M1 device (Gerboise Bleue nuclear test)
You may have seen this picture attributed to Gerboise Bleue, the first French nuclear test. Thank to u/butch2k on twitter that acquired a physical copy of an extremely rare book (Trente ans d'essais nucléaire français - no trace of it on the Web), I can confirm that it originated from an official publication by CEA-DAM (the French AEC).
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We can clearly see that at the time, the French engineers had sought an 8 points implosion system with an external neutron source (Which I think is the upper opening). The external neutron source was already confirmed by Pierre Billaud, a former French nuclear physicist (here). This book gives credit to the authenticity of this footage at 10.46 (here and below) of what I think is a cold test device from the CEA-DAM laboratory of Fort_de_Vaujours which also seems like an 8 points implosions device. The footage is from a French science TV show for teenagers. It has some nice footage (in particular of the Valduc Laboratory) but is otherwise utterly basic. The interesting part is only illustrative and not commented. As the CEA-DAM was involved in the making of this documentary, I suspect that it is from its historical video repository but failed to find more info on it.
As u/restricteddata said when I presented him this footage, the ogival shape of these explosives lenses is, hmmm, very french. Pierre Billaud describe them as a téton pointu de révolution (here) - literally translated as pointy nipple of revolution... It's probably a technical term (téton is also a mechanical term) that I fail to understand it... (I tried to Google it... bad idea).
BTW u/careysub wrote the following statement about some French explosive lenses assembly on http://nuclearweaponarchive.org:
*"French researchers have described advanc
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The first nuclear bomb test (Trinity) was of a plutonium bomb similar to the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. However, the first nuclear bomb used in warfare in Hiroshima was an untested uranium bomb. Why did the US military use the untested bomb type first? Who made that decision? And what was the purpose of Trinity if they wouldn’t lead with the proven bomb technology?
This is a repost I'm not the OP
My (25F) father married my step-sister's (23F) mother when I was 4 and she was 3. We've lived together most of our lives and are a family. She and I were extremely close.
She developed cancer when she was 14 and was sick for about 2 years. She's since made a full recovery. During that time, my parents became understandably over-protective. They also asked a lot of me. I quit my extracurriculars so I could get a job (the money went towards her medical bills) and so I could drive her to appointments. I didn't go to dances and any fun activities I did needed to include her. I did almost all of this willingly, the exception being having to quit my high school volleyball team
- I did throw a bit of a tantrum about that, but was swiftly punished. And I think having one emotional breakdown was pretty chill given the circumstances. Anyhow, I go to college and meet my ex, we'll call him Ben, when I'm a junior. We fall in love, blah blah blah. He and I move in together when we graduate, so we've been living together for about 3 years. We were serious until July when I walked into my bedroom and saw him fucking my sister.
I broke it off, tears were shed, he moved out, etc. My sister apologized at first but then backed off. I thought she was giving me space but last week she called and asked if we could meet up. She told me that she and Ben were in love and were just telling me as a courtesy before they started posting photos online. Distraught, I left her in the restaurant by herself and did not pay my portion of the bill. She later venmo'ed me asking for the money. She told my parents who then called me to their house, telling me how disappointed in me they are for not supporting my sister's relationship with Ben. They brought up the fact that because she had cancer as a teenager, she never learned proper social etiquette, and has a hard time meeting people. I don't buy this, in part because I've seen her socialize just fine and since we spent a good chunk of the time she was sick together, that would also mean that I should have bad social skills as well, by that logic. They then told me that if I don't accept my sister and Ben's relationship, they may have to go no contact with me. I reminded them that I'm also their daughter and they should understand my poi
... keep reading on reddit ➡There's a lot to cover, so here goes my smooth-brained edition for what is unfolding right now.
As many have noticed today, there was widespread gLiTchEs on multiple crypto exchanges across multiple networks and platforms. Here's a screenshot:
Coinmarket cap, one of many to report glitches
One would ask, how is this even possible?
