And the cesium levels in the soil have nothing to do with it, right? The 30-year half life is "quickly decaying back", yes? God almighty, you guys are pathetic.
I guess the evacuated the exclusion zone then because of anti-nuclear fearmongering? Seriously, get some fresh talking points. Yours are getting stale.
The german poet Christian Morgenstern brilliantly commented on that kind of denial nearly 100 years ago - "weil, so schlieÃYt er messerscharf// nicht sein kann, was nicht sein darf". It should not be, therefor it cannot be. That's pretty much the hymn of the apologist.
200 posts trying to praise the literary virtues of science fiction and no one mentions Miller's "Canticle for Leibowitz"? Guys, form a line and leave the room in an orderly fashion, returning your geek cards at the entrance.
Are you seriously citing Heinlein as a counter-example to the thesis that science fiction is crap? And "Time enough for love", in particular? Holy cow....
Yeah, you are probably right - but what does that tell us? They have no concept at all to handle a major failure mode in one of their reactors, none at all. All we are seeing is seat-of-the-pants level improvisation, because they have no plan. Why do we let those guys operate a reactor again?
Stack the 2-5k people close, like in a rally or something along these lines and drop cluster munition? Might do the job. Mighty useful in any practical context though, yes...
While I generally tend to agree with your sentiment... As a bona fide flightsim geek, I am still drooling right now. Can't help myself, sorry. Must... keep... control...
Why stop at half-measures? M829 series, depleted uranium armor piercing fin stabilized discarding sabot-tracer - if you absolutely, positively need it destroyed!
The purple chromophores in some plants are anthocyanines - those are not in the photosynthesis business, though. They mostly work as UV-blockers. These plants still work on chlorophyll, you just don't see it, because it gets masked by the anthocyanine. Try extracting some purple cabbage with some organic solvent - methanol should work well, I guess, and run a simple paper chromatography - you'll see separate green and purple spots then. Even red algae still work on chlorophyll a - the absorption spectra gets shifted by a quite different phycobiliproteid light harvesting complex though. And those live in a specialized niche with no competition to green plants, because of the water absorption spectrum.
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Oh, and just a small addendum - the 13C-is-healthy crowd is indeed crackpot in all likelihood. I used to do a lot of 13C labeling - the isotope is spin 1/2, so you need it to get NMR-active carbon in your proteins. The bacteria I fed with 13C-glucose didn't particularly like it, usually they grew worse than in unlabeled medium. Besides, 13C is expensive as hell. If they wanna pay kilobucks for a pack of sugar, well, I got a bridge to sell em, too. And some magnetized water in convenient freeze-dried form...
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Yup. Worthless on the fissile stuff, as the isotopic effect on atoms that heavy should be in the promille or lower range. You really see it in biochemical systems when you try to do deuterium labeling - about doubling the weight of your hydrogen isotope can really mess with some enzymes. Regarding the classical chemistry, it actually fits in quite well - I mean, for example, to break an atomic bond you have to put in energy. One way is to pump up the vibrational modes for example. Just think of a semi classical point-mass and spring model for a diatomic bond - there you got your mass term for bonding energy that gives you the isotopic effect. (Simplified, very simplified, ofc).
That was probably the greatest shock to me when I moved from Europe to the US for a while. First bread I bought was not only "sweetened with a hint of molasses" - it reeked of the stuff and was more sweet than some cakes I used to get at home. Straight to the trash bin it went...
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Before you go all high and mighty on the poor guy regarding your presumed superiority in "basic chemistry", you might want to read on the kinetic isotope effect. The grandparent's question is wholly legitimate - yes there is a difference in chemical reactivity between the isotopes of carbon, but the reaction rates differ only by about 4%, so it is mostly negligible. Isotope effects are stronger where the mass difference is bigger - markedly between 1H and 2H.
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So, just to get this out of the way - oil supplies are infinite and CO2 is plant food?
And the cesium levels in the soil have nothing to do with it, right? The 30-year half life is "quickly decaying back", yes? God almighty, you guys are pathetic.
The "40-year old" thing is basically a pure "no true scotsman". Tells you a lot about the apologists if they have to resort to that.
I guess the evacuated the exclusion zone then because of anti-nuclear fearmongering? Seriously, get some fresh talking points. Yours are getting stale.
