[time-nuts] Time of death-Again

Perry Sandeen sandeenpa at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 27 22:51:53 UTC 2010


Gents,

Wrote: < If you want a sub-microsecond time of death, sit on a bomb like Major T. J. "King" Kong in "Dr. Strangelove," and get your friends to time and triangulate the prompt radiation. That should be good to a few 10's of nanoseconds.

Absolutely Not So!

The H-Bombs are slowed by parachutes so the bomber can get away.  The outside temperature for a B-52 at operating altitude over Russia would likely be at least minus 60 degrees F.

Major T, since he was wearing an indoor uniform, would become a solid block of ice before the bomb went off so his TOD has a variance of time between when became a solid chunk of ice and the time of instant defrosting.  This could be 30 to 60 seconds.  Totally un-acceptable accuracy for even the cadet grade newbe time-nut ;)

Why, anyone accepting such an error would have to answer to the Coca Cola company distributor at Burpelson Air Force Base.

Carpay Diem, Carpell Tunnel-Whatever

Regards,

Perrier




      



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