Also, they are post-mitotic with the exception of the germline. So, if you dose them with rads the tissue is damaged but keeps on going, and does not enter apoptosis, or 'cellular suicide' as many human tissues would. They will be rendered sterile though, even given a relatively low dose.
And why exactly should I have to pay the same per mile as my SUV driving neighbors for road repair, when their vehicles are putting several fold more strain on the road?
And about putting foil around the thing: when you go to fill up the tank, the interogating device may note that you're getting half a mile per gallon or so and become suspicious....
If you are putting bleach in your system, that may very well account for corrosion of the aluminum radiator and cracking of the tubing.
Putting bleach in there is a very bad idea. There are plenty of commercial products based on quaternary ammonium compounds that will do a fine job and not corrode anything. Just go to Home Depot and ask for some algae control stuff, and then check to see if it says 'quaternium...' or quaternary ammonium on the label.
I had the same problem getting the Exos to be quite that you did; specifically one of the pumps will aspirate air if there's more than a few cc's of air left in the reservoir, and those bubbles get really noisy cascading through the radiator. I had to take a syringe with a curved needle to reach into the reservoir and back up to the air pocket in order to draw it out. A PITA, but now it's dead quite.
Thanks for the info. To your knowledge, can I capture/use the transport stream in XP? I have an Apple 30" cinema display on a box running XP and I'd love to use it as an HDTV. Any recommendations?
They were designed for two things, I think; one being the one you mentioned and the other being interception of incoming warheads high in the atmosphere. I think the idea was that a strong neutron flux into a warhead would cause strong but sub-critical fission, consuming enough of the fuel so that when the device imploded there was no longer sufficient fuel to go critical. But I may be wrong on that.
My understanding was that most of the neutron flux from a neutron bomb came from the fusion stage, and that this stage was designed to allow those neutrons to escape, rather than fission the tamper. Also, the fusion fuel is different, being either D +T or Deuterium alone (I forget which) rather than lithium deuteride. But then, I'm not all that clear on the fine points.
A neutron bomb will also generate a ton of local radioactivity by neutron capture activation of nuclei in the immediate environment. Most of this will be pretty short lived.
Also remember that atoms in such an environment are likely to be very highly ionized. I imgaine that most light nuclei that are close enough to the blast to be able to interact with scattered antimatter would have lost most or all of their electrons.
It seems everything NASA does these days involves 'building blocks of life' or 'prerequisites for life'. Why? To evoke the response that you comment on here, because that sort of knee-jerk enthusiasm is good for funding. And what do they do with that funding? They pour most of it into that useless orbiting housing project, rather than the sorts of projects that invoked such enthusiasm to begin with.
FWIW, IAA Scientist as well, and it really annoys me the way NASA mostly squanders their budget on congressional pork projects while manipulating public sentiment with breathless suggestions of finding 'building blocks of life'.
So does my math, not that it matters;-). I was assuming one billionth of a second for simplicity, and rounded down the answer. If you divide your answer by 3.6 (3.6 is a few? Good to have that formaly defined) you'll have 138.9 watt hours; I rounded that down to 100. Didn't seem to matter, either was more than a 'potato battery';).
I haven't lately read anything by any 'reasonable' holocaust doubters or moon-landing doubters either, and for the same reason. There aren't any.
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Public interest in Mars == greater support for NASA funding. The public doesn't care about rocks, they want to hear about life. So, to keep the public interested, NASA is now couching everything in terms of discovering life. You're not being 'eased into acceptance' of the idea of life there due to some slowly uncovering conspiracy, but rather because it's in their best interest for you to be excited about the idea of life there. It's PR spin, pure and simple.
What are you talking about? The president clearly explained this in his state of the union address a year ago. To paraphrase: 'We know that in 1994 Irag had the potential to produce 10K liters or anthrax. Now, where is that anthrax?' So, now we know that mars had the potential to produce microorganisms, at least as much as Iraq did. Where are those microorganisms now? If it takes a full scale invasion of mars to not find these microorganisms, well so be it.
