Oppenheimer Movie: Excellent! a Great Way to Teach Accurate American History to Millions of Americans... He Was the Leader of the Project to Invent the Atom Bomb dropped on Japan during WW2.

In General, Dropping the Atom Bomb Was a Great Idea... It FIXED the Bad Attitude of the Japanese Emperor and Military... At The Beginning of World War Two they wanted to conquer the World and Crown Themselves The Ultimate King & His Samurai Warriors... after a Couple of Atom Bombs they decided to Make Great Cars, Motorcycles and Electronic Equipment  Instead... AHH SO! MUCH GOODIE FOR YANKS! Freaking Fixed their Bad Attitude!

another Part of World War Two History that is Often Misinterpreted... NONE of the Japanese Americans that were relocated to Internment Camps ACTUALLY COMMITTED SABOTAGE... The Camps Worked! We Defended the USA from Attack! Would they have done Damage if left free to roam? We will never Know BUT... Locking 'em Up WORKED GREAT!

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/presidential-inquiries/japanese-american-internment

Physics has given us the #1 Stupidest Idea in the History of the Universe... and #2 and #3 as Well... Read More: 

#1: The Atom Bomb... a Machine That Could End all life on Earth... Pretty Damn Idiotic... Maybe the 17 Year Cicadas would Survive... If the Earth has Nuclear Winter for a Hundred Thousand Years, and then Springtime... The Cicadas Could Come out... and It's Likely that they will Survive... a Pretty Bleak Future... Did you know that the USA Blew up over A HUNDRED ATOM BOMBS IN NEVADA and Two in Japan... and We Were NOT at War with Nevada... Crazy! and the Fallout Nuked the Entire Eastern Half of the USA... 

#2: Atomic Power Plants... They Create Nuclear Waste that has to be Stored Safely for Thousands of Years AND Has to Be Guarded all that time to prevent Terrorists from Creating a Dirty Bomb. However, Every Year there are Fewer and Fewer Nuclear Power plants because the Engineers at Power Companies all say NO NUKES! Then Shut 'em Down and Refuse to Build New Ones... PG&E, SoCal Edison and SMUD Have All Gone Solar... And the Very Last Nuclear Power Plant in California is Scheduled to Be Closed... Diablo Canyon Goes BYE BYE!

#3: The Hydrogen Bomb... All the Insanity of the Atom Bomb but EVEN WORSE!

"Everybody" Says that Einstein was a Genius... However, His Great ideas all ended in Disaster! OOPS! 

However, Physics also gave us Electricity... and That's Great! Tesla's Alternating Current is installed in Every Home Worldwide... except in the "Third World" - and We Are Glad... 

I'm using AC Right Now!

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and Here is a Blog Post on a the same subject that I Wrote Years Ago... 

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Top 10 Stupidest Ideas Ever... 

and the 10 Greatest Ideas... 

 Top 10 Stupidest Ideas Ever...
#1 Atomic Power, Atomic & Hydrogen Bombs
#2 War in Vietnam
#3 Prohibition of Marijuana
#4 War in Iraq
#5 War in Afghanistan
#6 Electoral College
#7 Slavery
#8 Trickle Down Economics
#9 Corporate Welfare Subsidies
#10 Making gasoline out of OIL instead of Hemp

#11 NSA Spying on Americans
#12 The Patriot Act
#13 Hotels not having a thirteenth floor because it would be un-lucky...
#14 Gas powered Leaf Blowers

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Top 10 Greatest Ideas EVER...
#1 Fire
#2 The Wheel
#3 The Internet
#4 Sex
#5 Solar Power
#6 Majority Rule
#7 The Check
#8 Anti-War Protest Marches
#9 The number zero
#10 Electricity

#11 Filming the Police and putting it on Youtube...
#12 Adobe Photoshop, GIMP, Paint.net, Arcsoft Photostudio... and all those other photo programs...
#13 WINPLOT, Google Sketchup...
#14 The Telephone
#15 The answering machine... for call screening... Caller ID.
#16 Bubble-UP Economics

What IS "Bubble-UP Economics" and how does it work? Simply put, increase minimum wage and all those workers will have more money to spend at American Businesses. The increased sales will cause a need to hire more workers. The increased profits will cause more money to be paid in taxes and increased earnings by stockholders. Everyone WINS.

We have tried "Trickle Down Economics" for decades and it has clearly failed. Why not try something different? I have found that when I try something and it fails, and then I try the same thing and it fails again and the it continues to fail for the third, fourth and fifth time... It's time to notice the trend and try something different. DUH.

How to dispose of Atomic Waste:

Step 1: DO NOT MAKE ANY MORE...

