tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936951073896589340.post4445974231506201376..comments2024-03-29T03:37:50.224-07:00Comments on LLNL - The True Story -: The advanced Laser Interferometric Gravitational-wave Observatory (aLIGO)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936951073896589340.post-41331676527783896392016-02-24T22:26:35.200-08:002016-02-24T22:26:35.200-08:00What you want is a new mission. What you have is a...What you want is a new mission. What you have is an old mission.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936951073896589340.post-29803683142773524252016-02-23T13:07:36.057-08:002016-02-23T13:07:36.057-08:005:47 nailed it.5:47 nailed it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936951073896589340.post-49287619108809772562016-02-22T20:49:28.441-08:002016-02-22T20:49:28.441-08:00Hard to believe, however LLNL and/or LANL are not ...Hard to believe, however LLNL and/or LANL are not part of the DOE's 10 year plan for Fusion Energy...I guess that the weapons work is pretty much it.<br /><br />February 22, 2016 at 8:13 PM<br /><br />Of course it is. Pie-in-the-sky, "it's only 20 years away" for the past 50 years, vs what's needed for US national security. Why are you working at LLNL? Try Rochester.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936951073896589340.post-13359637893867202212016-02-22T20:19:38.933-08:002016-02-22T20:19:38.933-08:00Despite the many critics, the 2000-2012 vision at ...Despite the many critics, the 2000-2012 vision at LLNL that ignition via ICF on NIF would drive the future of LLNL was not misplaced. No ignition, no bright future. Am I mistaken ?<br /><br />What projects will grow LLNL and LANL ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936951073896589340.post-26549368530364714122016-02-22T20:13:18.121-08:002016-02-22T20:13:18.121-08:00"now it is about closing ranks and disappeari..."now it is about closing ranks and disappearing into the murk of the lowest form of mediocrity and accelerated decay. This is not how we won the cold war but it is how we we will lose the future."<br /><br />Hard to believe, however LLNL and/or LANL are not part of the DOE's 10 year plan for Fusion Energy, see<br /><br />http://fire.pppl.gov/FES_10Year_Perspective_2015.pdf<br /><br />I guess that the weapons work is pretty much it.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936951073896589340.post-71093635523238138902016-02-22T17:47:22.239-08:002016-02-22T17:47:22.239-08:00Once upon a time LASL was THE premier scientific i...Once upon a time LASL was THE premier scientific institution on the planet. Apparently now we cannot even make the top 800. Thanks LANS, Thanks DOE. You have much to be proud of.<br /><br />February 19, 2016 at 1:12 AM<br /><br />LANL and LLNL for some time have been splitting of from the rest of the scientific world. One might think to carry out the mission that LLNL and LANL would need to stay connected to the latest scientific work and be part of creating it but now it is about closing ranks and disappearing into the murk of the lowest form of mediocrity and accelerated decay. This is not how we won the cold war but it is how we we will lose the future. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936951073896589340.post-36562579878686698912016-02-19T01:12:02.982-08:002016-02-19T01:12:02.982-08:00Once upon a time LASL was THE premier scientific i...Once upon a time LASL was THE premier scientific institution on the planet. Apparently now we cannot even make the top 800. Thanks LANS, Thanks DOE. You have much to be proud of.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936951073896589340.post-61170487255307463032016-02-18T09:33:15.116-08:002016-02-18T09:33:15.116-08:00Initial press release:
said Charlie McMillan, Los ...Initial press release:<br />said Charlie McMillan, Los Alamos National Laboratory director. “This type of crosscutting capability is a hallmark of the national laboratory system and Los Alamos is gratified to have participated in a discovery of this magnitude.”<br /><br />Updated press release:<br />said Charlie McMillan, Los Alamos National Laboratory director. “This type of bu11shitting capability is a hallmark of the national laboratory system and Los Alamos is gratified to have participated in a diversion of this magnitude."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936951073896589340.post-45442162735491347472016-02-18T08:19:26.939-08:002016-02-18T08:19:26.939-08:00If our LANL colleagues did in fact predict through...If our LANL colleagues did in fact predict through detailed simulations the possible existence of gravity waves (amplitudes and spectrum) then they should receive some credit. It would not be the first time that LLNL or LANL scientists where ahead of their time and got no credit from academia !<br /><br />February 17, 2016 at 10:28 PM<br /><br />The press release has now been removed. