Nuclear reactors are pretty damn safe, the only time things have gone wrong (Chernobyl,3 Mile) has been due to human error. I've been inside a Nuclear reactor complex and its a pretty amazing place and the safety precautions they have are amazing.
what good are safety precautions if you don't follow them?
Quote from Erraticworth picking up or no?
It's probably the best DS game I've played so far, (keep in mind I haven't played a ton). It's really close to the console NG games too, even with the stylus. You pull off all of your moves, except block, with just the gestures so it's pretty specific with what it wants you to do, just scribbling on screen won't produce very good results (at least with the tougher enemies). Not saying you couldn't fluke your way through a few areas, but generally you're going to need to use all the moves at your disposal when they mix up the enemy types.
Also it looks really great, Ryu's animations are pretty slick, and even the music had be humming after I finished (no joke). So yeah, definitely worth it in my opinion, though I've only played the first 2 chapters and a bit. I hear it's short, but I could totally see myself going through it again on the harder difficulty.
ill give it a whirl then. if you need some other ds recommendations, you should try megaman zx and megaman zx advent. if you were a fan of the games on the snes, you'll love these ones. i know i did 
Quote from ChunksYou can't have a meltdown without the fuel rods hitting critical mass, something that modern day reactors are not very likely to ever see. Not to mention that's not an issue when you are storing depleted fuel rods. The only danger in storing the waste material is if someone was to break in and steal some and then make a dirty bomb out of it, which in the end would cause more hysteria than environmental damage. Which is why storing it in one big place is safer.Reactors are designed differently now than they were in the chernobyl days, it was a flawed design to begin with.
I think we are getting off-topic
the fundemental design hasn't changed since chernobyl; however in the chernobyl accident there were many warnings that the plant administrator ignored. it feels bad to say that disaster could have been averted, and with ease at that; but the administrator just wouldn't listen!
point is, there is always a chance of something like this happening. it happened at chernobyl, it happened at the three mile island, and it'll probably happen again.
also, fyi, this is the off topic forum :monocle:
Quote from ChunksI disagree. Uranium is found in virtually every rock on earth. It's pretty abundant and you would be surprised at how much energy you can extract from a small amount of enriched ore. Also, depleted uranium is not THAT dangerous unless it you inhale dust when it is incenerated/exploded/etc. Not trying to underplay its' toxicity but it is nowhere as dangerous as u235.
I do admit that storing it could be dangerous, but as long as there is a good plan and strategy at containing it I still think it is the best option we have at making clean power en masse at this point. I do agree that it is not an ultimate solution but I think it is the correct stepping stone.
In the US they are building a pretty huge facility inside of a mountain in the middle of a desert, should be pretty secure, but who knows.
Solar technology I hope will be the future, but the technology still just isn't there. We still aren't to the point where the efficiency is there and the cost per watt is way too high.
while it's true that uranium is pretty abundant, it's mostly the depleted u238 isotope that is present. the highly radioactive u235 is only found in 5% of all uranium cases (give or take, cant remember the exact numbers). also, having a facility in the desert has little to no effect on the magnitude of a nuclear meltdown; chernobyl showed us that a meltdown can create a radioactively toxic cloud the size of belarus, and with heavy winds it swept over a large part of europe. so, unless you build it on antartica (poor penguins), there'll always be massive amounts of people endangered by it.
as for solar technology, read this guy's post about it (scroll down a bit, the headline is "the laser elevator"). while the tone is sort of humourous and at times sarcastic, this is actually written by a guy that worked at nasa, so i'd imagine it's something he has a lot of insight in:
Quote from ErraticJust picked up Ninja Gaiden DS, pretty awesome so far
worth picking up or no?
things like these are the reason i never went into politics. the amount of commotion you get for a thing like that is absurd. it's not even a question about faith any more, it's just about who's right and who's wrong.
Quote from FuryoEven more better, he's playing my first game
i am really looking forward to the time where i can say that. possibly shed a tear too while saying, "it was such a good kid until it got shipped". and by kid i of course mean game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid3
look at the bottom.
mix of. some of the good movies i want to watch are simply not out on blu ray yet.
playing games, matrix style!
train one looks awesome
oh yeah we had that too. fucking weather is getting out of hand. i blame terrorists and or bush.
Quote from Bic-B@llor you could tell people with shitty pcs/eyes to f off
wouldnt that be a bit hypocritic when you're making a game for those same people?
hugely fine piece of work right there. the theme, the concept and of course the model; everything screams 5 stars. good job.
i dont know how to put it, but there's a lack of subtle detail in most of those pics... you have some large props in most of the rooms and outside, but you need pipes running around, or something else to cover the walls. it definitely looks way too empty
hmm.. seems like a good movie me and my harem could enjoy
our harem
i, uh, woke up drunk to see i'm not in my bed, and not in my country altogether. saw that the time was before noon and, having holidays, decided to go back to sleep.
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this is all i can think when i see that pic
i am just thinking, "why ben stiller?"
