Graphite also has low cross section, but it has to be boron free, which was the key part of how Szilard and Fermi could build the first nuclear pile in the world in Chicago back in the day, but the Germans, not aware of the boron impurity being a neutron poison, did not succeed. Had they known about it, Hiroshima may not have been the first place in the world to learn about the devastation of nuclear weapons, but it might have been something like London or Glasgow, or St, Petersburg, or Moscow.
And none of the other fast neutron coolant alternatives are better - noble gases like helium, or all gases, have issues with localized velocity distribution and meltdown, and shift in the bulk packing, and lead-bismuth eutectic alloy that the Russians are such a great fan of, melts at too high a temperature, where unfreezing stuck or plugged 10 inch lines of bulk lead solder, analogous to a plumbers solder, with an external torch, is just a pain in the ass. Sodium melts very low, (NaK melts below the freezing point of water), and has a low cross section for neutron absorption, meaning they bounce them back and stay unaffected, which is essential for a coolant. Helium, Lead, Bismuth, Sodium, Zirconium, etc, all have low cross section, Boron, Cadmium, Hafnium, etc, are neutron poisons, and get destructed into some other element, like carbon, when absorbing neutrons.
Breeder reactors, aka fast neutron reactors, are not safe from the standpoint of having to use liquid sodium that likes to leak from heat exchangers into the water side and cause a hydrogen explosion, or out into the factory floor unto the operators, who really hate bathing in that shit. Just watch youtube videos of sodium metal or potassium metal reacting with water, and you'll know what I'm talking about.
Both of you need to read the Wikipedia page about nuclear fuels, as it says something surprising: there is a window in half lives, that is the half lives are either less than ten years, or more than a couple hundred years, or something along those lines. So the decay profile of half lives is not continuous, you have some very hot and dangerous stuff, but that also blows out its punch relatively fast, and relatively mild and less dangerous stuff, but that takes a couple hundred thousand years to go away. (As in, you might almost be willing live next to it, but you don't want to ingest it for sure. There are things like cinnabar minerals in nature, that you don't want to ingest, or arsenic minerals, also toxic mushrooms, but might be willing to coexist with, and live next to them.) So these days the protocol is to hold spent nuclear fuel on site for the less than ten years part, and then when that's gone, all you got is the very low radiating but extremely long half life stuff left, which is kinda safe to ship around by rail and store. But indeed, the stuff fresh out of the reactor is deadly, and needs to be aged on site to give out its punch first. If you read up on the Fukushima disaster on Wikipedia, you'll see mention of such aging ponds.
They could look into the high carbide and boride surface coating things that might be more graphite-like, or there has got to be stuff resistant to sodium. At room temperature paraffin hydrocarbons are used to store sodium, unfortunately above 600C all hydrocarbons, including the stablest of stable ones, benzene and naphtalene and anthracene, dehydrogenate into char, which is graphitic. So organic substances and hydrocarbons are not the answer, because fast neutron reactors do like to run at high temperature, because of the benefits high temperatures bring about in heat engine Carnot cycle efficiency numbers - that is, the higher the temperature, the less heat goes through that massive nuclear cooling tower stack into the environment, and the more into the power grid as electricity. Presently the ratio of energies is probably 90% going into that cloud plume you see rising from a nuclear plant, and 10% going into the electric grid, and with fast neutron high temperature but corrosive reactors, the ratio might go to something like 70% waste vs. 30% usable electric, besides the near 100% consumption of the fuel, instead of 1% consumption and 99% waste, as "depleted uranium" makes a pretty good fuel for fast neutron reactors, and we have so much of that shit around these days, that the military uses it for high density kinetic penetrator bullets, as the density of uranium metal is near that of gold, 19 g/mL, and if depleted, it's nonradiating and nontoxic.
When they finally figure out how to run fast neutron reactors cooled with liquid sodium, and how to properly do reprocessing, we won't have any nuclear waste, because it will be precious fuel. However, presently, all major suppliers of nuclear energy only do moderated neutron reactors, that only burn the less than 1% U235 instead of the 100% U235+238, or even Thorium, because they hate liquid sodium, and they throw they hands in the aya saying we give up, we can't deal with liquid sodium, it costs too much, and when the fuel is so cheap, pressurized water reactors are easier, your real cost is security and proper operation and safety, not the fuel, and the 99% waste that comes by from only burning the less than 1% U235 is still extremely cheap to dispose of and deal with, compared to having to run a fast neutron reactor that gives you 100x power per lb of fuel, but it's a bitch to run, because of the way liquid sodium likes to corrode other metals, or glass, or anything. Maybe not graphite or diamond, but you can't make heat exchangers out of a solid block of diamond because nobody has such a piece of diamond for your sculptors to sculpt from, and graphite is really weak and brittle, it falls apart like a pencil lead, so that's not a complete answer either.
And you don't need robots with the nuclear waste we presently have. Regular people on a proper schedule are able to work with nuclear radiation, and absorb it into their body. As in 10 minutes inside the plant, 2 hr break in the break room to recuperate, 10 minutes work again. 2 hr break again. It's cheaper and more robust than robots, though it would be nice if they invented remote control robots that can do maintenance work like taking apart pipes and unscrewing bolts and hammering lids shut on a drum, at which robots are very clumsy presently. But the real need for robots in the nuclear field is around the coolant agent in fast neutron reactors, which is liquid sodium - or NaK, and alloy of sodium and potassium metal that freezes near where mercury freezes and stays liquid at room temperatures - because operators hate getting sprayed by that shit. Robots with hafnium free zirconium limbs can take a beating and swim around in liquid NaK just fine. Well they do corrode, but not instantly, especially if the thing is cold. But the nuclear waste they are talking about has nothing to do with liquid sodium, it's away from the reactor.
If they spent billions on the analysis and legal fees thats because they were retards. There is a lot of military folk coming back who need a job, security guard type, without a home they can travel around the country. It's best to pick up all this garbage, and ship it to the Yucca mountains. Or better yet, to an undisclosed facility that is not fanfared all over the world. They needs jobs, and the cost of shipping by rail defended by military is not that great. Then when they have the technology to rework this crap and use it as useful fuel, then ship it back. The problem of storing it all in one spot at the Yucca mountain, is that you need lots of small chambers with thick absorbing walls separating the tiny batches, one of the rules of nuclear materials is you can't just pile it all into one big pile. For instance, Feynman fought during the Manhattan project with officials to be able to disclose what's going on, what material they are making, because otherwise he could not sell the idea to engineers and plant managers of a plant to scatter a skid each of the nuclear material all over the place in the plant, as opposed to in one neat stack of all the skids on top of each other in one place. That would violate the principles of critical mass, and may result in a meltdown. So I hope whoever spent those gazillions on Yucca mountain research, keeps such simple things in mind - you have to create an underground network of catacombs with many small chambers, with thick walls between them. Digging through raw rock is a bitch, but blasting makes it easy like child's play, because it's really brittle: drill a hole, fill with explosive, blast, shovel up the rubble, repeat. Explosives make it a piece of cake tunneling through a solid block of rock.
