Check from somewhere else if you think 212F is too much (though that small difference doesn't really change it that much - nowhere enough to matter.) "normal" conductivity of things tends to get reported at around room temperatures, not at absolute zero or kazillion degrees.
No. Some people (usually overclockers) buy these "silver" compounds because they think it conducts heat better than other materials - and it probably does - but practically it isn't any better than the others, there's supposed to be _very_ little of this stuff in between the CPU and cooler, so any difference with any other compound that is fluid enough to fill all the cracks it's supposed to, is very small, and probably not even noticeable.
If people are purchasing this compound because it is "99% silver" and place it inbetween the CPU and the heatsink, isn't there more at stake here? I mean what if there were damaged CPUs due to the usage of this compound instead of one with 99% silver?
I don't see how one could fry their CPU (assuming the compound isn't useless in the more important aspects) with this, so what if it makes a 1'C difference, the thing would've fried anyway
If you push your system over the limits it's designed to go, you should monitor it, instead of trusting some magical "silver bullet" will save you - and if you don't keep an eye of those temperatures, you're an idiot. And deserve your new keychain that used to be an expensive CPU.
Could you provide same results from a plausible source - creationists and their well-known lies don't come even close to being anything more than a good laugh.
Well, Mars-3 and 6 landers did manage to land, but failed after only few seconds and minutes. Not a success by just about any definition, but still plenty of time to transmit atmospheric data.
Then again, you can get just fine readings from orbit - heck, you can get pretty good data about Martian atmosphere without even leaving Earth.
Even a single impact of good size is bound to throw up a lot of rock, so even dismissing Earth's gravity and the fact that even if they miss, there's a change of hitting again later, it's more like shooting the ant with a machine gun.
There are probably much more martian rocks here than these few, it's not like finding them or recognizing them as martian is easy - and the smaller ones have disintegrated in atmosphere.
That's why for reliability they will need either uranium reactor of tritium reactor or both.
Well, guess it's good to keep something in backup to keep the life support running if you happen to live in a place where power going down will result in unfortunate lack of survivable conditions.
Though the infrastructure should be built to be a very reliable one anyway - new ones did not succumb to the August blackout down here either, and rest of the world hasn't seen anything like that. Yet, at least.
As for roads, maybe there won't be need for them, I haven't done any calculations but perhaps the gravity is low enough that transportation around the moon with small rockets or even ballistic catapults of some sort could be viable option (or combination of those, shoot it up and rockets for landing) and be cheaper than building lots of roads to a place that doesn't have almost any inhabitants.
The elements you mention are all ALPHA emitters. Most of them are actually relatively safe, although if the background level is high enough, you could have a heightened risk of skin cancer.
Yes, if they stay where they are, they are relatively safe like all alpha and beta emitters, but some are bound to end up in food chain or water.
The only really risky one is the Radon gas.
Radon gas, however is only a decay product - and it's not the only one, some of them are Beta and Gamma emitters.
It's also an Alpha emitter, but can be inhaled to expose you to a heightened risk of lung cancer.
There's also lot of Radon in water at some locations.
Fortunately, it pools up inside of buildings and can actually be dealt with, especially if you know about it.
Fortunately? Pooling up in buildings where people tend to spend most of their time isn't what I'd call fortunate... sure it helps the dealing part, but only if you indeed do know about it.
With the reactor isotopes, while it only raised the radiation levels slightly, it sprayed you (Finland included...) with some rather nasty isotopes that do far, far worse things than Radon does.
Perhaps, if they were present in huge amounts. But they aren't, as things stand, we are exposed to much more radiation from Radon than any of isotopes present in Chernobyl fallout.
Cesium-137 - Energetic Beta emitter. Half-life 30 years. Breakdown product is Barium-137 which is a metastable isotope with a half-life of about 2.6 minutes and is a Gamma emitter. Replaces Potassium uniformly in your system.
Replacing Potassium uniformly with a beta emitter sounds bad - at least until you figure out some of that potassium (more than will ever be replaced by Cesium) is already K-40, more energetic beta emitter.
