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reasonsforhope · 1 year ago

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We’ve just taken a major step toward cleaning up space junk.

On Monday, October 2, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the US issued its first fine for space debris, ordering the US TV provider Dish to pay $150,000 for failing to move one of its satellites into a safe orbit.

“It is definitely a very big symbolic moment for debris mitigation,” says Michelle Hanlon, a space lawyer at the University of Mississippi. “It’s a great step in the right direction.”

But it might be more than just a symbolic gesture by the FCC. Not only does it set a precedent for tackling bad actors who leave dangerous junk orbiting Earth, but it could send shock waves through the industry as other satellite operators become wary of having their reputation tarnished. While the $150,000 FCC fine was modest, Dish’s share price fell by nearly 4% immediately following its announcement, pushing the company’s $3 billion valuation down about $100 million.

The FCC’s action could also help breathe new life into the still-small market for commercial removal of space debris, essentially setting a price—$150,000—for companies such as Astroscale in Japan and ClearSpace in Switzerland to aim for in providing services that use smaller spacecraft to sidle up to dead satellites or rockets and pull them back into the atmosphere...

Another hope is that the FCC’s fine will encourage other countries to follow suit with their own enforcement actions on space junk. “It sends a message out of America taking leadership in this area,” says Newman. “This is starting the ball rolling.”

Today there are more than 8,000 active satellites, nearly 2,000 dead satellites, and hundreds of empty rockets orbiting Earth. Managing these objects and preventing collisions is a huge task, and one that is becoming increasingly difficult as the number of satellites grows rapidly. The worsening situation is largely due to mega-constellations of hundreds or thousands of satellites from companies like SpaceX and Amazon, designed to beam the internet to any corner of the globe...

Hanlon says there are further measures that could be taken to discourage companies from failing to dispose of satellites properly. “Honestly, I would love to see that if you don’t meet your license requirements, you’re banned from launching for a number of years,” she says. “If you’re driving under the influence you can have your license revoked. These are the kinds of measures we need to see.”

Chris Johnson, a space law advisor at the Secure World Foundation in the US, says the loss of reputation for Dish about the satellite situation might be worse than any fine it could have received. “They promised to remove it and they didn’t,” he says. “It’s like the first operator of a car to get a speeding ticket.”

The fall in the company’s share price appears to be indicative of that reputational damage. The fine may not have been as severe as it could have been, but the FCC’s actions can be seen as a warning to other companies to tackle space junk. “This is going to be on their record and their reputation,” says Johnson. “It’s not trivial.”

-via MIT Technology Review, October 5, 2023

Always nice to see steps taken to tackle a problem BEFORE it causes incredibly massive issues

#space #space debris #united states #fcc #technology #big tech #satellite #astronomy #good news #hope

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allthebrazilianpolitics · 1 month ago

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‘Divide and conquer’ – Belo Sun’s tactics cause consternation along Xingu river in Brazil

The Canadian gold mining company is accused of stirring up communal strife and other irregularities in an area already impacted by Belo Monte

The office at number 1989 on Rua Madre Teresa de Calcutá, in the central region of Altamira, welcomes Ribeirinhos and Indigenous people with smiles and handshakes. Help with “public policies” and “support” for community projects are also on offer. Yet there is a catch. This is the Brazilian headquarters of Belo Sun Mining Corp, a Canadian company that intends, over the next 18 years, to churn through 620 million metric tons of ancestral land in Pará’s Amazon – more than the weight of Rio de Janeiro’s Sugarloaf Mountain – to bring in over US$ 10 billion in revenue from gold that now sits an area inhabited by forest and traditional populations. It isn’t the first time these peoples’ territories and ways of life have been threatened. Now, because of the communities’ abandonment, vulnerability, and fatigue, the company is looking to advance its project – amidst a war of unequal forces.

In Altamira, there has been resistance to mega-projects that have jeopardized the lives of humans, more-than-humans, and the planet for at least 35 years. In February 1989 – at the same address where Belo Sun’s headquarters are located – the city hosted the first Meeting of Xingu Peoples to discuss the impact of a huge federal government project to build hydroelectric plants in the region. This event spawned the famed image of the warrior Tuire Kayapó, who died in August 2024, holding a machete to the cheek of Eletronorte’s director at the time, José Antonio Muniz Lopes, a man with connections to oligarch José Sarney, then the president of Brazil. Eletronorte was the government-run company responsible for the project.

