This topic has come up before somewhere... My favorite was one somebody mentioned - they would fill the envelopes with the fertilizer they were producing (read animal excrement) and send it back : )
It's as simple as that... fuel and waste from a conventional plant are almost totally useless in weapons production, and the modern reactors would produce some amounts of material that would potentially be useful for making bombs. Not that there is really much of anyone who has a real use for a nuclear weapon and doesn't already have it.
There's one of the big problems right there. Power plants are only allowed to use much less effecient low grade nuclear material so that nobody tries to steal it for weapons. The plants themselves have problems due to this (down time changing the fuel rods). If they were allowed to use the stuff in nuclear subs, energy would be more effeciently produced, and there would be less changing of the fuel rods.
"If that can be done in Europe, where we don't even speak the same language, and have a history of hatred, xenophobia and kicking the French, I'm stunned that the US can't do the same"
Well, for one thing, kicking French people is rude...
You're forgetting that every year, less and less people watch the Olympics. Apparently, when people don't watch them, they fail to remember that they exist.
Anyway, it probably will be more interesting than the Olympics.
One interesting comparison between us and the hypothetical advanced aliens is modern radio compared to the drums that certain primitive people use to communicate. Radio frequencies pass around them, but there is nothing they can do with them because the do not have the technology to use them.
It's very possible that advanced forms of transmissions are unknown to us, passing through us. Sorry, no links, but I think abcnews.com had a story recently.
Evidently someone saw this and extrapolated that the droid would be inserted digitally. But they are absolutely, definitely 100% positively using an R/C version for the film:
There's also another shot of a crewman with a radio, controlling R2, but I can't find the picture right now.
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This topic has come up before somewhere... My favorite was one somebody mentioned - they would fill the envelopes with the fertilizer they were producing (read animal excrement) and send it back : )
It's as simple as that... fuel and waste from a conventional plant are almost totally useless in weapons production, and the modern reactors would produce some amounts of material that would potentially be useful for making bombs. Not that there is really much of anyone who has a real use for a nuclear weapon and doesn't already have it.
There's one of the big problems right there. Power plants are only allowed to use much less effecient low grade nuclear material so that nobody tries to steal it for weapons. The plants themselves have problems due to this (down time changing the fuel rods). If they were allowed to use the stuff in nuclear subs, energy would be more effeciently produced, and there would be less changing of the fuel rods.
Fewer possibilities for accidents.
"If that can be done in Europe, where we don't even speak the same language, and have a history of hatred, xenophobia and kicking the French, I'm stunned that the US can't do the same"
Well, for one thing, kicking French people is rude...
They want to test the strength of all their $500 hammers.
I have to question how far vouchers and public funding will go. Even crappy laptops are far more expensive than their desktop counterparts.
Somehow, this feels like yet another nail in the coffin for education of the monetarily-challenged.
Tuition is stupidly expensive, books are stupidly expensive, and these prices go up more and more each year, faster than inflation...
Shoot, accidentally hit enter.
Anyway, nobody asked for world peace! What's wrong with you people?
This would go in the 'unlimited' category. You could just pay off everybody to be peaceful.
I hope they include that scene where the Dark Knight gets his limbs chopped off, claiming that it's just a flesh wound.
Oh, Batman? Ick.
Umm... what about the Olympics??
You're forgetting that every year, less and less people watch the Olympics. Apparently, when people don't watch them, they fail to remember that they exist.
Anyway, it probably will be more interesting than the Olympics.
It would be fun if they combined this with BATTLEBOTS.
Then it would be more like real life soccor (football or whatever you call it in your local)!
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One interesting comparison between us and the hypothetical advanced aliens is modern radio compared to the drums that certain primitive people use to communicate. Radio frequencies pass around them, but there is nothing they can do with them because the do not have the technology to use them.
It's very possible that advanced forms of transmissions are unknown to us, passing through us. Sorry, no links, but I think abcnews.com had a story recently.
I have been informed by a co-worker that this story is not entirely true...
While the actor is no longer doing the part of R2, it will not be CGI. Here's the story that started it all.
Evidently someone saw this and extrapolated that the droid would be inserted digitally. But they are absolutely, definitely 100% positively using an R/C version for the film: There's also another shot of a crewman with a radio, controlling R2, but I can't find the picture right now.