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From: glen herrmannsfeldt on 25 Feb 2010 01:45
In comp.dsp robert bristow-johnson <rbj(a)audioimagination.com> wrote:
(snip)

> i dunno if you guys remember this, but i remember reading that on the
> evening of the Trinity test blast in New Mexico in 1945, they didn't
> know for sure if the nuclear chain reaction would stop when the
> uranium ran out. Enrico Fermi was taking bets about whether or not
> the entire atmosphere would light up in a nuclear reaction. i s'pose
> it was a little tongue-in-cheek.

As far as I know, it was determined long before the test that
the atmosphere wouldn't go.

The bets at Trinity, as I understand, where for the yield.

-- glen
From: Lou Pecora on 25 Feb 2010 09:34
In article <hm56ar$14i$2(a)naig.caltech.edu>,
glen herrmannsfeldt <gah(a)ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:

> In comp.dsp robert bristow-johnson <rbj(a)audioimagination.com> wrote:
> (snip)
>
> > i dunno if you guys remember this, but i remember reading that on the
> > evening of the Trinity test blast in New Mexico in 1945, they didn't
> > know for sure if the nuclear chain reaction would stop when the
> > uranium ran out. Enrico Fermi was taking bets about whether or not
> > the entire atmosphere would light up in a nuclear reaction. i s'pose
> > it was a little tongue-in-cheek.
>
> As far as I know, it was determined long before the test that
> the atmosphere wouldn't go.
>
> The bets at Trinity, as I understand, where for the yield.
>
> -- glen

Which Fermi estimated by dropping bits of paper after the explosion to
see how far they moved when the pressure wave hit. Nice.

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-- Lou Pecora
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