That is exactly what I was thinking. They are not left in the lurch. IE 10 is likely to get left behind when it becomes an also ran in distant 3rd behind Firefox and Chrome. Maybe a 4th behind Safari, but that is pushing it.
I think this piece of cement is from the primary containment of unit #3. This low angle shot shows it is heavily reinforced. Remember the diameter of the pipes it is sitting on is about 10-12 feet each.
It's a little late to be vindicated, but I am posting this to complete the record. Today April 17 more photos are released. It is much better than the earlier photos. The photos very clearly show scattered fuel rods that are not in a pool or core. After they found a rod about a mile away in a report, I knew either a reactor lost it's lid and ejected part of the core, or one of the dry well primary containment failed and the failure ejected the contents of at least one of the storage ponds contents.
Many chip manufactures are making great progress along that area. ARM chips and the Atom from Intel both are designed to address the energy consumption issue.
On the power consumption issue on servers, both manufacturing energy and operating energy has been drastically slashed. The just announced 10 core server chips with Hyperthreading mean much lower power consumption and a much smaller server footprint. The addition of solid state drives reduces CPU idle time.
I just saw a demo of a 4 CPU 10 core server. It is a little larger than a desktop computer. It idles at about 600 watts. When given the task of rendering 2 POV Ray 3D renderings at the same time, all 40 cores maxed out runninig 80 threads. The power consumption increased to just over 1KW but ran for just under a minute to complete both renderings.
That server in a data center would replace a rack of servers that would take a forklift to remove. At !~1,000 watts total including memory hard drives, etc., that is less than 150 watts per thread for a high power server.
On the manufacturing side, a desktop size box uses much less power to manufacture as well as recycle at it's end of life.
Google images of Turkish Wedding Rings. These traditional wedding rings are made with 4 or more interlocking rings. If the ring is taken off the finger, the ring becomes 4 interlinked rings that are difficult to reassemble. http://csusap.csu.edu.au/~hulbah01/Pic/r4.gif
#3 containment may have been breeched. Parts of it are in the turbine hall. Another large part is sitting on the large pipes between the #4 turbine hall and #4 reactor. For scale, look for vehicles in the photo. Zoom in and note the color under the layer of dust from #4 blowing.
There are a couple of issues I have seen in the reporting and comparing the report to the photos.
First is regarding the build up of Hydrogen. Some hydrogen build up over time is what has been portrayed. The actual is Zirconium is flammable the same as Magnesium and Titanium. All burn in water or steam. If you have ever seen a magnesium engine block hit with a fireman's hose, you get the idea. Powdered Zirconium is considered an explosive. Fine Zirconium wool as used in flashbulbs, but in an oxygen atmosphere. The reaction with water or steam starts at lower temperatures. The reaction is exothermic. The fuel itself adds heat. At temperatures near 800-1,000 C the reaction changes to a fire. This rapid oxidization of the Zirconium is the source of the rapid and LARGE release of Hydrogen. In the presence of burning Zirconium, there is no free Oxygen so in the presence of this ignition source there is no ignition of the Hydrogen in the Hydrogen/steam cloud. After the Zirconium burnt, the air in the room was then able to come in contact with glowing fuel pellets. This resulted in the ignition of the hydrogen.
From a few days ago, there was a report of some fuel rods found up to a mile away and was bulldozed under to shield them. They don't say much about the containment in #3 other than to say it may have been breeched. That is an understatement. Look up and spend a good amount of time watching videos of demolitions of buildings. Note the blast and resulting dust. The flash happens first then the building breaks. Explosions in #1 and #4 are consistent with the shell and a hydrogen explosion inside. The flash is over before the building ruptures. The ejected material is limited in distance and the blast shape is relatively uniform.
