Cold War-era Nuclear Tests Created Belts of Charged Particles Around the Earth - D-brief

Do you ever wonder why a certain segment of our citizenship and the people they elect to office are #ScienceDeniers? Do you think it might be fear?



Science is a wonderful thing, except when it is not. Remember that Madame Curie who discovered the elements polonium and radium (Radioactivity as she named it) and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize twice in her life "unfortunately (she) unwittingly also discovered the fatal effect radioactivity can have on your health; she died on July 4, 1934, of aplastic anemia caused by radiation exposure."

Consider that when James Chadwick discovered the neutron in 1932 he anticipated that neutrons would become a major weapon in the fight against cancer and then was instrumental in it's evolution.



We must not let fear hold us back. There is good and bad in everything as is documented in the findings attached in reference to the nuclear testing in the 50s and 60s. #IBelieveInScience and #SupportScientificDevelopment



"researchers say that the plasma created in the explosions interacted with the planet’s magnetic field and created an artificial version of the Van Allen belts that encircle the Earth." "

"The recently declassified results were published in Space Science Reviews."

"Bonus finding from the paper: Some types of radio waves act to create a kind of shield around the Earth that protects us from harmful radiation."



Cold War-era Nuclear Tests Created Belts of Charged Particles Around the Earth - D-brief: The charged particles from the tests interacted with Earth's magnetic field to create temporary belts around the Earth, damaging satellites.

What I will be doing when I die

Oakhill Cemetery, in Sterling MA,  is located on Clinton Rd, just outside the center of Town and on the left as you head east towards Clinton on Route 62.

It was first established in approximately 1858. There are crypts/mausoleums guarding the entrance.

There is a local legendary spirit who is visited by many.

Do you think that we just cease to exist or do you think as I do that spirits live on in the heart and minds of others? Some people go further in that they believe they are alive as a separate life force. Is that religious? Sometimes but not necessarily.  I do not necessarily believe that I will be living in the clouds (or heaven or hell) with people of similar religious beliefs.
I would rather believe that our minds get to experience our surroundings and mingle with the similarly located. Maybe the spirits sing and dance. Maybe some are less jovial and maybe not quite content.

I think I will be content. The journey to get there might be a bit of a bumpy ride. It usually is. Having been through these journies with my parents and grandparents who are already in this place have taught me that. The best we can hope for is to live the life we want until it is time to go and that the passing will be as short as possible.

This is where I will be for eternity. Atop a hill with a great view. 

My View in the fall 

This is a cropped view. The plot is quite large as is the family and historically is here from a back long ways. Click for history.

STOP trying to LABEL us as DEMS or Hillary supporters or worse

When the media looks at what is happening in social media and on the streets, being led by intelligent compassionate women, they want to put us in a convenient political bucket. They say "Where was this passion during the election?" to imply that, if had been present, HRC would now be president. Well, that is factually untrue. It was out there in pockets they were ignoring and obviously still do, just as the Democratic party was ignoring it. The women from the March were from several different political fronts. Many were democrats who felt that their candidate did not get the nomination. Some were independents who might have felt the same way. Others were Green party activists with Jill Stein always as their candidate. The coming together of these groups was a result of the winner, not the losers. The party chose their candidate irrespective of the passion that was evident elsewhere and not for her. Now the media needs to GROW UP and start doing some actual journalistic activities, which includes analyzing the force behind the movement. Is it Liberal? Is it Progressive? Or is it more than that? More than the sum of the parts? It was not just the "Women's March on Washington " that 5 women initiated. It grew way beyond their wildest imagination. It had a life of it's own. The marches errupted all over the map of the USA and all over the world. Each had it's own format, structure, focus. None was quite exactly like another. There was a central place to register your planned march but it was not managing marches. Unbeknown to many, the marches in some cases included "Pro-Life" and "Pro-Choice" participants. Following up "the organizers of the Women's March on Washington posted the "10 Actions for the first 100 Days" campaign to keep up the momentum from the march." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Women's_March

Stop Trying to Recruit Me, Dem Party

You had your chance and you blew it. I have been an independent voter (uncommitted) for as long as I have been of voting age and that has been since 1966. When Bernie Sanders came along, I listened to his message and was hooked. I understood intellectually why he decided to tie his campaign to the DEM party. I was all set to consider converting to the Democratic party, when and if Bernie Sanders became president. My family was all on board the Bernie train. I worked volunteering for Bernie from the start. I phoned banked for Bernie as part of the party primary. The phone bank included trying to sway people, who were unregistered or registered to another party, to consider the Democratic Party candidate. After Bernie did not clinch the nomination, I was willing to follow his lead and vote for the party choice. I was less likely to convert but might have been swayed, until it became abundantly clear what a corrupted self-centered group of people were at the core of this political organization. How DARE you steal the election and my vote and give it to someone of your choice. That was not your right. Regardless, Bernie being my political advisor, and based on who had won the nomination on the other side, I followed Bernie's lead and cast my vote accordingly. As more and more information was released about party antics behind the scenes I became angry at how you used me and Bernie. The most insulting thing of all is that there has never been an admission or an apology or even a hint of remorse and the party liners and elites are continuing to blame everyone (Putin), every group (Wikileaks), every other party (Green) and even Bernie for the failure, of one of the most disliked and mistrusted candidates of all time, to secure the presidency. It matters not if I believe or go along with those beliefs. It is and was a fact of which the party was fully aware. Last but not least, the party could not even secure a significant win for itself after the election, which would have been an important political victory as Trump came into office, by approving the bi-partisan supported amendment that Bernie Sanders championed. While 12 republicans supported it, 13 democrats did not and so it failed. The reason given by some, with great political aspirations and large donations from pharmaceutical companies, was safety. No one believes, or that anyone in our congress thinks, that drugs purchased through Canada, originating in the United States, are a safety concern. If the reason is not concern for their own donations then maybe, just maybe, a grudge is still being held.

I am getting emails and phone calls and mailers and am sick of hearing from you. Stop. I do not give you any indication that I care. I do not and will not respond. I believe the best course of action is a new party. Not The Green, they had no real platform. Not Libertarian, they could not even find a reasonable candidate. I think a party of and for the people is in order and that surely is not the Democratic Party. I will be looking for political leadership and do hope that Bernie will provide that outside the realm of the DEM party going forward.