Rabbits have a simple digestive structure. Their trick is to eat food twice - they are quite fond of their own poop. Something like 50% of their poop ends up re-eaten, depending on their actual nutritional needs. The same goes for rats.
"No one knows quite what killed them, but mass deaths have appeared in the fossil record before. Scientists have suggested drought, volcanism, fire and botulism poisoning as possible causes"
I think vitamin overdose did them in.
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"we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall throw bottles on them if that is what we have"
The sentence about bottles was actualy cut out by the BBC censor because the humor was too black. (UK had very few heavy arms left after fiasco in France.)
If the pumps stop, the reactor will not run away (as the fission stops due to lack of moderation) but this does not guarantee safety! There is enough heat generated by decay of fission products in spent fuel that the core gets red-hot and melts without cooling in matter of minutes.
cesium catches fire on air almost instantly. So does potassium/sodium alloy which is liquid at room temperature. (The Na/K alloy is infamous - lotsa people had an accident with it.)
I worked only with solid potassium metal and had a nice little fire that burned through the lab floor. Sodium is benign compared to K or Cs or the Na/K alloy.
Gallium is really expensive material. Something like $1200-1500/1kg for a common grade Ga metal.
Galium-indium or Galium-tin liquid alloys have density values around 6kg/L. Since galium makes the major portion of these alloys, a pint of the liquid metall will cost around $4000.
By looking at their pictures they will need loads of it (to go through the pipes and through the heat radiator) so the whole thing is going to be pretty dear.
The proposed law mandates lifetime GPS monitoring of pedophiles - and probation GPS monitoring for the others. So, if you are a 26y guy that got nailed for dating a 17y old girl (she could have looked older in that bar), you are now a registered sex offender, you will have to wear the bracelet for some time after leaving the jail, you will have to register with the local police whenever changing address. Your name will be available in registry for every public person that may be concerned. Cheerio.
Hurricane Lisa is expected to make the landfall in 48 hours. You too can get away on a luxury cruise using our last-minute reservation. Also, take adavantage of our 60% Viagra discount and stock up before the likely power outage.
Seriously, everybody here in Florida in hurricane season is watching the NOAA page for last updates, and all TV and radio stations have continuous coverage - it is actualy very difficult to escape the hurricane latest news. I would not worry about the e-mail alerts.
No, just the general treatment of people. I am so happy to be out of there. I got Dilbertized there and the way they fired me when the management learned that I leaving was just nice example of corporate nastiness. How they dealt with people in their Maryland site which got summarily closed down after squeezed all the dought for Celera from them just seems to fit my experience.
Celera is pretty evil as a employer. At one time the company had an insane stock evaluation. They realised that the genome database profits will end soon and the "synergies" with its own drug research will not happen. So they fired the genome people and used the stock proceeds to buy up biologic instrument companies and some small biotech companies. Making instruments and biology tools is what produces any income for them.
I worked for a small biotech company that became a part of Celera. They are doing a good researchbut the high management is rotten. I was not there before Celera took over but my understanding is that the new management made all the changes for worse. Now the bulshit there is deeper than ice in Antarctica.
When you are a pointy-haired manager with 400 000+ in stock option bonuses, covering your ass is the primary instinct. You do not want to be blamed for anything that can possibly happen, you want to cover yourself with records showing that you were pro-active in spying on your employees. What it does to productivity of your people does not even enter into this calculation. And, of course, having access to private e-mails can be a good source of dirt on someone.
I got fired once from a company that was a lot like EA because I had problem with my manager - I worked 12-14 hours a day (including weekends and holidays) as everybody else in the group but after about 6 months I was realy getting burned out which caused that I was getting increasingly critical of my manager and the mess she was doing to our project.
Digging in my e-mails was first thing she started with. (And I am not talking about the company e-mail, she got my gmail e-mail password logged too). When that failed to produce result, she tricked me into writing a letter that I was going to resign in about 2 months (so they should start looking for a replacement) and she fired me next day based on my own "resignation" while she privately was telling HR that I was a major security risk and probably going to spy on the company and sell the secrects to a competitor!
