"Possibly pay the bills"? Come on now. It won't get you a penthouse on manhattan, but $122k is enough to live quite comfortably for a few years in most parts of the worlds. It's twice the average yearly wage even in the US, a two man team just made their yearly salary in a day - and here you are, moaning and bitching how it's not worth it.
And the sales are going to at least double before the bundle is over.
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Quite a few geeks do happen to earn their living by doing the fun things one can do inside a terminal window, they're called sysadmins.
In the real world, there is more than one profession! Imagine that.
Well, yes, the English language sucks too but you have to cut it some slack - it wasn't designed, it evolved. And evolution tends to come up with crap that's barely good enough to survive.
The same is not - or at least should not - be true for programming languages.
Can I ask where you get your figures from? I was under the (possibly very mistaken) impression that the explosion created when matter combined with anti-matter was likely a myth and that really they just cancel each other out.
Conservation of energy would like to have a chat with you.
And I'm not talking about extinction, just the loss of radio technology for instance.
"Just" the loss of radio technology? Are you kidding? Radio is such an elementary technology it could only be lost if effectively ALL knowledge on the friggin' planet simply vanished into thin air overnight.
I can't think of anything short of extinction that would make that happen, care to point out a credible way?
Here is a question though: I think you can buy heavy water, so what would happen if someone built a powerful particle accelerator in their garage and smashed some charged heavy water molecules into a cup of heavy water?
You can use that sort of system to initiate fusion - of few atoms. What you're describing is very similar to a Fusor, they're Mostly Harmless and in fact many people do build such devices in their garages.
Got to be a mighty big particle accelerator to compress a cup of heavy water to the same extent as a fission bomb primary, though... fusion isn't a chain reaction, you can't just fuse two deuterium atoms in a cup and expect the rest of the D2O to emulate the trick, so it's useless as a weapon. I suppose you could kill someone with one if you put it under their bed for a few years and they get cancer from the neutron radiation.
It's all Iodine and Caesium. These are highly dangerous radioactive materials
Stop parroting this shit, for crying out loud! It's almost as bad as the media hyperventilating in the opposite direction. I'm as pro-nuke as they come, and this just makes all of us look like ignorant fools.
Repeat after me: Cs-137 has a half-life of 30 years. Maybe that's an incredibly short period of time in comparison to the natural radioisotopes that decay on geological timescales, but it sure as hell isn't for the people.
"But it refers to having liquid water available on the surface... and as far as i know life cannot exist without water..."
The Inuit don't seem to have a problem with it.
The inuits aren't 60% water like the rest of us? Wow, that IS huge. How come nobody noticed before?
QOTD: I've heard about civil Engineers, but I've never met one.