Cuthbert Shaw

Well he didn't call them Scotch, I suppose there is that.

The good ol British trait of looking forward to when their athletes and political leaders fail. Success doesn't create the drama needed to fill tabloid space.

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I play sports and do athletics, while studying statistics and linguistics, and staying interested in politics.

I think they are grateful for that.

He's talking of trying to do Colossus in space which is 2 Gigawatts

Sorry should have been 28,000 m2 which is about the size of your image and there would need to be around 200 of them.

Latency would be in the order of 500 to 700 milliseconds in geosynchronous orbit.

10MW of data centre would require ~28 km² of solar panels and similar in cooling. So scale that up to Colossus 2 size that's 5,600 km².

All with near zero maintenance.

Nope, it has warmth, depth, feeling and has a use, she does not.

Knowing how to do something and being able to do it are not the same thing. Interested in how you envisage hundreds of square kilometers of cooling and power generation are going to be realised.

Skylab 7.5 kWh managed through passive heat management
ISS 80 kWh with 950 m² of External Active Thermal Control System

Assuming a panel efficiency of 350 W/m² in space, a measly 10MW data centre requires 28,571 m² of power production with similar in cooling.

Musk is talking terawatts.

The half life of bismuth is 1.4 billion times that of the universe, that's way cooler!

Yea it's not a fuel but ....

Slop

Errrrrr

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There is a cheaper phone shield!

Did the Epstein files only come into existence after Trump was elected?

Wonder why it wasn't being released before?

Wow a whole 11 million, that's certainly going to plug the deficit.

And a fourth labelled Hyperloop
And a fifth labelled self driving taxis
And a sixth .....

Well played!

Damn I need an edit button. Your "Polonium" rock most probably emits.....

Sorry I wasn't clear, don't worry about your bismuth it's most probably the "stable" one. Your rock most probably emits gamma lines from the Bi-214 as it decays.

Why I say "stable", it's half life is 1.4 billion times the age of the universe!

I reckon it's a lump of granite or gneiss and the polonium is Po-210 as part of the radium series decay chain, where radon comes from. The big gamma emitter is a Bismuth but really would love to hear what you find.

Thanks for the updates 🙏

That's great to hear.
I think there's going to be something I've missed, not being there the measurement just seems off and looking at the setup I think it looks really neat and the rock isn't that big, so just not sure. Cont

The other issue is zoning. In Europe, nuclear power, waste and science (like accelerators), radiation supervised areas tend to start at 3µSv/h. Even if it was for a point source, not the whole area, you would need personal dosimetry, warning signs etc.

I'd get that checked out from RP safety POV. 👍

Something is not quite right here. Polonium, across all of it's isotopes are predominantly alpha emitters, which your detector wouldn't measure with only a small fraction being gamma. So that rock if you went inside its box could be quite dangerous, not only in doserate but contamination. 1/2

Nice idea, but where would you deport them to, the Marianas Trench? No-one's going to take them!

Good luck distinguishing fissile material from radon in a helicopter.

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They were also in plans that were taken from the destroyed vehicle column that thought they could just drive all the way into Kyiv.

Two issues.

The first is a strawman, talking about Ukrainian use of starlink and ignoring the accusation.

Second is an admission that the "smartest man on the planet" can't stop russia accessing his network.

Oh and a third for good measure, Elon's a cunt.