Brendan

Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.

This is dumb

Andrew

Reign on me: Seattle's NWSL team heads back to the playoffs - Soundside The Seattle Reign play the Orlando Pride in a win-or-go-home match this week. Do they have the potential for a deep playoff run?

my convo with @susierantz.bsky.social about the @seattlereignfc.bsky.social

omny.fm/shows/sounds...

A brown cloud arising from an underground nuclear test in Nevada. Dry Nevadan hills are in the background. The scientific encampment to control the test and take data is in the lower right. This is the Baneberry nuclear test, and it is not how underground nuclear tests should look.

Screenshot of a Facebook post: Terry Wallace On December 18, 1970, a nuclear weapons test was conducted in an underground shaft at the Nevada Test Site. The test, code-named Baneberry, was detonated at a depth of about 900 feet. Baneberry was a relatively small weapons test and was conducted at Yucca Flats (a large playa) in alluvial soil derived from surrounding deposits of volcanic tuff. Within the alluvium, there were intermittent seams of montmorillonite clay that were saturated with water. The drill hole was filled with a concrete plug and sorted materials; the procedure for plugging the hole was consistent with previous tests at Yucca Flats, which aimed to fully contain the radioactive products within a cavity produced by the nuclear explosion. In the case of Baneberry, the detonation seemed normal until about 3 ½ minutes after the “boom,” when a large fissure opened up a few hundred feet from the test shaft, and a boiling cloud of radioactive debris rose above the Nevada desert (Figure 1 is an image of the Baneberry release). The cloud rose about 10,000 feet above the test and was visible in Las Vegas, 100 miles away. The cloud spread radioactive dust across a broad area, contaminating 86 workers at the test site. The total radioactive release was 6.7 megacuries (for comparison, Chernobyl released 200 megacuries), including 80,000 curies of iodine-131. Two of the workers who were contaminated died in 1974 from myeloid leukemia. The accident resulted in a six-month suspension of nuclear weapons testing, and a root cause analysis revealed three geological issues that combined to create the release: an unrecognized fault in the alluvium, a buried escarpment between the alluvium and limestone, and the structural weakness of the water-saturated clay.

Post continues (2) the structural weakness of the water-saturated clay. The summary conclusion of the root cause analysis indicated that a thorough geological analysis was needed for all future nuclear tests, and it recommended the establishment of a containment evaluation panel (CEP) for the approval of any tests. This panel required that “successful containment means no radioactivity detectable offsite, and no unanticipated release of activity onsite.” Of the 200+ tests that occurred after the creation of the CEP, only four tests had releases—the worst of which was a test called Diagonal Line, detonated about a year after Baneberry, and resulting in a release of 6,000 curies. I started my career at Los Alamos National Laboratory as an undergraduate student in 1975 employed by the J Division, which was responsible for providing the containment package for LANL nuclear tests. My first project involved modeling the small earthquakes that occurred after an explosion. Once an explosion is detonated, it creates a cavity by vaporizing and compressing the surrounding materials. This cavity is expected to collapse over the following days or weeks to create a porous chimney that traps the gases produced in the explosion. This containment strategy is unique to the geology of the Nevada Test Site and is not applicable to other testing environments, especially crystalline rock (like the North Korean Test Site). Over the three years I worked as a student at LANL, I analyzed data from more than 70 tests, which initiated my career in forensic geophysics and eventually led to my becoming the 11th Director of LANL. On September 23, 1992, the U.S. conducted its final explosive nuclear

Post continues (3): On September 23, 1992, the U.S. conducted its final explosive nuclear test, code-named Divider (a LANL test). Shortly after the test, President Bush announced a test moratorium that was extended indefinitely by President Clinton. This ushered in a new era in which nuclear weapons were evaluated not through explosions but by scientific tools that verified material properties through dynamic testing and advanced computer simulations that encapsulated the complex physics of nuclear reactions and explosions along with the material properties derived from non-explosive experiments. The Directors of Los Alamos, Livermore, and Sandia are required to write an annual stockpile assessment letter that assures the nuclear stockpile's reliability; this letter is finalized after a yearlong assessment of the safety, reliability, and performance of both the nuclear and non-nuclear components of all weapon types in the U.S. arsenal. The letters are highly classified and closely held, but no letter has indicated that the U.S. needs to return to nuclear testing. This is hugely significant not only for the U.S. but also for the world—the moratorium on testing represents a small step toward a world that recognizes that nuclear weapons are not weapons of war, but rather instruments of deterrence. On October 28, President Trump announced that the U.S. would restart nuclear weapons tests: “Because of other countries’ testing programs, I

This needs to be shared more widely. It's on Facebook, which AFAIK doesn't allow direct links to its posts. Terry clearly wants it to be shared, so I don't feel bad about posting it in multiple screenshots.

Terry Wallace was the director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Will Klein in a "Rapinoe/Kaepernick 2020" shirt

🏈 HOU 12 - 27 SEA
3:01 4Q

Scorigami is quite unlikely (less than 1%) in this game.

Jess Fishlock. No caption needed. 🔥🐉

wizard frog is insane

Mariners pitcher Randy Johnson strikes out Tim Salmon of the Angels to help Seattle win its first AL West title, October 2, 1995

30 years ago today, the Seattle Mariners won the American League Western Division Championship. www.historylink.org/File/3420

Federal cops ‘instigating’ confrontations with protesters outside ICE building, Portland police official says in court Assistant Chief Craig Dobson said federal officers were “causing some of the ruckus” at the ongoing protests.

Gift 🎁 link

YouTube video by MLB Josh Naylor and the Mariners win a COME FROM BEHIND THRILLER and are Postseason-bound! 🔱

Good morning, Mariners fans.

MLB has uploaded the entirety of the bottom of the eighth and top of the ninth of last night's playoff-clincher on YouTube.

Pioneer Square pergola, Seattle, 1910

#OnThisDay in 1909, a luxurious bathroom opened beneath Seattle's Pioneer Square pergola. historylink.org/File/2950

Playmobil figure kitted out as prehistoric iceman Ötzi.

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit.
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
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#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation

Dominique Malonga runs the floor and ties it, Seattle goes nuts

They’re divided by supporting a soccer team and a cruise line? That makes no sense

The Pitt won Outstanding Drama Series at the #Emmys, and R. Scott Gemmill dedicated the award to healthcare workers:

"Respect them. Protect them. Trust them.”

sounds like demelo is up and alert, now time to see if jessica berman has learned anything, at least this time she should at least still be awake

Seattle Reign FC Loans Midfielder Ji So-Yun to Birmingham City — Seattle Reign FC The South Korean international joins Birmingham City on loan through the end of 2025 Seattle Reign FC today announced that midfielder Ji So-Yun has been loaned to Birmingham City of the Barclays Wom...

Reign FC has loaned midfielder Ji So-Yun to Birmingham City of the Barclays Women’s Super League 2 through the end of 2025.

Read ➡️ rgnfc.com/4mkBkQ9

Well well well.

Handball on the goal line

MORE LIKE JORDYN BIKE-EMA AMIRITE

Mondesir, more than any player I can think of in recent memory, very often has me asking "would a blonde white girl from California have been whistled for that?"

Humpy getting run for the Salmon race

Incredible things are happening at T-Mobile Park.

Legend.

Laura Harvey masterclass. We are so back! #ReignFC

We're never bad two years in a row. We have a plan, and we may get very close to pulling it off, too.

Cinema. 🎥

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He has refused his Assent to Laws…

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world…

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury…

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences…

A Tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.