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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
                                        Things break down by ER February 8, 2012 5:54 am
                                        • Corporate collectivism. by Robert 2012-02-08 12:37:13
                                          • The entrepreneurial virtues of independence, innovation, courage, risk-taking, and boldness are highly prized by owners, but not seen as too ... by ER 2012-02-09 09:32:20
                                          • "When the laws can be used to plunder, the plunders will make the laws." There's a delicate balance which must be ... by bowser 2012-02-08 10:37:55
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