(A) Promises to address the issue, (B) actually does do something like they said they would, and (C) does something effective instead of firing a couple peons or intentionally screwing us over more in a different way to make it look like they're helping.
Not to mention that we're already running down our aquifers...
Kinda wish the article made any attempt to explain how "put it in a pool of water" makes it supposedly automatically safe in the case of accident. Wouldn't they still need pumps to circulate the water through the reactor to absorb the heat?
1. So you're saying they're lying or is this just an ad hominem attack?
I'm to the point where I assume anything I read in a Slashdot summary (the original articles are sometimes misleading too, it seems) is a blatant lie. So I read the comments and sift through to find the one guy who knows exactly what the hell is *actually* happening.
If you know your history, you might recall that Germany and Austria had kind of been engaged in a struggle for hegemony over the culturally German population of Europe ever since the days of Prussia. If what you're trying to imply is that there was no difference between Austria-Hungary and Germany, there obviously was.
And yes, Hitler was born in Austria-Hungary (granted it was apparently a town right on the border). With a bit of further research, it looks like he was an Austrian citizen until 1925, when he renounced it but didn't apply for German citizenship, which caused him some problems with running for office and the risk of getting deported from Germany. He fought in the Bavarian army as an Austrian citizen. His grandmother was also born in Austria. What was your point?
Hitler was more or less directly responsible for World War 2, however.
What about from 10am to 7pm? I'd definitely consider it. Plus, you could actually access all those damn places that are only open during business hours more easily.
Companies seem to have a tendency to use extremely toxic chemicals wherever they don't expect humans to need to access the internals of the system...some nonsense about nature being inconvenient...:)
I managed to stay with them right up to the point where they said they radiated the excess heat into space...I thought that this entire setup hinged on the idea that vacuum doesn't conduct heat? Or is it like diffusion where heat wants to spread evenly, only in this case the diffused-to location is near absolute zero?
But is there some reason we can't use "SCOTUS" as an abbreviation? "Supremes" makes me think of either the 60s musical group, or some sort of Japanese mecha robot team a la Supreme Ultra Mega Iron Defenders of Earth.
Except for the part where it's persistent and steadily, albeit very slowly, increasing and we have no idea how to counteract it once it's in the atmosphere...
Yeah, let's just wait until it's actually a problem before we start researching how to fix it. What could possibly go wrong?
How many times do I have to keep telling people, Germany didn't start Word War 1?! Serbian nationalist assassinates Austrian dude, Austria invades Serbia, Russia starts mobilizing to defend Serbia, and ONLY THEN did Germany get involved.
Were going to be around for a couple billion years and the race will adapt to whatever is thrown at it.
Two words: Extinction-level Event. Hence why we need to be able to get off the planet. Even assuming that doesn't happen for billions of years (wasn't there that hypothetical big asteroid that killed the dinosaurs? How many billion years ago was that?), you're assuming we won't have comprehensively fucked the environment in the next couple hundred years.
Take care of the shit going on first, then worry about space.
So basically, we're never ever going into space again. Okay then.
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(A) Promises to address the issue, (B) actually does do something like they said they would, and (C) does something effective instead of firing a couple peons or intentionally screwing us over more in a different way to make it look like they're helping.
Yeah, me either.
Not to mention that we're already running down our aquifers...
Kinda wish the article made any attempt to explain how "put it in a pool of water" makes it supposedly automatically safe in the case of accident. Wouldn't they still need pumps to circulate the water through the reactor to absorb the heat?
If folate is one of those things with a relatively small range between beneficial amounts and toxicity, no, it isn't.
It's a web site. This stuff just isn't that hard to make effective and useful.
Said like a true non-programmer.
1. So you're saying they're lying or is this just an ad hominem attack?
I'm to the point where I assume anything I read in a Slashdot summary (the original articles are sometimes misleading too, it seems) is a blatant lie. So I read the comments and sift through to find the one guy who knows exactly what the hell is *actually* happening.
Headline: Slashdot Summaries Almost Invariably Disingenuous.
The real joke comes in when the article is actually about making cupcakes or shooting puppies or something.
If you know your history, you might recall that Germany and Austria had kind of been engaged in a struggle for hegemony over the culturally German population of Europe ever since the days of Prussia. If what you're trying to imply is that there was no difference between Austria-Hungary and Germany, there obviously was.
And yes, Hitler was born in Austria-Hungary (granted it was apparently a town right on the border). With a bit of further research, it looks like he was an Austrian citizen until 1925, when he renounced it but didn't apply for German citizenship, which caused him some problems with running for office and the risk of getting deported from Germany. He fought in the Bavarian army as an Austrian citizen. His grandmother was also born in Austria. What was your point?
Hitler was more or less directly responsible for World War 2, however.
What about from 10am to 7pm? I'd definitely consider it. Plus, you could actually access all those damn places that are only open during business hours more easily.
He should just count himself lucky that he's not being sued and leave it at that.
90 minutes is not "hours." It's not even plural; it's less than 2 hours.
Companies seem to have a tendency to use extremely toxic chemicals wherever they don't expect humans to need to access the internals of the system...some nonsense about nature being inconvenient... :)
How to dissipate heat in a near-vacuum sounds like an interesting engineering problem.
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast21mar_1/
I managed to stay with them right up to the point where they said they radiated the excess heat into space...I thought that this entire setup hinged on the idea that vacuum doesn't conduct heat? Or is it like diffusion where heat wants to spread evenly, only in this case the diffused-to location is near absolute zero?
Yeah, pretty much.
But is there some reason we can't use "SCOTUS" as an abbreviation? "Supremes" makes me think of either the 60s musical group, or some sort of Japanese mecha robot team a la Supreme Ultra Mega Iron Defenders of Earth.
I like to wrap clothes around my atoms to prevent them getting in people's faces
Obama isn't even a fucking citizen.
Aaaaand any possible credibility, right out the window.
Plus there's actually international treaties against it.
Except for the part where it's persistent and steadily, albeit very slowly, increasing and we have no idea how to counteract it once it's in the atmosphere...
Yeah, let's just wait until it's actually a problem before we start researching how to fix it. What could possibly go wrong?
Can you really be considered anything but innocent if you(r society) lack(s) a sense of ethics/morality?
Chimps tend to mature faster than humans. So at that age, the chimp have completely undergone puberty and are more or less adult.
You really think the law regarding age of sexual consent has anything to do with biological maturity?!
Heh--German joke :)
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/k%C3%B6nnen
Last I heard, legally speaking everyone in a number of European countries was considered a member of the state religion and "taxed" accordingly.
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How many times do I have to keep telling people, Germany didn't start Word War 1?! Serbian nationalist assassinates Austrian dude, Austria invades Serbia, Russia starts mobilizing to defend Serbia, and ONLY THEN did Germany get involved.
Hence it would probably be a good idea to establish some sort of colony off-planet.
You'll have to forgive me if I don't take the survival of the human race as flippantly as you do...
The number that survives an ELE is irrelevant, as long as they are able to form a stable reproductive pool.
Were going to be around for a couple billion years and the race will adapt to whatever is thrown at it.
Two words: Extinction-level Event. Hence why we need to be able to get off the planet. Even assuming that doesn't happen for billions of years (wasn't there that hypothetical big asteroid that killed the dinosaurs? How many billion years ago was that?), you're assuming we won't have comprehensively fucked the environment in the next couple hundred years.
Take care of the shit going on first, then worry about space.
So basically, we're never ever going into space again. Okay then.