The engines they've used (basically a sphere with a couple of nozzles) had very poor efficiency. They were not really suitable for anything but simple toys. They'd have to invent a lot of new technology to make real piston steam engines. Never mind steam turbines.
Nope. Google understands that diversity is good. If there's just Chrome vs. SomethingElse then the company behind SomethingElse might gain advantage by introducing incompatible features. If there's Chrome vs. Firefox vs. Opera vs. IE vs..... then there is less probability of this happening. And Google really depends on the open Web.
And Google seems to be more than capable of actually competing with other companies rather than locking users into their products.
And $100 mil.? That's just a small change for Google.
That's exactly why it doesn't happen in the nature. It's not that hard to grow additional muscle mass - bodybuilders do this all the time, for example. However, you need quite a lot of additional energy to maintain them.
In case of mouses, additional endurance and strength probably does not offset the increased energy expenditure in nature.
And so what? Your phone must be able to decode the stored data, so it must somehow acquire decryption key.
That means that this decryption key must be transmitted over the network or stored on the device itself. And if it's stored on the device, then the whole encryption scheme is nothing more than complex obfuscation.
Beautiful. So in an event of a meltdown the molten fuel can happily disperse to everyone in vicinity, polluting the groundwater for the next couple hundreds years.
Cooling pools are not a problem. Just add a way to add more water into them. Like a simple flexible pipe that leads outside of the cooling pool building and can be connected to a fire engine).
>Primary coolant contains large amounts of N-16 and other radionucleides.
No it doesn't. Especially no sodium and nitrogen. Coolant water is continuosly filtered through ion-exchange resins to remove impurities exactly because of impurities.
>In fact, primary coolant is so hot, that BWRs completely seal off their main steam lines and heaterbay/condenser. They will let people in for minutes at a time for checks or emergent work every few months and thats it.
BWRs do not usually have a secondary loop (that's why they are BOILING water reactors) and steam from the reactor directly drives turbines, Russia has 10 reactors of this type right now. And since the steam from the reactor directly goes into a large pipe network, water purity is tightly controlled and steam is only borderline radioactive.
In PWRs with two cooling loops water is more radioactive in the primary loop. But again, it's not even close to levels that would give you a significant dose if you stand a few minutes near a coolant pipe. It's also mostly caused by neutron activation of oxygen which has very short half-life (around 2 minutes) so it falls off immediately after the shutdown.
Of course. Yesterday I saw a squad of Martians landing on the Red Square in New York (what? Red Square is in Moscow? Never mind).
Actual event may be anything from "stumbled and got burned by a hot pipe" to "smoked a few pipes of weed with friends". However, some things are just impossible.
Spent fuel pools are even more carefully monitored, and are also much simpler in construction. So chances of uncharted pipework leading to/from them are essentially nil.
Ion-exchange resins in filters of course get pretty hot (and are classified as high-level waste), but I somehow doubt that they can be found in a closed room with rusting pipe.
1) There's no way a 'room which nobody knows about' can exist in a nuclear power plant.
2) Especially if it contains components from the freaking primary contour. And the secondary cooling contour is absolutely safe - you can drink water from it.
3) There's no way radiation levels can be large enough to cause significant irradiation in several minutes. Absolutely none at all - primary cooling water is radioactive, but not that much (it's continuously monitored).
4) Power plant operators after Chernobyl are _very_ careful. For a reason.
But what do I know? After all, I have actually worked on a Russian nuclear power plant.
For Russian-wide results it's about 15% which would make a coalition of several opposition parties actually possible. I've tried curve-fitting analysis myself.
During the last Moscow elections electronic counting machines were used at some polling places. They worked VERY well and were impossible to cheat. So all these machines 'broke down' for this election.
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Actually, no.
He has been educated in a seminary and before the October Revolution mostly lived as a bank robber.
So, basically, Lumia topped sales on one website for a few days. And another website had put into 'bestseller list' without releasing any numbers.
Yeah, it really performs well. Maybe next month a "Joe's Web Store" site would put it into "Top Wishlisted" products.
Because special arrangements for disabled people do not always pay off.
Yours faithfully, Captain Obvious.
These rocket motors are sold freely. For example, they are used in Atlas V rockets by Lockheed Martin & Boeing.
So there's no great secret in their production. China or India might be interested in technologies used, but I somehow think they already have them.
Sure it does. A lot of countries change DST rules all the time.
The engines they've used (basically a sphere with a couple of nozzles) had very poor efficiency. They were not really suitable for anything but simple toys. They'd have to invent a lot of new technology to make real piston steam engines. Never mind steam turbines.
That's the same problem as with Babbage's engine.
"I don't get the opposition to hunting non-endangered whales. The whales being hunted(mostly minke whales), are nowhere near endangered"
Yet.
