Speech recognition verse bullet sounds are quite different problem sets. In particular bullet sounds are much easier to deal with for a number of reasons.
Yes you can. And when you want to have electricity, you practically must. You either need the dam or the nuke plant or the coal plant etc. There are real trade offs and you really do compare them.
Also even Chernobyl has not "rendered huge amounts of land unusable for centuries". Neither did the the two nuclear bombs detonated over Japanese cites.
It is harder to do many smaller plants with the same efficiency and cost that it is to do a single big plant. It has to do with the way the physics works with scaling.
To be fair. If we want to keep nuclear we should be using *new* nuclear, not plants that are way past their best before date. Having friends in the IAEA i can assure you that these older plants are *really* showing their age. Hell a good set of these reports are a matter of the public record.
Ironically, its the lack of a true "off right now" button with a fission pile that is the problem here. Sure you can stop the chain reaction fast, but the delayed neutrons and other fission product decays add a lot of heat to the system for hours and to a lesser extent days.
However it is still hard to make a dooms day device with a nuke plant. Chernobyl was a real good effort however.
Didn't notice the reply. It was a IIRC figure. And are a little check of my fluid dynamics reference, it was totally wrong. So the reason i made the claim was a honestly bad mistake.
However there is still the issue of where to put the lake and its environmental consequences. Even the 3Billion dollar facility are not that large (8 hours max output 1.6GW). They are not an economic solution to power when the wind does not blow or sun does not shine. Not unless you want to pay many times more that what you pay now. And it still push the price of wind and solar up several fold at least.
I haven't' flown big planes really. But the little planes i fly, all the instruments (gyros etc so turn indicator and artificial horizon) are all run from air from pilot tube. If all pilot tubes where blocked, I would only have a altimeter --but then again on the one larger aircraft I was in, that used a hole on the side of a pilot tube (pressurized cabin) as well.
I regularly talk to underage people on IRC. They are mostly teens (not a child), but the odd preteen comes to channel every now and then. It is most certainly not a crime in the civilized world. You know, even preteens are interested in physics and Linux.
You make it sound as though the police simply pick people up at random, accuse them of unprovable crimes and get them jailed. It's a bit more complicated than that,..
Yea, they pick you up if you *look* like you did whatever they feel like accusing you of. Skin colour has a strong effect here. I have known far too many police officers to assume they want to get the bad guy. They don't, they just want to get someone, typically someone they have already decided did it, or someone they don't like--not sure there is a difference.
I have the read the I, Robot stories. The basic idea was preserved IMO, without the boring, and at any rate this has no bearing on how good the movie is as a movie (rather than a book adaptation). And yes I find a lot of Asimov stuff boring.
This is not really a new way of "adapting" a book to the screen, if you call it adapting. Even quite a few of Stephen Kings movie adaptations are only similar in title and character names despite the fact that these books would translate to the screen 1 to 1 much better than sci-fi.
Of course you are still free to hate the I, Robot movie as a movie anyway. Fans are never a reason to make these things into movies, for one there is probably not enough of them to make financial sense, and secondly they will hate it anyway no mater what you do.
Well there is in fact the so called threshold model. There is quite a bit of medical data to back it up. The idea is that below a level of exposure your risk is not increased at all. However since the linear model (any exposure increases risk) is more conservative, typically this model is the accepted one to use. For obvious reasons.
Well MOON was about 30-40 min longer than it needed to be. A lot of movies feel like they need 2 hours worth because that is the new standard, but really quite a few of these movies would be better at 90min.
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Tsunamis don't affect anything out at sea. In fact if your in deep waters, chances are you won't even notice it.
Speech recognition verse bullet sounds are quite different problem sets. In particular bullet sounds are much easier to deal with for a number of reasons.
43.8% of tenth graders report having had intercourse
55.5% of eleventh graders report having had intercourse
Yea, cus tenth and eleventh graders are going to answer that survey completely honestly.
I have 8Mbit for 20EU per month (not that cheap for the EU) and I set my public access point up for a max of 2MBit. So its not really a problem.
