tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post6708795679894435913..comments2023-08-27T06:53:36.768-06:00Comments on LANL: The Rest of the Story: Frank Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02134775226991383924noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-16269878235767081232009-04-02T20:26:00.000-06:002009-04-02T20:26:00.000-06:00The long scroll required to get past this post see...The long scroll required to get past this post seems to separate the presence of new comments vs. "oh forget about it." A lesson for the blog owners?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-58637757946649407062009-03-29T20:25:00.000-06:002009-03-29T20:25:00.000-06:00"I don't think this is work we want to put out for...<I>"I don't think this is work we want to put out for competitive bid."<BR/><BR/>I nominate this for understatement of the week.<BR/>3/29/09 1:50 PM</I><BR/><BR/>Oh man, I hate it when I do that - I picked a bad week to quit sniffing glue.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-55625443339537269492009-03-29T18:59:00.000-06:002009-03-29T18:59:00.000-06:00"From 3/28/09 9:42 PM: No scandal.To wit I say, bu..."From 3/28/09 9:42 PM: No scandal.<BR/><BR/>To wit I say, bullshit, just ask Terry Wallace. He was intimately involved and knows the truth.<BR/><BR/>3/29/09 4:39 PM"<BR/><BR/>So what you are really saying is that there is no scandal. Thanks for that insight.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-3115362552722763862009-03-29T16:39:00.000-06:002009-03-29T16:39:00.000-06:00From 3/28/09 8:29 PM: you forgot the Aqua Regia ...From 3/28/09 8:29 PM: you forgot the Aqua Regia scandel which cost this lab a lot of credibility when they kept the guilty TSM...<BR/><BR/>From 3/28/09 9:42 PM: No scandal.<BR/><BR/>To wit I say, bullshit, just ask Terry Wallace. He was intimately involved and knows the truth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-68941310465761563832009-03-29T13:50:00.000-06:002009-03-29T13:50:00.000-06:00"I don't think this is work we want to put out for..."I don't think this is work we want to put out for competitive bid."<BR/><BR/>I nominate this for understatement of the week.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-82971256709881903822009-03-29T11:44:00.000-06:002009-03-29T11:44:00.000-06:00In regards to nuclear weapons, the work is expensi...<I>In regards to nuclear weapons, the work is expensive, slow and of unknown quality since testing is no longer allowed.<BR/>3/29/09 11:34 AM</I><BR/><BR/>Compared to what benchmarks?<BR/><BR/>Testing of what?<BR/><BR/>I don't think this is work we want to put out for competitive bid.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-75792633375992949222009-03-29T11:34:00.000-06:002009-03-29T11:34:00.000-06:00Outside of nuclear weapons, LANL is doing nothing ...Outside of nuclear weapons, LANL is doing nothing that cannot be done cheaper, faster and better at other institutions. The quality of the scientific staff at LANL is very high but the institution bogs them down tremendously.<BR/><BR/>In regards to nuclear weapons, the work is expensive, slow and of unknown quality since testing is no longer allowed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-50834970782608791092009-03-29T09:44:00.000-06:002009-03-29T09:44:00.000-06:007:54 AM, I saw no data, just assertions.7:54 AM, I saw no data, just assertions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-54145720761111644862009-03-29T09:40:00.000-06:002009-03-29T09:40:00.000-06:00"Wow, you must be reading some other blog.In a rec..."Wow, you must be reading some other blog.<BR/>In a recent exchange, the offer was extended for any data to support claims as your 'great scientific record'. Not only was no such data provided, but several posters then (not 'than') did provide data that supported their claims that LANL is not among the top institutions.<BR/><BR/>3/29/09 7:54 AM"<BR/><BR/>Bullshit all the data was shown on the old blog back in 2006. I do want to dig it up but you can find it. It was shown several times on that blog. It was shown that LANL was among the top 5 institutes in the country.<BR/><BR/>On the other hand you have not provided any evidence that LANL is not scientifically <BR/>productive. There was not a single post to back this claim up. You just made that up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-55347197053121066502009-03-29T07:54:00.000-06:002009-03-29T07:54:00.000-06:00It is than shown once again that LANL has a great ...It is than shown once again that LANL has a great scientific record that has been docummented on the blog many times. <BR/><BR/>3/28/09 11:39 PM<BR/><BR/><BR/>Wow, you must be reading some other blog.