Watch the video of #3. There are some striking differences from anything already seen. First as the building ruptures, there is a large flash, much of it is OUTSIDE the building. Ignition may have been triggered by the blast and was due to the blast. Second using Newton's laws, look at the stuff ejected in the blast. This blast is far from uniform from a blast in the top of the building. At the end of the video, note the very large amount of heavy objects falling from the top of the blast dome. Unlike the other blasts, there are large holes from large heavy objects falling on the turbine hall. These are not from the roof of the building. The blasts from #1 and #4 do not have large heavy itmes falling out of it.
Examination of the high resolution UAV photos raises some more concerns. The containment may have been breeched, but most reporters are citing a lack of evidence of this. I'll tell you where to look. Look on the two pipes that run along the turbine buildings. Look between the turbine hall for #4 and the #4 reactor. Remember those pipes are about 10-12 feet in diameter each. Look for onsite vehicles for size references. Note the object sitting on both pipes. It is covered with dust from the #4 unit explosion. Zoom in and take a good look at it. Knowing the width of each of the pipes and the fact it is resting on both of them, guess it's width. Now look at he edge of the item. Care to guess how thick it is? Now note that it has a painted surface. Under the dust layer it is clearly Yellow. Care to guess what it is and where it came from?
While looking at the high resolution photos from the UAW, look next to the reactor 3 building where the pile of plumbing is lying next to the building. All that plumbing is uniform is size. I'm thinking that is scattered fuel rods from the cooling pond. I think the cooling pond is gone and the steam rising form #3 is not from the pond, but form the containment known as the dry well. I can not tell from the photo if the reactor lid is in place. I'm guessing either a hydrogen buildup in the dry-well exploded or the lid to the reactor blew off. This resulted in the outer containment breech shown in the video. This breech then released the contained Hydrogen which then ignited, This is seen as the flash outside the building.
Thanks for the great photos. They show the locaton of the containment in the relation to the corner. It's about one containment diameter from the wall, just as the photo shows.
It now appears that a similar breach may have taken place at the plant's No 3 reactor: Japanese chief cabinet secretary Edano raised the possibility in a briefing during the early hours of today (UK time).
What I find most disturbing is the lack of information they are telling us.
Have you seen anything in the news about the reactor in #3 blowing the lid off the primary containment vessel?
The Hydrogen explosions at 1 and 4 were the same shape cloud. It was a gas explosion. Number 3 on the other hand was a tall cylinder explosion with a cap of debris that fell out of the top of the cloud. I have not said anything about it yet as I could not confirm my finding, but today they released the high resolution drone photos. Another item is buildings 1 & 4 blew because of a hydrogen explosion. The hydrogen exploded and the resulting pressure blew the buildings apart. Number 3 on the other hand had a hydrogen explosion after the building ruptured. The big flash of the hydrogen fire lit when the building blew. Listen to the explosion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_N-wNFSGyQ It is different.
Take a very good look at the photos. Locate the primary containment dome in #4. It is bright yellow just like in the drawings. Note it is NOT in the center of the building. Note the roof truss of #4. The roof blew off, but most of the truss is intact. Now look at the elevation in #4 of the yellow containment dome.
Using that as a reference, now look at #3. Look for anything as high as the dome in #4. In the middle is a rubble pile. Note in the corner of the building in a mirror location to #4 look at the circular hole in the truss. It's where a plume of steam is rising. The fire and charred truss is at the other end of the rubble pile, or over the cooling pond. Where there is supposed to be a yellow dome is a steaming hole. Now look at the roof of the turbine hall next to it. Notice a hole in the roof about the right shape and size for that dome lid to have fallen in?
I'm not sure yet if the core blew off it's lid, but the primary containment did blow the top.
The above is my opinion based on my personal examination of the photos in the link above and the noted difference of the explosion of #3.
Due to the radiation levels, the torris may have ruptured resulting in the top blowing out of the primary containment building. This would explain the relatively low amount of radio active parts blown about the area.
Often glazed over in reporting is the amount of heat that was in there in the residual heat. The core was producing residual heat of about 7% of the power level it was running before shutdown.
