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POPS Obama's Legacy That far exceeds what's needed to turn on the lights, but it's also beyond what's needed for a basic nuclear weapons program. Consider North Korea, which manufactured two limited yield nuclear weapons using only a plutonium reactor, a plutonium reprocessing facility, and -- presumably -- some sort of weapons laboratory. Why is Iran pumping billions more into building and protecting triple the number of facilities required to build a basic nuclear weapon, akin to the Fat Man or Little Boy bombs detonated in 1945? The answer could be that Tehran is skipping basic weapons construction and moving towards an advanced thermonuclear design. Consider that they've already experimented with advanced weapons designs like two-point implosion, nuclear triggers, and have built their own facility at Arak that could be used to produce both tritium, which is a suspected boosting agent in hydrogen bomb designs, as well as weapons-grade plutonium.
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POPSCzar Obama Takes Aim at Congress
Indeed, when the original law was approved by Congress, nobody said a word about any agency of the federal government telling any business or industry in America how much CO2 it could emit. By now saying the law gives it unilateral authority to declare CO2 dangerous pollutants, the EPA is grabbing power to regulate the 85 percent of the U.S. economy that depends on energy derived from the burning of carbon-based fuels. Those fuels -- oil, natural gas, and coal -- are heavy CO2 emitters. This ruling thus renders congressional intent irrelevant. If the ruling stands, the law will then be whatever the president and his bureaucratic minions in the executive branch decree, not what the people decide acting through their elected representatives in Congress. Congressional liberals who failed to get their cap-and-trade scheme approved in the Senate are ecstatic about the EPA's ruling. There was a time when American liberals worried about excessive executive power;
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POPSToTaLLy StELLaR dude Furthermore... "Combining the NACO images with data obtained with several other telescopes the astronomers could determine the distance of the system - about 25,000 light-years from the Sun - and its intrinsic brightness - over 10,000 times brighter than the Sun. This implies that the vampire white dwarf in this system has a high mass that is near its fatal limit and is still simultaneously being fed by its companion at a high rate." A GOOD READ
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POPSThe scale of destruction Kashmir earthquake, 2005 178 megatone TNT Caused damage in Islamabad, 65 miles away. Mount St. Helena eruption, 1980 500 megatons TNT Devastaled several hundred square mil areas San Francisco eartquake, 1906 1 gigaton TNT Caused $5.6 billions in property damage Krakatoa eruption, 1883 5.6 gigatons TNT Worldwide effects included the destruction of 165 villages and towns 10 km asteroid impact, 65 millions years ago 100.000 gigatons. TNT Caused final extinction of dinosaurs and many other species An asteroid impact with the Earth may have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. The Alvarez Asteroid Theory explains the huge K-T (Cretaceous-Tertiary) mass extinction 65 million years ago by a large asteroid hitting the Earth off the Mexican Yucatan peninsula. This impact would have caused severe climactic changes leading to the demise of many groups of organisms, including non-avian dinosaurs.
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POPSOPEN LETTER TO CONGRESS: YOU ARE BEING DECEIVED ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING The facts are: The sky is not falling; the Earth has been cooling for ten years, without help. The present cooling was NOT predicted by the alarmists' computer models, and has come as an embarrassment to them. The finest meteorologists in the world cannot predict the weather two weeks in advance, let alone the climate for the rest of the century. Can Al Gore? Can John Holdren? We are flooded with claims that the evidence is clear, that the debate is closed, that we must act immediately, etc, but in fact THERE IS NO SUCH EVIDENCE; IT DOESN'T EXIST. The proposed legislation would cripple the US economy, putting us at a disadvantage compared to our competitors. For such drastic action, it is only prudent to demand genuine proof that it is needed, not guesswork, and not false claims about the state of the science. DEMAND PROOF, NOT CONSENSUS Many alarmists are profiting from their activism. There are billions of dollars floating around for the taking, and being taken.
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POPSThe Case of the Missing H-Bomb: The Pentagon Has Lost the Mother of All Weapons Everyone knows there will be incompetence found in any large organization. We all know ‘upper’ management despises any appearance of incompetence and/or weakness, hence the inevitable ploy known as the “cover up”. Even though these cover ups are nothing new, I still am amazed at the depths of a military cover up. The loss of military equipment, particularly weapons and, OMG, hydrogen bombs, presents a grave concern to the general public. The fact that the military would prefer to cover up these losses and stop looking for them in favor of preserving the outward appearance that they are trustworthy and dependable to keep us all safe, is nothing short of criminal. In light of all the known cover ups we have been forced to endure over the years, is there any possible way that the American public can ever trust politicians, military personnel, CEO’s, bankers, policemen, or any other person of authority?
