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Comment Re:Holy cow ... (Score 4, Interesting) 163

well, think about (hypothetically) zooming out from the Nimitz on Google Earth - how much you have to zoom out even after the Nimitz (all 300 m of it) before you see the full Earth.

Each 1 km x 1km area would pack about 30 Nimitzes. Each 1000 km x 1000 km area would pack about 30,000,000 Nimitzes. And that's just the surface... The Earth is (gasp!) as thick as it is wide, and denser at the center... So yeah. BIG.

Comment It's the film handling.... (Score 4, Informative) 66

The important part is the film handler. Unlike a camera, which can run the film more or less continuously and use a fast shutter speed, a projector has to stop the film for most of the frame's duration, and then quickly accelerate it out of the way while only blocking the light for a very short duration, or else the movie would "smear". Of course it flickers, since this is Lego, but it doesn't smear, and that's quite a feat.

Comment The Horses Mouth (Score 2) 580

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/index-e.html

Just read the Fukushima updates. How come nobody links to this?

If the #4 pool is NOT dry, then that NRC official should be fired...

That said, I can't understand why the spend fuel pool is not inside any containment structure and not at ground level.
This is not a "First generation product" issue. This is a cost savings issue.

Comment Busted! (Score 1) 165

Totally alien language, yet a question ("When will it happen?") is indicated by intonation, and one identical to English at that? What are the odds?

Instead, how about if a question is indicated by a gentle squeezing of the inner butt muscles, followed by rapid blinking, a slight tilt of the head in the direction of the sun, and an excretion of Corduroy smelling gel from the small pores of the middle armpit?

Yeeesh.

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