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by MertsA 8y ago
No, it'll form nitric acid as it reacts with moisture in the air and be neutralized as it reacts with the environment. Nitrogen tetroxide is used as a hypergolic oxidizer because it's very reactive. It'll react with basically
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by MertsA 8y ago
Yeah but with the volume we're talking about here, SpaceX is definitely going to be extremely constrained by launch capacity. I doubt they'd be hit with any antitrust lawsuit over not cancelling their own launches in order to take
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by MertsA 8y ago
>The actual reason, the core of this, has nothing to do with micro-trenching I agree that incumbent providers were doing anything and everything they could to hinder Google but the fact of the matter is that if nanotrenching hadn't
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by MertsA 8y ago
The reason why Google is pulling out is because they tried nano trenching the fiber into the street and sealing over the top of it with a rubber like sealer and they had major problems with that sealer bonding to the road. It would peel up
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by MertsA 8y ago
No, there are special alloys and techniques for directly bonding metal to glass. In a lot of cases the approach is to keep the bonded area close together to minimize the distortion of the metal from the different expansion rates. Materials
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by MertsA 8y ago
Nothing about the situation required an expert opinion and the pediatrician made a pretty poor decision to boot. It was abundantly clear that the wound just needed stitches, that's not something I can do myself. In the future I might j
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by MertsA 8y ago
One thing that makes that capacitor prank significantly safer is that the terminals are so close together so the actual current path through the victim is very unlikely to send any significant current through their heart. Still possible if
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by MertsA 8y ago
My son just had a laceration that needed closed up a week ago. We didn't even take him to the ER, just his pediatrician who saw him for all of 5 minutes. She didn't even use any skin adhesives to close up the wound, she just taped
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by MertsA 8y ago
>All the time nuclear power fans tell us that "this time we've learned and current design are safe". This is a strawman argument. No one is claiming that old reactors are getting safer as we come up with better designs. No
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by MertsA 8y ago
>but that's exactly what nuclear energy proponents said in the 70s. And they broke ground at Fukushima in the 60s. We've come a long way in reactor design in 50 years.
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by MertsA 8y ago
If you're just talking about potential loss hydropower is not the argument you want to make here. Just the Banqiao dam failure alone has caused far more fatalities than nuclear power ever has including Chernobyl. https://en.
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by MertsA 8y ago
They could do that now with the current x ray images if they wanted to. Also by classification I'm just referring to classifying in broad categories such as benign, weapon, drugs, bomb, etc. Right now when you go through security the i
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by MertsA 8y ago
>With CT technology, we could see even more nuanced differences get flagged for unusual. Good, that's more data to learn from and that would only be a minor issue for a short period of time for new devices. How often have you flown
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by MertsA 8y ago
Every TSA red team test has overwhelmingly found that they miss massive amounts of contraband. They aren't just missing pocket knives and nail clippers, red teams bring through mock firearms, large knives, drugs, bombs, etc. And overwh
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by MertsA 8y ago
I accidentally went through security with my infant son's boarding pass, separately from my wife and son who went through with my boarding pass, the TSA agent only checked my wife's boarding pass and not my son's. Not to ment
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by MertsA 8y ago
It's a shame when comments like these are downvoted. You're spot on, magnetic bearings certainly have a very small drag, but it's not zero. Going over that reed switch will also produce a tiny amount of drag, it's minisc
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by MertsA 8y ago
That's not source code, that's just a config file embedded into the firmware. For most firmware, it's a large binary file that often has different sections containing stuff like an OS kernel at one spot, a compressed archive
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by MertsA 8y ago
No, for one you can only orbit in an ellipse around the center of mass. You can only "comb" in a direction that takes you around the middle of the ball. The major difference though, is that you can have overlapping orbits. There i
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by MertsA 8y ago
At the time of the second crash it wasn't as clear what the likely culprit was. If it was believed to be a defect with the aircraft at that time then most other countries would have already grounded them by then. I think that's a
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by MertsA 8y ago
Here's autopilot swerving into oncoming traffic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBaolsFyD9I Here's autopilot following a lane straight into a concrete barrier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2ml
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by MertsA 8y ago
No, it's actually more like 24g to ~30g depending on how "heaping" the tablespoons were, you might be thinking of the specific gravity and using that to estimate the weight but an important consideration is that it's in
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by MertsA 8y ago
The only reason why I mentioned that is to suggest that I know what I proper amount of MSG to add for seasoning is. The amounts in those studies are very excessive and unrealistic.
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by MertsA 8y ago
Depending on the size of the pot that might be about right. The problem I have with the studies referenced is that they wildly overestimated MSG intake and their threshold effect was at a level similar to eating one of those heaping tablesp
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by MertsA 8y ago
The paper you cited references three other papers. The first paper just throws out an estimate with no source or data for it, just a figure. That figure is also not in mg/kg just total dietary intake. Honestly the figure itself is beli
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by MertsA 8y ago
I get what you're saying but that's why I used chicken broth as an example as that has tons of free glutamate as well as sodium to go with it. As for free vs. bound glutamate, if it's bound glutamate it's not going to co
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by MertsA 8y ago
You'd have to be crazy to add 2.5 grams worth of MSG to a single meal. Accent calls for using like 1/10th that amount in soup. That's no different than using 10x as much salt as a recipe calls for, it's not going to turn
567.
by MertsA 8y ago
All you've isolated is the placebo effect unless you react that same way to all glutamate containing foods. Chicken broth has tons of glutamate in it, if chicken broth doesn't cause your headaches then neither does MSG. And if you
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by MertsA 8y ago
That's not what he's saying. The section he is quoting is that if the user already consented to e.g. an Amazon Echo listening with a microphone then that's totally legal. Hence it does matter whether or not Google disclosed t
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by MertsA 8y ago
Well first of all this isn't a phone call so there's no chance at all of wiretapping charges regardless of any other circumstances. Second of all, the only potentially related charge would be something like eavesdropping and while
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by MertsA 8y ago
The waste is many orders of magnitude more radioactive than the fuel. The fuel itself is fissile, meaning it can split when hit with a neutron. Radioactivity is a measure of how often an isotope will spontaneously split on its own. The fres

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