Three decades later, the Belo Monte Dam, one of the hydroelectric plants to come out of the project, was built at a cost of more than R$ 40 billion after nearly ten years of construction. Today, it is directly responsible for sequestering 70% of the water in the Volta Grande region of the Xingu River, 130 kilometers containing vast biodiversity that is home to Indigenous peoples like the Arara and the Yudjá/Juruna, as well as to traditional Ribeirinho communities and smallholders. After the dam was built, making a living from fishing became impossible in some regions, and Ribeirinhos are dealing with this scarcity and depression after being forced to move far from the river. During droughts, the Xingu River, which before was the “road” running through these communities, is also no longer so easily navigable. Nor is there basic sanitation, schooling and adequate healthcare. Many of the promises that “life would improve,” made by the government and Norte Energia, the plant’s concessionaire, were submerged as if they were part of the forest. Local Yudjá/Juruna indigenous people often say Belo Monte ushered in the end of the world.

#brazil #brazilian politics #politics #environmentalism #indigenous rights #image description in alt #mod nise da silveira

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redphienix · 7 months ago

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I don't really understand why the already extremely niche genre of heisting games is currently being front run by "futuristic" heists when the entire idea runs counter to the appeal of heisting.

Heisting games at their core are about big well thought out hits on banks and mcguffins in worlds where it "Makes sense" for that to be possible. It's about STEALING **THINGS**.

I mean. Most heists are based on movie heists which are almost all based in the 80s and 90s because those are periods of time in which Super Mega Finger Print Eye Scan Bio Lock safety measures don't exist, and 99.99% of assets are PHYSICAL- as in, cash, or jewelry, or drugs- physical things you can hold in your hand-something for you to STEAL that would be irreplaceable if stolen.

The shift payday 3 and the upcoming den of wolves or whatever seem to be so focused on- of "Modernizing" heisting, or in den's case future-izing, doesn't make sense.

Today everything is digital, it's all credit cards and fake assets that a bank says exist.

You CAN steal in this environment, but let's be honest, it's lame.

Modern "heist level" theft is just corps scamming poor people or companies stealing hours.

You have to apply a layer of fiction that makes it fail the "makes sense" aspect of a hit by saying "Oh, this CRYPTO WALLET is worth TEN BILLION and we'll be able to sell it EASILY" I don't care. Where's the cash. Where's the Thing I'm stealing. I know crypto idiots get scammed all the time, but where's the physical item I grab and it's money, I'm phishing a password, where's the fun thing I'm taking.

I go in and plug a usb in or steal a hard drive and then get told it was a major super big successful heist- who cares, where's the Thing I stole.

We live in a time of so many safeties put around assets, so much value being digitized- so as a dev you have to justify why stealing something can even be done when it's just numbers in a database we have no access to, and then the justification often falls apart because if we have access... then take it all? How is our ownership being respected when we make such a hit when we stole /nothing/?

We went from stealing millions of dollars worth of gold to stealing the credit card info of everyone with a PSN account and I'm supposed to say both of these scenarios are equally fun in a heisting game.

So you end up with scifi concepts like cracking bio-locks to steal an SSD that is somehow not backed up anywhere and has the sole copy stored in a physical safe at a warehouse because?????

And then with dens, we're getting into scifi brainhack level territory and the objects we steal are being further obfuscated from reality- LET ME STEAL THINGS.

MAKE THE FUCKING GAME IN A PERIOD OF TIME WHERE THINGS EXIST THAT CAN BE STOLEN.

IT'S A HEISTING GAME, I WANT TO STEAL **THINGS** NOT *IDEAS* AND *BIZARRELY ONE OF A KIND UNBACKED UP CODE* AND WHATEVER ELSE NUMBER-IN-COMPUTER NONSENSE.

Sigh.

I hope den is good. GTFO was fun.