If a unit was running at 700 Megawatts, the core would then be running at 49 Megawatts, but with no output outside the shell. When the cooling quit for a couple of days, it did not take long to boil the kettle dry.
In the US a partial meltdown of a small sodium reactor happened before 3 Mile Island. Google it. They could not add cooling water due to the flammable Sodium.
All the experts that have covered reporting current situation has not said a word about flammable Zirconium. Zirconium is highly flammable in water just like Sodium. The only difference is one is flammable at room temperature and the other catches fire at much higher temperature. When the core was exposed and overheated one of the experts said the cladding oxidized.
If you heat a chunk of Zirconium with a torch and get it dull red, it will catch fire. If you then throw it in water, it will burn using Oxygen from decomposing water and leaving Hydrogen as a byproduct, just like burning Sodium the reaction is exothermic. Zirconium melts at 1852 C. It catches fire at a lower pressure than it melts. To simply say it melted is false.
When they had fluctuating core pressure and a large Hydrogen release, I knew a large amount of Zirconium burned. This includes reactors 1-3 and fuel rod pool in #4, and possibly the fuel ponds in 1-3. This Hydrogen confined in the outer containment combined with air went boom. The boom most likely happened when the rods in the cooling ponds boiled dry and got hot enough to be an ignition source.
When the experts say they don't expect any more hydrogen explosions, it is because there is no Zirconium left.
The high radiation levels in the water is because the Uranium Oxide was subjected to both the residual heat and the cladding fire.
Speaking of cladding fire, remember a couple of rod storage areas with some fires?
Overheated graphic seals is no surprise if the cladding burnt off and the ceramic uranium oxide overheated.
Micro edits are broken. I edited it on the home page and then loaded the story. The edits reverted back to the defaults.
If the studios would back off on camera action and zoom while in 3D the results would be much better. If a movie like The Sound of Music was shot using existing camera distances the 3 D would have been worth it except the opening helicopter shot.
I agree. The city is full of security cameras, full of air defense, and not one of the non tourists with a video camera saw and recorded anything. Unfortunately I have not seen any security camera video of the area showing nothing happened at the same time. I was expecting one to surface, but that too has been absent.
It only applies to single CCD color sensors using a color mosiac. I would presume all 3 CCD cameras are not covered. (a) an image sensor having a two-dimensional array of photosites covered by a mosaic pattern of color filters including at least three different colors for capturing images of a scene, each captured image having a first number of color pixel values provided in a first color pattern;
I agree that we have seen poor reporting by experts on the issues.
Very early on when they had a Hydrogen bubble, I knew where it came from long before they announced it. Zirconium is flammable in water and steam. In short, it oxidizes. When lots of it oxidizes, a lot of Hydrogen is released. Simple chemistry. I find it PR that they say it "Oxidized" instead of burnt.
In a nutshell, I knew the cladding that holds the fuel pellets caught fire, both in the fueled reactors and in the pond on #4 which was recently de-fueled. Air is not required to burn Zirconium. Oxygen from Water, CO2, or other sources works fine to support combustion.
I have seen a Zirconium fire. It burns fine underwater.
Fortunately there are plenty of people with the love of the music that has played or sequenced the pieces and placed the resulting MIDI files online. They are a simple Google search away.
I have been known to take a few and re-voice them, change the tempo, add a track, remove a track, etc to make my own arrangement of them that sounds great on an XG synth.
I think it may simply be a matter of the amount of donations to charity through the foundation. The numbers donated is huge. That has to be worth a few points.
I have not understood why the Hydrogen wasn't burned off in a flare instead of being confined to explosive levels. I presume the oxygen was used in making heavy water H2O2 and the hydrogen is a by product.
We probably need to rethink disaster recovery a little differently in the future to prevent hydrogen explosions.
Why isn't Google, MSN, Yahoo, and anyone else who has a search engine functioning under arrest? Almost all content they list in their results is copyrighted.
I think someone has applied a very narrow filter to copyrighted content.
