civilitty

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1111.
by civilitty 9y ago
> Has anybody thought through the engineering of those silica reaction vessels (I haven't searched)? I don't think it can work. > If I understand the concept shown in the Wikipedia page, it depends on uranium hexafluoride op
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by civilitty 9y ago
It wasn't pseudoscience when they were making that decision.
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by civilitty 9y ago
One might wonder what benefits alternate uses for scarce resources spent chasing chemistry could have provided for alchemy instead.
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by civilitty 9y ago
Almost any time nuclear is mentioned, I find this link to be relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_lightbulb The thing is, even if you got the system small enough (lightbulb reactor or otherwise), you'd
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by civilitty 9y ago
No one would use submarines for the first strike in a major war unless it was to launch nuclear warheads from an unpredictable location. It would take months for them to get into position, even if the attacker had that many subs and it woul
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by civilitty 9y ago
If they did that, then the second a war started all of our surface Navy would be wiped out in a first strike.
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by civilitty 9y ago
For those who are interested in a relatively accurate (but dramatized) portrayal of what the operations on a destroyer look like you should watch the first and second season of The Last Ship. It does fudge a few details and its obviously a
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by civilitty 9y ago
I agree that specific formulation is asinine but the whole point of regulations is that businesses cannot be trusted to put public welfare above economic incentives. It's not about who is more to blame, it's about the government f
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by civilitty 9y ago
What, exactly, do you think is a reusable rocket? You can't just land it, refuel, attach it to a second stage, and fire it up again. Everything has to be retested and tons of stuff replaced because the forces during launch, let alone r
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by civilitty 9y ago
That's the rub with BTC: technical and security problems have historically plagued BTC companies with huge amounts of money lost. GDAX giving a FDIC-lite guarantee sets them far apart from the rest, even if their customer service and i
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by civilitty 9y ago
Not off the shelf, no, not to my knowledge. This would probably fall under some kind of liability insurance contract and there are plenty of companies that would structure it for you. However, it would be a very complicated and expensive co
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by civilitty 9y ago
Money is mostly used to compromise civilians who are in debt as that pressure makes them more vulnerable, especially if it's debt to organized crime. A common tactic is to give desperate people a medium chunk of cash to do something mi
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by civilitty 9y ago
According to the US State Department, anyone who visits Iran and stays for longer than a year requires an exit permit to leave the country. I don't know much about the politics of Iran but I'd imagine that applies to everyone born
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by civilitty 9y ago
This sort of situation can have tragic consequences too. In high school, a friend of mine was in the same situation: Mother and kids in the US while the father is stuck in Iran. They were wealthy so they didn't go through the added str