Comment Re:Delicious (Score 1) 140
But at 4 trillion degrees Celcius, isn't it a bit hot?
It's OK, it'll cool down quickly.
But at 4 trillion degrees Celcius, isn't it a bit hot?
It's OK, it'll cool down quickly.
Be careful though, I was out with a group testing for heavy metal contaminations. There were some pretty notable traces of a few in the outlet. Probably safe to swim in, but not exactly safe to drink. So much for the idea of "clean" energy. Clean out of the smoke stacks, dirty out of the warm water outlets. It's kinda hard for the casual observer to test for contamination in the steam outlets, but I'd suspect it exists too. But hey, whatcha going to do?
Not eat the fish.
It was owned by FPL when I was there, but it's now owned by Progress Energy. It's one of those locations that folks don't like to visit from out of town. "Fly into the nearest large airport. Drive 80 miles. Continue 10 miles out of the last resemblance of civilization, and take a left. If you cross an abandon Corps of Engineers project, you've gone too far. Continue down what looks like a road to nowhere, and eventually you'll get to a guard shack. Show your ID, and then hang a left, and follow the road around to the reactor"
Sounds like my kind of place. No, seriously. There's a reason I'm a geologist.
./Rockwolf
EFT eh? Yes I find a strong, steady dose of Electronic Funds Transfer usually fixes a broken heart.
Depends which way it's going...
./Rockwolf
The data from Fermilab will have probed, when finished, anti-protons to the detail of 10 inverse femtobarns. This is 1.e44 particles passing through every square meter of cross section of the targeted anti-protons (using the units program on Linux).
They've found desks on Mars?!
There's definitely no intelligent life on Mars, then. Just paper-pushers.
Or whatever it is they use instead of paper.
actually i would say a space elevator is a funding problem.
Speaking as an aerospace engineer, I would say building a space elevator is a reality problem
Speaking as a reality engineer, I would say...
Whoa, man...
what do a bunch of dorks on slashdot know anyway?
Very little, and always less than they say they do.
But what would I know?
./Rockwolf
Things are not as simple as they seems at first. - Edward Thorp