Yeah, right - I'm guessing the proposal for that purely academic exercise was something like "Dudes! I just had the funniest idea ever!"

And the conclusion of the study was: Weightlessness makes cats very very pointy. Like pretty much everything does, eventually...

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)

6. Wow...fascinating.

Reply to wildbilln864 (Original post)

Fri Oct 30, 2015, 11:53 PM

Oct 2015

Thanks for posting.

Stinky The Clown

(67,817 posts)

7. Great picture of the back of Hoover Dam!

Reply to wildbilln864 (Original post)

Fri Oct 30, 2015, 11:55 PM

Oct 2015

840high

(17,196 posts)

8. Thank you.

Reply to wildbilln864 (Original post)

Fri Oct 30, 2015, 11:58 PM

Oct 2015

mountain grammy

(26,642 posts)

9. Thank you, thank you!

Reply to wildbilln864 (Original post)

Sat Oct 31, 2015, 12:37 AM

Oct 2015

Duckfan

(1,268 posts)

10. Only Robin Williams would try out as a Cheer Leader.

Reply to wildbilln864 (Original post)

Sat Oct 31, 2015, 12:46 AM

Oct 2015

Still miss the dude.

mountain grammy

(26,642 posts)

13. and always will..

Reply to Duckfan (Reply #10)

Sat Oct 31, 2015, 10:05 AM

Oct 2015

BumRushDaShow

(129,304 posts)

14. That was taken around the time when Mork and Mindy had peaked.

Reply to Duckfan (Reply #10)

Sat Oct 31, 2015, 10:36 AM

Oct 2015

He definitely brought a unique type of hyperactive zaniness (perhaps a bit Jerry Lewis-like) to the small screen. It is so sad that he was suffering all that time he was with us.

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)

12. Wow! Very cool!

Reply to wildbilln864 (Original post)

Sat Oct 31, 2015, 09:58 AM

Oct 2015

Thanks!

DFW

(54,428 posts)

15. I love collections like this! Here are some that few people ever see:

Reply to wildbilln864 (Original post)

Sat Oct 31, 2015, 10:38 AM

Oct 2015

My dad was one of the few journalists invited to attend an above ground test of an atomic bomb in Nevada in 1957. Here are his scary pictures taken from miles away:

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FLPanhandle

(7,107 posts)

16. Very cool

Reply to DFW (Reply #15)

Sat Oct 31, 2015, 10:50 AM

Oct 2015

I visited the Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas last year. Great place if you've never been.

DFW

(54,428 posts)

18. No, I never knew they had such a place

Reply to FLPanhandle (Reply #16)

Sat Oct 31, 2015, 10:59 AM

Oct 2015

I haven't been to Nevada for 30 years. It's about 7000 miles from here!

Duppers

(28,125 posts)

20. Wow. Impressive.

Reply to DFW (Reply #15)

Sat Oct 31, 2015, 11:27 AM

Oct 2015

Almost too close for comfort though.

DFW

(54,428 posts)

21. In 1957, the government "forgot" to mention that n/t

Reply to Duppers (Reply #20)

Sat Oct 31, 2015, 11:49 AM

Oct 2015

Octafish

(55,745 posts)

22. Any follow-up to see how you were?

Reply to DFW (Reply #21)

Sat Oct 31, 2015, 11:59 AM

Oct 2015

American soldiers hunker down in a trench less than a mile away from the detonation of a 43 kiloton nuclear bomb in 1953.

http://slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/2014/january/historys_forgotten_images.htm

DFW

(54,428 posts)

23. In 1957, I was fine

Reply to Octafish (Reply #22)

Sat Oct 31, 2015, 12:17 PM

Oct 2015

I was 5 years old in Virginia.

My dad was fine, too, until he got prostate cancer in 1970 (he won) and then pancreatic cancer in 2000 (he didn't).

But ALL his siblings got cancer, too, and they were never near an A-test, so it's not at all sure he was affected by this. He and his fellow journalists were many miles from the blast. One mile is the height of irresponsibility, and I'm sure that even in 1953, the Pentagon knew that.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)

24. I am sorry. The US Government -- the secret parts -- have done unspeakable things to America...

Reply to DFW (Reply #23)

Sat Oct 31, 2015, 12:52 PM

Oct 2015

Know Your BFEE: American Children Used in Radiation Experiments

OP: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3312956

First link is now defunct -- Waybac archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20050210105801/http://archives.cjr.org/year/94/2/radiation.asp

Proud to say that DU helped raise awarness of this issue. One of those named in the article found DU because of reference to his mom.

DFW

(54,428 posts)

25. That was "the way things were done" back then

Reply to Octafish (Reply #24)

Sat Oct 31, 2015, 02:44 PM

Oct 2015

The Soviets wiped out a whole town of theirs in a similar "experiment."

Gorbachev wouldn't have done it, Yeltsin either.

Putin, if he could get away with it? I wouldn't want to place any bets. Same goes for Cheney.