[time-nuts] Time of death-Again
Bill Hawkins
bill at iaxs.net
Thu Oct 28 00:06:42 UTC 2010
Well, this will all be over in a few days, but while it lasts:
As I recall, the bomber had been hit by attempts to shoot it down,
so it was not at operating altitude. They were all gonna die. That's
why Cowboy rode it down - or maybe the director wanted another
emotional kicker.
Didn't see any parachute, though. Were they concealing stuff from us?
I wonder if electrocuting the brain (with electrodes at the temples)
would be reasonably instantaneous, and considerably less messy. Like
electroshock therapy gone horribly wrong.
One could offer a service - Choose your time of death. Only $1000
for our Kilowatt Eraser. Kill-o-Watt, heh heh.
Bill Hawkins
-----Original Message-----
From: Perry Sandeen
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 5:52 PM
To: time-nuts-request at febo.com
Subject: [time-nuts] Time of death-Again
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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