Step 2: Encase in Lead and Glass

Step 3: Dump in the Ocean Far away from the shore.

Radioactive waste has to be stored Safely SOMEWHERE on Earth for 3 Billion Years.

It has to be far away from People, Animals, Fish and itself...

Why NOT place it on the bottom of the ocean?

Currently we are storing it in WIPP in New Mexico

and that has already leaked...

Not real Safe for people downwind...

and that's the majority of the people in the USA.

Since there are NO ACTUAL JOBS Designing or Building Nuclear Power Plants, Most Physics Graduates Write Newspaper and Magazine Articles About HOW GREAT ATOMIC ENERGY IS and How We Really Ought to Build Some Power Plants... Sometimes they Make Youtube Videos!

Remember: Every Year There are Fewer and Fewer Nuclear Power Plants Because the ACTUAL Professionals That Work at ACTUAL Power Companies All Say NO NUKES! Solar and Wind is Cheaper Per Kilowatt and Hey, This is a Business and We Have a Duty to Make a Profit! 

NO NUKES! All of them Create Radioactive Waste That is Impossible to Dispose of... Here in Sacramento, CA We Pay $5,000,000 a Year to Store SMUD's Waste From a Plant that Closed in the 1970s... Remember: The Engineers at PG&E, SoCal Edison and SMUD all REJECT NUCLEAR POWER because it's Too Expensive... $9.2 Billion Dollars to Clean up San Onofre and Diablo Canyon and... CUSTOMERS PAY THAT BILL! https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/551130-we-cant-let-nuclear-die

NO NUKES - atomic power symbol -
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On a Different Subject...

I Like Voting. I Believe That Democracy is Better Than Monarchy. Republicans Keep On Promoting Minority Rule... "Father Knows Best" - Just Let Rich White Men Rule... https://www.salon.com/2021/04/30/florida-and-texas-join-the-republican-war-on-voting/

Stop Believing Lies! Joe Rogan (Not a Doctor) Spreads Anti-Vaccine Misinformation... Dr. Anthony Fauci called the podcast host's recent comments about young people and COVID-19 vaccines "incorrect." https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rogan-dont-need-to-worry-vaccine/

Long Ago People Played a Board Game Called Dominos... 
Clever People Stood the Tiles Up on End and It
was Possible to Cause Many Tiles to Fall Down by
Pushing on ONE... at the Beginning of the Series...

History Proved that Ike's DOMINO THEORY was Wrong... In Fact, It Was a Government Lie Designed to FOOL Conservatives...  

TOTALLY BOGUS! The domino theory was a Cold War policy that suggested a communist government in one nation would quickly lead to communist takeovers in neighboring states, each falling like a perfectly aligned row of dominos. THE USA LOST THE VIETNAM WAR AND NOTHING BAD HAPPENED! https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/domino-theory

Why are Conservatives SO EASILY FOOLED? Well, Many Wish That a Father Figure Would Make All The Tough Decisions in Life... That Way, If Something Goes Wrong... They Can Say, I Was Just Following Orders and It's Not My Fault... That Excuse Works Almost Every Time... EXCEPT for Nazi Soldiers at the Nuremberg Trials Where... Murdering 6 Million Jews in Concentration Camps Turned Out To ACTUALLY BE Their Fault... 

In Southeast Asia, the U.S. government used the now-discredited domino theory to justify its involvement in the Vietnam War and its support for a non-communist dictator in South Vietnam...  

This is a short video exploring Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon all using the Domino Theory as the steering point for continued conflict in Vietnam. 

https://youtu.be/QP9QDRDLw6c

The Red Scare played a huge role in the Vietnam War and the lesser known Secret War, waged concurrently in neighboring Laos. President Dwight D. Eisenhower feared that if Laos fell to Communism, the entire Eastern Hemisphere would become a threat to democracy. To secure the Vietnamese border, the CIA recruited Hmong people to fight as surrogate soldiers of the U.S. armed forces.

This clip is from "America's Secret War," a documentary produced as part of the Minnesota Remembers Vietnam initiative. To learn more, visit www.MNVietnam.org. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaxFY2QVWJw

By the middle of the 1950s American fears of the global spread of communism were being realized. In China the Communist Party had taken control, while the Korean War had ended with an armistice that split the country in two and with a communist in the government in the north. In Indochina, better known as Vietnam, France had struggled to regain colonial control in the aftermath of the Second World War. By 1954 they were facing imminent defeat against the Vietnamese nationalists under communist Ho Chi Minh, something that the American government feared would provide communism with a springboard into Southeast Asia. 