The 'bizarre thinking' here is that the energy released in a hydrogen fuel cell comes from the difference in the amount of energy stored in a hydrogen-oxygen bond versus a hydrogen-hydrogen bond. The hydrogen gets oxidized to water, and when you balance the books that extra energy went somewhere, in this case it went to providing an electrical potential to drive your electric motor. In an internal combustion engine, you're oxidizing carbon-hydrogen bonds to carbon dioxide and water, and again the products have lower energy bonds. That extra energy in this case goes into producing heat, which drives pistons. In the case of a battery, virtually the same thing is going on in that one chemical in getting 'reduced' by electrons flowing through the circuit from some other source chemical, which is getting oxidized by loosing electrons. In all three cases it's about electrons going from a high energy configuration to a low energy configuration, and giving up the difference in some harnessble manner.
That really depends on the type of crash, and the relative protective gear employed. Superbike racers regularly go down at triple digit speeds, skitter across the asphalt for a couple hundred feet, and hop right up only bruised and maybe a little friction burned. On the other hand, Joe squidboy wearing no gear and dropping his brand new GSXR750 when he panics entering a turn may loose much of his skin.
If you are properly prepared to ride your bike, many of the hazards are significantly reduced and the major one left is sudden deceleration, which would cause you to have a very bad day in a car as well.
Of course in everyday riding, the biggest danger faced by bikes is oblivious car drivers. Death to SUV-driving, cell-phone-talking soccer moms.
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Admirably open-minded of you to be publicly lusting after a transexual. Good for you!
Also, they are post-mitotic with the exception of the germline. So, if you dose them with rads the tissue is damaged but keeps on going, and does not enter apoptosis, or 'cellular suicide' as many human tissues would. They will be rendered sterile though, even given a relatively low dose.
It was also before international airports.
Oh, that just _must_ happen.
And why exactly should I have to pay the same per mile as my SUV driving neighbors for road repair, when their vehicles are putting several fold more strain on the road?
And about putting foil around the thing: when you go to fill up the tank, the interogating device may note that you're getting half a mile per gallon or so and become suspicious....
If you are putting bleach in your system, that may very well account for corrosion of the aluminum radiator and cracking of the tubing.
Putting bleach in there is a very bad idea. There are plenty of commercial products based on quaternary ammonium compounds that will do a fine job and not corrode anything. Just go to Home Depot and ask for some algae control stuff, and then check to see if it says 'quaternium...' or quaternary ammonium on the label.
I had the same problem getting the Exos to be quite that you did; specifically one of the pumps will aspirate air if there's more than a few cc's of air left in the reservoir, and those bubbles get really noisy cascading through the radiator. I had to take a syringe with a curved needle to reach into the reservoir and back up to the air pocket in order to draw it out. A PITA, but now it's dead quite.
Thanks for the info. To your knowledge, can I capture/use the transport stream in XP? I have an Apple 30" cinema display on a box running XP and I'd love to use it as an HDTV. Any recommendations?
They were designed for two things, I think; one being the one you mentioned and the other being interception of incoming warheads high in the atmosphere. I think the idea was that a strong neutron flux into a warhead would cause strong but sub-critical fission, consuming enough of the fuel so that when the device imploded there was no longer sufficient fuel to go critical. But I may be wrong on that.
My understanding was that most of the neutron flux from a neutron bomb came from the fusion stage, and that this stage was designed to allow those neutrons to escape, rather than fission the tamper. Also, the fusion fuel is different, being either D +T or Deuterium alone (I forget which) rather than lithium deuteride. But then, I'm not all that clear on the fine points.
A neutron bomb will also generate a ton of local radioactivity by neutron capture activation of nuclei in the immediate environment. Most of this will be pretty short lived.
