yeah i bet if we stick a half critical hemisphere of enriched weapons grade uranium to the front of all cars, then head on collisions will be markedly reduced, or at least very spectacular to watch...
This would be a much easier design than to impact implode subcritcal masses of plutonium, but with the down side of possible low-velocity parking-lot accidents.
I once saw a duck (whom had obviously done this sucessfully before, not sure if he is still up to it...) crossing an 8 lane highway. He would walk while there were no cars, then sit in the middle of the lane as cars approached. Cars went straight over him and then he got up and kept walking, next lane, sat down, vroom... next lane...
Eventually someone stopped *abruptly* for the duck and almost caused a pile up with at least 2 other cars screeching to a halt to avoid the first car...
I pity that duck if it ever comes across a lowered car...
Just in case anyone out there was interested its at -34.051675, 150.98044 as far as i can tell. you can see the new reactor being built on left. If you want directions by road try here
I couldnt find an official location on google. And i really dont care about any terrorists getting their hands anywhere near it. the reactor is about the size of a washing machine and doesnt hold all that much material. It supplies mainly medical isotopes and some physics research. Doubt there is enough material for a bomb, and for a dirty (and effective-in terms of death) bomb i would be much more afraid of any caesium containing X-ray machines...
Disclaimer: Do not read if you are currently residing in an axis of evil.
100km/h freeway (motorway, highway whatever) slows to 80km/h for a traffic light/intersection. Cops will speed up 100+ to tailgate a driver and see if he slows down to the speed limit.
Now who is going to put their foot on the break approaching a high speed intersection with a manic that looks like he is going to rear end you? And who's side is the law on?... (this was in australia fyi)
It's easy too: To make it work under an RPM based distro (such as Fedora or Mandriva), Install Firefox if.....
Can anyone see why linux is not being generally accepted... Step 1 (arr pee what?), step 2 (yes step 3), step 4, step 5 (after 3 hours of RTFM searching), step 6 (eyes glaze over), step 7, step 8 (numbness setting in), step 9... ohhh it works... oh no it doesnt, lets try compile from source...
On windows, download, install (yes, reboot), enjoy pure evil...
Gratification is quick, and even if its bad, its still good.
That reminds me of a Dilbert cartoon, where all mobile phones with cameras are banned by the pointy haired weasel, despite the fact that cameras were not...
I used to have a rare earth magnet for one of those magnetic desk-art things. I actually used it to *fix* floppys that wouldnt format with a track 0 error. worked most of the time... no idea why.
for me CDRs would have replaced the floppy if they fitted in a regular pocket and were protected from scratches...
I was using the mini CDRW for the last year but at 4x they are hell slow (7 minutes for 185mb!).
I have finally decided to join modern times and am now using mini flash drives with the spin around lid (who's bright idea was it to put an easily lost tiny lid on most flash drives anyway...) I was considering the titanium plated ones, but they are still oversized in my opinion for a real keychain...
apparently the windows are cleaned (and presumably serviced) for over 40 hours after a landing! and thats just the for several chunks of glass that dont do much, not the really hot end that burns half a million gallons of liquid oxygen and hydrogen!!!
I cant remember (apart from Pearl Harbour) what got the US involved in WWII but the germans certainly attacked first (or at least really pissed off the US) with the sinking of the Lusitania
If you are going to change units on me then ok, 6 billion tennis ball size lumps of uranium are smaller than 6 billion larger-than-tennis-ball sized lumps of coal. but i ask you this, which wieghs more, a ton of uranium or a ton of coal (or a ton of feathers)....
Yes strip mining is huge, but once again you dont mind living on that afterwards do you?
And what does CO2 emmissions have to do with the fact that uranium is not a renewable resource?
If governments would just stop the sandpaper wank and just fund and build the fusion plants then we would have fusion already. Stop bickering of wether it should be in the US or Japan or on the moon.
Forget about wasting money on some mars scifi trip, hell we went to the *moon* in 10 years, im pretty sure fusion power could be developed in that time with the same mentality and we could go anywhere we wanted and do what we wanted on too-cheap-to-meter power.
