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Yeah, it seems like they frequently "almost" get it.

The materials science for fusion is not there yet. It will be, but pretty much no one has a solid prediction on it, it could be soon, it could be decades.

High net energy gain fusion will require (baring some revolution in physics, allowing for cold fusion, which is highly doubtful) contain extremely dense, high pressure, and extremely hot materials for long durations (for any viable power station, years and years, decades, continuously running).

We have ignition down pat, just we can't create a sustained reaction of any significant duration, and the net-gain goes close to 0 and below pretty quickly.

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On Australians have a right to be fucking afraid of nuclear power plants in their country. The risk of even the slightest mutation within the local wildlife would spell woe for all of humanity.

Fair point

So Australia is Monster Island?

Wasn't 1/6 of Cloud Atlas about Hugh Grant over-blowing the dangers of nuclear power to make his oil more profitable?

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/soci...stion-disorder#

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A 3-month-old Indian infant is now being kept in the pediatric intensive care unit at Kilpauk Medical College and Hospital after it has been determined that he suffers from Spontaneous Human Combustion (SHC). Baby Rahul has had four incidents where he broke into flames for no apparent reason. The first time it happened, his mother was blamed. People thought that "[I] set him on fire deliberately," said Rajeswari. Only 200 cases of SHC have been reported in the world in the last 300 years. �The body burns spontaneously due to combustible gases emitting from the patient�s body, without any external source of ignition,� said Dr. R. Narayana Babu, the head of the pediatrics department at Kilpauk. �Clothes and other things nearby that are inflammable may also catch fire.� In order to help prevent any further incidents, a bucket of water and fire extinguisher are at the ready next to Rahul�s bedside, Newser reported. �An episode may or may not recur," Babu said. It�s like any other burn injury, with the likelihood of scars and secondary infections. Plastic surgery is also expected to be done. The relatives or parents have to always keep an eye on the baby. Matchsticks, crackers or anything that can catch fire should not be kept near him. We have to teach them to avoid sending the child out in the sun and specify the kinds of clothes he can wear when he grows up," �We visited many hospitals and finally admitted him here. Nobody knows the exact cause. We hope he will be treated at Kilpauk Medi_cal College,� said Rahul�s father, Karan. The couple also has a 2-year-old daughter.

WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWhat? Can this be real?

IGK, are you using enough lotion?

http://www.nature.com/news/iron-in-...m-space-1.13091

http://voiceofrussia.com/2013_01_19...of-Vladivostok/

a walking shark.




pretty cool.

Did anyone get to see this with their own eyes?



August 27 at 00:30, On this night, the planet Mars will pass just 34.65 million miles from the earth. To the naked eye it looks like two moons. The next time Mars will be so close to the Earth with be as far as 2287. Once in a lifetime chance.

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Originally posted by Desiderata it looks like two moons

sure does

http://www.the-scientist.com/?artic...n-Model-Brains/

That's not true. Mars can't come that close.

Yeah, that was in 2003, and it was most certainly not close enough to appear like our moon does.

I must of read a misinformed article on that Mars issue and used the picture from the same article. I wondered why Mars looked so close to the same color as the moon was at first myself. I thought it Mars would have some more hues in it.

Bye-bye, Voyager

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24026153

Time machines similar to Dr Who�s Tardis are possible, Professor Brian Cox said in a speech at the British Science Festival.

�Can you build a time machine?� said Professor Cox. �The answer is yes.�

There�s just one, tiny problem, Professor Cox says - if you can build a machine capable of time-travel, you can only travel into the future. You can�t come back.

Professor Cox also suggested that research at the LHC might uncover extra dimensions - thus, perhaps finally explaining how the Tardis is bigger on the inside.

Professor Cox , a Dr Who fan, is to deliver a 60-minute speech on Dr Who to be screened by the BBC on November 23 - tackling questions such as extraterrestrial life, travelling to other dimensions and time travel.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/building-a...-101027889.html



The TARDIS[nb 1][1] (/ˈtɑːdɪs/ (Time and Relative Dimension in Space)[nb 2] is a time machine and spacecraft in the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who and its associated spin-offs.
A TARDIS is a product of the advanced technology of the Time Lords, an extraterrestrial civilisation to which the programme's central character, the Doctor, belongs. A properly maintained and piloted TARDIS can transport its occupants to any point in time and any place in the universe. The interior of a TARDIS is much larger than its exterior ("It's bigger on the inside"), which can blend in with its surroundings using the ship's "chameleon circuit". TARDISes also possess a degree of sentience (which has been expressed in a variety of ways ranging from implied machine personality and free will through to the use of a conversant avatar) and provide their users with additional tools and abilities including a telepathically-based universal translation system.

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

You're a tardis

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Originally posted by Lagrangian Time machines similar to Dr Who�s Tardis are possible, Professor Brian Cox said in a speech at the British Science Festival. �Can you build a time machine?� said Professor Cox. �The answer is yes.� There�s just one, tiny problem, Professor Cox says - if you can build a machine capable of time-travel, you can only travel into the future. You can�t come back. Professor Cox also suggested that research at the LHC might uncover extra dimensions - thus, perhaps finally explaining how the Tardis is bigger on the inside. Professor Cox , a Dr Who fan, is to deliver a 60-minute speech on Dr Who to be screened by the BBC on November 23 - tackling questions such as extraterrestrial life, travelling to other dimensions and time travel. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/building-a...-101027889.html The TARDIS[nb 1][1] (/ˈtɑːdɪs/ (Time and Relative Dimension in Space)[nb 2] is a time machine and spacecraft in the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who and its associated spin-offs. A TARDIS is a product of the advanced technology of the Time Lords, an extraterrestrial civilisation to which the programme's central character, the Doctor, belongs. A properly maintained and piloted TARDIS can transport its occupants to any point in time and any place in the universe. The interior of a TARDIS is much larger than its exterior ("It's bigger on the inside"), which can blend in with its surroundings using the ship's "chameleon circuit". TARDISes also possess a degree of sentience (which has been expressed in a variety of ways ranging from implied machine personality and free will through to the use of a conversant avatar) and provide their users with additional tools and abilities including a telepathically-based universal translation system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TARDIS

As a mechanical engineer I can only say: awesome

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High-speed 'mechanical gears' discovered for the first time on the hind legs of a plant hopping insect Read more:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...#ixzz2endE4cD8

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Originally posted by FuzzQi You're a tardis

I certainly am

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Originally posted by FuzzQi You're a tardis

I certainly am

Everything this forum needs is Lagrangian and Trance-MB posting in the science thread. Why don't you quote the Daily Mail while you're at it?

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Originally posted by JEO Everything this forum needs is Lagrangian and Trance-MB posting in the science thread. Why don't you quote the Daily Mail while you're at it?

Technically, what Lagrangian posted is absolutely correct. It's basic Special Relativity.

Differences in time (with respect to someone else also in uniform motion) can easily be accounted for. It's a fundamental law of physics.

Well... everything about from the Tardis

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