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  1. Scientists aren't what they used to be. on Science is Getting Less Bang for Its Buck (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Scientists used to be aware of multiple disciplines, and kept abreast of all developments roughly pertaining to their fields.

    Now, all knowledge is locked away behind paywalls, expensive degrees that deport no real knowledge of a subject, and arrogance instead of cooperation.

    No one wants to work with other people, because it just shows up how little they actually know; you can BS your boss, but the guy who actually know something see your real self.

    As a Tech, I trained engineers who didn't know what a resistor looked like, and didn't realize there was a wattage rating, lol.

    Capacitors have polarity, teaching that one is the most fun. :)

    I argued with an MIT physicist over a discovery Neils Bohr made in the 30's, and didn't believe me when I showed him a textbook.
    He just "knew better". :)
    He also believed that driving a car thru protesters you didn't agree with wasn't evil, so wtf.

    Science is dead in America, anyway. We'll have to wait for this generation to die off before any progress will be made.

    If the closed journals die off, it might start before that, but not by any current "Scientists."

  2. Will I dream? :(

    RIP

  3. Cheetos melt in the rain... on The Problem Behind a Viral Video of a Persistent Baby Bear (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Not bears.

  4. Lol.

    I'm more like Bill Cosby; I like my women like I like my coffee, Black, and ready to pass out.

  5. I just thought it was all those years of crappy university coffee made me like assembler.

    I started with M68k assembler; it was beautiful. Even with only 16MB.

    Then x86 Assembler, it's like "WTF are these 4k pages!??"
    X86-64 is nice.

    I've been doing PIC assembler for the last few years; I miss having memory, lol. :)

  6. You lies are straight out of his playbook.

    My only wonder is if you're being paid by the Russians, or really believe what you're Spewing.

    I bet you have some nice Stickers on the windows of you PaedoVan. :)

  7. No, 90% of the installed base are toobz. on How a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone In a Medical Facility (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Avalanche PD's suck.

    They take almost as much voltage as pmt's, and only have a gain around 200.

    SiPM's are just coming onto the market, and they will replace both.

    There are hundreds of thousands of PMT's in scanners in the World right now.

    We used APD's in PET/MR systems, because they work in a magnetic field. Unlike PMT's.

    The weirdest thing of all that was that we were seeing Positrons 60" outside the MR bore, ejected by the magnetic field, that "Can't happen!" lol.

  8. Just wait until they start shooting the Migrants.. on Pentagon Wants To Predict Anti-Trump Protests Using Social Media Surveillance (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    "They were coming right at us!!"

    This will probably happen, so IDK why I'm making a south park joke... :(

  9. They're cheaper. on How a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone In a Medical Facility (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That's all.

  10. I hope they don't have any PET scanners... on How a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone In a Medical Facility (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    They use PMT tubes, and helium will leak thru glass seals easily, which is what happened to these chips.

    They all changed frequency, and aren't working right. :)

    The PMT's will just arc internally, glowing a nice bright orange, if you could see them. :D

    It will drop the power supply rails, and there's no fixing the tubes, they'll have to be replaced.

  11. It would be kind of silly if they burned coal... on A Chinese-Built Replica of the Titanic Will Set Sail From Dubai in 2022 (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    ... which was the driving point of the smokestacks.

  12. I thought it was Sharks in Space. :)

  13. Can someone convert this to African swallows? on China Produces Nano Fibre That Can Lift 160 Elephants - and a Space Elevator? (nzherald.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    The real question is:

    Do we call it Scrith, or Twing? :)

  14. Does that mean... on Feds Say Hacking DRM To Fix Your Electronics Is Legal (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That since Vlad Putin OWNS Donald Trump, he can use him as his personal fleshlight? :)

  15. It's a bot someones testing, I'd say. on Feds Say Hacking DRM To Fix Your Electronics Is Legal (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Kinda like the GNAA ones from years ago.

  16. This is actually a tool I use. on Climate Modeller Wins $10,000 Wager Against Solar Physicists, Fails To Collect (blogspot.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Loaning someone $20, and them not paying you back is a great way to never deal with them again.

