I cannot find the site where I read it initially, but Google found this:
At 12:45 PM, the Pennsylvania State Police closed PA 441 to traffic near Three Mile Island at the request of the commonwealth's Bureau of Radiation Protection. An hour later, the US Department of Energy team began its first helicopter flight to monitor radiation levels. At 1:50 PM, a noise penetrated the TMI-2 control room. The sound was that of a hydrogen explosion inside the containment building. The noise at the time was dismissed at the time as a slamming of a ventilation damper.
I also remember reading that the reactor core was just 500 degrees (not sure Celsius of Fahrenheit) below the meltdown temperature.
If the reactor building in Three Mile Island wasn't strong enough to sustain the hydrogen explosion, the ghost town could have been Harrisburg rather that Chernobyl. I could have made a site similar to Elena's. The only difference is that nobody would take it seriously.
I was at the "scenic overlook" closest to the Gap. Jupiter was straight overhead. When the ISS was near Jupiter, it was almost as bright, definitely brighter than all stars. Its color was very clean white, more like Venus than the yellowish Jupiter. The station passed about one degree (two Moon diameters) to the south-west of Jupiter.
Actually, I was more interested in seeing the station than the eclipse, and it was worth is.
I'm really impressed, especially by the fact that the ISS was built by people, but looks more like a celestial object.
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It looks like the line passes over Delaware Water Gap. There are three observation areas along route 80 on the New Jersey side - two on the westbound side, one on the eastbound side. They close after dusk officially, but I had no problems observing the last lunar eclipse from one of those areas. It slightly over an hour drive from NYC.
Or wait for a few centuries and then use it. For instance, use another close approach to Earth to send Toutatis to one of the the Mars' polar caps so it would help with terraforming. Only asteroids that come close to planets are relatively easy to redirect by pushing them a bit.
One of the most irritating things for me is when somebody asks me a question and quotes my e-mail, which contains the answer. The original message is always at the bottom, which indicates that the topposter didn't read it.
Hey no fair, you logged in AND used Karma bonus to artificially inflate your score.
OK, let's only count moderations, without the initial points.
I did the noble thing and posted anonymously
Please put your name or nick somewhere. The fact that the name was suggested by e.g. goat_lover at slashdot.org would be more interesting to the general public than the fact that an anonymous reader at slashdot.org suggested it. A little bit of personality would liven up the story.
Mozilla is red like Mars. Mozilla is strong like a rock. Scientists know Mozilla. Mozilla will go to Mars, and followers of Mammon will cower in horror:-)
Sedna's orbit is so far from the Sun that it could not have been placed into that orbit by any planet. It could not have formed that far from the Sun and be so large. Some unknown object or star must have lifted Sedna's perihelion.
There may be another Earth-sized planet that was ejected by Neptune and that in turn shifted the orbit of Sedna. Why don't we see that planet? Because it may be in the aphelion, perhaps light week away. Not only it is far away from us, but it's also in the darkness, being far away from the Sun.
Or maybe the Sun approached another star in the past, which changed the orbits of the outermost Kuiper Belt Objects. Finally, maybe it was our Sun that snatched Sedna from another star.
BSD doesn't benefit from "anti-American sentiments". Any American company can get your code, close it, add some prorietary code (and possibly backdoors) and sell it worldwide. I cannot imagine China or India sponsoring BSD development.
Regarding dark matter, you seriously trivialize the situation. It's not a case of astronomers being unable to find the matter, like it's a lost set of keys. We see that galaxies and clusters of galaxies experience more gravitation attraction than they should, based on the visible mass. Hence "dark matter."
You are contradicting yourself. It is a case of astronomers being unable to find the matter.
But it's not just that we can't see it; big bang nucleosynthesis tells us that only a small fraction of the matter in the universe is baryonic.
We know too little about "big bang nucleosynthesis" to make any conclusions, especially those predicting undiscovered forms of matter. We don't even know why we have more matter than antimatter.
They were specific that they will talk about a discovery made by Opportunity. If present water was discovered, I think they would have mentioned Spirit.
Actually, it would be more exciting if they found evidence of lakes in the past than traces of water now. Presence of liquid water is almost a certainty. Pathfinder and Viking 2 showed frost on the surface. We know the temperature of the soil, we know that it has salts, we know the atmospheric pressure. It can be modelled on Earth.
Now, if Mars had lakes, it would indicate that it was warmer, that its atmosphere was more dense, that it could have harbored life and that the water is trapped somewhere in large quantities.
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If the reactor building in Three Mile Island wasn't strong enough to sustain the hydrogen explosion, the ghost town could have been Harrisburg rather that Chernobyl. I could have made a site similar to Elena's. The only difference is that nobody would take it seriously.
Actually, I was more interested in seeing the station than the eclipse, and it was worth is. I'm really impressed, especially by the fact that the ISS was built by people, but looks more like a celestial object.
It looks like the line passes over Delaware Water Gap. There are three observation areas along route 80 on the New Jersey side - two on the westbound side, one on the eastbound side. They close after dusk officially, but I had no problems observing the last lunar eclipse from one of those areas. It slightly over an hour drive from NYC.
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Or wait for a few centuries and then use it. For instance, use another close approach to Earth to send Toutatis to one of the the Mars' polar caps so it would help with terraforming. Only asteroids that come close to planets are relatively easy to redirect by pushing them a bit.
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http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html
One of the most irritating things for me is when somebody asks me a question and quotes my e-mail, which contains the answer. The original message is always at the bottom, which indicates that the topposter didn't read it.
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Ironport, the owner of Spamcop, allows you to deposit a bond to certify that your e-mail is legitimate. More info at www.bondedsender.com.
Otherwise the money will go to other accounts due to tunnel effect.
Now bounced checks will interfere with each other.
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Mozilla is red like Mars. Mozilla is strong like a rock. Scientists know Mozilla. Mozilla will go to Mars, and followers of Mammon will cower in horror :-)
pc104? Maybe they meant pc2004?
There may be another Earth-sized planet that was ejected by Neptune and that in turn shifted the orbit of Sedna. Why don't we see that planet? Because it may be in the aphelion, perhaps light week away. Not only it is far away from us, but it's also in the darkness, being far away from the Sun.
Or maybe the Sun approached another star in the past, which changed the orbits of the outermost Kuiper Belt Objects. Finally, maybe it was our Sun that snatched Sedna from another star.
BSD doesn't benefit from "anti-American sentiments". Any American company can get your code, close it, add some prorietary code (and possibly backdoors) and sell it worldwide. I cannot imagine China or India sponsoring BSD development.
ICMP packets don't DoS servers. People DoS servers.
It's as close as it can get to Clippy heling write a suicide note.
They were specific that they will talk about a discovery made by Opportunity. If present water was discovered, I think they would have mentioned Spirit.
Now, if Mars had lakes, it would indicate that it was warmer, that its atmosphere was more dense, that it could have harbored life and that the water is trapped somewhere in large quantities.
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