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NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN THE ANTHROPOCENE Nuclear weapons have triggered a new geological era, but what does that really mean ?  Inkstick Media: Peter Waring, 3 May 21, There were a few possible contenders when a working group established by the International Commission on Stratigraphy began searching for a “golden spike” — a geological inflection point marking the end of…

Nuclear weapons have triggered a new geological era, but what does that really mean ?   Inkstick Media: Peter Waring, 3 May 21, There were a few possible contenders when a working group established by the International Commission on Stratigraphy began searching for a “golden spike” — a geological inflection point marking the end of one era and the beginning of another. ………     from a geological perspective, no marker better captures humanity’s impact on the physical en...

FReeper Canteen ~ Sunday Chapel ~ YOU ARE SPECIAL ~ 02 May 2021 Posted on YOU ARE SPECIAL "I dont know why I was even born," the young sailor confided! "Im ugly. Im not talented. Ive never been what you would call smart. I dont really have any friends. And I cant seem to do anything right. I feel like Ive spent my whole life letting people down. Sometimes I wonder if even God could love me!" That conversation took place more than a decade ago, but I still remember it as if it were yesterd...

Music inspired by space and planets Literally or metaphorically, they continue to rain on us Mathures Paul   |     |   Published 02.05.21, 03:08 AM Find your space Duran Duran’s Nick Rhodes and British artiste-singer-violinist Wendy Bevan have been working together for some time, reflecting o...

by Tyler Durden Friday, Apr 30, 2021 - 02:10 PM An underground nuclear waste storage tank in southeast Washington state is leaking radioactive waste into the ground, according to a Washington state Department of Ecology press release. The 75-year-old tank, called B-109, at Hanford Nuclear Reservation is estimated to be leaking 3.5 gallons per day, or approximately 1,300 gallons per year of radioactive material. The tank holds around 123,000 gallons of radioactive waste dating back to when atom...

​Since the dawn of the Atomic Age, nuclear experts have labored to imagine the unimaginable and prevent it. They confronted a deceptively simple question: When is a reactor “safe enough” to adequately protect the public from catastrophe? Some experts sought a deceptively simple answer: an estimate that the odds of a major accident were,  literally, a million to one. Far from simple, this search to quantify accident risk proved to be a tremendously complex and controversial endeavor, one ...

Mank, The Midnight Sky, Emma – works of impeccable craftsmanship by the cinematographers, production designers, SFX artists, and costume designers alike. If youre into genre movies, 2020 brought us many impressive horror and science fiction titles like Andrew Pattersons Possessor, Leigh Whannells inventive Color Out of Space. We also got to laugh at Matthew John Lawrences endearing and energetic Uncle Peckerhead, were unsettled by Remi Weekes His House, and charmed by Michael Matthews p...

At the onset of the Atomic Age, military planners and scientists envisioned nuclear energy powering everything. Heres What You Need To Remember: More promising and nearly as cool are the nuclear powerplant for airships and another for hydrofoils. The nuclear airship based on a Goodyear base plan could fly at 85 miles per hour a mile up in the air for a very long time, its crew separated from the reactor by 200 feet of lighter-than-air structure. Ah, the Atomic Age, when nuclear energy seemed ...

Before Lt. Commander John Wesley Harvey took the helm of the submarine USS Thresher in January 1963, he was the executive officer aboard the USS Sea Dragon during an historic Arctic cruise. Prior to that, he spent three years aboard the legendary USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear-powered naval vessel, during the 1950s. He was the sub’s reactor control officer in 1958, when the Nautilus became the first watercraft in history to reach the North Pole. Before Lt. Commander Pat Garner step...

Alerts In October 1990, the food critic Jonathan Gold reviewed an inexpensive fast-food joint on Pico Boulevard called Oki-Dog for the LA Times. The piece, “Trans-Global Junk Food,” doubled as an obituary for the late-night hangout of his youth: the 24-hour Oki-Dog on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, which had recently closed. In the early days of punk, Gold spent many a night at the nearby nightclub, the Starwood, which gave many future rock heroes their first big gigs, and playe...