The german poet Christian Morgenstern brilliantly commented on that kind of denial nearly 100 years ago - "weil, so schlieÃYt er messerscharf // nicht sein kann, was nicht sein darf". It should not be, therefor it cannot be. That's pretty much the hymn of the apologist.
And that is what puts me off nuclear anything. The fanclub is just disgusting.
Well, might that be because Piper Alpha didn't have any significant non-local effects?
200 posts trying to praise the literary virtues of science fiction and no one mentions Miller's "Canticle for Leibowitz"? Guys, form a line and leave the room in an orderly fashion, returning your geek cards at the entrance.
Sturgeon's law is to be recursively applied to the 10% categorized as non-crap after the first application....
Are you seriously citing Heinlein as a counter-example to the thesis that science fiction is crap? And "Time enough for love", in particular? Holy cow....
Yeah, you are probably right - but what does that tell us? They have no concept at all to handle a major failure mode in one of their reactors, none at all. All we are seeing is seat-of-the-pants level improvisation, because they have no plan. Why do we let those guys operate a reactor again?
The shills around here don't do minor conversion errors. They lie. Deliberately.
Reasonable people are demanding that we review our use of oil for years. What's your point?
Nah, I don't see any nefarious purpose here. This is just the usual corporate circlejerk - some underling telling the overlord what he wants to hear.
The scary thing is that this is hard to distinguish from the real deal... You have to mix in something about solar activity, though.
Well, of all religions, I give you that your God at least likes his shrooms. Not the worst of them...
Also, Fischertechnik has wicked pneumatic and hydraulic gear. Can't look at the catalogue without getting the urge to buy, buy, buy....
Stack the 2-5k people close, like in a rally or something along these lines and drop cluster munition? Might do the job. Mighty useful in any practical context though, yes...
While I generally tend to agree with your sentiment... As a bona fide flightsim geek, I am still drooling right now. Can't help myself, sorry. Must... keep... control...
Why stop at half-measures? M829 series, depleted uranium armor piercing fin stabilized discarding sabot-tracer - if you absolutely, positively need it destroyed!
The purple chromophores in some plants are anthocyanines - those are not in the photosynthesis business, though. They mostly work as UV-blockers. These plants still work on chlorophyll, you just don't see it, because it gets masked by the anthocyanine. Try extracting some purple cabbage with some organic solvent - methanol should work well, I guess, and run a simple paper chromatography - you'll see separate green and purple spots then. Even red algae still work on chlorophyll a - the absorption spectra gets shifted by a quite different phycobiliproteid light harvesting complex though. And those live in a specialized niche with no competition to green plants, because of the water absorption spectrum.
Oh, and just a small addendum - the 13C-is-healthy crowd is indeed crackpot in all likelihood. I used to do a lot of 13C labeling - the isotope is spin 1/2, so you need it to get NMR-active carbon in your proteins. The bacteria I fed with 13C-glucose didn't particularly like it, usually they grew worse than in unlabeled medium. Besides, 13C is expensive as hell. If they wanna pay kilobucks for a pack of sugar, well, I got a bridge to sell em, too. And some magnetized water in convenient freeze-dried form...
Yup. Worthless on the fissile stuff, as the isotopic effect on atoms that heavy should be in the promille or lower range. You really see it in biochemical systems when you try to do deuterium labeling - about doubling the weight of your hydrogen isotope can really mess with some enzymes. Regarding the classical chemistry, it actually fits in quite well - I mean, for example, to break an atomic bond you have to put in energy. One way is to pump up the vibrational modes for example. Just think of a semi classical point-mass and spring model for a diatomic bond - there you got your mass term for bonding energy that gives you the isotopic effect. (Simplified, very simplified, ofc).
That was probably the greatest shock to me when I moved from Europe to the US for a while. First bread I bought was not only "sweetened with a hint of molasses" - it reeked of the stuff and was more sweet than some cakes I used to get at home. Straight to the trash bin it went...
Before you go all high and mighty on the poor guy regarding your presumed superiority in "basic chemistry", you might want to read on the kinetic isotope effect. The grandparent's question is wholly legitimate - yes there is a difference in chemical reactivity between the isotopes of carbon, but the reaction rates differ only by about 4%, so it is mostly negligible. Isotope effects are stronger where the mass difference is bigger - markedly between 1H and 2H.