See the wikipedia on fast breeder reactors, and note that the sodium exchange concept appears to result that Thorium can indeed result in Plutonium if so desired.
The designs they are communicating leave out a lot of details.
I hope they don't use Windows. Somebody will write a virus, Blue Screen of Meltdown.
How is this design moderated and or shut-down ?...heh, otherwise...
Sure there must be a line, somewhere... but let's keep it same same. What are the real roots of "trade imbalance" anyway...
When in Rome, Beijing, or Seoul... "Business is business"
We can all tie our hands behind our back and stand on one leg too... Sign here...
We had a 'better' network once, at least along these lines. It was 'Switched' and was run by AT&T. To everything there is a season. Bring back the Star Topology. Isolate all end-points.
Lord knows we could use the Operator Jobs.;)
Otherwise, I don't see what the big deal is. No pain, no gain. Where's the pain ? Did somebody leak all the NSA's back-door keys ? What are they really worried about ? Nothing else readily comes to mind...
The key to our CO2-to-Fuel approach lies in a proprietary
multi-step biocatalytic process.
Searching the company's website, there is no mention whatsoever of even a single
gallon of usable fuel being susccessfully produced using their method.
There is, of course, mention of "investment opportunities".
If it is a good enough idea for NASA to fill up a rocket using Mars' atmosphere for a return flight to orbit and/or back to Earth...
Maybe it is a good snake...
Cyonide, bad for your personal security.
I can prove it. Here, try one of these...
They are cherry flavored this month.
So, good intentions do not equal good legal behavior.
There is a line in here somewhere that should not be crossed.
Did this guy cross the line ?
I'm just one voice, but for myself, this is a public service.
But it is treading on very thin ice.
Maybe if SGI can survive a while longer... maybe they will have the only operating system around that will properly take advantage of new AMD and Intel ( lots-of-core ) chips, and arrays thereof.
Seriously, what are you gonna do with an 80 core chip ? Run windows ?:)
>> Hopefully, half of us will still have boobs.
>In the USA, 65% of the population have prominent breasts. The only problem is, only 50% of the population is female.
Hmn... I see...
In that case I vote that at least the boobs continue in placement on the upper frontal torso.
The fundamental idea is that quantum scale particles, say, electrons, or whole entire atoms, have a fixed set of properties. If you have another one exhibiting the same exact properties, spin, charge, etc., then it is like a twin brother, or "identicle". There is a phenomenon called "entanglement" where if you split say a photon you get two opposite halves, and there are very very strange experiments that suggest if you change one of those split pieces "here" it changes instantly the other one over "there" calling into question the very concept of what distance really is made out of, because nothing can travel faster than light, how can you instantly change something, say a billion light years away ? - that kind of strange, and that kind of meaning of the word "entanglement".
So this new method is like, shine a light, say, just maybe two photons at the same atom, the are both absorbed and re-emitted, yet, they were changed by "being absorbed" and when they leave again, they "carry" that change with them. Spin, polarity, whatever.
This information then continues on to another atom similar to begin with to the first. Now the photon is again absorbed and reemitted. This time it leaves behind the "knowledge" spin, polarity, etc., in the 2nd atom.
Theoretically, under ideal conditions you set up the experiment so the result is that the 2nd atom takes up the same exact properties as the first atom.
The first atom is necessarily "broken" in the process, meaning it is no longer set up the way it used to be.
The "macroscopic" situation is even more interesting, they say, "billions of atoms" which means those atoms can be standing together perhaps in a "substance" like maybe a salt crystal, with other things going on like "chemistry" - covalent bonds and all that.
So... they might "in effect" be able to make an atomically identical substance, one diamond to another, or whatever their substance is. - in theory.
What did they actually do ? Something very similar to all that.
The whole idea here as it applies to music... guitar......is incredibly well expressed at www.guitarprinciples.com
by Jamey Andreas.
What makes an expert ? Knowing what the principles are
all about and then practicing them.
Seriously, Jamey knows this stuff incredibly well and
his articles are excellent.