Perhaps the same reason why a bunch of "meme stonks" correlate together without regard for market cap sizes, different industries, and float size. Yet, the most plausible explanation for these meme stonks was detailed in the SEC report (pg. 21) for being highly shorted and tied to one particular idiosyncratic stock like Gamestop.
https://www.sec.gov/files/staff-report-equity-options-market-struction-conditions-early-2021.pdf
So how is crypto related to stocks?
Through Digital Currency Group which is owned by shorting hedge funds (SHFs) that have their money tied up from betting against Gamestop.
Check out this amazing due diligence, "exposing crypto" by u/natep001001 with TLDR:
>DCG is essentially a prime broker, hedge fund, crypto news/ media outlet and crypto trust/ ETF exchange. While also providing crypto wallets, a retail transaction platform, and mining/ Staking infrastructure. They have/ are building a monopoly over the crypto markets. They work with institutions, hedge funds, and market makers to lend and borrow crypto as a source of "alternative liquidity for hedging" on OTC markets. They have major connections to the US government, NASDAQ, World banks, any many hedge funds that we already know are short on capital due to "meme stocks". These fuckers basically have their hand in every sector of the crypto market and are centralizing it by using crypto as a source of liquidity and hedging for stock market based positions.
Here's a nice visual mapping of the SHFs and their monopoly of crypto networks:
[Take note of HSBC, top left corner](https://preview.redd.it/ob3zgc15bm581.png?
... keep reading on reddit ➡2021 has been another great year. The S&P 500 had a gain of 27%. My performance is 93% so I'm quite happy. I'll go through what worked well and what didn't work well for me in 2021. And close with my thoughts on what 2022 may bring. I learned a lot from many of you here. I hope my posts and comments have been helpful to you as well. May you have a safe and prosperous 2022 🎉🎉🎉.
Disclosure: This is not financial advice. Just an update on what worked for me.
Gain Porn
I have 6 different equity accounts. Some accounts gained a lot, some performed poorly. I have a very complicated Google Sheet that tracks overall performance. My 2021 gain of 93% ($1,078,252.66 to be exact) is for these equity accounts. I also own real estate (single family rental homes), partnership interest in businesses, accounts that I do not control, etc. My total increase in net worth is a lot less than 93%. Real assets are harder to mark to market. Here are some screenshots:
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GOOG is a core holding and it was my biggest winner. ZIM, NUE, and FUTU performed great as well. I cashed out of FUTU near the top in February and April. But I did buy back a small position later after it pulled back. And then sold that position at a loss after it continued to crash 😵. More on Chinese stocks later.
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I don't diversify as you can see. Having $500K in Google and more than $1M in the pirate gang trade ZIM/DAC/FLNG at one point is not everyone (75% of total portfolio
... keep reading on reddit ➡Well I asked and this seemed the most popular thing in the post I made
https://www.reddit.com/r/Sexyspacebabes/comments/rtr7kr/cross_overs_and_original_story_ideas/
so SSB Stalker it is then 😈
Part one: Not your average Stalker
He felt it in the air, the crows had all twitched and silenced as one staring at the horizon to the heart of the zone.
He didn’t have long he rolled the man over and put the knife to his throat then began franticly padding down his pockets and then upending his backpack.
Seeing the flash drive he grabbed it and was about to start running when he spotted something else amongst the things scattered from the mans pack.
Blood-bags, he scooped them up shoving them into his coat pocket just as the sirens began to wail and the sky began to darken, an emission was on the way and he was too far from the train tunnel to make it in time, so he ran to the only shelter he could, a nearby sewer manhole down into the Rostok sewers lay five minutes run from where he was right now so he slung his pack onto his back and ran.
By the time he was yanking the cover clear the sky was already red and a distant rumble could be heard he looked down and swung his feet onto the ladder before dragging the manhole cover back into place over him until it slotted back into the hole.
He could smell the filth and decay in the air, as well as something else, crawling down the ladder he felt like just curling up and waiting for the emission to pass.
