Just in case you ever read SlashDot. Why don't you cast your self as Bilbo? It's so much you! standing in front of the circular door at the set. Will you consider it? Peter Baggins?
I've worked at a nuke plant. stairs everywhere. reactor and containment vessel is over 100 feet tall, fuel pool is above that in this design. lots and lots of climbing.
Have you seen the pictures of the buildings and debris around them? I think it looks like the ruins left over from a war.
Ever been in a nuke plant?
Erhmm..no.
Your unmanned vehicle is going to climb stairs or industrial ladders to put these hoses and pumps and support equipment in?
I don't think that stair climbing is necessary to get to the fuel rods.
The famous japanese robots clean houses and clear dishes from tables for old people.
Technically thats a lot more complicated than moving a vehicle over random obstacles. That is why I don't understand why FEPC don't have a crane or a tank rigged with a fire hoses. Getting close to the hot spot would help a lot, compared to dumping water from a helicopter. Perhaps the rods could be knocked into each other causing the meltdown to accelerate. Radiosity can also destroy the electronic circuits used to control the helicopter and could cause the aircraft to crash.
Where is the hightech robots that Japan is known for? Isn't it strange that there is no autonomous or even remote controlled vehicles ready for cooling the fuel rods. This would be the showcase of all times, to show what automated vehicles can do. North Korea has armed robots that can move about and shoot down apples at more than a one mile distance. US has several advanced military robots. Example: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/ugv.htm But why don't we have firefighting robots or a fuel rod excavator. It shouldn't take more than a day to rig an excavator with fire a hose. Just like during the oil well fires set of by Saddam under operation desert storm. Engineers added jet engines to fire hoses and mounted them to tanks with great success. Why haven't we seen the same kind of enginuity from the Japanese. Dropping water from helicopters is ridiculous and probably just causes more problems to the exposed fuel rods.
And can anybody tell how much plutonium the area (nearest 300km) can take before you have to abandon it permanently? And how far will the cloud spread if all the rods decide to ignite and puff into the air? How many kilo's of plutonium does it takes to kill the pacific ocean? How does plutonium mix with air and water. Does the heavy atoms fall out or will they just float about for days/weeks/months?
Your short inconsistent setences shows traces of autism. U on recep perscripted medicine kid? I urge you to explain your radical thinking on youtube instead, while drinking some tiger blod. That would be epic... You are winning drsmack1:)
Socialism works great in the autistic's imaginary paper world. It fails in the real world that in run by non-autistics.
Sorry.
Well there is a lot of autistic quants working in the banking world. Creating algorithms and writing software that runs Wall street. They kind of rule:) And how about the Manhattan project? I think most people would agree that these dudes (Bohr, Oppenheimer) played a pretty big role in the political arena, while being even by todays standards the über nerds.
People management skills doesn't come at the expense of technical abilities or any other skills for that matter. I think your problem with technically savy bosses stems from insecurity because of your lack of technical skills. You prefer to talk about the problem rather than handling it. This behavior was ok a couple of years ago before the financial crisis. Today that kind of attitude leads to bankrupcy. Bosses have to understand what they are dealing with. Networking and playing political games wont cut it when delivery is mandetory. Talking is out walking is in. As it should be. This also goes for companies like Google.
Can you take it out of the garage in 10+ years or so. And run it down hill at 80km/h without it starts crumbling into granulate due to oxidation. Or even worse break into long pointy sharp fragments?
The fact is that nothing has really changed over the past 10 to 12 years. Regards to what you can do with HTML and JavaScript.
Before XmlHTTPRequest there was remote scripting via JAVA sockets. Before Canvas there was VRML and SVG. The later now in IE9 Some used the div tags to paint charts and figures. Some when even further creating a bizare technique using borders to create 3D http://www.uselesspickles.com/triangles/
But today it seems that all the major browser vendors are finaly accepting HTML as a common web platform. Which is really good. It makes you believe that web is gonna bubble again. And stay bubbled!
Science does not proceed by "Eureka!" moments in which everything is suddenly clear. It's painstaking work of mapping out what doesn't work, to clear the way for what does. If the path to a better theory were clear, everyone would build a highway to it. To find it, one must enter the wilderness. This is a career killer. Blind alleys are time consuming to navigate, and do not result in publications. During that time your colleagues will look at you strangely and wonder what the hell you're doing with your time. You will soon find yourself without a job.
