Random thoughts...

mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 1:04 pm

else is for naught

mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 1:07 pm

mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 1:08 pm

what else would they want of me?

could never be woman's half the equation

hmf

EvilDustBooger · Post by **EvilDustBooger** » Sun Nov 09, 2008 2:20 pm

Oh My God.
Brown with yellow trim.
What were they thinking?

mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 3:03 pm

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 10:41 am

The Port Chicago disaster was a deadly explosion that took place on July 17, 1944 at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California, in the United States. Ammunition being loaded aboard cargo vessels bound for the war in the Pacific exploded, killing 320 sailors and civilians, and injuring more than 400 others. Most of the dead and injured were African American recruits, and the continuing unsafe conditions even after the disaster resulted in a number of servicemen refusing to work, known as the Port Chicago Mutiny, a month later.

After the fires had been contained, the gruesome task of cleaning up remainedâ€”body parts and corpses littered the bay and port. Less than a month later, these same sailors involved in the cleanup of their colleagues were themselves ordered to resume the dangerous task of ammunition loading. On August 9, 1944 (three weeks after the disaster), 258 out of the 320 African-American sailors in the ordnance battalion refused to load any ammunition, in what was later branded the Port Chicago mutiny. It was seen as underscoring the tense race relations in the armed forces at the time. Despite the clear questions about unsafe working conditions at the facility and the unequal treatment of African-American enlistees compared to their white commanding officers, the case went to court-martial.

Was this a planned nuclear explosion? An accident?

Would the United States Navy use their own personnel and equipment as guinea pigs?

Why was there 400 to 600 pages of reports and memoranda on Port Chicago held at the Los Alamos (Manhattan Project) Laboratories?

"Eyewitnesses reported "an enormous blinding incandescent." The Navy reported "the first flash was brilliant white."

The Navy had a nitrate-based film of the explosion from a distance, meaning a camera was trained on the spot that night.

The explosion resulted in a crater 66 feet deep, 300 feet wide and 700 feet long in the river bottom. A five-kiloton nuclear bomb on the surface of wet soil creates a crater 53 feet deep and 132 feet in diameter.

Specifications for the U-235 gun-bomb used at Hiroshima were complete by February 1944, according to Volume I of the Manhattan District History.

15.5 kilograms of U-235 is needed for a gun-bomb. 74 kilograms of U-235 was available by December 1943, according to the US Department of Energy records.

The explosion produced a Wilson condensation cloud like those characteristic of atomic bombs detonated in vapor-laden atmospheres

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 3:58 pm

t's difficult for me to believe that no one ever drove there and got out the gieger counter, that is if there's a shred of truth to that conspiracy theory.

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:26 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:t's difficult for me to believe that no one ever drove there and got out the gieger counter, that is if there's a shred of truth to that conspiracy theory.

Are you sure that no one ever did, or that it's too late to collect valid data now?
Still interesting in a loonatic fringe way.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 6:36 pm

Ugly Dougly wrote:
theCryptofishist wrote:t's difficult for me to believe that no one ever drove there and got out the gieger counter, that is if there's a shred of truth to that conspiracy theory.
Are you sure that no one ever did, or that it's too late to collect valid data now?
Still interesting in a loonatic fringe way.

If they did and there was high levels of radiation there, they never said anything. And I've never heard any reports of odd plants or animals there. And Contra Costa County is right next to Alameda County. Home of Berkeley and plenty of Conspiracy Theory nut jobs. It's harder to prove a negative than a positive, of course. How about high cancer rates among the survivors? If there'd been a whiff of that, the whole Tuskeegee Experiment thing would have resulted in a lot of anger in the African American communities affected. With reason. Birth defects in their children.

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 7:16 pm

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gyre · Post by **gyre** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 9:22 pm

Texas City explosion
Maybe one of the largest in this country, although Halifax may be worse.
All of it was filmed.
This is only a little of the film available.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_Disaster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Tom_explosion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_Scale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_th ... explosions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppau_explosion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_of_All_Bombs
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the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 11:03 am

Wabi-sabi (ä¾˜å¯‚, Wabi-sabi?) represents a comprehensive Japanese world
view or aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience. The phrase
comes from the two words wabi and sabi. The aesthetic is sometimes
described as one of beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and
incomplete". It is a concept derived from the Buddhist assertion of the
Three marks of existence (ä¸‰æ³•å

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 11:14 am

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 11:15 am

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 11:44 am

From splachnopleuric mesoderm tissue, the cardiogenic plate develops
cranially and laterally to the neural plate. In the cardiogenic plate, two
separate angiogenic cell clusters form on either side of the embryo. Each
cell cluster coalesces to form an endocardial tube continuous with a dorsal
aorta and a vitteloumbilical vein. As embryonic tissue continues to fold,
the two endocardial tubes are pushed into the thoracic cavity and begin to
fuse together and are completely fused at approximately 21 days.

