Yeah I felt like I was dying when I mixed a few too many beers with a pill of ecstasy. My experience was similar but I didn't slip into unconsciousness. I felt like I was going to though... it was a rough night to say the least. Mixing alcohol and E was probably the second mistake after already making the mistake of taking the E.:-(
That's because there's people who would rather see people who inject drugs die than see them receive any sort of help.
Sometimes the simple act of injecting is a cry for help. Which can be very frustrating to those standing around watching shit unfold... because everyone feels helpless, and usually it has to do with an ex-significant other who is trying to get attention.
If this vaccine, and vaccines like this are available, then those that are "crying help" will have no other option than to decide to take this vaccine. They asked for the help - well we'll fucking give it to them. And then they can stop threatening to off-themselves through overdose if their ex-significant other does leave themselves. At least they can make the choice to live or die completely sober.
yeah I was thinking of a way to utilize that energy as well. Maybe with two to three layers of slightly different asphalt. I guess I should do some more research on asphalt. Maybe quartz chunks could be mixed into the centre layer, and can create some sort of piezoelectric charge. That probably won't work because it would be highly dependent on the crystal structure (so if it's ground into chunks, that doesn't leave much of a structure... ), but it's an idea.
Another idea could be mixing iron into the top and bottom layers of asphalt, with a non-ferrous centre layer. When the top layer has pressure applied to it, a current maybe induced. Obviously this would introduce issues of oxides forming, so maybe another metal that's available in large quantities and on the cheap could be used. In addition the conductivity of the asphalt with an iron mix would probably be highly questionable.
heh I guess my reading for the night will be pressure sensors, asphalt, quartz, and random chemistry shit.
Well repairing leaky pipes is a serious pain in the ass. Especially when you pull one damaged section out and it leads to breaking another pipe joint that's also buried. I'd much rather replace wiring than pipes. Again - the whole idea I mentioned depends heavily on the magical unicorn horn asphalt. If that can be developed, I think it'd certainly be more practical. There has to be some chemist out there who would lose sleep trying to make it work.
We need a cheap way to modify asphalt so that it can be used to generate electricity. It really needs to be done chemically. Then any road repairs or new roads can be done using the new asphalt which would have some type of wire mesh laid down that could convert the collected solar energy. Even if it's inefficient, it doesn't matter, there's so much road out there it would make a difference. Again, a key requirement would be making the cost of said "electro-asphalt" low enough that it would attract buyers compared to standard asphalt. Think of parking lots at malls, paved with this shit, collecting power for the mall reducing their overall operating cost. Highways, urban streets, it's everywhere - if we're going to pave over the world, we might as well make the most of the land we're paving, and use it collect electricity.
Pipes and water just sound like a bad idea in general. Sounds like high maintenance costs, not necessarily suitable for all weather environments, high installation cost, specialized labour and more unions,... it just sounds impractical.
The dose sounds faaaaarrrr too high. 1.4 W/kg... that's certainly a healthy dose. Like - I can understand if they were looking to determine just the effects on the head. It sounds reasonable, because that's less than the US federally mandated limit on exposure. It's still dielectric heating though. What would be the difference between the effects of microwaves and an IR source providing similar heating?
According to this study I'm fucked from the exposure I've received doing experiments with wireless power transmission. A few thousand watts of 2.4 GHz... yay!!!! At least I'd cover my balls with a graphite absorber pad everytime we'd turn the transmitter on... except a few cases. I know of a particular retired AT&T microwave engineer who basically tried to talk down the health risks. He mentioned a story of a co-worker who used to straddle the main feed horn of a rather high power transmitter, and the fact he has 10 healthy children.
But remember people - if you're near the focus of a parabolic microwave transmitter that has a high power feed, you can still receive burns. Don't fuck around too much when dealing with this kind of shit.
In the end, I'm more concerned with my cigarette smoking habits...
The radiation is only ionizing if the power density of the beam is sufficiently high enough to actually ionize... and even then, it would likely ionize upper parts of the atmosphere, not anything down on the ground. They'd use microwaves, not a fucking x-ray beam.
