Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

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Happy National Aviation Day! First established in 1939 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to acknowledge the birthday of Orville Wright. And it's National Potato Day.

Series of fighter jets through Rainbow Canyon aka Star Wars Canyon Death Valley. Looking at You from 4:45...



There is a sea story about USS O'Bannon coming upon a surfaced Japanese sub that was too close for the ship's guns, so the crew pelted the Japanese with potatoes. Thinking the spuds were grenades, the sub submerged and was then sunk by depth charges.




August 19, 1934: The very first All-American Soap Box Derby race was held at the same location as the Dayton city-wide race in 1933, on a track that measured 1,980 feet (600 m). Watched by a crowd estimated at 45,000, boys from 34 cities competed in the all-day affair, with Robert Turner of Muncie, Indiana, piloting a car riding on bare metal wheels with no bearings, becoming the first All-American Champion.

While out on assignment for the Dayton Daily News in 1933, Dayton, Ohio photojournalist Myron Scott, who later named the Corvette, came across a group of kids rolling gravity powered cars down a hill. After snapping a few pictures, he helped the children organize a race, which was entered by 19 kids. There was so much interest in the event that he arranged a larger race for later in the summer that included a cash prize. An astonishing 362 kids showed up to the temporary downhill course in Dayton. Their cars were made out of soap boxes, orange crates, scrap wood, baby buggy wheels and other miscellaneous items. By the next summer, Scott had secured Chevrolet as a national sponsor for the race, leading to the first All American Soap Box Derby which was held on this day in 1934.

Barrelling down the course at that first championship in a racer built from the wood of an old bar and stroller wheels was 11 year old Robert Turner, pictured at top. By the end of the day, he would be crowned the first All American Soap Box Derby winner, which earned him a four year scholarship to any university of his choice.
August 19, 1934 – The First All American Soap Box Derby

Official film (10 min) from August 16, 1936 of the third Soap Box Derby competition in Akron, Ohio; tribute to ingenuity of the American Boy with that old bombastic narration. Amazing amount of fanfare & prizes these Derby boys received. Kinda like an early prelude to NASCAR. Girls were first allowed to race in 1971 which took a federal ruling.

19th August 1934: The first All-American Soap Box Derby held in Dayton, Ohio:



Cool Derby vid from 1936 (not 1934)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiG5pzTmFR0


Raytheon Cybertron K-100 "Goof button"...It profits by mistakes. (1961)
"One of the machine's first tests was to distinguish sonar signals bounced off a submarine from those bounced off a porpoise."




August 19, 1958: Launching the behemoth Triton (SSRN 586) was the only dual-reactor US Navy submarine. Captain Edward "Ned" L. Beach on the bridge taking Triton through her paces preparing for Operation Sandblast, the first submerged circumnavigation of the earth.



2 min vid of Triton launching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNwb6YwhnKg


Regulus W-27 nuclear weapon test July 8, 1956 as part of Operation Redwing: Apache Shot. Only 54 Regulus II test missiles were built before production was cancelled. A second sun rises at Enewetak Atoll from the 1.9 Mt thermonuclear surface detonation on a barge.




Sanguivoriphobia is the fear of vampires.


Horror of Dracula (1958)
“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula



Civil Air Transport (CAT) "Lucky Dragon" Pin



Giant 'X' appears over Chile as 2 celestial beams of light cross


Wow, Cesium-137 at a "Great Value"! Thanks Walmart. Harvesting shrimp near Fukushima or Bikini Atoll? I'm sure we can trust the FDA...sigh.


FDA warns public not to eat possibly radioactive shrimp sold at Walmart

I wonder how many years, decades this has been happening, but the food industry had remained silent. On the flip-side I don't believe I've ever bought seafood, much less frozen at a Walmart. Beware of Walmart stores in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, and West Virginia.

The interesting snippet from the FDA PR is: "The U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) alerted FDA to the detection of Cs-137 in shipping containers at four U.S. ports (Los Angeles, Houston, Savannah, and Miami)."

Ok, detected inside containers but how exactly did CBP manage to detect Cs-137 in frozen shrimp, inside shipping containers at FOUR major ports? Gotta be more to the story. Maybe they have very sensitive radiation scanners looking for possible "dirty" bombs hidden in shipping containers.