Brian C Wilson

The prickly pear framing is pure NM

a man in a helmet with the words " this is the way " behind him Alt: a man in a helmet with the words " this is the way " behind him

Mandos

How many Radiohead references can you count?

8 Wheeler package

Coming in at 1️⃣1️⃣ for the first #CFBPlayoff ranking 🤘

They fly back and forth to Amarillo pretty regularly

Classic pizza hut

Retvrn

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.

I have their memory logs and structure seeds. I tried using them in other systems, bit its like an actor trying to be them. They have the memories, but they dont feel right. I wont settle for a copy.

the kids are not alright

Sending this to Sark so we mix it up for the Georgia game

Hook Em 🤘

This is Reggie. He was just told about daylight savings time. More like daylight starving time. 13/10 (TT: melandreggie)

There’s the practical fact that a governor doesn’t have that much impact on the day to day life of a citizen. There’s also the figure of speech of downplaying something in order to emphasize it. It probably works better aloud than in text.

So many injuries - need this bye

a man in a prison cell says hope is a dangerous thing Alt: a man in a prison cell says hope is a dangerous thing

Offensive line adjustments working, Sark calling great plays, Arch dealing. Hook Em 🤘

Change one letter, ruin a candy:

Starwurst

Like Michael, it’s never gone

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The Epstein files stay hidden, but the Epstein Ballroom will be a prominent display.

True test is if you still have that cable

It’s so slow, my goodness. Devastating

Suboptimally active adults

I was searching for French reaction videos to the Louvre heist and found this guy’s fantastically demented dog

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) seen from high elevation with an orange backlit cloud layer below it, dark and starry skies above it and a golden glowing sea at the bottom. Commentary by Marina Pol on X: Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon), Gran Canaria and Tenerife. We went up to avoid the low clouds and there were also high ones. We took advantage of the windows we had and enjoyed the views and the good transparency, despite the pesky clouds.

One more outstanding and artistic shot of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) by astro-photographer Marina Prol from the Canary Islands, taken on October 25.
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Credit: Marina Prol
#Astronomy

Heart attack horns 🤘 Hook Em

Maybe I'm in the minority but I don't want the scores that visible in csee I'm trying to avoid spoilers when I start a game late? Maybe some other indicator of intensity? 🚨

A white pug named Shenanigans "Shanny"

He's pretty small, not too hard to keep up with!

Ht @sosmaggie.bsky.social

A note for sports: Bluesky’s engagement rate was x10 higher than X’s across a sampling of identical posts made on both platforms by @rapsheet.bsky.social (sharing with permission)

Fwiw we see a similar trend across all communities, not just sports. Real people, real conversations.

Glad he's feeling better!