LLNL - The True Story -

 Hello, We all have been taught that using more words, being verbose, doesn't necessarily help you express your views clearly. I am seeing more and more comments that take 10 minutes to read and more importantly understand . Please be brief for the sake of clarity. Verbosity seems to go against clarity. I don't want to impose actual size limit and instead count on your cooperation to be brief. Brevity = clarity. Thank you.

  This is interesting, it's a claim of a room temperature superconductor: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12037 One might imagine, if this is true, it could be technologically useful in some ways, both beneficial or through accelerating mankind's technological progress, also creating various problems. Certainly such a claim, requires better data to confirm, I would think, but if so this could be a Nobel prize. Otherwise, to explain the data they do have (unless the data is fake) could also require some interesting physics, and it still might have some ultimate applications.

Can a DOE/NNSA contractor leverage known Security Q-Clearance criteria as a pretext to firing an employee? The short answer is likely yes. As explained in the July 6, 2023 DOE OHA Administrative Judge decision in the link below, a QNSP acknowledgment (or obviously much worse, failure to acknowledge) of any “received a written warning, been officially reprimanded, suspended, or disciplined for misconduct in the workplace” can trigger a DOE evaluation of one’s Security Clearance eligibility above and beyond the normal periodic review. In this case, the employee in question referred to as “the Individual”, under QNSP/“Employment Activities”, “affirmatively answered” “he had received a written warning, been officially reprimanded, suspended, or disciplined for misconduct in the workplace”. “The Individuals” honesty and confirmed rehabilitation efforts, likely led to his access authorization being granted or maintained. Had “the Individual” lost his clearance he could have been dismissed ba...

  American Physical Society Statement So Bill Priedhorsky a retied scientists from LANL is giving a LANL talk on the APS American Physical Society statement on missile defense systems. Bill was on that board that gave the report in early 2022. I find it a tad odd he is going to be giving a talk on this since there is considerable controversy on this and in fact the original report got pulled form the APS site due to errors. https://www.aps.org/policy/analysis/missile-respons.cfm In February 2022, POPA published a report detailing the technical challenges of defending the United States against intercontinental ballistic missiles launched from North Korea. The report was reviewed by nine independent experts and approved for publication by the APS Council. "Subsequent to publication, technical errors were identified in one section of the report, on the topic of boost-phase intercept systems. After confirming that there were two errors, APS promptly removed the report from its website...

https://losalamosreporter.com/2023/07/19/the-real-purpose-in-making-the-bomb-was-to-subdue-the-soviets-now-its-happening-again-on-a-vast-scale-scale-why-july-22-at-fuller-lodge/ The Real Purpose In Making The Bomb Was To Subdue The Soviets.’ Now It’s Happening Again, On A Vast Scale. Scale. Why? – July 22 At Fuller Lodge

California Dreamin https://news.stanford.edu/report/2023/07/17/john-sarrao-named-director-slac-national-accelerator-laboratory/ Following a broad, international search, John Sarrao, deputy director for science, technology & engineering at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), has been named SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s sixth director, Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced today. At first this does not seem all that significant but John Sarrao has been rumored for many years to be a future LANL director most assumed after Mason that it would be John. I think he even had offers to head up some other DOE labs but turned them down to stay at LANL. Of course there are a number of rumors for why he is leaving (1) Sarrao sees that LANL will be a pit facility and he does not really want to manage that kind of operation, and he would rather be in charge of science organization. (2) He was told that future lab directors are going to be industry types that ca...

  This is quite interesting, it goes into how scientific and technical expertise and judgement have been devalued in the United States, and it is an ongoing trend of course: https://theintercept.com/2023/07/16/class-warfare-1-percent-technocrat/

  I've been away from this blog for a few months. It looks like Scooby has finally given up on control of content relating to the national labs and is admitting anyone access with whatever cockamamie screwball claims about whatever. It is a free-for-all of conspiracy theories, outright trolling, and general craziness. It used to be a good resource for LLNL/LANL information. Now it is just another out of control internet garbage dump. I won't be back.

