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1 posted on 04/18/2016 7:17:04 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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Richard Feynman is the star of the Feynman Lecture Series on Physics. Really a great series if you get a chance to see them.


2 posted on 04/18/2016 7:19:06 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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3 posted on 04/18/2016 7:22:34 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: MtnClimber; Salamander; Slings and Arrows; JoeProBono
"Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun...

But Mama, that's where the fun is!"


4 posted on 04/18/2016 7:22:52 PM PDT by shibumi (Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)
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Sobering account. Makes one feel small.


6 posted on 04/18/2016 7:25:50 PM PDT by Ciexyz ("You know who gets hurt? The people who worked hard, lived frugally, and saved their money."- Trump)
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Ferynman was a pretty smart guy.


8 posted on 04/18/2016 7:29:47 PM PDT by loungitude (The truth hurts.)
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Was present at a conventional test at white sands in the 80’s that simulated a .6kt nuclear weapon using 2400 tons of ANFO ..... HARVEST GOLD was the test name if I remember right. Been to Trinity site many times during my military Explosive Ordnance Disposal career..... both pre-fence and post fence era...:o)

Great read....thanks for posting !!!

Stay Safe !


13 posted on 04/18/2016 7:35:34 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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This is in “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” ... Perhaps a record as a title with six punctuation marks. It’s in Los Alamos from Below, pgs 116-117. ... I got it right here!


16 posted on 04/18/2016 7:46:09 PM PDT by dr_lew
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My parents lived thru that era when the bomb was dropped. They said they believed the US government when it said a million US soldiers would have died if we didn’t drop the bomb and invaded the island instead.


17 posted on 04/18/2016 7:49:03 PM PDT by Ciexyz ("You know who gets hurt? The people who worked hard, lived frugally, and saved their money."- Trump)
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There was a very big boom and cloud.


19 posted on 04/18/2016 7:51:33 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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During the war my mom lived with her aunt and uncle in El Paso, TX about 100 miles south of White Sands. Her uncle was outside in the yard in the early morning dark when the sky lit up as if the sun were rising in the north. Hard to hide a test that big.


22 posted on 04/18/2016 8:12:36 PM PDT by Pelham (Trump/Tsoukalos 2016 - vote the great hair ticket)
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“Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”


24 posted on 04/18/2016 8:28:41 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (Socialists are just communists in their larval stage.)
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*The* book on the story of the atomic bomb from Marie Curie through the accidental discovery of Fission at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut and Plutonium in UC Berkeley to the Manhattan Project and finally to Hiroshima is the Pulitzer-winning "The Making Of The Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes.

It's a page-turner you can't put down. You'll know more than a little something about Physics all of a sudden after reading it too.

27 posted on 04/18/2016 10:09:41 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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The eye isn't fast enough to see the really interesting things that happen in the first few microseconds of the explosion. This is really weird stuff.


28 posted on 04/18/2016 10:10:43 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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1945 technology. I hope people remember that it still works.


31 posted on 04/18/2016 11:37:29 PM PDT by TChad
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Bfl


33 posted on 04/19/2016 1:56:52 AM PDT by raybbr (That progressive bumpers sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOwH55lnA8M


35 posted on 04/19/2016 2:20:13 AM PDT by cynwoody
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A must see 1 minute video

The Essence Of Science In 60 Seconds

Richard Feynman debunks NASA

41 posted on 04/19/2016 3:09:15 AM PDT by jpsb (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. Otto von Bismark)
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And that was 20,000 tons worth, Russia made a 50,000,000 ton equivalent H bomb that is all over Youtube.


54 posted on 04/19/2016 9:33:19 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.)
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While doing extended reading on this, I saw a statement that said that all of the Purple Hearts we are awarding today -- were actually created in anticipation of the invasion of the Japanese homeland.

Because of the two A-bombs, they were not needed then...

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I do know that, when exploring the Japanese back country on my trail bike; I discovered that even the smallest hill was riddled with bunkers and gun emplacements. That invasion would have been Iwo Jima and Okinawa --to the Nth power!

63 posted on 04/19/2016 6:12:15 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah: Satan's current alias. "Obama": Allah's current ally...)
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