Sending Plutonium to Pluto?

[tw]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

So, tw, how about you consider, as I did, the contents of the reactors of the submarines I mentioned? Does or does not enriched-uranium nuclear reaction leave us with some plutonium, whether the reaction is a breeder-reactor reaction or no?

Urbane Guerrilla didn't know about plutonium when criticizing CNN. How typical. UG does not know the difference between Pu-238 and Pu-239, and yet is quick to criticize others anyway. Citing a URL about plutonium proves the Thresher - with no weapons onboard and a freshly fueled uranium reactor - has plutonium? Of course not. But again, UG hopes no one will notice he rewrites history. UG even cited breeder reactors (that are not on submarines) so that others will think he is informed. Anything to avoid the question, "Are you that naive or do you routinely lie to The Cellar?"

UG posts myths when his political agenda is at risk. Honesty being a complication that UG avoids. This is the same UG who recently bragged about his intelligence. This is the same UG who rewrote Vietnam history to promote his extremist political agenda.

New lurkers should understand why UG posts insults rather than honest facts. His myths about Vietnam were exposed. Being so vindictive and so attached to his political agenda, then he never got over having his myths exposed. UG was an expert on Vietnam War history - and yet did not even read the Pentagon Papers.

UG's claims about plutonium contamination from the Scorpion and Thresher remain myths. A Russian submarine that did have plutonium weapons sunk off of Norway. Despite what UG posts, plutonium is that dangerous. That plutonium danger resulted in an expensive deep water operation to alleviate the plutonium threat. UG just forgot to learn that detail. UG forgets details that contradict his political agenda.

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Tw never fails; he always manages to say something I curl my lip at.

Of course, Urbane Guerrilla. Its called honesty and reality. You should learn how to be honest so as to avoid facial disfiguration. It’s called learning facts before having a political agenda. It’s called having respect for the Cellar as to not lie - to not rewrite history when convenient. After posting myths about Vietnam, you should be more careful when you rewrite history. You are again lying - this time about plutonium. The scary part is that you probably believe your own embellishments.

But again, CNN was correct and Urbane Guerrilla was wrong. UG was so quick to criticize because, again, his political agenda is more important than reality and honesty. Well, UG finally learned about isotopes - kicking and screaming then entire way back to reality. He will not concede that plutonium is hazardous. That would be conceding too much in one day.

[Kitsune]

The launch as seen from my office, yesterday. Certainly a fast mover -- the Atlas was above the treeline and out of sight in well under ten seconds!

[glatt]

Nice picture!

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by tw

But again, CNN was correct and Urbane Guerrilla was wrong. UG was so quick to criticize because, again, his political agenda is more important than reality and honesty. Well, UG finally learned about isotopes - kicking and screaming then entire way back to reality. He will not concede that plutonium is hazardous. That would be conceding too much in one day.

So, tw. You've done a better job than I could of demonstrating your remarkable pettiness, and a careful misreading of about everything I've written, with the exception of the Recipe thread, over the past several months. So, to crankery and leftism, we now add a neurotic pettiness to your list of personal traits. Might this by why you style your handle in the miniscule rather than the more usual majiscule? Recall that you're the guy who tried to demand that someone prove a negative through formal logic -- so who are you to lecture anyone about honesty OR reality? I don't take off of you, sonny boy, and have never seen a reason to take you seriously, having read your posts. You're not a nice man, tw, and you're not smart either. Be pointlessly offensive enough, and you could end up getting your access suspended too. As you can tell, that won't happen to me; I know how to be polite.

I'm taking the high road -- for you to do the same, you'd need to go on oxygen.

[busterb]

UG do you by chance have a real life? Come on and tell us about it!

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Wanna buy the best knife you ever had, B-B? We should talk.

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

And it looks like New Horizons is going to launch today
... currently on a ten-minute hold(?) in its countdown, new launch time 13:50 EST, 10:50 PST, 18:50 GMT.

The continuation of this January 19th, 2006 thread ...

New Horizons' Results: Flowing Ice, Haze, and Mysterious Plains on Pluto
Nature World News - Brian Stallard - 7/25/15

A little more than a week after the intrepid New Horizons made its brief
but historic rendezvous with our solar system's favorite dwarf planet,
NASA is already revealing some stunning images and data from Pluto's surface.
Now, NASA experts are saying that the protoplanet is more exciting
and more mysterious than they ever expected.

Below is NASA's news conference that runs over an hour and a half.
But the best geek-time is from the 40 minutes from 30:00 --> 1:07

[Griff]

Little G and I caught a live presentation on this at the Museum of Science in Boston. Amazing science.