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Oh! Oh!!

  A series of unfortunate events https://losalamosreporter.com/2021/09/29/doe-announces-investigation-of-series-of-events-at-lanl-plutonium-facility/ The Department of Energy’s Office of Enterprise Assessments’ Office of Enforcement’s has announced its decision to conduct an investigation into the facts and circumstances associated with a series of events between February and July of this year occurring in the Plutonium (PF-4) Facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

CRT (again?)

  https://losalamosreporter.com/2021/09/24/critical-race-theory/ Well this has created another fire storm on the Los Alamos facebook pages. It is the usual where people are saying you should teach critical race theory at LA schools with other saying they do not know what critical race theory is and using the defections of 70s for legal studies and saying it is only taught in "advanced academic settings". Some people saying it is only teaching the truth and to be against is to be racists and so on , so the conversation is pretty low level. This is at the schools but I guess it could be coming to the labs. Just a few points on CRT, while it is true that it originated from a theory for legal system in the US, the basic concept can be and is widely applied to large sections of the social sciences, and humanities. It is the the hypothesis that literally every thing in the US has racial issues baked in them. The original idea was that the legal system has inherent or as the say ...

For entertainment purposes...

  Here is a good conspiracy theory. The Large Hadron Collider LHC at CERN is about to start up again after another upgrade. The last startup after an upgrade was in 2016. Some claim that has been creating holes in multiverse and we keep jumping to more and more absurd worlds here Trump got elected in 2016. One can also guess how crazy it is going to get once they turn it on again at even higher energies. Another scenario is we we are in a simulation and the LHC is creating events that are destabilizing the simulation. Who knows what comes next. Of course some would counter the recent crazy stuff just in 2021 before has occurred before it turned on. But what if part of the destabilization is due tachyon production so some of the real insanity we will see in the future is now leaking into the past to our current time.

Dept. of Energy's loan program

While most people have heard of Tesla, far fewer have heard of the United States Department of Energy Loan Programs Office....   https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/573148-dept-of-energys-loan-program-helped-tesla-now-it-needs-to-help-low

Mason said...

  Mason just sent out an email on the vaccine mandates. He laid out the plan which includes vacations and leave until the all clear to come back, but termination was not listed as an option. Also I am sure working from home will also be accepted in some cases. I told you no one was getting fired.

Political debate on blog

  To fair to Scooby the labs are always going to be very entangled with politics. In fact there is more talk on political blogs about the possibility of nuclear war with China, Russia, or even Iran and NK. Nuclear weapons are kind of important to the labs you know. If it is being perceived by the world that American is on the decline than having a strong and credible nuclear deterrent could make sure any potential still thinks twice about trying to make advantage of this. Like it or not that labs will be playing a role a big role in the future of the United States and world stability. Not to mention the Covid mandates at the labs also have political aspects. It is hard to avoid politics when discussing NNSA labs. Scooby's rule: is more like no political debate that is not related to the labs, the issue is that so many political issues can be connected to the labs. I suppose someone could talk about abortion and that would be a topic that does not belong. However if someone says Tru...

Trump stopped from using NUCs

  Trump stopped from using nuclear weapons! https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9990247/Gen-Mark-Milley-secretly-dialed-Chinas-military-leader-amid-fears-Trump-start-war.html The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, took top-secret actions to prevent former President Donald Trump from using nuclear weapons, a new book claims. During her call with the general, the book details, Pelosi demanded to know what precautions Milley would take to prevent Trump from utilizing nuclear launch codes. Pelosi said, “You know [Trump’s] crazy. He’s been crazy for a long time.”Milley reportedly responded, “Madam Speaker, I agree with you on everything.” https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-top-general-secretly-called-china-twice-trump-term-ended-report-2021-09-14/ U.S. General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called General Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army on Oct. 30, 2020 - four days before the election - and again on Jan. 8, two days after T...

