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Re: Natural Nukes

Dave Typinski — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:07:29 GMT

From: "John Murr Rhame" ... Thanks a bunch for that, Murr; very interesting. I had figured the stuff just lumped together by

Natural Nukes

John Murr Rhame — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:10:50 GMT

The release of oxygen by photosynthesis may have concentrated uranium deposits spawning many natural nuclear reactors three billion years ago.

Solar Powered Aircraft

Joel Phelps — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:01:46 GMT

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/11/video-solar-powered-plane-moves-for-the-first-time/ _________________________________________________________________

Re: ambient energy

Raoul Duke — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:49:34 GMT

... zoiks!

Re: i am greatly relieved to read

Raoul Duke — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:19:10 GMT

... i wasn't assuming there exists a purpose; i was just assuming i like the golden rule rather than the dog-eat-dog one. admittedly the golden one can

speaking of floating cities that don't end up in death/destruction

Raoul Duke — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:18:56 GMT

i loved this book as a kid (haven't read it in decades, but i assume i'd still love it) http://images.google.com/images?q=Babar Visits Another Planet

Re: speaking of torsen

Simeon Lapinbleu — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:38:16 GMT

... Why, there's even one in LEGO: http://individual.utoronto.ca/stehlik/torsen.html ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: speaking of torsen

Simeon Lapinbleu — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:51:14 GMT

2009/11/18 Raoul Duke writes http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/1737 ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsen_differential Answerbag ? Pfft... Siméon. ²(:o'#

Re: ambient energy

Simeon Lapinbleu — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:47:40 GMT

2009/11/20 Raoul Duke writes: http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/22764/ ... Hmm, 60µW is not a lot of oomph, but perhaps if you switched off all

Re: The Rohloff 14-speed bicycle hub

Simeon Lapinbleu — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:53:00 GMT

... Groan! Nice one Dave. What a gas-works, as we say here in France. I used to work on 3-speed Sturmey-Archer hubs as a lad; they were made in the town,

Re: speaking of london

Simeon Lapinbleu — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:17:45 GMT

2009/11/21 Raoul Duke writes: i used to live in england, and even near london, and *never went on a ... Now, that *was an oversight, for a techie... I never

Re: UK Climate Research Unit Hacked

John Murr Rhame — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:42:35 GMT

... At this point, no one at the Climate Research Unit claims that the info is forged. Presumably, they haven't had time to read through all of the data yet

Re: UK Climate Research Unit Hacked

Bob Reite — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:36:38 GMT

I got a copy of the zip archive, unpacked it and started going through it. The mail headers are not full headers, which leaves me to believe that the Emails

UK Climate Research Unit Hacked

John Murr Rhame — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:20:50 GMT

Looks like we will have a chance to check some of the underlying data from the UK's Climate Research Unit (CRU). This story is still breaking. Someone

Re: The Rohloff 14-speed bicycle hub

Nicholas Bodley — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:16:34 GMT

On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:23:51 -0500, Dave Typinski ... Oh, gad! (Chuckling in a fashion I've never done before...) -- Nicholas Bodley +|=|+