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Comment Re:credibility of article is doubtful (Score 4, Informative) 571

It is amazing that reporters seem to lack even an 8th grade level of science education.
They did change the fusion reactor to fission but.
It now reads
"U.S. submarines and aircraft carriers run on nuclear power, but they have large fission reactors on board that have to be replaced on a regular cycle."
The reactors last the life of the ship. It is only the fuel that gets changed they they are aiming for that to be the life of the ship as well. It is at least 20 years today.
And this part.
"Ultra-dense deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen, is found in the earth's oceans, and tritium is made from natural lithium deposits."
Wow.... ultra-dense......
Good grief.
Well the reporting is crap but lets hope Lockheed really has what it says it has.

Comment Re:goes to show (Score 1) 463

Take a deep breath....
First of all the health care workers involved were monitoring their temperatures so the got isolated quickly and before they where highly contagious. Sending the patients to facilities trained for this is probably a good idea but then you still have the risks involved in transport. Finally I have to admit that I fear this a case where the CDC did send the right instructions but they failed in not knowing what what the Hospital did not know. They might have sent instructions to use full protective gear including eye protection, gloves, and foot coverings.
To the CDC that means tapeing the gloves and booties and face shields and respirators.
To a metro hospital it may have just meant gowns, booties, gloves, and goggles.
The CDC can only do what the government can let it do. The current administration did not start preparing soon enough IMHO. The current administration also has not seemed to have involved USAMRIID yet and of course the current administration disbanded the Aeromedical Isolation Team in 2010... Not the best move.
Really do not panic people it is not anywhere an ignition point yet. This is not the end of the world.

Comment Re:Obligatoriness Extraordinaire (Score 1) 237

"This is actually a silly concern. Electricity demand is highest in the middle of the day when the sun is shining. That is also when the spot price for power is highest. It makes no sense at all to store that power to sell it in the middle of the night, when prices are far lower."
  No you are wrong.
https://www.pacificpower.net/y...
Peak is around 4pm to 8 pm and 6am to 10 am. It varies a bit by season.
Peak solar production is centered at solar noon.
In other words the end of peak solar production almost exactly start of peak usage.
Here is Con-Edison and they call it super peak 2-6 pm http://www.coned.com/customerc...

Comment Because the US was really the only winner of WWI. (Score 1) 323

World War I devastated Europe in both lives and in wealth. The US came out of WWI as a world power. Sure the US lost a lot of men but nothing like the number France, Germany, and the UK lost. The US filled the gap in science after WWI. It didn't hurt that Edison had invented the industrial research lab and other companies in the US soon developed labs of their own.

Comment Re:WWII proably didn't help much either (Score 4, Interesting) 323

Not really von Braun did more as political figure than as an engineer. The Thor, Atlas, and Titan had very little input from von Braun and Polaris and Minuteman had zero.
I doubt that religion had much to do with it. I am sure avoiding being slaves in Russia had a lot more to do with it.

Comment Re:Huh (Score 2) 240

Once you change a language enough it is no longer the same language.
I just do not see the issue. If you want C++ without C create a new language that fits that description. Apple created Objective c without c and called it Swift. So make C++ without c and call it Sure.

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