Welcome Mark Anthony

  https://losalamosreporter.com/2021/09/10/mark-anthony-to-join-lanl-as-new-associate-laboratory-director-for-plutonium-infrastructure/ LANL has announced that Mark Anthony, currently a projector director of the European Spallation Source in Sweden, will lead the Lab’s Associate Directorate for Plutonium Infrastructure.

September 11th not to be repeated

  Scooby's note: I got this as a comment in another post. It was off the subject but reflects on the new faces of terrorism. So,  it deserves a 'blog spot".😀 It is a very somber September 11 today. 20 years ago the biggest threat to our nation came from international terror. Now we face a much greater domestic terror threat, from extremists, fake news, misinformation, racism, propaganda, denied voting rights, womens rights, and radicalized nationalism. This has cost us 650k dead, the Jan 6th insurrection, leaving 5 dead police officers, and we 80 million people who refuse to get vaccinated which could lead to several hundred thousand more dead. We have chosen the wise course to leave many of our foreign entanglements such as Afghanistan to start focusing on domestic threats. The threat is now from within and is more dangerous than anything we have faced. Just as we called the time after 9/11 the global war on terror which we won, we now must realize that we could be enter...

No Exemptions to Vaccine Mandates

  I’m a Former Pastor, and I Don’t Believe in ‘Religious Exemptions’ to Vaccine Mandates https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/06/opinion/religious-exemptions-vaccine-mandates.html First, there is no actual religious basis for exemptions from vaccine mandates in any established stream of Christianity. Within both Catholicism and all the major Protestant denominations, no creed or Scripture in any way prohibits Christians from getting the vaccine. Even the sect of Christian Scientists, which historically has abstained from medical treatment, has expressed openness to vaccines for the sake of the wider community. The consensus of mainstream Christian leaders — from Pope Francis to Franklin Graham — is that vaccination is consistent with biblical Christian faith. Biblically based arguments against vaccination have been rebutted. But even with legitimate religious claims sincerely held, the law allows companies to forgo offering exemptions if doing so places an “undue hardship” on the employ...

Assembly at Ashley Pond Park

  From The New Mexico Freedoms Alliance: In response to Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) mandating the COVID-19 vaccine for all employees, hundreds of workers will be Calling Out and gathering 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 7 in a Freedom Assembly at Ashley Pond Park. https://ladailypost.com/lanl-workers-to-protest-vaccine-mandate-tuesday/

Herd Immunity

  “Herd Immunity” not achievable with the delta variant given its “reproductive number or “Re” is too high, but vaccinations can significantly lower severe illness and death. Link 1 of 2 https://www.google.com/amp/s/abc7chicago.com/amp/coronavirus-vaccine-efficacy-against-delta-variant-covid-booster-shot-is-pfizer-effective/10949401/ Link 2 of 2 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JhRb5hnTseU

Is it the end of Sandia Z program?

  Do the results from NIF mean the end to the Sandia Z program? The Sandia Z people hoped to build a new machine eventually. They face some big hurdles such as funding, problems with scaling from 26 to 60 mega amperes, and lack of robust target for achieving ignition. With NIF having basically achieved ignition, do we need to build or even maintain large pulsed power facilities. Also, I bet that Sandia corporate has more interest in other endeavors.

COVID and Flu.

  Scooby's note:  This post was sent in as a comment for another post but was irrelevant to the subject. However  it has an interesting subject and deserves to be a post.  So some recent studies cam out suggesting that that up to 80% of everybody has either the vaccine or had Covid. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/02/health/covid-vaccines-seniors.html That is already over the states herd immunity. This was done for a study of over 1 million people. One thing this study suggested was that twice as many people had caught Covid that was reported which reduces the death rate by half, which is starting to put in more like a bad flu. You can ask why did we have so many excesses deaths than previous bad flues? One possibility is that Covid is simply way more contagious than most flues so way more people got it than the would with other flues. This sort of makes sense due to the spike protein which they said was very efficient. If this is true Covid is not that much deadlier...