What you say is true. But hydrogen is still a much more efficient storage medium than batteries are - and can be made just as safe (or safer) with technologies such as metal hydride storage.
Good Bog, I was aware of the '57 incident but had no idea it was that bad. A little googling confirmed what you posted.
Oh I feel for those people....the previous Soviet leaders have a LOT to answer for. If only we could bring them back to make them do so....
SB
Re:Importance of research and computer modeling
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This is so damned true.
Back in the 80s when I was in college, this was a point I argued over and over at enviro meetings. I was usually shouted down.
The media did a wonderful job of "educating" (read spreading FUD) about the real dangers of nuclear plants as compared to the dangers of coal and oil fired plants. All the crap (and Jane Fonda and that *bleep bleep* movie) produced a totally misinformed public. Chernobyl didn't help any either, despite the fact that is was very badly designed and run.
As a couple other posters have noted, the French produce a majority of their electricity with NP, and have NEVER had a serious accident (mostly because they use advanced designs and they vet their employees very, very carefully)...
One of the things I remember about being in S. Utah in '91 was the amount of smog in the deserts produced by those coal plants. But hey, they provided jobs....
Make no mistake, people - the main reason that nuclear power is so expensive in the US is because of media and political FUD.
I just went to that link as of 10:40 Mountain time....and there's no text there. Odd. I wonder if they pulled the release or did/. mangle their server?
Exactly. Unfortunately, it's a major shame that used bookstores are becoming more and more rare. There used to be 20 or so within an hours drive of here, now there's 3 (at least phone book listed ones, may be more but darned if I can find them!)
One wish of mine is that once a book has been out of print for years, and it doesn't look like it will ever be in print again, that the author would release it to the public domain, so it can be read and enjoyed again and again. This would also help preserve a lot of OoP books that will otherwise get lost in the mists of history....
SB PS Dreamhaven is great ( I live a few hundred miles from there); I never seem to bring enough money when I visit there!
You're assuming that every publisher over the last half century plus uses the same definition of "great" that we do. Not even close to true. I've been reading science fiction since the early 70s, and I can remember many books I thought were great but which disappeared after the first printing.
IANAL either, but AFAIK there are no clear precedents for click-thru EULAs being valid contractual agreements in the US either. If I'm wrong, someone please point it out.
There's a HUGE difference between the Patriot's capabilities and the capabilities needed for SDI. The Patriot does OK (sorta) at intercepting short range ballistic missiles, but would be very unlikely to intercept a suborbital ballistic.
In a stunning turn of events, Lord Stallman is hired by Microsoft.
Ballmer: Palladium is now the ultimate power in the cyberuniverse. I suggest we use it.
Stallman: Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed, Mr. Gates. The ability to dominate the planet is insignificant, next to the power of Open Source.
Ballmer: Don't try to frighten us with your Hippy ways, Lord Stallman. Your sad devotion to that ancient religion hasn't given you the power to conjure up the stolen code, nor helped us find the rebels hidden serv- *urk* *gaak*
Stallman: I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Gates: Enough of this! Stallman, release his server!
Stallman:As you wish. *virtual thud*
Gates: This bickering is pointless. Lord Stallman will provide us with the IP of the rebels hidden server by time Palladium is operational. We will then crush the rebellion with one swift lawsuit. ------------
(I wrote this one for a post a long time ago but it fits here:-) SB
Really? We're talking about hooking P2P to a free web browser? A P2P client which BTW has the capacity of being the next Napster ( Oh, except it's going to be harder to the RIAA/whomever to deal with).
"Do you think the potential politics behind this outweigh the benefits of BitTorrent, such as getting a full Linux distro with record download speeds?" "
Politics?
Um...lawyers?
Sheese.....we all know where it will end up.
I think it'd be a great feature....but it would also suck Mozilla into the P2P world of legal BS. Do we want it there?
Thanks. It also works on two other machines here, but not this particular one in Windows on Mozilla 1.3. Strange. I've had some other strange problems with moz 1.3 since the upgrade...time to do another install methinks.
BTW, mods, how is my original post redundant? I find no mention of mozilla anywhere else on the page, nor.asp...
Did anyone else have trouble with that page in Mozilla (1.3 here). It loaded, then the images disappeared and I couldn't get them back thru refresh or anything. No, the image urls are not on my blocked list.
Slashdot Mirror
I have a copy of the Science article as part of my notes from my university classes back in the '80s but my scanner puked after a recent move....
l _s ci/carstens
:)
but here is something that summarizes that and much more.
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/findaids/socia
It's not exactly what you were looking for, but still incredibly informative, even if it is very long
As always remember to remove the space in the URL. I don't feel like fscking with html format right now. Sorry.
SB
What you say is true. But hydrogen is still a much more efficient storage medium than batteries are - and can be made just as safe (or safer) with technologies such as metal hydride storage.
SB
Good Bog, I was aware of the '57 incident but had no idea it was that bad. A little googling confirmed what you posted.
