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TentoTwenty |
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Marcus_Wright |
1. RE: OT: The Official Science Stuff Thread
Jun 17 2009, 11:16 PM EDT
thats interesting
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R.Daneel_Olivaw |
2. RE: OT: The Official Science Stuff Thread
Jun 18 2009, 12:17 AM EDT
I think the next guy to make a huge pile of bigger than microsft kind of money will be the guy who discovers a new plentiful source of clean energy.http://world.std.com/~mica/cft.html Look for Robt. Patrick on page. Do you find this valuable? |
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Marcus_Wright |
3. RE: OT: The Official Science Stuff Thread
Jun 18 2009, 12:22 AM EDT
"I think the next guy to make a huge pile of bigger than microsft kind of money will be the guy who discovers a new plentiful source of clean energy.OMG they are really making the t-1000 *hides* Do you find this valuable? |
cp442 |
4. RE: OT: The Official Science Stuff Thread
Jun 18 2009, 1:11 AM EDT
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Science, eh?I think it's interesting how the quark-gluon plasma field only lasted for a few femtoseconds after the Big Bang... I wonder if it was the Higgs boson, or the hadrons, that destabilized the hitherto constant thermal equilibrium of the mixture... *Edit* @Tento: please keep that black and white avatar pic... pretty please 2 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Marcus_Wright |
5. RE: OT: The Official Science Stuff Thread
Jun 18 2009, 1:17 AM EDT
"Science, eh?O_____________________o *jayne from firefly styles this one* We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient. oh and tento great lena pic 2 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you? |
IvyMike |
6. RE: OT: The Official Science Stuff Thread
Jun 18 2009, 1:26 AM EDT
"I think the next guy to make a huge pile of bigger than microsft kind of money will be the guy who discovers a new plentiful source of clean energy.I haven't been following the Polywell fusion reactor recently, but it looks like they've just been given another $2 million funding. As at Dec 2008 Nebel says "There's nothing in there [the research] that suggests this will not work," but that "That's a very different statement from saying that it will work". More recently he said "We are hoping to have a net energy production product within six years. It could take longer, but this definitely won't be a 50 year development project. [...] So if the concept works we could have a commercial plant operating as early as 2020"[31]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell Do you find this valuable? |
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R.Daneel_Olivaw |
7. RE: OT: The Official Science Stuff Thread
Jun 18 2009, 1:35 AM EDT
"I have a new favorite word. Bremsstrahlung. Do you find this valuable? |
ShelterWolf |
8. Thorium as a green nuclear solution
Jun 18 2009, 1:37 AM EDT
Robert Hargraves discusses the advantages of thorium, particularly the liquid fluoride thorium reactor, as a clean and safe nuclear solution that could compete with coal for inexpensive energy generation. Suggests a 10-year plan for bringing this forward:http://pesn.com/2009/06/17/9501548_Thorium_for_green_nuclear/ BTW: Are you guys helping with resurrecting TSCC or are you just killing time? Do you find this valuable? |
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cp442 |
9. RE: Thorium as a green nuclear solution
Jun 18 2009, 1:42 AM EDT
"I'm killing time to the tune of genocide. Seriously, we can do a bit of both, I believe. Do you find this valuable? |
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R.Daneel_Olivaw |
10. RE: Thorium as a green nuclear solution
Jun 18 2009, 1:47 AM EDT
"<--- Not helping. I have a friend who says that one day oil will just be an inexpensive lubricant. I say the plastics industry will keep the price up. Do you find this valuable? |
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cp442 |
11. RE: Thorium as a green nuclear solution
Jun 18 2009, 2:05 AM EDT
I can't stand the way everything's plastic these days; God only knows what all the effects are of having petrol derivatives leech into your skin, food, and water almost constantly. I wish we could go back to glass and metal containers for everything.
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IvyMike |
12. RE: OT: The Official Science Stuff Thread
Jun 18 2009, 2:34 AM EDT
"I have a new favorite word. Bremsstrahlung."Them Germans, eh? Rolls off the tongue a bit more smoothly than geschwindigkeitsbeschränkungen (which means "speed limits") Do you find this valuable? |
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cp442 |
13. RE: OT: The Official Science Stuff Thread
Jun 18 2009, 2:38 AM EDT
"Them Germans, eh? Rolls off the tongue a bit more smoothly than geschwindigkeitsbeschränkungen (which means "speed limits")"I always think of the time I asked if a certain book was in stock at Barnes and Noble; Die Nibelungenlied. Never was a stare so blank as the one I received from the person at the help desk. Do you find this valuable? |
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Marcus_Wright |
14. RE: OT: The Official Science Stuff Thread
Jun 18 2009, 2:41 AM EDT
"I always think of the time I asked if a certain book was in stock at Barnes and Noble; Die Nibelungenlied.LMAOOOOOOO Do you find this valuable? |
MetalShifter |
15. RE: OT: The Official Science Stuff Thread
Jun 18 2009, 2:47 AM EDT
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"Talk about anything knd of science. Real science discussion only.@TentoTwenty: Oh man that's froggy cool! *LMAO for some "unknown" reason* Well if you need strange word in German: Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänsmütze *not a joke* which means the cap of the captain from a ship of the company that manages ships in the Donau (a river). 2 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you? |
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cp442 |
16. RE: OT: The Official Science Stuff Thread
Jun 18 2009, 2:51 AM EDT
"@TentoTwenty: Oh many that's froggy cool! *LMAO for some "unknown" reason*I don't speak German, but I can pick out the individual parts of that word that refer to your translation; I suppose it's the lack of spacing that bothers Americans. Do you find this valuable? |
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IvyMike |
17. RE: Thorium as a green nuclear solution
Jun 18 2009, 2:54 AM EDT
"I have a friend who says that one day oil will just be an inexpensive lubricant. I say the plastics industry will keep the price up."I'm not sure that the development of cheap energy from fusion or whatever (and consequent reduction in the price of oil) would necessarily promote the production of plastics; there's already a certain degree of consumer resistance to plastics out of environmental/health concerns (see cp442's post), and I can't really see that diminishing. I think cheap energy would promote recycling of plastics over manufacturing from raw materials. OTOH, I'm not sure that the development of cheap energy would necessarily render oil becoming dirt-cheap over the long run. It costs a lot of money to locate and set up new oil fields, and unless the price of oil makes it profitable as the easy fields dry up and new fields become more expensive to extract from there will be less incentive to set up those new fields - IOW, the price of oil will have to stay at a level sufficient to make its extraction worthwhile. Do you find this valuable? |
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MetalShifter |
18. RE: OT: The Official Science Stuff Thread
Jun 18 2009, 2:56 AM EDT
"I don't speak German, but I can pick out the individual parts of that word that refer to your translation; I suppose it's the lack of spacing that bothers Americans. "Well, as this noun consists of different other nouns you don't make spaces in German. (That's the right way in the german grammar!) @Tento: As I really appreciate your post, I have to add the "bio": http://www.hamline.edu/cgee/frogs/science/faq1.html 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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IvyMike |
19. RE: OT: The Official Science Stuff Thread
Jun 18 2009, 2:56 AM EDT
"I always think of the time I asked if a certain book was in stock at Barnes and Noble; Die Nibelungenlied.LOL!!! "Dee... knee...what???" Do you find this valuable? |
