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My beloved Patrons—& others—will please note:
I posted 20+ images & some words discussing some of my encounters with US ballistic missile programs produced by General Electric.
#PhDLife
Enable my work & me & the cats eating:
https://t.co/GzHV653OGL
https://t.co/tvFac0gW44
I get nervous when I see C-17s in my airspace (as I did recently)…
…when I can’t see the tail insignia, especially.
I live near A HUGE repository (hee hee, that word) of hedge nuclear weapons…
https://t.co/vIOcowZ6SP
2/n
So first US & USSR nuclear detonations are solid cores (with initiator inside) and in which the high explosive touches the aluminum sphere touches the uranium tamper/reflector touches the (almost) solid plutonium core.
HT @Casillic for making & sharing AWESOME diagram: https://t.co/S2AUej3zxH
Oh. Holy fuck.
You know why the accretion region looks like a halo?
Gravitational bending of space-time so that no matter what angle you look from...
😱IT ALWAYS LOOKS LIKE A HALO😱
https://t.co/Cl59QHhx5H
ALL HAIL THE URANIUM QUEEN!
I would wear the crown while teaching.
It looks like these Uranium Pageants in Grand Junction were going for at least 5 years.
#PhDLife
Mk28 gravity nuclear bombs from Palomares Broken Arrow.
Pictures of inside show:
-internal bulkhead separating nose shock absorber from explodey part
-candy wrappers, penny, and junk that folk have thrown into the weapon casing.
#DeusExAtomica
#PhDLife
Me at the beginning of 2018 vs me 58 days into 2018 (ht @jdmar3):
Me at the beginning of 2018 vs me 52 days into 2018:
Today I learned Lance Missile seems to have retractable fins on the warhead/pointy part!
(Is it an RV? Only 12 mile apogee? Ping @wslafoy)
Not gonna lie, Anthroponuclear Worlds Theory makes a FUCKLOAD of sense to me these days.