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See the wikipedia on fast breeder reactors, and note that the sodium exchange concept appears to result that Thorium can indeed result in Plutonium if so desired. The designs they are communicating leave out a lot of details. I hope they don't use Windows. Somebody will write a virus, Blue Screen of Meltdown. How is this design moderated and or shut-down ? ...heh, otherwise...
Sure there must be a line, somewhere... but let's keep it same same. What are the real roots of "trade imbalance" anyway... When in Rome, Beijing, or Seoul... "Business is business" We can all tie our hands behind our back and stand on one leg too... Sign here...
We had a 'better' network once, at least along these lines. It was 'Switched' and was run by AT&T. To everything there is a season. Bring back the Star Topology. Isolate all end-points. Lord knows we could use the Operator Jobs. ;)
Otherwise, I don't see what the big deal is. No pain, no gain. Where's the pain ? Did somebody leak all the NSA's back-door keys ? What are they really worried about ? Nothing else readily comes to mind...
I saw very highly advanced technology. It was "Bio-Tech".
FTFA:
Searching the company's website, there is no mention whatsoever of even a single gallon of usable fuel being susccessfully produced using their method. There is, of course, mention of "investment opportunities".
If it is a good enough idea for NASA to fill up a rocket using Mars' atmosphere for a return flight to orbit and/or back to Earth... Maybe it is a good snake...
Consider also what this might mean to Solar Power.
If batteries take a long time to charge, a cloud might come along...
I have to imagine that this ought to help out there as well big time.
Cyonide, bad for your personal security. I can prove it. Here, try one of these... They are cherry flavored this month. So, good intentions do not equal good legal behavior. There is a line in here somewhere that should not be crossed. Did this guy cross the line ? I'm just one voice, but for myself, this is a public service. But it is treading on very thin ice.
Maybe if SGI can survive a while longer... maybe they will have the only operating system around that will properly take advantage of new AMD and Intel ( lots-of-core ) chips, and arrays thereof. Seriously, what are you gonna do with an 80 core chip ? Run windows ? :)
Time to move to Iran
>> Hopefully, half of us will still have boobs. >In the USA, 65% of the population have prominent breasts. The only problem is, only 50% of the population is female. Hmn... I see... In that case I vote that at least the boobs continue in placement on the upper frontal torso.
100,000 years from now ? We'll be genetically engineered and Borg-like. Hopefully, half of us will still have boobs.
The fundamental idea is that quantum scale particles, say, electrons, or whole entire atoms, have a fixed set of properties.
If you have another one exhibiting the same exact properties, spin, charge, etc., then it is like a twin brother, or "identicle".
There is a phenomenon called "entanglement" where if you split say a photon you get two opposite halves, and there are very very strange experiments that suggest if you change one of those split pieces "here" it changes instantly the other one over "there" calling into question the very concept of what distance really is made out of, because nothing can travel faster than light, how can you instantly change something, say a billion light years away ? - that kind of strange, and that kind of meaning of the word "entanglement".
So this new method is like, shine a light, say, just maybe two photons at the same atom, the are both absorbed and re-emitted, yet, they were changed by "being absorbed" and when they leave again, they "carry" that change with them. Spin, polarity, whatever.
This information then continues on to another atom similar to begin with to the first. Now the photon is again absorbed and reemitted. This time it leaves behind the "knowledge" spin, polarity, etc., in the 2nd atom.
Theoretically, under ideal conditions you set up the experiment so the result is that the 2nd atom takes up the same exact properties as the first atom.
The first atom is necessarily "broken" in the process, meaning it is no longer set up the way it used to be.
The "macroscopic" situation is even more interesting, they say, "billions of atoms" which means those atoms can be standing together perhaps in a "substance" like maybe a salt crystal, with other things going on like "chemistry" - covalent bonds and all that.
So... they might "in effect" be able to make an atomically identical substance, one diamond to another, or whatever their substance is. - in theory.
What did they actually do ? Something very similar to all that.
The whole idea here as it applies to music... guitar... ...is incredibly well expressed at www.guitarprinciples.com
by Jamey Andreas.
What makes an expert ? Knowing what the principles are
all about and then practicing them.
Seriously, Jamey knows this stuff incredibly well and
his articles are excellent.