It is just a clever miniature linear accelerator. For a fusion-powered powerplant, building a reasonably energy-efficient particle accelerator is not the main issue, the problem is achieving break-even on the target.
Warhead recognition: If you want a mid-phase warhead intercept, you have to distinguish the warhead from decoys - and also you have to hit it on the nose. Since the warhead is only about 5-6 ft long and itself is likely to be placed within a pretty large metalised balloon - maybe 50ft across (that looks just like the other decoys) - the kinetic kill vehicle interceptor will have to score a direct hit. For that, the interceptors will need to find where exactly in the baloon the warhead is, witheen 1 or 2ft. This all while moving at relative speed at about 2km/second.
It is always the same with the proposed missile defense shield: any country that can develop a 3-stage balistic missile, build nuclear reactor+plutonium re-processing plant or manufacture enrichment centrifuges is going to be perfectly capable of defeating a mid-phase kinetic intercept. All you need for that is just an azide gas generator like in car airbag, electric heater and a metal covered plastic bag.
The only workable antibalistic interceptor would have to be quipped with pretty large nuclear warhead itself so that it can blast the warhead with its decoys all together.
Another alternative is a boost phase intercept (as no decoys are possible during the boost phase). But boost phase interceptors are doable only with small contries like N. Korea because the interceptors have to be positioned close to the launching site. Besides a country like N. Korea does not need to use balistic misile to hit US - a small rocket on a fishing boat moored 20 miles from San Francisco can deliver a nuke just as well.
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you forgot to mention the leftist bias.
also, around campfire one can obtain children easier than chicken
Rabbits have a simple digestive structure. Their trick is to eat food twice - they are quite fond of their own poop. Something like 50% of their poop ends up re-eaten, depending on their actual nutritional needs. The same goes for rats.
"Potatoes don't run fast or put up much of a fight"
Thats what *you* think. Did you ever live under socialism in Soviet Russia?
"No one knows quite what killed them, but mass deaths have appeared in the fossil record before. Scientists have suggested drought, volcanism, fire and botulism poisoning as possible causes"
I think vitamin overdose did them in.
it will be gated again
will happen in Seattle
The speech was even better:
"we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall throw bottles on them if that is what we have"
The sentence about bottles was actualy cut out by the BBC censor because the humor was too black. (UK had very few heavy arms left after fiasco in France.)
that nasty green little buggar - is it improvement over Snoopy?
I think the Ford-Microsoft collaboration is marriage made in heaven. That's where the drivers will now get faster and safer.
If the pumps stop, the reactor will not run away (as the fission stops due to lack of moderation) but this does not guarantee safety! There is enough heat generated by decay of fission products in spent fuel that the core gets red-hot and melts without cooling in matter of minutes.
cesium catches fire on air almost instantly. So does potassium/sodium alloy which is liquid at room temperature. (The Na/K alloy is infamous - lotsa people had an accident with it.)
I worked only with solid potassium metal and had a nice little fire that burned through the lab floor. Sodium is benign compared to K or Cs or the Na/K alloy.
Gallium is really expensive material. Something like $1200-1500/1kg for a common grade Ga metal.
Galium-indium or Galium-tin liquid alloys have density values around 6kg/L. Since galium makes the major portion of these alloys, a pint of the liquid metall will cost around $4000.
By looking at their pictures they will need loads of it (to go through the pipes and through the heat radiator) so the whole thing is going to be pretty dear.
"the average time between doing something Nobel worthy and being nominated for it is ~20 years"
No no no. Arafat got Nobel price faster.
(you can get nominated if you stop doing something, too)
The proposed law mandates lifetime GPS monitoring of pedophiles - and probation GPS monitoring for the others. So, if you are a 26y guy that got nailed for dating a 17y old girl (she could have looked older in that bar), you are now a registered sex offender, you will have to wear the bracelet for some time after leaving the jail, you will have to register with the local police whenever changing address. Your name will be available in registry for every public person that may be concerned.