America had already adopted the Truman Doctrine, in which it committed to support anti-communist groups, and at a news conference on 7 April 1954 Eisenhower laid the groundwork for US involvement in Vietnam. He began by explaining how the country held economic importance for America, and how there was the threat of a dictatorial takeover. He concluded his argument by explaining what he called the ‘falling domino principle’ in which he likened the spread of communism in Southeast Asia to a row of dominoes quickly collapsing after the first one falls.

Within a month of the news conference French forces had lost the Battle of Dien Bien Phu and, at the subsequent Geneva Conference, they agreed to leave Vietnam and divide the country at the 17th parallel. Although Eisenhower’s speech consequently had little immediate effect, it laid the foundations for America’s later involvement in Vietnam as both John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson used the domino theory to justify their intervention. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-QyOLHbXiI

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While CERN has Done Absolutely Nothing of Value in the Science of Physics, they did create a Major Leap Forward in Computer Science.

Tim Berners-Lee invented the Hyperlink there leading to the creation of the World Wide Web. Proof that Once in a While You Get Shown the Light in the Strangest of Places if You Look at it Right. 

They Discovered the "God Particle" and... NOTHING HAPPENED. "Where's The Beef?" 

Now They Want to Build an Even Bigger Machine... TOTALLY POINTLESS... But... It Is a Good Way to Employ Physics Scientists... and If they Were Not Wasting Their Time at CERN they might be Making Atomic Bombs or Nuclear Power Plants... PURE EVIL!

My Brother Recommends the Book: "Coming of Age in the Milky Way" by Timothy Ferris. An Introspective Study of Humans and Our Place in The Cosmos...

https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Age-Milky-Way/dp/B009BUHSNC

A space alien returns to his home base to report on the Earthlings.  He is asked, “Do they know where they are  and  how  they  got  there?”   Earthling  knowledge  of  cosmology,  time,  and evolution are then discussed.

The End of Science: What are they doing at CERN and Why does it not have any value? They say they Found "The God Particle" but No One Cares.

BOOK: "Facing The End of Science." Physicists and others confront science’s limits. Quote: “Scientists, having inherited answers to most of nature’s big questions, are now constrained either to study increasingly insignificant details or to play with abstractions increasingly unlikely to be tested.” That reminds me of: Charles H. Duell was the Commissioner of US patent office in 1899. Mr. Deull's most famous attributed utterance is that "everything that can be invented has been invented." Most patent attorneys have also heard that the quote is apocryphal. ( a story or statement of doubtful authenticity, although widely circulated as being true.) https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/facing-the-end-of-science/

Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics. Let Doctors and Patients Decide FOR THEMSELVES what the Best Treatment Is... Get POLITICIANS OUT of the Doctors Office. In General, They Know Nothing About Medicine. https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/30/us/oregon-magic-mushrooms-psilocybins-trnd/index.html

Great Book: "When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought" by Jim Holt - Deep Ideas and Questions of College Professors...

https://www.amazon.com/When-Einstein-Walked-G%C3%B6del-Excursions/dp/0374146705 
Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintillating collection, Holt explores the human mind, the cosmos, and the thinkers who’ve tried to encompass the latter with the former. With his trademark clarity and humor, Holt probes the mysteries of quantum mechanics, the quest for the foundations of mathematics, and the nature of logic and truth. Along the way, he offers intimate biographical sketches of celebrated and neglected thinkers, from the physicist Emmy Noether to the computing pioneer Alan Turing and the discoverer of fractals, Benoit Mandelbrot. Holt offers a painless and playful introduction to many of our most beautiful but least understood ideas, from Einsteinian relativity to string theory, and also invites us to consider why the greatest logician of the twentieth century believed the U.S. Constitution contained a terrible contradiction―and whether the universe truly has a future.

On family day, my brother took us to visit Lawrence Livermore Lab. I remember the Shiva Project.

 It was a Fusion Nuclear Power Plant Prototype. You may have seen it as the movie "TRON" had a few scenes filmed there. It was a fundamentally valid idea but it never created more power than it took to run the machine. They took a drop of "Heavy" Water and focused many giant laser beams on it from all directions. The idea was that the heat would cause the hydrogen to FUSE into helium. Just like it does in the SUN. When they turned on the power the lights of the city of Livermore would dim. Martin worked in Biology at the Lab.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_laser

One time Martin took me to a Biology Trade Show in Washington DC at a big Hotel. A BioTech Company from England had invented a single celled animal that TASTED LIKE CHICKEN. We ate some... It was illegal for a BioTech Company to design and grow food in the USA but the laws allowed it in England. Quite like Zymoveal out of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Books. I still believe that it's a good idea. I think it ate oil... Could solve World Hunger.

Read more of my autobiography at: http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html