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Due to the size of the universe this type of planetarty extinction events are probably at the order of the day, and I think that no one will relly care if humanity ceases to exist from one day to the other (humanity apart that is). After all, until now, we have not been that succesfull race we beli...

True, the more quick the timescale of the event, the less the survivors will be. If the timescale is quick enough than humanity will simply cease to exist and (if the conditions will permit it) something new will come out from the mud of this planet. Due to the size of the universe this type of plan...

The individual who dies will learn from his death but "will not" be able to apply that knowledge a second time.
The others that survive will.

Like it or not, this is the way that species evolve.

I second KitemanSA offer too.

Where are we going to get a 200MW (megawatt) space nuclear reactor? Won't that be freakishly huge? The reactor is small. It is the radiators that are the problem. True, even if recent advancments in metamaterias and new understandings in the working of "highly mismatched alloys" might soon greatly ...

Even if we will have a cheap fusion solution the travelling wave reactor will be a good middle term solution to burn most of the spent nuclear fuel that is available today.

IMHO, this answer is giving no clues, neither positive nor negative.

hanelyp wrote:

- The capacitor acting as an electrostatic speaker, and the sound waves coupling with the sensors.

That's quite an interesting point.
Do you have any idea about the order of magnitude of such a noise in the described experimental setup?

chrismb wrote:ubi somniari ibi somnia
ubi bullshit ibi bullshitters

Your latin seems a little bit rusty.

chrismb wrote:
sapiens nihil affirmat quod non probat

While this is true, do not forget that "ubi dubium ibi scientia"!

Yes, but they didn't specify "which" new year they was talking about.

Yes, he did sell the big one he bought first as it was too much big for the vacuum pump he had.

I posted a news on the news section today, and I did a search for part of the URL I was going to put in the news to be sure that the news was not already present. I made a search for: "fti.neep.wisc.edu" and for "iec2009" The search returned o results, but after some hours I realized that the very s...

Looks like the news was posted yesterday in the Theory section and I didn't see it.

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Sorry for dupe.

I was googling around and I found this: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IEC 2009 11th US-Japan Workshop on Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion 12-13 October 2009 – Madison, Wisconsin -------------------------------------------------------------...