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Join Date: Jun 2013
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Earth, mostly
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According to Dr. Alex James, a physicist who publishes science explainers on TikTok under @popculturescientist, the NIF facility uses lasers whose design is more than 20 years out of date, because their goal was to reach ignition with laser inertial confinement rather than to produce useful power. A more modern facility might be able to get a better result, although without somewhere for the fusing plasma to be it can never become a generator in and of itself.
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Join Date: Apr 2005
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Ok, which of you needed to blow up this hotel aquarium for your game?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63996982 I wish I'd known about it when I ran a Fate of Cthulu scenario in Berlin,tho |
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Denver, Colorado
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If they continue to improve the outputs, somebody else will certainly start trying to do it with better lasers, so each side of the problem will get worked. There's no "bad news," here; just maybe good news that got a little over-hyped.
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Alsea, OR
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The sustained fusion by the Europeans this summer was as important or more so... because the European program has established a partial scale efficiency curve, and that they're near the bottom of it, and as the tokamak gets bigger, the ouput in joules released per joule input is climbing with size. Simply put, LICF isn't likely to be infrastructurally useful since it's incredibly short duration. And that's what their hubub is about... Not quite hucksterism, but definitely not discouraging hyperbole in the press. |
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Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: UK
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Apparently there are radioactive gemstones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekanite
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Looking for online text-based game at a UK-feasible time, anything considered, Roll20 preferred. http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=168443 |
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#2747 |
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Maitland, NSW, Australia
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"Can we go swimming; are there any sharks?"
"No, there aren't any sharks.... the crocodiles ate them all." https://abcnews.go.com/International...ry?id=24862582 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-...hark/100714276 https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/139834...ueensland-aus/
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Compact Castles gives the gamer an instant portfolio of genuine, real-world castle floorplans to use in any historical, low-tech, or fantasy game setting. Last edited by DanHoward; 02-12-2023 at 09:23 AM. |
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: The Kingdom of Insignificance
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"What was that about?" my friend asked. He was told that they'd been checking to see if there were any crocs on the river banks. "So, the cost is clear?" Oh no, he was told. They had hopped in the river because they could see crocs basking on the river bank. That meant that they were not hungry, which in turn made it comparatively safe to go for a swim. If they were hungry, the crocodiles would slip into the water for a pre-dinner lurk. My mate declined to have a swim.
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It's all very well to be told to act my age, but I've never been this old before... |
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Join Date: Apr 2005
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I was reading a review of a book on measuring and measurements and found this:
Of course, I'd heard about pyramidology, this idea that there's some other mystical aspect to the pyramids in Egypt – it's something we now see as part of the ancient aliens-style conspiracy theory. However, it literally comes out of metrology. Simon Schaffer, who is this incredible scholar in the UK, who does a lot on the history of science, history, and philosophy of science (and is one of my intellectual inspirations) has written about it, so I got into it from his work. The Napoleonic campaigns in Egypt involved a lot of measurement, and that is where the West gets the first accurate measurements of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Basically, they decide that the pyramid was measured out in this unit they call pyramid inches which happens to be pretty much the same as the British Imperial inch, and they conclude that it is the same inch that was handed down by God, which was meant to be contained, encoded in the pyramids for all time, for all generations, and therefore to move away from the British Imperial system is to flout God's expressed wishes. -- So there you have it, divine justification for abhorring the metric system. |
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Join Date: Dec 2007
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There's a recent lawsuit that says a man froze to death in an Alabama jail. While the real reason for such an odd death in custody is obvious; in a game setting? Snow maiden. Definitely snow maiden.
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