A neutron is essentially a tightly bound electron and proton. Under certain circumstances, it can even decay into those, no?
But at a fundamental level, all baryons are composed of quarks and anti-quarks. 6 types of each. The neutron has what, +2/3 charge (forget which quark this is) and two -1/3 charge quarks. The proton is the complement, with one -1/3 charge quark and and two +2/3 charge quarks. Coming out to round numbers.
But what if the neutron has the anti-quark components? Then, it has -2/3 charge quark, and the two +1/3 charge quarks. Still 0 total charge, but composed of anti-matter. More importantly, neutrons and anti-neutrons have total charges of 0, meaning there is no repulsion effect at any level... they'll mix more readily than a positron in a world made up of alot of protons. Not that regular anti-matter will have too tough a time of this.
At least this is my flunky understanding of things.
Nice tone asswad. I think I mentioned something along those lines in my own post, and this from a highschool dropout. Excuse me if I didn't have 8 years of college in particle physics and nuclear chemistry. Personally, I don't find it suprising at all that most of the slashdot crowd doesn't know the exact details of what would happen, just as myself I don't know what would. But please continue with your arrogant condescending tone...I'd hate to be deprived of you treating me like an idiot.
Assuming that there isn't some plausible, soon-to-be-discovered antimatter breeder reaction. At which point it might become just as practical as whatever storage technology we have available.
Less radioactive. Alot of what you see in a fission bomb is the "unburnt" materials being dispersed by the explosion, the fallout. This just won't exist with anti-hydrogen (I'm assuming this is the most synthesizable element). However, even with fission, not all of it exists beforehand, when you have neutrons flying fuckfast all over the place, some stick in a nucleus here and there producing what are usually small halflife radioactive elements. A m/am would produce lots of all different sorts of radiation and fast particles... there is sure to be something created that lasts longer than a split second. And of course, immediately after the explosion, everything far enough away to avoid being vaporized will be dosed heavily.
It might very well be more scary, and not just from a power perspective... assume something as big as a nuke, but as (nearly) clean as a conventional explosive. The temptation to use it might be greater, the inhibitions even less.
BTW, anyone want to speculate on H/anti-H bombs? No neutrons to shoot all over the place, but at least a few protons (I'm assuming less than 100% perfect mix). And what happens when an anti-H atom hits oxygen or nitrogen, how does that work exactly?
Any self-respecting supervillain uses neutronium/anti-neutronium. Sure, it doesn't weigh any less, but you can pack 50 million tons of it in a suitcase.
Well. A suitcase made of exotic superstring material.
How does this help me, with the 5 phone calls a day while I'm waiting to hear back from places I've sent resumes in to?
They start with a recording, often asking me to call a 800 number based offshore. Sometimes a "press 1" to speak to a CSR... which connects me to some sleazy outfit that contracts out the telemarketing, or so they claim. "Sir, we did not call you!". I have an idea. Make telemarketing, for anything (charities too) a crime punishable by prison time. Make it illegal for phone companies to not provide true caller id... not this shit they pass off as the same.
He simply means he wishes it had been a closer race... not that anyone dropped dead trying. If Armadillo had launched their first yesterday, they'd still have lost the prize... it wouldn't mean that their second attempt had exploded, however. Think about that the next time you're in a hurry to reply.
Hardly, ep1 was hundreds of gigs. 1080i would give you half inch (bigger?) pixels. I just don't see that happening. I think theatre quality projectors are at least 3000 pixels wide.
Two possibilities. Oceania is more powerful than either, though not to an extent that it will likely ever win. Therefor, the other two never wish to ally with each other and against it.
Or, more liklely, they do ally with each other, but there is no reason to tell the Winstons of the world.
What latest edition? There is only one edition, it's always been that way. You may be crimethinking, comrade. Please report to the minihomesec immediately.
For those not in the know, digicipher II is used in VoOM HD satellite, Motorola cable boxes, canada's Starchoice and the now unpopular american 4Dtv packages for big dishes. I just doubt its in use... it's geared towards conditional access.
Even hidef just isn't beefy enough for a theatre, think 1080i scaled up to a 100ft screen. I'd bet money it's pretty close to a raw format, with custom encryption, though maybe a traditional DVB encoding, more likely some data standard. Probably closer to DirecWay than DirecTV.
Ok. I give up. How do you figure the republicans as hatemongers? I don't like them either, but I've got about 1000 good reasons that I can't truthfully describe as "hate".
You may be underestimating the video format. Seems the digital version of ep1 was hundreds of gigs, raw pixels. And if its high res, and an unusual one, the hardware I could buy might not be able to transcode on the fly. But yeh, I'd like to try anyway...
They didn't launch a satellite specifically for this. They rent bandwidth on one of many satellites up there for all sorts of generic tasks. When they send the daytime soaps to CBS stations across the country, they aren't fedex overnighting VHS tapes to 400 affiliates.
