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Comment Re:Use hydrogen? OMG- with Ponies also? (Score 0) 363

Gasoline burns hotter than hydrogen, but thanks to the Hindenburg crash video, we don't have hydrogen cars either.

Gasoline burns, hydrogen explodes. There's a difference. And the issues with hydrogen cars are a multi-paragraph post that I don't feel like writing right now, but (lousy energy density, present impossibility of storage, no infrastructure) are the main reasons, not lingering Hindenburg memories. Who on earth modded GP Insightful?

Wrong and Wrong.
Gasoline explodes AND Hydrogen explodes.
Gasoline burns AND Hydrogen burns.
E.G.- Gasoline EXPLODES inside your Car's IC engine. Surprise! That is how a gasoline engine works.
But you can burn it on a wick- but you had better be careful when the flame creeps down to the container of gasoline and air. That's why we don't use gasoline in coal-oil lanterns.
As well, Hydrogen will burn, if it is controlled by a small nozzle such as a welder's torch.

And- Why we do not use Hydrogen in cars? IT's TOO DAMN EXPENSIVE! And hard to make and control!
Gasoline is quite easy to make from Catalytic crackers. You can do this to make Hydrogen also, but whats the point?
You are still stuch refining fossil fuels. AND AND- Hydrogen is a shitload harder to store and control than Gasoline!
And guess what? At STP, there is much more hydrogen in a gallon of gasoline, than in a gallon of hydrogen.
Figure THIS one out!

I haven't read Scientific American lately.. Are BMW and Shell still inserting those ridiculous "Hydrogen Cars - The FUTURE!" advertisements? The SciAm ad agency must be giggling all the way to the bank...

Comment A TOE! Ugh! I blew CHUNKS! (Score 0) 207

Once, a long time ago, in my foolish youth, when extremely inebriated one night, I had just such an embarrassing occurrence.
Staggering into work the next morning, I managed to tell my boss what had happened:

Me: I got so pissed last night that I blew Chunks

Boss: That's OK! We all get pissed that bad some days.

Me: You don't understand! "Chunks" is my dog!

Comment Re:Really FOURTEEN different halves = 7 ? (Score 0) 199

The article does state that you need 5 of 7 to restore.

So if three of them should happen to suffer an unfortunate "accident", everything is totally screwed?

YES! But I say we get all seven, just to be sure!
And, perhaps Al Gore also, for starting this jimcrackery in the first place.

Frankly, I'm tired of this interweb nonsense with all its tubes.
I would like to get back to my productive REAL-WORLD job. (Fashioning grapplegrommets out of laminated chickenfat)
Hey- the interweb was fun, but it (and this slashdot jibber-jabber) has gone on long enough, don't you think?

Time to get back to work, ladies!
I'm buying a plane ticket to Ottawa shortly. I suggest that any of you /.ers that know something about those other six loose-loafer poseurs, track 'em down respectively. And let's do the job RIGHT this time.

Comment Re:Balogna Cubes (Score 0) 264

> The surface resistance of the silver-coated samples also shows a sharp change near 313 K.

Pure copper does the exact same thing.

I call bogus.

Maury

Cheap shi.. uhh, shot.
Time to grow up, sonny boy!
This phenomenon has already been explained quite explicitly
at the SLASHDOT TIMECUBE!
Well known here amongst us slashdot cognoscenti. Where ya been?

Comment Re:it doesn't make any sense because (Score 0) 473

Ubuntu. is really so much harder to use than Microsoft Windows. Everything on Microsoft Windows just works, and you have to fuss with Ubuntu to get it to do what you want, keep it from getting a virus, hunt all over the web to get software updates..... I think the only reason Dell does this is because Ubuntu is setup to do anything useful or keep it running. With the Microsoft Windows they don't sell any add-on software because Microsoft Windows already has everything it needs to work.

Comment Re:On the other hand... (Score 0) 228

I don't support PETA the organization or their methods, but I do share their concern about how animals are used. .

Yeah.. well.. MAN-
I actually belong to PETA, but I see nothing wrong with dispatching the occasional squirrel
But in my case, I would EAT the damn creature, before using its hide to cover a beer-can.
You do the creature honour in this way instead of sacrilege.

Why do I belong to PETA? Because every time I hear some yahoo rant "Duh.. dem stoopid PETA peepul! Why are dey so stoopid?", I just vow to renew my membership. or increase my donation.
Bur believe me, if a rat or squirrel gets into my attic to chew on the insulation or electrical wires , if all else (live-trapping) fails, I will kill it.

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