To: MtnClimber
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.)
To: MtnClimber
3 posted on
04/18/2016 7:22:34 PM PDT by
DannyTN
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)
To: MtnClimber
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)
To: MtnClimber
Ferynman was a pretty smart guy.
8 posted on
04/18/2016 7:29:47 PM PDT by
loungitude
(The truth hurts.)
To: MtnClimber
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 ...)
To: MtnClimber
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
To: MtnClimber
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)
To: MtnClimber
There was a very big boom and cloud.
To: MtnClimber
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)
To: MtnClimber
“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.)
To: MtnClimber
*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.
To: MtnClimber
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.


To: MtnClimber
1945 technology. I hope people remember that it still works.
31 posted on
04/18/2016 11:37:29 PM PDT by
TChad
To: raybbr
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!")
To: MtnClimber
35 posted on
04/19/2016 2:20:13 AM PDT by
cynwoody
To: MtnClimber
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)
To: MtnClimber
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.)
To: MtnClimber
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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