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We add nuclear to everything mainly because it is such a good energy source. it is very clean except from storaging the nuclear waste.
However, when An reactor explodes because of a tjunami and a earthquake, we say that nuclear power is unsafe. Well, any power plant wouldn't have survived those blows.
For more benefits and
disadvantages of nuclear enery.
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You've mixed up two concepts that aren't even contemporary.
The SLAM project got as far as a ground-based prototype reactor; google "Project Pluto". It worked. The concept is also applicable to rockets, and there are a goodly number of us who are irritated that irrationality triumphed.
SLAM's exhaust would not have been particularly radioactive, because it used air in a ramjet configuration, and there's nothing in air that gets highly radioactive, or stays radioactive for long. It was supposed to crash into its last target, using radiation as an area-denial weapon.
"Flying crowbar" is a later concept employing non-explosive objects "dropped" from orbit. It would result in what were effectively meteor strikes. The best configuration for the object is a rod, because even if the front burns up on re-entry the back part remains; thus the name.
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Can I juat say that 'Implement the basic National Policy' is about the least-inspiring rallying cry ever?
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You forgot to add the awesome nuclear lighthouses that are all over Russia:
http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=6901
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To amplify what Barray said, the Japanese reactors came through the 9.1 earthquake just fine, and that's more than 10 times stronger than their design criteria. They also came through the tsunami OK. It was the support equipment (backup generators) being destroyed that caused the problem.
Warlocketx - The Smithsonian article on Project Pluto refers to it as "The Flying Crowbar" whether accurate or not.
- Jack
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Don't forget spaceships: Check out Project Orion, the nuclear-bomb pulse drive...
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@Warlocketx-
You're kidding, right? SLAM was specifically designed to be a triple threat out tha box. Mach 6 shockwave at
300 feet over any country it's targeted to. That alone would kill hundreds. No, but wait! There's the 15 1.5 to 2 kiloton MIRV's riding on it's back-popping out the top to drop on any target so chosen as it passes by. Wham!
Then there's the sweet kiss-off. I quote you- "SLAM's exhaust would not have been particularly radioactive, because it used air in a ramjet configuration, and there's nothing in air that gets highly radioactive, or stays radioactive for long".
Are you brain-dead? SLAM was an "open core" reactor, you ferkin dumbass!!!!. That was one of it's point's! It was planned to be flyable for a minimum of three MONTHS over any chosen target with a reactor that had NO SHIELDING AT ALL, spewing little chunks of the core all the way, everywhere it went.
Let me reiterate- three months, at mach 6, spewing transuranics with a half-life of 1200 years all the way-plus popping out airdrop nukes wherever it felt like it!
One of the reasons it never got off the ground was they never could figure out how to test it safely, or figure out how to dispose of the rig after it was finished, other than crashing it into the deep Pacific.......
You're the one who's getting programs mixed up- NERVA is the powerplant you're thinking of- which was never ever meant to be used in atmo. That was meant to be a thruster for outer system propulsion. The program you speak of is "Rods from God", which have no powerplant at all, they are just kinetic energy weapons.
SLAM was so insidious that even the designers didn't want to finish it, yet yur dumbbass thinks it was ok.....last point; they were contemporary.Both programs were started by 1957. "Rod's" didn't come along until the mid 70's. Fact-check, brutha
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Definitely some fascinating projects, a little scary that there were nuclear reactors flying around in the sky though. Loved this post.
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Forty or fifty years ago, I think it was the magazine Atlantic Monthly that ran an article arguing that scientists felt so guilty about inventing the Atom Bomb that they were trying desperately and at times irrationally to find uses of atomic power that would redeem or make up for or atone for what they had done. Regarding fear of dirt or guilt, some argue that a psychological and not necessarily rational attractive of solar power has been that it is so "clean" as compared to the "dirty" (in various ways) other sources of energy. It's almost as if some people want a source of energy as abstract and distant and unearthly as possible.