The way to torment those guys is to make and use the email account from a couple of public hotspots such as a free hotel lobby, public library, or other dead end location. Then NEVER log into the account again from anywhere. Let them dig, trace, stake out, monitor, and spend their resources. What they spend tilting at windmills is up to them.
Even better is to get one of the scammers to relay it for you as part of scambaiting. Maybe the studios can get some of the Internet cafe's shut down in Lagos.
Redbox and Netflix is doing the same thing to Hollywood Video and Blockbuster.
In a vain attempt to keep the ASP high to support the brick and mortar stores, MP3's and Napster, Limewire, and Bittorent set the value of digital music. (remember a CD is digital)
Remember that GPS is high frequency and relatively easily shielded. An aircraft can easily be shielded from terrestrial signals and signals from the ground. Many sports bars in the heyday of C band satellite TV put the dishes on the roof, often exposing them to terrestrial microwave links. This is why it was common to see a chain link fence lined with screening on the roof of many downtown buildings.
Normal windshield mount devices are a sitting duck for ground based transmitters. Some Onstar vehicles have upward facing antennas with reasonable side shielding.
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That is exactly what I was thinking. They are not left in the lurch. IE 10 is likely to get left behind when it becomes an also ran in distant 3rd behind Firefox and Chrome. Maybe a 4th behind Safari, but that is pushing it.
Close up photo of the curved yellow cement on the large pipes.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/photo/2011-04/16/c_13832377_4.htm
I think this piece of cement is from the primary containment of unit #3. This low angle shot shows it is heavily reinforced. Remember the diameter of the pipes it is sitting on is about 10-12 feet each.
It's a little late to be vindicated, but I am posting this to complete the record. Today April 17 more photos are released. It is much better than the earlier photos. The photos very clearly show scattered fuel rods that are not in a pool or core. After they found a rod about a mile away in a report, I knew either a reactor lost it's lid and ejected part of the core, or one of the dry well primary containment failed and the failure ejected the contents of at least one of the storage ponds contents.
Here is a link to scattered fuel rods.
http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2011/Apr/Week3/15973518.jpg
The news article is here;
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/A-Strong-Earthquake-Has-Hit-Japan-Shaking-Buildings-In-Tokyo-After-Release-Of-New-Fukushima-Photos/Article/201104315973503?lpos=World_News_First_World_News_Article_Teaser_Region_3&lid=ARTICLE_15973503_A_Strong_Earthquake_Has_Hit_Japan%2C_Shaking_Buildings_In_Tokyo%2C_After_Release_Of_New_Fukushima_Photos
More recent photos are here;
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/photo/2011-04/16/c_13832377.htm
Many chip manufactures are making great progress along that area. ARM chips and the Atom from Intel both are designed to address the energy consumption issue.
On the power consumption issue on servers, both manufacturing energy and operating energy has been drastically slashed.
The just announced 10 core server chips with Hyperthreading mean much lower power consumption and a much smaller server footprint. The addition of solid state drives reduces CPU idle time.
I just saw a demo of a 4 CPU 10 core server. It is a little larger than a desktop computer. It idles at about 600 watts. When given the task of rendering 2 POV Ray 3D renderings at the same time, all 40 cores maxed out runninig 80 threads. The power consumption increased to just over 1KW but ran for just under a minute to complete both renderings.
That server in a data center would replace a rack of servers that would take a forklift to remove. At !~1,000 watts total including memory hard drives, etc., that is less than 150 watts per thread for a high power server.
On the manufacturing side, a desktop size box uses much less power to manufacture as well as recycle at it's end of life.
Google images of Turkish Wedding Rings. These traditional wedding rings are made with 4 or more interlocking rings. If the ring is taken off the finger, the ring becomes 4 interlinked rings that are difficult to reassemble.
http://csusap.csu.edu.au/~hulbah01/Pic/r4.gif
#3 containment may have been breeched. Parts of it are in the turbine hall. Another large part is sitting on the large pipes between the #4 turbine hall and #4 reactor. For scale, look for vehicles in the photo. Zoom in and note the color under the layer of dust from #4 blowing.
