The Pledge
Chuck
Also gave a heart warming history of Flag Day.
Thought for the Day
John de RussySome quotes from Thomas Jefferson, including don’t put off til tomorrow what you can do today.
Fred Rogers
The top 10 things about outgoing president Chris Eckert
Just a few….
Prepared, sense of humor, great info network, respectful, great dress code, contagious smile
Newscast
Tony V.
Listed many things that had happened on this day throughout history….
• 1661 First breech of contract
• 1846 Bear Flag Republic
• 1942 Anne Frank started her diary
• 1953 Elvis Presley graduated from high school
• 1961 106 degrees in SF
• 1974 All the Presidents Men published
Some summer jokes….
What did the Pig Say? I’m Bacon
The dog? I’m a hot dog.
Sunshine Report
Bo Whitehill
Jody Foster’s sister killed in an auto accident. So Sad.
Bob Campbell’s daughter had extensive surgery and
Bob had a stroke. Yikes!
Bob
No Visiting Rotarians
Guests
Vic Carboni hosted Gayle Carboni
Nanci Nishimura hosted 3 guests from her firm
Rachel Meyer hosted Alex Shwarstein from CuriOdyssey
There were announcements, including a photo of some shoes that wasn’t clear what they were about.
Thank you to Anne LeClair, Lynn Armenio and Kitty Lopez for hosting a fabulous Mystery Night!
Anne also received a
Wonder Woman cape for filling in so frequently for Spinnings!
Community Grants
$30,500 was awarded to 11 non-profits. The non-profits that received their awards today were:
NAMI
PARCA
CuriOdyssey
A gratitude of thanks was expressed by all of the recipients for Rotary’s generosity in helping them fulfill their work!
SPEAKER
Martin introduced speaker,
Vic Carboni
Vic spoke on his work with Electro-Magnetic Pulses (EMP) a field that he worked in until his retirement.
He also noted that the body scanners that one encounters at TSA were invented in a section of the company he had worked for. He doesn’t go through them.
He shared images of what we all think of when thinking of a nuclear attack:
Ruins, loss of life, radioactive fallout, inhabitable.
He then shared the evolution from the first atomic bomb test, to the use of the bomb to the evolution to EMP.
The fist such test was in 1962, a high altitude test (250 miles above the Earth’s surface), 900 miles from Hawaii. The power grid went down, low orbit satellites were affected.
He discussed the physics of the pulse—there are 2 components:
1 very fast pulse, 50K volts/meter
a slower component
Both are harmless to living beings, they pass through structures but damage anything electrical.
Most susceptible are antennas, long wires and integrated circuits.
Least susceptible are old technology, tube circuits and devices that are turned off.
He gave an example of what an aerial photograph might look like after a strike, during the day vs. at night—given that the power grid knock out would be much more visible after dark.
He juxtaposed the dozen or so movies that have been made about these types of attacks and their assertions with what is likely to happen.
Fiction:
Power grid down, no fuel/water, no communications, complete anarchy, transportation is useless, 90% of US population is dead in one year.
More Likely:
Some power grids go down, electronics are affected, maybe some loss of life. And the impact would vary depending on geographical location in the US.
His analysis is the likelihood of an impact by an EMP “bomb” would be greater than an asteroid impact but less likely than the impact of an earthquake.
Thank you Dick Bennett for the photos!
