first of all: a silhouette, like a conductor conducting an orchestra, seen from the right..
second: could be some kind of Japanese warrior holding a bamboo samber , fom face…
third: I agree with the golfer or base-ball player , from behind

Well..At least I don’t lack of imagination, it seems…

how can something so beautiful…. so magnificent, melt your face right off?!

Maybe it’s just because I grew up with Catholic imagery for most of my early life but to me it’s extremely clear what this instance of the pareidolia effect is being interpreted as by Phil: A crucified Jesus at roughly a 30 degree angle so we only see one arm. Saw it before even reading the article, plain as day.

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Nah, it’s obviously the angel Moroni without his trumpet:

http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/book_of_mormon/people/angel_moroni.html

Asimov, ‘Hell-Fire’. Barely a page long.

It seems like there are some restrictions for visiting the NTS. You can’t just drive up there and wander around.

hypertexttransportprotocol colon forwardslash forwardslash www dot nv dot doe dot gov forwardslash nts forwardslash tours.htm

“The U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Site Office provides free general interest tours on a monthly basis. (Refer to the Tour Dates) Groups, civic or technical organizations, and private clubs may request specially-arranged tours (minimum of 10 people). Please refer to Registration for details.

Most tours depart from the Atomic Testing Museum at 755 E. Flamingo Road, Las Vegas, Nevada. Tours depart at approximately 7:30 a.m. and return at 4:00 p.m. Please make arrangements to arrive early enough for adequate parking.

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Points of Interest

Mercury is the main base camp for the test site and the second largest community in Nye County.

Frenchman Flat, where on January 27, 1951, the first atmospheric nuclear test on the Nevada Test Site, ABLE, took place. Thirteen subsequent atmospheric nuclear tests were conducted at the site between 1951 and 1962.

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Sedan was a cratering experiment as part of the Plowshare program – the peaceful uses of nuclear explosives. The 104-kiloton nuclear device explosion displaced about 12 million tons of earth, creating a crater 1,280 feet in diameter and 320 feet deep. This underground test was conducted on July 6, 1962.

Security Requirements

Because the test site is a restricted access government reservation, visitors must apply well in advance for tours tailored to their individual interests and needs. Prospective visitors need to supply the following background information:

Full name as it appears on driver’s license or other photo identification
Date and place of birth
Home and business address, to include name of employer
Home and business phone number
Citizenship (foreign citizens will be asked to supply additional information). Allow six weeks for approval.
Prohibited Articles

Visitors are not permitted to bring cameras, binoculars, telescopes, or tape recorders on the tour.
Cell phones are not permitted.
Privately-owned Laptop Computer.
Firearms are not permitted under any circumstances.
Visitors may not remove soil, rock, plant samples or metal objects from the test site”

I guess they won’t let you take a camera or camcorder on the tour. What the heck? Sedan was shot back in 1962. It’s hardly a secret anymore. I guess they don’t want you filming the captured UFO’s out at S4 which may be part of the tour.

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The crater is 100 meters deep with a diameter of 390 meters but it seems much bigger when you are standing at the rim. According to Wikipedia:

“The crater from the test is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 10,000 visitors per year visit the crater through free monthly tours offered by the U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Site Office.”

So apparently it is open to the public now if you go to Nevada. The next time you are in Las Vegas for TAM you might try checking it out. I think it’s a 90 minute drive from Las Vegas up to NTS.

-Dan Cheek

The thing about “Duck and Cover”, nobody promoted it as a way to stay safe if the fireball hit you. Rather, a somewhat distant bomb (20 miles) would not hit you with the fireball, but then after the fireball would come an expanding shock wave of radioactive dust. When that shock wave hit, you could be relatively safe if it hit your skin because the alpha particles don’t penetrate, but if you were looking into the cloud, you would get a face full of radioactives that would then get into your sinuses and lungs, thereby getting you contaminated. The key to duck and cover was to cover up until the shock wave went past, whereupon you could get up and run to your shelter to survive the more detrimental long-term fallout.

Come on, it’s another in the Lenin series.

As for the picture set, it just strongly feels like, “Pray so you’ll never see that live”… They’re quite eerie.

It was an Asimov short story, but I’m not sure what the name of it was.