WTF?!? Barely anyone here is using the terrorist excuse. There's no group think of fear regarding terrorist uses. But wouldn't you be reluctant to automatically think that micro-reactors are a good thing? You can't see anything possibly wrong with this otherwise?
It'll come back in a future cyberpunk sort of way.... the EM spectrum will have too much interference to be useful.
[Mr.Radar has just been "jammed".] There's only one man who would dare give me the raspberry: [pulls down helmet as camera zooms in on his face] LONE STARR! [camera slams into his face and knocks him out]
yeah. it's just a box where the microwaves stay inside.
but even then, let's say we remove the magnetron from a microwave oven, and couple a wireless router's antenna to a waveguide for the oven, i don't think you'll be able to melt butter, let alone heat up a glass of water 0.5 degrees. the light bulb in the oven would warm up the water more than the microwave transmitter.
I have some recent experience using high power magnetrons in open air, and even then, you need to be awfully close to the source to notice any serious change. Pesky inverse square law....
Now I think we should take a closer look at all those CRT screens still being used. Something about electron beams striking metal surfaces and producing soft X-rays concern me more.
A co-worker of mine who has recently passed away, used to always have his face really close to the computer screen because he had poor vision. He wore rather thick glasses, and I think his issue was with the contrast on the screen... but I can't help but wonder what kind of dosage he received. I should probably do the maths for that.... there's another co-worker who has a similar vision problem. I am making no claim that his death is related to his exposure, I honestly have yet to find out what happened.
... the on/off switch is on these things? Self-contained? No moving parts? Just hook up steam piping and you can run a turbine?
I hope these people hire the best welders they can find, and invest heavily in leak/crack detection.
I love how hydrogen is a bastardly small atom, and likes to embed itself in all sorts of shit, and loves leaks. And things like hydrogen damage just make this even more fun. Sputtering is fun too, I'm not too sure how much of an issue that would be though.
I take it when these reactors get transported they'll have a multi-vehicle escort with a hazmat crew? I really hope they plan on using some expensive concrete, like DUCRETE for this thing.
In the end, my issue with nuclear power is the toxicity of uranium tailings, and how it just loves to find it's way into groundwater, especially in areas where there's considerable precipitation... like Canada. I remember looking at this book on Uranium mining and mineralogy, and there's this little fact about 300 million tonnes of waste uranium tailings by 2000. We need to do something useful with that, instead of it just leeching into our water supplies.
And with the Russian icebreaker/reactor... wtf - how high were they when they came up with that idea? Obviously the leaders of our nations don't give a fuck what damage they do around the world, as long as the interests of the wealthy get fulfilled. More nuclear waste? Sure - let's make money, the risk assessment says the amount of money we'll pay out in any sort of lawsuit will be far less than the profit we'll make otherwise. If the nuke boat sinks, at least it'll be in the middle of no where. What, me worry? Seems like a lot of moral nihilism to me.
I'm not smart though, so you can just ignore all the above. Felt like I had to share my opinion though.
I keep thinking that the accelerated gas atoms are going to sputter the electrodes. The last thing I'd want in an antenna is having to carry around a gas cylinder just to maintain the operating pressure. Because as whatever gas is used, the atoms are going to embed themselves into the electrode lowering the pressure. This maybe less of an issue if they drive it with an AC source rather than DC, but it's certainly something to consider. Awesome that someone is doing this though, I was thinking about this late last night while reading on early MASERs.
Intel should make an ultra-mega super beowulf cluster of their exponentially performing CPUs, and have someone that understands high performance parallelized computing work on this shit to make "ch3@p p1ll5- f4st and easy."
Certain types of kick drums and bass lines in electronic music are compressed to shit. The compression makes the desired sound.
It's not just a production technique to make a track sound louder on the radio. Any person doing audio production should remember that radio stations add their own compression anyway.
Please people, just produce the track so there's minimal clipping, even on the kick drums. Let the DJ's and radio stations do the rest of the butchering.
