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Elementary My Dear Watson BuckGalaxy November 7, 2025 9:39 pm (Space/Science)

Removing 50 objects from orbit would cut danger from space junk in half BuckGalaxy November 6, 2025 9:35 pm (Space/Science)

Posting just a title line sometimes links to an empty body. RobVG November 5, 2025 1:02 pm (GeekSpeak)

Trump nominates a NASA chief — again BuckGalaxy November 4, 2025 10:28 pm (Space/Science)

Muskfinger - and other evil space billionaires BuckGalaxy November 4, 2025 10:19 pm (Space/Science)

New Glenn set for its second launch on November 9 BuckGalaxy November 4, 2025 9:15 pm (Space/Science)

Spanberger projected to win VA BuckGalaxy November 4, 2025 5:10 pm (CurrentEvents)

The destruction of Goddard is illegal RL October 31, 2025 9:41 am (Space/Science)

Weighing the scales on Elon Musk BuckGalaxy October 30, 2025 9:28 pm (Flame)

Bunker Envy ? podrock October 30, 2025 6:18 pm (CurrentEvents)

Message in a bottle BuckGalaxy October 29, 2025 10:55 am (Off-Topic)

According to some, we're a nation of illiterate dependents looking for a handout RobVG October 27, 2025 8:56 pm (CurrentEvents)

The Wine-dark sea by ER February 9, 2012 5:50 pm

One of the theories about the "Bermuda Triangle" disappearances is methane release. "Mythbusters" tried to sink a boat with compressed ... by RobVG 2012-02-10 18:23:28

Some things are better. by bowser February 7, 2012 11:24 am

The testing, animated by RobVG 2012-02-07 19:03:00
- I couldn't help but wonder if the tests were a form of posturing by RobVG 2012-02-10 18:03:18
- Except for the first 40 or so, all those nuclear explosions took place in my lifetime. by Robert 2012-02-10 10:36:19
- The mix includes some surprises for some people. The Tsar Bomba, ostensibly 100 megatons, was detuned by the Russian scientists to ... by bowser 2012-02-09 22:00:59
- I've never seen that. It is terrifying. Did you notice the 20-odd bursts in the South Atlantic, SW ... by ER 2012-02-07 20:52:23
  - I don't have the citations available right now, but I've read that the South Africans and Israel collaborated and each ... by bowser 2012-02-10 12:51:31
When I was being trained for work in the nuke industry (1972), we were given a tour of a laboratory ... by ER 2012-02-07 13:08:05
- I had no idea they were that detectable. In HS in the late '50s I was the student lab assistant in ... by bowser 2012-02-07 13:52:17
  - A radio-isotope decays by emitting alpha and beta particles, and gamma rays, of various energies, into other isotopes, some of ... by ER 2012-02-07 14:56:35
    - Neutron source by RobVG 2012-02-07 19:21:46
      - Yes, I think I must have looked up the same Wiki article! Several of the Transuranics undergo spontaneous fission, or ... by ER 2012-02-07 20:14:05
        
        The construction industry (soils engineers) uses density meters to test soil compaction. There's a joke among heavy equipment operators, "if you ... by RobVG 2012-02-07 21:03:04
        
        I also found this: "Neutrons are produced when alpha particles impinge upon any of several low atomic weight isotopes including isotopes ... by ER 2012-02-07 20:22:32
    - That is a very good question. The second I read your post I started wondering. I was 16 and 17 ... by bowser 2012-02-07 16:21:46

A huge wind turbine, a remotely piloted helicopter, and an incredible video. by bowser February 10, 2012 4:23 pm

How many of you have had a chance to read the poem, Locksley Hall? by Jeff-Wash February 8, 2012 5:52 pm

I'm not sure I cared much for that one. by ER 2012-02-08 18:44:40
- I love that poem. by TB 2012-02-08 19:01:11
  - Actually, there is a sequel to the Odyssey, although it was written much later, and not by Homer. A ... by ER 2012-02-08 20:30:10
    - Perhaps I should have been more specific. I was thinking how astonishingly prescient he was. "Commerce" in the skies. "Ghastly bales" dropped. Even the "Parliament ... by Jeff-Wash 2012-02-08 22:57:58
      - The 1830's, when the poem was written, can be considered to be the very beginning of modernity. The electric ... by ER 2012-02-09 09:01:23
        
        Hint? OK! Set some time aside and read that subchapter set against the backdrop of the "Crystal Palace" in my story ... by Jeff-Wash 2012-02-10 13:37:48

Who would you rather vote for? by BuckGalaxy February 8, 2012 12:30 pm

Colin Powell n/t by RobVG 2012-02-08 19:30:24
- He's not running. But I'll make you a wager on who he ends up endorsing. by BuckGalaxy 2012-02-10 10:17:02
Getting your shoes scanned by a TSA guy is "elitist?" by TB 2012-02-08 12:40:05
- I thought he was getting his shoes shined by a TSA guy. by ER 2012-02-09 18:27:54

Leapfrogging technologies by bowser February 10, 2012 2:43 am

Inside North Korea by TB February 9, 2012 8:56 pm

Netflix has an interesting video on an American defector to NK. He's been taken care of fairly well, in ... by bowser 2012-02-09 21:31:35

An honest mistake... by BuckGalaxy February 8, 2012 12:33 pm

More fun with anagrams. by Robert 2012-02-09 20:31:28

NH GOP tries to eliminate employee lunch breaks by BuckGalaxy February 9, 2012 12:01 pm

Let's just simplify the language. "As a worker you are entitled to three breaks a day. One will ... by bowser 2012-02-09 17:30:36
OMG! Will this apply to Executive Power Lunches, too? And what about the famous "3 martini lunch"? by ER 2012-02-09 12:13:50

Game Change by ER February 4, 2012 10:38 am

US licenses first nuclear reactors since 1978 by bowser February 9, 2012 1:11 pm

Hallelujah and Amen! It's good to see nuclear power return. If we handle it with caution and care unlike the ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-02-09 14:41:06
- Sorry, VRB, but those articles, although technically correct, are highly misleading, misleading to the point of being scientific gibberish. ... by ER 2012-02-09 15:58:14

Opening an ice cream shop in San Francisco by TB February 7, 2012 4:15 pm

And as that guy said, "Now for the other side of the story". Very often entrepreneurs, erstwhile businessmen and women all, ... by bowser 2012-02-07 16:35:57
- Things are tough all over. by ER 2012-02-07 19:46:44
  - I liked the United Negro College Fund take-off during the Reagan years. Page One: Large letters - A Mind Is ... by bowser 2012-02-07 20:26:29
    - TB does have a point. The red tape involved in starting and operating a business needs to be reviewed ... by ER 2012-02-08 05:35:06
      - That's an easy one with which to agree. Where I might differ with TB is in the origin ... by bowser 2012-02-09 05:02:57
        
        Bowz, where I might differ with you is that I believe you are a lot more like TB than you ... by ER 2012-02-09 06:12:17
        
        Oh. Oh, yeah. You wanna step outside? C'mon, c'mon, bring your brother, I don't care. Bring ... by bowser 2012-02-09 13:48:44

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