And not only mink whales are being hunted.
Nope. Google understands that diversity is good. If there's just Chrome vs. SomethingElse then the company behind SomethingElse might gain advantage by introducing incompatible features. If there's Chrome vs. Firefox vs. Opera vs. IE vs. .... then there is less probability of this happening. And Google really depends on the open Web.
And Google seems to be more than capable of actually competing with other companies rather than locking users into their products.
And $100 mil.? That's just a small change for Google.
The funny thing is, the USSR has not used any VAX designs.
"a) the Soviets, a communist government that ran extermination camps that killed about 10 times more people than the holocaust,"
WTF?!? Nazis have killed around 20 million people in the USSR during the WWII. There's simply no way Stalin could have killed 10 times more people.
RFS is just FAT32. Really, it's the bad old FAT32 from DOS with support for Unix permissions thrown in.
So it's BAD BAD BAD. ext4 is way better for SD cards.
Where are they going to get the BANDWIDTH for this? It's not like OnStar's satellites have a lot of it. Are they going to launch new comsats?
At least in cars it's fairly easy to make a big phased array antenna (roof!) which is a plague for portable satellite data phones.
"beyond needing more food"
That's exactly why it doesn't happen in the nature. It's not that hard to grow additional muscle mass - bodybuilders do this all the time, for example. However, you need quite a lot of additional energy to maintain them.
In case of mouses, additional endurance and strength probably does not offset the increased energy expenditure in nature.
Except that there is no way it can work offline.
One PIXEL on this graph is about 1000 years. Our current rapid climate change would look on this graph as a discontinuity - an immediate jump.
And so what? Your phone must be able to decode the stored data, so it must somehow acquire decryption key.
That means that this decryption key must be transmitted over the network or stored on the device itself. And if it's stored on the device, then the whole encryption scheme is nothing more than complex obfuscation.
Beautiful. So in an event of a meltdown the molten fuel can happily disperse to everyone in vicinity, polluting the groundwater for the next couple hundreds years.
Cooling pools are not a problem. Just add a way to add more water into them. Like a simple flexible pipe that leads outside of the cooling pool building and can be connected to a fire engine).
>Primary coolant contains large amounts of N-16 and other radionucleides.
No it doesn't. Especially no sodium and nitrogen. Coolant water is continuosly filtered through ion-exchange resins to remove impurities exactly because of impurities.
>In fact, primary coolant is so hot, that BWRs completely seal off their main steam lines and heaterbay/condenser. They will let people in for minutes at a time for checks or emergent work every few months and thats it.
BWRs do not usually have a secondary loop (that's why they are BOILING water reactors) and steam from the reactor directly drives turbines, Russia has 10 reactors of this type right now. And since the steam from the reactor directly goes into a large pipe network, water purity is tightly controlled and steam is only borderline radioactive.
In PWRs with two cooling loops water is more radioactive in the primary loop. But again, it's not even close to levels that would give you a significant dose if you stand a few minutes near a coolant pipe. It's also mostly caused by neutron activation of oxygen which has very short half-life (around 2 minutes) so it falls off immediately after the shutdown.
Of course. Yesterday I saw a squad of Martians landing on the Red Square in New York (what? Red Square is in Moscow? Never mind).
Actual event may be anything from "stumbled and got burned by a hot pipe" to "smoked a few pipes of weed with friends". However, some things are just impossible.
Spent fuel pools are even more carefully monitored, and are also much simpler in construction. So chances of uncharted pipework leading to/from them are essentially nil.
Ion-exchange resins in filters of course get pretty hot (and are classified as high-level waste), but I somehow doubt that they can be found in a closed room with rusting pipe.
Sorry, that's a fairy tale.
1) There's no way a 'room which nobody knows about' can exist in a nuclear power plant.
2) Especially if it contains components from the freaking primary contour. And the secondary cooling contour is absolutely safe - you can drink water from it.
3) There's no way radiation levels can be large enough to cause significant irradiation in several minutes. Absolutely none at all - primary cooling water is radioactive, but not that much (it's continuously monitored).
4) Power plant operators after Chernobyl are _very_ careful. For a reason.
But what do I know? After all, I have actually worked on a Russian nuclear power plant.
Wow. I totally agree with roman_mir. That's something unusual.
For Russian-wide results it's about 15% which would make a coalition of several opposition parties actually possible. I've tried curve-fitting analysis myself.
Actually, that is true.
During the last Moscow elections electronic counting machines were used at some polling places. They worked VERY well and were impossible to cheat. So all these machines 'broke down' for this election.
Here's an article about them (sorry, in Russian):
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81_%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85_%D0%B1%D1%8E%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B9