But the bleached bones inside a black and red outfit next to him said this wasn’t a good idea and he could already feel a faint headache telling him there wasn’t enough around him to shield him, he looked to either side and saw a small pipe barely three feet across, he did not like this.
The building pain in his skull overrode his fear and he began crawling every foot further made the pain subside more finally he had crawled enough he ran his hand through his pack until it fell upon something, old thick and metal yanking the large old cooking pot out of his bag, he thrust his head inside it and felt the throbbing subside as the noise built up louder and louder.
He could feel himself sweating inside his armoured suit, waves of both the pain of deep cold and searing heat passed over him his left arm was spasming and he ha
... keep reading on reddit ➡The Extinctionati Manifesto is here. The following is the offending text, which people are just waking up to ...
The Case for Accelerating The Flippening
If our goal is to avoid near-term human extinction, our task must surely be to preserve as much viable habitat and natural ecology as possible to sustain survivors post Collapse. Each day that passes, The Global Industrial Machine adds a net increase of 200,000 people, 100 Mt of CO2 into the atmosphere, a net deforestation loss of 6,753 Ha, and the death of perhaps 24 or more species. We are deep into overshoot and no one seriously expects “the carbon will stay in the ground”. No thinking person, not even the nuttiest Nobel Prize-winning economist, expects that The Machine will be stopped voluntarily. Only the most deluded think that the tech that caused all the problems in the first place can somehow transform planetary cancer into a virtue. As Einstein is often quoted as saying, “We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them” – certainly not in the brief time left before the BOE!
Peaceful mass-mobilizations are going nowhere. As to Involuntary Emergency Deindustrialization (IED), it currently appears that in a population of almost 8 billion, not even a handful can be found to take up a monkey wrench against The Machine that’s set to exterminate everyone. Considering how fragile it is, quite conceivably, even 500 determined, well-placed lone wolves (#500LoneWolves), operating independently, could bring down the entire global industrial system in a day with far less loss of life than if it is allowed to continue (though whether they could keep it down is another que
... keep reading on reddit ➡Hi guys.
TLDR: Xi Jinping is now in total control of the entirety of the world's capital markets.
Vix Guy here. Version with links and source work coming soon, but it looks like a theory I've been playing with might be coming to pass, so I'm putting this up, as it relates to GME and MOASS.
EDIT: IF YOU DON'T FANCY THE HISTORY AND/OR DYNASTIC SETUP, SKIP TO 'HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONS' SECTION
Thanks to u/grungromp and the mods. Your considered moderation of this sub does not go unappreciated.
Three things I'll ask you to remember. 1 - I was a professional historical researcher for a very long time for some fairly high-profile authors and documentary makers. 2 - I work in TV telling stories that are meant to be entertaining whilst existing in the realms of possibility. 3 - I've been writing this for a little while, and the situation is VERY fluid, so the most recent elements can date rapidly.
This below is a paranoid gonzo theory-based endgame OpEd based on data from credible sources, and should in no way be taken as financial advice.
China May Have Won World War 3 Without Firing a Shot - Part 1 of 2
If there’s one nation on earth that truly understands the long game, it’s China. I mean truly understands the long game. China has existed as a relatively defined territory with a unified cultural identity for more than 3600 years, a period in which Greece was pre-democratic, Sparta hadn’t yet been founded, and storytellers were conjuring the labours of Heracles and Noah.
Perhaps we can think of a nation not in geopolitical terms, but as a loose collective who share a unity of purpose, a narrative history blended from myth, lore, legend, art, born of ancient, tribal affiliations, epochs of trade and cultural transactions, and brought together by a portmanteau language and urban sprawl, being governed by their own kind who conduct diplomatic relations with foreign governments on their behalf. These loose collectives will either develop to a point where their purpose achieves greater singularity – war, trade, manufacturing – and their identity strengthens, or they will wither or fracture. Winners have strong leaders. Strong leaders have foresight. Foresight breeds dynasties. And dynasties have a tendency to think eternalistically. Obviously, most are wrong, a misapprehension usually ending with a spectacular, megadeath-scenario implosion.
