It's not a site for people with humour.
10: OH I'd disagree,
20: I've been voted +5 Funny repeatedly on Slashdot. And that is proof that Slashdot users have humor, because I am funny, very funny, I know this because I have been voted +5 Funny repeatedly on Slashdot where people are well known for having a great sense of humor, I know this for a fact because well..... GOTO 20
Actually, neutrinos do arrive slightly faster than light from supernovae. Space isn't completely empty --- tiny amounts of interstellar gas give it a refractive index slightly higher than "perfect" vacuum, which ever-so-slightly slows down light. Neutrinos interact far less than light with matter; so, a supernova neutrino going at very nearly the speed of light can outrun a photon through space. In Supernova 1987A, neutrino detectors saw neutrinos about three hours before light reached earth's telescopes.
Very informative, thank you. (No mod points today)
But don't f*ck with ABBA.
At least not with the two Bearded B's.
Faberge eggs are pretty useless as crash helmets for chickens.
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Yes. Seconds are part of the official SI standard. That makes hours "metric". You basically blew any geek cred with that question.
Sheesh, I was trying to make a joke about the mixing and matching of units and decimals in the imperial system by parent.
Then as the AC Below states, seconds are metric (SI units) but hours certainly are not. So guess we both need to hand over our geek cards to the AC huh? You because of failing on SI units, and me because failing to make a proper joke.
Why do people use decimals on a non-metric system? sigh...
I agree he should have avoided that decimal by using the SI prefix form 111850 milli miles per hour.
So how well does it make popcorn?
Sheesh, and you people have the nerve to call yourselves nerds. A quick back of the envelope calculation:
Laser output: 50kW Average microwave oven: 1kW Duration of popping: 2 m. 30 sec. = 150 sec. Therefore, 1 bag of popcorn every 3 seconds.
House volume: 2000 sq ft * 6 ft high = 12000 cu ft Volume of a bag of popcorn = 0.25 cu ft Therefore, 144k bags of popcorn would be needed.
(144k bags * 3 sec per bag) / 3600 secs per hour = 120 hours
Hope Val Kilmer isn't in a hurry.
Would that be metric hours?
I'd say it was a success, since it survived more than what it was designed to survive.
Engineering success perhaps, but the risk assessment was flawed.
Wrong. Units 7 and 8 had not been build. Unit 5 and 6 were offline for refuelling. Unit 6 was the only one having a surviving emergency diesel generator. Which wasn't luck. It was a Mark II containment, the same that was used in all four reactors of Fukushima Daini (all with the same generator surviving the tsunami) and the single reactor in Tokai (dito).
The reactor in Tokai came very close to failing. Only one of three seawater pumps failed, but two out of three diesels generators failed, external power was lost for more than a week. The road outside the plant looked like a a piece of paper all crumpled up.
B) Good point; I mean, where the hell would an orbiting nuclear power plant get power from?
From puppies running around on little wheels. Obviously.
In a weightless environment, would those puppies be running on the outside or inside of the wheel?
B) Good point; I mean, where the hell would an orbiting nuclear power plant get power from?
Who cares about that? Where is the moon getting it's power from?!?!
It is common knowledge that the moon is stealing it's power from the sun. We shouldn't let the moon get away with this anymore, I suggest a land war....err, on the moon that is.
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing. -- Alan Perlis