There are a couple of issues I have seen in the reporting and comparing the report to the photos.
First is regarding the build up of Hydrogen. Some hydrogen build up over time is what has been portrayed. The actual is Zirconium is flammable the same as Magnesium and Titanium. All burn in water or steam. If you have ever seen a magnesium engine block hit with a fireman's hose, you get the idea. Powdered Zirconium is considered an explosive. Fine Zirconium wool as used in flashbulbs, but in an oxygen atmosphere. The reaction with water or steam starts at lower temperatures. The reaction is exothermic. The fuel itself adds heat. At temperatures near 800-1,000 C the reaction changes to a fire. This rapid oxidization of the Zirconium is the source of the rapid and LARGE release of Hydrogen. In the presence of burning Zirconium, there is no free Oxygen so in the presence of this ignition source there is no ignition of the Hydrogen in the Hydrogen/steam cloud. After the Zirconium burnt, the air in the room was then able to come in contact with glowing fuel pellets. This resulted in the ignition of the hydrogen.
From a few days ago, there was a report of some fuel rods found up to a mile away and was bulldozed under to shield them. They don't say much about the containment in #3 other than to say it may have been breeched. That is an understatement. Look up and spend a good amount of time watching videos of demolitions of buildings. Note the blast and resulting dust. The flash happens first then the building breaks. Explosions in #1 and #4 are consistent with the shell and a hydrogen explosion inside. The flash is over before the building ruptures. The ejected material is limited in distance and the blast shape is relatively uniform.
Watch the video of #3. There are some striking differences from anything already seen. First as the building ruptures, there is a large flash, much of it is OUTSIDE the building. Ignition may have been triggered by the blast and was due to the blast. Second using Newton's laws, look at the stuff ejected in the blast. This blast is far from uniform from a blast in the top of the building. At the end of the video, note the very large amount of heavy objects falling from the top of the blast dome. Unlike the other blasts, there are large holes from large heavy objects falling on the turbine hall. These are not from the roof of the building. The blasts from #1 and #4 do not have large heavy itmes falling out of it.
Examination of the high resolution UAV photos raises some more concerns. The containment may have been breeched, but most reporters are citing a lack of evidence of this. I'll tell you where to look. Look on the two pipes that run along the turbine buildings. Look between the turbine hall for #4 and the #4 reactor. Remember those pipes are about 10-12 feet in diameter each. Look for onsite vehicles for size references. Note the object sitting on both pipes. It is covered with dust from the #4 unit explosion. Zoom in and take a good look at it. Knowing the width of each of the pipes and the fact it is resting on both of them, guess it's width. Now look at he edge of the item. Care to guess how thick it is? Now note that it has a painted surface. Under the dust layer it is clearly Yellow. Care to guess what it is and where it came from?
While looking at the high resolution photos from the UAW, look next to the reactor 3 building where the pile of plumbing is lying next to the building. All that plumbing is uniform is size. I'm thinking that is scattered fuel rods from the cooling pond. I think the cooling pond is gone and the steam rising form #3 is not from the pond, but form the containment known as the dry well. I can not tell from the photo if the reactor lid is in place. I'm guessing either a hydrogen buildup in the dry-well exploded or the lid to the reactor blew off. This resulted in the outer containment breech shown in the video. This breech then released the contained Hydrogen which then ignited, This is seen as the flash outside the building.
A pilot was sucked out the cockpit when the windshield blew out. Only his legs remained inside. How about studying real examples for data instead of speculating what might happen.
http://www.businessinsider.com/jet-pilot-sucked-out-2011-4
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/04/what-to-do-when-your-pilot-gets-sucked-out-the-plane-window/236860/
Thanks for the great photos. They show the locaton of the containment in the relation to the corner. It's about one containment diameter from the wall, just as the photo shows.
