Comment I'm not fat (Score 1) 470
I'm infected!
Comment Typical.. (Score 4, Insightful) 530
So in order to not offend ANYONE, NO ONE is allowed to say ANYTHING.
This goes right along with sports where there is no winner\ everyone gets a trophy to PC playgrounds with no jungle gyms.
I weep at what has happened to my country in the past 30 years. I think it's time to start again from scratch.
Comment Dear Mr Abel (Score 5, Funny) 305
How dare your heard of cattle defame the good name of our company by having the nerve to DIE after eating our product. You sir, will be hearing from our attorneys.
Sincerely,
The Monsanto Group
Comment If they were Realy serious (Score 1) 364
Why not pass a law that just bans any drug that has the potential to be used recreation-ally? Or is that too easy?
Comment SKA array, Meh.. (Score 1) 117
WAke me up when the Two Tone array goes in!
Comment This is now antique technology (Score 2) 148
I was under the impression that the new Vasimir or Ion drives were WAY more efficient than this old tech. The only limiting factor is the size we currently them at.
Imagine an ion drive with 8 or ten modules, all powered by a fission reactor, it would start slow, but by the time it got halfway through the solar system would be cooking along at good clip. How fast is the potential ? No one seems to know, but a constant acceleration sustained for years would get you to a nice portion of C.
Imagine an ion drive with 8 or ten modules, all powered by a fission reactor, it would start slow, but by the time it got halfway through the solar system would be cooking along at good clip. How fast is the potential ? No one seems to know, but a constant acceleration sustained for years would get you to a nice portion of C.
Comment Coupled with a real good microscope.. (Score 3, Funny) 64
And a new internet niche is born.. BACTERIA PORN!!!
Comment Re:Wish they would just knock it off with "earth-l (Score 4, Insightful) 168
... but somehow I just feel lonely and sad now.
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Comment Re:Can you please explain what's an atom again? (Score 1) 241
*sigh.. from TFA
PRISM is a so-called “fast reactor.” It uses liquid sodium, rather than water, to cool the reactor. The sodium allows the neutrons to maintain higher energies and to cause fission in elements such as plutonium more efficiently than water-cooled reactors.
PRISM is a so-called “fast reactor.” It uses liquid sodium, rather than water, to cool the reactor. The sodium allows the neutrons to maintain higher energies and to cause fission in elements such as plutonium more efficiently than water-cooled reactors.
Comment Re:Sweden (Score 1) 848
Probably because there are more educated thinker types here :) Aside from all the MS and Mac bashing, the group here does seem to rationally think out problems better than say, Dailytech or ARS.
Comment Obligatory Italian sterotype (Score 1) 848
Mama Mia! Itsa da nuclear plant, she's a melting down! Everybodies runs for a ya lives!!
Comment Anndddd.. (Score 2, Funny) 249
Nothing of value was lost...
Comment What happened to Autoscram? (Score 1) 769
IANANS, ( I am not a nuclear scientist), but I thought ALL reactors had an autoscram system, that detected coolant problems and was supposed to retract the rods from the reactor. Was i just dreaming this, or does it exist??
Comment Whats thproblem here.. (Score 1) 88
The incident follows the loss of three GLONASS navigation satellites that crashed into the sea in December provoking outrage from the Kremlin, which is trying to build Russian technological independence
Wow how hard can this be? It's not like it's rocket scien.. Oh wait.....
Wow how hard can this be? It's not like it's rocket scien.. Oh wait.....
Submission + - Waste heat to Electricity Breakthrough (sciencedaily.com)
drewsup writes: Researchers at Northwestern University have placed nanocrystals of rock salt into lead telluride, creating a material that can harness electricity from heat-generating items such as vehicle exhaust systems, industrial processes and equipment and sun light more efficiently than scientists have seen in the past
"It has been known for 100 years that semiconductors have this property that can harness electricity," said Mercouri Kanatzidis, the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry in The Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. "To make this an efficient process, all you need is the right material, and we have found a recipe or system to make this material." Read the story at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110118143228.htm
"It has been known for 100 years that semiconductors have this property that can harness electricity," said Mercouri Kanatzidis, the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry in The Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. "To make this an efficient process, all you need is the right material, and we have found a recipe or system to make this material." Read the story at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110118143228.htm
