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Now that's a big bang!

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If you think that water stops a bullet in 4ft, the power behind that explosion is just enormous.
 
Sadly, we don't care a fig about them. This book review appeared in The New Yorker over the weekend:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/...-filled-with-treasure-but-it-comes-at-a-price

For reasons I can never quite fathom :D, I've always had a fascination for the deep sea and its inhabitants, and it saddens me enormously that we're going to destroy it without even knowing what we're missing.

^^ Me too - If you haven't already come across this previously, check the following link out, he's the Elon Musk of the deep seas

 
^^ Me too - If you haven't already come across this previously, check the following link out, he's the Elon Musk of the deep seas
Thanks, Joe. The Attenborough deep programmes on the two Blue Planet series are great:

This also quite good, apart from the repeated mangling of "Mariana" by the narrator!


It's also somewhat out of date.

On a slightly different tack, this is worth a look:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07568CB12/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

the astonishing project to raise a Soviet submarine from its grave 3 miles down.
 
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Yes absolutely. And I doubt we'll change our ways. It's not a nice thought but when the human race finally wipes itself out we'll have been a tiny blip in the history of life on the planet.
I often find myself wishing the next dominant species on the planet better management skills, or perhaps simply no self-awareness.
 
It's something that the Americans have done before, a little more 'intensively', and with an even bigger bang. Or, to be precise, two bangs.

Operation Crossroads, Bikini Atoll, 1946, Able & Baker. Both 23kt 'Fat Man' type Plutonium bombs as dropped on Nagasaki the previous year, Able was an airburst, Baker 90' below the surface, the objective to test the effects on a fleet of fully provisioned , stocked and armed ships.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossroads

I used to work with a fellow who was briefly the Radio Operator on one of the target ships, the German Hipper Class Cruiser Prinz Eugen. She's actually still there, capsized off a beach on Kwajalein.
 
I fear for the health of the oceans, virtually every species is poisoned with plastic waste, some species of Narwell in the st Laurence seaway are declared toxic waste when they die due to eating shrimp and small sea life that’s been eating the outflow from the huge industrial waste output from the Great Lakes.
Out of sight, out of mind is a policy for disaster, with the earths population rising inexorably we cannot expect the health of the oceans to not suffer from overfishing and using it as a skip to hide our lazy habits.
Starting to fear for our future, it was announced recently that people now have a credit card sized amount of micro plastics in their body, result bugger all.
My consultant in London believes the majority of modern auto immune conditions are the direct result of poisoning of the environment which ends up in our food and bodies, you are what you eat!
 
It's something that the Americans have done before, a little more 'intensively', and with an even bigger bang. Or, to be precise, two bangs.

Operation Crossroads, Bikini Atoll, 1946, Able & Baker. Both 23kt 'Fat Man' type Plutonium bombs as dropped on Nagasaki the previous year, Able was an airburst, Baker 90' below the surface, the objective to test the effects on a fleet of fully provisioned , stocked and armed ships.

100n3w.jpg



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossroads

I used to work with a fellow who was briefly the Radio Operator on one of the target ships, the German Hipper Class Cruiser Prinz Eugen. She's actually still there, capsized off a beach on Kwajalein.


'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds' - J. Robert Oppenheime :(
 


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