Reuse is better than recycle. And glass is good for that. Pepsi and Coke know this from history.
At least in my tiny little remote village, we're crushing glass and using it in roadways. Seems to work out well although I do get an awful lot of flats.
Just some mindless drivel and a few pics - for a bit more, do a search on "Bessel+beam+plane+illumination+microscopy". Basically, it is a system that uses a narrow collimated light beam that is stepped through a cell to excite photons (it appears that they're using flourescent dyes, not clear if you have to do that), pick up the photons in a detector and reconstruct the image, much like at CT or MRI.
While researchers have been able to use monoclonal antibodies to tag internal bits of cells, you either got fairly poor spatial resolution of living cells because you were imaging the entire cell depth or you got excellent spatial resolution of dead, fixed cells with the obvious issues of stopping a dynamic process. This method, if they can work it out a bit better (resolution doesn't seem to be all that good yet) would combine the advantages of tagging cells at high resolution but using living cells.
Call me crazy, but could we please have a space-based scifi show which would be closer to the realities of space travel and habitation? I'm sure it would be more gripping than the cartoonish series we have had to put up with (Firefly aside, it's actually the one bright spot in the past 30 years.)
Watch NASA TV feeds of the ISS. Pretty damned boring. The very least they need to do is orbit Jewel Staite or Summer Glau.
Storytelling doesn't necessarily have "newness" as an important feature. Even our modern literary masters like Neal Stephenson and Kim Stanley Robinson don't provide much that is "new." The calendar says the age is new, the context is evolving, so... interesting and relevant might be more realistic targets.
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.
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No wonder I never get any + Funny mods anymore. People think I'm serious.
Well yesterday I went to an even cooler place, but I can't tell you. There was so much amazing stuff, I was shocked. This was like a million times better than going to Lucasfilm. After the first couple of things happened I knew that my life had changed forever. Thanks to Frank for telling me about this fantastic place, Joseph for pointing out the last things and letting me take one home, and Sarah - you know exactly what for!
Al Jazeera, Russia Today,... . Hillary Clinton said "We're in a media war, and quite frankly, we're losing it." in the context of the mentioned channels. I have no idea what she meant when all I see during the middle-eastern uprising on these channel's online streams is news and coverage that is aligned and compatible with western views, which I'd like to think are generally good from a humanitarian standpoint. (I live in Europe btw.)
She meant 'we're not controlling it'. If we're not in charge, we're not in the game. Just one of those little intellectual problems of being the only superpower. Not to worry - it'll change in a bit, always does.
what a string of babbling bullshit. you strike me as the sort of person who thinks if they talk for long enough, they will turn into something more than a fucking idiot.
You, sir, obviously do not understand the beauty and gravitas of fine, mind altering chemicals.
I agree he spent a bit too much time on the ad hominum aspect, but he did offer a significant factual rebuttal. I pointed out that posting since a lot of people had glommed on to the original post which was a bit polyannish (and incorrect). And, unfortunately, I agree that it's difficult to discuss this without the political overlay, especially this early in the game.
Personally, I think they did a great job of dealing with a very bad set of problems but unfortunately with high amounts of long term radiation, you have to have a very, very high bar. A bit more thinking and planning, a bit better luck and this would be a non issue. It does point out the flaws of using poorly thought out statistical models for risk analysis (something the author of the original blog was supposed to be an expert in but didn't address much).
They really need to change the name. When I first glanced at TFA I read it as "Deathstar" - that's not a good frame of mind to be reviewing hardware with. Give some poor little marketing droid something to do.
Standards bodies should be flexible but they must ultimately be the law enforcement of all technology and crafts. They are the modern version of the guild hall, the corporations are merely the apprentices within.
I've seen a lot of people linking the "Simple and accurate explanation" article.. and it claims that this reactor design had a "Core Catcher" as another layer of containment in case the core melts through the primary reactor vessel.. but in the comments, people say that reactor 1 didn't have a core catcher. So, anybody with inside knowledge happen to know the reality? What about reactor 3?
If people were sane and less reactionary, this is actually quite the demonstration of how incredibly resilient it all was.
First off, humans being sane and non reactionary is hardly the default setting. Secondly, if you look at the before and after satellite pictures of the plant, it's apparent that structurally the system performed quite well. However, the little details like generator siting and aspects of defense in depth, not so much. So they may have nine out of ten things right, even with bonus points for being able to do this on such an old reactor system, but they seem uncomfortably close to losing local containment.
That isn't game over / go back to eating twigs and throwing rocks but its a very, very bad outcome in a densely populated area. Japan doesn't have the luxury of just abandoning hundreds, or even tens of square miles for decades to come. We shall see in the next couple of days just exactly how bad it will be. The only thing this conclusively shows so far is how bad assumptions trump good engineering.
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Why not also include WP7? Has it been written off before people even try it?
Why would you want to run Word Perfect on a cell phone?
Considering it takes me an average of 7865.349 msec to plug in my charger, still a fair trade..
Really? You timed this to millisecond precision? And you wonder about wasting time restarting an app?
I bow to you, Master of Misplaced Priorities and Decimal Points.
One hundred thousand Internets - you will need them.
nice.
> Glass isn't that great for recycling.
Reuse is better than recycle. And glass is good for that. Pepsi and Coke know this from history.
At least in my tiny little remote village, we're crushing glass and using it in roadways. Seems to work out well although I do get an awful lot of flats.
Here's a bit more background for those disinclined to consulting the oracle.
