Depends on the plasma. http://www.universetoday.com/21826/swift-detects-x-ray-emissions-from-comets/

I use an Objet resin printer and when I make a tapped hole on the machine I always run a tap through just to clean up the hole.

You are more right than you know. There is an explaination that asteroids and comets have tails due to electric discharges as they move through voltage potentials in the solar system.
http://youtu.be/De9b8Z94nQk

Exactly. I'm not suggesting everything the EU folks say is true but something like this does make a good case for thei theory in asteroids and comets. I wonder how elliptical the orbit is. That looks a lot like a plasma discharge.

This is great. Usually when a bank loses everything the taxpayers are forced to bail them out. The customers actually losing is a breath of fresh air.

If this is true thank you. I must investigate.

I can't even find a students version.

Luckily I'm on a flexible schedule and adjust it based on sunrise. I drive east in the morning and west in the afternoon so I like to drive in before sunrise and leave while the sun is still relativly high in the sky.

I guess I should have been clearer. I would like a clock that serves the purpose of coordinating events. Changing it all the time defeats that purpose.

You may have missed or misunderstood what I mean by primary structure. In my line of work primary structures are ones that if they fail do fail catastrophically because there is no way to build in redundancy. The way we mitigate these risks is by performing a comprehensive analysis, material testing, proof loading, and regular maintenance and inspections.

We use the term secondary and tertiary structures in regards to those that can have redundancy and backups should they fail

I don't think you are correct. A bitcoin address has an associated public and private key. The hashing algorithm is a part of the standard. So someone could theoretically take a bitcoin address on the block chain and try to brute force solve for the private key. Right now it costs more to break than to generate a new coin so why do it? Also in the future the encryption will get more difficult. Finally you can always break up the amount you store in any address which makes it not cost effective to break.

Who gives a crap what the clock says? We could all just use Coordinated Universal Time. On the east coast I'd wake up at 1000 UTC have lunch at 1700 eat dinner at 2200 and go to bed at 0300.

Nature has deposited all of these radioactive toxic chemicals all over the place. Mining is just cleaning up this mess by taking the material out of the ground to purify the ground.

I used that in a meeting once when management asked how we can get the project finished by the arbitrary deadline. I said we could build a time machine. The great part is that it doesn't matter when we finish that project because all of the other ones will be on time.

That reminds me of a design review I was in. The "safety" engineer asked me what the backup was if a primary structure failed. I said it's a primary structure it's designed not to fail. They responded "What if it magically fails?". I said "We roll for damages".

I don't get invited to meetings often.

Quite a few of the crash tests are done by the I Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurance_Institute_for_Highway_Safety

The insurance companies pay for it so they better understand the costs involved in insurance different cars. I don't see why they wouldn't do the same thing for software.