I can't think of a harder job than having to break new scientific grounds for a living. Maybe you should just be happy or feel privileged to work in an area of your interest. About you job situation. If Einstein could figure out the theory of relativity working as a clerk. Think about what you can do in between jobs:)
You have to give it to those theoretical physics for keep expanding the model(s) and getting new funds for it into 30-40 years and counting. Standard model, string theory, super gravitation, M theory and My Theory. Those guys are seriously good at math. But when Newton and Einstein's laws are so "simple", why is all the proposals for a unified theory so enormously complex? 127 free parameters is ridiculous by any standard. n^127 is too much. Compare this to software development. If you ever reach patch #127 to solve a broken algorithm, it's called trial an error and you should accept the fact that you are fiddling around hoping to strike gold. Maybe that's ok because your into unknown territory and there isn't any known solution to the problem. You have to figure it out yourself. However at some point it is time to stop messing around and start breaking down the problem (if possible) for a methodical analysis. But it seems to me, that theoretical physics has turned into a pure algebraic geometry discipline, in different flavors. Where it's more about following the crowd contributing to the stack of higher dimensions, rather than, perhaps kicking it down. And try to think in new ways. Test driven development is very popular nowadays. It can be very effective in creating robust software in a reasonable short time. But in it's core it is nothing more than trial an error (otherwise it's called configuration). If you define your requirement / problem as one or a list of defects you can either start analyse and estimate each problem based on educated guesses or just start hacking away. I would say that theoretical physics is way into hacking and should start picking out special problems instead of trying to master all the "crazy" new theories. Should the Higgs show up in the LHC, then it would be a miracle. But when we start believing in miracles, it is not science anymore. Maybe gambling. And "God does not throw dices" (Einstein) except when it comes to the quantum theory (Bohr). I say it is time take some money from the math department and spend it in the labs. And also a moon base please:) The H3 would pay for it!
Does memory places help people who forget where they left their keys (if not always leaving them in the same spot)? How do "you" avoid getting your memmory totally messed up as in real life? Thank god the memory doesnt smell ( unless you have the strawberry variant of tinitus )
Would it be four times thicker than normal H? And would a car drive 4 times longer on a tank full? If so it would also be a great rocket booster. Too bad that the muon is so short lived. One should try to add some Ginseng root to the collider
"Although the reactors can be self-sustaining so that the input can be turned off, the scientists say that the reactors work better with a constant input."
Of cause it runs better on electrons from your local power plant.
Artificial life ET Contact Third encounter Intelligent life on earth Unknown STD found on the international space station Cowboy Neal discovered in a valley on Mars Etc.
It's just a bunch of crap that everybody knew was going on all the time. Politicians are just like ordinary people, just "a little" more arrogant, power hungry, ego centric, stupid, you name it. And ugly too! It can't surprise anyone that they are back bitching each other like hell. There is no Top Secret documents, just a whooping 350MB of boring crap. If the leak was about a couple of hundred really interesting documents, then i would be interested. But It's just all about publicity and money. Wikileaks want's your donations.
At least they could breathe and had water when the colonized America.
Thats a good argument. Of course you could harvest both from the ice located at the polar caps. But that would probably require a small nuclear power plant. The poor guys would be too busy creating oxygen and water to do anything else. Finally they would die thirsty and radioactive. Sounds like a real tough job to me.
The question is. How many months or years one could survive if receiving supplies, lets say 4 times a year.
Slashdot Mirror
Just in case you ever read SlashDot.
Why don't you cast your self as Bilbo?
It's so much you! standing in front of the circular door at the set.
Will you consider it? Peter Baggins?
Ugly!, Why?, No
I've worked at a nuke plant. stairs everywhere. reactor and containment vessel is over 100 feet tall, fuel pool is above that in this design. lots and lots of climbing.
Ok i get the picture.
Have you seen the pictures of the buildings and debris around them?
I think it looks like the ruins left over from a war.
Ever been in a nuke plant?
Erhmm..no.
Your unmanned vehicle is going to climb stairs or industrial ladders to put these hoses and pumps and support equipment in?
I don't think that stair climbing is necessary to get to the fuel rods.