    "You still owe me, I'm not giving you shit."

    One of my nephews lost out on $1200 worth of car troubles for $20.

    Fuck them if they don't pay, he has no currency. (paul simon, if you don't get it.) ...
    He holds no currency
    He is a foreign man ...

  17. All the AC posters are russian trolls, and if they delete the post., the underlying comments get fucked.

    I no longer post to AC's.

  18. WTF, really?

  19. Terraform Venus! on NASA Has Explored Manned Missions To Venus (newsweek.com) · · Score: 2

    Use several large asteroids, then some smaller ones...

    Step 1: Blow of 90% of the atmosphere with a large heavy asteroid.
    You could also tip the planet a bit, and add some spin.

    Step 2: Hit it with another asteroid heavy enough to penetrate the planet, spinning the core to create a magnetic field to protect Immigrants from Earth.

    Step 3: Hit it with slower moving asteroids built up of various frozen gasses and water, until there are global oceans.

    Step 4: Wait for it to cool off a bit, after the Re-engineering step.
    Profit!

    This is what we should be planning; deorbiting things to the inner solar system is easy if you don't need to slow down at the end. :)

    I wonder if I can get funding...

  20. Make you're friends' day... on Facebook Could Use Data Collected From Its Portal In-Home Video Device To Target You With Ads (recode.net) · · Score: 4, Funny

    The next time you're at their house, ask their device about a wide ranging sea of dubious products for erectile dysfunction, herpes cremes, Hep C vaccines, and various porn acts, mostly dubious or illegal:

    "Is sodomy legal in my state?" (Address lookup, law database, etc)
    "Is sex with animals..." (Same as above)
    "Horse-human STD's..." (Medical database lookup, crossreferences galore)
    "Will anal hurt my..." (Lots of databases, medical, legal, etc.)
    "How do I..." (Depending, law enforcement may tag them, and other databases will now see them)

    It's best if it's in a different room, but you can ask a lot of things before they throw you out. :)

    Yes, I used to read Phrack, lol.

    Disclaimer: No one I know will have one of these in their home.

  21. Isn't that where Trump got his start? on New York Attorney General Expands Inquiry Into Net Neutrality Comments (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess, then, I'd have to agree with you.

  22. 86k years is for pure 239. on America Finally Abandons Plan To Convert Plutonium Bombs Into Nuclear Fuel (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Real plutonium is a mix of things, depending on how it's made.

    All other forms of Pu is More radioactive, and it has a huge cross section for fission, which adds to the radioactivity over time.

    In other words, the crappier the Pu, the faster it gets dangerously radioactive.

    Pu239 gives off alphas as it's primary decay, but those can cause fission of other Pu atoms, and the cross section for the impurities is Much larger than the 239, making it more likely to happen over time.

    Fission gives off many things, which is why it has to be reprocessed to get rid of the fission fragments.

    Russia also doesn't do that often, making the product more radioactive over time.

    Some of the Test sources on the Civil Defense Radiation Detectors were made of a blend of isotopes, and most are more radioactive than they were when they were made in the 60's. :)

    Fission does that to things...

  23. We'd love to hear what you have to say, vlad. :)

  24. Like someone would care, lol. on America Finally Abandons Plan To Convert Plutonium Bombs Into Nuclear Fuel (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Terrorists make bombs that are Way more dangerous, thankfully, they blow themselves up a lot, so that helps too.

  25. Sapphire Project Pu is crap. on America Finally Abandons Plan To Convert Plutonium Bombs Into Nuclear Fuel (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    This 34 tons is crap Pu we bought from Russia and it's satellite countries, to keep them from selling it to whoever.

    Russian Pu is very radioactive, unlike ours.

    We swapped the slugs out after a short period, so it made more Pu-239, not Pu-240 and up.

    We also purified ours, but I'd bet that classified. :)

    You can't stand next to a Russian nuke for long, or all your hair falls out, lol.

    That's why we buy Pu244 from russia for spacecraft RTG's.

    This needs to be burned (atomically) or buried.

    You can't find ours with a Geiger counter. :)

    We made over 10,000 tons of Pu at Hanford, btw. It's on record.