Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

March 9, 1979: Sandia Labs in-house newsletter "Lab News" printed this item about recently retired Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Director Harold Agnew recommending US presidents and other world leaders be periodically required to personally observe a large nuclear explosion:


Lab News Vol. 31, No. 5 (pg 12)


Harold Melvin Agnew (March 28, 1921 – September 29, 2013) was an American physicist, best known for having flown as a scientific observer on the Hiroshima bombing mission and, later, as the third director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He became head of the Weapon Nuclear Engineering Division in 1964. He also served as a Democratic New Mexico State Senator from 1955 to 1961, and was the Scientific Adviser to the NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) from 1961 to 1964. He was director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1970 to 1979, when he resigned to become President and Chief Executive Officer of General Atomics. He died at his home while watching football in Solana Beach, California.

His wife Beverly was Robert Oppenheimer's secretary.

In a 2005 BBC interview, Agnew stated, "About three-quarters of the US nuclear arsenal was designed under my tutelage at Los Alamos. That is my legacy."

A proponent of tactical nuclear weapons, Agnew pointed out in 1970 that the Thanh Hoa Bridge in Vietnam required hundreds of sorties to destroy with conventional weapons when a nuclear weapon could have done the job with just one. Source:
Los Alamos Science Winter/Spring 1983 - Vintage Agnew (PDF pg 94)



The Boom In Genetic Engineering And profiting from gene splicing. (TIME, March 9, 1981)




How many attempts do you think we're gonna reach by the end of his term? We're at four since July now, I think.


Secret Service shoots man 'brandishing' firearm near White House


A technology breakthrough by Moltex Energy Canada Inc. will/may allow Britain to transform its stockpile of plutonium into nuclear fuel instead of burying it underground, ministers have been told.


UK ‘can harness radioactive waste for energy’ after tech breakthrough

Any bets the US already had such tech 30 years ago. That first transpontine ("atom bridge") was a drawbridge and it was pulled up as soon as the American Strangelovians got what they wanted. Besides, they're going to need to radically dumb it down for Miliband.

Miliband to ‘throw away a gold mine’ by burying nuclear waste - Energy Secretary urged to reconsider ‘stupid’ plans to dispose of plutonium stockpile.



Rocketman demands attention...


North Korea unveils nuclear-powered submarine for the first time


Commander Adam Bryan leads the Blues to the moon! From yesterday's practice.




Oh sure, nothing creepy about that...



"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
— Frank Herbert, Dune



An 80 year old Philly-born businessman buys $50,000 ad in the NY Times pleading with Trump to resign. The ad:

Grissom acknowledged that the ad buy absorbed a ”good chunk of my children’s inheritance.” But, he added, “they were supportive.”

“I’m proud to tell you that,” added Grissom, former CEO and cofounder in 1994 of Polaris Health Directions, which developed questionnaires administered by computers to diagnose and monitor treatment for behavioral health.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Now that is some nutty TDS! No doubt he used some form of behavioral mind programming on his own kids. Wish I had $50K to throw away.





Wolfe's first novel, and is considered a highly autobiographical American Bildungsroman. The character of Eugene Gant is generally believed to be a depiction of Wolfe himself. The novel covers the span of time from Gant's birth to the age of 19. The setting is the fictional town and state of Altamont, Catawba, a fictionalization of his home town, Asheville, North Carolina. He has been dubbed "North Carolina's most famous writer".


Get ready for the next total lunar eclipse! On the evening of March 13, 2025 starting at 10:57 pm CDT, the full Moon—known as the Worm Moon—will begin to pass into the Earth’s shadow, creating a total lunar eclipse.

The Mayans would already be heading for the cave...


The March 13–14, 2025 lunar eclipse will be visible for all of the USA, Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America, weather pending of course on your location.


Have a listen & watch. I think you'll like it.