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Re:Thorium reactors: Asgard’s fire on Friday April 11, 2014 @04:21AM (#7571758)
The buzz for thorium reactors is made by people who want to sell thorium reactors.
Today doctor says this, 10 years later doctor says exact opposite.
Re:Indian Ocean garbage patch on Thursday March 20, 2014 @10:02AM (#7435543)
In future generations there will be people who devote their lives to clean up the mess that we made. And it will be good lives too.
It's not about background radiation level. It's about the risk of ingesting or inhaling a speck of radioactive material. If this particle settles somewhere in your body, it means that the cells in the immediate vicinity of this particle are going to subjected to very intense radiation.
Re:Colorado Pot Tax Proving More Lucrative Than Expected on Saturday February 22, 2014 @04:45PM (#7283757)
Buying a lottery ticket is no more irrational than buying a movie ticket. It buys you a little thrill -- the possibility that you may become rich.
Re:Firefox 27 Released on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @01:06PM (#7179150)
Then Mozilla Thunderbird, then TortoiseGit, then TortoitseSVN, then Sublime Text Editor, then Notepad++, then Notepad++ informs me there is an update of a plugin that I never use, then VLC media player, then Google Chrome, then Oracle VirtualBox, then Visual Studio proudly announces a service pack, then Windows informs me that it wants to reboot in 10 minutes.