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April 30, 2009 at 8:15 pm
jim e
I love it when Phil sings!
April 30, 2009 at 8:31 pm
JR
I love this song. I had no idea he sang. Nice glasses.
BTW – Jim E, you are not allowed to comment on posts about the Dead or songs in general.
At least not until you comment more about oil :)
May 1, 2009 at 10:07 am
jim e
$60 by Summer?
May 7, 2009 at 12:36 pm
jim e
32 years aro on this day @ THE GARDEN:
http://www.archive.org/details/gd1977-05-07.sbd.miller.88525.flac16
May 7, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Holmes
1977… I definitely want to study this one and the others mentioned in the listener comments, but I’m just coming off listening to a marathon sequence of early 1970 GD archive shows, so I’m going to need to cleanse my musical and spiritual palates first (perhaps I’ll grab a Mark Levin podcast for the ride home… that should do the trick).
May 7, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Doom Docktor
jim e, when does summer officially start? NYMEX was briefly over $58 today.
May 7, 2009 at 4:23 pm
dave
trippy jime. just threw some oban, some psilocybe azurescens and some old peyote buttons in the blender. see you in a couple of days.
May 7, 2009 at 4:34 pm
dave
http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2007/10/facts_myths.pdf
so maybe i’m fucked up. but the last i understood the average nuke in the us arsenal was between 10 and 15 MT. if the little boy was 12 KT or so, the average nuke today is about a 1000 times more powerfull than the hiroshima blast. or am i fucked up somehow?
May 7, 2009 at 4:35 pm
dave
the lagest nuke ever was rated at 50 MT, about 4,000 times more powerfull than little boy, i think.
May 7, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Doom Docktor
I cannot reveal my sources, but they say the biggest H-bombs in the US arsenal are 20 MT. The USA nuke scientists then said “good enough”. The big 50 MT blast was done by the Russkies on Novaya Zemlya back in the early 1960s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
They could have done a 100 MT test, but it would have produced too much radioactive fallout, so they used stable lead instead of uranium-238 as the tampering casing of the multi-phase bomb.
May 7, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Doom Docktor
As a kid in the late 1950s, we used to be walking along and then get knocked off our feet. then we’d have to guess: “was that an earthquake or another russkie nuke test?”
nah, just kidding. here’s the real nuke story: as a kid in SoCal in the 1950s-1960s, we used to see the northern night sky light up when they did above-ground testing up on the Nevada test site. if it rained afterwards, we were warned not to get wet or drink the rain water. no shit.
May 7, 2009 at 9:37 pm
Saint Bif
“Since 50 Mt is 2.1×10E17 joules, the average power produced during the entire fission-fusion process, lasting around 39 nanoseconds, was about 5.4×10E24 watts or 5.4 yottawatts. This is equivalent to approximately 1.4% of the power output of the Sun.”
That proves it. Humans are insane.
May 7, 2009 at 11:08 pm
EEofDC
“if it rained afterwards, we were warned not to get wet or drink the rain water. no shit.” –Doom Docktor
A good friend of mine was living in Utah while they were still doing above-ground testing and was exposed to a number fairly close up.
He was diagnosed with some unidentifiable cancer the day before Bill Clinton’s 2003 inaugural and died exactly two months later. He was 53.
May 8, 2009 at 12:07 am
jim e
Off topic? Donna Jean, the only lady who was a member, is from Alabama.
http://www.dead.net/band/donna-jean-godchaux
I do not know oil or basketball but like the Celtics for it all!
May 8, 2009 at 12:28 am
jim e
A Grateful Dead fan, Walton was a friend of the group’s drummer, Mickey Hart. He once played drums with the Dead at a show in Egypt.
May 8, 2009 at 12:35 am
Dr. Doom
EE, my mother’s good friend, a widower like my mom, remarried her childhood sweetheart late in life. I met Ralph a few times, and he told me he was in the “nuclear corps” during the Nevada above-ground test period. He had survived to live into his 80s, but many of his army colleagues had died of cancer. Every now and then the army would check on him. He finally died of a heart attack. He had all kinds of stories about being exposed to the blasts, mostly low kiloton stuff.
Oh, he had a bad hernia that they couldn’t fix too well surgically (VA hospital), so he had a special chair that would spring him up out of it. My boys thought the chair was marvelous.