{"id":78468,"date":"2021-07-22T00:59:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T04:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=78468"},"modified":"2021-07-22T00:59:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T04:59:56","slug":"wednesday-night-los-alamos-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2021\/07\/22\/wednesday-night-los-alamos-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday night – Los Alamos and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had a great adventure day today. We left Max and Becky’s around nine and headed up to Los Alamos on our way to the San Antonio Hot Springs. Just driving through Los Alamos was interesting because we had to go through security checkpoints coming into town from both directions. The national lab they’re still works mostly a nuclear weapons which is pretty freaky<\/p>\n

The countryside around there beautiful though\u2026 And we took the long Windee road up towards the San Antonio Hot Springs. The small Forest Road was open so instead of walking 5 miles we got to drive it\u2026 Which was only about twice as fast. Literally half an hour to go 5 miles. The Hot Springs themselves were really nice\u2026 There was only two other couples there so it was not at all crowded. The water was quite warm\u2026 They’re not hot.We tried a bunch of the pools\u2026<\/p>\n

Afterwords Dean and I hiked down and took another trail out and had a small picnic. It was very cool red and white color sand everywhere.\ufffcThe countryside could not have been prettier\ufffc\ufffc<\/p>\n

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\ufffcOn the way home we stopped at the greatb Caldera national monument\u2026 We are 1,000,000 years ago a giant volcanic don’t irrupt it and then collapsed creating a huge green valley\ufffc<\/p>\n

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Our next stop was at the Los Alamos history Museum\u2026 We got there with only half an hour to see it\u2026 And it was really an interesting place\u2026 Pretty unsettling . On one hand it was amazing to see the evidence of the science that brought about the atomic bomb\u2026 The dedication secrecy and I can’t help but saying playfulness of these top scientists were gathered there. At the same time I cannot shake or condone what those guys did and creating those weapons\u2026 I know it was a tough situation because they had who knows what would’ve happened. Still it was an eerie thing to see. The museum was full of relics of people like Oppenheimer, for me, Grover\u2026 Definitely A fascinating place<\/p>\n

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One of the places you could visit was one of the scientists homes\u2026 It was Becky who won the Nobel prize at one point\u2026 As many of these guys did.\u2026 The house was used to entertain some of the most famous scientist of all times including Oppenheimer, fermi , Feynman\u2026 It was a great poster of all of the peoples bare feet prints that was made as a Christmas card\u2026 Where else could you see fermi and Feinmen’s and finance foot prints\u2026\ufffc<\/p>\n

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Or some of the Nobel prizes\ufffc<\/p>\n

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Or use the same bathroom as some of those great scientist\u2026 I use the same bathroom as fermi and \ufffcFeynman\ufffc.\u2026 How cool is that?\ufffc<\/p>\n

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The house was really amazing\u2026 Lots of relics including a completely reserve the kitchen and maps of what would now be useless bomb shelters\ufffc<\/p>\n

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Despite it being a pretty place with lots of great history\u2026 Neither of us could shake a solemnity or horror of what this place created\u2026<\/p>\n

I also know that the men and women who are working here are doing what they thought was best to train and a very costly and definitely war\u2026<\/p>\n

There’s no doubt that the bombs on Hiroshima and Akasaka change the course of the war\u2026 And that’s what might’ve happened otherwise might have been cosplayer\u2026 But it’s still is a morally impossible calculus.\ufffcIt must’ve been a very Difficult matter for them to personally square\ufffc<\/p>\n

It was a little ironic that was built on the grounds of an ancient native Pueblo.<\/p>\n

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OK\u2026 That’s all for today\u2026 I apologize if this is hard to read. I’m dictating it outside with poor light. More tomorrow\ufffc\ufffc. Hopefully with better light\ufffc<\/p>\n

Nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n

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We had a great adventure day today. We left Max and Becky’s around nine and headed up to Los Alamos on our way to the San Antonio Hot Springs. Just driving through Los Alamos was interesting because we had to go through security checkpoints coming into town from both directions. The national lab they’re still … Continue reading Wednesday night – Los Alamos and beyond<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78469,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78468\/revisions\/78469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}