Couple of scattered fire-related sites:
From the newswires today…
Text America has a Southern California fire blog running.
The smoke from the various Los Angeles fires blew over Long Beach all day today making it feel like a volcano was going off. Enough ash had rained down to collect on parked cars, pile up on my staircase, and turn the sky yellow. Perversely, the Halloween Dog Parade was going on in Belmont Shore making the whole day seem like a Fellini movie.
Last week we took a tour of the Nevada Test Site and while I’ll get to a full description of that shortly (probably in a post to Proven By Science), this thread in sci.space.tech was too good to not mention.
A 1957 atomic test called Pascal-B set off a small nuclear explosion in a 500 foot shaft that was covered by a metal lid. A quick thumbnail estimate of the shockwave effect on the metal lid gave a resulting velocity of six times the earth’s escape velocity and thus the legend of the “manhole cover in space” is born. One of the project scientists comments on the whole thing.
Note to self: when I finally make it to orbit, send out for Chinese food..
I haven’t linked to any Iraq-related articles lately because other blogs are doing a much better job at it, but Outwardly Normal links to a graphic display of just what 87 billion dollars looks like.
I just noticed two pieces of spam in the blog comments here. Note to self: looks for ways to make this more difficult.
Breakfast/Lunch at Quetzal.
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