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Sadly, it's utter nonsense -- little more than publicity for a speculative book -- so you'll have to find something else to help avoid low blood pressure.
Try QA. It seems to work for lots of people.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Quote: "When we talk about making conventional nuclear weapons, they are difficult to make," he said. "Making a mini-nuke would be difficult but in some respects not as difficult as a full-blown nuclear weapon."
A Littleboy/Fatman type nuke is as simple as you can get; just miniaturizing it enough to fit on a smaller bomber or missile is a huge undertaking, shrinking it enough to fit in to a 6" artillery shell resulted in a design so inefficient that it used something like 5-10x as much material as a conventional nuke for a 5-100x smaller yield. (Not enough volume for a spherical implosion, so the design was a large pancake of plutonium with pancakes of explosive on both flat sides; it could just barely be compressed enough to trigger a tiny amount of fission before blowing itself apart again.
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Quote: Del Monte explained that the mini-nuke weapon is activated when the nanoscale laser triggers a small thermonuclear fusion bomb using a tritium-deuterium fuel. Their size makes them difficult to screen, detect and also there's "essentially no fallout" associated with them.
Oh, they're talking about a pure fusion device. Something that's only been the holy grail of nuclear engineering since about 1950, and like fusion power has only been 30 years in the future since it was first proposed. And they're going to do it using a mechanism that currently requires a sportsball field worth of equipment and megajoules (gigajoules???) of input power to an enormous laser system to get a few joules of fusion out.
At best this is clickbait drivel of the most wretched sort. At worst it's the sort of F*** N*** that various political idiots are beating each other to death over.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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...are you supposted to reach the Balmer Peak on a Saturday evening when you discover that you have already drunk all your GOOD liquor in the liquor cabinet???
Is it really necessary to start on all the bottles you have collected on all your strange vacation locations but don't really like?
Who wants to work on a saturday evening anyway? (but is forced to do so because he didn't do the job he was supposed to do during the week )
Can't somebody just send me the codez plzzzz?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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Have you got a lime?
Have you got a coconut?
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Nope, can I put a lemon in the coconut instead?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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I've never heard of anyone trying that.
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Me neither
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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No but I have two pens, an apple, and a pineapple
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I have found that under those conditions, the code just works. Never try to understand how it works - you never will. Just accept that it does.
Cheers,
Mick
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It doesn't matter how often or hard you fall on your arse, eventually you'll roll over and land on your feet.
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That's my experience as well.
Ok, the whole Balmer Peak thing may be a joke, but I've found that my programming is actually just a little bit better if I'm slightly sloshed (but not too much)
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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jip, works for me, too...
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OK, If nobody's got a better idea, I'm opening a bottle of rakı!
Şerefe! İyi hafta sonu!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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Walk to the nearest shop selling good booze, and buy another bottle?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Ooooh, you don't know Sweden, I can tell.
SO much double standards when it comes to alcohol here. No shops open at late hours, I'm afraid...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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You're down to the rubbish stuff then, unless you could raid a neighbour.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Ah, what the heck, rakı isn't that bad, and it gives me an excuse to practise my Turkish... (all by myself)
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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Drink enough of it and you'll start singing[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Every night in my dreams...
I see you, I feel you...
That is how I know you GO OOOOOOOON!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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That was a very disturbing email to receive, until I realized what conversation was involved!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I do, I just wasn't expecting those two opening lines...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The closest I can imagine is this[^]
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In Sweden you learn to plan.
The problem is those people who overplan, if you get my spin.
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This is the time to start planning a trip abroad.
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