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Looks like CERN have tried to prove themselves wrong and have now published to try and get others to try and duplicate it!
There's still a long way to go before its shown to be right or not, but its still pretty huge.
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This is HUGE if its duplicated and might need a tweaking of Special Relativity.
WOW
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Fair cop Hermione,
hadn't see it in the Guardian! (my point still stands about the Daily Wail as a "news"paper though)
It's an absolutely crazy idea!
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I'm just going to point out that the article was in the Daily Mail. Also known as the Daily Wail here in the UK. It has a well understood and established political agenda, and frequently tries to stir up racial and ethical tensions.
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Without getting in to politics I have emailed my MP to see where he stands on this point. My hope is that pointing out the technology will be cheaper for us if we develop it rather than have to buy the expertise, or even the produced energy in from another country, and could help stimulate certain sectors of industry might at least pique his interest. I'm not holding my breath though.
Wow
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I believe the original reason it wasn't developed further was the lack of fissile plutonium in the waste making bombs far harder to build.
It looks like the Chinese are going to do this, so we'll see how it develops! Personally though I'd prefer it if we could build our own reactors if this technology delivers on its promise, rather than pay for and import the expertise once it
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Hi Byrd
I've can only remember one of the senior NIO peoples names (its just possible in my diary I've spelt them so badly I'll never match them to their real names.
Sundaresh
here's a page linking to his record and it has a link which displays his published papers as well.
Mike
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This is a bit long but its a good presentation on the topic by Kirk Sorensen
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Whilst I haven't been posting on here I've spent my lunch times cyber-loafing reading up on many topics. One that I've been quite interested in is the possiblity of using fission reactors using Thorium (specifically Liquid Thorium Flouride Reactors - a type of molten salt reactor).
I was wondering if anyone on here had enough knowledge of nuclear physics to comment on whether th
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None of the guys on our exped were turned off by any tech it just wasn't available, and had we been there now we wouldn't have been able to afford to hire it.
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I'll not deny that!
It does seem to move a lot faster in areas of most need and at the moment I can't see what need is going to feed it. That said maybe the petro-chemical industry will spur it on in the hunt to find more resources.
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Yes sorry Donald I more figured out more what you were meaning a bit later.
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Thanks Hermione,
I'm just old school html... I need to learn some new tricks
MikeS
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Hi Byrd
there were three levels of experience on the expedition, which ironically I fall between two of the groups.
First level was the majority of us who were the grunt work, who were being guided and told what to do.
Second, some of the team had been trained by the (I asked one of the guys last night and this is who trained them) but were raw.
Third group were experienced in nautic
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Thanks for asking me Kat,
I haven't had as much time lately to come on here, facebook is easy I can put random updates up on my phone, but posts on here generally need to be better though out
Ma'at is, and always will be my 'internet' home
MikeS
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To be fair such tech is very specialist and very expensive. Well out of reach of a small expedition like ours was.
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2-4 thousand years definitely did it for me! It was massively interesting and I'd have signed up to do the expedition the year after had it gone ahead. I think it would have been a fantastic experience to work with Nick Flemming.
It really was a city under water! Walls, remains of building, it was amazing.
Compare that to the U shape study where the bottom was absolutely featureless ex
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As a strange addition to this topic, some Jehova's witnesses came round a few weeks back to try and convert me. One of them suggested that if the Higgs was not found I should convert. When I casually asked if that meant she would become an atheist if it was found she went very quiet. (I also refused to accept a comedy leaflet off them explain how the universe was only 6 or 7 thousand years o
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Seriously! Do you know how difficult that is underwater? Its nigh on impossible to keep a fixed point (which photosynth needs) and the visibility wasn't anywhere near good enough, and for multiple camera (or picture) built images you'd need to know the EXACT location, depth and direction of the camera as well as the focal length and probably f-stop of the lens.
Not impossible but you
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donald r raab Wrote:
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> This is gatekeeper land. Excavation is NOT the
> only or valid option. Just the same as holding
> credentials as the holy grail of revelation. And
> footnotes (must be 10 or more) to get entrance to
> the club.
I've mention we actually did a survey of the shape, location and direction of
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Actually thats what we did with the India expedition. We had no funding an paid for ourselves. As I've posted to one of Kat's comments, the expedition was organised by the SES at the request of GH and we all funded ourselves to go.
The question which might be better asked here is why it didn't happen again. Probably because the results were not to his liking!
MikeS
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Hi Kat
it was me!
The expedition was run by the Dorset based Scientific Exploration Society in 2002 and the leader of the expedition was Monty Halls (if you're in the UK the guy who seems to have a cosy gig with the BBC being sent to nice and remote places in the UK, Thursday BBC2), and was run with the <a href=" NIO</a> (National Institute of Oceanography). Also I'm
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I mean that the evidence (sketchy as it is) suggests that this earlier creature was smaller and more simple than its later descendants. If you found a fully evolved T-Rex at that point (or say a horse) then evolution goes out of the window.
Sorry for not making myself clearer. It was a dig at ID
MikeS
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the facts/evidence are showing them getting more primitive as they go further back in time, as you would expect from an evolutionary stand point (its one of the things that makes evolution falsifiable) and as the article states this ties the rise of the dinos nicely to the Permian extinction event, as the rise of the mammals was linked to a late mass extinction.
MikeS
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Just found this on the BBC website and found it quite interesting.
OK its not a skeleton but still quite interesting
MikeS
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Didn't realise that!
Pretty sad really, do you know why???
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No but I will be going to see it when its released over here!
Could there be a growing sci-fi industry in South Africa... last fairly original sci-fi series I've seen was Charlie Jade which was a joint production with Canada (though filmed in Cape Town) and while the first 5 or so episodes were terrible once it found its feet was excellent and by the end I was devastated when I found out
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yeah I've also seen it done (mountains and high heels!), and the cynical part of my suggests natural selection in action.
Of course you are right though with concerns for populated areas.
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I think the wolves issue is completely different, and there is at least a semi-decent arguement for that! i've got friends in areas who tell me that the deer populations is so over populated that they are a pest and its getting more difficult to organise culls etc (not to mention one who on one western isles, that definately isn't touristy, commented that "the bloody things are a p
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tbf they can top 100F in summer...
sometimes!
Wouldn't live anywhere else...
except maybe Canada, Australia or New Zealand
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