Comments on: Magic Ring http://asymptotia.com/2006/10/26/magic-ring/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:33:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Random Travel Matters - Asymptotia http://asymptotia.com/2006/10/26/magic-ring/comment-page-1/#comment-29870 Random Travel Matters - Asymptotia Tue, 27 Feb 2007 05:46:45 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2006/10/26/magic-ring/#comment-29870 [...] I did not have any guinness this Dublin visit. Remarkable, I know. Criminal, some may say, and perhaps not without justification. Why? Not for lack of opportunity, of course (there’s almost always a pub within sight), but because I was treating my stomach rather gently on the one hand (it seemed a bit sensitive on this trip), and because I knew that any alcohol would completely wipe out the final shreds of my ability to stay awake. So I won’t be sharing a picture of a pint (or pints) with you this time. [...] [...] I did not have any guinness this Dublin visit. Remarkable, I know. Criminal, some may say, and perhaps not without justification. Why? Not for lack of opportunity, of course (there’s almost always a pub within sight), but because I was treating my stomach rather gently on the one hand (it seemed a bit sensitive on this trip), and because I knew that any alcohol would completely wipe out the final shreds of my ability to stay awake. So I won’t be sharing a picture of a pint (or pints) with you this time. [...]

]]> By: nc http://asymptotia.com/2006/10/26/magic-ring/comment-page-1/#comment-2715 nc Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:52:09 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2006/10/26/magic-ring/#comment-2715 Howdy Clifford, Borat has caused the UK government a lot of embarrassment lately, mainly because Kazakhstan does have a reputation for being a backward former USSR country. The main reason why I find Borat's Kazakhstan a fascinating place is that the USSR tested live nuclear nuclear weapons over it in 1962, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_altitude_nuclear_explosion and my page http://glasstone.blogspot.com/2006/03/emp-radiation-from-nuclear-space.html [...shortened by cvj... see above sites for the extracts quoted] What interested me when I read declassified US reports about the USSR tests is that the power lines and phone lines were instrumented for damage effects before the detonation! (the US DOD gave Russian scientists about half a million dollars for the data in the early 1990s after the USSR collapsed). So they deliberately tested EMP effects on the civilian population! At least when the Americans exposed people to their tests (eg the Marshallese in 1954) it was just an accident due to a wind shift. Best wishes, nc Howdy Clifford,

Borat has caused the UK government a lot of embarrassment lately, mainly because Kazakhstan does have a reputation for being a backward former USSR country. The main reason why I find Borat’s Kazakhstan a fascinating place is that the USSR tested live nuclear nuclear weapons over it in 1962, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_altitude_nuclear_explosion and my page http://glasstone.blogspot.com/2006/03/emp-radiation-from-nuclear-space.html

[...shortened by cvj... see above sites for the extracts quoted]

What interested me when I read declassified US reports about the USSR tests is that the power lines and phone lines were instrumented for damage effects before the detonation! (the US DOD gave Russian scientists about half a million dollars for the data in the early 1990s after the USSR collapsed). So they deliberately tested EMP effects on the civilian population! At least when the Americans exposed people to their tests (eg the Marshallese in 1954) it was just an accident due to a wind shift.

Best wishes,
nc

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