Not that im not a nuclear supportor, but do you have any idea what 6 Billion tennis balls looks like
It sounds huge, it's still considerably smaller than 6 billion lumps of coal.
Ummm im pretty sure that 6 billion lumps of coal is the same size, but that's ok...
The main problem is that people are happy to (I do) live on conventional landfill, and and our rubbish just gets poured into a ditch, smoothed over and given some fancy-shmancy estate name.
Nuclear waste dosent get the same reception. And founded or not noone is going to live on it for a few thousand years. Although (since i did the exersise) a few billion tennis balls would fit in some small places (apparently lake superior has room for 1E16 of them!)
My last thought for the day is that nuclear fission isnt the answer anyway! We are going on about using Dino-juice for fuel, but turning to sun/supernova-juice isnt going to help. Fission is not a renewable resource. Has anyone done the calculations on how long uranium is going to last us? On the other hand hydrogen fusion has a *lot* of source material on the earth in all that water.
As was said, the Towers were designed to sustain a 707 hit (much smaller than a 747) that did not have a full fuel load.
The fact a fully loaded and fueled 747 hit the towers was not planned for, and the designers were surprised that they even stood for that long after impact.
Nuclear reactors are designed to sustain modern large aircraft, nuclear bomb blast waves (hence the dome) and the reactor itself exploding with several factors of safety to spare. Anti-nuclear 'what-if' sentiment made the reactors as tough as they should be, not like a bomb in a tin shed being tinkered with by idiots like Chernobyl was.
if one persons electricity needs for their entire life time were met using electricity generated from a Nuclear power plant, the total amount of nuclear waste generated as a result would be approximately the size of a tennis ball.
Not that im not a nuclear supportor, but do you have any idea what 6 Billion tennis balls looks like?
Ill leave the math as an exercise to the reader...
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yeah i bet if we stick a half critical hemisphere of enriched weapons grade uranium to the front of all cars, then head on collisions will be markedly reduced, or at least very spectacular to watch...
This would be a much easier design than to impact implode subcritcal masses of plutonium, but with the down side of possible low-velocity parking-lot accidents.
I once saw a duck (whom had obviously done this sucessfully before, not sure if he is still up to it...) crossing an 8 lane highway. He would walk while there were no cars, then sit in the middle of the lane as cars approached. Cars went straight over him and then he got up and kept walking, next lane, sat down, vroom... next lane...
Eventually someone stopped *abruptly* for the duck and almost caused a pile up with at least 2 other cars screeching to a halt to avoid the first car...
I pity that duck if it ever comes across a lowered car...
damn, bad link to map... Fixed
Or is it a conspiracy?! (cue twilight zone music)
Just in case anyone out there was interested its at -34.051675, 150.98044 as far as i can tell. you can see the new reactor being built on left. If you want directions by road try here
I couldnt find an official location on google. And i really dont care about any terrorists getting their hands anywhere near it. the reactor is about the size of a washing machine and doesnt hold all that much material. It supplies mainly medical isotopes and some physics research. Doubt there is enough material for a bomb, and for a dirty (and effective-in terms of death) bomb i would be much more afraid of any caesium containing X-ray machines...
Disclaimer: Do not read if you are currently residing in an axis of evil.
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Video also showed the fuel tank's nose cone hitting a bird about 2.5 seconds after liftoff, apparently without damage, he said.
from http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/07/26/space.sh
I have seen this happen...
100km/h freeway (motorway, highway whatever) slows to 80km/h for a traffic light/intersection. Cops will speed up 100+ to tailgate a driver and see if he slows down to the speed limit.
Now who is going to put their foot on the break approaching a high speed intersection with a manic that looks like he is going to rear end you? And who's side is the law on?... (this was in australia fyi)
Can anyone see why linux is not being generally accepted... Step 1 (arr pee what?), step 2 (yes step 3), step 4, step 5 (after 3 hours of RTFM searching), step 6 (eyes glaze over), step 7, step 8 (numbness setting in), step 9... ohhh it works... oh no it doesnt, lets try compile from source...
On windows, download, install (yes, reboot), enjoy pure evil...
Gratification is quick, and even if its bad, its still good.
