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by zunzun 7y ago
The Chinese government might have enough high-level nuclear waste to make self-warming clothing for the majority of the population. If they use high energy gamma emitters, people could actually warm up those around them as well - increasing
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by zunzun 7y ago
At the Nuremberg trials after World War II, top nazi Hermann Goering testified that the war was necessary to strengthen the German people. This is because they believed the race evolution writings of Madam Helena Blavatsky in her books &quo
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by zunzun 7y ago
Oppenheimer invented the neutron ray gun.
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by zunzun 7y ago
... and the other eight were delicious.
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by zunzun 7y ago
The video I refer to shows the sea and some coastline, with the fireball far offshore. Good comment, but no.
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Ask HN: Nuclear Cruise Missile Fuel
6 points by zunzun 7y ago|3 comments
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by zunzun 7y ago
From an energy efficiency standpoint, yes.
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by zunzun 7y ago
I disagree - it seems logical to transport all of the earth's inhabitants to one side of the planet, and have them all push downwards at the same time.
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by zunzun 7y ago
Would you please list some other things that you are not going to do?
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by zunzun 7y ago
A clone is an identical twin born decades later, similar to having a frozen IVF identical twin embryo thawed out and raised decades later (which is currently possible).
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by zunzun 7y ago
Please forgive my ignorance, but how does this reach the surface of the earth without causing some form of physical disaster?
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by zunzun 7y ago
Theoretically this could mean that children born in nudist colonies would have a reduced risk of learning disabilities, which would be amenable to statistical analysis.
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by zunzun 7y ago
These look totally cool through a submarine periscope because of the excellent optics and magnification levels available.
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by zunzun 7y ago
This might actually be difficult to discern, as the site has "shadow banning" where an unpopular posting or comment can be banned - but not from the original poster, so they do not know it happened. I personally consider this a de
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by zunzun 7y ago
Is there any indication of effect on the mosquito's natural predators, or on animal life that might eat the infected dead bodies such as different ant species?
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Ask HN: Reporting Hacker News UI Bugs
1 points by zunzun 7y ago|2 comments
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by zunzun 7y ago
This is only true if you have an understanding of genetics grounded in scientifically verifiable physical reality.
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by zunzun 7y ago
If one or two dozen human genes specific to brain development (out of the approximately 20,000 total in the human genome) can be spliced into other primates, then in a country where these would not in any way be legally considered human it
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by zunzun 7y ago
How then are the effects of hallucinogens accounted for?
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by zunzun 7y ago
I am usually curious as to what caused the gray, as I never see any reason given for it and can only read the (gray) text to try and figure out what possibly was the reason for it. I have never considered that the same logic would also be u
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by zunzun 7y ago
If this was in any way related to an increase in the number of synapses per neuron cell, or neuron interconnections, this would be measurable and a comparative study should show a substantive difference in this value between modern-day huma
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Ask HN: Advice on Liquid Mercury Disposal
4 points by zunzun 7y ago|3 comments
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by zunzun 7y ago
Would not this make the pharmacy sales clerks who handled the sale, in addition to the pharmacist, indictable both under charges of accessory to murder and under conspiracy to commit murder?
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by zunzun 7y ago
Under M.M.T., why does the USA have a federal income tax?
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by zunzun 7y ago
I have seen articles with "flagged" but do not understand what this actually means in practice, as those articles are not removed from view. Does it mean that comments are closed?
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by zunzun 7y ago
I use a Google Compute Engine (GCE) 4-core "high cpu" unit for my personal hobby curve and surface fitting web site zunzun.com - the site requires large, irregular bursts of CPU for user calculations, mostly scipy and matplotlib.
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by zunzun 7y ago
As I understand it, this article's use of the phrase "Coronal Mass Injections" is incorrect.
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by zunzun 7y ago
If there is a shadow ban, why would an email to the people who put the ban in place change anything? I do not understand how this would work.
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by zunzun 8y ago
Do you have an equivalent ticket status of "Unable to reproduce" available? I have in the past put tickets in "On Hold" status with "Unable to reproduce" as the reason for the hold status.
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by zunzun 8y ago
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