Why would this mother let her daughter be shown to the whole world dancing to Prince? There's a million other artists in the world, she shouldn't waste her time dealing with some anally retentive musician who feels the world is obviously out to rip him off. Oh no - a mom shows her kid dancing to Prince. I'm sure she can find equally embarrassing artists to have her kid dance to, like Justin Timberlake.
pfft - the only thing your tax money is going into is the student debt the team members are gathering while in school.
There's a rule that you can't have government funding for this competition either.
The team I'm on - www.punkworks.ca - is privately funded by the team members, and I'm not one of the people shelling out the cash for this. We're not listed as one of the competing teams, but we started working with McGill University, and they got in an accident on the drive down there.... so last I heard from the guys in Salt Lake City is that our microwave generator cabinet isn't working anymore, and so we'll yet again not be able to showcase what we've been working on almost every weekend for the past two years.
Look - Google creeps me out. But at the same time, I have issues with how the medical field operates. In the end - YOU are responsible for your health, and just because you go see your doctor once in a while doesn't mean he/she will discover some underlying health issue that was overlooked. If we can collectively take our medical information, and share data without infringing on each other's privacy, we maybe able to learn more about our individual health. The idea is mass correlation, which is not necessarily a scientific ends on it's own, but it can function as a tool towards discovering the cause of varying degrees of medical illness. That's not what this is at this point, but is the first step. I, for one, support the Google overlords in this case. Some snoopy bastard at Google shouldn't have access to your personal info though.
Would this be accomplished by a drug plan that includes an opt-in subscription to centrally managed life decision makers, who administer dosage based on a tiered maintenance plan? Sort of like a cell phone plan, where you pay $x for a certain number of happiness minutes per month. It's like going to work, so you can have fun or do whatever you have to with your money.
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Yeah I felt like I was dying when I mixed a few too many beers with a pill of ecstasy. My experience was similar but I didn't slip into unconsciousness. I felt like I was going to though ... it was a rough night to say the least. Mixing alcohol and E was probably the second mistake after already making the mistake of taking the E. :-(
That's because there's people who would rather see people who inject drugs die than see them receive any sort of help.
Sometimes the simple act of injecting is a cry for help. Which can be very frustrating to those standing around watching shit unfold... because everyone feels helpless, and usually it has to do with an ex-significant other who is trying to get attention.
If this vaccine, and vaccines like this are available, then those that are "crying help" will have no other option than to decide to take this vaccine. They asked for the help - well we'll fucking give it to them. And then they can stop threatening to off-themselves through overdose if their ex-significant other does leave themselves. At least they can make the choice to live or die completely sober.
I fucking hope this thing works for users who inject it... because snorting coke isn't enough for long term users.
yeah I was thinking of a way to utilize that energy as well. Maybe with two to three layers of slightly different asphalt. I guess I should do some more research on asphalt. Maybe quartz chunks could be mixed into the centre layer, and can create some sort of piezoelectric charge. That probably won't work because it would be highly dependent on the crystal structure (so if it's ground into chunks, that doesn't leave much of a structure... ), but it's an idea.
Another idea could be mixing iron into the top and bottom layers of asphalt, with a non-ferrous centre layer. When the top layer has pressure applied to it, a current maybe induced. Obviously this would introduce issues of oxides forming, so maybe another metal that's available in large quantities and on the cheap could be used. In addition the conductivity of the asphalt with an iron mix would probably be highly questionable.
heh I guess my reading for the night will be pressure sensors, asphalt, quartz, and random chemistry shit.
Well repairing leaky pipes is a serious pain in the ass. Especially when you pull one damaged section out and it leads to breaking another pipe joint that's also buried. I'd much rather replace wiring than pipes. Again - the whole idea I mentioned depends heavily on the magical unicorn horn asphalt. If that can be developed, I think it'd certainly be more practical. There has to be some chemist out there who would lose sleep trying to make it work.
nope. But I've definitely looked at their work. Someone on our team talks to one of the guys who worked on the SHARP project though.