Seriously, things like this remove responsibility from the driver, where he can say the car did it, not him, because he was not in control. As in, how would a car know I want to turn left, to warn the cars behind me, if I don't myself make that decision, and flip the turn signal. Or are we gonna have cars make driving decisions now? Simply because the GPS says turn left, and the chances are high that I am going to turn left, it does not mean that I will, unless the automated robot in the car yanks the steering wheel out of my hand and makes the turn for me. So unless the car computer can figure out my thoughts in the future that even I don't know about - as in, sometimes, at whim, I change my mind right before wanting to turn left, and instead go straight and turn left at the next intersection, where the oncoming cars are less piled up - so unless a car can predict the future about what I will think 2 seconds from now, it should not be helpful in "guessing" that future. The driver is solely responsible for driving decisions, and listening to kibitzing from a computer, that should be optional, not mandatory by law. Some chess players like to listen to kibitz, others prefer quiet.
Oh yeah, lack of gravity creates muscle atrophy and bone loss, just like lack of exercise, but cosmic rays also do both. So it's hard to decompose how much of it is due to radiation and how much due to lack of use, as the two are probably additive. However when it comes to optic-nerve sheath degradation, that has nothing to do with gravity, and it's all radiation.
By the way the caveman was living under most insulation from cosmic rays, if he lived in a low background radiation cave. But a lot of caves accumulate Radon gas in low lying areas, so it all depends on the surrounding rock. If it's all stalactites and stalagmites and ancient limestone deposits, like a lot of caves are, then background radiation should be very low, however if it's volcanic origin, then it should be high, as magma, volcanic eruptions, carry quite a bit of nuclear material compared to sedimentary rocks.
It is easy to create artificial gravity by spinning a cylinder and walking on the inner surface, using the centrifugal force. Like your washing machine does it. However these health problems are not related to gravity. Health problems relating purely to gravity are all muscoskeletal - atrophy of muscles from nonuse, and deterioration of bones from not being needed much, lack of stress on them. The eye problems and heart problems come about from something else - intense cosmic rays. The space station is too friggin small to provide proper shielding. A rotating cylinder space station of 300 yard radius and half a mile length would be much better. Especially if you put many floors on it, as each floor serves as a radiation shield, and you could sleep suspended in a sleeping bag in the center weightlessness zone, the most shielded part. Of course it comes down to wall thickness, and for starters, you need at least two steel cylinders with small gap/lubricant sliding on top of each other, so in case of an iron-nickel meteorite projectile piercing through both going at 30 miles per second, and through all floors then exiting the other side, the sliding motion covers up the hole pretty fast, and does not leak the whole space station to vacuum quickly, and lets you evacuate to a different air locked segment while spacewalk outside repairs like thermite welding are under way, and the segment can be fully repressurized. The thicker the wall the better protection from cosmic rays, however, you don't want to go too thick, as the atmosphere down here on earth only protects so much, and the highest background radiation places like India from all that thorium, still have healthy populations. Without cosmic rays the rate of mutations and stillborn babies probably drops, but it also stops evolution, and new forms of beautiful or better people appearing on the scene. I wonder if there is a correlation between altitude of a city and number of stillborn babies, for a standard batch of people, such as Asians from Shanghai living in Lima, Katmandu, near the Dead Sea (below sea level), etc. Comparing indigenous people does not work as they may already be adapted to high background radiation, and in fact these high altitude Tibetan and Andes people might be better suited to be astronauts, because they've been under less insulation protections from the atmosphere above them than the rest of us, in a sense they have already been living closer to outer space, outer space is more their home than ours. However people living near simply high background radiation, such as thorium in India, at low altitude, fall under the same category.
There is no such thing as absolutely secure encryption. A good policy is to not have secrets. But secrets are a fact of life. Even then, security through obscurity is often better than off the shelf things. I don't use encryption on my disks, because, first of all I could lose all my data on all my hard drives and be fine, second, if somebody finds it and sees everything on it, there are still privacy rules and laws that apply, but I don't really have that much to hide (everybody does have some), and third, encryption gets in the way of easy access and data recovery, and adds computing overhead. When I make a backup, my biggest issue is time, and speed of the backup. Also I'd like to be able to get to files from weird places like old linux distros, for which I try to store stuff on FAT32 (2TB max total, 2GB max per file) on smaller portable drives, which means dvd images have to be split into 2GB sizes. As I will forever will be stuck on Windows 2000 or the like (I'm reluctantly on XP, but it has way too much crap compared to basic Win2K) and oldschool linuxes for basic computer use, and maybe purchase appliance type newer computers to snatch new files from the Internet to move to those older computers, so I have been thinking on using ext2(32TB max total, 2TB max per file) as standard on portable disks, (and yes, ext2, not ext3) which can take DVD images and 32 TB disks which are not even on the market yet. The only issue is you can't take it to say a computer library and expect linux with ext2 support to be present, or windows with ext2 drivers, but for at home use and long term data storage once you're fully off the net, it should work great. Encryption only gets in the way, when the stuff you store is mostly public domain, or easy to just erase in case you get a government raid and says it's copyright violation, you can't have it pay for it or erase, dude i can erase everything and anything and be fine. I do not really need encryption for those reasons. The only situation is a business trade secret, where there are competitors and you invest a lot of effort and money into developing something workable, and in that case you can say because of the costs involved you have secrets to protect. But my everyday life is not like that, I don't have secrets that are a matter of life and death, or at least a sustenance, so I don't need encryption at all for my portable disk storage. I still like encryption on on line banking and shopping, and there is such a thing as identity theft, but there is like nothing you can do if they are really set to find out every detail about you, and then it's easy to do identity theft.
Hey, porn in not the only kind of data. There are youtube how to videos through dirpy.com, which, like porn, could be up in the air and a future raid into your home by the government might force you to erase those - I hope you could keep the advertising banner like things, promotional material samples, as in, do I get a right to keep copyrighted junkmail I never asked for delivered by the post office to my snail mail post box, similarly do I get to keep spam images in my emails that I never asked for in the first place, or are those copyrighted and they want to make me pay for them? But there is the clear cut clear case of public domain, which they are still trying to assault and undermine. And pure public domain, like Wikipedia pages, and pre-1923 pdfs at books.google.com, those you have a right to keep on your TB harddrive, no matter what, unless they change the law and they say we no longer have nomadic public domain lands, and stick your pole down and claim public domain nomadic lands as your own through homesteading rights, so all public domain stuff might go up on auction sale, and then you will be banned from knowing anything unless you can show a receipt, else you will be forced to stay dumb. So archive.org sometimes does not bother compressing the ebooks and pdfs like books.google.com does on a lot of stuff, and it's like there is no amount of public domain scientific literature that I'm satiated with having in on my 1TB portable harddrive, the only issue being I requested TWC to take me to a higher plan so I can download more, instead they kept talking about download speed, I'm like keep that the same, I wanna pay more so I don't feel bad so bad about the total monthly data transfer, and somehow it got left at the same rate I signed up at, and I haven't tried again to get on the higher cost plan. I'm still getting a lot of downloads this way anyway, but sometimes I hold back my exuberance thinking about the total monthly data transfer, which they are kind to show you.
