There's even a slight E@H connection, that being the Hanford LIGO. The Hanford DOE site to the north of the interferometer is where Uranium from Oak Ridge was transmuted into plutonium in the first of what would be later called 'breeder' reactors. The Hanford LIGO logs revealed a few years ago the effect of a helicopter flying back and forth across the reservation, for the purpose of measuring radioactivity. They found a couple of glowing coyotes .... seriously the estimate was about one ( 1 ) kilogram of plutonium in total in the soil around the site. The plutonium was bred in pits in the ground, in what were called 'Queen Mary's' by the workers. They were cooled by massive amounts of water from the nearby Columbia River - just straight through in & out of the reactor vessel's cooling jacket without any secondary circuit + heat exchanger ( today's designs ) - and back into the river downstream.
It was amazing that secrecy was kept as well as it was. Not perfect but pretty good. Code names helped like : 'The Gadget' ( the bomb itself ), 'tube alloy' ( uranium ) and of course the big one 'The Manhattan Project'.
Cheers, Mike.
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Mike steered us away from Agnetha - but not women... I got curious :)
Yeah, I kept having to stay gender neutral in the language. That's hard in an area like physics where using 'he' all day is going to be overwhelmingly right. Now I'm not a SNAG* or anything, vintage 1960 actually, but it was a good exercise in testing pre-conceptions. Eh ? :-)
* Sensitive New Age Guy. :-)
( edit ) Random thought : this would have absolutely nothing to do with you being a woman, who guessed it correctly on an intuitive hunch, and we're all guys. Right ? :-) ;-0
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
*gulp* you see... this amount of joined-up thinking is where things fall apart in the next thread...
Oh... and I forgot to point out the "fission" breakthrough was a major factor in my success - so thank you boffins :) don't want any of you to go down as one of those uncredited unsung heroes I was talking about earlier :)
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Well, the man deserves to be picked-on for a lot of things. I'm not being relative or comparing him to others. Pick someone, anyone, who speaks a lot in public (on the radio, TV, during a book tour...) and eventually they will say something that isn't *exactly* what they were thinking. Their mouth runs while the connection to their brain falters.
What I understand the man to have said was, "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
As far as I know, there is no evidence that he did anything remotely like that, legislatively or any-other-ly. He probably did have some legislative duty that had something to do with something that had something to do with DARPA, or something, that at least tangentially referenced the internet.
I'm guessing he was a member of Congress and voted for the budget that included that in it, thereby sealing his place in history in his mind.
Hi TL04, it is now almost 7pm at my place.
I know the thread has been won, but since it has not been locked, I will reply to this bit of unfinished business.
That may be everyone thinks he said and did, but it's not what he really said and did. It's been years since I looked all this up, but his claim was pretty much what I said earlier, that in the 1990s, he introduced and sponsored in the Senate the bill that shaped the internet's transformation into the commercial ...thing... that it is today. He never used the word "invent" in that interview and it remains* a mystery why Googling "Al Gore invented internet" comes up with that transcript.
*Or it did remain, as of when I looked it up lo these many years ago.
Now, off to see what Annie hath wrought.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
There's even a slight E@H
There's even a slight E@H connection, that being the Hanford LIGO. The Hanford DOE site to the north of the interferometer is where Uranium from Oak Ridge was transmuted into plutonium in the first of what would be later called 'breeder' reactors. The Hanford LIGO logs revealed a few years ago the effect of a helicopter flying back and forth across the reservation, for the purpose of measuring radioactivity. They found a couple of glowing coyotes .... seriously the estimate was about one ( 1 ) kilogram of plutonium in total in the soil around the site. The plutonium was bred in pits in the ground, in what were called 'Queen Mary's' by the workers. They were cooled by massive amounts of water from the nearby Columbia River - just straight through in & out of the reactor vessel's cooling jacket without any secondary circuit + heat exchanger ( today's designs ) - and back into the river downstream.
It was amazing that secrecy was kept as well as it was. Not perfect but pretty good. Code names helped like : 'The Gadget' ( the bomb itself ), 'tube alloy' ( uranium ) and of course the big one 'The Manhattan Project'.
Cheers, Mike.
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Yeah, I kept having to stay gender neutral in the language. That's hard in an area like physics where using 'he' all day is going to be overwhelmingly right. Now I'm not a SNAG* or anything, vintage 1960 actually, but it was a good exercise in testing pre-conceptions. Eh ? :-)
* Sensitive New Age Guy. :-)
( edit ) Random thought : this would have absolutely nothing to do with you being a woman, who guessed it correctly on an intuitive hunch, and we're all guys. Right ? :-) ;-0
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
*gulp* you see... this amount
*gulp* you see... this amount of joined-up thinking is where things fall apart in the next thread...
Oh... and I forgot to point out the "fission" breakthrough was a major factor in my success - so thank you boffins :) don't want any of you to go down as one of those uncredited unsung heroes I was talking about earlier :)
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RE: RE: Well, the man
I know the thread has been won, but since it has not been locked, I will reply to this bit of unfinished business.
That may be everyone thinks he said and did, but it's not what he really said and did. It's been years since I looked all this up, but his claim was pretty much what I said earlier, that in the 1990s, he introduced and sponsored in the Senate the bill that shaped the internet's transformation into the commercial ...thing... that it is today. He never used the word "invent" in that interview and it remains* a mystery why Googling "Al Gore invented internet" comes up with that transcript.
*Or it did remain, as of when I looked it up lo these many years ago.
Now, off to see what Annie hath wrought.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.