The Former Russian Republics are all cash strapped. We should have (in the past) or at the very least, NOW made arrangements to infuse cash into their economies in exchange for the Plutonium. We'd have it over here, or could decide where/how to warehouse it, and they'd have much needed cash to continue the Capitalist and Democratic reforms we are pushing as the resolution to the Cold War.
I'd give up MY $600 tax rebate to sleep better knowing the Plutonium wasn't being siphoned away to 3rd world powers that we don't trust...
$1.35 TRILLION would have gone a long way toward buying that fissionable material!
Richard Feynman (Nobel prize winning Physicist and team member on the Los Alamos project) proposed this concept and was awarded a patent on it. He was required to turn over the patent to the US Government for $1. He wrote about this in his popular books. Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393316041/ qid=994525411/sr=1-3/ref=sc_b_3/002-4882526-314484 8, and What Do You Care What Other People Think? http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393320928/ qid=994525411/sr=1-4/ref=sc_b_4/002-4882526-314484 8
The writer(s) of the Tom Swift, Jr. Series used the idea in some of those books for Tom's inventions.
Pre-dating the Monty Pyton sketch by decades and most certainly before UCE/UBE were coined terms, and yes, even before DARPA setup the origins of the internet...
Tom Wolfe in his "The Right Stuff" documents one of the original Mercury Astronauts commenting that to the rocket scientists (Werner Von Braun, etal.) the astronauts were nothing but "Span in the can". The obvious reference to pink meat in a metal can having little value has also been used extensively in the Experimental Aircraft community. Airplanes made in factories near such areas as Wichita, KS or Vero Beach, FL are commonly referred to as "Spam cans" (again pink meat in a metal can), because they are all the same and somewhat (obviously?) inferior to the hand crafted "perfection" of the amateur builder's pride and joy.
The urban legend(s) of how "Spam" became synonymous with UCE/UBE continue to grow. But anyone wanting to get the REAL story on SPAM (luncheon meat) must attend the annual SPAM JAM in Austin, MN held every year during the week of July 4th. It's a real HOOT!
http://www.raceberryjam.com/spamjam.html and
http://www.austincvb.com/
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The Former Russian Republics are all cash strapped. We should have (in the past) or at the very least, NOW made arrangements to infuse cash into their economies in exchange for the Plutonium. We'd have it over here, or could decide where/how to warehouse it, and they'd have much needed cash to continue the Capitalist and Democratic reforms we are pushing as the resolution to the Cold War. I'd give up MY $600 tax rebate to sleep better knowing the Plutonium wasn't being siphoned away to 3rd world powers that we don't trust... $1.35 TRILLION would have gone a long way toward buying that fissionable material!
Richard Feynman (Nobel prize winning Physicist and team member on the Los Alamos project) proposed this concept and was awarded a patent on it. He was required to turn over the patent to the US Government for $1. He wrote about this in his popular books. Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393316041/ qid=994525411/sr=1-3/ref=sc_b_3/002-4882526-314484 8, and What Do You Care What Other People Think? http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393320928/ qid=994525411/sr=1-4/ref=sc_b_4/002-4882526-314484 8
The writer(s) of the Tom Swift, Jr. Series used the idea in some of those books for Tom's inventions.
I found this site months ago and find it to be a useful tool in TEACHING slide rule use. http://www.taswegian.com/SRTP/JavaSlide/javaslide. html
Pre-dating the Monty Pyton sketch by decades and most certainly before UCE/UBE were coined terms, and yes, even before DARPA setup the origins of the internet... Tom Wolfe in his "The Right Stuff" documents one of the original Mercury Astronauts commenting that to the rocket scientists (Werner Von Braun, etal.) the astronauts were nothing but "Span in the can". The obvious reference to pink meat in a metal can having little value has also been used extensively in the Experimental Aircraft community. Airplanes made in factories near such areas as Wichita, KS or Vero Beach, FL are commonly referred to as "Spam cans" (again pink meat in a metal can), because they are all the same and somewhat (obviously?) inferior to the hand crafted "perfection" of the amateur builder's pride and joy. The urban legend(s) of how "Spam" became synonymous with UCE/UBE continue to grow. But anyone wanting to get the REAL story on SPAM (luncheon meat) must attend the annual SPAM JAM in Austin, MN held every year during the week of July 4th. It's a real HOOT! http://www.raceberryjam.com/spamjam.html and http://www.austincvb.com/