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We did write about Nuclear Spaceships: Project Orion - check out http://tinyurl.com/3s8knj
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Two of the test reactors for the US nuclear powered bomber program are on display outside of the public museum at the Idaho National Labs near Arco ID:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:Aircraft_Reactors_Arco_ID_2009.jpg
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1955 - communistic Czechoslovakia - atomic flying harvester
http://vtm.zive.cz/clanek/1955-letajici-atomovy-kombajn
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You already mentioned that Africa image almost three years ago: http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/06/link-latte-64.html ... :P
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I should give you a prize for knowing every link on DRB! (this is the first time I ever put the link again, cause I got excited about Africa again.) Anyway, very pleased with your comment...
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It's Uilleann. There are two 'n's in the word. The pipes have three drones (the things sitting on the shoulder of Scottish pipers) and the keyed bits you can see are called 'regulators'. Those are played with the wrist while the hands play the chanter, which is the pipe separated from the others. Sorry, but I had to say something about the spelling. The rest is just me being pedantic.
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That Kiss radio ad is actually some CG work done by this artist here. http://duque.cgsociety.org/gallery/
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I seem to recall seeing that the "mystery image" at the bottom was a human version of the "mouse organ" from the monty python sketch - basically pressing a key on a keyboard signalled one of the people in the boxes to make a noise (I can't remember if they were actually made to scream, but it seems unlikely)
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In Soviet Russia, you don't listen to instrument, instrument listen to you!
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The bottom image is of a specific form of punishment where the men were not allowed to see one another, ever. The only outlet was pious singalong. You can see they cannot see one another in any way. The men screamed very loudly and were most enthusiastic. This pleased whichever deity was in fashion that century.
And thus we enjoy a crime-free Russia today.
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The last image is indeed from a prison. I don't remember if they are watching a priest or listening to a political speech, but it was something like that - let all the prisoners see and hear, but not talk to each other.
Definitely not music-related.
Someone once joked that it is a set of experimental toilets :-).
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The "Steampunk Guitar" at the top is a working assemblage sculpture by Lirio Salvador of the Philippines.
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Thank you about this info. Article updated.
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I don't know about some of those instruments...but I would definitely like to get my hands on some of those guitars. The Steampunk Guitar looks particularly awesome to play.
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Why isn't Harry Partch mentioned? He made some of the weirdest musical instruments (and music) ever: http://cosmicmachine.blogspot.com/2011_09_25_archive.html
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Well apparently this site didn't post the entire address, but just Google "Harry Partch" and you will see what I mean.
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The island comic is from Guillermo Mordillo, an argentinean artist: http://www.mordillo.com/
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It's not the satellite imagery that's distorting the views in Google Earth, but that Google Earth doesn't understand the concept of a bridge, and renders the satellite image down onto the terrain surface
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Re: Beasts of Burden section - "And to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street"
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@Dragon to Flower:
"The fierce face of evil"??!
Oriental dragons are not evil -contrary to western ones-, they are deities, and "traditionally symbolize potent and auspicious powers, particularly control over water, rainfall, hurricane, and floods. The dragon is also a symbol of power, strength, and good luck"!
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I believe that the Google Earth problem stems with issues regarding draping a 2D image or photo over a 3D triangulated irregular network. This can be a common problem in GIS.
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Thank you Charlie - we changed the text to better reflect the words of the artist: "When we are threatened by evil, "it" will appear before us in the form of the dragon and prevent the evil with its fierce face and roar then bring peace to us. After that, "it" will transform into the form of the flower to continue quietly watching our peaceful life."
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Sports ain't healthy...
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the kitten one's the best!
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Cranes of this type have experienced some fatal accidents, in which the boom snapped off. All booms of these cranes have been recalled to the factory for solving this production error.
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Now, that's an impressive machine.
Wow.
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it's kitten kong all over again!
/english geekiness
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Strange that you forgot to mention the real Stig, Stig Blomquist:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Stig+Blomqvist&aq=f
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Stig+Blomquist&aq=f
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