Ground station consists of a $500 fiberglass parabolic dish, and a $2000 (this is a guess, it is a commercial one) reciever, with probably a $5000 disk array. No need to UPS expensive drives where they'll be unwatched for days at a time.
A) This is easy, a 6ft dish is probably more than adequate, possibly as small as a 3ft primestar dish. B) This wouldn't be impossible to figure, there are only so many satellites. Check out lyngsat.com. C) Only 2 or 3 frequency bands (and this is almost certainly Ku). Only so many transponders per satellite (about 30). D) This part is tougher. Is it DVB, is it encrypted with Nagra or Digicipher II? Powervu, videoguard? I'm not even sure how you'd check...
But I suspect this is much beefier than your standard over-compressed HD feed. I'm not sure I'd feel like preparing 500 gigs just to download such a movie.
Yeh. Hitler had the right idea, was just a little haevy-handed bringing it altogether. Go EU go! With your sociopathic urge to unite, barely hidden anti-semitism, and nationalistic chest thumping (I suppose that should be multi-nationalistic, continentalistic? I dunno) you have everything it takes to bring his vision to fruition.
There are days I'm glad there is an ocean between us.
Three medals he put himself in for, one of which at least he was denied, until who knows what he did to get that reversed. It wasn't enough of an injury to take him off active duty for even a day. No stitches even, from what I hear. A friend's leg was mangled when his plane went down due to enemy fire, but he was denied a purple heart (supposedly wasn't directly related to enemy fire). Kerry gets a bandaid worthy scratch because he's too stupid to use a grenade launcher properly?
But go ahead, choose the lesser of two evils. Every election the uniparty tries its damnedest to make sure the candidates are equally evil... that loophole is fast evaporating.
Corporations aren't citizens of the United States. And don't pull that "their shareholders are though" shit unless each corporation is willing to affirm under penalty of treason that not a single shareholder is a foreign national.
More so, even if they are, and should be treated as individuals, shouldn't a corporate charter be non-renewable past a reasonable lifetime? Say 75 years? Maybe when they're no longer able to be immortal entities, I'd consider giving them some personhood considerations. Til then, fuck them.
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A neutron is essentially a tightly bound electron and proton. Under certain circumstances, it can even decay into those, no?
But at a fundamental level, all baryons are composed of quarks and anti-quarks. 6 types of each. The neutron has what, +2/3 charge (forget which quark this is) and two -1/3 charge quarks. The proton is the complement, with one -1/3 charge quark and and two +2/3 charge quarks. Coming out to round numbers.
But what if the neutron has the anti-quark components? Then, it has -2/3 charge quark, and the two +1/3 charge quarks. Still 0 total charge, but composed of anti-matter. More importantly, neutrons and anti-neutrons have total charges of 0, meaning there is no repulsion effect at any level... they'll mix more readily than a positron in a world made up of alot of protons. Not that regular anti-matter will have too tough a time of this.
At least this is my flunky understanding of things.
Nice tone asswad. I think I mentioned something along those lines in my own post, and this from a highschool dropout. Excuse me if I didn't have 8 years of college in particle physics and nuclear chemistry. Personally, I don't find it suprising at all that most of the slashdot crowd doesn't know the exact details of what would happen, just as myself I don't know what would. But please continue with your arrogant condescending tone...I'd hate to be deprived of you treating me like an idiot.
Go to hell.
They must know more about it than me, but manipulating positrons seems even more problematic than atomic antimatter.
Assuming that there isn't some plausible, soon-to-be-discovered antimatter breeder reaction. At which point it might become just as practical as whatever storage technology we have available.
Less radioactive. Alot of what you see in a fission bomb is the "unburnt" materials being dispersed by the explosion, the fallout. This just won't exist with anti-hydrogen (I'm assuming this is the most synthesizable element). However, even with fission, not all of it exists beforehand, when you have neutrons flying fuckfast all over the place, some stick in a nucleus here and there producing what are usually small halflife radioactive elements. A m/am would produce lots of all different sorts of radiation and fast particles... there is sure to be something created that lasts longer than a split second. And of course, immediately after the explosion, everything far enough away to avoid being vaporized will be dosed heavily.
It might very well be more scary, and not just from a power perspective... assume something as big as a nuke, but as (nearly) clean as a conventional explosive. The temptation to use it might be greater, the inhibitions even less.
BTW, anyone want to speculate on H/anti-H bombs? No neutrons to shoot all over the place, but at least a few protons (I'm assuming less than 100% perfect mix). And what happens when an anti-H atom hits oxygen or nitrogen, how does that work exactly?
Any self-respecting supervillain uses neutronium/anti-neutronium. Sure, it doesn't weigh any less, but you can pack 50 million tons of it in a suitcase.
Well. A suitcase made of exotic superstring material.
How does this help me, with the 5 phone calls a day while I'm waiting to hear back from places I've sent resumes in to?
They start with a recording, often asking me to call a 800 number based offshore. Sometimes a "press 1" to speak to a CSR... which connects me to some sleazy outfit that contracts out the telemarketing, or so they claim. "Sir, we did not call you!". I have an idea. Make telemarketing, for anything (charities too) a crime punishable by prison time. Make it illegal for phone companies to not provide true caller id... not this shit they pass off as the same.