Anyway, I found another article where they say it "May have been breeched.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/16/fukushima_wednesday/
It now appears that a similar breach may have taken place at the plant's No 3 reactor: Japanese chief cabinet secretary Edano raised the possibility in a briefing during the early hours of today (UK time).
What I find most disturbing is the lack of information they are telling us.
Have you seen anything in the news about the reactor in #3 blowing the lid off the primary containment vessel?
The Hydrogen explosions at 1 and 4 were the same shape cloud. It was a gas explosion. Number 3 on the other hand was a tall cylinder explosion with a cap of debris that fell out of the top of the cloud. I have not said anything about it yet as I could not confirm my finding, but today they released the high resolution drone photos. Another item is buildings 1 & 4 blew because of a hydrogen explosion. The hydrogen exploded and the resulting pressure blew the buildings apart. Number 3 on the other hand had a hydrogen explosion after the building ruptured. The big flash of the hydrogen fire lit when the building blew. Listen to the explosion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_N-wNFSGyQ It is different.
http://cryptome.org/eyeball/daiichi-npp/daiichi-photos.htm#20%20March
Reactor 1 and 4 have a more traditional shape for a confined gas explosion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK0-scxGEak&NR=1
Take a very good look at the photos. Locate the primary containment dome in #4. It is bright yellow just like in the drawings. Note it is NOT in the center of the building. Note the roof truss of #4. The roof blew off, but most of the truss is intact. Now look at the elevation in #4 of the yellow containment dome.
Using that as a reference, now look at #3. Look for anything as high as the dome in #4. In the middle is a rubble pile. Note in the corner of the building in a mirror location to #4 look at the circular hole in the truss. It's where a plume of steam is rising. The fire and charred truss is at the other end of the rubble pile, or over the cooling pond. Where there is supposed to be a yellow dome is a steaming hole. Now look at the roof of the turbine hall next to it. Notice a hole in the roof about the right shape and size for that dome lid to have fallen in?
I'm not sure yet if the core blew off it's lid, but the primary containment did blow the top.
The above is my opinion based on my personal examination of the photos in the link above and the noted difference of the explosion of #3.
Due to the radiation levels, the torris may have ruptured resulting in the top blowing out of the primary containment building. This would explain the relatively low amount of radio active parts blown about the area.
Do they ban USB turntables there? The reason to get one is to convert your LP's into MP3's for your portable player. How is this any different?
Converting from CD implies the existence of the physical CD. Copying from P-P can be many generations of copies from the original.
Often glazed over in reporting is the amount of heat that was in there in the residual heat. The core was producing residual heat of about 7% of the power level it was running before shutdown.
If a unit was running at 700 Megawatts, the core would then be running at 49 Megawatts, but with no output outside the shell. When the cooling quit for a couple of days, it did not take long to boil the kettle dry.
In the US a partial meltdown of a small sodium reactor happened before 3 Mile Island. Google it. They could not add cooling water due to the flammable Sodium.
All the experts that have covered reporting current situation has not said a word about flammable Zirconium. Zirconium is highly flammable in water just like Sodium. The only difference is one is flammable at room temperature and the other catches fire at much higher temperature. When the core was exposed and overheated one of the experts said the cladding oxidized.
If you heat a chunk of Zirconium with a torch and get it dull red, it will catch fire. If you then throw it in water, it will burn using Oxygen from decomposing water and leaving Hydrogen as a byproduct, just like burning Sodium the reaction is exothermic. Zirconium melts at 1852 C. It catches fire at a lower pressure than it melts. To simply say it melted is false.
When they had fluctuating core pressure and a large Hydrogen release, I knew a large amount of Zirconium burned. This includes reactors 1-3 and fuel rod pool in #4, and possibly the fuel ponds in 1-3. This Hydrogen confined in the outer containment combined with air went boom. The boom most likely happened when the rods in the cooling ponds boiled dry and got hot enough to be an ignition source.
