Interested in all things nuclear or high voltage — our attendant histories of research and engineering. Industrially hygienic. All posts here do not represent my employer.
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No pretense that US is somehow engaged in an armed conflict that might justify lethal targeting in this manner. As I told @npr.org this morning, we have a word for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict: murder. (Also the administration has not substantiated any of its factual claims.)
Geckos hunting moths on the windows at night.
“Sessium-137 - It’ll kill ya!”
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Friday afternoon excitement.
Hormesis?
Staring for my making noises at them towards the end our night. :)
It’s very true. If it fits, however implausibly, it goes. :/
Checked a pump station influent gate this week and there were quite a few bottles and cans in its cast iron waffle-looking surface. Yeah people will put anything in the Magical Disappearing Hole
I do and will keep that in mind. We’ve never had any procedure for testing outside application.
That would be great. :D I’ve seen others from some years ago fail terribly over the last couple but never this model.
"The Navy commander responsible for the strike executed an illegal order, which, once it goes unpunished, enables a command environment for the military to follow such orders frictionlessly." www.forever-wars.com/terror-on-th...
A pal rescued a pair of SVX9000 variable frequency drives from the trash for me. Without describing he says they were simply replaced, written off and headed for a dumpster. Pretty sure I should open them up and look for a cause, at least. Through the cooling holes I all ready see the name ‘RIFA.’
Florida surgeon general says state will eliminate all vaccine mandates "Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery," Joseph Ladapo said. "Who am I to tell you what your child should put in [their] body?" www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
BREAKING Florida moves to end all school vaccine mandates, first in nation to do so. @davidovalle.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
They have their dinner between 5-6PM but hopes always run high.
I wasn’t aware. I’ll have to look into those. Have considered making use of new wash stations nearby, I would expect that’s the sort of thing they use there then.
Introducing her to a blow dryer almost immediately seems to have yielded a great disinterest in all of the household noise making machines that can often upset many rescued dogs I’ve known. I have to give others the option because despite some effort the blow dryer still really scares them.
And she absolutely did. :) A solid midday rest is a pretty routine weekday for the dogs.
Don’t forget to renew vehicle registration. 😀
I opened the curtains.
Joined my former boss @drtomfrieden.bsky.social and @mkraju.bsky.social on @cnn.com today to discuss recent CDC changes youtube.com/watch?v=3zKG...
Lack of access to lightweight explosives seems to be THE barrier to drone terrorism outside of active war zones. ipso facto, if you’re worried about drone terrorism, you should be channeling as many resources as possible into *explosives control*.
More before further storms. Might’ve overestimated our DIY capability for one weekend but it is up and pretty much sealed. Have to put a roof on yet but then it will be a place for some of those solar panels the county donated to the community. And strapping, install +2 windows. Endless, really.
I caught up on a few shots this afternoon and chatted with the pharmacist throughout. She said they’re giving Covid boosters but for now only can with a prescription. “I’ve been telling everyone to check back in two weeks.” ‘Wait and see’ on compromised regulatory processes is so disappointing. 😕
I usually find them immediately repulsive enough to ignore. It certainly leaves a bad aftertaste. :/
Oh, it is isn’t it? Remembering their presentations from some years ago I was caught up by the perpetually astonished faces in video link clips. On second look is definitely a generated image. :/
I believe they are pretty common on the auction sites, at least. In the wild, here in the United States at least, the black uranium glazes seem almost nonexistent. Almost always orange, a bit of yellow.
We managed to finish drying it in just before early thunderstorms today.
Today in 1962—for the second time in two months and the fourth and final time since October 1961—a US Air Force Jupiter intermediate-range ballistic missile at Gioia del Colle Air Base in southeastern Italy was struck by lightning, partially activating its 1.4-Megaton W49 thermonuclear warhead.
Damn, I didn’t beat the rain. :( Less than an our away from having it dried in. Rain was forecast to hold off until later but a thunderstorm built up suddenly, locally. :/
Yeah, shouldn’t have done this in the summer.
Still summer.
Last week I got two documents from the NNSA, via a FOIA request that I filed 2 years ago, involving early (1947 and 1949) estimates by scientists at Los Alamos (incl. Stevens alum Frederick Reines) trying to estimate how many nuclear bombs it would take to radioactively contaminate the planet.
They call it the Badlands. I think the lands are good. 🗺️
Almost no beaches untouched as that here, it’s beautiful.
A smooth rotator! This is the 40m Thai National Radio Telescope (TNRT) 🔭 with a design based on the Spanish Yebes Observatory. The telescope is based near Chiang Mai and is sensitive to 0.3 - 115 GHz and currently has L- and K-band detectors.
Okay but seriously: went to a new dentist today and they had a playlist drawn entirely from the same era, though more slow burns than dancefloor heaters. Being the dominant generation must be insane, everything is calibrated to exactly your nostalgia at all times, this is how Forrest Gumps happen.
Me: “Do you think it’s weird to experience pareidolia about vehicles, as in seeing ships and planes and cars as having faces with eyes and snouts and all?” The Bristol Type 170 Freighter plane, opening its freaky split-jawed mouth:
Kilocuries of things always seems a little wild to me.
No complaint, it’s rad security at work and absolutely my fault. :) They seemed happy they weren’t dealing with whatever scrutiny the typical false positive of medical patients requires.