The famous japanese robots clean houses and clear dishes from tables for old people.
Technically thats a lot more complicated than moving a vehicle over random obstacles.
That is why I don't understand why FEPC don't have a crane or a tank rigged with a fire hoses.
Getting close to the hot spot would help a lot, compared to dumping water from a helicopter.
Perhaps the rods could be knocked into each other causing the meltdown to accelerate.
Radiosity can also destroy the electronic circuits used to control the helicopter and could cause the aircraft to crash.
Where is the hightech robots that Japan is known for?
Isn't it strange that there is no autonomous or even remote controlled vehicles ready for cooling the fuel rods.
This would be the showcase of all times, to show what automated vehicles can do.
North Korea has armed robots that can move about and shoot down apples at more than a one mile distance.
US has several advanced military robots.
Example: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/ugv.htm
But why don't we have firefighting robots or a fuel rod excavator.
It shouldn't take more than a day to rig an excavator with fire a hose.
Just like during the oil well fires set of by Saddam under operation desert storm.
Engineers added jet engines to fire hoses and mounted them to tanks with great success.
Why haven't we seen the same kind of enginuity from the Japanese.
Dropping water from helicopters is ridiculous and probably just causes more problems to the exposed fuel rods.
And can anybody tell how much plutonium the area (nearest 300km) can take before you have to abandon it permanently?
And how far will the cloud spread if all the rods decide to ignite and puff into the air?
How many kilo's of plutonium does it takes to kill the pacific ocean?
How does plutonium mix with air and water. Does the heavy atoms fall out or will they just float about for days/weeks/months?
Ups.! That was a lot of questions.
Your short inconsistent setences shows traces of autism. :)
U on recep perscripted medicine kid?
I urge you to explain your radical thinking on youtube instead, while drinking some tiger blod. That would be epic...
You are winning drsmack1
Socialism works great in the autistic's imaginary paper world. It fails in the real world that in run by non-autistics.
Sorry.
Well there is a lot of autistic quants working in the banking world. :)
Creating algorithms and writing software that runs Wall street.
They kind of rule
And how about the Manhattan project?
I think most people would agree that these dudes (Bohr, Oppenheimer) played a pretty big role in the political arena, while being even by todays standards the über nerds.
People management skills doesn't come at the expense of technical abilities or any other skills for that matter.
I think your problem with technically savy bosses stems from insecurity because of your lack of technical skills.
You prefer to talk about the problem rather than handling it.
This behavior was ok a couple of years ago before the financial crisis.
Today that kind of attitude leads to bankrupcy.
Bosses have to understand what they are dealing with.
Networking and playing political games wont cut it when delivery is mandetory.
Talking is out walking is in. As it should be.
This also goes for companies like Google.
Can you take it out of the garage in 10+ years or so. And run it down hill at 80km/h without it starts crumbling into granulate due to oxidation.
Or even worse break into long pointy sharp fragments?
The fact is that nothing has really changed over the past 10 to 12 years. Regards to what you can do with HTML and JavaScript.
Before XmlHTTPRequest there was remote scripting via JAVA sockets.
Before Canvas there was VRML and SVG. The later now in IE9
Some used the div tags to paint charts and figures.
Some when even further creating a bizare technique using borders to create 3D http://www.uselesspickles.com/triangles/
But today it seems that all the major browser vendors are finaly accepting HTML as a common web platform.
Which is really good.
It makes you believe that web is gonna bubble again. And stay bubbled!
Remember HTML5 is the new HTML...Some say it the other way around :) http://blog.whatwg.org/html-is-the-new-html5
Anyways It's called HTML from now on.
I wonder how many crates of French Grand cru wines that they spend on this project.
Science does not proceed by "Eureka!" moments in which everything is suddenly clear. It's painstaking work of mapping out what doesn't work, to clear the way for what does. If the path to a better theory were clear, everyone would build a highway to it. To find it, one must enter the wilderness. This is a career killer. Blind alleys are time consuming to navigate, and do not result in publications. During that time your colleagues will look at you strangely and wonder what the hell you're doing with your time. You will soon find yourself without a job.
I can't think of a harder job than having to break new scientific grounds for a living. :)
Maybe you should just be happy or feel privileged to work in an area of your interest.
