Justin Foster Tweets Top 7: Which Schools Hold Edge for 4-Star LB?
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Nice. Thanks for the link op. UK is in there with some real heavyweights in football. List like that still amazes me
Thanks for the link, sure has a lot of choices and for UK to be in there with those schools is very impressive------although they seem to downplay UK's chances. UK isn't just a football school, it has a lot to offer INCLUDING a football program that is going to be very good by the time he graduates, JMO. If he gets on campus then I think we have some chance.
UK has a pretty damn good engineering program, I actually kinda like us a darkhorse on this one IF he makes it to campus for a visit.
I'm sure it helps him to see that Kengera Daniel was a highly sought after recruit from Carolina that came to UK for an engineering degree.
If he's looking for an engineering school, UT's not even his best option in the state of TN. Hard to imagine Clemson being much better. Probably will depend on how important education is to him. As mentioned above, I'd make damned sure he has a long chat with Kengera Daniel.
TU is a football school.
Are you talking about Tennessee Tech, worked in Cookeville one summer for TVA (got the job through the UK Engineering Dept) when going to UK. Funny story, got woke up one night about 1 AM by an air raid klaxon that sounded like it was outside my window, loudest thing I ever heard. l lived in a boarding house, then by coincidence turned the radio on and got a home economics program from TU talking about foods that could survive storage the longest, etc was about to get in my car and make a run for it (still a lot of talk about a nuclear attack, no idea where I would have gone) when I ran into someone that told me it was the local Volunteer Fire Dept waking up its volunteers. Talked to another guy that did get in his car and take off. I doubt if anyone missed their wakeup call.
Worked at the Nevada Test Site for about 15 years, they had a long sequence about what to do in case of nuclear attack, but the last sentence was "Put your head between your legs and kiss your A$$ goodbye".
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If you worked in the Nevada test site then I guess you have seen some of the tests we did out their. Over 1000 nuclear detonation tests on US soil. Even though they are powerful many people believe that a nuclear bomb would destroy a whole state or small country.. hardly. lol
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My twin grandsons graduated in December with engineering degrees from UK. Both received jobs in 30 days!
Yep, lot of misinformation about nuclear waste that has crippled the nuclear power plant production in the US. France gets about 40% of their electricity from nuclear and haven't had any incidents the last I heard. A lot of it generated from the skuzzball US Senator Harry Reid, that made it a political football, makes sense that the nuclear waste from the Paducah plant should be kept there in a heavily populated area with 40 inches of rain instead of the huge isolated heavily guarded Nevada Test Site, already "contaminated", with four inches annual rainfall and buried in Yucca Mountain, a huge solid granite mountain. Does that make sense to you? They drilled 17 miles of 25' diameter tunnels in solid granite, just to investigate the feasibility of using it, but right now that is all abandoned and on hold, and they sold a lot of the equipment.
Wild days around Las Vegas when I was single, not sure how I got through it. I worked on the Kiwi project when I first left the Saturn rocket project in Huntsville out of UK, (went to Huntsville because GE were on a scheduled 60 hour work week and I was tired of starving), Kiwi was developing a nuclear rocket which we had two successful tests of before they shut it down, everyone too panicked by the word nuclear.
The plowshare program was very interesting, a physicist friend (played on my flag football team) left weapons testing to join it, they were going to blast a huge channel through a small mountain range separating the Mediterranean Sea from a huge valley that was below sea level in Egypt and build the worlds largest hydroelectric plant on the inexhaustible river created. They also planned to excavate a huge harbor in Australia using nuclear bombs------by the way, the only radiation generated from a hydrogen bomb is the small atomic reaction needed to trigger it------but public opinion killed both of them.
BUT, nuclear bombs can be harmful to your health, I worked on one that was "underground" (plowshare program) but only 256' so it came out like an above ground one. Waited three months for the exact weather (wind forecast) and spent several weekends there when they thought the weather would be all right, but they fired it one weekend when they kept a skeleton crew because they thought the weather wouldn't meet their stringent requirements. The control point was about 15 miles away but I still regretted not getting to see it. It was in the far northwest corner of the test site, about 150 driving miles from Las Vegas, but we flew to work every day in an old DC3, unpressurized, and I thought my ears were going to kill me when we dropped in from over the Charleston range one day.
