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The World's Most Powerful Diesel Engine 273

Posted by kdawson from the zero-to-sixty-eventually dept.
trex279 writes "The Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C turbocharged two-stroke diesel engine is the world's most powerful diesel engine built to date. Each cylinder displaces a whopping 111,143 cubic inches (1,820 liters, equivalent to a cube 4 feet on a side) and produces 7,780 horsepower. The engine is about the size of a small building." The engine is intended for use in container ships.
Security

U.S. Mass Declassified Documents At Midnight 131

Posted by kdawson from the seekrits dept.
Alchemist253 writes "Advocates of open government have another reason to celebrate New Year 2007: at midnight hundreds of millions of U.S. government documents that were classified more than 25 years ago got automatically declassified. Various agencies have applied for exemptions for specific documents, but nonetheless there should be a release of a number of interesting papers." From the article: "'It is going to take a generation for scholars to go through the material declassified under this process,' said Steven Aftergood, who runs a project on government secrecy for the Federation of American Scientists."
Science

Birth of an Island 136

Posted by kdawson from the rising-in-fire dept.
slashmojo writes that while some islands are sinking, last August another rose from the ocean, formed by volcanic activity and caught in the act by a passing yacht. From the article: "What looked like a brown stain on the South Pacific turned out to be a spectacular drift of floating pumice stones stretching more than 16 km — and an indication an island was being born nearby... 'We are getting emails from volcanologists saying this is so rare.'" Here is the blog post of the yachtsman who photographed the nascent island.

Comment Re:That reminds me (Score 1) 683

by oskarfasth (#7807727) Attached to: Skeptical Environmentalist Saga Continues
If there is no God, your professed belief in life certainly won't make a hoot of a difference after you are dead and gone, but if there is, perhaps it will matter to him (in particular with the Christian conception of God)


IIRC, Descartes tried to argue something similiar in the 17th century. His conclusions were more extreme, but the IMO strongest counterarguments against his thesis, still would apply to your "real world" approach. You see, the question is not so much whether it is a good idea to believe/not believe, but rather in *what* to believe. There's literally hundreds of religions out there, and there's absolutely nothing that says that you'd be better off in afterlife just beacause you confessed to christianity.

It is perhaps not much of an argument, but neither was the one you presented, IMHO.

Just my philosphical $.02.

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