#my posts #payday 3 #den of wolves #payday 2

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mitnnvy · 1 month ago

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JACOB fun facts;;

Jacob has had 8 girlfriends but he broke up with all of them because he wasn't affectionate or had facial expressions (Lol, they were scared)

Her ONLY relationship with a man was with Hitchhker C

He has a huge addiction to playing Mega Millions, and his favorite number is 7

Jacob can't have expressions or be affectionate because he is inspired by Luther (And that made him who he is today fr)

probably if he had lived with Yoku or had family affection he would be a totally different person, unlike the Jacob we know

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oldguardleatherdog · 9 months ago

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This blog is being stalked by Twitter's cringe-inducing "commentary community"

Along with my other social media accounts! Here's today's Wall O'Text™️ with all the juicy details!

Did you know that Twitter trolls have a "community" all their own?

Twitter's "Commentary Community" (I prefer the far snappier "CoCo") is a study in sociology gone wrong. They combine bad-faith moral outrage with Puritan self-righteousness and condescending LGBTQ-phobia into a toxic slurry of fecal napalm designed to cause maximal misery for the targets of their daily brigadings and coordinated hatestream attacks.

When they're not targeting outsiders, they turn their fire on each other with radioactive glee. And this is all they do, all day, every day, living off their own bile, a daily diet of ultraprocessed poison. You don't want to imagine what their offline lives must be like.

The Venn diagram of CoCos, Kiwi Farmers, YouTube streamploitation hacks, and self-loathing gay and trans people is close to a perfect circle. Arrogant disdain for anything they deem unclean or that ruffles their fee-fees isn't a bug, it's a feature.

The level of sheer gall with this crowd is off the charts, and the number of CoCos who have the standing, achievement, talent, scholarship, or knowledge that would legitimize their moralistic hectoring is exactly zero.

Many CoCos make significant money on Twitter, YouTube, and other platforms from this fetid cesspool of free-range loathing, mega-stalking, and network of like-minded fans who amplify their obsessive campaigns to the millions of mouth-breathers and MAGA chuds that give Elon a reason to crawl out of the woodwork every morning - too much money to go unexamined for much longer.

There's more than a hint of sus activity and shady people in the CoCo ecosystem. A thorough examination by investigative and oversight authorities who may have an interest in the flow of money, misinformation, and funding sources for this crowd would go a long way towards reducing their daily firehose of sewage.

Of course, I'll continue to post the same way I've been posting online for the past 36 years, with increased safeguards and monitoring. We run a tight ship in this kennel, and people of good will are always welcome here.

I encourage you to send asks and messages with material I can post here that my growing CoCo fan base can put to use as they reach around my hot, wet, throbbing, pulsating blog, desperate for a fix, grasping for another strawman, trying to convince themselves that they're needed and necessary and loved.

#coco puffs #information gladly given #animal j. smith #what does the coco pride flag look like?#they get off on my kink and yours too #i get a cut of any money made from use of my likeness or content #who TF died and left them God? lmaoooooo

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twopoppies · 5 months ago

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"""normal-guy era"""", I can't believe they can write those kinds of articles, they're trying to say that Harry wasn't "normal" before, was he an alien? and the number of likes ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

https://x.com/wewerebraverOTB/status/1830581324912169166?t=Xt63rs1RdFtgTwdL7MFpEw&s=19

I think the OP is good intentioned, and some of the article is a bit icky (he’s always been daddy, but now he’s dad, the comment about Liberace, and the use of the word “normal” especially). And it sounds like the author dismisses the fact that all of Harry’s eras were trend setting—even the flamboyant ones (how many men are still wearing Pearl necklaces today?).

Also, comparing every day outfits to his stage outfits, or what he wore when he was 16 or 20, is just silly. He’s dressed casually in his off hours for years. It’s just now it seems to be a “trend” (which really is the point of the article). But I think it’s a little hyperbolic to say it’s homophobic/transphobic.

[…] This is Harry we’re talking about, so of course he’ll never look like your average man, but his early-30s normal-guy era is as close as he’s ever been. Open-collared shirts and wayfarers at an England match. Some shorts and battered Sambas in Soho, London. A big Umbro hoodie, white socks and aviator shades on the streets of Primrose Hill. In fact, if you were to look at any of Harry’s big fits in 2024, they wouldn’t look out of place on any 30-something guy with a model-influencer girlfriend, a predilection for Lime bikes and a tab at The Spurstowe Arms. This is Harry at peak internet-boyfriend-slash-sports-dad, with a not-quite mullet and some kind of neutral oversized sweater hastily thrown on. Just like Jeremy Allen White and Paul Mescal, he has become slacker hot personified.