Strontium-90 - Engergetic Beta emitter. Half-life 29.1 years. Breakdown product is Yttrium-90 which is also a beta emitter with a half-life of 2.67 days. Replaces Calcium in your system and tends to concentrate in your teeth and bones.
Yup, that'd be bad if there was lots and lots of the stuff. But there isn't, it's insignificant compared to even C-137 which is insignificant compared to everything else.
Chernobyl just exposed you all to a dramatic increase in the risk of various cancers that you'd not have had the risk of, even WITH the heightened background radiation.
Number of cancer deaths here due to chernobyl is estimated to be about 500 during the next 100 years - while about million Finns are expected to due of cancer during the same from other reasons - that's not dramatic increase, in fact, it's not even noticeable.
how much of the radiation are your tissues actually exposed to.
Well, that's what it comes to in the end, isn't it? So, here are the numbers for actual exposure (that's during 50 years):
Chernobyl: 2mSv Radiation in medical use: 27mSv Background radiation: 55mSv Radon: 100mSv
So, in the end, Chernobyl increases our actual exposure, *drumroll*, about one percent. What a big and scary number.
It might perhaps be filled with "just empty space" if created in such environments (vacuum), but incredibly sparse arrangements will tend to fill with air the second it's exposed to it, for obvious reasons (it's full of holes! even if they're small)
Do you know WHY the background radiation levels are higher in Norway than Chernobyl? It's actually very simple, really...
Indeed it is, very simple.
Because the prevailing winds dissipated the deadly cloud out into the direction of Norway and beyond...
But you fail it spectacularly.
Natural background radiation levels in Norway (and several other places, here in Finland for example) have always been - and will always be - higher, not because of any significant fallout from Chernobyl (though obviously there is _very_ slight amount of that too), due to high amount of uranium (and the resulting radon) and thorium in soil and rock.
If you're going to produce energy on Moon, solar is best bet, no need for fusion reactors.
It's much more efficient than on Earth because there's no atmosphere, and you'll be living underground anyway so "wasting" surface area for collector farms is not a problem it's here.
And when those apps happen to be the same ones with holes big enough for jumbojet to fly trough, they'll happily give their "Run as" administrator rights to the exploit.
The solution is to set their mouse up so that whenever they open an attachment, they get a shock. The more they open attachments, the more they get shocked. Eventually the problem will go away (Either when they stop opening attachments or when the shocks become fatal...)
Well, I've heard that works on dogs, but users? No way in hell, they are so boneheaded they won't stop clicking - and they're probably too stubborn to die as well.
They'll only help it, however if you can hear and the sounds get worked into dreams pretty clear, you probably don't need any specific gadgets - just learn some specific sound, play it from timer somehow and use it as a cue that you're sleeping.
It's basically the same way these things work, except that it's auditory instead of visual and/or both.
Why on Earth would anyone want to run a train on fuel cells?
Once upon a time trains used to carry fuel on them, then the folks building railways noticed that since we're already laying all these tracks, might just as well draw an electric cable on top of that and get rid of carrying useless extra weight and refueling stops. And then they lived happily ever after.
And it's not supposed to. Series 60 is their uber-expensive pda/phone/camera-combo series of toys, you wouldn't buy anything like that anyway if you were looking for a cell that just does calls, perl or no perl.
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Well, you're wrong.
Check from somewhere else if you think 212F is too much (though that small difference doesn't really change it that much - nowhere enough to matter.) "normal" conductivity of things tends to get reported at around room temperatures, not at absolute zero or kazillion degrees.
So is "silver" even a necessity to CPU cooling?
No. Some people (usually overclockers) buy these "silver" compounds because they think it conducts heat better than other materials - and it probably does - but practically it isn't any better than the others, there's supposed to be _very_ little of this stuff in between the CPU and cooler, so any difference with any other compound that is fluid enough to fill all the cracks it's supposed to, is very small, and probably not even noticeable.