Also there is a difference between the different kinds of alcohols based on what kind of sporified biotics they carry. In this sense red wine from different years from different areas of the world each carries a different set of sporified critters, that may be beneficial to health, as they know how to control other yeasts and bacteria by emitting their own semi-antibiotic regulating agents. For instance, penicillin was obtained from a yeast first, and it's a simple compound, constructible at a chemical pharmaceutical plant, but there must be lots of snake poison like 10,000+ molecular weight substances that we have absolutely no hope of making artificially, but these wine critters can create and are effective on the ecosystem in the body. Beer, wine, etc, low alcohol fermented and unfiltered or large pore that passes spores filtered beverage comes to mind, with whiskey and vodka or higher alcohol things not really providing the same benefit, at least on the biotic side, while still providing the alcohol itself benefit. But whiskey and the like, distilled alcohols, are often made from extremely putrefied and sickening stuff, in which case it's good not to carry the disease bearing biotics, but just separate the alcohol out. In the old country you made wine from freshly picked grapes, and 100% alcohol that tasted like prunes, cherry, peaches, pears, or combinations, from the putrefied fruits you went to pick up around the trees, once they all fell from being overripe and done. It was not worth climbing the tree, or picking and choosing the nonsimultaneous ripening of prunes, or cherry, it's a very busy job to pick those, but if they fall to the ground and you get a mushy mess, it's really easy to pick them up fast, then put them into a huge wooden barrel left in the middle of the yard, covered with a tarp from rain, and let it sit for 3 weeks, a protective skin developing on the top, and the rest digesting to alcohol, that you double distill in a copper still, with the distillate just barely trickling, not drop by drop, but also not gushing, just at the right rate. The putrefaction stench is completely gone after two distillations, so the whole process is a matter of economics, and easier to conduct than the laborious, long months and years at cellar temperature requiring and sometimes going bad wine making process. By the way I have never been drunk in my life, been close, and I can die a happy man never having been drunk or having been jail. The last time I remember drinking alcohol at all was 2005. I can do just fine without it. But there are my 2 cents for those into alcohol.
Besides alcohol there might be even friendlier organic "coupling agents" that are less destructive in blood. I don't know if acetone is such a thing. Another one that comes to mind is DMSO, but I think that's banned for human use, but approved for veterinary use such as rubbing horse's legs, and I think I also read somewhere that human organ donor body parts were shipped in a bag suspended in DMSO. I'm just saying alcohol may not be the best thing, but a moderate alcohol consumption may have a correlation with decreased cardiovascular diseases for no other reason than the slight, right on the edge, at the tipping point, solubility increase obtained for cholesterol-fat solutions.
Ok, nobody is perfect. But the overall picture is that Mother Theresa was a very good person, who dedicated her life to helping others. And judge for yourself from some of these quotes, how she thought most of the time, even if the dark feminine wild side did take over her once in a while, overall she was cool:
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.(sick)
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Peace begins with a smile.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work. (sick)
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it. (sick)
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. (semi-sick)
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.. (I disagree with this quote - as in we don't have a problem flushing sperm and eggs down the toilet, neither an undifferentiated embryo, without a brain, nor even a sleeping baby. In fact if you eat meat, and you're willing to kill a cow with a conscience greater than a 4 months fetus, how do you justify that. If anything you should be willing to kill yourself before you go out and kill other beings in the world, and only proliferate as much, or only take as much as it's proper, as circumstances allow, and stay in harmony with nature. People like to fuck, or even masturbate. It's human nature and without that drive you would not be here. It's constantly on the mind, and if it's not ever on the mind, it's not healthy either. So you have teenager fuck, and her not realizing that she's pregnant, and be able to make the life and death decision until 4 months into it, you need time to weigh the issues and think it through, but each minute you waste is creating a smarter and more conscious and aware baby away from an mindless 1 cell or 4 cell or 1000 cell embryo contraption. The thing is you can always make more babies on demand, there is no problem with the ability to supply 15 babies per mother from age 22 to 45, so if she aborts at age 17, she can maintain her social environment of going to high school, college, and have a career and decent life, as opposed to a totally fucked up life because she made a mistake at age 17 and got pregnant by accident. It's a personal choice for everyone, and some mothers who did not abort, think they absolutely made the correct decision, and had a good life anyway, but there are a lot of sad stories of potential good life going down the drain, over a "mistake" of I just wanted to fuck and get off with an awesome big orgasm, I did not real
I did not know she was that perverted. Geez, some of these white women need a good gang bang by a bunch of big black dicks to make them chill out, and satisfied, temporarily, lest they go and get off on really really sick and mental shit like this. Women by nature are psychologist controller button pushing freaks, all are perverts and fucked in the head beyond belief, but Mother Theresa gotta be the one who tops the cake.
I was thinking of a light suction vacuum cleaner device with a centrifuge separator, that has soft foam to conform to the shape near your anus. The light suction would come about from a Y or F connection, where some of the air is taken from the room at very high speed, and that opening has an adjustable flap, and you still get enough speed and velocity to centrifuge separate the liquids and solids, regular wet-vac style. Maybe something insertable, but now we're stepping into gay territory that some people might have objections to. But women have both tampons and pads, and preferences vary, so something conforming to the shape of your anus on the outside, or something you can insert, you could pick and choose, by changing the adapter tip. Options are always a great thing.. Btw, diapers are messy too, then you have to wipe your ass cheeks from the poop that spreads outwards all over them, they are not such a godsend either. That's why a rotating cylinder space station is like an absolute must, and for that it has to be huge size so you don't get dizzy from the difference in blood pressure between your toes and head, but at least you could take a nice comfortable shit near the rim, the outer cylinder wall, even if you wander in the the weighlessness or lower weight central floors and areas.
Indubitably, gas-tax supported asphalt is one big communist contraption that beats the time wasted and employment overhead at toll road booths hands down. Or there is always dirt roads, all you need is bigger tires, slower driving speeds, and tricks up your sleeve to get out of mud puddles every time it rains. Nobody has to pay for it, for the asphalt, it's just dirt, grass beaten down from the constant traffic. This used to be the norm 200 years ago outside cities. Check out what a non-asphalt cheap non-tollroad looks like in middle of uber-communist Russian back country, called Lena highway: http://www.ssqq.com/ARCHIVE/vi... Even communism that's broke can't support a public asphalt road, especially when the traffic on it is too sparse and the distances too long.
Net neutrality is like being able to drive on back country roads and public without cock blocks, or booths at every corner. Without it you get toll roads everywhere, and you constantly have to pay by the mile, or bit the MB, per content, on top of having your basic ISP connection. Some Internet backbones would get overloaded from crowds because of cheap surfing pathways, but the rich would have their luxury Internet highways uncongested, but high cost. Should you wander unto one of these highways, it'd be like stumbling into a high class restaurant, and accidentally eating there, when all you wanted was a burger. Even on regular Internet surfing you could quickly drain your bank account balance to zero via toll road-like per mile fees. However there is something to be said about availability of high class restaurants, they are nice to have, as long as you're not forced to eat there, and without net neutrality, you might be forced to go through only the high cost toll roads, at least occasionally, to access simple things like check your email, or file a job application, to the point where you might completely abandon the Internet altogether, and vote for regular paper mail, instead via the US post office, instead of Email, and on your foot walk into a branch banking instead of on line banking. Maybe that's what they want, de-Internetize the world. Come on, we love Google, Ebay, Email, Youtube, mp3 downloads, ebooks, Amazon, and especially what the Internet was made for: pron.
