serendipity
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Cypress really makes me laugh, he's changed his tune totally. He always used to insist that you had to be a climate scientist to pontificate about AGW, now he's maintaining that Al Gore was some kind of climate autodidact.
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Cypress really makes me laugh, he's changed his tune totally. He always used to insist that you had to be a climate scientist to pontificate about AGW, now he's maintaining that Al Gore was some kind of climate autodidact.
We know his grades because he allowed the schools he attended to release his grades.
Trump has threatened to sue any of the schools he attended if they release his grades.
serendipity
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You're so predictable Franky!!
So are you, Serendipity.
Here is Bill Clinton babbling competently without notes or teleprompter about the humane genome.
You would never catch an unscripted Trump, Sarah Palin, George Dumbya, Dan Quayle, or Ronnie Reagan riffing off the cuff about science like this.
Mason Melchizedek
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Sounds condescending
BidenPresident
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Cypress is an expert on everything.
Mason Melchizedek
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Sarah Palin couldn't name a newspaper
Mason Melchizedek
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I stand corrected! I guess I have egg on my face.
serendipity
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More bullshit from the usual suspects, truly fucking laughable.
Jimmy Carter never served on a nuclear submarine nor was he a nuclear engineer
January 13, 2017 By Rod Adams
Initial version posted Jan 27, 2006
A recent conversation about the dangers of false claims of expertise stimulated me to revise and republish a nearly 11 year-old post.
It provides documented proof that Jimmy Carter was not a “nuclear engineer” and never served on a nuclear submarine. He left the Navy in October 1953, about 15 months before Jan 17, 1955, the day the the world’s first nuclear submarine went to sea.
The below is a letter to a Wall Street Journal writer in response to an article about used nuclear fuel recycling.
Dear Mr. Fialka (Wall Street Journal):
I enjoyed your story about new efforts to recycle nuclear fuel. It is definitely the right thing to do; our current once-through cycle only extracts about 3-5% of the potential energy of the initial fuel loads.
One myth correction, however. President Carter was a submarine officer, but he was not a nuclear engineer.
He graduated from the US Naval Academy in June 1946 (he entered in 1943 with the class of 1947, but his class was in a war-driven accelerated 3 year program) with an undesignated bachelor of science degree. Even if the Naval Academy had offered a majors program for his class, it is unlikely that it would have included Nuclear Engineering as a option – after all, the Manhattan Project was a dark secret for most of his time at Annapolis.
After graduation, Jimmy Carter served as a surface warfare officer for two years and then volunteered for the submarine force. He served in a variety of billets, including engineer officer of diesel submarines and qualified to command submarines.
In November 1952, he began a three month temporary duty assignment at the Naval Reactor branch. He started nuclear power school (a six month course of study that leads to operator training) in March, 1953. In July 1953, his father passed away and he resigned his commission to run the family peanut farm. He was discharged from active duty on 9 October, 1953. According to an old friend of mine who served as Rickover’s personnel officer at Naval Reactors, LT Carter did not complete nuclear power school because of the need to take care of business at home.
The prototype for the USS Nautilus was completed in Idaho in May 1953, so LT Carter might have had some opportunity to see it in action before leaving the Navy. However, the USS Nautilus did not go to sea until January 17, 1955, so there is no possibility that he ever qualified to stand watch on a nuclear powered submarine.
He never experienced the incredible gift of being able to operate a power plant that was so clean that it could run inside a sealed submarine, so reliable that it could power that submarine even deep under the Arctic ice, and so energy dense that the submarine could operate for years without new fuel.
When I think about the 1976 campaign and the importance of the energy issue at that time, I cannot help but wonder why Jimmy Carter’s promoters made such a big deal about his nuclear expertise. My wonder turns to cynicism when I think about the policies that his administration imposed and the damage that they did to the growth of the industry just at a time when we most needed a vibrant new energy industry player.
https://atomicinsights.com/jimmy-carter-never-served-nuclear-submarine/
More bullshit from the usual suspects, truly fucking laughable.
