Doesn't look much like justifiable self defence to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Maybe you have a different video.

The article talks about them doing it in 9 months then about where Youtube was at 9 years ago.

As someone in the middle of their own self taught renovation project I'm interested in the details of the build. Unfortunately I can't find anything beyond photos of her posing in the finished house and adverts for her associated book.

Lots of birds can hover with a small amount of wind. A drone disguised as a kestrel would look perfectly natural hovering over my house.

The driver-less Rolls was from Rolls Royce cars, which is just a BMW brand these days.

This announcement is from the Rolls Royce who make plane engines, submarine reactors, ship power plants and all sorts of other stuff but no cars.

It's not just digital. There is a physical, 3d printed, picture with a texture which is presumably mapped from Rembrandt brush strokes.

If you watched people take in iPhones then then you weren’t working in a secure facility. Actual secure facilities have men with guns who randomly search people on entrance and exit. If they find a phone you’re fired and, possibly, going to prison.

It was publicly demonstrated not long ago that it's possible to listen into a given persons GSM calls relatively easily with cheap, consumer grade, equipment. If there's a bunch of these impostor towers knocking about and the police's position is that it's not them using them then I'd quite like them to be making an effort to find out who they do belong to ASAP. Shrugging and saying “we don't have the resources to bother tapping your phones” is not an acceptable response even if it's true.

They are using muon tomography.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

I would take the other end of the 'safe bet'. Essentially all of the fuel is at the base of the reactor vessel. How much would you like to wager?

The guy is a well known loon. In the past he's been very vocal in his support of homeopathy and various other quackery. If memory serves he once also publically claimed that blood won't clot under a full moon.

He sits on the Science and Technology Select Committee and the Health Select Committee. An astonishingly clear example of an elected official not being fit for purpose.

Everything from the trial just reinforces my first impressions that Ulbricht was attempting to operate a site for which he simply didn't have the skill set. The 'murder' plot was an incredibly obvious scam to separate him from his cash. I'm astonished that any reasonably intelligent person would be taken by it. His op security was appalling. If the might of the DEA, and whatever other three letter agencies they can rope in, is hunting you then you need to be a lot more careful than he was. Having a full local site backup on your bedside table? Using the same laptop you log in to your admin account for anything else? Stupid. Keeping a fucking diary? There are no words.

It's not really 'centered' at 30kV. That is the maximum energy of the photons produced. Bremsstrahlung doesn't need a vacuum. You can get it whenever a charged particle accelerates.

From a quick read it appears to be data from; World Ocean Database 2013 (National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). Apparently available here; http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/W...

In the paper they specify what program they used and how they processed the data. It is the first part of their 'methods' section.

What was the problem?

Sorry, but that’s a terrible idea. Submarine power plants are designed to meet a totally different set of design requirements than you want to set for a land based power generation plant. They need to be very small and quiet. Everything else, particularly cost, is secondary. Their fuel has to be highly enriched (>90%) U235, which is massively expensive and a proliferation problem. They are not designed for refueling – typically the whole core is replaced. Their ultimate safety feature in an accident relies on them being surrounded by an unlimited amount of ocean water.

If you take a submarine reactor and redesign it to be more suitable for a power reactor, you end up with a standard PWR.

"One of the most famous examples of the human artificial boundary phenomena is running. For the longest time, a four-minute mile was considered physiologically impossible. When the record was broken, it was swiftly broken again by another bloke a month later. Within a few years, everyone was running four-minute miles. It's now a standard, and the record is much lower than four minutes. "

The progress in mile records over time is linear. There's no evidence that people believing that it was impossible held anyone back.

Galliums a mild reactor poison; it's thermal cross section is a couple of barns. When it comes to super prompt criticality induced by fast neutrons in a bomb core it'll make next to no difference. I don't think it's a misinformation trap.

I totally agree with your point that nuclear terrorism is massively unlikely. This article is ridiculous scaremongering.