Oh I feel for those people....the previous Soviet leaders have a LOT to answer for. If only we could bring them back to make them do so....
SB
This is so damned true.
Back in the 80s when I was in college, this was a point I argued over and over at enviro meetings. I was usually shouted down.
The media did a wonderful job of "educating" (read spreading FUD) about the real dangers of nuclear plants as compared to the dangers of coal and oil fired plants. All the crap (and Jane Fonda and that *bleep bleep* movie) produced a totally misinformed public. Chernobyl didn't help any either, despite the fact that is was very badly designed and run.
As a couple other posters have noted, the French produce a majority of their electricity with NP, and have NEVER had a serious accident (mostly because they use advanced designs and they vet their employees very, very carefully)...
One of the things I remember about being in S. Utah in '91 was the amount of smog in the deserts produced by those coal plants. But hey, they provided jobs....
Make no mistake, people - the main reason that nuclear power is so expensive in the US is because of media and political FUD.
SB
I just went to that link as of 10:40 Mountain time....and there's no text there. Odd. I wonder if they pulled the release or did /. mangle their server?
SB
"We don't have libbyists!"
Thank God. Those Libby's commercials for canned food were bad enough.
Libby libby libby on the label label labe *click*
SB
Exactly. Unfortunately, it's a major shame that used bookstores are becoming more and more rare. There used to be 20 or so within an hours drive of here, now there's 3 (at least phone book listed ones, may be more but darned if I can find them!)
One wish of mine is that once a book has been out of print for years, and it doesn't look like it will ever be in print again, that the author would release it to the public domain, so it can be read and enjoyed again and again. This would also help preserve a lot of OoP books that will otherwise get lost in the mists of history....
SB
PS Dreamhaven is great ( I live a few hundred miles from there); I never seem to bring enough money when I visit there!
You're assuming that every publisher over the last half century plus uses the same definition of "great" that we do. Not even close to true. I've been reading science fiction since the early 70s, and I can remember many books I thought were great but which disappeared after the first printing.
SB
How about "public" toilets?
SB
It's just another pissing contest.
SB
IANAL either, but AFAIK there are no clear precedents for click-thru EULAs being valid contractual agreements in the US either. If I'm wrong, someone please point it out.
SB
That's exactly what I was saying....
SB
If you listen to the Pentagon, they showed that HTK could work 15 years ago (although some think the tests were a little, uh, rigged).
What I think would have the greatest chance of success against suborbital ballistics would be some descendant of this.
SB
There's a HUGE difference between the Patriot's capabilities and the capabilities needed for SDI. The Patriot does OK (sorta) at intercepting short range ballistic missiles, but would be very unlikely to intercept a suborbital ballistic.
SB
Yeah, I realized that after the the first time I posted it (a few months ago to another story). Forgot to change it tho. Sigh.
SB
It sure felt like it :-)
SB
In a stunning turn of events, Lord Stallman is hired by Microsoft.
:-)
Ballmer: Palladium is now the ultimate power in the cyberuniverse. I suggest we use it.
Stallman: Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed, Mr. Gates. The ability to dominate the planet is insignificant, next to the power of Open Source.
Ballmer: Don't try to frighten us with your Hippy ways, Lord Stallman. Your sad devotion to that ancient religion hasn't given you the power to conjure up the stolen code, nor helped us find the rebels hidden serv- *urk* *gaak*
Stallman: I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Gates: Enough of this! Stallman, release his server!
Stallman:As you wish. *virtual thud*
Gates: This bickering is pointless. Lord Stallman will provide us with the IP of the rebels hidden server by time Palladium is operational. We will then crush the rebellion with one swift lawsuit.
------------
(I wrote this one for a post a long time ago but it fits here
SB
Really? We're talking about hooking P2P to a free web browser? A P2P client which BTW has the capacity of being the next Napster ( Oh, except it's going to be harder to the RIAA/whomever to deal with).
"Do you think the potential politics behind this outweigh the benefits of BitTorrent, such as getting a full Linux distro with record download speeds?" "
Politics?
Um...lawyers?
Sheese.....we all know where it will end up.
I think it'd be a great feature....but it would also suck Mozilla into the P2P world of legal BS. Do we want it there?
Argh....
SB
n/t
Upgrade their servers much?
Thanks.
.asp...
It also works on two other machines here, but not this particular one in Windows on Mozilla 1.3. Strange. I've had some other strange problems with moz 1.3 since the upgrade...time to do another install methinks.
BTW, mods, how is my original post redundant? I find no mention of mozilla anywhere else on the page, nor
SB
Doesn't Bezos have a patent on that?
Did anyone else have trouble with that page in Mozilla (1.3 here). It loaded, then the images disappeared and I couldn't get them back thru refresh or anything. No, the image urls are not on my blocked list.
.asp file...
Worked fine in Phoenix, tho.
Hmm.
SB
"Seriously, a warning from the editor would have been nice."
:-)
Heh. For who, slashdotters or the webadmin of the site?
SB
Bump post up one level.....