The United States government deliberately hid “the worst nuclear disaster in U.S. history,” according to experts and an in-depth investigation by NBC4 Southern California. Whistleblowers have also come forward to expose the little-known catastrophe, which occurred north of Los Angeles in 1959 and leaked over 300 times the allowable amount of radiation into surrounding neighborhoods. That contamination is now linked to up to a 60% increase in cancer in the area, but the government still refuses to acknowledge its colossal mistake.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-29/worst-nuclear-disaster-us-history-you%E2%80%99ve-never-heard-about
Erik Roner died today hitting a tree while skydiving in California. Here he is in 2013, skydiving using an umbrella.
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Story here:
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/landing-682989-avenue-emergency.html
A excellent follow-up on how surface area for a given volume is actually minimized in the real world.
Some say it was impossible:
http://hoaxes.org/weblog/comments/did_ismail_the_bloodthirsty_really_father_888_childrenAccording to the Guinness Book of World Records, the 18th century Moroccan ruler Ismail the Bloodthirsty holds the record for being the most prolific father ever. He supposedly fathered 888 children, which means he had to father about 15 children a year for 60 years.
But Dorothy Einon, a researcher at University College London, argues in her article "How many children can one man have?" that even if Ismail had access to a steady supply of fertile women, it would have been impossible for him to father this many children.
But others say, yeah, he could have achieved it:
http://www.livescience.com/43661-how-sultan-sired-1000-kids.html
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0085292
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-general/how-sultan-moulay-ismail-morocco-sired-1000-children-001386
No one was supposed to look directly at the flash. Once it had passed, you could watch, but only through the special welder's-style glasses supplied...Then, at 5:10 AM the countdown began.
The Project was using the same frequency as radio station KCBA out of Delano, California. At that moment, the station was broadcasting melodious strains of "The Star-Spangled Banner," which intermingled with the voice of physicist Sam Allison as he counted down the final moments to the test.
The General Groves got in position and waited. What would he do, he wondered, if once the countdown ended, nothing happened?
"...by the dawn's early light..."
The years of preparation. The money. The manpower.
"...at the twilight's last gleaming.."
Then, at 5:29:45, Mountain War Time, it happened.
"...And the rockets' red glare...the bombs bursting in air..."
Up on the hill 25 miles away, physicist Joan Hinton felt the heat first. She would later say the it "looked like a sea of light" that was "gradually sucked up into an awful purple glow that went up and up into a mushroom cloud. It looked beautiful as it lit up the morning sun." Then came the rumbling...
More than 100 miles away, the Socorro Chieftain newspaper reported:
"The flash was intensely white and seemed to fill the entire world. It was followed by a large crimson glow..."
The Test Gadget vaporized the steel tower and carved a crater six feet deep and 1,200 feet in diameter. The temperature at the center of the mass of fire was four times the temperature at the center of the sun. The resulting pressure, more than 100 billion atmospheres, was the greatest ever to exist on the surface of the earth. It knocked men down who were standing 10,000 yards away and the resulting flash was visible for more than 200 miles and audible for at least 40. And 150 miles away, a drowsy-eyed woman in Arizona told the local paper she wondered why she "saw the sun come up and go down again."
The Girls of Atomic City
The Untold Story Of The Women Who Helped Win World War Two
Denise Kiernan, pp 436-438