The problem with solar and wind is that they do not provide the energy density to run a simple thing like an injection molding shop, compared to energy rich nuclear able to power the whole country, as in France, that runs 80% of their electric on nuclear power. Storage of intermittent renewable energy is an issue - pumped storage is near capacity as it is, and batteries are very low in energy density and expensive. For instance a 300 gallon plastic tote battery might run your 220V electric drier for half an hour before it runs out of juice, and you might need 4 of these to run your drier for 2 hours, and then 2 days of windmill power + solar collectible near an average home for a full recharge, before you can run the drier again. Same with electric stoves, though washing machines and vacuums and power tools are better than heat-devices. For off-grid, at-home applications, or as an addition to the grid power, renewables are great, but they can't carry the backbone load when it comes to serious juice and serious consumers of electric power. Same with biofuels burnt in a powerplant - the accumulation rate of energy per arable acre is very low, and it's best used for high value and structure food, not as burnt it away in a power plant energy. What a waste that would be. By the way expensive electronics at home would not be that expensive if you can make them yourself. I'm talking having a hillbilly glass melting furnace where you can blow your glass bubbles for high power vacuum tube mercury rectifiers and frequency generators and the like. Not everyone is smart enough to do it, and you only find out if you're smart enough if you try. Sometimes I've done things I have no clue to this day how I did it, or could not repeat it, but I was lucky when in the moment of thinking of the right things. Like some of the stuff I type on here, I come back months or years later, and it's like wow, holy crap, I said that? I don't even remember some of it, others very vividly. But a lot of stuff could be constructible, and you don't necessarily have to go on-grid. Like you could use standard junk car alternators and standard 12V automotive equipment and battery stacks - though the lead does get expensive in large quantities, even though it's cheap on the world market because nobody really wants it. Also lead shows up as high atomic weight dense material on routine x-ray scans done by these overhead airplanes, meaning it could be nuclear material too. And they should do these scans, but they become difficult with underground things. My landlord bought like a ton of smoke detectors, like 30 or something, a box full, for rehabbing, and left it in the house, just to see if it sets off the airplanes I guess. Also I have some portable power pack lead acid battery in the house that must be glowing on the radar screens, I also have a habit of collecting old school crt televisions people put out in the trash - they work awesome - but the lead glass that blocks the x-rays from the electron gun shooting at the screen, is heavy, and got to show up on the low altitude flight airplane scans. I set off all kinds of triggers and alarms at the NSA, from what's in my car, in my home, and what I type on Slashdot. Tee hee. If you're bored and want some attention, all you gotta say online is Oklahoma City Bombing, Waco TX, Timothy McVeigh, Unabomber, Boston Marathon, 9/11, uranium 235 238, thorium, americium, and I'm leaving out the really scary one, 2nd amendment, vegetarian, hmm, what else, oh yeah, David Koresh, Jim Jones, Jonestown, who else, blah.. there's probably a long shitlist of these phrases, and they send the freshly hatched youngin recruits with the eggshells still stuck to their butts for basic routine training. As I don't even like hurting flies, if I catch one inside, I carry it outside and let it go, but it gets weird, cuz as long as you're off the norm, you hang out of the pack like that, they worry. I keep telling them quit worrying, build a bunch of huge space stations from Moon materials, and put like a billion people up there, who are
Lifespan among other mammals is usually short because the required training to make it is not that complicated, unlike in a complex human or even great ape society. By the way the life expectancy of most cavemen was less than 40 years, and compared to horses and elephants, it's not that long. Only in recent times through agricultural and technological advances and good life has life expectancy increased. So this ultra life expectancy of 80 years may not be long because the brain requires it or demands it, but more like the brain allows it, so why not? Having great-grandmothers, grandmothers mothers and daughters together in a village, usually makes for a more successful village where members proliferate marrying into other villages taking their customs of sticking together through the long generations, and having long generations, compared to short lifespan mother-child only structures usually found in the wild, where the grandmother and great grandmother don't participate, and don't make a difference whether they still exist or not.
Hahaha, that's a funny pic. There is this thing called wet-dreams you get if you haven't done it in, oh, say every 4 months, maybe every 2 months if you're near the peak of 16-21 years. I wonder how long the astronauts stuck in a claustrophobic space station can hold out without a wet dream. Or maybe they do get off? Pooping in weightlessness must suck too. We don't usually see youtube videos of astronauts pooping and the shit floating around in the cabin. So anyway, back to the original topic. One of the reasons for the very short life cycle of most mammals is reproductive competition, as those that do it at a faster rate quickly displace the slow breeders. For instance in the US it's common to have black teenage mothers at age 13 from generation to generation, and 39 year old grandmothers. Welfare takes care of all the kids, and under such circumstances the black population quickly drowns out a slow breeding white one that goes to college first, gets a carrier, dates around with 3 guys for 2 years each, gets married by age 33, and maybe pops the first baby by age 39, where a white couple barely maintains population while the black couple, as grandmothers, have like 5 kids each with 2 grandchildren already. Fast breeding comes about in low environmental stress environments where life is good, and easy, the weather is always warm so you don't need clothes, there is usually little war, and for food you take a stroll in the nearby jungle and pick it off the lush vegetation. Life is also easy where welfare pays for the kids. However, under high stress environments, like lots of warfare, lots of cold, and lots of planning required, you get childish extremely slow maturing males that have a loooong time to play video games and the like, and not take girls or life seriously, but with all that playing and training, comes good training, and you get these ultra-age-separated couples, where the men are really old and immature, a whole decade older than their female partners who mature very young, and keep the reproductive cycle still fast enough - as it is the female that is the holdup, she takes a whole 9 month per baby, the male can inseminate hundreds of females in the time a female produces a single offspring. Also these women become extremely perverted because they have to lower their standards to where they are willing to consider an old, unattractive, wrinkly piece of blubber fat with hair on the back as sexually hot, and they are so high sprung on hormones, when they meat up a male from a fast breeder population that's young, and selected for by females on sexual appearance like dick size or athletic body not on strategic military skill and the like, they cannot control themselves. It's just the way it is. The long life cycle of humans, and especially the long breeding cycle of going from female mother to female mother presently hitting puberty near age 12 or 13, might be disappearing as the fast breeders able to hit puberty at age 10 or 8 will take over the population, as long as life is easy, there is no starvation, and the welfare check in the mail is guaranteed.
Of course, with sufficient effort, there is ways to bastardize a guiding principle and show exceptions to it. It may well be that sufficient effort will be spent on systemd based linux to where it runs circles around everything else, and this includes leaving in the dust things like kernel 2.0 on a 486 cpu, meaning you truly improved code and computer science when it comes to performance and features. Performance is still the biggest issue in computing, and the solution is not stronger hardware, because that brings up the issue of supersmart AI that does use efficient coding, that may outdo humans in a robot war, and win. We should squeeze every ounce of performance vs. features on any hardware to the maximum possible extent before moving unto stronger hardware is carefully justified. For instance I think this HP Mini 200 net book with a near 5W or so Intel Atom chipset _AND_ CPU, and 8 hr battery life, is an overkill on hardware. Unfortunately, the Windows 7 it came with had to be uninstalled, because XP runs circles around it on performance, and features are on par, or even better in XP, and even so, XP does not have as much performance as I'd like. There's got to be a way to cut down XP from 200 MB to 150KB and still get everything done that the 200 MB code does, and do it much faster too. That'd be like a dream come true, and I'd be willing to pay cold hard cash if they could pull off such a miracle.:)
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Graphite also has low cross section, but it has to be boron free, which was the key part of how Szilard and Fermi could build the first nuclear pile in the world in Chicago back in the day, but the Germans, not aware of the boron impurity being a neutron poison, did not succeed. Had they known about it, Hiroshima may not have been the first place in the world to learn about the devastation of nuclear weapons, but it might have been something like London or Glasgow, or St, Petersburg, or Moscow.