[…] While Harry spends less time in LA these days, his look is very 90210: the sort of incognito style that men tend to go for once they reach a certain level of fame and wealth and just want to knock around Erewhon in Beverly Hills all day. It’s supposed to help them blend in, but also: not really? Because if you spot someone in designer shades and a “covert” hoodie while paps hide in the bushes nearby, you’re going to assume they’ve got at least three properties with infinity pools and a lengthy IMDB profile.

[…] At 30, he wears pressed cotton shirts, spends time in Rome and watches golf tournaments. While he’s always given off daddy energy, he’s now also giving off dad: someone who reverses a car with one arm and likes to be in charge of the barbecue tongs. And it’s working for him. Not everyone can get away with wearing a mega-worn band tee and half-destroyed Vans – but Harry isn’t everyone. He could wear a bin-bag and sliders and still appear stylish. “Normal” looks so good on him because he’s not normal; he has a face sculpted by the Gods and a £50 million real estate portfolio.

[…] I’m sure that, come his next LP or Michele’s first proper Valentino collection in September, Harry will launch himself into another daring fashion phase. There will come a point when he needs to make a red-carpet appearance, or attend the Grammys, and only something Liberace-esque will do. Until then, though, let’s just appreciate the vibe of this 30-year-old man in Adidas trainers, short shorts and slightly greying sports socks for what it is: a masterpiece.

Link to the full article

#fashion icon Harry #British Vogue

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archivist-crow · 4 months ago

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Fleetwood Mac - Tusk (1979)

Forty-five years ago today, on October 12, 1979, Tusk, the twelfth studio (double) album by Fleetwood Mac, was released. While it is difficult to conceive that an album that sold several million copies, peaked at number 4, had three top 20 US hits, and a handful of beloved songs as a failure, this was exactly the case owing to the mega-success of the band’s previous album, Rumours. With sparser arrangements and more experimental due in part to the influence of punk and post-punk on Lindsay Buckingham, the album is a remarkable picture of a band pushing and being pulled in different directions, from both within and without.

#music #video #fleetwood mac #tusk #anniversaries #1970s #angel

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ohhhrico · 1 year ago

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I am triggered. The world means so much and also nothing all at once. People are dying, and we continue on with life. We’re being forced into homelessness. Government officials want to enslave the working class. We don’t gaf about the alien shit. And Starbucks is still selling out of cups, while millions of small business owners go broke because they can’t keep up with inflation. Rent and mortgage are the same numbers. The middle class margin is the widest we’ve seen yet. $30,000 to $230,000 is considered middle class. From retail managers to registered nurses , we are all living check to check. There is only 9% of the American population that hold the majority of the wealth, and they average a million annually. The 1% losing control of the media to TikTok, actors getting .03 paychecks. Pedos being exposed with no consequences or repercussions. Big pharma putting everyone on crack and getting away with it. Them STILL making the shit today. Slavery is EVERYWHERE. The flow of goods will never stop, not even in the middle of a fucking war. Captains literally being bombed. wtf. There’s more though. Billionaires going to space without anyone’s fucking permission. Marks bitch ass stealing data. Caskets going missing from burial plots. Mega-museums being a showcase of theft. Waging war on the working class globally. Criminalizing homeless to enforce more enslavement. Black women and black trans women fighting each other on tv. The tv show actually being a sex trafficking scheme. Sex trafficking through Walmart and WayFair. Biden stealing all of our information to charge us for student loans to fund a war . All the first payments defaulting. ALL OF THEM. we don’t have it! You took it with the 12% inflation rates at the fucking grocery store. COVID still mutating. organized religion still being a thing, GLOBALLY.

Here’s the kicker, all of these problems are

MAN MADE !!!!!!!

Even the doomsday clock is set for a MANMADE destruction.

It’s all fucked. And we’re doing nothing about it.