About you job situation.
If Einstein could figure out the theory of relativity working as a clerk.
Think about what you can do in between jobs
You have to give it to those theoretical physics for keep expanding the model(s) and getting new funds for it into 30-40 years and counting. Standard model, string theory, super gravitation, M theory and My Theory. :)
Those guys are seriously good at math.
But when Newton and Einstein's laws are so "simple", why is all the proposals for a unified theory so enormously complex?
127 free parameters is ridiculous by any standard. n^127 is too much.
Compare this to software development.
If you ever reach patch #127 to solve a broken algorithm, it's called trial an error and you should accept the fact that you are fiddling around hoping to strike gold.
Maybe that's ok because your into unknown territory and there isn't any known solution to the problem.
You have to figure it out yourself.
However at some point it is time to stop messing around and start breaking down the problem (if possible) for a methodical analysis.
But it seems to me, that theoretical physics has turned into a pure algebraic geometry discipline, in different flavors.
Where it's more about following the crowd contributing to the stack of higher dimensions, rather than, perhaps kicking it down. And try to think in new ways.
Test driven development is very popular nowadays. It can be very effective in creating robust software in a reasonable short time. But in it's core it is nothing more than trial an error (otherwise it's called configuration).
If you define your requirement / problem as one or a list of defects you can either start analyse and estimate each problem based on educated guesses or just start hacking away.
I would say that theoretical physics is way into hacking and should start picking out special problems instead of trying to master all the "crazy" new theories.
Should the Higgs show up in the LHC, then it would be a miracle. But when we start believing in miracles, it is not science anymore. Maybe gambling. And "God does not throw dices" (Einstein) except when it comes to the quantum theory (Bohr).
I say it is time take some money from the math department and spend it in the labs.
And also a moon base please
The H3 would pay for it!
Does memory places help people who forget where they left their keys (if not always leaving them in the same spot)?
How do "you" avoid getting your memmory totally messed up as in real life?
Thank god the memory doesnt smell ( unless you have the strawberry variant of tinitus )
Most of it didn't actually work. At least not for making fire crackers.
Vaseline isn't more dangerous than regular butter or parrafin.
>The book was only made dangerous by what it omitted, incomplete information
>in that book probably lost some people a few fingers
Burned fingers perhaps.
I think the greatest danger is that young teenager burns some nasty holes in the carpet or sets the curtains on fire.
Cool dad!
Leave mom in the kitchen while the guys blow up the garage.
Thats i what i call male bonding.
They sat down and started to think hard...
While staring at goats
Would it be four times thicker than normal H?
And would a car drive 4 times longer on a tank full?
If so it would also be a great rocket booster.
Too bad that the muon is so short lived.
One should try to add some Ginseng root to the collider
"Although the reactors can be self-sustaining so that the input can be turned off, the scientists say that the reactors work better with a constant input."
Of cause it runs better on electrons from your local power plant.
This subject should be on the slash poll!
What did NASA find:
Artificial life
ET
Contact
Third encounter
Intelligent life on earth
Unknown STD found on the international space station
Cowboy Neal discovered in a valley on Mars
Etc.
I bet it's something along with this:
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100520/full/news.2010.253.html
or this:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827815.800-50-ideas-to-change-science-artificial-life.html
If it is. Then we can soon replace our plastic office plants with "living" plastic plants. Just add methane.
No it ain't!
It's just a bunch of crap that everybody knew was going on all the time.
Politicians are just like ordinary people, just "a little" more arrogant, power hungry, ego centric, stupid, you name it. And ugly too!
It can't surprise anyone that they are back bitching each other like hell.
There is no Top Secret documents, just a whooping 350MB of boring crap.
If the leak was about a couple of hundred really interesting documents, then i would be interested.
But It's just all about publicity and money.
Wikileaks want's your donations.
What a waste of bandwidth!
Yawn...Sigh
At least they could breathe and had water when the colonized America.
Thats a good argument.
Of course you could harvest both from the ice located at the polar caps.
But that would probably require a small nuclear power plant.
The poor guys would be too busy creating oxygen and water to do anything else.
Finally they would die thirsty and radioactive.
Sounds like a real tough job to me.
The question is. How many months or years one could survive if receiving supplies, lets say 4 times a year.