And none of the other fast neutron coolant alternatives are better - noble gases like helium, or all gases, have issues with localized velocity distribution and meltdown, and shift in the bulk packing, and lead-bismuth eutectic alloy that the Russians are such a great fan of, melts at too high a temperature, where unfreezing stuck or plugged 10 inch lines of bulk lead solder, analogous to a plumbers solder, with an external torch, is just a pain in the ass. Sodium melts very low, (NaK melts below the freezing point of water), and has a low cross section for neutron absorption, meaning they bounce them back and stay unaffected, which is essential for a coolant. Helium, Lead, Bismuth, Sodium, Zirconium, etc, all have low cross section, Boron, Cadmium, Hafnium, etc, are neutron poisons, and get destructed into some other element, like carbon, when absorbing neutrons.
Breeder reactors, aka fast neutron reactors, are not safe from the standpoint of having to use liquid sodium that likes to leak from heat exchangers into the water side and cause a hydrogen explosion, or out into the factory floor unto the operators, who really hate bathing in that shit. Just watch youtube videos of sodium metal or potassium metal reacting with water, and you'll know what I'm talking about.
Both of you need to read the Wikipedia page about nuclear fuels, as it says something surprising: there is a window in half lives, that is the half lives are either less than ten years, or more than a couple hundred years, or something along those lines. So the decay profile of half lives is not continuous, you have some very hot and dangerous stuff, but that also blows out its punch relatively fast, and relatively mild and less dangerous stuff, but that takes a couple hundred thousand years to go away. (As in, you might almost be willing live next to it, but you don't want to ingest it for sure. There are things like cinnabar minerals in nature, that you don't want to ingest, or arsenic minerals, also toxic mushrooms, but might be willing to coexist with, and live next to them.) So these days the protocol is to hold spent nuclear fuel on site for the less than ten years part, and then when that's gone, all you got is the very low radiating but extremely long half life stuff left, which is kinda safe to ship around by rail and store. But indeed, the stuff fresh out of the reactor is deadly, and needs to be aged on site to give out its punch first. If you read up on the Fukushima disaster on Wikipedia, you'll see mention of such aging ponds.
They could look into the high carbide and boride surface coating things that might be more graphite-like, or there has got to be stuff resistant to sodium. At room temperature paraffin hydrocarbons are used to store sodium, unfortunately above 600C all hydrocarbons, including the stablest of stable ones, benzene and naphtalene and anthracene, dehydrogenate into char, which is graphitic. So organic substances and hydrocarbons are not the answer, because fast neutron reactors do like to run at high temperature, because of the benefits high temperatures bring about in heat engine Carnot cycle efficiency numbers - that is, the higher the temperature, the less heat goes through that massive nuclear cooling tower stack into the environment, and the more into the power grid as electricity. Presently the ratio of energies is probably 90% going into that cloud plume you see rising from a nuclear plant, and 10% going into the electric grid, and with fast neutron high temperature but corrosive reactors, the ratio might go to something like 70% waste vs. 30% usable electric, besides the near 100% consumption of the fuel, instead of 1% consumption and 99% waste, as "depleted uranium" makes a pretty good fuel for fast neutron reactors, and we have so much of that shit around these days, that the military uses it for high density kinetic penetrator bullets, as the density of uranium metal is near that of gold, 19 g/mL, and if depleted, it's nonradiating and nontoxic.
When they finally figure out how to run fast neutron reactors cooled with liquid sodium, and how to properly do reprocessing, we won't have any nuclear waste, because it will be precious fuel. However, presently, all major suppliers of nuclear energy only do moderated neutron reactors, that only burn the less than 1% U235 instead of the 100% U235+238, or even Thorium, because they hate liquid sodium, and they throw they hands in the aya saying we give up, we can't deal with liquid sodium, it costs too much, and when the fuel is so cheap, pressurized water reactors are easier, your real cost is security and proper operation and safety, not the fuel, and the 99% waste that comes by from only burning the less than 1% U235 is still extremely cheap to dispose of and deal with, compared to having to run a fast neutron reactor that gives you 100x power per lb of fuel, but it's a bitch to run, because of the way liquid sodium likes to corrode other metals, or glass, or anything. Maybe not graphite or diamond, but you can't make heat exchangers out of a solid block of diamond because nobody has such a piece of diamond for your sculptors to sculpt from, and graphite is really weak and brittle, it falls apart like a pencil lead, so that's not a complete answer either.
And you don't need robots with the nuclear waste we presently have. Regular people on a proper schedule are able to work with nuclear radiation, and absorb it into their body. As in 10 minutes inside the plant, 2 hr break in the break room to recuperate, 10 minutes work again. 2 hr break again. It's cheaper and more robust than robots, though it would be nice if they invented remote control robots that can do maintenance work like taking apart pipes and unscrewing bolts and hammering lids shut on a drum, at which robots are very clumsy presently. But the real need for robots in the nuclear field is around the coolant agent in fast neutron reactors, which is liquid sodium - or NaK, and alloy of sodium and potassium metal that freezes near where mercury freezes and stays liquid at room temperatures - because operators hate getting sprayed by that shit. Robots with hafnium free zirconium limbs can take a beating and swim around in liquid NaK just fine. Well they do corrode, but not instantly, especially if the thing is cold. But the nuclear waste they are talking about has nothing to do with liquid sodium, it's away from the reactor.
If they spent billions on the analysis and legal fees thats because they were retards. There is a lot of military folk coming back who need a job, security guard type, without a home they can travel around the country. It's best to pick up all this garbage, and ship it to the Yucca mountains. Or better yet, to an undisclosed facility that is not fanfared all over the world. They needs jobs, and the cost of shipping by rail defended by military is not that great. Then when they have the technology to rework this crap and use it as useful fuel, then ship it back. The problem of storing it all in one spot at the Yucca mountain, is that you need lots of small chambers with thick absorbing walls separating the tiny batches, one of the rules of nuclear materials is you can't just pile it all into one big pile. For instance, Feynman fought during the Manhattan project with officials to be able to disclose what's going on, what material they are making, because otherwise he could not sell the idea to engineers and plant managers of a plant to scatter a skid each of the nuclear material all over the place in the plant, as opposed to in one neat stack of all the skids on top of each other in one place. That would violate the principles of critical mass, and may result in a meltdown. So I hope whoever spent those gazillions on Yucca mountain research, keeps such simple things in mind - you have to create an underground network of catacombs with many small chambers, with thick walls between them. Digging through raw rock is a bitch, but blasting makes it easy like child's play, because it's really brittle: drill a hole, fill with explosive, blast, shovel up the rubble, repeat. Explosives make it a piece of cake tunneling through a solid block of rock.