#had to say it #politics #economics #metaphyics #religion #black trans women #black women

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darexirepublic · 1 year ago

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Today on Republic News Update:

-Science Fair enters second day; the first annual Republic Science Fair is now on its second day of running aboard Friendship Station. Organizers from the Ministry of Science are very happy with the overall turn out, with several thousand people attending the event in person and almost 1 million concurrent viewers on the info-net. Some visitors from the @union-replicants are also arriving to the Fair, as seen above!

The lectures, so far given by @phlaalu and @alari-nation scientists, have been well received - the lectures from @elepharchy and @pactargent will be held later today, and organizers are confident in a large turnout for these as well. So far, viewers say the lectures on mega structural engineering have been informative but not tedious or complicated!

-Joint task force makes pirate arrests; with the help of the Pact vessel Echo of Civility, the Ministry of Defense announced raids on two pirate bases located just outside of Republic space. Over 50 individuals were detained, along with several thousand pounds of stolen resources and goods. Defense officials say that the ships seized were "ramshackle and poorly held together", but still dangerous. As a reminder, all suspects are innocent until proven guilty.

-Darexi aid mission to @kentiaenguilds "proceeding well"; Ministry of Galactic Affairs officials say that the emergency aid to the Guilds aboard their station has now helped to restore primary power and technical installations have seen new food and water synthesizers activated, immediately alleviating food and water shortages among the Guilds. Further aid is "already prepared to depart", say officials from the Chancellor's Office, and housing districts aboard Friendship and Benevolence Habitats have been prepared for our fungoid friends.

-New Embassy complex planned; with the rise in diplomatic communication from new friends, such as the @pari-treeminders , @kenjodanni , @abyssari-order and many others, the Chancellor's Office has announced and confirmed new plans for a further Embassy district complex to house a further number of diplomats from all species and environments. Planning is still in the early stages, but work is expected to begin sometime this year.

-Weather: Sunny with cloudy breaks

#stellaris rp #stellaris #peritainia

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denimbex1986 · 1 year ago

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'The new blockbuster film on Oppenheimer has brought back the memories of the first nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It has raised complex questions on the nature of the society that permitted such bombs to be developed and used and the stockpiling of nuclear arsenals that can destroy the world many times over. Did the infamous McCarthy era and hunting for reds everywhere have any relationship with the pathology of a society that suppressed its guilt over the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, substituting it instead with a belief in its exceptionalism? What explains the transformation of Oppenheimer, who had emerged as the “hero” of the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb, to a villain and then forgotten?

I remember my first encounter with American guilt over the two atom bombs dropped on Japan. I was attending a conference on distributed computer controls in Monterey, California, in 1985, and our hosts were the Lawrence Livermore Laboratories. This was the weapons laboratory that had developed the hydrogen bomb. During dinner, the wife of one of the nuclear scientists asked the Japanese professor at the table if the Japanese understood why the Americans had to drop the bomb on Japan. That it saved a million lives of American soldiers? And many more Japanese? Was she looking for absolution for the guilt that all Americans carried? Or was she seeking confirmation that what she had been told and believed was the truth? That this belief was shared even by the victims of the bomb?

This is not about the Oppenheimer film; I am only using it as a peg to talk about why the atomic bomb represented multiple ruptures in society. Not just at the level of war, where this new weapon changed the parameters of war completely. But also the recognition in society that science was no longer the concern of the scientists alone but of all of us. For scientists, it also became a question that what they did in the laboratories had real-world consequences, including the possible destruction of humanity itself. It also brought home that this was a new era, the era of big science that needed mega bucks!

Strangely enough, two of the foremost names of scientists at the core of the anti-nuclear bomb movement after the war also had a major role in initiating the Manhattan Project. Leo Szilard, a Hungarian scientist who had become a refugee in England first and then in the United States, sought Einstein’s help in petitioning President Roosevelt for the United States to build the bomb. He was afraid that if Nazi Germany built it first, it would conquer the world. Szilard joined the Manhattan Project, though he was located not in Los Alamos but in the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratories. Szilard also campaigned within the Manhattan Project for a demonstration of the bomb before its use on Japan. Einstein also tried to reach President Roosevelt with his appeal against the use of the bomb. But Roosevelt died, with Einstein’s letter unopened on his desk. He was replaced by Vice-President Truman, who thought that the bomb would give the United States a nuclear monopoly, therefore, help subjugate the Soviet Union in the post-War scenario.