At 21 days after conception, the human heart begins beating at 70 to 80
beats per minute and accelerates linearly for the first month of
beating.The human embryonic heart begins beating around 21 days after
conception

The rite of laying a cornerstone is an important cultural component of
western architecture and metaphorically in sacred architecture generally.

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 11:51 am

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Looks like it was kinda chilly wherever and whenever they shot this one.

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:53 pm

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ef eferyting at goe wit keybaord goe wit keybaord

eferyting at goe wit wall goe wit wall

wha appen ef de walls change?

names cannot but change?

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:47 pm

Do people go out and party with massive drugs for years and if they have a baby, opt for ( [X]-No pain relief ) because they "don't want to be pumped full of drugs"?

EvilDustBooger · Post by **EvilDustBooger** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 6:27 am

In a word, no.

littleflower · Post by **littleflower** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 7:13 am

a tea master once told his young son to rake the path, which he did to perfection. not a leaf was left in sight. seeing this, the father shook the trees to produce a random pattern of leaves on the path and said, "now it's ready for the guests."

mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 2:49 pm

does one hand send out more than receive in?

one more intuitive, the other forthright

which, would you know?

and what in the world could a small cloud positioned thus and so over a scene
portend?

should you know the meaning?

or did not you notice, the universe has a vast array of arrangements,
however, through and through, they are arranged

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 3:22 pm

a white horse gallops through a burning meadow

the sun glints off the handle of the evernescent sword

and they sound hollow when they ask?: "How?"

mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 3:24 pm

and they sound hollow when they ask?: "How?"

LOL

mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 1:47 pm

if the footprint is not the man, the bodystuff is not the life

yet elswise, you'd have little cause to suspect it

mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 1:51 pm

as the props and dialogue flitter about

as the universe exp[ands]

could life be trying for a planetary foothold

though...

though...

and though again

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 12:35 am

Slab City, California, has a certain appeal this time of year, when the snow is falling along with the outside temperature. Maybe I'll make a winter time pilgrimage, just after the Burn, when I retire, whenever my finances allow. Sounds like it might be worth investigating some year in the future.

Driving around with my windows open is not as unpleasant as I would have thought, as long as I am wearing a parka and have the heat all the way up. Still, it isn't something I want to do out of necessity, and I can't hear the radio. (More on this should appear soon in the FUCK thread.)

If the author of "No Country for Old Men", whose name escapes me at the moment, truly believes humanity to be doomed to extinction, why did he have kids?

If anyone has seen my copy of Civilization III's installation disc, please let me know WHERE!!!

Drinking a few liters of Diet Mountain Dew before bedtime was, in retrospect, a bad idea. On the bright side, it is helping me get caught up with stuff on the Internet.

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 4:20 am

The plates on the yellow coupe in American Graffiti are THX 138.

Bas, close the windows and quit showing off.

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 3:07 pm

Â·soÂ·morÂ·phism wrote:Biology Similarity in form, as in organisms of different ancestry.

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:41 pm

Who thought sheep could run so fast?!?

My supervisor is retiring soon... I wonder who will replace him?

I still can't play Second Life! It seems that the creators of Second Life have no idea that not everyone can afford a top of the line graphics card!

There has got to be some fun way to become independently wealthy...
even if I had a few million, I would probably still have to work in order to afford health insurance!

According to one statistic I heard, about one out of every four children in the U.S.A. is being raised in poverty. This is up from one out of every six in the 1990s.

Apparently no one really knows how many people are under employed and/or have given up on looking for full time employment. That means we have no idea just how bad the economy is for the average U.S. citizen, nor even what the average citizen's employment is like.

I have tried on and off again to keep a blog (mostly off). For some reason it is easier for me to just write stuff on various forums across the Internet. I have no idea how common this is, or if it is a good, bad, or indifferent thing.

On Thanksgiving Day, one of the local radio stations played someone singing the recipe for borscht...and it actually sounded pretty good (both the singing and the food). Now I want to find the song, but have no clue as to who the singer was, nor what program played it. Maybe I should just look for a recipe book!

Sail Man · Post by **Sail Man** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 10:55 am

If peanut butter is made from peanuts, what is nutter butter made from?

Random thoughts...

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