Friday, February 28, 2014
60th Anniversary: Fifth Lucky Dragon
The first four? Much luckier. These guys had no luck at all when this went off:
Castle Bravo, at 15 megatons, was a runaway like all the early fission-fusion-fission devices that weren't duds. The first "dry" thermonuclear device tested, its yield was three times greater than projected. Detonated Feb. 28, 1954 (March 1, local) from an artificial island off Bikini Atoll, Bravo remains the largest US nuclear explosion.
The cloud top rose and peaked at 130,000 feet (almost 40 km) after only 6 minutes. Eight minutes after the test the cloud had reached its full dimensions with a diameter of 100 km, a stem 7 km thick, and a cloud bottom rising above 55,000 feet (16.5 km.).
The crew of the fishing trawler Fifth Lucky Dragon didn't know about the Bravo shot and sailed blithely into the supposedly quarantined area. Bravo's size and a shift in the prevailing wind left the crew and their catch severely irradiated, one crewman died. Their saga inspired this classic of Japanese cinema. US personnel at a weather station 133 miles away were also heavily dosed before being evacuated the next day.
Undeterred, the US detonated Castle Romeo 25 days later, and it too promptly ran away--this time to 11 Megatons, again, triple the estimate...
Castle Yankee, which at 13.5 megatons was the 2nd largest US blast, was detonated two months after Bravo:
That "tritium bonus," it'll get you. Then again, thanks to Obama's EPA, maybe not.
The cloud top rose and peaked at 130,000 feet (almost 40 km) after only 6 minutes. Eight minutes after the test the cloud had reached its full dimensions with a diameter of 100 km, a stem 7 km thick, and a cloud bottom rising above 55,000 feet (16.5 km.).
The crew of the fishing trawler Fifth Lucky Dragon didn't know about the Bravo shot and sailed blithely into the supposedly quarantined area. Bravo's size and a shift in the prevailing wind left the crew and their catch severely irradiated, one crewman died. Their saga inspired this classic of Japanese cinema. US personnel at a weather station 133 miles away were also heavily dosed before being evacuated the next day.
Undeterred, the US detonated Castle Romeo 25 days later, and it too promptly ran away--this time to 11 Megatons, again, triple the estimate...
That "tritium bonus," it'll get you. Then again, thanks to Obama's EPA, maybe not.
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Evening Awesome: Further Fursday
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
One Million Exiles Flock To Soylent Siberia
Pftweeeet!!! Soylent Siberia has hit the 1,000,000 Minion Plateau in less than a year. Pftweeeet!!!
Thank you. Good work all.
Yes, it seem like only yesterday that I was banished from the Soylent Empire I had labored four years to build on the bones of dead Supers...
Ah, I miss the last bastion of the old empire...the full header, the color, the functionality, and access to the colonies like NSKMD above. All gone because someone didn't like what I had to say.
But no matter. Even with the stone knives and bear skins of this Blogger platform, here in the HyperHinterland I shall continue build my Soylent army. And soon my minions, soon, we shall reclaim our rightful glory! We shall drive our enemies before us! Rape! Pillage! Plunder! Burn!
And render them into tasty biscuits for the unsuspecting masses at a substantial profit. So we can have more of this...
and this...
And this...
and this...
and these...
What say you?!?
Then fly my minions, and multiply. And together we will rule this hyperverse!
Thank you. Good work all.
Yes, it seem like only yesterday that I was banished from the Soylent Empire I had labored four years to build on the bones of dead Supers...
Ah, I miss the last bastion of the old empire...the full header, the color, the functionality, and access to the colonies like NSKMD above. All gone because someone didn't like what I had to say.
But no matter. Even with the stone knives and bear skins of this Blogger platform, here in the HyperHinterland I shall continue build my Soylent army. And soon my minions, soon, we shall reclaim our rightful glory! We shall drive our enemies before us! Rape! Pillage! Plunder! Burn!
And render them into tasty biscuits for the unsuspecting masses at a substantial profit. So we can have more of this...
and this...
And this...
and this...
and these...
What say you?!?
Then fly my minions, and multiply. And together we will rule this hyperverse!
ICYMI--Michael Mann To Be Climate Cornholed With His Hockey Stick
As if it weren't bad enough that Steve McIntyre has taken apart his formal pleading in his "defamation" case against Mark Steyn and found it filled with lies about how his work was scientifically exonerated by a host of unimpeachable sources, Mann has a much larger problem--and it's all his doing.
You see, before he was stupid enough to sue Steyn, Mann sued Dr. Timothy Ball...in Canada where he hoped the Orwellian speech police tribunal (which Steyn dismantled in another lawsuit) would find that Ball's comments on Mann faking his Hockey Stick data were libelous.
Operating on the premise that the truth is a defense against libel, and with clarity of thought foreign to most American legislators, the Canadian court ordered Mann to produce his metadata--you know, the same metadata he and UVA spent millions to keep hidden from Ken Cuccinelli--Mann refused, repeatedly.
Last week, the court ruled him in default--meaning Ball wins. It also means Ball can call him a lying, junk-science charlatan because he has the backing of a court ruling.
Oh yeah, one more thing--it means Ball can counter sue for damages. He hasn't yet, but Steyn has--for $10 million. Mwuhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Well, Ball would get the first bite--his suit is older--and not just at Mann, but also at his flu$h backer$, including David $uzuki. Bwuhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
It doesn't get much better than that.
UPDATE: From Mikey's Facebook page, where his lawyer says Sullivan is full of shit.
You see, before he was stupid enough to sue Steyn, Mann sued Dr. Timothy Ball...in Canada where he hoped the Orwellian speech police tribunal (which Steyn dismantled in another lawsuit) would find that Ball's comments on Mann faking his Hockey Stick data were libelous.
Operating on the premise that the truth is a defense against libel, and with clarity of thought foreign to most American legislators, the Canadian court ordered Mann to produce his metadata--you know, the same metadata he and UVA spent millions to keep hidden from Ken Cuccinelli--Mann refused, repeatedly.
Last week, the court ruled him in default--meaning Ball wins. It also means Ball can call him a lying, junk-science charlatan because he has the backing of a court ruling.
Oh yeah, one more thing--it means Ball can counter sue for damages. He hasn't yet, but Steyn has--for $10 million. Mwuhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Well, Ball would get the first bite--his suit is older--and not just at Mann, but also at his flu$h backer$, including David $uzuki. Bwuhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
It doesn't get much better than that.
UPDATE: From Mikey's Facebook page, where his lawyer says Sullivan is full of shit.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Tweet This, You Dog-Eating Commie Dick Smoker
#MotherFucker. #HisWhollyReluctance wants every user's Twitter history for all time. Cont...
Because, he says, #WeHaveAlwaysBeenAtWarWithEastasia.
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Monday, February 24, 2014
Sunday, February 23, 2014
OverNighty: Oliveira
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Oliveira,
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Snooch,
Teh Awesome,
Tits
Saturday, February 22, 2014
Friday, February 21, 2014
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Is Spam With Bacon...Spacon?
It must be bacon. Look:
All, nearly all, of this from this morning is spambots, all hitting my post about the Daily Bayonet's old Alarming Alarmist contest.
Now, it's been a while since I posted any spam--in fact, since I was still at the SiteThatShallNotBeNamed. But given this morning's activity, I scanned the folder for hilarity. And while it's not up to the "better-than-Kolean-toy-assembry-instructions" caliber Engrish I used to post, it's close.
So, without further ado, It's time again for Fun With Spam:
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This next one, tragically, I think I almost understand...
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Sadly, according to the street carnies downtown, I'm not mesmeric enough.
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