Last year in April, Dave and I finally got around to driving down for
Trinity Site day.
Trinity Site is where the Manhattan Project scientists detonated
the first prototype for the "Fat Man" plutonium atomic bomb that would
eventually be dropped on Nagasaki.
Trinity Site is technically
part of the
National Park Service, but it's located on White Sands Missile Range
and therefore is closed to the public most of the time. They open it
two days a year, usually the first Saturday in April and the third
Saturday in October —
except that this year's April opening was canceled
for unspecified reasons, and
apparently
they're going to cancel the April opening, leaving only October.
This year it's October 21.
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I like to think of myself as an outdoor person. I like hiking,
mountain biking, astronomy, and generally enjoying the beauty of
the world.
Except — let's not kid ourselves here — I'm
really more of a computer geek.
Without some sort of push, I can easily stay planted on my butt
in front of the computer all day — sure, looking out the window
and admiring the view (I do a lot of that since we moved to New Mexico),
but still sitting indoors in the computer chair.
Earlier this year,
the science podcast "Short Wave" played an NPR series called
Body
Electric that had a lot of interviews with scientists who have
studied some aspect of the health benefits of motion versus sitting,
and specifically, the idea of getting up and moving around for five
minutes every half hour. They challenged listeners to try it, and
featured statements from listeners about their improved health and
energy levels.
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