Shielding in Nuclear power plants is an issue that needs to be tackled better.
Actually, no, it isn't. I don't even think it's been an issue that needed to be tackled better within my lifetime. Nor would this help. 20 cm of rolled steel and 1.5 meters of reinforced concrete provides all the radiation protection you need until the pressure vessel ruptures.
Fuck this movie, GNAA's Penis Rocket To The Moon is going to be REAL NEWS once you niggers donate.
e-mail: penisrockettothemoonproject@gnaa.us for more info
You're not doing it right.
No kidding, in the Gayniggers Omniverse, Penis Rocket to the Moon is most definitely not canon and has been poorly received from Day One. The lineage is there--plain as day--but the story is really more of a reimaging of several early Gayniggers subplots for American audiences than something that would appeal to the die-hard GnOS-fan. After the graphic novel flopped upon release--following an unheard-of amount of hype--I'm surprised anyone expects to be able to bankroll the project as high-dollar as the original, much less to make a blockbuster out of it.
Personally, I'm holding out on rumors about a series of prequels concerning the youth and training of Captain B. Dick, and the early years of his command of the S.S. Ring Musculatorus. In addition, while not as action-packed, the post-Ambassadorial Earth storyline had excellent character development in the novel, and could certainly lend itself well to a live-action or even animated miniseries.
Some followers of Yaweh, will tell me that the yummy, healthy, normal sex I has last night is wrong and a sin.
Well actually, many modern theologies teach that the sin of Onan was actually that he refused to impregnate his dead brother's widow, which would have allowed the brother's lineage to continue despite the fact that she hadn't borne him any children before his death. That is, a direct violation of God's Will.
If mathematics is invented, then let's invent some right now. First, let's set the scene: Mathematicians ran into this annoying problem that you can't take the square root of a negative number, so they invented this number, i, that is defined as the square root of -1. Then, by using this i in your answer, any root can be expressed. Ok, now that the scene is set, I find it incredibly annoying that you cannot divide by zero. Therefore, I am hereby inventing a number, j, that is defined as one divided by zero. Henceforth, you can express any number divided by zero by using this j in your answer. Who knows, such a thing might actually be useful.
As the proportion of electrical engineers approaches 1, i approaches j.
As an American who hasn't been extremely well-exposed to English pop culture, I cannot say with certainty what the term "wanker" means, but there's a feeling deep inside of me that Cory Doctorow is exactly the person the term was created to describe. He and several more or less pretentious bloggers run the Boing Boing blog, each with their own running obsession--Disney, Tibet, kitsch, Internet memes, etc. This is a spot-on parody of him.
Geez. Heating water with solar power really isn't rocket science. The improvements proposed for these power plants are mainly in engineering. On the other hand, we're still working on the science for fusion and antimatter.
As someone who deals with this topic on a daily basis, I can say confidently that we're still working on the funding for the science.
Never fear, though: While there are plenty of applied physics people being frustrated out of this field as is, investment capital companies are more than happy to provide rewarding jobs for them to flee to.
That's the beauty of IC-electric hybrids (the technology, not necessarily the cars). You can do all kinds of neat stuff with engine RPM's when you've got an accumulator for mechanical energy. Submarines have been doing this for at least a century.
The same thing applies to every form of on-demand power system, electric power plants included. Wind power and solar are terrible at giving a constant and predictable power output, even when distributed over large areas, since you only get the option to throttle them. Hook them up to a pumped storage system, and, while you can't control the MWh/yr, you can at least decide when you get them.
It might be the pinnacle of irony to state this in my post, but one of the principle stereotypes in the rest of Scandinavia about Danes is actually that they are racists.
I don't know if you're Danish or not, but Denmark is currently having some serious issues with the recent phenomenon of immigration, and I seriously doubt a black Dane would get off so easily. It certainly isn't that way for Chinese and Middle-easterners' children. There's a significant number of politicians in Denmark whose main campaign issue is reducing the number of people allowed into the country.
One of the effects of this anti-immigration movement is that there are significant number of Pakistani/Somali/etc men who send home for a wife, but cannot get them into the country. Instead, they keep them across the border in Sweden. The social services implications (domestic violence, public health insurance, visas, etc) has risen to the point of a diplomatic tussle between the two countries.
There was a Taiwanese guy who drank several kilos of mercury and not only lived, but showed surprisingly mild symptoms. (Lin JL, Lim PS. 1993. Massive oral ingestion of elemental mercury. J Toxicol Clin Toxicol 31 (3):487-492.)
The interesting part is the total quantity he drank was determined by--uhhhhh--observation of the tail-end processes. They even tracked its progress through his intestine with x-rays. Now, I've had GI problems of a dozen underdeveloped countries' drinking water, but I'll be damned if I can even guess what it's like to feel the T-1000 passing through your sphincter.
