Fusion seems like it will always be the energy of the future. In the meantime, fission seems like a reasonable solution. There's been many of saftey advances in the past 30 years, and American saftey standards are high enough to prevent something like Chernobyl from happening in this country. (Overheating a 35-year old reactor without saftey features on) A former nuclear engineer who is now my supervisor once told me: "More people have died in of Ted Kennedy's car than have died from American nuclear reactors. The main problem is, many environmental activists oppose fission power, but also want to clean up greenhouse gases. My position is go with nuclear power, use it to generate electricity, then make electric cars, or cars that run off of hydrogen produced from nuclear reactors. We can then all say goodbye to at least 90% of American CO2 emissions.
This goes for all federal loans and financial aid. Anyone can get federal Stafford loans for up to $10,000 a year. 98% of people at very expensive private schools rely on some sort of financial aid to go, that according to a friend's student newspaper. Something like this hurts everybody.
Its not out yet, but I remember when I was beating Mario Sunshine people liked to just sit and watch. Now they are a bit more involved in a pretty mindless and easy capacity. Doesn't hurt me in hard levels, and makes it a bit more fun for a wingmate who wants to watch. Sounds good to me.
The vast majority of the cost that goes into the space station is American. Launching the large components, doing the risky spacewalks, delivering personnel. Other countries build some of the components (science labs), and Russia provides supplies the station as well as delivers personnel. The risk and investment in the station though has primarily fallen to the American's. American law should be defacto onboard the station. However, with patentable materials, the organizations responsible for the research of the patent maintain patent rights, so this could include multiple governments. The American government fronts somewhere along the lines of 2/3 to 3/4 the cost of the station, so I think it makes sense that American law should be the precedent to go by.
I have played Morrowind and Oblivion as much as possible, doing every guild's quest, etc. etc. It'd definitely be cool to have more life in the Elder Scrolls games, and to have lots of people participating. On the other hand, it'd be a bit odd if every adventurer in the tavern has an unknown past, and was a prisoner set free for mysterious reasons on a one-person quest to save the world from evil. That's the back story to all these games, and I suppose that would have to change, because 20,000 people on a quest to rid the world from evil is a different dynamic, though it is certainly possible, especially if it involves a war with 2 sides, and plenty of co-mingling, as well as soldiering (think Imperial Legion quests with big parties). The idea definitely has potential as well as possible pitfalls.
Adding new features to consoles just makes people who bought 360 early upset. If the HD-DVD had been included since the beginning, I would be buying HD-DVD movies, and I really enjoy my high-def 360 playing when I'm home from school. Well, since my Xbox is off at the repair center for red-ringing, back to my Wii.
From Hartmann's Moons and Planets: Titan goes around Saturn in 15.94 days, and it is tidally locked with one side always facing Saturn. On the Saturn facing side, there would sunlight for 8 days followed by Saturn's reflected light for 8 days, The days where there are sunlight, Titan would be on Saturn's dark side, and when the Saturn facing side of Titan is not facing the sun, it sees Saturn's reflected light from the Sun. However, there might be times when this side of Titan faces the Sun and Saturn eclipses the Sun. Considering the relative sizes involved, this probably happens fairly regularly, with a long duration. But anyways, its really dark out there to begin with, the only reason we get such nice pictures is because we use long-exposure cameras, the light that would reach Titan's atmosphere from the Sun is probably comparable to a full-moon here on planet Earth.
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Fusion seems like it will always be the energy of the future. In the meantime, fission seems like a reasonable solution. There's been many of saftey advances in the past 30 years, and American saftey standards are high enough to prevent something like Chernobyl from happening in this country. (Overheating a 35-year old reactor without saftey features on) A former nuclear engineer who is now my supervisor once told me: "More people have died in of Ted Kennedy's car than have died from American nuclear reactors. The main problem is, many environmental activists oppose fission power, but also want to clean up greenhouse gases. My position is go with nuclear power, use it to generate electricity, then make electric cars, or cars that run off of hydrogen produced from nuclear reactors. We can then all say goodbye to at least 90% of American CO2 emissions.
This goes for all federal loans and financial aid. Anyone can get federal Stafford loans for up to $10,000 a year. 98% of people at very expensive private schools rely on some sort of financial aid to go, that according to a friend's student newspaper. Something like this hurts everybody.
Its not out yet, but I remember when I was beating Mario Sunshine people liked to just sit and watch. Now they are a bit more involved in a pretty mindless and easy capacity. Doesn't hurt me in hard levels, and makes it a bit more fun for a wingmate who wants to watch. Sounds good to me.
The vast majority of the cost that goes into the space station is American. Launching the large components, doing the risky spacewalks, delivering personnel. Other countries build some of the components (science labs), and Russia provides supplies the station as well as delivers personnel. The risk and investment in the station though has primarily fallen to the American's. American law should be defacto onboard the station. However, with patentable materials, the organizations responsible for the research of the patent maintain patent rights, so this could include multiple governments. The American government fronts somewhere along the lines of 2/3 to 3/4 the cost of the station, so I think it makes sense that American law should be the precedent to go by.
I have played Morrowind and Oblivion as much as possible, doing every guild's quest, etc. etc. It'd definitely be cool to have more life in the Elder Scrolls games, and to have lots of people participating. On the other hand, it'd be a bit odd if every adventurer in the tavern has an unknown past, and was a prisoner set free for mysterious reasons on a one-person quest to save the world from evil. That's the back story to all these games, and I suppose that would have to change, because 20,000 people on a quest to rid the world from evil is a different dynamic, though it is certainly possible, especially if it involves a war with 2 sides, and plenty of co-mingling, as well as soldiering (think Imperial Legion quests with big parties). The idea definitely has potential as well as possible pitfalls.
Adding new features to consoles just makes people who bought 360 early upset. If the HD-DVD had been included since the beginning, I would be buying HD-DVD movies, and I really enjoy my high-def 360 playing when I'm home from school. Well, since my Xbox is off at the repair center for red-ringing, back to my Wii.
From Hartmann's Moons and Planets: Titan goes around Saturn in 15.94 days, and it is tidally locked with one side always facing Saturn. On the Saturn facing side, there would sunlight for 8 days followed by Saturn's reflected light for 8 days, The days where there are sunlight, Titan would be on Saturn's dark side, and when the Saturn facing side of Titan is not facing the sun, it sees Saturn's reflected light from the Sun. However, there might be times when this side of Titan faces the Sun and Saturn eclipses the Sun. Considering the relative sizes involved, this probably happens fairly regularly, with a long duration. But anyways, its really dark out there to begin with, the only reason we get such nice pictures is because we use long-exposure cameras, the light that would reach Titan's atmosphere from the Sun is probably comparable to a full-moon here on planet Earth.