The biggest event was moved to the Amchitka Island chain, 1972 IIRC, they spent $100,000,000 on the 8' diameter 5500 foot deep hole they put it in to keep it underground and probably another few hundred mill on transporting the men, bomb, and diagnostic equipment there. That was a serious bomb, rumored to be 5,000,000 tons of high explosives, five hundred times bigger than the two Japanese bombs. So yeah, they can be harmful to your health, they also had small ones that would fit in a briefcase when I left NTS, scary world we live in. And we have some radicals that wouldn't hesitate a minute to go to heaven and claim their Virgins for killing the infidels.
Nuclear waste, not nearly that big a deal, and most assuredly better at the Nevada Test Site than in cities like Paducah and other populated areas, and much safer from terrorists etc.
Just went back and clicked your two links, neat photos, I was going to mentions some parts of the test site look like that now. Everyone should check out your two links, neat. And of course the above ground tests didn't leave craters, lots of those too, these are subsistence craters caused by the earth falling in to the giant cavity where everything was vaporized by the bomb during underground tests, they buried them just deep enough to not come out but it was shallow enough to have the ground cave in.
Of course Sedan (plowshare, peaceful uses of the bomb) was designed to leave a huge crater, I walked down to the bottom of it one day screwing around, it was a long climb out.
Did you work at the test site, EG&G, Reeco, or one of the labs, LASL or Livermore? I worked for Edgerton, Germesheisen and Greer (EG&G).
Oh no lol nothing like that. I wish I had went into the nuclear field. I was actually recruited to give it a shot so to speak. I had scored very high on the ASVAB and other tests. I wish I had went Into the service looking back but my parents forbide it. You know how the Cold War was and how the bases were first targets. The recruiters were very common around the house.
Since I was a kid I have always been fascinated by warfare and by extension nuclear blasts. The best underground test footage I've seen was the Cannikan tests. Very powerful. I watched many documentaries on the tests done in Nevada and doing them at various heights to determine damage of various objects placed at intermediate distances away from the blast.
How many rads are their in one of those depressions you walked down in?
I think the names they pick out for tests are interesting like upshot knothole, tumbler snapper, fishbowl etc. lol
One of the questions that was asked to a presidential candidate was about nuclear triad and he didn't know what it was. The whole 3 delivery system is not correct either.
Not only can you have a device delivery system done by missile, plane or ship but their are other means like suitcase nukes, satellite nukes, artillery nukes etc.
You picked a good one, Cannikin was the one on Amchitka Island that I was talking about. It left a subsistence crater one and a half miles wide, but was mostly less than 125' deep.
Radiation is measured in roentgens, or at least it used to be, with today's instruments it is often measured in microroentgens so the numbers scare people unnecessarily sometimes. The Sedan Crater could be walked into without environmental suits within seven months, but I'm not sure how long you could stay, it is cummulative. It was well over ten years when I went to the bottom, no warnings about radiation at all.
Funny story I thought, three of our techs showed a small exposure to radiation on their film badges from Baneberry (which vented because of an unknown ground fault, huge dust cloud, everyone got the rest of the day off that day) and they locked them up in a building for a week and made them drink all the beer they could get through their system to flush it out. They survived the radiation, but all three turned into alcoholics.
Just kidding, looked fine the last time I saw them.
Radiation is measured in roentgens, or at least it used to be, with today's instruments it is often measured in microroentgens so the numbers scare people unnecessarily sometimes. The Sedan Crater could be walked into without environmental suits within seven months, but I'm not sure how long you could stay, it is cummulative. It was well over ten years when I went to the bottom, no warnings about radiation at all.
Funny story I thought, three of our techs showed a small exposure to radiation on their film badges from Baneberry (which vented because of an unknown ground fault, huge dust cloud, everyone got the rest of the day off that day) and they locked them up in a building for a week and made them drink all the beer they could get through their system to flush it out. They survived the radiation, but all three turned into alcoholics.
Just kidding, looked fine the last time I saw them.
I think you are thinking of the movie "Hoes", and that was shot in Louisville.