Seriously, things like this remove responsibility from the driver, where he can say the car did it, not him, because he was not in control. As in, how would a car know I want to turn left, to warn the cars behind me, if I don't myself make that decision, and flip the turn signal. Or are we gonna have cars make driving decisions now? Simply because the GPS says turn left, and the chances are high that I am going to turn left, it does not mean that I will, unless the automated robot in the car yanks the steering wheel out of my hand and makes the turn for me. So unless the car computer can figure out my thoughts in the future that even I don't know about - as in, sometimes, at whim, I change my mind right before wanting to turn left, and instead go straight and turn left at the next intersection, where the oncoming cars are less piled up - so unless a car can predict the future about what I will think 2 seconds from now, it should not be helpful in "guessing" that future. The driver is solely responsible for driving decisions, and listening to kibitzing from a computer, that should be optional, not mandatory by law. Some chess players like to listen to kibitz, others prefer quiet.
Oh yeah, lack of gravity creates muscle atrophy and bone loss, just like lack of exercise, but cosmic rays also do both. So it's hard to decompose how much of it is due to radiation and how much due to lack of use, as the two are probably additive. However when it comes to optic-nerve sheath degradation, that has nothing to do with gravity, and it's all radiation.
By the way the caveman was living under most insulation from cosmic rays, if he lived in a low background radiation cave. But a lot of caves accumulate Radon gas in low lying areas, so it all depends on the surrounding rock. If it's all stalactites and stalagmites and ancient limestone deposits, like a lot of caves are, then background radiation should be very low, however if it's volcanic origin, then it should be high, as magma, volcanic eruptions, carry quite a bit of nuclear material compared to sedimentary rocks.
It is easy to create artificial gravity by spinning a cylinder and walking on the inner surface, using the centrifugal force. Like your washing machine does it. However these health problems are not related to gravity. Health problems relating purely to gravity are all muscoskeletal - atrophy of muscles from nonuse, and deterioration of bones from not being needed much, lack of stress on them.
The eye problems and heart problems come about from something else - intense cosmic rays. The space station is too friggin small to provide proper shielding. A rotating cylinder space station of 300 yard radius and half a mile length would be much better. Especially if you put many floors on it, as each floor serves as a radiation shield, and you could sleep suspended in a sleeping bag in the center weightlessness zone, the most shielded part. Of course it comes down to wall thickness, and for starters, you need at least two steel cylinders with small gap/lubricant sliding on top of each other, so in case of an iron-nickel meteorite projectile piercing through both going at 30 miles per second, and through all floors then exiting the other side, the sliding motion covers up the hole pretty fast, and does not leak the whole space station to vacuum quickly, and lets you evacuate to a different air locked segment while spacewalk outside repairs like thermite welding are under way, and the segment can be fully repressurized. The thicker the wall the better protection from cosmic rays, however, you don't want to go too thick, as the atmosphere down here on earth only protects so much, and the highest background radiation places like India from all that thorium, still have healthy populations. Without cosmic rays the rate of mutations and stillborn babies probably drops, but it also stops evolution, and new forms of beautiful or better people appearing on the scene. I wonder if there is a correlation between altitude of a city and number of stillborn babies, for a standard batch of people, such as Asians from Shanghai living in Lima, Katmandu, near the Dead Sea (below sea level), etc. Comparing indigenous people does not work as they may already be adapted to high background radiation, and in fact these high altitude Tibetan and Andes people might be better suited to be astronauts, because they've been under less insulation protections from the atmosphere above them than the rest of us, in a sense they have already been living closer to outer space, outer space is more their home than ours. However people living near simply high background radiation, such as thorium in India, at low altitude, fall under the same category.
There is no such thing as absolutely secure encryption. A good policy is to not have secrets. But secrets are a fact of life. Even then, security through obscurity is often better than off the shelf things.
I don't use encryption on my disks, because, first of all I could lose all my data on all my hard drives and be fine, second, if somebody finds it and sees everything on it, there are still privacy rules and laws that apply, but I don't really have that much to hide (everybody does have some), and third, encryption gets in the way of easy access and data recovery, and adds computing overhead. When I make a backup, my biggest issue is time, and speed of the backup. Also I'd like to be able to get to files from weird places like old linux distros, for which I try to store stuff on FAT32 (2TB max total, 2GB max per file) on smaller portable drives, which means dvd images have to be split into 2GB sizes. As I will forever will be stuck on Windows 2000 or the like (I'm reluctantly on XP, but it has way too much crap compared to basic Win2K) and oldschool linuxes for basic computer use, and maybe purchase appliance type newer computers to snatch new files from the Internet to move to those older computers, so I have been thinking on using ext2(32TB max total, 2TB max per file) as standard on portable disks, (and yes, ext2, not ext3) which can take DVD images and 32 TB disks which are not even on the market yet. The only issue is you can't take it to say a computer library and expect linux with ext2 support to be present, or windows with ext2 drivers, but for at home use and long term data storage once you're fully off the net, it should work great. Encryption only gets in the way, when the stuff you store is mostly public domain, or easy to just erase in case you get a government raid and says it's copyright violation, you can't have it pay for it or erase, dude i can erase everything and anything and be fine. I do not really need encryption for those reasons. The only situation is a business trade secret, where there are competitors and you invest a lot of effort and money into developing something workable, and in that case you can say because of the costs involved you have secrets to protect. But my everyday life is not like that, I don't have secrets that are a matter of life and death, or at least a sustenance, so I don't need encryption at all for my portable disk storage. I still like encryption on on line banking and shopping, and there is such a thing as identity theft, but there is like nothing you can do if they are really set to find out every detail about you, and then it's easy to do identity theft.
Hey, porn in not the only kind of data. There are youtube how to videos through dirpy.com, which, like porn, could be up in the air and a future raid into your home by the government might force you to erase those - I hope you could keep the advertising banner like things, promotional material samples, as in, do I get a right to keep copyrighted junkmail I never asked for delivered by the post office to my snail mail post box, similarly do I get to keep spam images in my emails that I never asked for in the first place, or are those copyrighted and they want to make me pay for them? But there is the clear cut clear case of public domain, which they are still trying to assault and undermine. And pure public domain, like Wikipedia pages, and pre-1923 pdfs at books.google.com, those you have a right to keep on your TB harddrive, no matter what, unless they change the law and they say we no longer have nomadic public domain lands, and stick your pole down and claim public domain nomadic lands as your own through homesteading rights, so all public domain stuff might go up on auction sale, and then you will be banned from knowing anything unless you can show a receipt, else you will be forced to stay dumb.
So archive.org sometimes does not bother compressing the ebooks and pdfs like books.google.com does on a lot of stuff, and it's like there is no amount of public domain scientific literature that I'm satiated with having in on my 1TB portable harddrive, the only issue being I requested TWC to take me to a higher plan so I can download more, instead they kept talking about download speed, I'm like keep that the same, I wanna pay more so I don't feel bad so bad about the total monthly data transfer, and somehow it got left at the same rate I signed up at, and I haven't tried again to get on the higher cost plan. I'm still getting a lot of downloads this way anyway, but sometimes I hold back my exuberance thinking about the total monthly data transfer, which they are kind to show you.
