5,467 posted on 02/22/2006 4:02:32 PM PST by Monkey Face (When in doubt, wear red spike-heeled boots.)

To: Alice au Wonderland

Congratulations! Now, the real work begins, I presume?

Yep. I'll be entering data for the next couple of months...

*sigh*

5,468 posted on 02/22/2006 4:24:06 PM PST by tuliptree76

Hey! Congratulations!
I guess the hard part is over and the rest is just plain grueling, huh?

You can do it! And you know I'm with you!

5,469 posted on 02/22/2006 4:26:38 PM PST by Monkey Face (When in doubt, wear red spike-heeled boots.)

Thanks. I have one hurdle over with. I have an even bigger hurdle though when I defend the final dissertation after I collect and analyze the data.

5,470 posted on 02/22/2006 4:29:10 PM PST by tuliptree76

To: NicknamedBob

"Cold and Sunny for the next decade, followed by forty years of rain and cloudy weather."

At least I'll be warm and cozy at the Tax Table.

5,471 posted on 02/22/2006 4:30:24 PM PST by tuliptree76

That's because it's so close to the Main Fireplace...how can you not be cozy in the Library? I mean, I ordered "fox" furs for you, just special! ;o]

5,472 posted on 02/22/2006 4:32:51 PM PST by Monkey Face (When in doubt, wear red spike-heeled boots.)

To: NicknamedBob

At least we'll know how to dress. That's very important.

5,473 posted on 02/22/2006 4:32:54 PM PST by Tax-chick (My remark was stupid, and I'm a slave of the patriarchy. So?)

You mean, besides space suits?

5,474 posted on 02/22/2006 4:35:26 PM PST by Monkey Face (When in doubt, wear red spike-heeled boots.)

5,475 posted on 02/22/2006 4:37:12 PM PST by tuliptree76

To: Monkey Face; Tax-chick; tuliptree76

"You mean, besides space suits?"

Well, the purpose of the rain is to effect climate change on Mars.

We'll need to restore the Northern Ocean, and replenish the atmosphere with some Carbon Dioxide, (Venus can spare it!)

Then we'll seed some special plants around to convert the Carbon Dioxide into living plants and an Oxygenated atmosphere.

It will also help that we'll have some mirrors strategically positioned to warm up the planet by reflecting otherwise wasted sunlight -- after all, if we don't know how to produce Global Warming, who does?

All of this will take a while, of course, but some of our grandchildren should be able to benefit from it. Even with the ocean, Mars will have quite a lot of acreage available.

5,476 posted on 02/22/2006 4:47:09 PM PST by NicknamedBob (Islamists say we shouldn't make a mockery of religion -- funny, that's the problem I have with them!)

Well, you said you didn't want real furs, so I got the other ones for you. That was a long time ago though...

5,477 posted on 02/22/2006 4:51:55 PM PST by Monkey Face (When in doubt, wear red spike-heeled boots.)

Thanks. I prefer the "fox" furs.

5,478 posted on 02/22/2006 4:57:30 PM PST by tuliptree76

To: NicknamedBob; Monkey Face; Tax-chick

...but some of our grandchildren should be able to benefit from it.

It's a good thing you all have kids, because it doesn't look like I'll be having any grandchildren to benefit from it. LOL!

5,479 posted on 02/22/2006 5:00:02 PM PST by tuliptree76

One never knows what the future holds for each of us...;o]

5,480 posted on 02/22/2006 5:02:26 PM PST by Monkey Face (When in doubt, wear red spike-heeled boots.)

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