This is true to a small extent, but there's a feedback loop where the star gets bigger and cooler if the fusion rate increases.
This results in (predominantly) only one element being fused at a time, so you have Hydrogen->Helium (with some slightly heavier elements, C,N, and O can be involved) until the star is almost out of hydrogen, then Helium->Things between LIthium and Oxygen, and after that the star goes boom pretty quickly (or lacks the mass to go any further).
By comparison the amount of fusion of elements heavier than the one it is burning at the time is extremely small.
The majority of all stars (such as our own) are burning Hydrogen.
The majority of all heavy elements come from supernovae (the stars that our sun was made of before it became a star again).
That being said, there is probably a large chunk of iron and other heavy elements (from past supernovae) in the middle of our sun, but we generally ignore it because it is such a small percentage.
My point was that momentary putting it in their mouths isn't so much of an issue if you are playing with the toy with your kid.
Get them in the habit of counting all the pieces when they are done (or do it yourself if they are too young) and getting rid of broken/worn ones from the set.
Then pay attention when they're playing with the magnets, if they can't be trusted to keep track of them?
For the rest of 'all the time' the magnets can be kept in the cupboard.
It will be a glob of synthetic material which safety breaks down if ingested. It won't last more than 2 years though without decomposing itself.
The way things are going, that sounds a bit dangerous.
Large sections of high strength (but extra soft) completely non-toxic material which you could not fit into your mouth.
Also, none of it can be more than 10cm off of the ground because they might fall off and hurt themselves.
Finally, a well thought out and (seemingly) informed post on the negatives of a LFTR. All I've seen in the past is praise and completely uninformed 'nu-huh'.
You seem quite knowledgable. How do you think these issues compare with those (including the already solved ones) required for traditional degigns?
There will still be fission byproducts even if you don't have much in the way of actinides/lanthinides left over, and your shielding will be absorbing neutrons.
Without knowing more about them, I would think decontamination (unless you wanted to wait a few hundred years) before doing anything else with the space would be cheaper, but still rather involved.
If you win even better. You get to prevent the big labels from uploading anything anywhere and they all go out of business, at which point you can dump all your 'songs' into the public domain.
Except that spacetime is not going to be anywhere near Euclidean over the whole length of that trip.
Especially if you happen to pass near a galactic core.
So really you'd be way off, no matter how many digits you memorized.
There's a fairly wide gulf between being inconvenienced/having to stop what you are doing and having your life be at risk.
Shouldn't no-go zones and known obstructions still have markers or buoys of some kind (or at least be marked on a chart so you know to head in the opposite direction)?
Well, I wouldn't rely on the sextant over the GPS, but I'd want to know how to use it just in case (or some other method that is likely to work when the GPS is down).
While the chances of the GPS going down are fairly close to zero, consumer electronics are less reliable.
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This is true to a small extent, but there's a feedback loop where the star gets bigger and cooler if the fusion rate increases. This results in (predominantly) only one element being fused at a time, so you have Hydrogen->Helium (with some slightly heavier elements, C,N, and O can be involved) until the star is almost out of hydrogen, then Helium->Things between LIthium and Oxygen, and after that the star goes boom pretty quickly (or lacks the mass to go any further).
By comparison the amount of fusion of elements heavier than the one it is burning at the time is extremely small.
The majority of all stars (such as our own) are burning Hydrogen.
The majority of all heavy elements come from supernovae (the stars that our sun was made of before it became a star again).
That being said, there is probably a large chunk of iron and other heavy elements (from past supernovae) in the middle of our sun, but we generally ignore it because it is such a small percentage.
My point was that momentary putting it in their mouths isn't so much of an issue if you are playing with the toy with your kid. Get them in the habit of counting all the pieces when they are done (or do it yourself if they are too young) and getting rid of broken/worn ones from the set.
Can someone please explain this troll to me? I see it here so often recently.
Is it just to get people to correct the cosmonaut bit, or to confuse people like me who look for something deeper?
Just a bit of natural selection. Chlorine in the gene pool, so to speak.
In my experience, the magnets on toys (such as magnetix) are only a swallowing hazard when the toy is broken.
Then pay attention when they're playing with the magnets, if they can't be trusted to keep track of them?
For the rest of 'all the time' the magnets can be kept in the cupboard.
It will be a glob of synthetic material which safety breaks down if ingested. It won't last more than 2 years though without decomposing itself.
The way things are going, that sounds a bit dangerous.
Large sections of high strength (but extra soft) completely non-toxic material which you could not fit into your mouth.
Also, none of it can be more than 10cm off of the ground because they might fall off and hurt themselves.
Or how about teaching your kids that you have to be careful with some things, or actually supervising them?
Finally, a well thought out and (seemingly) informed post on the negatives of a LFTR. All I've seen in the past is praise and completely uninformed 'nu-huh'.
You seem quite knowledgable. How do you think these issues compare with those (including the already solved ones) required for traditional degigns?
There will still be fission byproducts even if you don't have much in the way of actinides/lanthinides left over, and your shielding will be absorbing neutrons. Without knowing more about them, I would think decontamination (unless you wanted to wait a few hundred years) before doing anything else with the space would be cheaper, but still rather involved.
Okay, I'll believe you.
If you win even better. You get to prevent the big labels from uploading anything anywhere and they all go out of business, at which point you can dump all your 'songs' into the public domain.
Nothing is real or concrete to them.
Maybe they're all solipsists?
But you didn't piss off the remaining 1% so everything is golden.
Episode 3. Because episodic content will allow us to have shorter games more often.
That's a couple of two page docx files. Haven't you used the latest version of word?
Don't mind this guy. He's nobody.
I've had it before. I don't know if it's treated somehow, but you can just eat the whole lot. It's quite tasty, primarily because of the honey.
Yeah! How dare they plagarise the Torah like that!
'Amazon is at war with Facebook. Amazon has always been at war with Facebook.'?
Except that spacetime is not going to be anywhere near Euclidean over the whole length of that trip.
Especially if you happen to pass near a galactic core.
So really you'd be way off, no matter how many digits you memorized.
Perhaps we should name it Butt-head tech CEO instead?
Oooh, now do me! Should I cower too?
There's a fairly wide gulf between being inconvenienced/having to stop what you are doing and having your life be at risk.
Shouldn't no-go zones and known obstructions still have markers or buoys of some kind (or at least be marked on a chart so you know to head in the opposite direction)?
Well, I wouldn't rely on the sextant over the GPS, but I'd want to know how to use it just in case (or some other method that is likely to work when the GPS is down).
While the chances of the GPS going down are fairly close to zero, consumer electronics are less reliable.