Also there is a difference between the different kinds of alcohols based on what kind of sporified biotics they carry. In this sense red wine from different years from different areas of the world each carries a different set of sporified critters, that may be beneficial to health, as they know how to control other yeasts and bacteria by emitting their own semi-antibiotic regulating agents. For instance, penicillin was obtained from a yeast first, and it's a simple compound, constructible at a chemical pharmaceutical plant, but there must be lots of snake poison like 10,000+ molecular weight substances that we have absolutely no hope of making artificially, but these wine critters can create and are effective on the ecosystem in the body. Beer, wine, etc, low alcohol fermented and unfiltered or large pore that passes spores filtered beverage comes to mind, with whiskey and vodka or higher alcohol things not really providing the same benefit, at least on the biotic side, while still providing the alcohol itself benefit. But whiskey and the like, distilled alcohols, are often made from extremely putrefied and sickening stuff, in which case it's good not to carry the disease bearing biotics, but just separate the alcohol out. In the old country you made wine from freshly picked grapes, and 100% alcohol that tasted like prunes, cherry, peaches, pears, or combinations, from the putrefied fruits you went to pick up around the trees, once they all fell from being overripe and done. It was not worth climbing the tree, or picking and choosing the nonsimultaneous ripening of prunes, or cherry, it's a very busy job to pick those, but if they fall to the ground and you get a mushy mess, it's really easy to pick them up fast, then put them into a huge wooden barrel left in the middle of the yard, covered with a tarp from rain, and let it sit for 3 weeks, a protective skin developing on the top, and the rest digesting to alcohol, that you double distill in a copper still, with the distillate just barely trickling, not drop by drop, but also not gushing, just at the right rate. The putrefaction stench is completely gone after two distillations, so the whole process is a matter of economics, and easier to conduct than the laborious, long months and years at cellar temperature requiring and sometimes going bad wine making process.
By the way I have never been drunk in my life, been close, and I can die a happy man never having been drunk or having been jail. The last time I remember drinking alcohol at all was 2005. I can do just fine without it. But there are my 2 cents for those into alcohol.
Besides alcohol there might be even friendlier organic "coupling agents" that are less destructive in blood. I don't know if acetone is such a thing. Another one that comes to mind is DMSO, but I think that's banned for human use, but approved for veterinary use such as rubbing horse's legs, and I think I also read somewhere that human organ donor body parts were shipped in a bag suspended in DMSO. I'm just saying alcohol may not be the best thing, but a moderate alcohol consumption may have a correlation with decreased cardiovascular diseases for no other reason than the slight, right on the edge, at the tipping point, solubility increase obtained for cholesterol-fat solutions.
Ok, nobody is perfect. But the overall picture is that Mother Theresa was a very good person, who dedicated her life to helping others. And judge for yourself from some of these quotes, how she thought most of the time, even if the dark feminine wild side did take over her once in a while, overall she was cool:
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.(sick)
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Peace begins with a smile.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work. (sick)
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it. (sick)
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. (semi-sick)
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.. (I disagree with this quote - as in we don't have a problem flushing sperm and eggs down the toilet, neither an undifferentiated embryo, without a brain, nor even a sleeping baby. In fact if you eat meat, and you're willing to kill a cow with a conscience greater than a 4 months fetus, how do you justify that. If anything you should be willing to kill yourself before you go out and kill other beings in the world, and only proliferate as much, or only take as much as it's proper, as circumstances allow, and stay in harmony with nature. People like to fuck, or even masturbate. It's human nature and without that drive you would not be here. It's constantly on the mind, and if it's not ever on the mind, it's not healthy either. So you have teenager fuck, and her not realizing that she's pregnant, and be able to make the life and death decision until 4 months into it, you need time to weigh the issues and think it through, but each minute you waste is creating a smarter and more conscious and aware baby away from an mindless 1 cell or 4 cell or 1000 cell embryo contraption. The thing is you can always make more babies on demand, there is no problem with the ability to supply 15 babies per mother from age 22 to 45, so if she aborts at age 17, she can maintain her social environment of going to high school, college, and have a career and decent life, as opposed to a totally fucked up life because she made a mistake at age 17 and got pregnant by accident. It's a personal choice for everyone, and some mothers who did not abort, think they absolutely made the correct decision, and had a good life anyway, but there are a lot of sad stories of potential good life going down the drain, over a "mistake" of I just wanted to fuck and get off with an awesome big orgasm, I did not real
I did not know she was that perverted. Geez, some of these white women need a good gang bang by a bunch of big black dicks to make them chill out, and satisfied, temporarily, lest they go and get off on really really sick and mental shit like this. Women by nature are psychologist controller button pushing freaks, all are perverts and fucked in the head beyond belief, but Mother Theresa gotta be the one who tops the cake.
I was thinking of a light suction vacuum cleaner device with a centrifuge separator, that has soft foam to conform to the shape near your anus. The light suction would come about from a Y or F connection, where some of the air is taken from the room at very high speed, and that opening has an adjustable flap, and you still get enough speed and velocity to centrifuge separate the liquids and solids, regular wet-vac style. Maybe something insertable, but now we're stepping into gay territory that some people might have objections to. But women have both tampons and pads, and preferences vary, so something conforming to the shape of your anus on the outside, or something you can insert, you could pick and choose, by changing the adapter tip. Options are always a great thing.. Btw, diapers are messy too, then you have to wipe your ass cheeks from the poop that spreads outwards all over them, they are not such a godsend either. That's why a rotating cylinder space station is like an absolute must, and for that it has to be huge size so you don't get dizzy from the difference in blood pressure between your toes and head, but at least you could take a nice comfortable shit near the rim, the outer cylinder wall, even if you wander in the the weighlessness or lower weight central floors and areas.
Indubitably, gas-tax supported asphalt is one big communist contraption that beats the time wasted and employment overhead at toll road booths hands down. Or there is always dirt roads, all you need is bigger tires, slower driving speeds, and tricks up your sleeve to get out of mud puddles every time it rains. Nobody has to pay for it, for the asphalt, it's just dirt, grass beaten down from the constant traffic. This used to be the norm 200 years ago outside cities. Check out what a non-asphalt cheap non-tollroad looks like in middle of uber-communist Russian back country, called Lena highway: http://www.ssqq.com/ARCHIVE/vi... Even communism that's broke can't support a public asphalt road, especially when the traffic on it is too sparse and the distances too long.
Net neutrality is like being able to drive on back country roads and public without cock blocks, or booths at every corner. Without it you get toll roads everywhere, and you constantly have to pay by the mile, or bit the MB, per content, on top of having your basic ISP connection. Some Internet backbones would get overloaded from crowds because of cheap surfing pathways, but the rich would have their luxury Internet highways uncongested, but high cost. Should you wander unto one of these highways, it'd be like stumbling into a high class restaurant, and accidentally eating there, when all you wanted was a burger. Even on regular Internet surfing you could quickly drain your bank account balance to zero via toll road-like per mile fees. However there is something to be said about availability of high class restaurants, they are nice to have, as long as you're not forced to eat there, and without net neutrality, you might be forced to go through only the high cost toll roads, at least occasionally, to access simple things like check your email, or file a job application, to the point where you might completely abandon the Internet altogether, and vote for regular paper mail, instead via the US post office, instead of Email, and on your foot walk into a branch banking instead of on line banking. Maybe that's what they want, de-Internetize the world. Come on, we love Google, Ebay, Email, Youtube, mp3 downloads, ebooks, Amazon, and especially what the Internet was made for: pron.