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POPSThe Case of the Missing H-Bomb: The Pentagon Has Lost the Mother of All Weapons
SEE MORE INCIDENTS IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD TOO: This article continues: The situation is reminiscent of the Palomares incident. On January 16, 1966, a B-52 bomber, carrying four hydrogen bombs, crashed while attempting to refuel in mid-air above the Spanish coast. Three of the H-bombs landed near the coastal farming village of Palomares. One of the bombs landed in a dry creek bed and was recovered, battered but relatively intact. But the TNT in two of the bombs exploded, gouging 10-foot holes in the ground and showering uranium and plutonium over a vast area. Over the next three months, more than 1,400 tons of radioactive soil and vegetation was scooped up, placed in barrels and, ironically enough, shipped back to the Savannah River Nuclear Weapons Lab, where it remains. The tomato fields near the craters were burned and buried. But there's no question that due to strong winds and other factors much of the contaminated soil was simply left in the area. "The total extent of t
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POPSSecret US Detonation of Nuclear Device went Bad!!! Castle Bravo was the code name given to the first US test of a thermonuclear hydrogen bomb device, detonated on Mar 1, 1954, at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. It was the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the US with a yield of 15 Megatons. That yield, far exceeding the expected yield of 4 to 6 megatons, combined with other factors to produce the worst radiological accident ever caused by the US.
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POPSCastle Bravo, The Biggest USA Atomic Bomb Test on the Bikini Atoll Castle Bravo was the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the United States, with a yield of 15 Megatons. That yield, far exceeding the expected yield of 4 to 6 megatons, combined with other factors to produce the worst radiological accident ever caused by the United States. When Bravo was detonated, it formed a fireball almost four and a half miles (roughly 7 km) across within a second. This fireball was visible on the Kwajalein atoll over 250 miles (450 km) away. The explosion left a crater of 6,500 feet (2,000 m) in diameter and 250 feet (75 m) in depth. The mushroom cloud reached a height of 47,000 feet (14 km) and a diameter of 7 miles (11 km) in about a minute; it then reached a height of 130,000 feet (40 km) and 62 miles (100 km) in diameter in less than 10 minutes and was expanding at more than 6 kilometers (4 miles) per minute.
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POPSThe Gift That Keeps on Giving Aside from the great entertainment that the Palin Circus has given us, we should all be grateful that she will not be on the podium in Washington today.
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POPSScientists plan to ignite tiny man-made star From the article: "Scientists at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Livermore, nestled among the wine-producing vineyards of central California, will use a laser that concentrates 1,000 times the electric generating power of the United States into a billionth of a second. The result should be an explosion in the 32ft-wide reaction chamber which will produce at least 10 times the amount of energy used to create it. " Roorooo!
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POPSThe View From 2500 A.D. beyond that--perhaps the creation of a single super-entity might send a telepathic signal to the stars, announcing that Planet Earth is at last ready to join the Galactic Community. Welcome, Entity!
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POPSB-52 carried nuclear armed cruise missiles by mistake: US Private Pyle! What is your major malfunction?! Did your mama not let you watch Sesame Street? Can’t you read? Are your nuts so numb you did not realize you were affixing six cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads to the wings of that B-52? Now just lookee here, right next to where some red blooded American painted "Crispy Critters" it clearly says: "DANGER: THERMONUCLEAR DEVICE." Did you think that meant it was for crop dusting? Same goes for these other five: "Dead Eye Dick," "Ann Coulter Sends Her Love," "Peace On Earth," "Purity of Essence," and "Podhoretz’ Prophesy." They’re ALL nukes you Moe Ron!
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POPSThe Physics of Extra-Terrestrial Civilizations - by Dr. Michio Kaku very interesting speculations Currently, our energy output qualifies us for Type 0 status. We derive our energy not from harnessing global forces, but by burning dead plants (e.g. oil and coal). But already, we can see the seeds of a Type I civilization. We see the beginning of a planetary language (English), a planetary communication system (the Internet), a planetary economy (the forging of the European Union), and even the beginnings of a planetary culture (via mass media, TV, rock music, and Hollywood films).
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