Showing posts with label Bad ideas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bad ideas. Show all posts

Saturday, November 21, 2015


''Fallout Chic''



The result of a research contract awarded to Rice University, Department of Architecture by the US Civil Defense agency. Five architects designed fallout shelters for industrial buildings. 

Industrial Architecture : Fallout Shelters (1963)


https://archive.org/details/industrialarchit00lacyrich

Friday, August 21, 2015


''What's THIS button for?''


''Declassified nuclear weapons employment manuals from the Cold War.''

Nuclear weapons employment manuals 


Monday, August 10, 2015


''Fear of Frying''


Published in 2006, some thirty years after the last Apollo mission-
''The primary threat to astronauts from space radiation is high-energy charged particles, such as electrons, protons, alpha and heavier particles, originating from galactic cosmic radiation (GCR), solar particle events (SPEs) and trapped radiation belts in Earth orbit. There is also the added threat of secondary neutrons generated as the space radiation interacts with atmosphere, soil and structural materials.[1] For Lunar exploration missions, the habitats and transfer vehicles are expected to provide shielding from standard background radiation. Unfortunately, the Lunar Extravehicular Activity (EVA) suit is not expected to afford such shielding.'' 
Oh well.

Active Solid State Dosimetry for Lunar EVA, NASA 2006

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_20060013413

Saturday, March 28, 2015


''For Nuclear Families''




''This booklet is a brief guide to 3 basic kinds of nuclear shelter:
■ Simple shelters for short-term indoor or out-door use which can be built from materials already at
hand.
■ Shelters that can be assembled from do-it-yourself kits.
■ Permanent custom-built shelters built into the ground.''

Domestic Nuclear Shelters Technical Guidance (UK Government handbook, 1981)

https://archive.org/details/DomesticNuclearSheltersTechnicalGuidance

Friday, March 27, 2015


''Praise the Lord and Pass the Atomic Ammunition''



This must be one of  the most  far fetched things you can find on the web. It makes the works of H.P. Lovecraft, P.K. Dick and W.S. Burroughs seem sedate by comparison. Like a prequel to A Canticle for Leibowitz. Amen! 

''All ground forces operating In a nuclear environment 
must expect exposure to radiation. Chaplains must be 
spiritually and emotionally prepared for ministering to an inimaginable
number of Injured and dying people''

The Chaplain Ministery (SIC) in a Nuclear Warfare Situation (U.S. Army Chaplain Center, 1973)

https://archive.org/details/chaplainminister00park

Friday, February 27, 2015


''Lately it occurs to me...
What a long strange trip it has been''




''The aim of this study was to summarize the scientific evidence on the prevalence of psychoactive substance use and on the factors associated with their intake among truck drivers.''

Psychoactive substance use by truck drivers: A systematic review. (2013)

https://archive.org/details/pubmed-PMC3888602

Saturday, February 21, 2015


''... (T)o contain unknown lunar organisms that might endanger life on earth."


The Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL) became operational in 1969, its objective was to lower the risk of ''back contamination'' by astronauts and material brought from the Moon.  NASA had not planned for that eventuality when the Apollo program was implemented, so the LRL was designed and built (in less than three years) only after public concerns about the risk of alien pathogens. 
Today it is believed that if such contamination had been present the LRL would had been unable to contain it, mainly due to the procedures used to transport and handle its subjects and specimens. Oh well.

Lunar Receiving Laboratory Project History (2004)

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_20040200959

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Sunday, February 15, 2015


''À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu''



''..(A) quaterly newsletter dedicated to the academic study of the type of music labelled ''punk''.''

Punk Research  Newsletter (1984-85)

https://archive.org/details/PunkResearchVol.1No.1may1984

https://archive.org/details/PunkResearchVol.2No.1march1985


Saturday, February 14, 2015


''No wonder they called it ''The Nazi Party''...''



''Pervitin, a stimulant commonly known as speed today, was the German army's -- the Wehrmacht's -- wonder drug.''

Hitler's Drugged Soldiers (Andreas Ulrich, Spiegel 2005)

http://www.spiegel.de/international/the-nazi-death-machine-hitler-s-drugged-soldiers-a-354606.html

''This is the way the world ends 
Not with a whimper but a bang.''




''If we create higher temperature and density in a limited region of the solar interior, we may be able to produce self-supporting detonation thermonuclear reactions that spread to the full solar volume (...) This explosion would annihilate the Earth and the Solar System, as we know them today.''

Artificial Explosion of the Sun- Criterion for Solar Detonation

https://archive.org/details/ArtificialExplosionOfSun.Ab-criterionForSolarDetonation

Monday, January 26, 2015

''High above the L.A. freeways, and the traffic's whine, 
Stands the well-known Galactronics branch of Yoyodyne...''



Company anthems were an important part of 1950s American corporate culture. Spooky.

Songs of the I.B.M.

https://archive.org/details/songs-of-the-ibm

I.B.M. music sound clips

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/music/music_clips.html

Sunday, January 25, 2015

Thursday, January 22, 2015


“'My phone is spying on me'!” 




“There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.” P.K. Dick

Intelligent Surveillance Systems (2011)

https://archive.org/details/Intelligent_Surveillance_Systems

''Dr. Strangelove, I presume''




''15-page fallout prediction model, covering both land surface and underwater nuclear explosions, radiation shielding by buildings, fallout solubility as function of particle size, retention on vegetation, gamma ray spectrum versus time, fractionation of fission products, salting by cobalt-60 etc., and effects of environmental neutron induced activities in fallout.''

Fallout Prediction (2014)

https://archive.org/details/FalloutPrediction

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

''Target in sight. Where in hell is Major Kong?''





B-52E Stratofortress Characteristics Summary  (Boeing,July 1964)

https://archive.org/details/B-52EStratofortressCSJuly1964


Thursday, January 15, 2015

"It's a boy."






Fallout report about the first H-Bomb explosion, the Ivy Mike test. It had a ten megaton yield,  700 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped in Hiroshima in 1945.

WT-615 -Fallout nature, distribution and intensity from the first H-bomb test (U,S. Defense Dept. 1952). 

https://archive.org/details/WT-615

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Tuesday, January 13, 2015


''Galloping Gertie''

"I tried to run up the yellow line in the center of the roadway, but found myself being bounced from one curb to the other and making no headway towards shore. I felt I could be tossed over the edge at any time. I was running in the air part of the time, because the bridge was moving faster than gravity. It dropped out from under me and then bounced back, knocking me down to my knees, banging the camera on the pavement."




Tacoma Bridge Failure-- a Physical Model (2004)

https://archive.org/details/arxiv-physics0408101