Ahh yes, Synapse. What I never understood is how come those programmers got to work in such a nice place while I'm forced to work in a basement office with no windows and shitty climate control. Conspiracy I tell you.
He lives out in Western North Dakota. Then again there's really nothing out there, so I don't think the authority (the one lone police officer) would care.
The crazy thing is he lands on a road that has potholes galore and power lines on both sides. I guess it wouldn't be the first time this guy had an accident.
Airstrip? Tell that to that guy who owns land next to my grandfather's place. He thinks that because the highway out there gets so little traffic, it's okay for him to land the crop duster right on the highway. I guess he's not exactly the smartest person in the world.
but try being born on this lovely holiday. Every year I hear the same thing, "Oh wow, you are so lucky to be born on such a romantic holiday." Uhh, right.
I don't remember that one but I remember the one for regular Nintendo. It was hard as hell, then again I was like 5, but it kept me entertained for hours. You had to get arrows to line up with each other to make the shuttle do different things, like liftoff, open the cargo bay, capture a satellite, re-entry, etc. It was called "Space Shuttle Project." If anyone is interested, you can read a little more about it here.
OMG, that old guy about shit himself when he broke that cylinder thing. Too bad the best video is in WMV format, though. If you're looking for a good laugh you gotta check that video section out.
Drivers for the LeMans 24 hour races don't actually race for the full 24 hours but usually share the driving with 2 other drivers, who each drive a total of 8 hours divided into two 4 hour shifts.
I have no proof to back it up. It's just from observation and talking with other people. It's an opinion more or less but it somewhat has a foundation.
Most users don't give a fuck about the Back button. They use once in a while. Hell if you took the back button out most users wouldn't even know it was gone. And when they do use the back button, it's not to go back 10 or 20 times but maybe 1 or 2.
2 days of QA testing? Maybe, if you wanted to get a test group to see what they thought of it.
I completely agree that something needs to be built over the existing containment building, but do they plan to dismantle the current structure after the new one is built? Even with a larger structure over top of the exisitng sarcophagus, in the event of a collapse couldn't that mean that the larger building would fall as well, creating much more material to be irradiated?
Just my two cents.
I think the map is a few years old but a lot of the radioactive material that Chernobyl released has a halflife of a few thousand years. From what the Ukranian Govt. has said(probably isn't true, however) the immediate area around Chernobyl is relatively radioaction free, with the exception of the Reacter 3/4 building.
AFAIK, the other patch that's further away from Chernobyl is where much of the radioactive dust came to rest after being blown many feet into the atmosphere. The night of the accident there was enough of a wind to cause the dust to travel a few hundred miles before settling.
Bad to reply to your own comments I know but I forgot to mention that the wall was built very near to the plant. I did, however, manage to did up some more information on it.
From Chernobyl.com:
"To stop rising ground water (Chernobyl is next to the Prypiat river) a concrete wall was built 30 meters into the ground between the riverbank and the reactor. That wall is now acting like a dam."
About 7 years ago they built a huge concrete wall that goes underground and is meant to stop the flow of groundwater(to some extent) from the contaminated areas. The last I read of this said that the wall had begun to fail. The Pripyat River, which was Chernobyl's water supply, was severely contaminated.
This map shows the "hot zone." It actually covers quite a large area.
what happens if the existing "sarcophagus" fails after the bigger one is built over top of it? Couldn't this still be a disasterous problem? After all, I've heard before that if it were to cave in, it'd be like having the accident all over again.
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I thought it was just "ooh ah ah ah", you know, in that screeching monkey type voice.
Ahh yes, Synapse. What I never understood is how come those programmers got to work in such a nice place while I'm forced to work in a basement office with no windows and shitty climate control. Conspiracy I tell you.
You're not suppose to ski with headphones on anyhow. :-)
He lives out in Western North Dakota. Then again there's really nothing out there, so I don't think the authority (the one lone police officer) would care.
The crazy thing is he lands on a road that has potholes galore and power lines on both sides. I guess it wouldn't be the first time this guy had an accident.
