interestingly a SMP/multicore version of POVRAY is in beta testing, I threw that out there as an indigestable cookies for the trolls. A lot of trolls whine and cry over source code or original data being unavailable without a snowball's chance in hell of doing anything with it if it were, then someone serious sees it as a challenge
Try NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive, for NASA's Infrared and Submilimeter Data all of the data is there, 277 columns by a little over 257 million rows. It should be trivial to write a Perl script to massage the data and feed it into POVRAY for the 3D representation, might take quite a while to get your output.
The previously molten fuel sludge, that's congealed at the bottom of those reactors will need a lot of work before it can be fed back into a breeder reactor.
There probably was an arbitration agreement slipped in there, if your bleeding too badly the nurse will sign it for you or show you where to make an "X".
Another key difference is a publisher will pay an author for a period of time, and the author produces works for hire during that period, what the MJ form is claiming is that copyright is transferred over an entire field of subject matter in perpetuity, and without valuable consideration.
Potassium-40 is a beta emitter, it unlikely that an instrument that is not specifically designed for scientific or nuclear survey work is going to give better than "curious amateur" accuracy measuring it; you'll note that most adverts for Alpha or Beta detectors talk about detection, not measuring, especially for Alpha. What he really wants is a Scintillation Detector, a GM tube entrance window is either too thick for alpha to penetrate reliably or too thin to hold up mechanically, even beta is a crap shoot with consumer grade GM instruments.
Pretty typical logic, Occupational Exposure limits are very tight in the US, but diagnostic exposure limits are very loose. It's kind of schizophrenic for us working in dental offices where we're limited to an exposure of about 1/10 on the job of what we get as a patient from the same machines.
They dont just want one to detect radiation, they want one to accurately tell them how much radiation is actually present. They should also know exactly how much radiation is harmful over what period of time. A faulty counter or even poor knowledge of radiation can be just as harmful by underestimating the amount of radiation than by overestimating the amount of radiation and displacing your life / spreading panic among everyone else.
The other point is a GM counter is a detection device more than a measurement device, most are rather accurate at measuring Gamma radiation, an expensive and well calibrated GM counter can measure beta and detect some alpha, but most that a civilian is likely to acquire is barely able to detect beta and alpha particles will be pretty much invisible. Most of the contamination from a meltdown will either be uranium/plutonium, both alpha primarily emitters and undetectable until the gamma is intense enough, or cesium 137 a gamma-beta emitter and so easier to measure accurately but you still have to know what you're doing.
I remember buying a 1200/2400 baud modem, now get off my lawn you young whipper-snapper! The original modems were 300 baud, because that much would keep a 60 WPM teletype completely fed with data.
When you consider that an eight hour day actually means 6 hours of productive work time, waste an hour of two in meetings, now your down to 4 hours of productive work, 20 minutes starts to look like a big deal.
Palin may have said "Drill, Baby drill", but it was Obama that greases the wheels so BP could "Drill, Baby drill" in the gulf of mexico and we saw how that turned out.
Most private water wells are tested once, shortly after they are drilled and before they are connect to the household plumbing, and most tests are only for coliform bacteria and don't include heavy metals, arsenic or other common toxic materials.
I grew up drinking drinking water from a well that had methane, not enough to light coming out the spigot, but the airspace in the water tank would throw 3 foot flames at 60 PSI. The tap water would often buck and knock the water glass out of our hands so we used a lot of plastic instead and the water effervesced in the glass. The real problem is the fracking solutions have toxic additives in it, so if the gas fracked makes it up to the water-table, so might the toxic additives.
I grew up drinking flamable well water, and that was long before fracking, 1965-1973. I'm not sure why some methane in the water is a big deal anyways; it's just earth farts that don't stink, and we're completely adapted to a little methane in our alimentary canals. The biggest draw back to it is it keeps bucking your water glasses out of your hands and breaking them. I wouldn't advise you to smoke in the shower either, but that usually doesn't turn out well anyways.
All of that nuclear stuff isn't a matter of absolutes like can or can't or even did or didn't happen; but matters of how likely or unlikely something is to happen, so it's not that fast neutrons can't trigger a fission event but that thermal neutrons are much more likely to trigger a fission event. Personally I'm not going to get too excited until decay products of Cs137 and I131 reinforce the data of the parent species, just to many factors to introduce error otherwise.
It's not that far-fetched to wonder if maybe we didn't steal, buy or reverse engineer some of that technology from the Russians, helicopters are in their DNA after all, and the Black Hawks are made by a company named Sikorsky. Stealth is usually a matter of integration of simpler techniques into a system, what I've seen isn't that much different than RAH-66 Comanche. It's not uncommon for a failed project to product technologies used to upgrade existing end-items.
Makes you wonder what SEAL Team 6 would charge to neutralize a patent troll case. I'm seriously surprised that people have not just disappeared over some of this silly bullshit.
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interestingly a SMP/multicore version of POVRAY is in beta testing, I threw that out there as an indigestable cookies for the trolls. A lot of trolls whine and cry over source code or original data being unavailable without a snowball's chance in hell of doing anything with it if it were, then someone serious sees it as a challenge
Now the situation is clear as mud, anti-porn group cyberbullying a pro-porn group.
