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  1. Re:Come now. on How Japan Lost Track of 640kg of Plutonium · · Score: 1

    In fact, no amount of weapon grade Pu was lost, even no Pu of any grade was lost either.

  2. Re:Not really ... historically ... on Heartland Institute Document Leaker Comes Forward, Maintains Documents Are Real · · Score: 1

    Normal cigarette smoke has things like formaldahyde, benzene, ammonia and acetone - all known carcinogens while normal pot smoke does not. Can You tel me a procedure, how to burn leaves without producing formaldehyde. benzene, ammonia, acetone and lot of other things please?

  3. Re:what does waiting have to do with anything? on Heartland Institute Threatens To Sue Anyone Who Comments On Leaked Documents · · Score: 1

    Whether it actually is faked or not is another matter. There's no evidence one way or the other. But it being in a bundle with genuine documents does put the balance of probabilities on it also being genuine.

    There may be no evidence that one is faked, but the fact, that the one is scaned hrom hardcopy and the rest are direct saved as .pdf is prety sugestive one.

  4. Re:Great on Potato-Powered Batteries Debut · · Score: 1

    The problem is not with potatoes, the battery is generating power from zinc an copper electrodes, not from the potatoes, which serves only as an electrolyte. There may be a surplus of potatoes but I doubt, whether there is a surplus of copper and zinc also.

  5. Re:Still kinda dumb on ITER Fusion Reactor Enters Existential Crisis · · Score: 2, Informative

    The problem with fission reactors is that when the control rods fail, the enriched uranium does what it naturally does and continues to release neutrons in a chain reaction.

    Nonsense, when in pressurized water reactor _all_ control rods fail and also and also _all_ rods for emergency shutdown (which are operated solely on gravity) fail causing the power output and so the temperature of reactor increasing, then the water (serving as coolant and moderator) does, what it naturally does - its density and so the moderator efficiency decreases which results in stopping the chain reaction. It is called "inherent safety"

  6. Re:Why did he not succeed ? on Man Tries To Use Explosive Device On US Flight · · Score: 2

    Have you forgotten the second wave of London bombings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_July_2005_London_bombings)? These guys were really bunch of stupid incompetents.

  7. Re:"possibly a firecracker" on Man Tries To Use Explosive Device On US Flight · · Score: 3, Funny

    It could have been ammonium nitrate (common fertilizer) and any combustible liquid (petrol, diesel etc.) see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANFO

  8. Re:Global Warming Debate is a deliberate red herri on Russians Claim More Climate Data Was Manipulated · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter if global warming is real or not.

    The root question is, does it make sense to pump pollution into a thin atmosphere? No, of course not, it is wrong to keep doing so. Therefore, we need to take steps to stop.

    It does matter. The debate is not about air pollution. The debate is about CO2. And no, CO2 is not a pollutant. Remember, without CO2 there will be nothing green.

  9. "second opinions" on Russians Claim More Climate Data Was Manipulated · · Score: 3, Interesting

    One problem with this analogy is that it's not just one "doctor" that's saying "operate", it's thousands . How many more "second opinions" do you want before you accept that perhaps you actually need an operation? Are all those doctors quacks, every one of them?

    Here are some "second options" :

    Are all those doctors quacks, every one of them?

  10. Re:Nice try on Scientific Journal Nature Finds Nothing Notable In CRU Leak · · Score: 1

    The researchers did not use certain tree ring data post 1960 because it was not properly calibrated to instrumental data

    But the tree ring data was surely properly calibrated to hide the Medieval Warm Period. In other words, thermometers are the gold standard for cases they tell us, what our ideology expects, the tree rings are the gold standard in other cases, climatic models are the gold standards in yet another cases... insert you choices ad nauseam... as long as we are getting our precious Hockeystick, aren't they ;-)?

  11. Anti-moon dust pills?? on What Drugs Do Astronauts Take? · · Score: 1

    Wtf?? Was the author on "a cocktail of uppers, downers, tranquilizers and alcohol" to get the article done :-O?

  12. Re:This capability has been around for 20 years on Infrared Fibers Can Protect Against Chemoterrorism · · Score: 1

    Water has a terible strong absorption in infrared region, which makes trace analysis using IR spectrometry in water imposible (well, infrared band are generaly weak in comparison with, say, UV-Vis, so IR spectrometry is rarely used for trace analysis at all). UV spectrometry would be better suited for such a task IMHO.

  13. Re:Don't use Google Argentina? on Argentine Judges Disappear Celebrities From Internet · · Score: 1

    You can run, but you cannot escape :-)

  14. Re:Money well spend? on US Pulls Plug on Low-CO2 Powerplant Project · · Score: 1

    please, stop this nonsences an use your brains, use nuclear power!

  15. Rotating black hole on Black Hole Information Loss Paradox Solution Proposed · · Score: 1

    Has anybody an idea, if this conclusion is valid even for rotating black holes?

  16. Re: Can mobile companies successfully crush VOIP c on T-Mobile UK Blocking Mobile VoIP Start-Up · · Score: 1

    Question: Can mobile companies successfully crush VOIP competitors like this LEGALLY?
    Propably yes, they can randomly delay some packets, so making voip virtualy useless. As for IM mesages, they propably cannot as long they let you browsing web, you can always use some jabber client like bombus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombus_(software) and log in via http proxy
  17. Re:Vaclav Klaus Only Cares about making money on Is Scientific Consensus a Threat to Democracy? · · Score: 1

    You are right, that this country was devastated by comunism but it is recowering from this era very well. An in contrary to your feeling, that Mr. Klaus only cares about making mony, the mayority of improvements in enviroment was done during his goverment