http://fopnews.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/galison/ FOP: where the human and geologic converge. Tue, 14 May 2013 00:35:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://fopnews.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/galison/#comment-772 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:57:26 +0000 http://fopnews.wordpress.com/?p=1919#comment-772 [...] Interview with Peter Galison by Smudge Studio: [...]

]]> http://fopnews.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/galison/#comment-769 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:21:33 +0000 http://fopnews.wordpress.com/?p=1919#comment-769 Interesting interview. The NTS is far more strange and wonderful than conveyed by Dr. Galison. It is hardly a wasteland, and it is, inadvertently, a kind of museum. I don’t think it fits his somewhat narrow concept of “waste-wilderness”. I worked for 17 years as a geologist on the Yucca Mountain project and I pretty much had free rein in NTS to pursue my research, mainly in areas 25 and 26. It was a fabulous experience. I could write a book. We geologists felt we could barely account for processes within a 10,000 year timeline. As this timeline was pushed out, our efforts to assess geologic, and climatic-related, hazard became an effort to constrain uncertainty. Quite a challenge given that geology is primarily a historical science with few means for prediction. Much effort was spent on how to warn future generations of what was to be emplaced in Yucca Mountain. A warning might be effective for maybe 3000 years, assuming that English would remain a “dead Language” with some knowledge of its meaning. But I doubt any could be kept out of the mountain for that period in our culture, where nothing is taboo and everything is an object of curiosity or a source of potential wealth. The ancient Egyptians tried to solve a similar problem with warning of deadly curses laid upon tomb violators. That did not work out so well. Anyway, the real story of the Yucca Mountain project remains to be told. Maybe my colleagues and I will get around to it someday. By the way, if you are interested in an ancient continental plate boundary, there is a terrific, and famous one, located just west of Boston.

]]> http://fopnews.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/galison/#comment-693 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:13:08 +0000 http://fopnews.wordpress.com/?p=1919#comment-693 [...] 2. Book: Objectivity  3. Book: Einstein’s Clocks, Poincare’s Maps: Empires of Time 4. Waste-Wilderness: A Conversation with Peter L Galison  5. Friends of the Pleistocene [...]

]]> http://fopnews.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/galison/#comment-475 Sun, 29 May 2011 14:34:26 +0000 http://fopnews.wordpress.com/?p=1919#comment-475 [...] Waste-Wilderness: A conversation with Peter L. Galison [...]

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