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Anyone have any random nerdy facts?
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2 wrights made an airplane
2^He is called diproton. for very small fraction of a second...
Ford started design work on a car called the Nucleon. Yes, it was an atomic car. Fortunately, it never got past the mockup stage.
Some train company started development on a nuclear locomotive. Then they estimated what it would cost.
I was wondering that too, I already knew that steel stiffness is pretty much constant no matter the strength/hardness. This is a big misconception among knife makers too.
I guess that makes an aglet an example of a ferrule.
The difference between isotopes is the number of neutrons. But the nomenclature, such as H-2 or U-238 reflects the number of nucleons.
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The first DVD sent out by Netflix was "Beetlejuice".
Etymologically, there's no such thing as a female werewolf. The "were" part of the word is from an Old English word, wer, meaning man. The corresponding word for a woman is wyf (from we get wife). So she's not a female werewolf, she's a wyfwolf.
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Then there are bulls with a mutation of the myostatin gene...Well the mass of an "Eatin' Cow" is best to not contain a lot of fat, but meat mass. They may be "Very Large" but hopefully it is not much Fat
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.94.23.12457
‘I’m just burn in’ doing the Nucleon dance,’ 
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That’s arguable I think, a nucleon is a particle in a nucleus so it’s 1 a proton or 2 a neutron and you already know how many protons there are because you know what element it is. I see that nucleons are the definition but it’s an odd way to define it.
Ps But I’ll inform them anyway.
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Why was that fortunate?! We would not be sitting here with a haywire climate if they had become popular…
No, we'd have nuclear fuel spilling out onto roads from time to time in crashes.
The Spanish Inquisition gave 30 day notices to people they needed to question.
Despite what Monty Python would have you think, everyone expected the Spanish Inquisition.
Despite what Monty Python would have you think, everyone expected the Spanish Inquisition.
“Arctic” is from the Greek arktos, “bear,” because the constellation Ursa Major, “the greater she-bear” (also known as the Big Dipper), is always visible in the northern polar sky. “Antarctic,” therefore, literally means “opposite the bear.”
So it also goes there are polar bears in the Arctic but no bears in the Antarctic.
Not sure what our polar regions would have been named had they been more of a fan of Penguins, or (no) Penguins.
So it also goes there are polar bears in the Arctic but no bears in the Antarctic.
Not sure what our polar regions would have been named had they been more of a fan of Penguins, or (no) Penguins.
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Make a steel box or something that’s crash proof/resistant, I mean we make boxes that survive airplane crashes a car crash is nothing compared to that.
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Ha! Hold my beer...
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How can an airplane crash be less dangerous than a car crash, they are bigger and faster? Or something else?
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It never pays to bet against human stupidity and perversion.
Nerdy fact, California says no Nukes in my backyard to be built; yet the Navy has all the Nuke Ships docked right on their Coast at the bases. No nuke spills from those that I ever heard about ... yet...
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Yep, mini nuke casks , just like the huge ones that are on Semi-Trailers; ever see one of those ?
In general terms, an airplane crash is more dangerous. Airplane black boxes don't absolutely, always, every time survive crashes.
Remember that Murphy's Law, "If anything can go wrong, it will", is not a joke or a comment on the general cussedness of the universe; it is an edict, regarding safe and reliable system designs, issued by Mr. Murphy, an engineering manager at NASA. To put it another way, "That should do" is the vilest of curses to an engineer.
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This! I haven’t but I’d love to.
The only military nuclear reactor accident I’m aware of is this
Ps that guy makes the most accurate nuclear content I’ve found, every one else is a idiot.
I don’t disagree, I just don’t want people to think that everything nuclear is bad and incredibly dangerous. Because it’s not.
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The original formulation* includes a much greater implication of human responsibility and fallibility, and I find it far more valuable as a guide to thought.
Also, Murphy was kind of an a-hole. Leading up to the incident after which he uttered the famous words, the team of which he was in charge wanted to run some pre-checks and make sure everything was GTG. Murphy impatiently refused to allow them to do so, essentially saying, "Just run it." When there turned out after the fact to be a problem that made the whole operation a waste, which would have been caught by the pre-checks he ordered not to be conducted, he threw a subordinate under the bus for having made the error. Spectacularly a dick move, and then he gets to be famous for it.
*ETA: "If there are two ways to do something, and one of them will f&%$ everything up completely, then sooner or later, [that guy] will do it."
Basically, Murphy was blaming the problem on one particular engineer or tech, but after many decades of progress in human factors and process controls, we have come to understand it to be a fundamental truth of the universe that can affect pretty much everybody (consider the Dilbert Principle).
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OK, but everything involving fission fuel has a large potential to be dangerous, and one must think twice and twice more before implementing some new application. And I'd have to say yes, it's a good thing that this application was not implemented.
If you are curious about what can happen with nuclear materials, have a look at the book Command and Control, by Schlosser. It details the way the USA looks after its nuclear weapons and details just how things can go wrong. It is a really good record of just how lucky they have been so far. The main event discusses is the "Damascus Event". I highly recommend the book, and it is sitting on my bookshelf here next to me as I type.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_explosion
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