We need a cheap way to modify asphalt so that it can be used to generate electricity. It really needs to be done chemically. Then any road repairs or new roads can be done using the new asphalt which would have some type of wire mesh laid down that could convert the collected solar energy. Even if it's inefficient, it doesn't matter, there's so much road out there it would make a difference. Again, a key requirement would be making the cost of said "electro-asphalt" low enough that it would attract buyers compared to standard asphalt. Think of parking lots at malls, paved with this shit, collecting power for the mall reducing their overall operating cost. Highways, urban streets, it's everywhere - if we're going to pave over the world, we might as well make the most of the land we're paving, and use it collect electricity.
... it just sounds impractical.
Pipes and water just sound like a bad idea in general. Sounds like high maintenance costs, not necessarily suitable for all weather environments, high installation cost, specialized labour and more unions,
The dose sounds faaaaarrrr too high. 1.4 W/kg ... that's certainly a healthy dose. Like - I can understand if they were looking to determine just the effects on the head. It sounds reasonable, because that's less than the US federally mandated limit on exposure. It's still dielectric heating though. What would be the difference between the effects of microwaves and an IR source providing similar heating?
... yay!!!! At least I'd cover my balls with a graphite absorber pad everytime we'd turn the transmitter on... except a few cases. I know of a particular retired AT&T microwave engineer who basically tried to talk down the health risks. He mentioned a story of a co-worker who used to straddle the main feed horn of a rather high power transmitter, and the fact he has 10 healthy children.
According to this study I'm fucked from the exposure I've received doing experiments with wireless power transmission. A few thousand watts of 2.4 GHz
But remember people - if you're near the focus of a parabolic microwave transmitter that has a high power feed, you can still receive burns. Don't fuck around too much when dealing with this kind of shit.
In the end, I'm more concerned with my cigarette smoking habits...
The radiation is only ionizing if the power density of the beam is sufficiently high enough to actually ionize... and even then, it would likely ionize upper parts of the atmosphere, not anything down on the ground. They'd use microwaves, not a fucking x-ray beam.
WTF?!? Barely anyone here is using the terrorist excuse. There's no group think of fear regarding terrorist uses. But wouldn't you be reluctant to automatically think that micro-reactors are a good thing? You can't see anything possibly wrong with this otherwise?
It'll come back in a future cyberpunk sort of way.... the EM spectrum will have too much interference to be useful.
[Mr.Radar has just been "jammed".] There's only one man who would dare give me the raspberry: [pulls down helmet as camera zooms in on his face] LONE STARR! [camera slams into his face and knocks him out]
yeah. it's just a box where the microwaves stay inside.
....
but even then, let's say we remove the magnetron from a microwave oven, and couple a wireless router's antenna to a waveguide for the oven, i don't think you'll be able to melt butter, let alone heat up a glass of water 0.5 degrees. the light bulb in the oven would warm up the water more than the microwave transmitter.
I have some recent experience using high power magnetrons in open air, and even then, you need to be awfully close to the source to notice any serious change. Pesky inverse square law
Now I think we should take a closer look at all those CRT screens still being used. Something about electron beams striking metal surfaces and producing soft X-rays concern me more.
A co-worker of mine who has recently passed away, used to always have his face really close to the computer screen because he had poor vision. He wore rather thick glasses, and I think his issue was with the contrast on the screen... but I can't help but wonder what kind of dosage he received. I should probably do the maths for that.... there's another co-worker who has a similar vision problem. I am making no claim that his death is related to his exposure, I honestly have yet to find out what happened.
... the on/off switch is on these things? Self-contained? No moving parts? Just hook up steam piping and you can run a turbine?
... wtf - how high were they when they came up with that idea? Obviously the leaders of our nations don't give a fuck what damage they do around the world, as long as the interests of the wealthy get fulfilled. More nuclear waste? Sure - let's make money, the risk assessment says the amount of money we'll pay out in any sort of lawsuit will be far less than the profit we'll make otherwise. If the nuke boat sinks, at least it'll be in the middle of no where. What, me worry? Seems like a lot of moral nihilism to me.
I hope these people hire the best welders they can find, and invest heavily in leak/crack detection.
I love how hydrogen is a bastardly small atom, and likes to embed itself in all sorts of shit, and loves leaks. And things like hydrogen damage just make this even more fun. Sputtering is fun too, I'm not too sure how much of an issue that would be though.
