Remembering Bill
Billy (Bill) George Aldridge passed away at home in Jacksonville Beach, FL, on Monday, April 11, 2022, after a hard-fought battle with acute myeloid leukemia and myasthenia gravis. He was 90. (cont. below image)
Believing and Knowing!
Learn How to Think and Reason. Learn How to Know the Truth and to distinguish between belief and truth! When we are small children, we learn from our parents. We believe what they say. As we grow older, we also learn from what we are told by others. There are grandparents, uncles and aunts, cousins and other relatives. There are teachers, clergy, and authorities in government.We are to believe what is said because the person saying it is supposed to know the truth and tells the truth. But ho
My Bridge across Wolf Creek
The Kansas Turnpike The Kansas Turnpike is a 236-mile-long freeway-standard toll road that lies entirely within the U.S. state of Kansas. It runs in a general southwest–northeast direction from the Oklahoma border to Kansas City. It passes through Wichita, Topeka, and Lawrence. It was built from 1954 to 1956, predating the Interstate Highway System. My Summer of 1956 Ground was broken for the Kansas Turnpike on December 31, 1954. Construction of the entire length of the turnpike was sc
First Nuclear Fusion Explosion on Earth
During most of 1952, at age 20, I was stationed at Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, as a United States Air Force electronics technician. I had been interested in electronics from the time I was a child rummaging through junkyards looking for old radios so that I could experiment. I became very knowledgeable about electronics even before joining the Air Force. When I was sent to Electronics school, I found it very easy and therefore "tested out" of most components of the program, "graduati
The Flu Pandemic of 1918—It Was Personal!
Think about the flu pandemic of 1918, the worst pandemic in world history — even worse than the plague, the Black Death of 1666-1667, which took some 100,000 lives. The pandemic of 1918, called the "Spanish Flu," killed at least 40,000,000 people worldwide, including 675,000 Americans. That influenza was caused by a variant of the H1N1 virus. The world has now gone through another terrible pandemic, the SARS-Covid-19 virus. Since this pandemic began in December of 2019, it has killed 3,837,000 p
Writings and Thoughts: Dorothy Louise Blankenship Aldridge Green
My mother, Dorothy Louise Blankenship Aldridge Green on June 16, 1912 in White Church, KS to George Washington and Alma Sophia (Brotherson) Blankenship. She died at 102 years old on November 26, 2014. Her mother died when mom was 6 years old. My one year old mom in 1913 with her older sisters When she was 14, her stepmother and father forced her to leave home and make it on her own. She ultimately lived with another family until she married my father. She had 8 children, and had a very difficu
Exponential Increases of the COVID-19 Virus
Suppose that I am infected with the COVID-19 virus. And at the start of some time period, t0, I am among N0 who are infected. We use the letter N for the number of people infected and t for time in days, and we use the subscript 0 to mean a particular starting time. Let us assume that there are no restrictions on my movement, or on the movement groups of people playing, attending events, going to the movies, shopping or relaxing on the beach with hundreds of others. So we can go out and be anyw