You have to be running Linux to see the -1 Snobbery option.

I guess I shouldn't have told you that...

Nuclear tech saves many lives every day(Cancer treatment and detection), as well as powering the most likely long term energy solution.

The Japanese did not use graphite moderated reactors for very well known reasons, Chernobyl being the best example of those reasons... (Negative steam void reactivity coefficient, was a major one, iirc.)

The reactors at Chernobyl were pretty much updated versions of the ones we built during WWII to make plutonium, also iirc.

Idiocy=Bad.

Any tech is only as bad or good as what you use it for, and how you use it is your problem to explain.

I work with extremely sensitive radiation detectors at work; our typical energy is gamma at 511keV.

These gammas are derived from artificial radioactive sources, with a short half-life.

Testing these detectors is extremely informative; natural cosmic rays are much more worrisome to me than the sources...

I see 10-20GeV pulses at around 1-5 per minute; that's about all the energy they can dump in my detector, lol.

2x 8" lead bricks do not appreciably attenuate these cosmics at all; amazingly, underground missile silos were built to a spec! :)

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I didn't make him for You!

It depends on the particular machine race the spacecraft runs into; If it's Beserkers, they aren't going to care about the cute bald chick. :)

The Borg on the other hand; If they look like 7of9, they can assimilate me anytime.

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I'd love to argue with you, but as you're right, that's hard to do.

Hey, hopefully an asteroid strike will make this all seem silly.

I bought the last one, I think. :)

No one will ever steal it, unless they bring a forklift.

Amazingly, my cable system finally started broadcasting some channels in 1080 this month... I bought the set in 2004.