He simply means he wishes it had been a closer race... not that anyone dropped dead trying. If Armadillo had launched their first yesterday, they'd still have lost the prize... it wouldn't mean that their second attempt had exploded, however. Think about that the next time you're in a hurry to reply.
That last quote, isn't a confession that M$ plans on using monopoly power to leverage into a new market?
How do they get away with this shit?
Hardly, ep1 was hundreds of gigs. 1080i would give you half inch (bigger?) pixels. I just don't see that happening. I think theatre quality projectors are at least 3000 pixels wide.
Two possibilities. Oceania is more powerful than either, though not to an extent that it will likely ever win. Therefor, the other two never wish to ally with each other and against it.
Or, more liklely, they do ally with each other, but there is no reason to tell the Winstons of the world.
What latest edition? There is only one edition, it's always been that way. You may be crimethinking, comrade. Please report to the minihomesec immediately.
I thought the sarcasm was obvious. My bad.
There was a slight chance the coffee addiction thing was only psychological.
Oceania has always been at war with East Iraqistan. It has always been allies with EurArabia.
Oceania has always been at war with EurArabia. It has always been allies with East Iraqistan.
You may be crimethinking without even knowing it comrade. Please report to the Ministry of Homeland Security.
For those not in the know, digicipher II is used in VoOM HD satellite, Motorola cable boxes, canada's Starchoice and the now unpopular american 4Dtv packages for big dishes. I just doubt its in use... it's geared towards conditional access.
Even hidef just isn't beefy enough for a theatre, think 1080i scaled up to a 100ft screen. I'd bet money it's pretty close to a raw format, with custom encryption, though maybe a traditional DVB encoding, more likely some data standard. Probably closer to DirecWay than DirecTV.
Touche.
Still, maybe those guys could take some advice from a citizen of a country who already made that mistake?
Ok. I give up. How do you figure the republicans as hatemongers? I don't like them either, but I've got about 1000 good reasons that I can't truthfully describe as "hate".
You may be underestimating the video format. Seems the digital version of ep1 was hundreds of gigs, raw pixels. And if its high res, and an unusual one, the hardware I could buy might not be able to transcode on the fly. But yeh, I'd like to try anyway...
They didn't launch a satellite specifically for this. They rent bandwidth on one of many satellites up there for all sorts of generic tasks. When they send the daytime soaps to CBS stations across the country, they aren't fedex overnighting VHS tapes to 400 affiliates.
Ground station consists of a $500 fiberglass parabolic dish, and a $2000 (this is a guess, it is a commercial one) reciever, with probably a $5000 disk array. No need to UPS expensive drives where they'll be unwatched for days at a time.
A) This is easy, a 6ft dish is probably more than adequate, possibly as small as a 3ft primestar dish.
B) This wouldn't be impossible to figure, there are only so many satellites. Check out lyngsat.com.
C) Only 2 or 3 frequency bands (and this is almost certainly Ku). Only so many transponders per satellite (about 30).
D) This part is tougher. Is it DVB, is it encrypted with Nagra or Digicipher II? Powervu, videoguard? I'm not even sure how you'd check...
But I suspect this is much beefier than your standard over-compressed HD feed. I'm not sure I'd feel like preparing 500 gigs just to download such a movie.
Yeh. Hitler had the right idea, was just a little haevy-handed bringing it altogether. Go EU go! With your sociopathic urge to unite, barely hidden anti-semitism, and nationalistic chest thumping (I suppose that should be multi-nationalistic, continentalistic? I dunno) you have everything it takes to bring his vision to fruition.
There are days I'm glad there is an ocean between us.
Three medals he put himself in for, one of which at least he was denied, until who knows what he did to get that reversed. It wasn't enough of an injury to take him off active duty for even a day. No stitches even, from what I hear. A friend's leg was mangled when his plane went down due to enemy fire, but he was denied a purple heart (supposedly wasn't directly related to enemy fire). Kerry gets a bandaid worthy scratch because he's too stupid to use a grenade launcher properly?
But go ahead, choose the lesser of two evils. Every election the uniparty tries its damnedest to make sure the candidates are equally evil... that loophole is fast evaporating.
Because there should be no opposition. Kerry's war record is a joke... and I say that without using it as a pro-Bush zinger.
Bush's easy out from Vietnam in the Reserves is just as bad, considering that he didn't even serve there.
They're both dickless morons that shouldn't be leading our country.
Corporations aren't citizens of the United States. And don't pull that "their shareholders are though" shit unless each corporation is willing to affirm under penalty of treason that not a single shareholder is a foreign national.
More so, even if they are, and should be treated as individuals, shouldn't a corporate charter be non-renewable past a reasonable lifetime? Say 75 years? Maybe when they're no longer able to be immortal entities, I'd consider giving them some personhood considerations. Til then, fuck them.