Jimmy Carter never served on a nuclear submarine nor was he a nuclear engineer
January 13, 2017 By Rod Adams
Initial version posted Jan 27, 2006
A recent conversation about the dangers of false claims of expertise stimulated me to revise and republish a nearly 11 year-old post.
It provides documented proof that Jimmy Carter was not a “nuclear engineer” and never served on a nuclear submarine. He left the Navy in October 1953, about 15 months before Jan 17, 1955, the day the the world’s first nuclear submarine went to sea.
The below is a letter to a Wall Street Journal writer in response to an article about used nuclear fuel recycling.
Dear Mr. Fialka (Wall Street Journal):
I enjoyed your story about new efforts to recycle nuclear fuel. It is definitely the right thing to do; our current once-through cycle only extracts about 3-5% of the potential energy of the initial fuel loads.
One myth correction, however. President Carter was a submarine officer, but he was not a nuclear engineer.
He graduated from the US Naval Academy in June 1946 (he entered in 1943 with the class of 1947, but his class was in a war-driven accelerated 3 year program) with an undesignated bachelor of science degree. Even if the Naval Academy had offered a majors program for his class, it is unlikely that it would have included Nuclear Engineering as a option – after all, the Manhattan Project was a dark secret for most of his time at Annapolis.
After graduation, Jimmy Carter served as a surface warfare officer for two years and then volunteered for the submarine force. He served in a variety of billets, including engineer officer of diesel submarines and qualified to command submarines.
In November 1952, he began a three month temporary duty assignment at the Naval Reactor branch. He started nuclear power school (a six month course of study that leads to operator training) in March, 1953. In July 1953, his father passed away and he resigned his commission to run the family peanut farm. He was discharged from active duty on 9 October, 1953. According to an old friend of mine who served as Rickover’s personnel officer at Naval Reactors, LT Carter did not complete nuclear power school because of the need to take care of business at home.
The prototype for the USS Nautilus was completed in Idaho in May 1953, so LT Carter might have had some opportunity to see it in action before leaving the Navy. However, the USS Nautilus did not go to sea until January 17, 1955, so there is no possibility that he ever qualified to stand watch on a nuclear powered submarine.
He never experienced the incredible gift of being able to operate a power plant that was so clean that it could run inside a sealed submarine, so reliable that it could power that submarine even deep under the Arctic ice, and so energy dense that the submarine could operate for years without new fuel.
When I think about the 1976 campaign and the importance of the energy issue at that time, I cannot help but wonder why Jimmy Carter’s promoters made such a big deal about his nuclear expertise. My wonder turns to cynicism when I think about the policies that his administration imposed and the damage that they did to the growth of the industry just at a time when we most needed a vibrant new energy industry player.
https://atomicinsights.com/jimmy-carter-never-served-nuclear-submarine/
AProudLefty
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It might sound like that only to you because I generally
only write about what I know or are informed about, and keep my mouth shut about everything else. I don't know jack shit about the stock market, the NFL, Fed policy, criminal law, macroeconomics.
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Nope, just stating basic simple facts is not remotely condescending.
Other than evolution, big bang, or climate science (which have morphed into quasi-political partisan topics) any science thread on here usually gets only a handful of responses, and usually from the same suspects.
Dutch Uncle
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Cypress is correct. Only about a handful of people show interest in science matters, space exploration, etc. The only interest others take is to politicize or derail it...if they show up at all.
You're one of the derailers, Mason.
Dutch Uncle
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Wrong again, Ms. BP, but he's certainly very knowledgeable in certain areas such as science. Why aren't you interested in science, dear?
serendipity
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His silence is truly telling.
LOL, it wasn't a geology text book.
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No one in this thread claimed he was Tom.
serendipity
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This is what Perry Thrombosis had to say!
Carter was DEFINITELY among the top. He was a trained nuclear operator as I understood it.
Lao Tse
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what do scientists say is the human carrying capacity of the planet?