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I'd heard of her, but never read her blog until GGK made me aware of it. Now here is a woman I can admire - one who sets tough goals for herself before achieving them, looking good all the while. Loving mom, girlfriend, climber, activist, celebrity. It can't be easy to be always stunning. A true modern day hero, if you will.

This thread is its own reality show.

Do you piss in every party's punch bowl? Actually, the big three fireball/mushroom clouds are about right RE: relative size to each other. The bomba went up 60 miles - kind of far.

If you want to see some holy ground, Google Earth 'Sedan Crater NV'. It's midpoint on a line between Vegas and Tonopah, NV. You can walk to the bottom of the crater, too. Next road trip... HOLY HELL that valley is fucked up.

A little visual perspective:Mushroom cloud comparisons - Trinity to Czar Bomba Czar Bomba fireball versus NYC

The crew of a Japanese fishing boat found Castle Bravo interesting as well. They wandered into the test area and got a very big, very nasty surprise. If you're going to die from a nuclear blast, being closer is arguably better. What's with the Rooskies? No good pics of Czar Bomba to share? The only ones I've seen suck. COME ON!

Per capita consumption of calories from meat would be more relevant. US red meat consumption has gone down - any increase is due to the substitution of fish and fowl. The US population has grown 4x since 1909 - so the per capita graph would be far less steep (and misleading) than shown here. In addition, people throw away over 30% of what food they do buy. This has gone way up as refrigeration, convenient shopping, dropping normalized food prices, and rising incomes have become the norm. If the data is based on food purchased, this factor alone could easily outweigh any increase in meat consumption, caloric or otherwise, indicated in the graph provided. In the end...who cares? If an individual wants to lean out, its not rocket science: Eat whole foods. Minimize processed foods. This includes fruit juices. Eat at home. Learn your portion sizes. You can enjoy all the steak you want - all 3 oz of it. Buy good food. If you're going to limit your quantity, you might as well enjoy what you do eat. Add your own sugar to things to control intake. Commercial stuff is way too sweet anyway. Eat your veggies. Cheese is a condiment, not a course. Dietary supplements, with the exception of Omega 3, Vit D, and perhaps joint support, are a scam. Get your sleep. Avoid cars as much as possible. Exercise.

Meh. Ivy Mike produced way better photos. The French also snapped some nice stills of their tests.

Inspire Magazine is also a UK based Christian rag. Oops!

I just think it's a bit strange that both FBI and CIA investigations of the older brother in 2011, after being tipped off by the Rooskies, turned up squat, then this. Weird. BTW, Inspire ran an article in 2011 entitled "How to make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom" - so even radical jihadists get a kick out of the mom thing. It seems that visitation to that site by the bombers = radicalization. It could just mean "Thanks for the bomb making tips", however.

There's nothing funny about your mom.

Judging by the sophistication of the bombs, I'd say Band Camp is more likely.

The mother is just another passenger on the Bullshit Train.

FOX, of course, is reupping its perpetual "Islam Sucks, Christianity Rocks" campaign. Hannity must have said the word "radicalized" 50 times in 3 minutes while shitting out another propaganda piece with Bitchiest Little Dragon Lady on Television.

I'm a little worried that not a single story involving the Turpolev brothers sounds even remotely plausible. The event appears to be awash in a tsunami of bullshit.

They actually moved the mountain, shot the movie, then put it back. You could get away with that kind of stuff in those days. They harnessed the power of De Niro's method acting to do it.

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These are weird: 1 ms after detonation photos The Ivy Mike fireball was about 5 km in diameter. The hole it left behind is 6200' wide. It was the first test of a hydrogen bomb. "Well THAT worked"

Eniwetok has 4 holes. 2 are adjoined. One's on land and caped with concrete. Ivy Mike's diameter is 20x the smaller ones, so you might have to zoom a bit. Stationed on Eniwetok during the tests. Yeah, that really must have sucked. TO DO: Snorkel Displace natives Fish Vaporize an island Surf BBQ

Bikini Atoll also has a couple of holes in it.

Google Earth "Eniwetok" and see how many bomb craters you can find. 10 megatons makes a lot bigger hole than 40 kilotons.

No end in sight at Gitmo Dubya is starting to eclipse Nixon as America's Most Giving Gift That Keeps On. Once we're out of Asscrackistan the 'legality' of Gitmo is going to get pretty damn threadbare. The morality of it was never in question. Thank you House Republicans for blocking any and all attempts to clean up this steaming pile of human rights violations. They never met a case of human suffering they didn't like.

An abrasion proof plastic like polypropylene (whitewater kayaks) or acetal (fastex) would work. Tool organizer trays for the back of a car or blown out pickup truck liner - that kind of thing, would probably get you closer to what the mfgr's actually use for the real thing.

Still, even I can't predict the future like a Christian. Trading in your intellect for such a super power still doesn't seem worth it.

Well, I recall positing that it didn't sound like Al Qaeda, nothing more, and the bombers' motives remain unknown to the public at this point, so there's that. Doesn't seem to be much of an Al Qaeda connection, although FOX says they 'may have been inspired' by their website, 'Inspire'. Not sure how the Christian thing crept in there. It probably wouldn't be unheard of for me to take a potshot our favorite home grown cult, but it's usually for something they've actually done. Perhaps the Kaka can produce the offending prediction from his personal database, or just PM FW for same. So far, it would seem that my record for being right still stands at 108% of the time.