Loss of power is a solved problem. The Westinghouse AP1000 reactor is a current design that is passively cooled, no external power necessary. I'm not sure about the spent fuel pools, but the reactor itself is entirely passively cooled and there are several of them already in existence.
A "traveling wave reactor" sounds like a neat idea, but the summary makes it sound like nobody's ever thought about a loss of external power event. We have to remember that the Fukushima plants were built in the 70's, they are old designs. Newer designs take that into account. The only point I'm trying to make here is that current generation designs have already taken loss of external power into account.
The assumption in your question is that all-mighty would have to be a contingent being, something that was created, as opposed to a necessary being, something that just has to be.
Whether matter or God something has to pre-exist the universe.
if you're a creationist, then refuse any treatment based on modern biology at all;
I am tired of slashdotter's characterizing creationists as hysterical troglodytes who are afraid of science and technology. I am a creationist. I also have a bachelor's degree in computer science and a job where I am doing research in the field of AI and knowledge based systems. Some day I would like to pursue a PhD to expand my knowledge and contribute to the sum of humanities knowledge. I view my research as an intellectual act of worship. After all Mark 12:30 states "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength." (NIV, emphasis added) God doesn't want willfully ignorant followers. There are many creationists who think like me.
Yes there are a few of us that are noisy and give the rest a bad name, this is true of any group. However, by making blanket statements you show that you are really just as biased and prejudiced as the caricatures that you condemn.
I once crashed my high school's network by plugging a CAT5 cable into two ports on the same hub. Taught the school not to build the network entirely out of hubs. Also gained access to the command prompt by creating a hyperlink to cmd.exe in a Word97 document. Confused the heck out of the computer lab teacher when I remotely shut down every computer in the lab.
If steam ran on linux I'd lose my main justification for running windows. I do like Windows 7, but if I hadn't been able to pick it up at a highly discounted student price it wouldn't have been worth the money.
Come to think of it, I've never paid full price for any version of windows.
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Loss of power is a solved problem. The Westinghouse AP1000 reactor is a current design that is passively cooled, no external power necessary. I'm not sure about the spent fuel pools, but the reactor itself is entirely passively cooled and there are several of them already in existence.
A "traveling wave reactor" sounds like a neat idea, but the summary makes it sound like nobody's ever thought about a loss of external power event. We have to remember that the Fukushima plants were built in the 70's, they are old designs. Newer designs take that into account. The only point I'm trying to make here is that current generation designs have already taken loss of external power into account.
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My water boiler has Intel Centrino inside.
The assumption in your question is that all-mighty would have to be a contingent being, something that was created, as opposed to a necessary being, something that just has to be.
Whether matter or God something has to pre-exist the universe.
if you're a creationist, then refuse any treatment based on modern biology at all;
I am tired of slashdotter's characterizing creationists as hysterical troglodytes who are afraid of science and technology. I am a creationist. I also have a bachelor's degree in computer science and a job where I am doing research in the field of AI and knowledge based systems. Some day I would like to pursue a PhD to expand my knowledge and contribute to the sum of humanities knowledge. I view my research as an intellectual act of worship. After all Mark 12:30 states "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength." (NIV, emphasis added) God doesn't want willfully ignorant followers. There are many creationists who think like me.
Yes there are a few of us that are noisy and give the rest a bad name, this is true of any group. However, by making blanket statements you show that you are really just as biased and prejudiced as the caricatures that you condemn.
I once crashed my high school's network by plugging a CAT5 cable into two ports on the same hub. Taught the school not to build the network entirely out of hubs. Also gained access to the command prompt by creating a hyperlink to cmd.exe in a Word97 document. Confused the heck out of the computer lab teacher when I remotely shut down every computer in the lab.
Its the simple things in life.
If steam ran on linux I'd lose my main justification for running windows. I do like Windows 7, but if I hadn't been able to pick it up at a highly discounted student price it wouldn't have been worth the money. Come to think of it, I've never paid full price for any version of windows.