I take it when these reactors get transported they'll have a multi-vehicle escort with a hazmat crew? I really hope they plan on using some expensive concrete, like DUCRETE for this thing.
In the end, my issue with nuclear power is the toxicity of uranium tailings, and how it just loves to find it's way into groundwater, especially in areas where there's considerable precipitation... like Canada. I remember looking at this book on Uranium mining and mineralogy, and there's this little fact about 300 million tonnes of waste uranium tailings by 2000. We need to do something useful with that, instead of it just leeching into our water supplies.
And with the Russian icebreaker/reactor
I'm not smart though, so you can just ignore all the above. Felt like I had to share my opinion though.
I keep thinking that the accelerated gas atoms are going to sputter the electrodes. The last thing I'd want in an antenna is having to carry around a gas cylinder just to maintain the operating pressure. Because as whatever gas is used, the atoms are going to embed themselves into the electrode lowering the pressure. This maybe less of an issue if they drive it with an AC source rather than DC, but it's certainly something to consider. Awesome that someone is doing this though, I was thinking about this late last night while reading on early MASERs.
Intel should make an ultra-mega super beowulf cluster of their exponentially performing CPUs, and have someone that understands high performance parallelized computing work on this shit to make "ch3@p p1ll5- f4st and easy."
Come on Intel - make the Singularity!!!
Certain types of kick drums and bass lines in electronic music are compressed to shit. The compression makes the desired sound.
It's not just a production technique to make a track sound louder on the radio. Any person doing audio production should remember that radio stations add their own compression anyway.
Please people, just produce the track so there's minimal clipping, even on the kick drums. Let the DJ's and radio stations do the rest of the butchering.
Why would this mother let her daughter be shown to the whole world dancing to Prince? There's a million other artists in the world, she shouldn't waste her time dealing with some anally retentive musician who feels the world is obviously out to rip him off. Oh no - a mom shows her kid dancing to Prince. I'm sure she can find equally embarrassing artists to have her kid dance to, like Justin Timberlake.
Thank you for that.
pfft - the only thing your tax money is going into is the student debt the team members are gathering while in school.
.... so last I heard from the guys in Salt Lake City is that our microwave generator cabinet isn't working anymore, and so we'll yet again not be able to showcase what we've been working on almost every weekend for the past two years.
There's a rule that you can't have government funding for this competition either.
The team I'm on - www.punkworks.ca - is privately funded by the team members, and I'm not one of the people shelling out the cash for this. We're not listed as one of the competing teams, but we started working with McGill University, and they got in an accident on the drive down there
--Nick B
It's so the military gets their toys man.
Who doesn't want giant fucking laser beams?
The next generation of elevator music will be internet streamed rider selected music.
Otherwise it'll be music that makes you think about space.
Look - Google creeps me out. But at the same time, I have issues with how the medical field operates. In the end - YOU are responsible for your health, and just because you go see your doctor once in a while doesn't mean he/she will discover some underlying health issue that was overlooked. If we can collectively take our medical information, and share data without infringing on each other's privacy, we maybe able to learn more about our individual health. The idea is mass correlation, which is not necessarily a scientific ends on it's own, but it can function as a tool towards discovering the cause of varying degrees of medical illness. That's not what this is at this point, but is the first step. I, for one, support the Google overlords in this case. Some snoopy bastard at Google shouldn't have access to your personal info though.
The Space Elevator projects face a problem of aiming their beam at a climber on a vibrating tether under tension.
Just thought I'd point this out to everyone here.
Would this be accomplished by a drug plan that includes an opt-in subscription to centrally managed life decision makers, who administer dosage based on a tiered maintenance plan? Sort of like a cell phone plan, where you pay $x for a certain number of happiness minutes per month. It's like going to work, so you can have fun or do whatever you have to with your money.
The drug plan sounds much more fun.
I was thinking the same thing once I read this article. Then I read the comments to determine what higher moderated person said it first.
I think someone wanted them moved before the public got a chance to voice their concern, complain or protest the warheads movements.
I'm sure one day I'll be reading in the news that the Iranian uranium refinery suddenly was destroyed by a nuclear weapons strike.