Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

According to a Facebook group, today is...




Judgment Day cometh... on August 29, 1997, at 2:14am EDT, the Skynet AI system became self aware and after we panicked and tried to shut it down, it launched our nuclear weapons at their targets in Russia, which in turn retaliated against us, attacks that killed 3,000,000,000 people.



I made my way to Crystal Palace and survived. Happy Judgement Day!



Coincidentally, Netflix is launched as an internet DVD rental service on this date...And exactly 10 years later this happened...


August 29, 2007: at Minot AFB, North Dakota, munitions crews mistakenly loaded a B-52H bomber with six Advanced Cruise Missiles, each armed with a live W80-1 nuclear warhead with a variable yield of 5-150 kilotons. The plane sat on the tarmac overnight without any special guards.



Nuclear Watch

Early the next morning, before takeoff, the B-52’s radar navigator closely inspected only the 6 missiles on the right-wing pylon, all of which properly carried dummy warheads. The pilot signed the manifest listing 12 unarmed ACMs as cargo without conducting a final verification.



This was supposed to be a routine fight supporting the USAF March 2007 decision to retire the ACM by ferrying the missiles stored at Minot to Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, for disposal (by August 2007, more than 200 unarmed ACMs had been safely transported to Barksdale). However, it was not routine.





The B-52 call sign "Doom 99" departed Minot at 8:40am and landed at Barksdale at 11:23am (both local times). The crew signed out and went to lunch. Again, there were no special guards. It wasn’t until 8:30pm, when munitions crews began unloading the aircraft, and that one person noticed something wasn't quite right.

Approximately 36 hours had elapsed from the time the armed missiles were mistakenly removed from their bunker at Minot to the time an airman noticed them on the B-52 in Barksdale. In all that time, no one realized they were missing or that they were left unguarded at both bases!!

As a result of this BENT SPEAR, 7 senior USAF officers were relieved of their commands or positions and reassigned, 65 airmen lost their Personnel Reliability Program certifications to work with nuclear weapons, and the secretary of the Air Force and USAF chief of staff resigned. The pucker factor went nuclear resulting in a lot of brown stains!

"Bent Spear" is an incident, which indicates "an unexpected occurrence involving nuclear weapons or nuclear components that does not fall under the NUCFLASH or BROKEN ARROW categories" or "a nuclear incident involving a nuclear weapon/warhead or nuclear component". In the Army and Air Force, this term includes a 'significant incident' as defined in DoD Directive 5100.52".

The AGM-129 stealth cruise missile is also intended to equip the USAF's new stealth bomber, the B-21 Raider.

AGM-129 Advanced Cruise Missile (photos) | The Saga Of The AGM-129 Cruise Missile That Was Basically A Stealth Jet Designed Upside Down



August 29, 1949: the Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb, internally code-named "First Lightning" in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan. The 22-kiloton RDS-1 device—codenamed Joe-1 by the United States, was basically a copy of the first plutonium-fueled implosion-type atomic bomb (the "Gadget") codenamed "Trinity" the US tested on July 16, 1945. The test was widely known as "RDS-1" (Россия делает сама, Rossiya Delayet Sama, which translate as "Russia Does it Herself") but, like US had help from German physicists. Oddly enough the Nazi physicist Hermann Oberth also said THEY had help too but from who or what??




First Soviet Test


History rhymes...

August 29, 2005:
- Hurricane Katrina hits Louisiana
- Kanye West drops his new album
- White Sox in first place
- Afghanistan in the news

August 29, 2021:
- Hurricane Ida (Cat4) hits Louisiana
- Kanye West drops his new album
- White Sox in first place
- Afghanistan in the news

Simulation was on repeat.






"Lester is terrified that this amazing woman is going to go to pieces on him. He’s seen enough of her work now to recognize that she’s possessed of some kind of genuine demented genius. He can smell it; the vibe pours off her like Everglades swamp-reek. Even in her frowsy house-robe and bunny slippers, hair a mess, no make-up, half-asleep, he can see something there like Dresden china, something fragile and precious. And the world seems like a maelstrom of jungle hate, sinking into entropy or gearing up for Armageddon, and what the hell can anybody do? How can he be happy with her and not be punished for it? How long can they break the rules before the Nova Police show?"
Excerpt from "Dori Bangs" story from "Globalhead" by Bruce Sterling (1992)