If people are purchasing this compound because it is "99% silver" and place it inbetween the CPU and the heatsink, isn't there more at stake here? I mean what if there were damaged CPUs due to the usage of this compound instead of one with 99% silver?
I don't see how one could fry their CPU (assuming the compound isn't useless in the more important aspects) with this, so what if it makes a 1'C difference, the thing would've fried anyway
If you push your system over the limits it's designed to go, you should monitor it, instead of trusting some magical "silver bullet" will save you - and if you don't keep an eye of those temperatures, you're an idiot. And deserve your new keychain that used to be an expensive CPU.
Could you provide same results from a plausible source - creationists and their well-known lies don't come even close to being anything more than a good laugh.
Well, Mars-3 and 6 landers did manage to land, but failed after only few seconds and minutes. Not a success by just about any definition, but still plenty of time to transmit atmospheric data.
Then again, you can get just fine readings from orbit - heck, you can get pretty good data about Martian atmosphere without even leaving Earth.
Even a single impact of good size is bound to throw up a lot of rock, so even dismissing Earth's gravity and the fact that even if they miss, there's a change of hitting again later, it's more like shooting the ant with a machine gun.
There are probably much more martian rocks here than these few, it's not like finding them or recognizing them as martian is easy - and the smaller ones have disintegrated in atmosphere.
Hey, that's what I've been saying all along!
There's no Mars, they're making it up in the Utah desert!
They're mammals. Try sleeping in water without drowning and the reason for evolving that particular trait might start to become more clear.
It's covered for decoding too.
MP3 decoding didn't carry a royalty and thus became popular, but after that happened they became greedy and now want to charge from it.
Most of the people don't care about that, but technically it's still patented.
Half?
Mars Express is more like 90% of the mission.
Remember that manned missions to Mars cost something like 100 times more than unmanned.
But It would probably get you 1000 times more data as well.
That's why for reliability they will need either uranium reactor of tritium reactor or both.
Well, guess it's good to keep something in backup to keep the life support running if you happen to live in a place where power going down will result in unfortunate lack of survivable conditions.
Though the infrastructure should be built to be a very reliable one anyway - new ones did not succumb to the August blackout down here either, and rest of the world hasn't seen anything like that. Yet, at least.
As for roads, maybe there won't be need for them, I haven't done any calculations but perhaps the gravity is low enough that transportation around the moon with small rockets or even ballistic catapults of some sort could be viable option (or combination of those, shoot it up and rockets for landing) and be cheaper than building lots of roads to a place that doesn't have almost any inhabitants.
The elements you mention are all ALPHA emitters. Most of them are actually relatively safe, although if the background level is high enough, you could have a heightened risk of skin cancer.
Yes, if they stay where they are, they are relatively safe like all alpha and beta emitters, but some are bound to end up in food chain or water.
The only really risky one is the Radon gas.
Radon gas, however is only a decay product - and it's not the only one, some of them are Beta and Gamma emitters.
It's also an Alpha emitter, but can be inhaled to expose you to a heightened risk of lung cancer.
There's also lot of Radon in water at some locations.
Fortunately, it pools up inside of buildings and can actually be dealt with, especially if you know about it.
Fortunately? Pooling up in buildings where people tend to spend most of their time isn't what I'd call fortunate... sure it helps the dealing part, but only if you indeed do know about it.
With the reactor isotopes, while it only raised the radiation levels slightly, it sprayed you (Finland included...) with some rather nasty isotopes that do far, far worse things than Radon does.
Perhaps, if they were present in huge amounts. But they aren't, as things stand, we are exposed to much more radiation from Radon than any of isotopes present in Chernobyl fallout.
Cesium-137 - Energetic Beta emitter. Half-life 30 years. Breakdown product is Barium-137 which is a metastable isotope with a half-life of about 2.6 minutes and is a Gamma emitter. Replaces Potassium uniformly in your system.
Replacing Potassium uniformly with a beta emitter sounds bad - at least until you figure out some of that potassium (more than will ever be replaced by Cesium) is already K-40, more energetic beta emitter.