When the experts say they don't expect any more hydrogen explosions, it is because there is no Zirconium left.
The high radiation levels in the water is because the Uranium Oxide was subjected to both the residual heat and the cladding fire.
Speaking of cladding fire, remember a couple of rod storage areas with some fires?
Overheated graphic seals is no surprise if the cladding burnt off and the ceramic uranium oxide overheated.
Micro edits are broken. I edited it on the home page and then loaded the story. The edits reverted back to the defaults.
If the studios would back off on camera action and zoom while in 3D the results would be much better. If a movie like The Sound of Music was shot using existing camera distances the 3 D would have been worth it except the opening helicopter shot.
I agree. The city is full of security cameras, full of air defense, and not one of the non tourists with a video camera saw and recorded anything. Unfortunately I have not seen any security camera video of the area showing nothing happened at the same time. I was expecting one to surface, but that too has been absent.
Momma might actually like to get him out of the basement.. ;-)
It only applies to single CCD color sensors using a color mosiac. I would presume all 3 CCD cameras are not covered.
(a) an image sensor having a two-dimensional array of photosites covered by a mosaic pattern of color filters including at least three different colors for capturing images of a scene, each captured image having a first number of color pixel values provided in a first color pattern;
I agree that we have seen poor reporting by experts on the issues.
Very early on when they had a Hydrogen bubble, I knew where it came from long before they announced it. Zirconium is flammable in water and steam. In short, it oxidizes. When lots of it oxidizes, a lot of Hydrogen is released. Simple chemistry. I find it PR that they say it "Oxidized" instead of burnt.
In a nutshell, I knew the cladding that holds the fuel pellets caught fire, both in the fueled reactors and in the pond on #4 which was recently de-fueled. Air is not required to burn Zirconium. Oxygen from Water, CO2, or other sources works fine to support combustion.
I have seen a Zirconium fire. It burns fine underwater.
Fortunately there are plenty of people with the love of the music that has played or sequenced the pieces and placed the resulting MIDI files online. They are a simple Google search away.
I have been known to take a few and re-voice them, change the tempo, add a track, remove a track, etc to make my own arrangement of them that sounds great on an XG synth.
I think it may simply be a matter of the amount of donations to charity through the foundation. The numbers donated is huge. That has to be worth a few points.
I have not understood why the Hydrogen wasn't burned off in a flare instead of being confined to explosive levels. I presume the oxygen was used in making heavy water H2O2 and the hydrogen is a by product.
We probably need to rethink disaster recovery a little differently in the future to prevent hydrogen explosions.
Why isn't Google, MSN, Yahoo, and anyone else who has a search engine functioning under arrest? Almost all content they list in their results is copyrighted.
I think someone has applied a very narrow filter to copyrighted content.
The way to torment those guys is to make and use the email account from a couple of public hotspots such as a free hotel lobby, public library, or other dead end location. Then NEVER log into the account again from anywhere. Let them dig, trace, stake out, monitor, and spend their resources. What they spend tilting at windmills is up to them.
Even better is to get one of the scammers to relay it for you as part of scambaiting. Maybe the studios can get some of the Internet cafe's shut down in Lagos.
Redbox and Netflix is doing the same thing to Hollywood Video and Blockbuster.
In a vain attempt to keep the ASP high to support the brick and mortar stores, MP3's and Napster, Limewire, and Bittorent set the value of digital music. (remember a CD is digital)
Remember that GPS is high frequency and relatively easily shielded. An aircraft can easily be shielded from terrestrial signals and signals from the ground. Many sports bars in the heyday of C band satellite TV put the dishes on the roof, often exposing them to terrestrial microwave links. This is why it was common to see a chain link fence lined with screening on the roof of many downtown buildings.
Normal windshield mount devices are a sitting duck for ground based transmitters. Some Onstar vehicles have upward facing antennas with reasonable side shielding.
Someone has a stretch of the number 1/2 gig.. Here is the size of the TIFF..
155.5 MB (163085739 bytes)