It had been my long-term plan when I retired to build a personalized hobby workshop. I gradually acquired the equipment and items for doing so over several years before I retired in 2016. It has taken me between then and now working on it a few days here and there to finally get it fully up and...
Glad to see each of you "old folks" back from LPF's heydays posting here again.Wish we could get more of the "not dead yet" to check in and let us know how they are doing.
I joined in Dec of 2009, am 68 now, retired in 2016, had cataract surgery last October and am amazingly back to 20/20...
What Happened to LPF
Back when it all began the driver for LPF popularity, that daily drew thousands to the LPF forums, was the over night sensation of “powerfull” hand held laser pointers becoming the discussion everywhere on the internet and in the news media.
It was the period where the...
Sorry to say I won't be posting any updated statistics to the Chronicles of Laser Pointer Forums. The custom Helium Scraper app I commissioned with Avery's assistance was written for vBulletin.
The excerpts and images below are from the following sites:
Wikipedia - Tsar Bomba
and
The Soviet Weapons Program - The Tsar Bomba
Total destruction radius, superimposed on Paris
All due to his decision to very actively oppose the development of the hydrogen bomb on both a personal and a deeply felt humanitarian basis within the toxic McCarthyism era political climate.
Yes, no photos are to be taken inside the Missile Range until arriving at the Trinity and McDonald Ranch House sites
Groves and Oppenheimer with his signature porkpie hat returned to the Trinity site about six weeks after the explosion on Sunday, September 9, 1945. The twisted metal rods...
It’s been quite a while back now since this was first reported, so it’s not really new news, and if this is a dupe of someone elses’s previous post let me know and I’ll delete it.
Man who tried to build a homemade nuclear reactor didn’t die of radiation poisoning
By Cyrus Farivar – Ars...
National Atomic Testing Museum - Las Vegas,NV
National Atomic Testing Museum Foyer
National Atomic Testing Museum Geiger Couters
National Atomic Testing Museum Passageway Between Exibits
New Mexico Museum of Uranium Mining - Grants,NM
New Mexico Museum of Mining Underground
New...
October 7, 2017 Walked a grid pattern for a radiation survey with a SEI Inspector Alert linked to Safecast’s iPhone data logging App
Radiation readings in CPM 20ft west of the Obelisk with a SEI Radiation Alert Inspector - overall averaging <10 times above background
McDonald Ranch House...