In these days of $31k tables, how much is being spent on extra landscaping, painting, and cleaning in preparation for the visit by Secretary "oops"?
Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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In any case, $31K is chump change compared with the $536,000 Obama billed the Government last year for his 8,200 square foot post-presidency office. That's over 50x larger than my office.
I thought they should have toured him through some of the barrack buildings with begging cups out.
DOE is used to buildings falling down on and around them. If it is this nice on the existing funds, and the buildings aren't dripping, they won't see why the labs need money.
Very, very cheap shot by a low class person. All of us that work/worked on NIF very much appreciated the upgrade to the landscaping, etc... After all it made our travels outside our buildings to home and back more enjoyable. Who wants to look at dead grass and withering plants !
March 23, 2018 at 9:22 PM
Oh, wait! This is California!
LANL people. That is what they think landscaping is. It is ridiculous. Drive past the yards in Los Alamos and White Rock. You can immediately tell who is from Los Alamos and who has travelled to Los Alamos for work. They truly believe living like that is "greener".
No one cares. You had your 15 minutes of fame in May 2000. Fires, schmires.
I have been here for a decade and it has always been "brown". People don't care about their lawns or the general landscaping, except Ashley pond. good work on that.