Another very important question is that when/if its safer, is it affordable?
You cannot compare nuclear and water dams, sorry.
Yes you can. And when you want to have electricity, you practically must. You either need the dam or the nuke plant or the coal plant etc. There are real trade offs and you really do compare them.
Also even Chernobyl has not "rendered huge amounts of land unusable for centuries". Neither did the the two nuclear bombs detonated over Japanese cites.
It is harder to do many smaller plants with the same efficiency and cost that it is to do a single big plant. It has to do with the way the physics works with scaling.
To be fair. If we want to keep nuclear we should be using *new* nuclear, not plants that are way past their best before date. Having friends in the IAEA i can assure you that these older plants are *really* showing their age. Hell a good set of these reports are a matter of the public record.
Also generally receiving all that does in a short time is almost certainly worse that receiving it over the periods of years.
Ironically, its the lack of a true "off right now" button with a fission pile that is the problem here. Sure you can stop the chain reaction fast, but the delayed neutrons and other fission product decays add a lot of heat to the system for hours and to a lesser extent days.
However it is still hard to make a dooms day device with a nuke plant. Chernobyl was a real good effort however.
You mean like nobody did anything about chernobyl, everyone just got up and high tailed it out of there? I dare say you don't know many Europeans.
For me it was Voyager. I clearly remember waiting for the national geographic with the images...
Didn't notice the reply. It was a IIRC figure. And are a little check of my fluid dynamics reference, it was totally wrong. So the reason i made the claim was a honestly bad mistake.
However there is still the issue of where to put the lake and its environmental consequences. Even the 3Billion dollar facility are not that large (8 hours max output 1.6GW). They are not an economic solution to power when the wind does not blow or sun does not shine. Not unless you want to pay many times more that what you pay now. And it still push the price of wind and solar up several fold at least.
I haven't' flown big planes really. But the little planes i fly, all the instruments (gyros etc so turn indicator and artificial horizon) are all run from air from pilot tube. If all pilot tubes where blocked, I would only have a altimeter --but then again on the one larger aircraft I was in, that used a hole on the side of a pilot tube (pressurized cabin) as well.
So is arrogance it seems.
I hate smart phones.
I regularly talk to underage people on IRC. They are mostly teens (not a child), but the odd preteen comes to channel every now and then. It is most certainly not a crime in the civilized world. You know, even preteens are interested in physics and Linux.
Fact: the MAJORITY of the population lose their virginity at an age that qualifies as statutory rape.
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Where i live now, the age of consent is 14.
You make it sound as though the police simply pick people up at random, accuse them of unprovable crimes and get them jailed. It's a bit more complicated than that,..
Yea, they pick you up if you *look* like you did whatever they feel like accusing you of. Skin colour has a strong effect here. I have known far too many police officers to assume they want to get the bad guy. They don't, they just want to get someone, typically someone they have already decided did it, or someone they don't like--not sure there is a difference.
Crap, it really was boring ;)
I have the read the I, Robot stories. The basic idea was preserved IMO, without the boring, and at any rate this has no bearing on how good the movie is as a movie (rather than a book adaptation). And yes I find a lot of Asimov stuff boring.
This is not really a new way of "adapting" a book to the screen, if you call it adapting. Even quite a few of Stephen Kings movie adaptations are only similar in title and character names despite the fact that these books would translate to the screen 1 to 1 much better than sci-fi.
Of course you are still free to hate the I, Robot movie as a movie anyway. Fans are never a reason to make these things into movies, for one there is probably not enough of them to make financial sense, and secondly they will hate it anyway no mater what you do.
Well there is in fact the so called threshold model. There is quite a bit of medical data to back it up. The idea is that below a level of exposure your risk is not increased at all. However since the linear model (any exposure increases risk) is more conservative, typically this model is the accepted one to use. For obvious reasons.
Doesn't change the fact that we can blame US citizens.
Well MOON was about 30-40 min longer than it needed to be. A lot of movies feel like they need 2 hours worth because that is the new standard, but really quite a few of these movies would be better at 90min.