Cheerio.
Hurricane Lisa is expected to make the landfall in 48 hours. You too can get away on a luxury cruise using our last-minute reservation. Also, take adavantage of our 60% Viagra discount and stock up before the likely power outage.
Seriously, everybody here in Florida in hurricane season is watching the NOAA page for last updates, and all TV and radio stations have continuous coverage - it is actualy very difficult to escape the hurricane latest news. I would not worry about the e-mail alerts.
the real outcome of this nanotube factory effort, the new and improved golf clubs, will appear north of equator
No, just the general treatment of people. I am so happy to be out of there. I got Dilbertized there and the way they fired me when the management learned that I leaving was just nice example of corporate nastiness. How they dealt with people in their Maryland site which got summarily closed down after squeezed all the dought for Celera from them just seems to fit my experience.
Celera is pretty evil as a employer. At one time the company had an insane stock evaluation. They realised that the genome database profits will end soon and the "synergies" with its own drug research will not happen. So they fired the genome people and used the stock proceeds to buy up biologic instrument companies and some small biotech companies. Making instruments and biology tools is what produces any income for them.
I worked for a small biotech company that became a part of Celera. They are doing a good researchbut the high management is rotten. I was not there before Celera took over but my understanding is that the new management made all the changes for worse. Now the bulshit there is deeper than ice in Antarctica.
When you are a pointy-haired manager with 400 000+ in stock option bonuses, covering your ass is the primary instinct. You do not want to be blamed for anything that can possibly happen, you want to cover yourself with records showing that you were pro-active in spying on your employees. What it does to productivity of your people does not even enter into this calculation. And, of course, having access to private e-mails can be a good source of dirt on someone.
I got fired once from a company that was a lot like EA because I had problem with my manager - I worked 12-14 hours a day (including weekends and holidays) as everybody else in the group but after about 6 months I was realy getting burned out which caused that I was getting increasingly critical of my manager and the mess she was doing to our project.
Digging in my e-mails was first thing she started with. (And I am not talking about the company e-mail, she got my gmail e-mail password logged too). When that failed to produce result, she tricked me into writing a letter that I was going to resign in about 2 months (so they should start looking for a replacement) and she fired me next day based on my own "resignation" while she privately was telling HR that I was a major security risk and probably going to spy on the company and sell the secrects to a competitor!
I red the paper but I did not understand it. Must have been written in elvish.
It is just a clever miniature linear accelerator. For a fusion-powered powerplant, building a reasonably energy-efficient particle accelerator is not the main issue, the problem is achieving break-even on the target.
Warhead recognition: If you want a mid-phase warhead intercept, you have to distinguish the warhead from decoys - and also you have to hit it on the nose. Since the warhead is only about 5-6 ft long and itself is likely to be placed within a pretty large metalised balloon - maybe 50ft across (that looks just like the other decoys) - the kinetic kill vehicle interceptor will have to score a direct hit. For that, the interceptors will need to find where exactly in the baloon the warhead is, witheen 1 or 2ft. This all while moving at relative speed at about 2km/second.
It is always the same with the proposed missile defense shield: any country that can develop a 3-stage balistic missile, build nuclear reactor+plutonium re-processing plant or manufacture enrichment centrifuges is going to be perfectly capable of defeating a mid-phase kinetic intercept. All you need for that is just an azide gas generator like in car airbag, electric heater and a metal covered plastic bag.
The only workable antibalistic interceptor would have to be quipped with pretty large nuclear warhead itself so that it can blast the warhead with its decoys all together.
Another alternative is a boost phase intercept (as no decoys are possible during the boost phase). But boost phase interceptors are doable only with small contries like N. Korea because the interceptors have to be positioned close to the launching site. Besides a country like N. Korea does not need to use balistic misile to hit US - a small rocket on a fishing boat moored 20 miles from San Francisco can deliver a nuke just as well.
my kids will all have 14-character randomly generated names
please don't let my boss learn about it
Bird brain people talk all the time