(Please excuse me while I register a few domain names...)
Because Americans have always just assumed that politicians are corrupt. Not corrupt in the sense you'd find in the Developing World, but more in the sense of having a deeply corrupt moral character. We will get up in arms if we see a politician paid several thousands of dollars directly to make a permit issue disappear, but don't feel any need to break out the torches for a politician receiving campaign contributions from a lobbyist for a gov contract bidder with hopes to sway the outcome. It's dirty, but it's just not any more repugnant than we consider the politicians themselves.
For us, the corruption we grumble about but are prepared to let exist is just a nature of the beast, not the crime of some who can be expected to do better.
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I guess they'll have to drill for oil very quietly now.
Personally, I'm holding out on rumors about a series of prequels concerning the youth and training of Captain B. Dick, and the early years of his command of the S.S. Ring Musculatorus. In addition, while not as action-packed, the post-Ambassadorial Earth storyline had excellent character development in the novel, and could certainly lend itself well to a live-action or even animated miniseries.
He's not kidding. We had one of our lab techs to an expression search on his porn drives, and grep ended up deleting itself.
The person who disagrees with the above statement was never forced to use Summa Theologica as a source.
The researchers are actually spending most of their time searching for the "Disasters" menu.
I like to think of PopMech as the Weekly World News of technology.
Speaking of pride in the face of destitution, are any of you guys getting a lot of ads for "Anastasia International" lately?
It's marketing genius, really.
I've only got one key left, but I managed to whip up a nifty morse code keymap.
Don't worry, it's not self-incrimination until the court forces you to friend the detectives.
As an American who hasn't been extremely well-exposed to English pop culture, I cannot say with certainty what the term "wanker" means, but there's a feeling deep inside of me that Cory Doctorow is exactly the person the term was created to describe. He and several more or less pretentious bloggers run the Boing Boing blog, each with their own running obsession--Disney, Tibet, kitsch, Internet memes, etc. This is a spot-on parody of him.
Never fear, though: While there are plenty of applied physics people being frustrated out of this field as is, investment capital companies are more than happy to provide rewarding jobs for them to flee to.
That's the beauty of IC-electric hybrids (the technology, not necessarily the cars). You can do all kinds of neat stuff with engine RPM's when you've got an accumulator for mechanical energy. Submarines have been doing this for at least a century.
The same thing applies to every form of on-demand power system, electric power plants included. Wind power and solar are terrible at giving a constant and predictable power output, even when distributed over large areas, since you only get the option to throttle them. Hook them up to a pumped storage system, and, while you can't control the MWh/yr, you can at least decide when you get them.
It might be the pinnacle of irony to state this in my post, but one of the principle stereotypes in the rest of Scandinavia about Danes is actually that they are racists.
I don't know if you're Danish or not, but Denmark is currently having some serious issues with the recent phenomenon of immigration, and I seriously doubt a black Dane would get off so easily. It certainly isn't that way for Chinese and Middle-easterners' children. There's a significant number of politicians in Denmark whose main campaign issue is reducing the number of people allowed into the country.
One of the effects of this anti-immigration movement is that there are significant number of Pakistani/Somali/etc men who send home for a wife, but cannot get them into the country. Instead, they keep them across the border in Sweden. The social services implications (domestic violence, public health insurance, visas, etc) has risen to the point of a diplomatic tussle between the two countries.
I don't know, but there was a Danish documentary on the subject.
There was a Taiwanese guy who drank several kilos of mercury and not only lived, but showed surprisingly mild symptoms. (Lin JL, Lim PS. 1993. Massive oral ingestion of elemental mercury. J Toxicol Clin Toxicol 31
(3):487-492.)
The interesting part is the total quantity he drank was determined by--uhhhhh--observation of the tail-end processes. They even tracked its progress through his intestine with x-rays. Now, I've had GI problems of a dozen underdeveloped countries' drinking water, but I'll be damned if I can even guess what it's like to feel the T-1000 passing through your sphincter.
(Please excuse me while I register a few domain names...)
Don't try to out-weird me, three-eyes...
Because Americans have always just assumed that politicians are corrupt. Not corrupt in the sense you'd find in the Developing World, but more in the sense of having a deeply corrupt moral character. We will get up in arms if we see a politician paid several thousands of dollars directly to make a permit issue disappear, but don't feel any need to break out the torches for a politician receiving campaign contributions from a lobbyist for a gov contract bidder with hopes to sway the outcome. It's dirty, but it's just not any more repugnant than we consider the politicians themselves.
For us, the corruption we grumble about but are prepared to let exist is just a nature of the beast, not the crime of some who can be expected to do better.