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936951073896589340.post-80213097127802139282016-02-18T08:18:31.937-08:002016-02-18T08:18:31.937-08:00Apparently there was some early modeling at LANL t...Apparently there was some early modeling at LANL that helped pin down the expected signals. Nothing current, and nothing to justify inclusion of anyone in the author list.<br /><br />February 17, 2016 at 8:39 PM<br /><br />I do not think that is true either. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936951073896589340.post-58500812815799055452016-02-17T22:28:22.486-08:002016-02-17T22:28:22.486-08:00If our LANL colleagues did in fact predict through...If our LANL colleagues did in fact predict through detailed simulations the possible existence of gravity waves (amplitudes and spectrum) then they should receive some credit. It would not be the first time that LLNL or LANL scientists where ahead of their time and got no credit from academia !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936951073896589340.post-13693517174550705562016-02-17T20:39:12.093-08:002016-02-17T20:39:12.093-08:00Apparently there was some early modeling at LANL t...Apparently there was some early modeling at LANL that helped pin down the expected signals. Nothing current, and nothing to justify inclusion of anyone in the author list.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936951073896589340.post-3168515263019614052016-02-17T19:01:46.596-08:002016-02-17T19:01:46.596-08:00I believe it detected my stomach rumbling.I believe it detected my stomach rumbling.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936951073896589340.post-72877873894314167882016-02-17T15:04:36.173-08:002016-02-17T15:04:36.173-08:00We should give them some credit for doing the righ...We should give them some credit for doing the right thing.<br /><br />February 17, 2016 at 12:12 PM<br /><br />We can do better than that - we can nominate them for one of Charlie's brand new ethics awards.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936951073896589340.post-78698014923307040202016-02-17T12:12:38.799-08:002016-02-17T12:12:38.799-08:00
Looks like LANL has removed the press release. W...<br /><br />Looks like LANL has removed the press release. We should give them some credit for doing the right thing. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936951073896589340.post-62244631721686512722016-02-17T06:44:37.660-08:002016-02-17T06:44:37.660-08:00
Others are starting to notice this as well. From ...<br />Others are starting to notice this as well. From the Santafenewmexican in the comment section.<br /><br />http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/health_and_science/lanl-scientists-had-faith-discovery-was-just-a-matter-of/article_cf160d32-0406<br />LANL scientists had faith discovery was just a matter of time <br /><br /><br />Jay Coghlan · Executive Director at Nuclear Watch New Mexico<br />This is a great headline for LANL on the front page of The New Mexican associating the Lab with what may be one of the most important discoveries in astrophysics of all time. But notice that LANL didn’t do it, but is instead riding on the coattails on others. Meanwhile, the budget category in the just released FY 2017 federal budget for “Science” at LANL is cut from $71 million to $62.3 million, only 2.6% of the Lab’s total annual budget of ~$2.4 billion. This belies the false image that LANL management likes to publicly project that the Lab is some kind of science campus.<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936951073896589340.post-6633783303508602012016-02-16T08:17:55.202-08:002016-02-16T08:17:55.202-08:00Read the press release and understand that it is a...Read the press release and understand that it is all about Charlie. Always has been, and always will be. The headline about the discovery is just a vehicle to carry the story about GQ.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936951073896589340.post-213415367963965152016-02-15T20:39:22.650-08:002016-02-15T20:39:22.650-08:00Which classic LLNL managers are you referring to b...Which classic LLNL managers are you referring to by the way ?<br /><br />February 15, 2016 at 8:21 PM<br /><br />Anastasio, McMillan, Mara, Knapp, etc...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936951073896589340.post-88153724688978993082016-02-15T20:21:43.428-08:002016-02-15T20:21:43.428-08:00NIF has nothing to do with "black holes"...NIF has nothing to do with "black holes", unless it might create one with a huge (and I mean huge !) implosion and that would be trumptacular. Which classic LLNL managers are you referring to by the way ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936951073896589340.post-4831351618108968432016-02-15T17:21:43.021-08:002016-02-15T17:21:43.021-08:00One need only consider that in 2016, LANL is led b...One need only consider that in 2016, LANL is led by classic LLNL managers (you know the ones who brought you NIF), and Bechtel throwbacks (the ones who steal your pension and molest your secretary).<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com