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  1. Sounds like he should file on her and then go out and get a feminine wife. I hate dudes like this who fly their “Happy wife, happy life” flag so proudly. The saddest part of it is that she probably looks like crap in a bikini. When are guys gonna wake up?

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  2. The most dangerous place ON earth has got to be at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. The deepest part is more than 6.8 miles below the ocean surface, and the pressure there is some 15,750 psi which is more than 1,000 times pressure at sea level.

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  3. I’ve walked a lot of places where things were happening I suppose would be considered dangerous.

    But the one bothered me most was a liquid rocket fuel dump. They were transferring red fuming nitric acid from a rail car to a storage tank. That stuff is incredibly nasty. Bothered me more than the physics package in a Minute Man II outside of the re-entry envelope. You wouldn’t believe how small those things are.

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  4. keswickian1989 – going home to my angry wife is a dangerous place.

    Have you ever walked into “the ambush”? You know…the one when your wife has spent three days thinking it through thoroughly and is waiting in a chair or bed as you walk in from a hard day’s work into a dark house. She’s loaded for bear since she’s got all the facts and reasons in a laundry list and you haven’t given it a thought for three days.

    Totally unarmed and unwittingly you turn on the lights, you walk in and the well-thought out ambush begins. All you can do is contritely hang your head and utter those infamous words, “I’m sorry. I was wrong. It’ll never happen again.”

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  5. @ Uncle Al

    Yeah. That part. The pit, the tritium injectors, the neutron moderators that most closely resemble frozen smoke. Everything downstream of the Positive Action Locks that keep that thing from going acapella when it really shouldn’t.

    It’s a lovely expression of the height of machine tool fabrication and optic level precision with heavy metal isotopes as the field.

    By far, the thing that astounded me the most, was the speed of the reaction. That entire fall from the height of the excitement to the reaction being complete happens before the outside metal skin develops the first crack.

    The only thing left is distributing the energy that got released.

    Still can’t quite get my mind around that.

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  6. @ 1harpazo

    “Totally unarmed and unwittingly you turn on the lights, you walk in and the well-thought out ambush begins. All you can do is contritely hang your head and utter those infamous words, “I’m sorry. I was wrong. It’ll never happen again.”

    This is more common than I thought possible. But I’ve said those words and felt what you probably did. And I know what was going on in your head when you did.

    Hello brother.

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  7. @Lowell A good friend of mine worked most of his life at Los Alamos and dedicated most of his career towards perfecting the science of making those packages go BOOM. Sadly, he died one month after he retired in April of last year. He was a good guy.

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  8. We’ve done some work for Los Alamos. A DOE facility. We have a rep for machining the impossible and one day they sent us some sporting shit. I could go on with some interesting shit but bottom line engineers have a hard time keeping their mouths shut about what they’re designing and where its being used. This turned out to be an antenna array for a Phalnax Gun they were mounting on some big ass truck in an effort to keep insurgents coming thru the wire in some shit hole base in some shit hole country. I can’t remember

    My vote for most dangerous place on earth would be a tail gunner in a B24 during WWII. Life expectancy was a minute thirty in combat.

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  9. @Hambone

    I worked for a while just down I-25 from Los Alamos. Only went there once on a very odd errand. One lab at White Sands used tritium on an industrial basis and that stuff degrades with time. Los Alamos had a facility that could clean it up. But there are (were) rules about transporting that gas. I sort of fit into that equation.

    Rode up there in a van driven by DOD Security types with a bottle on the seat next to me. Got welcomed into a very garage looking lab setup where they did something I probably don’t need to document here as the last two posts I did are guaranteed to garner NSA human eyeballs on after the bots alert them to what I said.

    Nice guys there at Sandia. No airs about themselves, we were just guys doing technical shit and keeping it in the community. Some of the humor was a bit grim, but look at what we were working around.

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  10. @Lowell… my dad talked about fuming red nitric acid. He said the nickname for it at the Cape was BFRC’s, which stood for big fucking red clouds. Dangerous stuff!

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  11. @ even steven

    That stuff, nasty as it is, is our reach on a chemical basis to pack the most punch we can into a small volume. And least weight. We’re trying to loft mass from dirt to ~100 plus miles altitude, and the killer, better than 17 thousand miles an hour velocity.

    Takes really energetic material to do that. Sometimes, we can do it without making a point source bomb.

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  12. @Lowell If you’d like to read a very interesting story about the guy I spoke about, Google “Being Agile, David Holtkamp, Los Alamos National Lab”. It’s so sad that he died a month after he retired. He had told me that he would give me a tour of his lab when I stopped to visit him. One month before he retired I was driving from Moab, UT to Texas and started to make the slight detour to see him but I was tried from riding dirt bikes all week in Moab, so I went home without stopping. I really regret that decision.

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