<BR/>In a recent exchange, the offer was extended for any data to support claims as your 'great scientific record'. Not only was no such data provided, but several posters then (not 'than') did provide data that supported their claims that LANL is not among the top institutions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-42338765965261102782009-03-28T23:42:00.000-06:002009-03-28T23:42:00.000-06:00To 5'33, Its not the misinformation that has goote...To 5'33, Its not the misinformation that has gooten us here, it the incompetence that caused all of the "misinformation", that was never cleared up. But thats only the tip, Congress has not been content with LANLs operation since the Nanos days. We had a chance some time ago to show the (Congress and the American people) that we could function as a Lab, in unison and work as part of a team (with other Labs and NNSA) but the whinning and incompetence contined. Individual employees complaining directly to their sponsors claiming that their project were more important than so and so. The Congress and DOE consider LANL the cry-babies of the complex, and along with their (our)certian misteps we are going down fast. Smolen stated "We are setting up Centers of Exellence" Does LANL fit this new senerio?<BR/><BR/>3/28/09 6:59 PM<BR/><BR/>What the hell are you talking about? Do you just make this crap up for fun. I take it you are bitter at LANL for personal reasons?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-56875192133414665032009-03-28T23:39:00.000-06:002009-03-28T23:39:00.000-06:00"Haven't we already been over this?3/28/09 8:44 PM..."Haven't we already been over this?<BR/><BR/>3/28/09 8:44 PM"<BR/><BR/>Yes we did but in a few weeks the poster will come back and make the same false claim. <BR/><BR/>It is also this way with the troll who says that LANL does poorly in science. It is than shown once again that LANL has a great scientific record that has been docummented on the blog many times. A few days or weeks latter the troll comes out with the same statement. <BR/><BR/>These people live by Colbert's <BR/>truthiness concept.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-21131191062443813492009-03-28T21:42:00.000-06:002009-03-28T21:42:00.000-06:00"3/28/09 6:30 PM - you forgot the Aqua Regia scand..."3/28/09 6:30 PM - you forgot the Aqua Regia scandel which cost this lab a lot of credibility when they kept the guilty TSM. Millions of dollars wasted in corrupt investitgations to get rid of an outspoken postdoc.<BR/><BR/>3/28/09 8:29 PM"<BR/><BR/>No scandal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-54526127981346898242009-03-28T20:44:00.000-06:002009-03-28T20:44:00.000-06:003/28/09 8:29 PMAre you high or just really stupid?...3/28/09 8:29 PM<BR/>Are you high or just really stupid? The postdocs were provided a place to do the frit cleaning safely (room 409), but they chose to do it in room 401, where the ventilation was down. That is why the postdoc got hurt. Then she lied about it-- that's why she got fired. <BR/>The whole incident is well documented. <BR/>The TSM who provided a safe place for the operation is still a lanl employee. <BR/><BR/>Haven't we already been over this?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-84890195242280916912009-03-28T20:29:00.000-06:002009-03-28T20:29:00.000-06:003/28/09 6:30 PM - you forgot the Aqua Regia scand...3/28/09 6:30 PM - you forgot the Aqua Regia scandel which cost this lab a lot of credibility when they kept the guilty TSM. Millions of dollars wasted in corrupt investitgations to get rid of an outspoken postdoc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-13590555581198307532009-03-28T19:39:00.000-06:002009-03-28T19:39:00.000-06:00It is apparent that anything and everything will b...It is apparent that anything and everything will be done to save Livermore from their ultimate fate as a laser facility powered by a wind farm. W-80, DARHT shots, RRW, Gas Transfer, and so on all moved to LLNL. If the pattern isn't clear, you aren't paying attention. Livermore will survive as a weapons lab in the "complex transformation" even if the weapons do not. Why not? Bechtel stands to inherit not one, but two labs ... and their fees.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-36574835142667068112009-03-28T18:59:00.000-06:002009-03-28T18:59:00.000-06:00To 5'33, Its not the misinformation that has goote...To 5'33, Its not the misinformation that has gooten us here, it the incompetence that caused all of the "misinformation", that was never cleared up. But thats only the tip, Congress has not been content with LANLs operation since the Nanos days. We had a chance some time ago to show the (Congress and the American people) that we could function as a Lab, in unison and work as part of a team (with other Labs and NNSA) but the whinning and incompetence contined. Individual employees complaining directly to their sponsors claiming that their project were more important than so and so. The Congress and DOE consider LANL the cry-babies of the complex, and along with their (our)certian misteps we are going down fast. Smolen stated "We are setting up Centers of Exellence" Does LANL fit this new senerio?