''Fallout Chic''
''I have always been a voracious reader of what I call invisible literatures - scientific journals, technical manuals, pharmaceutical company brochures, think-tank internal documents, PR company position papers - part of that universe of published material to which most literate people have scarcely any access but which provides the most potent compost for the imagination'' J.G.Ballard
Showing posts with label End of the world. Show all posts
Showing posts with label End of the world. Show all posts
Friday, August 21, 2015
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''
https://archive.org/details/chaplainminister00park
Thursday, March 26, 2015
"On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, I sat on a
throne of blood!
What was will be! What is will be no more! Now is
the season of EVIL!"
''Essays and documents related to Hideous Gnosis, a symposium on black metal theory, which took place on December 12, 2009 in Brooklyn, NY.''
Hideous Gnosis-Proceedings of the First Black Metal Theory Symposium (Brooklyn, 2009)
https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_GCM2MFeJwfMC
Thursday, March 5, 2015
''We are 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike''
''The main goal of this study was to find feasible methods and strategies for the deflection of large asteroids in the diameter range of 5 to 200 km.''
To the deflection of asteroids in the diameter range of 5 to 200 km (H.K. Hahn, 2014)
https://archive.org/details/ToTheDeflectionOfAsteroidsInTheDiameterRangeOf5To200Km
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
Saturday, February 14, 2015
''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
Sunday, January 25, 2015
''The family that prays together stays together.''
MP-15 The Family Fallout Shelter (1959)
https://archive.org/details/familyfalloutshe00unitrich
Thursday, January 22, 2015
''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
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
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
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
''This is not a place of honor.''
Warning future generations about radioactive waste burial sites. Or at least trying to.
''Sandia National Laboratories charged a panel of outside experts with the task to design a 10,000-year marking system for the WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant) site, and estimate the efficacy of the system against various types of intrusion. The goal of the marking system is to deter inadvertent human interference with the site.''
Some of the people involved in this Sisyphean task did not believe that it was even possible for it to be accomplished-
Sandia National Laboratories report (SAND92-1382 / UC-721)
http://www.wipp.energy.gov/picsprog/articles/wipp%20exhibit%20message%20to%2012,000%20a_d.htm
Warning future generations about radioactive waste burial sites. Or at least trying to.
''Sandia National Laboratories charged a panel of outside experts with the task to design a 10,000-year marking system for the WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant) site, and estimate the efficacy of the system against various types of intrusion. The goal of the marking system is to deter inadvertent human interference with the site.''
Some of the people involved in this Sisyphean task did not believe that it was even possible for it to be accomplished-
''If the WIPP is ever operational, the site may pose a greater hazard than is officially acknowledged. Yet the problems involved in marking the site to deter inadvertent intrusion for the next 10,000 years are enormous. Even if knowledge exists that would allow translation of the message on the markers, there might be little motivation to solicit such knowledge. Pictorial messages, however, are unreliable and may even convey the opposite of what is intended.''
Maybe if they had hired Robert Smithson...
Maybe if they had hired Robert Smithson...
Sandia National Laboratories report (SAND92-1382 / UC-721)
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