Actually a little hydrogen is present in water-cooled reactors due to the dissociation of water by the neutrons but it is little enough that it stays in solution, and in any case remains held within the intact reactor vessel and coolant piping systems. In fact, a little extra hydrogen may be put in intentionally to push the reversible reaction so as to minimize the amount of free oxygen in the system to minimize corrosion. It is never an explosion hazard normally though.
Thanks. Sounds like water is not literally a lubricant but is important to the process of plate tectonics. Something I'm sure Japan is wishing *didn't happen* right about now.
I can't understand why they needed the US Air Force to deliver deionized water which should still be available in other parts of Japan. It's not like LWR coolant is some specialized material made in government labs. It's DI water. And in a severe emergency (like this?), you could use tap water.
Oooo-oh! Mr. Fancy AC, all high and mighty with his fancy little cedilla in his 'facade'! Aren't we something special!
And a "facade of veracity" strikes me as oxymoronic, given that veracity means truth, and facade (in this context, not referring to buildings) means false or superficial.
Why the Intel logo for this story? They're ones who do *not* make ARM processors, ever since they sold that business to Marvell (oops). I guess the TI logo isn't as cool.
I had one guy at IND tell me that what the machines put out is not radiation - it's the same stuff as what my cell phone puts out.
That's scary. And so wrong in several ways. One, it is radiation, even ionizing radiation. Second, what your cell phone puts out is also radiation, just not ionizing radiation. Third, the implication that radiation=bad, no radiation=good. Fourth, that such uneducated people are operating such devices and fifth, spreading misinformation about them to the traveling public, many of whom don't know any better and assume that the agent knows what he is talking about.
Yes. And it's even much less than 0.1%. If we took the US population, for example, and estimated that 10,000 (civilians) have been so maimed or killed (an overestimate I believe), that works out to about 0.003%
Toastmaster: Gentlemen, pray silence for the President of the Royal Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things. (There is much upper class applause and banging on the table as Sir William rises to his feet.)
Sir William: I thank you, gentlemen. The year has been a good one for the Society (hear, hear). This year our members have put more things on top of other things than ever before. But, I should warn you, this is no time for complacency. No, there are still many things, and I cannot emphasize this too strongly, not on top of other things. I myself, on my way here this evening, saw a thing that was not on top of another thing in any way. (shame!) Shame indeed but we must not allw ourselves to become too despondent. For, we must never forget that if there was not one thing that was not on top of another thing our society would be nothing more than a meaningless body of men that had gathered together for no good purpose. But we flourish. This year our Australasian members and the various organizations affiliated to our Australasian branches put no fewer than twenty-two things on top of other things. (applause) Well done all of you. But there is one cloud on the horizon. In this last year our Staffordshire branch has not succeeded in putting one thing on top of another (shame!). Therefore I call upon our Staffordshire delegate to explain this weird behaviour.
What do you mean by "guitar app"? A tuner, an app to show chord charts and demonstrate their sounds should work fine regardless of latency. Do you mean you want to simulate playing a guitar with your phone? what the heck for?
Marriage is a necessary, but not a sufficient condition for divorce. Many (even a majority of) people who get married do not divorce.
If the statistic is thrown around that 50% of marriages end in divorce, consider the many serial divorces, and realize that many people get married once and stay that way, to balance the numbers. Take a sample of three people: Joe, John and James. If Joe gets married and divorced three times, and John gets married once, and James gets married once, then five marriages have occurred, but three divorces. 60% divorce rate. But only 33% of that group got divorced.
I wish I could get some of those CFLs.
The ones I buy, and I don't have readily available alternatives, don't seem to last much longer than incandescents. And if I have to spend $50 on damn CFL to get a good one, that's not a good option. The total cost of ownership needs to be lower than incandescents, not just the electric bill part.
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It's an idiom. Saying something is "in someone's nature", that "nature" does not mean the same thing as the "nature" in "nature vs. nurture".
Actually a little hydrogen is present in water-cooled reactors due to the dissociation of water by the neutrons but it is little enough that it stays in solution, and in any case remains held within the intact reactor vessel and coolant piping systems. In fact, a little extra hydrogen may be put in intentionally to push the reversible reaction so as to minimize the amount of free oxygen in the system to minimize corrosion. It is never an explosion hazard normally though.
Thanks. Sounds like water is not literally a lubricant but is important to the process of plate tectonics. Something I'm sure Japan is wishing *didn't happen* right about now.
