Monday, April 23, 2018

nOracle - a strange, questionable website

nOracle
QuestiOns nO answers

nOracle is nO Oracle

nOracle has nO answers

Only QuestiOns

nOracle thinks, it's rarely black Or white

� what dO yOu think ?

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Stumbled upon this website yesterday.
https://www.noracle.net/

Here are the questions:
https://www.noracle.net/questions/

Here are the answers:
https://www.noracle.net/answers

I have my own questions:
Why would anybody create such a site?
What was their thinking behind it?

Thursday, April 19, 2018

Hiroshima - August 1946 New Yorker article by John Hersey

John Hersey's famous article in The New Yorker on  31 August 1946.

Download your preferred document format at http://asiapac.com.au/misc/nuclear/

What it was really like, and sadly the threat is still there for all of us.

During the 1960s, I remember waking up with a start one morning when a very bright light shone upon me, and I thought that a nuclear weapon had been exploded over Melbourne. It turned out only to be the morning sunlight streaming through a small gap in the curtains, but that experience has been with me ever since.

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