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“For I have become death … the destroyer of worlds ….” With that epochal Vedic scripture, Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, head of the top-secret World War II “Manhattan Project,” hurled the world into the vast uncertainties of “the Atomic Age” … 75 years ago this month, July 16, 1945 …. But what if the United States’ breakneck atomic bomb development, followed by the creation of its even more devastating “fusion” follow-on, the dreaded “super hydrogen-device,” had, as a quiet side-effect, also revealed a terrifying planetary secret?: That, just decades in the future — regardless of the then uncertain outcome of WWII — civilization itself would be totally destroyed … not by “global thermonuclear war” — but, by a once-in-a-million-year, gargantuan thermonuclear explosion– On the Sun?! Fortunately, the preceding scenario is total fiction — from the fertile mind and technical imagination of my guest tonight, award-winning “hard” science-fiction writer, Robert Sawyer. Or […]
Richard’s Items: 1- A history lesson for Trump: Transgender soldiers served in the Civil War https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/07/26/a-history-lesson-for-trump-transgender-soldiers-served-in-the-civil-war/?utm_term=.7bc8627cdab2 2- Trump’s military ban on transgender people, explained has press conference video http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/the-conversation/sd-why-trump-banned-transgender-military-20170726-htmlstory.html 3- Reince Priebus out, John Kelly in as White House chief of staff http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/28/politics/john-kelly-chief-of-staff/index.html 4- Sen. John McCain saves GOP healthcare bill in partisan vote, then calls for more bipartisanship http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-senator-mccain-votes-yes-on-partisan-1501011613-htmlstory.html 5- The “Brookings Report” Guests: Michelle Belmont is an English teacher working in Shizuoka, Japan and writes part-time for a feminist-oriented video game website called “FemHype” . Just 30 miles from the summit of Mt. Fuji, Michelle enjoys listening to radio and staring out her window at Mt. Fuji at sunset. She is currently working on furthering her teaching career, transitioning her gender, and collecting rare Japanese tech from the 80s and 90s. Leslie Regier Website: www.violetangel.net Leslie Regier is currently an AutoCAD drafter by day and many other thingsin her personal […]
