Wednesday, June 2, 2010

The AGU is up to bat

How David Keys got his invitation to Los Alamos National Lab needs to be repeated here!!!
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is to be thanked for starting this snowball rolling down hill.
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AGU President Alex N. Halliday,
Email: alexh@earth.ox.ac.uk -- University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences //
OX1 3PR United Kingdom Phone: +44-1865-272969 // Fax: +44-1865-2821399
AGU member since 1985. Professor of Geochemistry, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, since 2004. Research has focused on using isotope geochemistry to study silicic magmatism, crustal fluid flow, lower crustal processes, and mantle geochemistry. More recently, interests have broadened to the origin and early differentiation of the terrestrial planets and large-scale surface processes such as ocean circulation.
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President-elect R. Stephen J. Sparks, E-mail: steve.sparks@bristol.ac.uk
University of Bristol, Department of Earth Science Wills Memorial Building, Bristol, Great Britain Phone: +44 117 954 5419
Member of AGU since 1987. Professor of geology at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. Major interests are volcanology, igneous petrology, geohazards and risk assessment, and applying fluid mechanics to understanding geological flows. B.S., honors, 1971, and Ph.D., 1974, at Imperial College, London University; research fellow at Lancaster University (1976–1978); NATO postdoctoral fellow at Graduate School of Oceanography, Rhode Island
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Secretary - J. Wallace, Volcanology &
PetrologyPaul -- E-mail: pwallace@uoregon.edu
University of Oregon, Dept. of Geological Sciences, Eugene, OR 97403-1272 --Phone: +1 541 346 5985
AGU member since 1987. Associate professor of geology, University of Oregon, since 2001. Major interests include magmatic volatiles, volcanic gases, subduction zone processes, mantle melting, physical volcanology, and formation of large igneous provinces. B.S., 1986, George Washington University; Ph.D., 1991, University of California, Berkeley. Postdoctoral position in geophysical sciences at University of Chicago, 1992–1995
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Secretary - Janne Blichert-Toft, Geochemistry
Ecole Normale Superieure Lyon, Laboratoire Science la Terre 46 allee dItalie, Lyon Cedex 07, France, Phone: +1 33 47 272 8488
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Craig Chesner, Professor of Geology
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Dear Geoscientists:
Byanski was correct about Union Carbide at 5700 W. Raymond in 1976 Indianapolis, Indiana. The more than 3,000 BHPOL-lives lost on & after 12/4/1984 did not have to happen. Physcists, managers and engineers vetoed my suggestion to have a corporate attorney attend our monthly “Product Safety Meetings”.
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Byanski calls himself “Ghicago_Geek”. I am a very productive electronics technician. I would be very handy to have on a ship doing “AGU” magic in the Sunda Straits. The snobby USGS would not even inquire what http://www.lanl.gov/ discovered about the data David Keys had presented to Los Alamos scientists. On my flat-screen TV, I saw Los Alamos analyze data and develop a computer simulation while watching Chicago cable TV.
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The science technician in me was appalled at the “I found this. Now I am done. The grunt work is someone else’s task.” cavalier attitude of www.lanl.gov personnel. There will be no more Los Alamos if the puppy in the Sunda Straits pops that cork in the Sunda Straits anyway close to the 535 eruption that separated Java from Sumatra.
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Nobody grabbed that thread and ran with it.
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My science background tells me, “We have the nuclear warheads to make a Mt. Pinatubo style eruption into an underwater Mt. St. Helens landslide!!!" The NUKE COWBOYS advertised in the 1960’s that they could dig a canal with underground NUKE detonations. I hope the data our underground testing in the Nevada Desert is usable.
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Dr. Donald Lamb’s new Flash Center modeled a “SUPERNOVA” on his “Flash Center’s” computers at University of Chicago.
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If we all pull on the rope to NUKE the puppy in the Sunda Straits, we could have an underwater Mt. St. Helens landslide instead of repetition of 535 tree ring and ice core data.
Sec. State Hillary Clinton is from Chicago. She should get Sec. of Energy and the USGS Honcho to think and accomplish for a change. Sec. State Clinton then has to purchase nuclear warheads from what was the U.S.S.R., India, and Pakistan. USA can provide the NUKES needed if they will not sell. The Oil Honchos better pay more than their fair share for getting back to good public relations with the world.
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And let us not forget the two daughters of a University of Chicago Law Professor who just took hold of the controls in the USA White House and Pentagon. If that puppy erupts in 2012, the little girls will not get to see their “Daddy President” re-elected.
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The “DUMBED DOWN DOCUMENTARIES” on Public Television’s “Nova” program are not focused on just how important Java and Sumatra are. Every Vulcanologist in the world should be working 50% of every work day on understanding the mechanisms and science in the Sunda Straits till the puppy is not the most active volcano in the world.
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One sound byte was telling us “Australia” is the fastest moving hunk of crust in the world. Sunda Straits is getting squeezed by Australia’s movement.
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Do we have 2 years, 2 decades, or 2 centuries before
that caldron under Java and Sumatra ends 2010 civilization or future
in the 21st, 22nd or 23rd century ?
I am certain there are enough human brains and enough nuclear warheads to neutralize -- vent the Sunda Straits -- the puppy between Java and Sumatra.
Aloha,Robert Byanski (B52-46-07 in the 5/1967 till 2/1971 US Navy)
MAY GOD/CREATOR
HAVE MERCY ON MODERN MAN
WITH SUNDA STRAITS ENDING IT ALL SOME DAY --
UNLESS USGS EARNS THEIR PAYCHECKS ?