The problem with solar and wind is that they do not provide the energy density to run a simple thing like an injection molding shop, compared to energy rich nuclear able to power the whole country, as in France, that runs 80% of their electric on nuclear power. Storage of intermittent renewable energy is an issue - pumped storage is near capacity as it is, and batteries are very low in energy density and expensive. For instance a 300 gallon plastic tote battery might run your 220V electric drier for half an hour before it runs out of juice, and you might need 4 of these to run your drier for 2 hours, and then 2 days of windmill power + solar collectible near an average home for a full recharge, before you can run the drier again. Same with electric stoves, though washing machines and vacuums and power tools are better than heat-devices. For off-grid, at-home applications, or as an addition to the grid power, renewables are great, but they can't carry the backbone load when it comes to serious juice and serious consumers of electric power. Same with biofuels burnt in a powerplant - the accumulation rate of energy per arable acre is very low, and it's best used for high value and structure food, not as burnt it away in a power plant energy. What a waste that would be.
By the way expensive electronics at home would not be that expensive if you can make them yourself. I'm talking having a hillbilly glass melting furnace where you can blow your glass bubbles for high power vacuum tube mercury rectifiers and frequency generators and the like. Not everyone is smart enough to do it, and you only find out if you're smart enough if you try. Sometimes I've done things I have no clue to this day how I did it, or could not repeat it, but I was lucky when in the moment of thinking of the right things. Like some of the stuff I type on here, I come back months or years later, and it's like wow, holy crap, I said that? I don't even remember some of it, others very vividly. But a lot of stuff could be constructible, and you don't necessarily have to go on-grid. Like you could use standard junk car alternators and standard 12V automotive equipment and battery stacks - though the lead does get expensive in large quantities, even though it's cheap on the world market because nobody really wants it. Also lead shows up as high atomic weight dense material on routine x-ray scans done by these overhead airplanes, meaning it could be nuclear material too. And they should do these scans, but they become difficult with underground things. My landlord bought like a ton of smoke detectors, like 30 or something, a box full, for rehabbing, and left it in the house, just to see if it sets off the airplanes I guess. Also I have some portable power pack lead acid battery in the house that must be glowing on the radar screens, I also have a habit of collecting old school crt televisions people put out in the trash - they work awesome - but the lead glass that blocks the x-rays from the electron gun shooting at the screen, is heavy, and got to show up on the low altitude flight airplane scans. I set off all kinds of triggers and alarms at the NSA, from what's in my car, in my home, and what I type on Slashdot. Tee hee. If you're bored and want some attention, all you gotta say online is Oklahoma City Bombing, Waco TX, Timothy McVeigh, Unabomber, Boston Marathon, 9/11, uranium 235 238, thorium, americium, and I'm leaving out the really scary one, 2nd amendment, vegetarian, hmm, what else, oh yeah, David Koresh, Jim Jones, Jonestown, who else, blah.. there's probably a long shitlist of these phrases, and they send the freshly hatched youngin recruits with the eggshells still stuck to their butts for basic routine training. As I don't even like hurting flies, if I catch one inside, I carry it outside and let it go, but it gets weird, cuz as long as you're off the norm, you hang out of the pack like that, they worry. I keep telling them quit worrying, build a bunch of huge space stations from Moon materials, and put like a billion people up there, who are
Lifespan among other mammals is usually short because the required training to make it is not that complicated, unlike in a complex human or even great ape society. By the way the life expectancy of most cavemen was less than 40 years, and compared to horses and elephants, it's not that long. Only in recent times through agricultural and technological advances and good life has life expectancy increased. So this ultra life expectancy of 80 years may not be long because the brain requires it or demands it, but more like the brain allows it, so why not? Having great-grandmothers, grandmothers mothers and daughters together in a village, usually makes for a more successful village where members proliferate marrying into other villages taking their customs of sticking together through the long generations, and having long generations, compared to short lifespan mother-child only structures usually found in the wild, where the grandmother and great grandmother don't participate, and don't make a difference whether they still exist or not.
Hahaha, that's a funny pic. There is this thing called wet-dreams you get if you haven't done it in, oh, say every 4 months, maybe every 2 months if you're near the peak of 16-21 years. I wonder how long the astronauts stuck in a claustrophobic space station can hold out without a wet dream. Or maybe they do get off? Pooping in weightlessness must suck too. We don't usually see youtube videos of astronauts pooping and the shit floating around in the cabin.
So anyway, back to the original topic. One of the reasons for the very short life cycle of most mammals is reproductive competition, as those that do it at a faster rate quickly displace the slow breeders. For instance in the US it's common to have black teenage mothers at age 13 from generation to generation, and 39 year old grandmothers. Welfare takes care of all the kids, and under such circumstances the black population quickly drowns out a slow breeding white one that goes to college first, gets a carrier, dates around with 3 guys for 2 years each, gets married by age 33, and maybe pops the first baby by age 39, where a white couple barely maintains population while the black couple, as grandmothers, have like 5 kids each with 2 grandchildren already. Fast breeding comes about in low environmental stress environments where life is good, and easy, the weather is always warm so you don't need clothes, there is usually little war, and for food you take a stroll in the nearby jungle and pick it off the lush vegetation. Life is also easy where welfare pays for the kids. However, under high stress environments, like lots of warfare, lots of cold, and lots of planning required, you get childish extremely slow maturing males that have a loooong time to play video games and the like, and not take girls or life seriously, but with all that playing and training, comes good training, and you get these ultra-age-separated couples, where the men are really old and immature, a whole decade older than their female partners who mature very young, and keep the reproductive cycle still fast enough - as it is the female that is the holdup, she takes a whole 9 month per baby, the male can inseminate hundreds of females in the time a female produces a single offspring. Also these women become extremely perverted because they have to lower their standards to where they are willing to consider an old, unattractive, wrinkly piece of blubber fat with hair on the back as sexually hot, and they are so high sprung on hormones, when they meat up a male from a fast breeder population that's young, and selected for by females on sexual appearance like dick size or athletic body not on strategic military skill and the like, they cannot control themselves. It's just the way it is. The long life cycle of humans, and especially the long breeding cycle of going from female mother to female mother presently hitting puberty near age 12 or 13, might be disappearing as the fast breeders able to hit puberty at age 10 or 8 will take over the population, as long as life is easy, there is no starvation, and the welfare check in the mail is guaranteed.
Of course, with sufficient effort, there is ways to bastardize a guiding principle and show exceptions to it. It may well be that sufficient effort will be spent on systemd based linux to where it runs circles around everything else, and this includes leaving in the dust things like kernel 2.0 on a 486 cpu, meaning you truly improved code and computer science when it comes to performance and features. Performance is still the biggest issue in computing, and the solution is not stronger hardware, because that brings up the issue of supersmart AI that does use efficient coding, that may outdo humans in a robot war, and win. We should squeeze every ounce of performance vs. features on any hardware to the maximum possible extent before moving unto stronger hardware is carefully justified. :)
For instance I think this HP Mini 200 net book with a near 5W or so Intel Atom chipset _AND_ CPU, and 8 hr battery life, is an overkill on hardware. Unfortunately, the Windows 7 it came with had to be uninstalled, because XP runs circles around it on performance, and features are on par, or even better in XP, and even so, XP does not have as much performance as I'd like. There's got to be a way to cut down XP from 200 MB to 150KB and still get everything done that the 200 MB code does, and do it much faster too. That'd be like a dream come true, and I'd be willing to pay cold hard cash if they could pull off such a miracle.