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-45568939611668964672009-03-28T18:52:00.000-06:002009-03-28T18:52:00.000-06:0011:51 PM, don't fan the flames. LANL had a plutoni...11:51 PM, don't fan the flames. LANL had a plutonium mission (design and cert) long before Rocky Flats closed and pits moved here. And yes, it involves science.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-13653137369438266102009-03-28T18:49:00.001-06:002009-03-28T18:49:00.001-06:00God help me, I think in my haste I wrote "LLNL" in...God help me, I think in my haste I wrote "LLNL" instead of "LANL."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-16371706993451055962009-03-28T18:49:00.000-06:002009-03-28T18:49:00.000-06:00So, suddenly Complex Transformation isn't about sa...So, suddenly Complex Transformation isn't about saving money... it's about establishing Centers of Excellence? <BR/><BR/>If that's the case, then why isn't NNSA offering jobs at SNL-CA to LANL's excellent GTS group members?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-38466726443829910592009-03-28T18:30:00.000-06:002009-03-28T18:30:00.000-06:00Why the outrage now? Where were you when it matere...Why the outrage now? Where were you when it matered. Go back to sleeple LANL.<BR/><BR/>3/28/09 5:33 PM<BR/><BR/>I'm not convinced that any uprising or communication directed toward or engaged in with the decision-makers (going up as far as Congress or the President even) would've made a bit of difference, then or now.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps several years ago, as in pre-WenHoLee debacle (an injustice against the entire lab), pre-NEST-disks-behind-the-copier, pre-Cerro Grande fire, pre-laser-eye-injury, pre-non-existant-CREM-'loss', pre-contract let...et al...perhaps if people had been courageous enough to speak up and correct the mis-information and demand that the truth be known, we might have had a fighting chance to retain the strength of any argument that the LANL was capable and competent and doing a job that was contributing to the stability of the nation's security.<BR/><BR/>However, when the method of choice is to remain silent as attack after attack persistently reduces any credibility and much of your capability to perform a function, you end up with powerless and cowering targets who await with dread the next onslaught. <BR/><BR/>Not only do you end up with sheeple in the slaughterhouse pens but you also end up with an overpopulation of wolves bargaining for what to do with the remaining pastures, the lambs and anything else they can get their paws on.<BR/><BR/>What is even more disturbing though not a major surprise, is that the wolves within the fence look much like the wolves that glare across the hardwood podiums during hearings.<BR/><BR/>It's a shambles and one wonders where the sheep herders/wolf hunters have gone....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-18227542543678478552009-03-28T17:33:00.000-06:002009-03-28T17:33:00.000-06:00Why the outrage now? Where were you when it mater...Why the outrage now? Where were you when it matered. Go back to sleeple LANL.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-14718544952100923912009-03-28T15:50:00.000-06:002009-03-28T15:50:00.000-06:00The reason the most articulate Glenn Mara (Princip...The reason the most articulate Glenn Mara (Principal Weapons Director at LANL) and former Lawrence Livermore Weapons Manager has nothing to say, is that former Lawrence Livermore Manager and current Associate Director for Weapons Engineering (ADWE) at LANL, Brett Knapp, gave LANL's GTS technology, along with other LANL engineering technology, to the Director of Engineering at Sandia Livermore (SNL), who so happens to be Brett Knapp's brother, Corey Knapp. Anastasio, Knapp, and Mara are soaking LANL for everything they can get to pad their real home, LIVERMORE, CALIFORNIA.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-18819358264198146602009-03-28T15:16:00.000-06:002009-03-28T15:16:00.000-06:00Sounds like this is just the tip of the iceburg, o...Sounds like this is just the tip of the iceburg, once they began to take project away in this fashion, watch out whats next. I do not feel safe in my employment here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-26165783306266205832009-03-28T12:56:00.000-06:002009-03-28T12:56:00.000-06:00The former NNSA deputy's January decision memo ref...The former NNSA deputy's January decision memo reflects that understanding, stating, "All laboratories support the decision." (GSN Article)<BR/><BR/>Ha-ha-ha, that's very funny, Mr. Smolen. I thought that NNSA had reached to the very lowest quality dregs in their manager hires, but Smolen's term at NNSA indicates NNSA can always aim a little lower.<BR/><BR/>I guess it's all part of what Tom D'Agostino likes to call "Getting the Job Done!". Yep, they sure are, aren't they?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com