Strontium-90 - Engergetic Beta emitter. Half-life 29.1 years. Breakdown product is Yttrium-90 which is also a beta emitter with a half-life of 2.67 days. Replaces Calcium in your system and tends to concentrate in your teeth and bones.
Yup, that'd be bad if there was lots and lots of the stuff. But there isn't, it's insignificant compared to even C-137 which is insignificant compared to everything else.
Chernobyl just exposed you all to a dramatic increase in the risk of various cancers that you'd not have had the risk of, even WITH the heightened background radiation.
Number of cancer deaths here due to chernobyl is estimated to be about 500 during the next 100 years - while about million Finns are expected to due of cancer during the same from other reasons - that's not dramatic increase, in fact, it's not even noticeable.
how much of the radiation are your tissues actually exposed to.
Well, that's what it comes to in the end, isn't it? So, here are the numbers for actual exposure (that's during 50 years):
Chernobyl: 2mSv
Radiation in medical use: 27mSv
Background radiation: 55mSv
Radon: 100mSv
So, in the end, Chernobyl increases our actual exposure, *drumroll*, about one percent. What a big and scary number.
Build few more around the Moon so there's always some that are in the day side, duh.
It might perhaps be filled with "just empty space" if created in such environments (vacuum), but incredibly sparse arrangements will tend to fill with air the second it's exposed to it, for obvious reasons (it's full of holes! even if they're small)
So yes, there's air inside the matrix.
Yes there is.
Air is, by definition, the mixture of gases that make up Earth's atmosphere.
Do you know WHY the background radiation levels are higher in Norway than Chernobyl? It's actually very simple, really...
Indeed it is, very simple.
Because the prevailing winds dissipated the deadly cloud out into the direction of Norway and beyond...
But you fail it spectacularly.
Natural background radiation levels in Norway (and several other places, here in Finland for example) have always been - and will always be - higher, not because of any significant fallout from Chernobyl (though obviously there is _very_ slight amount of that too), due to high amount of uranium (and the resulting radon) and thorium in soil and rock.
Wrong.
The Moon is moving AWAY from Earth.
If you're going to produce energy on Moon, solar is best bet, no need for fusion reactors.
It's much more efficient than on Earth because there's no atmosphere, and you'll be living underground anyway so "wasting" surface area for collector farms is not a problem it's here.
You won't haul cargo from Moon with rockets, you build a railgun or some other electromagnetic accelerator there, and shoot them up.
With plenty of solar power (no atmosphere) and minimal energy requirements due to low gravity well and no atmospheric drag that's practically free.
Of course someone would need to build the damn things there first...
And when those apps happen to be the same ones with holes big enough for jumbojet to fly trough, they'll happily give their "Run as" administrator rights to the exploit.
The solution is to set their mouse up so that whenever they open an attachment, they get a shock. The more they open attachments, the more they get shocked. Eventually the problem will go away (Either when they stop opening attachments or when the shocks become fatal...)
Well, I've heard that works on dogs, but users? No way in hell, they are so boneheaded they won't stop clicking - and they're probably too stubborn to die as well.
Seems to work just fine with Moz 1.6.
Nothing can trigger a lucid reliably.
They'll only help it, however if you can hear and the sounds get worked into dreams pretty clear, you probably don't need any specific gadgets - just learn some specific sound, play it from timer somehow and use it as a cue that you're sleeping.
It's basically the same way these things work, except that it's auditory instead of visual and/or both.
Why on Earth would anyone want to run a train on fuel cells?
Once upon a time trains used to carry fuel on them, then the folks building railways noticed that since we're already laying all these tracks, might just as well draw an electric cable on top of that and get rid of carrying useless extra weight and refueling stops. And then they lived happily ever after.
What would carrying fuel again gain?
It doesn't.
And it's not supposed to. Series 60 is their uber-expensive pda/phone/camera-combo series of toys, you wouldn't buy anything like that anyway if you were looking for a cell that just does calls, perl or no perl.