Considered the founders of China, the thing that made the Shang emperors good at ruling was their ability to ap
... keep reading on reddit ➡Edit for grammar/punctuation. Thank you for the upvotes and awards. Feel free to pick at my theory. If you do read the report, it's interesting to note that from Sept on, Bill was barely treading water. Right after someone bought into GME. Tencent was what kept him alive. For a time through Oct/Nov.
Having taken the time to actually read and digest this report by Credit Suisse and discussing it with some of the other wrinkle brains, I NEED to write this. There is gonna be SO much fucking DD coming from this report... It's 172 pages, but I promise you it's a worthwhile read and it's FUCKING RIVETING! 😂😂 Please poke holes in this, let me know what I've gotten wrong, or need to fix. This is a bit of speculation backed by data, and I'll be the first to say options aren't my forte, so swaps are an even more dark art to me. I'll do my best though because I'm pretty sure that Archegos was balls deep in shorts for GME. Now the prime brokers are holding the largest bag of excrement known, and with the vanishing puts, you just made my tits harder Credit Suisse (CS). Also, I'm gonna do something a little different and post a visual for a TL:DR...
TL:DR
What Does Archegos Have To Do With GME?
Glad you asked. To answer that, we need to jump to page 110 and the only part that mentions GME by name:
Huh... Looks like GME was involved after all
The footnote reads:
"116 In January 2021, an historic rally in GameStop Corp. shares sent the company’s stock price from $19 at the beginning of the year to an intraday high of $483 on January 28, a surge of over 2500%. The rally was thought to be driven in part by enthusiasm generated on internet forums. At the same time, numerous large investors held short positions in GameStop stock, and demand for shares among short investors seeking to exit their positions drove the share price even higher. Among other things, the episode highlighted the danger that concentrated exposure to the idiosyncratic risks of a particular stock could lead to significant trading l
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
A story my grandfather told to me with zero context upfront.
Weeeell I was going to make a coffee blend that would go down in the annals of coffee history as the best dern cup of coffee that any human or alien has ever let pass his (or her) lips. I put a dash of Peet's Big Bang, a dollop of Kicking Horse Smart Ass, a pinch of Dunkin' doughnuts Original Blend and last but not least an unspecified amount of Cafe' el Morro's Espesso from the Puerto Rico Coffee Co., Hoboken, NJ 07030, while Jennifer Lopez sang "Could This Be Love" in the parking lot. Then I put a boot-full of water from a Colorado mountain stream in the Rockies into that sorry excuse for a coffee maker (I think it caused a problem later). I reached over and jabbed the on button with high anticipation. The response was not as anticipated. There was a low rumbling as a nuclear reverse osmosis reaction started cascading into a cosmic implosion, the coffee pot disappeared first and then the wall behind it started to dissolve and I could see stars. Well in a nanosecond the coffee could not be found and the west side of the house was completely gone. I don't know how the coffee tastes so don't come and get it. Also it will take a year to rebuild the house so don't come home either.
Do your worst!
(Continued from part 1)
The twin tracks situated beneath each corner of the massive vehicle were about as large as Kodiaks in their own right, the sand now beginning to form drifts around them, as though the desert was trying to reclaim them. The longer this thing stayed in one place, the harder it would be for it to dig itself out. If the crew had ever managed to fix whatever mechanical problem had stranded them, they would probably have needed a whole army of Rask armed with shovels to free themselves.
“Thing’s as big as a goddamned building,” Stevens muttered, craning his neck as he looked up at the hull high above them. The underside was crisscrossed with all manner of structural supports and exposed machinery, the haze obscuring the far end from view. It was like being beneath an iron sky.
“Grapples,” Brenner ordered, letting his XMR hang from its sling as he pulled a device from a holster on his belt. It was shaped like a pistol, small and compact enough to be wielded with one hand, a spool of nylon-lined cable wrapped around the barrel. He aimed it at the walkway high above, and his team did the same. Brenner pulled the trigger, the device firing a grappling hook that caught on the guardrail, wrapping itself around it before catching. He gave it a tug, making sure that it had a good hold. Falling from that height in one-point-three Gs wasn’t something that he’d be likely to survive.