I can't understand why they needed the US Air Force to deliver deionized water which should still be available in other parts of Japan.
It's not like LWR coolant is some specialized material made in government labs. It's DI water. And in a severe emergency (like this?), you could use tap water.
Yeah, the 80m band rules!
Lots of stars look plaid if you're going fast enough (ludicrous speed).
"there's no plate tectonics (lack of water as a lubricant)"
IANAG, but I've never heard that connection. Got a reference?
I don't remember what gravity was like there but in Edwin Abbott's Flatland creatures were nowhere near 5mm tall. They were 2-dimensional.
Oooo-oh! Mr. Fancy AC, all high and mighty with his fancy little cedilla in his 'facade'!
Aren't we something special!
And a "facade of veracity" strikes me as oxymoronic, given that veracity means truth, and facade (in this context, not referring to buildings) means false or superficial.
Why the Intel logo for this story? They're ones who do *not* make ARM processors, ever since they sold that business to Marvell (oops). I guess the TI logo isn't as cool.
I believe the Greek word for Greek is hellenica or something close to that.
I had one guy at IND tell me that what the machines put out is not radiation - it's the same stuff as what my cell phone puts out.
That's scary. And so wrong in several ways. One, it is radiation, even ionizing radiation. Second, what your cell phone puts out is also radiation, just not ionizing radiation. Third, the implication that radiation=bad, no radiation=good. Fourth, that such uneducated people are operating such devices and fifth, spreading misinformation about them to the traveling public, many of whom don't know any better and assume that the agent knows what he is talking about.
Yes. And it's even much less than 0.1%. If we took the US population, for example, and estimated that 10,000 (civilians) have been so maimed or killed (an overestimate I believe), that works out to about 0.003%
I'm against them too, but an "x-ray machine" is not inherently a medical device.
"Putting things in things" reminds me of this:
Toastmaster: Gentlemen, pray silence for the President of the Royal Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things.
(There is much upper class applause and banging on the table as Sir William rises to his feet.)
Sir William: I thank you, gentlemen. The year has been a good one for the Society (hear, hear). This year our members have put more things on top of other things than ever before. But, I should warn you, this is no time for complacency. No, there are still many things, and I cannot emphasize this too strongly, not on top of other things. I myself, on my way here this evening, saw a thing that was not on top of another thing in any way. (shame!) Shame indeed but we must not allw ourselves to become too despondent. For, we must never forget that if there was not one thing that was not on top of another thing our society would be nothing more than a meaningless body of men that had gathered together for no good purpose. But we flourish. This year our Australasian members and the various organizations affiliated to our Australasian branches put no fewer than twenty-two things on top of other things. (applause) Well done all of you. But there is one cloud on the horizon. In this last year our Staffordshire branch has not succeeded in putting one thing on top of another (shame!). Therefore I call upon our Staffordshire delegate to explain this weird behaviour.
No, no. The guise flu the PLANES. Your spelling is terribly.
"BTW: in financial parlance, M indicates thousand..."
And as I learned in some engineering design course, the abbreviation for a $million is $MM, which makes sense, as it is a thousand thousands.
Federal data officers, state data officers, county data officers, all of 'em.
What do you mean by "guitar app"?
A tuner, an app to show chord charts and demonstrate their sounds should work fine regardless of latency. Do you mean you want to simulate playing a guitar with your phone? what the heck for?
Marriage is a necessary, but not a sufficient condition for divorce. Many (even a majority of) people who get married do not divorce.
If the statistic is thrown around that 50% of marriages end in divorce, consider the many serial divorces, and realize that many people get married once and stay that way, to balance the numbers.
Take a sample of three people: Joe, John and James.
If Joe gets married and divorced three times, and John gets married once, and James gets married once, then five marriages have occurred, but three divorces. 60% divorce rate. But only 33% of that group got divorced.
I wish I could get some of those CFLs.
The ones I buy, and I don't have readily available alternatives, don't seem to last much longer than incandescents. And if I have to spend $50 on damn CFL to get a good one, that's not a good option.
The total cost of ownership needs to be lower than incandescents, not just the electric bill part.
Same thing with NCSA Mosaic on Mac OS 7.
OK, not really, but it's fun to be nostalgic sometimes.
In other words, you want a Constitutional amendment that says to follow the Constitution and all the previously ratified amendments. Makes sense.
And if you are a "health care professional", you're a pretty good counterexample.
First UID I'd seen above 2E+06.