Hit and run posting. Not only have I been busy smacking around an anti-gun troll, but busy at work and I picked up a sinus/respiratory infection somewhere that is trying to kick my arse...
Posted on 01/12/2006 8:39:35 AM PST by dhls
Looks like they dropped it below a thermal gradient - that doesn't look like a skirt (looks like it begins at about 50,000 feet). Thank goodness they didn't punch off the whole 100 megas! They're lucky they didn't blow their own butts off - stupid Russians.
These pics are rare.
You mean an Inversion Layer? yeah the pilots who dropped it were nearly consumed by their own bomb. The plane was painted white to reflect heat and even still there was some minor thermal warp of the airplane structure. If it was 100 Megatons the blast would have been twice as big. At 50 megatons it would have consumed even concrete structures in an area 30 miles wide while destroying anything less over an area 60 miles wide. It shattered windows as far as Finland (1,000 miles from the blast zone).
*whispers*
(You are SOOO out of your league, here.) The position you have applied for has been taken.
You are SUCH a newcomer, and we have already made several excursions in the Castle, not to mention the fact that those of us who helped in the construction are quite proud of our efforts.
If you'd like to take your place in line, I'm sure we can find something suitable for you to do. ;o]
Awww. KP. I'm so sorry you're still not up to par, yet. I hope you start feeling better soon.
You are probably discouraged, as well. Darn. *hugs*
I started "The Waste Lands" last night, but for the life of me, I can NOT recall reading "The Drawing Of The Three." It was like reading a brand new book to me, for some reason.
I can remember only brief passages, about the lobstrosities, the Keflex and Odetta/Detta, but the rest was totally "new." Eerie feeling.
Ohwell. Life goes on, and I will plod through the rest of the volumes. I read them as they first came out, but because there was always so much time between volumes, I had to start with "The Gunslinger" each time. *shaking head* This is SOOO wierd...
Cool. Great explosions!
That would be pretty awesome.
Topsy-Turvy.
-_-
Hit and run posting. Not only have I been busy smacking around an anti-gun troll, but busy at work and I picked up a sinus/respiratory infection somewhere that is trying to kick my arse...
That's excellent - I'll have to save the address!
Good job with the troll, sorry about your infection. Vlad has a cold, but fortunately nothing that needs antibiotics.
;-)
I know a lot of King fans were disappointed by the gap between publishing the third and fourth volume in the series.
In fact, a woman from Vermont-undergoing chemotherapy-supposedly wrote him a letter asking him to tell her the ending.
I was just surfing the Web for Stephen King fan sites and related message boards, and found that many-if not most-of them bear some relation to The Dark Tower.
Morning, DC.
I hope you feel better soon. Sinus problems are so distracting.
I'm not surprised that the sites are Dark Tower-oriented. It may not be his best work, but it is certainly the longest and has taken the longest to write.
I don't understand his desire to explain the book before and after...it seems to take the fun out of reading it. The "purpose" of any fiction I read is to entertain me. "Explaining" that entertainment is not necessary for my enjoyment, and may even detract from it.
But he's the one making mega-bucks, and I'm not, so I guess he can do whatever he wants...;o]
:o)
Actually, I think the brief explanatory notes/preface and afterword he wrote for the first five books can be helpful, at least for the people who might have forgotten some of the details from each preceding novel.
I think the time-lag was a bit of a problem, although it did give him time to reformulate some of his ideas, and correct errors so I guess it wasn't a complete loss creatively speaking.
And you got 5533, too!
Normally, if one reads a series of books that are a continuing story, (LOTR comes to mind) there is a synopsis at the beginning, which is almost essential to picking up the thread of the story. I believe it took Tolkien 30 years to get his stories out, but he was meticulous in making sure that whatever was discussed in the third book was also at least alluded to in the first and/or second. Of course, the Silmarillion was written during all those years, and should have preceded the other four.
The point to me, at least, is that I consider the foreword and afterword in King's books to be distracting. They are more like his opinions of his own story.
It's a bit self-referential.
Kind of like how he inserts himself into almost every one of his screenplays and films adopted from his novels.
Alfred Hitchcock did that, as well, but I don't recall that he had any lines. Just mostly walk-ons.
Aside from The Stand most of the TV movies they've made from his work have been abominable.
I was really disappointed with The Langoliers, which was actually a pretty great story.
I liked The Langoliers, as well, and as with most books I've read, I try very hard not to watch the movies because they are never as good as the action in my head. (LOTR is the only exception, but I would never have cast Elijah Woods as Frodo...) I caught Langoliers about 30 minutes into it, and thought it was ... er...poorly done.
I'm not even a Tolkien devotee-although my brother is a fan of his-but appreciated the films.
Until computers became an integral part of movies, I didn't think LOTR would ever be made into a movie worth watching.
I read it when it was still considered "underground" and have read it at least once a year since then. Needless to say, I have all the movies, in the uncut DVD's.
To me, the guy who played Pippen would have been a much better Frodo. He's closer to what I imagined.
*sigh* (My brain has better pictures for a lot of things, I'm afraid...)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.