The critical mass of fissile material is the amount needed for a sustained nuclear chain reaction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_mass
Author: DhammaSeeker
care a whole awful lot
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”
– Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
Senseless tragedy
I invite you, dear reader, to light a candle as I have done at gratefulness.org in memory of those senselessly killed at Virginia Tech on 16 APR 2007.
White House seeks ‘czar’ to oversee wars
11 Apr 2007 05:01:03 GMT
Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON, April 11 (Reuters) – The White House wants to appoint a high-profile overseer to manage the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but has had trouble finding someone to take the job, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.At least three retired four-star generals approached by the White House in recent weeks have turned down the position, the report said.
Um, excuse me. Isn’t that the President’s job? This just looks like an engineered scape goat plan, and ‘at least three retired four-star generals’ know that as well.
ZEEMAN OCEAN CHALLENGE
The goal of the “ZEEMAN OCEAN CHALLENGE” is to cross the Pacific Ocean at its widest point – solo. The 16,000-kilometer crossing will not make use of any motorised or wind-related power. This extreme challenge will take between 7 and 9 months to complete and will be non-stop, without re-supplies or any other support.
This guy is insane. I heard about this project on the BBC NewsPod podcast last week a day or two before he set off in the ocean.
Today, he’s been at it 6 days and rowed 162 miles.
Orly?
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There Are No Secrets, Only Information You Don’t Yet Have
According to Keith Malley’s best guess, combined daily downloads for all podcasts under the podshow podcasting umbrella do not exceed 12,000 while daily downloads for the Keith and the Girl podcast well exceeds 12,000. That is all.
New theme/layout
After much looking and changing of the mind, I’ve settled on this theme (for awhile, at least). I hereby recognize that posts of this nature, a.k.a, ‘new theme/layout/etc.’ are completely pointless, and hereby apologize to anyone with the misfortune of reading it.
I do hope to get back into a semi-regular posting rhythm soon.
The fling
It’s not the thing you fling, it’s the fling itself.
~ Chris ‘In The Morning’ Stevens, Northern Exposure
Land of the free?
Pennsylvania Man’s Letter Brings Secret Service
Posted: Jan. 21 2:53 p.m.
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — An elderly man who wrote in a letter to the editor about Saddam Hussein’s execution that “they hanged the wrong man” got a visit from Secret Service agents concerned he was threatening President Bush.
The letter by Dan Tilli, 81, was published in Monday’s edition of The Express-Times of Easton, Pennsylvania It ended with the line, “I still believe they hanged the wrong man.”
Tilli said the statement was not a threat. “I didn’t say who – I could’ve meant (Osama) bin Laden,” he said Friday.
Two Secret Service agents questioned Tilli at his Bethlehem apartment Thursday, briefly searching the place and taking pictures of him, he said.
read more here
Jesus Christ! I’d better be expecting the men in black to be knocking on my door any day now.