Just some mindless drivel and a few pics - for a bit more, do a search on "Bessel+beam+plane+illumination+microscopy". Basically, it is a system that uses a narrow collimated light beam that is stepped through a cell to excite photons (it appears that they're using flourescent dyes, not clear if you have to do that), pick up the photons in a detector and reconstruct the image, much like at CT or MRI.
While researchers have been able to use monoclonal antibodies to tag internal bits of cells, you either got fairly poor spatial resolution of living cells because you were imaging the entire cell depth or you got excellent spatial resolution of dead, fixed cells with the obvious issues of stopping a dynamic process. This method, if they can work it out a bit better (resolution doesn't seem to be all that good yet) would combine the advantages of tagging cells at high resolution but using living cells.
Call me crazy, but could we please have a space-based scifi show which would be closer to the realities of space travel and habitation? I'm sure it would be more gripping than the cartoonish series we have had to put up with (Firefly aside, it's actually the one bright spot in the past 30 years.)
Watch NASA TV feeds of the ISS. Pretty damned boring. The very least they need to do is orbit Jewel Staite or Summer Glau.
Storytelling doesn't necessarily have "newness" as an important feature. Even our modern literary masters like Neal Stephenson and Kim Stanley Robinson don't provide much that is "new." The calendar says the age is new, the context is evolving, so... interesting and relevant might be more realistic targets.
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.
No wonder I never get any + Funny mods anymore. People think I'm serious.
Sigh.
Well yesterday I went to an even cooler place, but I can't tell you. There was so much amazing stuff, I was shocked. This was like a million times better than going to Lucasfilm. After the first couple of things happened I knew that my life had changed forever. Thanks to Frank for telling me about this fantastic place, Joseph for pointing out the last things and letting me take one home, and Sarah - you know exactly what for!
You finally got to a brothel? Congratulations.
If it's pointing up and is a fixed camera who is it going to be spying on?
Alien terrorists, obviously. They're the most dangerous kind, of course.
The rest of us can rest easy and enjoy a little bit of schadenfreude.
I'm sorry, I can't even pronounce that. I'd like a Kahlúa please.
Wait. You don't want a subscription to the Economist?
You must be a communist.
Al Jazeera, Russia Today, ... . Hillary Clinton said "We're in a media war, and quite frankly, we're losing it." in the context of the mentioned channels. I have no idea what she meant when all I see during the middle-eastern uprising on these channel's online streams is news and coverage that is aligned and compatible with western views, which I'd like to think are generally good from a humanitarian standpoint. (I live in Europe btw.)
She meant 'we're not controlling it'. If we're not in charge, we're not in the game. Just one of those little intellectual problems of being the only superpower. Not to worry - it'll change in a bit, always does.
Well there was the small matter of direct US military intervention in Cuba causing World War Three to bear in mind.
What? Where? Did I miss the memo again?
what a string of babbling bullshit. you strike me as the sort of person who thinks if they talk for long enough, they will turn into something more than a fucking idiot.
You, sir, obviously do not understand the beauty and gravitas of fine, mind altering chemicals.
I agree he spent a bit too much time on the ad hominum aspect, but he did offer a significant factual rebuttal. I pointed out that posting since a lot of people had glommed on to the original post which was a bit polyannish (and incorrect). And, unfortunately, I agree that it's difficult to discuss this without the political overlay, especially this early in the game.
Personally, I think they did a great job of dealing with a very bad set of problems but unfortunately with high amounts of long term radiation, you have to have a very, very high bar. A bit more thinking and planning, a bit better luck and this would be a non issue. It does point out the flaws of using poorly thought out statistical models for risk analysis (something the author of the original blog was supposed to be an expert in but didn't address much).
They really need to change the name. When I first glanced at TFA I read it as "Deathstar" - that's not a good frame of mind to be reviewing hardware with. Give some poor little marketing droid something to do.
Yeah, but vivid, surreal hallucinations are a reasonable substitute for "something else".
Now don't go turning this into a drug conversation.
Standards bodies should be flexible but they must ultimately be the law enforcement of all technology and crafts. They are the modern version of the guild hall, the corporations are merely the apprentices within.
Like The Sorcerer's Apprentice?
I've seen a lot of people linking the "Simple and accurate explanation" article.. and it claims that this reactor design had a "Core Catcher" as another layer of containment in case the core melts through the primary reactor vessel.. but in the comments, people say that reactor 1 didn't have a core catcher. So, anybody with inside knowledge happen to know the reality? What about reactor 3?
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Chill dude. Take an iodine pill.
Also, the PhD's primary work is in risk management, so he has some authority to speak about odds and risks.
But he spends little time talking about risk management, mostly about technical details that he doesn't really understand.
And yet, it's not very good.
Summary of rebuttal - the writer is neither too bright nor careful. Just because his father works in the industry doesn't make him credible.
If people were sane and less reactionary, this is actually quite the demonstration of how incredibly resilient it all was.
First off, humans being sane and non reactionary is hardly the default setting. Secondly, if you look at the before and after satellite pictures of the plant, it's apparent that structurally the system performed quite well. However, the little details like generator siting and aspects of defense in depth, not so much. So they may have nine out of ten things right, even with bonus points for being able to do this on such an old reactor system, but they seem uncomfortably close to losing local containment.
That isn't game over / go back to eating twigs and throwing rocks but its a very, very bad outcome in a densely populated area. Japan doesn't have the luxury of just abandoning hundreds, or even tens of square miles for decades to come. We shall see in the next couple of days just exactly how bad it will be. The only thing this conclusively shows so far is how bad assumptions trump good engineering.