Airstrip? Tell that to that guy who owns land next to my grandfather's place. He thinks that because the highway out there gets so little traffic, it's okay for him to land the crop duster right on the highway. I guess he's not exactly the smartest person in the world.
but try being born on this lovely holiday. Every year I hear the same thing, "Oh wow, you are so lucky to be born on such a romantic holiday." Uhh, right.
I don't remember that one but I remember the one for regular Nintendo. It was hard as hell, then again I was like 5, but it kept me entertained for hours. You had to get arrows to line up with each other to make the shuttle do different things, like liftoff, open the cargo bay, capture a satellite, re-entry, etc. It was called "Space Shuttle Project." If anyone is interested, you can read a little more about it here.
OMG, that old guy about shit himself when he broke that cylinder thing. Too bad the best video is in WMV format, though. If you're looking for a good laugh you gotta check that video section out.
Kuro5hin has more intellegant discussion, and fewer duplicated stories
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Guess you don't post there, huh?
LOL Best Goatsex reference I've seen in a while! Nicely done!
Drivers for the LeMans 24 hour races don't actually race for the full 24 hours but usually share the driving with 2 other drivers, who each drive a total of 8 hours divided into two 4 hour shifts.
No. They don't have a monopoly. There's still Dish Networks. They have a fair amount of subscribers.
I have no proof to back it up. It's just from observation and talking with other people. It's an opinion more or less but it somewhat has a foundation.
I've never done much testing of any kind.
Pulled it out of my ass thanks.
Most users don't give a fuck about the Back button. They use once in a while. Hell if you took the back button out most users wouldn't even know it was gone. And when they do use the back button, it's not to go back 10 or 20 times but maybe 1 or 2.
2 days of QA testing? Maybe, if you wanted to get a test group to see what they thought of it.
To whoever modded that one up, I'm pretty sure he was trying to make a joke there and not something informative.
How exactly is that research? It seems to be a pretty trivial piece of code to write. Hell it could be done in Visual Basic in 20 minutes I bet.
I completely agree that something needs to be built over the existing containment building, but do they plan to dismantle the current structure after the new one is built? Even with a larger structure over top of the exisitng sarcophagus, in the event of a collapse couldn't that mean that the larger building would fall as well, creating much more material to be irradiated?
Just my two cents.
I think the map is a few years old but a lot of the radioactive material that Chernobyl released has a halflife of a few thousand years. From what the Ukranian Govt. has said(probably isn't true, however) the immediate area around Chernobyl is relatively radioaction free, with the exception of the Reacter 3/4 building.
Check out these site for more info
Chernobyl.com
Chernobyl.co.uk
WNA Chernobyl Info
Chernobyl Disaster Zone Site There's an english link on the bottom.
Those sites are defintely some good places to start. Chernobyl is actually quite an interesting subject.
AFAIK, the other patch that's further away from Chernobyl is where much of the radioactive dust came to rest after being blown many feet into the atmosphere. The night of the accident there was enough of a wind to cause the dust to travel a few hundred miles before settling.
Bad to reply to your own comments I know but I forgot to mention that the wall was built very near to the plant. I did, however, manage to did up some more information on it.
From Chernobyl.com:
"To stop rising ground water (Chernobyl is next to the Prypiat river) a concrete wall was built 30 meters into the ground between the riverbank and the reactor. That wall is now acting like a dam."
About 7 years ago they built a huge concrete wall that goes underground and is meant to stop the flow of groundwater(to some extent) from the contaminated areas. The last I read of this said that the wall had begun to fail. The Pripyat River, which was Chernobyl's water supply, was severely contaminated.
This map shows the "hot zone." It actually covers quite a large area.
what happens if the existing "sarcophagus" fails after the bigger one is built over top of it? Couldn't this still be a disasterous problem? After all, I've heard before that if it were to cave in, it'd be like having the accident all over again.
I just want a cell phone network where frequent call drops, long wait times, and low signal strength are common.
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Oh come on, they invented that network years ago and it's still in use today.
You have sex with cars?
Exhaust pipes, baby!