  Why is metabolic dysfunction on the rise in the USA and in other parts of the world? UFOs, flat earth, and other topics, OK. Why not then, a topic on our collective state of diminishing health, and how much of it is lifestyle choice related that is largely correctable if addressed early enough? In the last ~50 years, we have become less active, eat too many processed foods, eat way way way too much sugar and carbs, and too few whole (natural) foods. The end result in my opinion? Childhood and adult obesity is on the rise along with non-alcohol related “fatty liver”, insulin resistance, diabetes, dementia, heart disease, and the list goes on. I’m NOT suggesting anyone change their diet and exercise routine without consulting their medical physician first. Having said this, most medical physicians have little to no nutritional education or training. Why not take lifestyle steps to address a growing list of chronic conditions before they become acute ones where we can? Scooby's note...

  Toyota announces ambitious new EV goals with 'solid-state' batteries. Advertised Advantages: -higher energy density -longer life -longer range -safer technology (?) -shorter charging times All promising if true, but will the USA grid keep up with the future electrical demand and charging stations needed for the growing number of EVs on the road? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NT8dCij_XcY&pp=ygUedG95b3RhIGV2IGJhdHRlcnkgYnJlYWt0aHJvdWdo

Everyone is saying how the new Oppenheimer will be the film of the year and how it could save Hollywood. Some other directors describe it as a kind of horror movie. https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/chris-nolan-says-another-director-called-oppenheimer-a-horror-movie#:~:text=Christopher%20Nolan%20Says%20Fellow%20Filmmaker,entire%20cities%20is%20pretty%20terrifying.&text=%22Now%20I%20am%20become%20Death%2C%20the%20destroyer%20of%20worlds.%22 I think we should make a movie about Edward Teller instead of Oppenheimer, one that is historically accurate and not a Oppenheimer horror story.

  https://losalamosreporter.com/2023/07/10/los-alamos-study-groups-greg-mello-historian-peter-kuznick-to-host-hybrid-conversation-july-22-in-los-alamos/ Los Alamos Study Group executive director Greg Mello and historian Peter Kuznick are hosting a hybrid community discussion at 6:30 p.m., July 22 at Fuller Lodge. The topic will be, “‘The real purpose in making the bomb was to subdue the Soviets.’ Now it’s happening again, on a vast scale. Why?”

https://www.indy100.com/viral/nuclear-weapons-arent-real-conspiracy https://www.gamereactor.eu/the-latest-conspiracy-theory-has-people-believing-nuclear-bombs-arent-real-1283163/ "Conspiracy theorist and right-wing comedian Owen Benjamin is now claiming that nuclear bombs do not exist because there is evidence of cameras filming nuclear blasts. “It’s weird that the nuclear blasts vaporised brick houses but not the old times camera recording it. It’s because nukes are fake.” Benjamin claims. “Hiroshima and Nagasaki never had any fall out radiation. The whole narrative and all the evidence is absurd.”" My guess was there was flat earth conspiracy a few years ago but with just telescope a far off object and a few calculations you can show the earth is not flat. The flat earth guys even did some experiments and figured they are wrong. So how do you prove nukes are real, do these guys have to make one, test it and go, " I guess I was wrong"

  This was from a professor at UMass Boston, who wrote this story after being forced to attend seminar on "Decolonizing Rigor in STEM. He made up scary story where Alice and Bob are in attendance and drop rigor from their science work and blow up UMass Boston with the help of LLNL. https://hxstem.substack.com/p/gibbs-phenomenon The following is based on recommendations from "Decolonizing Rigor in Higher Education" by Mona Abo-Zena and Kerrie Wilkins-Yel, Center for Innovative Teaching, University of Massachusetts Boston, January 31, 2023.

  Workplace “Virtue Signaling” What is an effective plan B when a company truly does not have a track record of workplace equal opportunity? Answer: Virtue signaling, where a “load test” is not required for PR gains. In such an environment, don’t be the load test if you value your job.