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Ha! That's still only 33.4 micrograms per cubic meter. A lot smaller than mr ITER.

PS: Speaking of the Brillion limit, I think, without bothering to look it up again, that the excess charge limis is ~ 10 ^13 charges per CC, or ~ 10^19 per cubic meter. Dan Tibbets Are you sure? That would be more than a coulomb per cubic meter. I hope you are sure cause this is great news heh heh....

PS: Speaking of the Brillion limit, I think, without bothering to look it up again, that the excess charge limis is ~ 10 ^13 charges per CC, or ~ 10^19 per cubic meter. Dan Tibbets Are you sure? That would be more than a coulomb per cubic meter. I hope you are sure cause this is great news heh heh....

I've been looking at sites claiming fracking costs $1.30 for every $1.00 profit, without high prices and cheap credit the whole thing goes bust. On the upside, the Saudi's can't sustain low prices for any great period without having financial problems themselves. I occasionally listen to what Jim R...

Centrifugal force is a consideration, but based on this abstract at least, it apparently is not a major concern in a typical tokamak. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/1.1545585 Dan Tibbets thanks Dan. I still don't understand yet why the tokamak has to be so huge though. Could the size be d...

It's too bad really. I love Gilmore and his musician work. Too bad his parenting wasn't as good. But who am I to judge? I'm not even a parent myself.

BTW I thought particle accelerators were kind of inefficient.. how efficient are they really? Electrically, DC particle accelerators are basically just like running current through a resistor (a current running from a higher voltage to ground). The electrical efficiency is basically just limited by...

Oh I am very much aware of the various fMRI studies; I assume you're referring to one of the new(er) ones? But monitoring electrical signals conducted along the nerves does not per se give you access to THE MIND, no matter what the High Church Atheists like Harris and Dawkins keep screaming. The Mi...

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I'm such a troll

[Prove that human minds exist, using the assumptions of determinism and reductive materialism. Absent those superstitious metaphysics, limiting oneself to the tools and methods of reductive materialism, the existence of the mind is a maddening, frustrating problem to confront. On this rock, more th...

choff wrote:
Some would argue that testing on an entire population is precisely what's being done.

I'm not sure I agree but so far there isn't the scene from Monty Python the Holy Grail about bringing out our dead yet.. So.......

Also this argument quoted is naive. It treats religion and human mind like black box. The human mind is not that stupid. And religion itself is evidence too: aside any superstitious metaphyics, it is just another memetic variation. Culture. It's not magic. You don't rub a rosary together to trigger...

What about all that supposed "junk dna"?

I'm really curious what is "clean" about kerosene. Is this as compared to solid boosters that fill the air with toxins Oh no, much worse than that... The new rockets are to replace the Proton-class launchers, which use hypergolic N2O4 and UDMH Dinitrogen tetroxide and unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazin...

A key factor in such a reactor is the pile of fuel being only marginally below critical mass when cool, and shifting slightly away from critical mass as it heats. That way a single injected neutron can produce several fissions, but the reaction will always die out when the accelerator is stopped. B...