Turning to the Manhattan Project. It is the scale of the project that was staggering, even by today’s standards. At its peak, it had employed 125,000 people directly, and if we include the many other industries who were either directly or indirectly produced parts or equipment for the bomb, the number would be close to half a million. The costs again were huge, $2 billion in 1945 (around $30-50 billion today). The scientists were an elite group that included Hans Bethe, Enrico Fermi, Nils Bohr, James Franck, Oppenheimer, Edward Teller (the villain of the story later), Richard Feynman, Harold Urey, Klaus Fuchs (who shared atomic secrets with the Soviets) and many more glittering names. More than two dozen Nobel prize winners were associated with the Manhattan Project in various capacities.

But science was only a small part of the project. The Manhattan Project wanted to build two kinds of bombs: one using uranium 235 isotope and the other plutonium. How do we separate fissile material, U 235, from U 238? How do we concentrate weapons grade plutonium? How to do both at an industrial scale? How do we set up the chain reaction to create fission, bringing sub-critical fissile material together to create a critical mass? All these required metallurgists, chemists, engineers, explosive experts, and the fabrication of completely new plants and equipment spread over hundreds of sites. All of it is to be done at record speeds. This was a science “experiment” being done, not at a laboratory scale, but on an industrial scale. That is why the huge budget and the size of the human power involved.

The U.S. government convinced their citizens that Hiroshima, and three days after that, the Nagasaki bombings led to the surrender of Japan. Based on archival and other evidence, it is clear that more than the nuclear bombs, the Soviet Union declaring war against Japan was what led to its surrender. They have also shown that the number of “one million American lives saved” due to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as it avoided an invasion of Japan, had no basis. It was a number created entirely for propaganda purposes.

While the American people were given these figures as serious calculations, what was completely censored were the actual pictures of the victims of the two bombs. The only picture available of the Hiroshima bombing—the mushroom cloud—was the one taken by the gunner of Enola Gay. Even when a few photographs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were released months after the nuclear bombings, they were only of shattered buildings, none of actual human beings.

The United States, basking in their victory over Japan, did not want it to be marred by the visuals of the horror of the nuclear bomb. The United States dismissed people dying of a mysterious disease, what the United States knew was radiation sickness, as propaganda by the Japanese. To quote General Leslie Groves who led the Manhattan Project, these were “Tokyo Tales”. It took seven years for the human toll to be visible, and only after the United States ceased its occupation of Japan. Even this was only a few pictures, as Japan was still cooperating with the United States in the hushing up of the horror of the nuclear bomb. The full visual account of what happened in Hiroshima had to wait till the sixties: the pictures of people vaporized leaving only an image on the stone on which they were sitting, survivors with skin hanging from their bodies, people dying of radiation sickness.

The other part of the nuclear bomb was the role of the scientists. They became the heroes who had shortened the war and saved one million American lives. In this myth making, the nuclear bomb was converted from a major industrial scale effort to a secret formula discovered by a few physicists which gave the United States enormous power in the Post War era. This was what made Oppenheimer a hero for the American people. He symbolized the scientific community and its godlike powers. And also the target for people like Teller, who later on combined with others to bring Oppenheimer down.

But if Oppenheimer was a hero just a few years back, how did they succeed in pulling him down?

It is difficult to imagine that the United States had a strong left movement before the 2nd World War. Apart from the presence of the communists in the workers movements, the world of the intelligentsia— literature, cinema and the physicists—also had a strong communist presence. As can be seen in the Oppenheimer film. The idea that science and technology can be planned as Bernal was arguing in the UK, and should be used for public good was what the scientists had embraced. That is why the physicists, at that time at the forefront of the cutting edge in sciences—relativity, quantum mechanics—were also at the forefront of the social and political debates in science and on science.

It is this world of science, a critical worldview collided with the new world where the United States should be the exceptional nation and the sole global hegemon. Any weakening of this hegemony could only happen because some people, traitors to this nation, gave away “our” national secrets. Any development anywhere else could be only a result of theft, and nothing else. This campaign was also helped due to the belief that the atom bomb was the result of a few equations that scientists had discovered and could therefore be easily leaked to enemies.