The scrapyard I accidentally set the portal monitors off at is right near there. Procedure meant they couldn’t accept being shown the old alarm clock with its $5 tag intact as alarm explanation. I had to hide it down the street and drive through two more times to eliminate the “false” positive.
It is, interesting things to see and few cars off business hours. :D Some people tell me I shouldn’t ride around Division St. but I disagree.
Yup, not pictured here is that it quit malfunctioning when I turned around to approach it again. Maybe an inadvertent case of the old trick where you shine a big mirror back at the photocell? — I actually made a pretty good pizza today. Forgot to show it off here.
Boooooo
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That looks bad and probably beyond what I can fix here. I’ll have to be a little more diligent about backing up portable electronics. :/
Ah, cool. I happened to have a relatively recent post about a visit to that wildlife management area. There’s an old, early settler graveyard out there in the scrubland, too.
Seeing that old radio telescope for sale in Wesley Chapel reminded me of an abandoned visible obsv that was in the woods when I was a kid. It was out in Bull Creek, as I was told mostly operated by phone line from the FIT campus but it had stability issues. And sometimes locals would shoot at it. 😕
I was planning to remake this with new information, but almost all of these routes are now dangerous dead ends
INF treaty swag?
Oh, of course. Yeah, I forgot about things like those. I know we had a Civil Defense model with a remote ion chamber you could spool outside the shelter.
“Amy Thibault, a spokeswoman for CVS, cited “the current regulatory environment” as the reason the vaccine was not available in those states, or in DC, emphasizing that the list could change. Legal experts said that federal decisions were creating an extremely difficult situation for pharmacies…”
I think so. He seems to be walking more comfortably. :)
Titan dog’s favorite person visited until late tonight. For a dog who was inexplicably violent towards most people he’s always happy and affectionate toward this one smaller friend. Cole the Labrador was happy too, he’s just getting a bit old and had to start medicine for arthritis pain recently. 😕
It’s an easy thing to forget but they always want to see the silly little plastic picture of me that’s pretty outdated looking before expiring.
🚨 EMERGENCY CATURDAY IS DECLARED 🚨 if you call your reps & show me a screenshot of your call history with the call, i will reply with one (1) never-before-seen picture of my cats! capitol switchboard ☎️: 202-224-3121
like... how can you make this "bullshit adjusted"
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I’ve always been too scared to provoke anything found. Made a few mL of nitroglycerin once as a young man and it scared the hell out of me. Safely destroyed the remaining drops as I think most aspiring young chemist sorts do. 😬
Explore old mines and you will find old explosives that didn’t work or were otherwise discarded.
That day he told me he did a couple years in prison before moving home with his Mom and some restrictions on movement. And in visiting the store where I was working he noticed they no longer sold anything of utility to that end. The only reason he went to prison. So much of that weirdness here.😕
Bringing jobs back to America. Vaguely remember it as a problem when I was a kid. Could see people at the dollar store buying whole cases of cold tablets. At my early job, first chain ag-store, ran into a guy I was in Boy Scouts with. The DEA followed him while buying many gallons of Iodine soln.😬
And along with stormwater they’re all designed to be kept strictly separated. :) The water works is a heck of a thing I never thought about until I did around 2022. :)
“kR/Hr” - was there some closed circuit television involved? ‘Technical Associates CP-MU-7 Reactor Core/Spent Fuel Pool/Hot Cell IC Meter’
Yup, we don’t have much change in elevation making them important. Clean water, reclaimed and effluent pretty much have to be pumped everywhere.
I’m not sure they could make rent nowadays. I wonder how much of that activity still occurs here? Think I’ve heard it’s very little now between our domestic precursor controls and foreign competition.
It looks like a delightful little museum. I’d love to hear any report if you do make it. I’m not sure I have any plans that could put me in proximity but I’d certainly like to start seeing some more of America again. :D
AP livestream www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...
Florida DOGE is making some noise about issuing subpoenas around here. Said the officials contacted the other week were not sufficiently cooperative. It sure seem to be just spectacle and political punishment - we have a surprisingly effective government down here.
I felt that way about stumbling across the National Electronics Museum in Maryland while just in area to see the NSA Cryptography museum. Certain when I visited though signs read “National Defense Electronics Museum.” I’ll have to consult my photos to see if they indeed dropped the word “Defense.”
😂 Could be. And they did a some copper dealers a solid here. It’s very weird to see, because these neighborhoods sprout like weeds everywhere and often have poor occupancy rates but they do finish building them. We even have some equipment in here but not connected to anything, just languishing.
I just learned this museum exists.
I wonder what went wrong. 🤔
NNSA's budget is for contractors to have massive spaghetti parties and then they tell us everything is fine and the nukes work.
All the plutonium pits in our nukes are actually made of spaghetti and it's fine as long as we keep pretending.
That sounds worth a look. I always like a good documentary and this one is news to me. :)
Some pretty great foreign Geiger counter sellers who’ve reliably moved awesome NOS or refurbished Soviet-era equipment into our hands are beginning to report American buyers stricken off the list because of uncertainty around or specific tariff actions. :/
I’ll have to check it out. :) Other than having a number of these little comic panels I haven’t myself heard or read of his career.
"That's all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don't know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won't matter if we don't survive these times." Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
