Recent content by bilby

You should fucking answer the question. But you are hoping that sufficient faux outrage and bluster will make everyone forget it, and/or fail to notice your abject failure to even acknowledge that the question exists: So, what is your plan? How is it better than that proposed by the Governor?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzq2p0yk4o

Yeah, kinda. It's an idea that was proposed back in 2016 by a team at Bristol University, whereby you could collect Carbon-14 from the graphite moderator that has been exposed to neutron bombardment in a nuclear reactor, make it into artificial diamond, and sandwich that radiocarbon diamond...

I know Martin Walter's Dormobile conversions included vehicles from Morris, VW, BMC, LandRover, Ford, Leyland, and Commer, (as well as the classic Bedford vans that started the whole business) but I never knew they'd done a Nissan. Perhaps it was a custom job just for Pavarotti.

My first thought is that local* microscopic sources of ionising radiation could cause point exposures on photographic plates. * eg radioactive dust particles landing on the plates themselves. Though why you would find radioactive dust in the air, the day after a nuclear test, is a total...

OK. That's not what "physical scalabilty limits" means, though. You are talking about geographical constraints on customer access, not an inability to indefinitely increase in size.

Now that's hardly fair. Literally anyone who worked hard, used their brains, and had a father who owned an emerald mine, could have had similar success.

Yes it was. It isn't now, in the US, because it's been regulated to death.

No, it isn't. It's been stored in dry casks at nuclear power plants for seventy years, without any kind of incident. We know exactly how and where to store it in a way that is completely safe, and harmless to the environment. It's a propaganda ploy by the anti-nuclear lobby to declare that...

Sure it does. How many datacentres can we supply power for?

Yes, he was; He thought the purpose of teaching was to tell people facts, but it is actually to help them to learn. :D

What is? Stabbings? They have been a regular occurence (but fortunately not a common one) since the invention of knives. Stabbings by Afghan nationals who arrived in the UK in a lorry? If that's a "regular occurrence", what were the dates of the last three such incidents? Or just the last two...

Shoe sizes are measured in barleycorns (a barleycorn is a third of an inch) starting from an arbitrary smallest practical size (size zero) for infant shoes; Adult sizes are usually measured from a datum at child size 13.5 = adult size 1, going up in barleycorns from that datum. It's perfectly...

It's an English English insult, and refers to the glans penis. Presumably with the implication that the person referred to is "a bit of a knob".

Well he lost, back in 2015, according to wikipedia, and retired from politics in 2017. So, not really a problem currently. You did know that this thread is more than ten years old, and that some stuff has happened since then, right?