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: [email protected] 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 _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
