also this political hooey makes me sad, come on

if democracy was the way out of this wet paper bag we wouldn't be in it

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The explosion from Castle Bravo over Bikini Atoll in 1954

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Context:

When the United States tested its first lithium deuteride-fueled thermonuclear weapon on March 1, 1954, the team of scientists behind the test expected an explosion with a yield of 6 megatons. Instead, the detonation was 15 megatons - 1000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima - inadvertently making it the fifth-largest nuclear explosion in history, and causing serious problems in the area where the test took place.

Bikini Atoll had been selected for the test, having had its native population relocated in the late 1940s in preparation for the creation of a nuclear test zone. When Castle Bravo was detonated on March 1, 1954, the radioactive fallout from the test spread as far as 100 miles (160 km) east of the atoll into areas that were inhabited. In addition a Japanese fishing vessel called Daigo Fukuryū Maru with 23 people on board came into direct contact with the fallout and the crew suffered from acute radiation sickness for weeks afterward. 15 atolls were affected, and residents of some were evacuated 48 hours after the detonation.

Even the test crew took shelter for several hours once they realized the explosion was much larger than anticipated. Trace amounts of radioactivity were recorded as far away as Australia, India and parts of Europe. In the years after the test several Marshall Islanders began to experience health issues, including birth defects and tumors, as a result of the test, and the US government eventually paid them compensation.

The incident caused controversy about nuclear testing in the atmosphere, and eventually the United States, the UK and the Soviet Union agreed to ban tests in the atmosphere in 1963.

I’ve never heard that. Super interesting

i've been reading "The Book of Jubilees" which is accepted as canon of the bible by several christian and judaic branches and it has many odd things about time and years, as you can imagine, the text is literally about 7 year cycles, and repeatedly uses this as a unit of time, and specifies that a year is 364 years, so, i think probably if you spent some months reading it over and over, making notes, creating a timeline, probably you can get close to a reasonable guess about the timespans that seem to be unreasonable

something that is quite interesting is lifespan

prior to noah, it seems to say that human lifespans could potentially approach around 1200 years, this is how long methuselah and enoch lived

then it says that after the flood, the lifespan of humans shortened to 120 years

if humans were living this long, likely this also means that they didn't have so many children (numbers would be relative to their lifespan, and fertility must have been a longer window than the current 40 years for women)

or there might be some other logic to all this, it's hard to say, but when you can positively connect biblical stories to a plethora of geological and archaeological discoveries, and even astrophysics discoveries, this could give some hint of where to draw markers in the timeline as the time measure we are familiar with

one thing that i personally think confuses things is the issue of plate tectonics and the accumulation of mass of our planet

there is some substantial work, which has been mostly cast into the "tinfoil hat" theories, of old pre-consensus tectonic plate drift theories, that suggests that the reason why it looks like the land of our planet would fit together perfectly on a smaller globe, could be literally because the diameter of the earth has changed

if that diameter changed not because of a hollow-earth style outward expansion from an inner sun, but because something happens inside planets that causes matter to pop out of the void (eg, superconductive, high magnetism, high gravity stuff that breaks the normal space rules about how fast matter can become coherent and then become basically immortal) then you have to consider this in the time calculation

it means that as the planet has grown, our measure of time has become faster and faster

einstein's famous formula implies that in deep space, time is slower than it is here on the surface, and that in the core of our planet, time goes way faster

if the planet's mass is constantly increasing, at a roughly even, cubic curve rate, then it could well be that in Enoch and Adam's time, by the rotations of the sun, and our biological processes, and the process of time (everything, even the gravity would be different), then it could well be - indeed - that estimates of both the age of the universe and the age of our planet are all wrong, and based on a constantly accelerating time flow

i know, that might break your brain but it really seems to me that it could well be correct

i constantly am amazed as i watch fireworks go off 5km away at the other end of this valley, and hear how long the time between seeing the light and hearing the sound, and then think about the scale of this universe, let alone just the scale of our solar system, or galaxy...

i mean, if i understand it correctly, the subjective time that would pass on the surface of the Sun as it roils and bubbles in its cycles, would also be much slower than it looks to us here on the earth... anyhow, enough babbling, i'm just gonna say that the physics of time suggest that existing theories about the history of our planet may actually be quite wrong and making projections based on linear models when the reality is exponential, really changes the whole equation