He hooked the launcher to a harness on his belt, letting the device lift him off the ground, his skids leaving the sand. The wind rocked him as he neared the walkway, making him swing, the same happening to his team. Hoff almost clocked Stevens in the head with his boot, but Stevens elected to slow his ascent, narrowly avoiding a kick to the helmet. When they were in arm’s reach of the railing, they hoisted themselves up, detaching the cords from their belts.
“Leave the grapples here,” Brenner warned, “we might need to make a hasty exit.”
The second team began to scale the hull, climbing up to the deck above. It was about twelve feet high, but there were ample handholds, not a problem for someone with superhuman grip strength. As they vanished over the top, Brenner led his team around the side of the hull, following the walkway to the nearest door. They stacked up beside it, their weapons at the ready. Stevens unscrewed the suppressor from his rifle and stowed it in a pouch on his chest rig, shortening the barrel length a little to make it easier to handle in close
... keep reading on reddit ➡For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
There's a lot to cover, so here goes my smooth-brained edition for what is unfolding right now with Gamestop $GME.
As many have noticed today, there was widespread gLiTchEs on multiple crypto exchanges across multiple networks and platforms. Here's a screenshot:
Coinmarket cap, one of many to report glitches
One would ask, how is this even possible?
Perhaps the same reason why a bunch of "meme stonks" correlate together without regard for market cap sizes, different industries, and float size. Yet, the most plausible explanation for these meme stonks was detailed in the SEC report (pg. 21) for being highly shorted and tied to one particular idiosyncratic stock like Gamestop.
https://www.sec.gov/files/staff-report-equity-options-market-struction-conditions-early-2021.pdf
So how is crypto related to stocks?
Through Digital Currency Group which is owned by shorting hedge funds (SHFs) that have their money tied up from betting against Gamestop.
Check out this amazing due diligence, "exposing crypto" by u/natep001001 with TLDR:
>DCG is essentially a prime broker, hedge fund, crypto news/ media outlet and crypto trust/ ETF exchange. While also providing crypto wallets, a retail transaction platform, and mining/ Staking infrastructure. They have/ are building a monopoly over the crypto markets. They work with institutions, hedge funds, and market makers to lend and borrow crypto as a source of "alternative liquidity for hedging" on OTC markets. They have major connections to the US government, NASDAQ, World banks, any many hedge funds that we already know are short on capital due to "meme stocks". These fuckers basically have their hand in every sector of the crypto market and are centralizing it by using crypto as a source of liquidity and hedging for stock market based positions.
Here's a nice visual mapping of the SHFs and their monopoly of crypto networks:
[Take note of HSBC, top left corner](https://preview.redd.
... keep reading on reddit ➡I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
This was a fictional story my grandfather sent me with zero context. I wasn't sure it was a fiction story immediately.
Weeeell I was going to make a coffee blend that would go down in the annals of coffee history as the best dern cup of coffee that any human or alien has ever let pass his (or her) lips. I put a dash of Peet's Big Bang, a dollop of Kicking Horse Smart Ass, a pinch of Dunkin' doughnuts Original Blend and last but not least an unspecified amount of Cafe' el Morro's Espesso from the Puerto Rico Coffee Co., Hoboken, NJ 07030, while Jennifer Lopez sang " Could This Be Love" in the parking lot. Then I put a boot-full of water from a Colorado mountain stream in the Rockies into that sorry excuse for a coffee maker (I think it caused a problem later). I reached over and jabbed the on button with high anticipation. The response was not as anticipated. There was a low rumbling as a nuclear reverse osmosis reaction started cascading into a cosmic implosion, the coffee pot disappeared first and then the wall behind it started to dissolve and I could see stars. Well in a nano-second the coffee could not be found and the west side of the house was completely gone. I don't know how the coffee taste so don't come and get it. Also it will take a year to rebuild the house so don't come home either.
