You truly are an ignorant little fuck. ISRAEL OFFERED PALESTINE A STATE AND LAND, AND THEY REFUSED. PALESTINE (and Arafat) DONT WANT PEACE. ALL THEY WANT IS TO EXTERMINATE ALL JEWS.
Waging a "limited war" has been proven many times to be a total waste of human life and resources (see Viet-Nam). In order to accomplish anything you really have to go all out.
That is a HUGE misconception. U-238 (the most common isotope) has a half life of 4.9 BILLION years, and can only undergo alpha decay (in which the nucleus ejects a helium atom). Alpha particles have very short range and are not harmful. Smoke detectors use alpha particle emmiting materials. Only the u-235 (weapons grade) is significantly radioactive. So natural uranium is 97% u-238. DEPLETED uranium is almost 100% u-238. It is no more harmful then other heavy metals like lead. So, you basically wouldn't want to EAT it. I don't think that would be a problem though.
Most large power plants in the United States operate in the 1-2 gigawatt range. This amount is not an amount of energy, but rather the capacity. A 1 gigawatt nuclear power plant can produce 1 gigawatt of energy in 1 hour, or 1 gigawatt-hour.
The best way to avoid bone and muscle atrophy would be to make a spaceship that rotates, so the astronauts will experience artifical gravity as a result of centripetal force. They could sleep and excersize in this area, while the rest of the ship could be 0 g.
The point of the article was saying that we need a majority of people to have atleast a basic understanding of physics. He wasn't bitching that there aren't enough Physics PhD's, but that a large chunk of the population is totally iliterate in science. The problem is that education majors who teach most of the high school science classes don't know **** about science, so not only are they not motivated to teach, but they pass on that lack of motivation to the rest of the students. This causes the ones who do make it to college to avoid all science classes, and repeat the cycle. I think the solution would be to require more technical classes in college (real ones, not just bs classes to fulfill a credit), and to make science more interesting and important in high school.
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You truly are an ignorant little fuck. ISRAEL OFFERED PALESTINE A STATE AND LAND, AND THEY REFUSED. PALESTINE (and Arafat) DONT WANT PEACE. ALL THEY WANT IS TO EXTERMINATE ALL JEWS.
Waging a "limited war" has been proven many times to be a total waste of human life and resources (see Viet-Nam). In order to accomplish anything you really have to go all out.
That is a HUGE misconception. U-238 (the most common isotope) has a half life of 4.9 BILLION years, and can only undergo alpha decay (in which the nucleus ejects a helium atom). Alpha particles have very short range and are not harmful. Smoke detectors use alpha particle emmiting materials. Only the u-235 (weapons grade) is significantly radioactive. So natural uranium is 97% u-238. DEPLETED uranium is almost 100% u-238. It is no more harmful then other heavy metals like lead. So, you basically wouldn't want to EAT it. I don't think that would be a problem though.
Most large power plants in the United States operate in the 1-2 gigawatt range. This amount is not an amount of energy, but rather the capacity. A 1 gigawatt nuclear power plant can produce 1 gigawatt of energy in 1 hour, or 1 gigawatt-hour.
maybe the mass of the cylinder changed because some elements in it are radioactive, and by decaying reduced the mass?
The best way to avoid bone and muscle atrophy would be to make a spaceship that rotates, so the astronauts will experience artifical gravity as a result of centripetal force. They could sleep and excersize in this area, while the rest of the ship could be 0 g.
The point of the article was saying that we need a majority of people to have atleast a basic understanding of physics. He wasn't bitching that there aren't enough Physics PhD's, but that a large chunk of the population is totally iliterate in science. The problem is that education majors who teach most of the high school science classes don't know **** about science, so not only are they not motivated to teach, but they pass on that lack of motivation to the rest of the students. This causes the ones who do make it to college to avoid all science classes, and repeat the cycle. I think the solution would be to require more technical classes in college (real ones, not just bs classes to fulfill a credit), and to make science more interesting and important in high school.
When did the hotmail servers go down? I havn't noticed any downtime at all and I'm constantly checking my mail (cuz I suck).