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  1. Re:"Fuel: N2O4/UDMH" by Geoffrey.landis · · Score: 2 · on Russia's Proton Rocket, Which Predates Apollo, Will Finally Stop Flying (arstechnica.com)

    Atlas was RP1/LOX. The Titan II (Gemini) was UDMH/N204. There were no nasty hypergolic explosions with the TItan II.

    Titan explosion:
    http://www.encyclopediaofarkan...

    https://www.dailyrecord.com/story/news/2015/08/16/survivor-recalls-titan-ii-missile-silo-fire-killed/31815507/

    Perhaps you meant to say There were no nasty hypergolic explosions with the Atlas?

  2. Re:Tour a sub. by AG+the+other · · Score: 1 · on Two Sunken Japanese Submarines Found Off Hawaii

    For those of you in the central part of the US the USS Razorback is in North Little Rock AR.
    Article here: http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2586

    AG

  3. Re:Not a Great Analogy by hairyfeet · · Score: 1 · on China Considering Cuts In Rare-Earth Metal Exports

    The problem with alternative energy is the NIMBY crowd as well. Just look at how long it has taken us to get back to building nuclear reactors, and that tech is proven with a great track record. I for one would be happy to see more reactors like AR Nuclear 1 & 2 providing cheap sustainable power to our country, like what I currently enjoy here in AR.

    But I'm afraid you'll have the NIMBYs lined up around the block having a living shitfit every time somebody wants to build one, as we have seen time and time again. At least with oil it is refined in already built refineries to which the NIMBYs don't have a shitfit. But we have seen shitfits over nuclear, wind, solar, etc, because the NIMBYs think it is fine and dandy as long as it is built nowhere near THEM. Which is why if we are ultimately gonna get anywhere we are just gonna have to tell the NIMBY to STFU. And since I have been castigated in the past for not explaining acronyms allow me to say that NIMBY is "not in MY back yard!" which is sadly a pretty constant problem here in the USA, with lobbying groups simply bribing....errr lobbying to have things that would end up in their back yard moved from one place to another before eventually being killed.

  4. Re:That's no moon! by Intron · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Dropped Shuttle Toolbag Filmed From Earth

    That's a tool bag!

    Sigh...

    There go another set of $10,000 government hammers -- not to mention the $24,000 socket set :(

    (Ha. As an aside, I wonder how much that tool bag really cost when you factor in its mass during launch.)

    Not the worst accident that's happened due to a dropped tool.

  5. Re:Need funding? "Hey, who's got a spare wrench?" by rrohbeck · · Score: 1 · on LHC Repair To Cost At Least $21 Million

    Great work if you can get it. Need 20 million in funding? Drop a wrench into something that looks complicated. :)

    ... for some values of "something". For others, it might not be such a good idea.

  6. Re:This just in... by Wizworm · · Score: 1 · on NSA and Army On Quest For Quantum Physics Jackpot

    next time google it first
    Lefty Frizzell

  7. Re:"Gag the Internet" by hairyfeet · · Score: 1 · on Mormon Church Goes After WikiLeaks

    Just out of curiosity: did the Mormons ever admit that the mountain meadows massacre wasn't really a nice thing to do? Being from Ar I never really cared for a church that funded themselves by robbing the corpses of my fellow Arkansans. But hey,maybe I'm just weird that way. But seriously, last I heard the mormon church still refuses to take responsibility for their part in the massacre. It seems to me if they were being good Christians they would admit that killing a bunch of settlers for their gold probably wasn't a nice thing to do. But that is my 02c,YMMV.