Also remember that atoms in such an environment are likely to be very highly ionized. I imgaine that most light nuclei that are close enough to the blast to be able to interact with scattered antimatter would have lost most or all of their electrons.
It seems everything NASA does these days involves 'building blocks of life' or 'prerequisites for life'. Why? To evoke the response that you comment on here, because that sort of knee-jerk enthusiasm is good for funding. And what do they do with that funding? They pour most of it into that useless orbiting housing project, rather than the sorts of projects that invoked such enthusiasm to begin with.
FWIW, IAA Scientist as well, and it really annoys me the way NASA mostly squanders their budget on congressional pork projects while manipulating public sentiment with breathless suggestions of finding 'building blocks of life'.
The mutation is likely semi-dominant, so you get a mild phenotype if you have one copy, and a strong phenotype, as in the kid, if you have two.
Very likely the kid is the product of incest, or call him 'purebred' if you prefer.
FWIW, IAAB.
So does my math, not that it matters
Actually, just using your numbers, it's about the same as running a standard lightbulb for an hour or so (100 watt hours).
I was refering to the 'nope-never-hapened', Turner Diary reading crowd. I don't suppose you are aligning yourself with them, are you?
I haven't lately read anything by any 'reasonable' holocaust doubters or moon-landing doubters either, and for the same reason. There aren't any.
Public interest in Mars == greater support for NASA funding. The public doesn't care about rocks, they want to hear about life. So, to keep the public interested, NASA is now couching everything in terms of discovering life. You're not being 'eased into acceptance' of the idea of life there due to some slowly uncovering conspiracy, but rather because it's in their best interest for you to be excited about the idea of life there. It's PR spin, pure and simple.
I was there in January. You'll love it. It can be a bit of work (negotiations, schedules) but it's worth it.
Or a lack of comprehension in the audience. I see that your butt joke was well received, however.
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Attention moderator who flagged my parent post as a troll:
That was sarcastic humor and politcal commentary.
This is trolling:
What, are you in third grade? How can you not tell that was humor?
What are you talking about? The president clearly explained this in his state of the union address a year ago. To paraphrase: 'We know that in 1994 Irag had the potential to produce 10K liters or anthrax. Now, where is that anthrax?' So, now we know that mars had the potential to produce microorganisms, at least as much as Iraq did. Where are those microorganisms now? If it takes a full scale invasion of mars to not find these microorganisms, well so be it.
The 'bizarre thinking' here is that the energy released in a hydrogen fuel cell comes from the difference in the amount of energy stored in a hydrogen-oxygen bond versus a hydrogen-hydrogen bond. The hydrogen gets oxidized to water, and when you balance the books that extra energy went somewhere, in this case it went to providing an electrical potential to drive your electric motor. In an internal combustion engine, you're oxidizing carbon-hydrogen bonds to carbon dioxide and water, and again the products have lower energy bonds. That extra energy in this case goes into producing heat, which drives pistons. In the case of a battery, virtually the same thing is going on in that one chemical in getting 'reduced' by electrons flowing through the circuit from some other source chemical, which is getting oxidized by loosing electrons. In all three cases it's about electrons going from a high energy configuration to a low energy configuration, and giving up the difference in some harnessble manner.
And the weak force has nothing to do with it.
That really depends on the type of crash, and the relative protective gear employed. Superbike racers regularly go down at triple digit speeds, skitter across the asphalt for a couple hundred feet, and hop right up only bruised and maybe a little friction burned. On the other hand, Joe squidboy wearing no gear and dropping his brand new GSXR750 when he panics entering a turn may loose much of his skin.
If you are properly prepared to ride your bike, many of the hazards are significantly reduced and the major one left is sudden deceleration, which would cause you to have a very bad day in a car as well.
Of course in everyday riding, the biggest danger faced by bikes is oblivious car drivers. Death to SUV-driving, cell-phone-talking soccer moms.