That reminds me of a Dilbert cartoon, where all mobile phones with cameras are banned by the pointy haired weasel, despite the fact that cameras were not...
I used to have a rare earth magnet for one of those magnetic desk-art things. I actually used it to *fix* floppys that wouldnt format with a track 0 error. worked most of the time... no idea why.
for me CDRs would have replaced the floppy if they fitted in a regular pocket and were protected from scratches...
I was using the mini CDRW for the last year but at 4x they are hell slow (7 minutes for 185mb!).
I have finally decided to join modern times and am now using mini flash drives with the spin around lid (who's bright idea was it to put an easily lost tiny lid on most flash drives anyway...) I was considering the titanium plated ones, but they are still oversized in my opinion for a real keychain...
I dont know, but maybe you could suggest she take a look at your 'memory stick'
ummm im not going to sneeze at nine days being long, but i will sneeze at your interesting calander system...
you'd think a 747 would be a big, noisy, 4 engined thing to "notice" and stay the hell away from too, but birds hit them all the time...
The 180? db noise of those engines would also literally scare the shit out of said bird, making a mess on the window anyway...
apparently the windows are cleaned (and presumably serviced) for over 40 hours after a landing! and thats just the for several chunks of glass that dont do much, not the really hot end that burns half a million gallons of liquid oxygen and hydrogen!!!
What good would a civil war do when the oil is in other countries?.. its gonna be a whole lot bigger than 'just' a civil war.
(Currently paying $5.50 US a gallon -in australia)
I cant remember (apart from Pearl Harbour) what got the US involved in WWII but the germans certainly attacked first (or at least really pissed off the US) with the sinking of the Lusitania
The tool is called CPAU for those looking for it
I just had an image of the statue of david... with a rather well endowed wireless transponder...
hmmm who's the troll? i guess intelligent discussion is below you...
If you are going to change units on me then ok, 6 billion tennis ball size lumps of uranium are smaller than 6 billion larger-than-tennis-ball sized lumps of coal. but i ask you this, which wieghs more, a ton of uranium or a ton of coal (or a ton of feathers)....
Yes strip mining is huge, but once again you dont mind living on that afterwards do you?
And what does CO2 emmissions have to do with the fact that uranium is not a renewable resource?
If governments would just stop the sandpaper wank and just fund and build the fusion plants then we would have fusion already. Stop bickering of wether it should be in the US or Japan or on the moon.
Forget about wasting money on some mars scifi trip, hell we went to the *moon* in 10 years, im pretty sure fusion power could be developed in that time with the same mentality and we could go anywhere we wanted and do what we wanted on too-cheap-to-meter power.
Ummm im pretty sure that 6 billion lumps of coal is the same size, but that's ok...
The main problem is that people are happy to (I do) live on conventional landfill, and and our rubbish just gets poured into a ditch, smoothed over and given some fancy-shmancy estate name.
Nuclear waste dosent get the same reception. And founded or not noone is going to live on it for a few thousand years. Although (since i did the exersise) a few billion tennis balls would fit in some small places (apparently lake superior has room for 1E16 of them!)
My last thought for the day is that nuclear fission isnt the answer anyway! We are going on about using Dino-juice for fuel, but turning to sun/supernova-juice isnt going to help. Fission is not a renewable resource. Has anyone done the calculations on how long uranium is going to last us? On the other hand hydrogen fusion has a *lot* of source material on the earth in all that water.
0-5mph faster than almost all cars
so its good for a drag race down the driveway?
As was said, the Towers were designed to sustain a 707 hit (much smaller than a 747) that did not have a full fuel load.
The fact a fully loaded and fueled 747 hit the towers was not planned for, and the designers were surprised that they even stood for that long after impact.
Nuclear reactors are designed to sustain modern large aircraft, nuclear bomb blast waves (hence the dome) and the reactor itself exploding with several factors of safety to spare. Anti-nuclear 'what-if' sentiment made the reactors as tough as they should be, not like a bomb in a tin shed being tinkered with by idiots like Chernobyl was.
Not that im not a nuclear supportor, but do you have any idea what 6 Billion tennis balls looks like?
Ill leave the math as an exercise to the reader...
I got a bad image from that...
Walmart pr0n stores?