This was the genesis of the McCarthy era, a war on the U.S. artistic, academic and the scientific community. For a search for spies under the bed. The military industrial complex was being born in the United States and soon took over the scientific establishment. It was the military and the energy—nuclear energy—budget that would henceforth determine the fate of scientists and their grants. Oppenheimer needed to be punished as an example to others. The scientists should not set themselves up against the gods of the military industrial complex and their vision of world domination.

Oppenheimer’s fall from grace served another purpose. It was a lesson to the scientific community that if it crossed the security state, no one was big enough. Even though Rosenbergs—Julius and Ethel—were executed they were relatively minor figures. Julius had not leaked any atomic secrets, only kept the Soviet Union abreast of the developments. Ethel, though a communist, had nothing to do with any spying. The only person who did leak atomic “secrets” was Klaus Fuchs, a German communist party member, who escaped to the UK, worked in the bomb project first in the UK and then in the Manhattan project as a part of the British team there. He made important contributions to the nuclear bomb triggering mechanism and shared these with the Soviet Union. Fuchs’ contribution would have shortened the Soviet bomb by possibly a year. As a whole host of nations have shown, once we know a fissile bomb is possible, it is easy for scientists and technologists to duplicate it. As has been done by countries as small as North Korea.

The Oppenheimer tragedy was not that he was victimized in the McCarthy era and lost his security clearance. Einstein never had security clearance, so that need not have been a major calamity for him either. It was his public humiliation during the hearings when he challenged the withdrawal of his security clearance that broke him. The physicists, the golden boys of the atomic era, had finally been shown their true place in the emerging world of the military industrial complex.

Einstein, Szilard, Rotblatt and others had foreseen this world. They, unlike Oppenheimer, took to the path of building a movement against the nuclear bomb. The scientists, having built the bomb, had to now act as conscience keepers of the world, against a bomb that can destroy all humanity. The bomb that still hangs as a Damocles sword over our heads.'

#Oppenheimer #McCarthy #Truman #Roosevelt #Einstein #Hiroshima #Nagasaki #The Manhattan Project #Hans Bethe #Enrico Fermi #Nils Bohr #James Franck #Edward Teller #Richard Feynman #Harold Urey #Klaus Fuchs

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visionarycios · 19 days ago

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Christmas Eve Mega Millions Jackpot Remains Unclaimed; Winners Score $1 Million Prizes

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Jackpot Rises to $1.15 Billion for Next Drawing

The much-anticipated Christmas Eve Mega Millions drawing did not produce a jackpot winner, leaving the massive prize to grow even larger. As of Dec. 24, the jackpot had reached a staggering $1 billion, offering an estimated $448.8 million lump-sum payout after taxes. This marked one of the largest jackpots in Mega Millions history, with the potential to be the seventh-largest ever if won. Despite the excitement surrounding the Christmas Eve drawing, no one managed to claim the top prize.

A Rare Christmas Eve Jackpot Winner?

While no one hit the Christmas Eve the Mega Millions jackpot lottery did bring some holiday cheer to four lucky players who each won $1 million in the Match 5 category. These fortunate winners hailed from California, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Wyoming. While the Christmas Eve drawing didn’t see a jackpot winner, it’s worth noting that Mega Millions reported that only one person had ever won the jackpot on Christmas Eve in the history of the game.

The jackpot, which had been growing steadily since the last win in September, was one of the biggest to date. The prize had steadily climbed since Sept. 10, when a ticket sold in Texas won $810 million. This latest jackpot had certainly caught the attention of hopeful players everywhere, though it wasn’t to be this time.

What’s Next for Mega Millions Players?

With no winner on Dec. 24, the Mega Millions jackpot has now grown to an estimated $1.15 billion for the next drawing, scheduled for Dec. 27. The excitement continues to build as players eagerly await the opportunity to try their luck once again at winning one of the largest lottery jackpots in history.

For those following along, the winning numbers from the Dec. 24 drawing were: 11, 14, 38, 45, 46, and the Megaball number was 3. The Megaplier was 3X, multiplying any non-jackpot prizes by three. The lottery is sponsored by Jackpocket, the official digital lottery courier of the USA TODAY Network.

As the next drawing approaches, lottery players across the country will be hoping that the new year will bring a lucky winner to claim the growing jackpot.

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