runesmithie

There was a story that the Assistant Dean of Engineering told us about a Russian General who came over a few years after the Cold War and pointed to that unlabelled (and not on a map yet or anything as being a nuclear reactor) building and asked what kind of research they were doing with the nuclear reactor. The dean was pretty surprised that he knew it was a nuclear reactor and asked how he knew that. The general said that they had a map of every single nuclear reactor in the United States o.o

:P They hold tours at most low power research facilities ;) Just look around to see if a local uni has a reactor :P

File->Preferences Uncheck the checkbox ;)

Meh, just resize the client window until it shows minimal blackspace and it's good enough

I hope you realize there are 3 next gen systems ;)

Grab yourself a textbook to learn it from (can be had for ~50 USD) first of all. Second of all, Visual Basic .NET is easy and gives you a good oversight of programming concepts that allow you to easily switch between languages. (Python is also fairly easy to learn, and it's interpreted so it doesn't have to be compiled ^_^)

Too many to tell youi one single one :( I'm noteven going to attempt

It's the revolution ;) (in more ways than one :P)

And what has that got to do with anything, bubsa? :P Any Australian would be on the ABC website ;) I'm Australian, but I've never been on a website naked :P I made a boomerang, I could throw it and it'd come back to me, I say "g'day" regularly, I say "no worries mate" without hardly opening my mouth so the flies don't get in, I ride my pet kangaroo to school, and I've wrestled with a drop bear. What would you be doing on the *American* Broadcasting Company site? :P I'm not a moron, so don't be flaming here

The Wii first and foremost, followed by an X360... maybe =\ The Wii is definitely going to be my first buy of this gen though :P

The outside might not look so hot, but the inside looks a lot better (even has some humorous touches, like a flotation device hanging next to the pool (can't think of the name, but the circly things))

It wasn't like boiling or anything :P And they weren't using it to generate electricity either

Get to see any pulsings?

Don't worry :P I believe they said that right now it's only powerful enough to power one house, but theyre trying to get a license for 1250kW

More of the "I want to drink that" :P :shock: Never in my entire life, would I think that... More like "What would happen if someone drank that?". Notice the lack of my thinking that I would do it. Well, it's pure water... and it doesn't sound like it'd be very radioactive. Only thing I'm worried about is it not being all that cold :P

More of the "I want to drink that" :P

Some of you might have noticed I've been absent the past few days. Well, I've been at an engineering camp at one of the state colleges, and it's been frieking great. But that's not the point. I got to see a nuclear reactor... eeeeeee /me runs around the room giggling <-- twas in that building <-- we got to stand pretty much where they were (right behind them is the pool and about 20 feet down are the rods) And then they pulsed it for us (Pulled out a control rod and slammed it back in) It looks pretty much like these pictures, but not as close since we were 20 feet up. It was really amazing to watch that because it lasted for around 5 minutes, and then the guy up there with us showed how they kept rust off of the pipes (by circulating the water with a hair dryer). Yes, a hair dryer, that's how pure the water is o.o That was pertty much it, but it was a lifetime experience.

Haha. Don't kid yourself. It may be the hardest math class in your school, but I went to a "normal, public high school" and it definitely wasn't the hardest. You have obviously never taken Multi or Diff Eqs. Those classes will make you cry. AP Calc BC is tough, but it's definitely not the hardest math class in high school. I took that junior year and then midway through my senior year math course, BC seemed like a joke. Just something interesting; I was reading somewhere that the AP Calc BC test, although genereally deemed as one of the hardest, was the most well-prepared for AP. Maybe you just didn't go to a "normal" highschool then ;) Hell, we don't even have anything past trig

You have *NO* idea how moronic that sounded

I don't care how healthy they are. They're tasty for salads. You can make your own salads 1000000 times as tasty as McDonalds ones. There's a reason they call it *fast* food though :P They pull them out faster than you can make them yourself ;)

I'd wish for the genie to be freeeeee :P

I'd wager most of the people in the north have no clue :P

Another thing I was thinking of... If my highschool was any bigger (~18 kids in my grade), it would definitely be very very poor. Right now the teachers are able to spend a lot of time talking to the kids about problems with homework or anything and are available 99% of the day as long as you come in a free hour when they aren't lecturing and in the case of my math teacher... she always knows what problem you're going about on and doesn't really have to look at her answer key to check o.O

I guess I might as well elaborate a bit more. We have one language .. Spanish, and only Spanish 1 and 2 are available. The teacher is horrible, but it doesn't matter too much as we got our lessons from the tv :P (Telecourse from a big uni in the northern part of the state). For sports, we really only have the basics, Football (American), Volleyball, Basketball, and Track. Outside of those activities, we have a Scholar's Bowl team (which is about the only extracurricular activity I'm good at :P ), Forensics (think Debate/Speech, not CSI), the Allschool play, and a few other organizations that really just sit around and twiddle their thumbs, like SADD. The past 2 years we were in the BEST robotics competition, but we didnt do that this year and were promised a better science related extracurricular activity next year >.<. Mainly the reason why we don't have it anymore is because we had a horrible machine design and very few people that would actually work on it and knew what they were doing. Infact in my sophomore year we had to rely on point donations, as our machine *did not* work at all =\

Basic bodily function. So how come when it stinks, people have to hold their noses? When a person of a erm... specific race is beside me on the bus or something, I just breathe through my mouth so I can't smell anything. And I always sneeze through my nose, but when I know it's coming, I try to stop it. Because you have more smell receptors in your nose (Although closing it doesnt solve the problem, as you still have tastebuds in your tongue)