Enjoy
Try NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive, for NASA's Infrared and Submilimeter Data all of the data is there, 277 columns by a little over 257 million rows. It should be trivial to write a Perl script to massage the data and feed it into POVRAY for the 3D representation, might take quite a while to get your output.
The previously molten fuel sludge, that's congealed at the bottom of those reactors will need a lot of work before it can be fed back into a breeder reactor.
You mean like a consent for treatment form?
There probably was an arbitration agreement slipped in there, if your bleeding too badly the nurse will sign it for you or show you where to make an "X".
Another key difference is a publisher will pay an author for a period of time, and the author produces works for hire during that period, what the MJ form is claiming is that copyright is transferred over an entire field of subject matter in perpetuity, and without valuable consideration.
Masturbation is a medical treatment and is 100% safe and effective.
Safe?, I've gotten blisters on my penis from it you insensitive clod!
Full mouth radiographs once a year, individual radiograph on any tooth that's symptomatic, and again to document a root canal is finished.
Potassium-40 is a beta emitter, it unlikely that an instrument that is not specifically designed for scientific or nuclear survey work is going to give better than "curious amateur" accuracy measuring it; you'll note that most adverts for Alpha or Beta detectors talk about detection, not measuring, especially for Alpha. What he really wants is a Scintillation Detector, a GM tube entrance window is either too thick for alpha to penetrate reliably or too thin to hold up mechanically, even beta is a crap shoot with consumer grade GM instruments.
??? What kind of logic is that ???
Pretty typical logic, Occupational Exposure limits are very tight in the US, but diagnostic exposure limits are very loose. It's kind of schizophrenic for us working in dental offices where we're limited to an exposure of about 1/10 on the job of what we get as a patient from the same machines.
They dont just want one to detect radiation, they want one to accurately tell them how much radiation is actually present. They should also know exactly how much radiation is harmful over what period of time. A faulty counter or even poor knowledge of radiation can be just as harmful by underestimating the amount of radiation than by overestimating the amount of radiation and displacing your life / spreading panic among everyone else.
The other point is a GM counter is a detection device more than a measurement device, most are rather accurate at measuring Gamma radiation, an expensive and well calibrated GM counter can measure beta and detect some alpha, but most that a civilian is likely to acquire is barely able to detect beta and alpha particles will be pretty much invisible. Most of the contamination from a meltdown will either be uranium/plutonium, both alpha primarily emitters and undetectable until the gamma is intense enough, or cesium 137 a gamma-beta emitter and so easier to measure accurately but you still have to know what you're doing.
I remember buying a 1200/2400 baud modem, now get off my lawn you young whipper-snapper! The original modems were 300 baud, because that much would keep a 60 WPM teletype completely fed with data.
My toaster is also IPv6 enabled and has a dual 24 inch LCD monitors.
When you consider that an eight hour day actually means 6 hours of productive work time, waste an hour of two in meetings, now your down to 4 hours of productive work, 20 minutes starts to look like a big deal.
I'm surprised you own the mineral rights, those are usually separated from the other property rights long ago.
Palin may have said "Drill, Baby drill", but it was Obama that greases the wheels so BP could "Drill, Baby drill" in the gulf of mexico and we saw how that turned out.
Most private water wells are tested once, shortly after they are drilled and before they are connect to the household plumbing, and most tests are only for coliform bacteria and don't include heavy metals, arsenic or other common toxic materials.
I grew up drinking drinking water from a well that had methane, not enough to light coming out the spigot, but the airspace in the water tank would throw 3 foot flames at 60 PSI. The tap water would often buck and knock the water glass out of our hands so we used a lot of plastic instead and the water effervesced in the glass. The real problem is the fracking solutions have toxic additives in it, so if the gas fracked makes it up to the water-table, so might the toxic additives.
I grew up drinking flamable well water, and that was long before fracking, 1965-1973. I'm not sure why some methane in the water is a big deal anyways; it's just earth farts that don't stink, and we're completely adapted to a little methane in our alimentary canals. The biggest draw back to it is it keeps bucking your water glasses out of your hands and breaking them. I wouldn't advise you to smoke in the shower either, but that usually doesn't turn out well anyways.
All of that nuclear stuff isn't a matter of absolutes like can or can't or even did or didn't happen; but matters of how likely or unlikely something is to happen, so it's not that fast neutrons can't trigger a fission event but that thermal neutrons are much more likely to trigger a fission event. Personally I'm not going to get too excited until decay products of Cs137 and I131 reinforce the data of the parent species, just to many factors to introduce error otherwise.
Daisy Cutters will not fit into a B-52, they are too big and heavy, neither will the MOAB.
It's not that far-fetched to wonder if maybe we didn't steal, buy or reverse engineer some of that technology from the Russians, helicopters are in their DNA after all, and the Black Hawks are made by a company named Sikorsky. Stealth is usually a matter of integration of simpler techniques into a system, what I've seen isn't that much different than RAH-66 Comanche. It's not uncommon for a failed project to product technologies used to upgrade existing end-items.
Makes you wonder what SEAL Team 6 would charge to neutralize a patent troll case. I'm seriously surprised that people have not just disappeared over some of this silly bullshit.