tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post2757220906931842347..comments2023-11-29T01:47:52.439-07:00Comments on clarity2010: Electricity>Nuclear Energy>Your friend Uranium-235Relax Maxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-14687952397027731672009-03-27T01:01:00.000-06:002009-03-27T01:01:00.000-06:00Max, what is going on? You are scaring me. Are you...Max, what is going on? You are scaring me. Are you going to try and tell me that Nuclear power plants are our future? Won't we all be like Three Mile Island? Chernobyl? Do you think we are smarter than they were? Can they be bought?ettarosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13178737973585191754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-32172782095397479432009-03-27T05:36:00.000-06:002009-03-27T05:36:00.000-06:00Very good, very interesting, but I just don't ...Very good, very interesting, but I just don't want to be an unearthly blue myself. Earthly seems to sound better.Sheilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09140046386364588303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-20965556440337312972009-03-27T05:59:00.000-06:002009-03-27T05:59:00.000-06:00If only there were really hip hop interludes in sc...If only there were really hip hop interludes in science class! I have it on good authority that they are not, as a rule.<br><br>My own science classes in elementary school were taught by a somnolent fellow who had a closetful of enormous batteries. He took them out sometimes and we looked at them. Just - looked. I think.<br><br>If you had been teaching, I'd remember more, I am sure.Lidianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14609618027313982020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-52015156065806135132009-03-27T07:14:00.000-06:002009-03-27T07:14:00.000-06:00Oddly frightening indeed.If my science teacher had...Oddly frightening indeed.<br>If my science teacher had thought of the pool analogy I might have remembered a lot more.<br><br>I'm afraid of Lidian's science teacher.Janethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02190489990653412687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-74013628121889286272009-03-27T08:05:00.000-06:002009-03-27T08:05:00.000-06:00I love this, just so good and so funny... ever tho...I love this, just so good and so funny... ever thought of being a teacher for real?Sagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01005047450040559399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-88574646455834089842009-03-27T09:45:00.000-06:002009-03-27T09:45:00.000-06:00@Ettarose - Hello SuzyQ. Good to hear from you aga...@Ettarose - Hello SuzyQ. Good to hear from you again. So many questions, you make my head swim.<br><br>1. I don't know what's going on.<br>2. You scare me too.<br>3. No. I don't know what our future holds. I hope not coal though.<br>4. I hope not. 3 mile island is in Pennsylvania.<br>5. Cher's noble? Are you sure?<br>6. No. 3 mile island is us. How can we be smarter than us? Yes, I think we are smarter than the Russians. But just as lazy. Sigh.<br>7. Only god knows what you are talking about now. I can be bought, if that helps. :)<br><br>Just wait until all the electricity posts are done. You think you are scared now? She-it.Relax Maxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-53492570029219711692009-03-27T10:01:00.000-06:002009-03-27T10:01:00.000-06:00@Shelia - I agree. An unearthly blue would make yo...@Shelia - I agree. An unearthly blue would make you an American mailbox and all the mail would be lost. Red suits you. :)<br><br>@Lidian - You didn't have dance breaks in science class? No wonder you fled to the Great White North. :)<br><br>Trying to block out the mental image of your teacher's giant batteries. And if you think I am going to look up the word somnolent, pfft. I will simply assign my own meaning. I say... greasy. No, sticky. Yeah, sticky.<br><br>If I had been your teacher, the lesson would have been envivified, but you would not necessarily be more knowledgeable afterwards. :)Relax Maxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-39701044986782379512009-03-27T10:11:00.000-06:002009-03-27T10:11:00.000-06:00@Janet - And if I had been your science teacher, w...@Janet - And if I had been your science teacher, we would have PLAYED pool a lot more. :)<br><br>Please don't be afraid of Lidian's science teacher. Lidian just tries to be part of the group and has a tendency to make things up.<br><br>My theory is she never even had a science teacher because she went to a one-room log cabin school in Bed-Stuy and they had to choose between science and clog dancing. As I say, this is just my empathic impression which comes from reaching out and touching the words she writes.<br><br>I may be wrong, of course, but I also sense she was caught dealing hard drugs in the fifth grade and lammed out to Canada before her court date. This is just an impression I receive when I read her comments. At any rate, I would ask that you all just smile and nod when she goes off about sleepy-looking teachers and big batteries. Just sayin'.Relax Maxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-32654866955319888002009-03-27T10:40:00.000-06:002009-03-27T10:40:00.000-06:00@Sage - Good? Funny? Thank you. Now if I could on...@Sage - Good? Funny? Thank you. Now if I could only be accurate as well. :)<br><br>Have I ever thought of being a teacher? Twice, as a matter of fact. For a few seconds each time. But I was pretty drunk when it seemed like a good idea, and the stupor passed. I soon realized that I would have to have a source of actual money in order to make my way in this world, and that, of course, precluded teaching for a living.<br><br>And so I make my life's work explaining (clarifying) things instead. (Writing is not quite the same as teaching, since it omits the sticky-nosed children part.) I am an information architect by trade, to partially pacify my unquiet mind, and because that is my "gift" as mentioned in another recent post. I buy and sell things on the side for the steady income part. This latter used to mean I traded the stock market, but Bush and Obama sort of screwed that life up for me. Now I have to actually work at my graft. I mean craft. Ack!<br><br>IA is an actual job title, btw.<br><br>I am so happy when you stop by to comment! Thank you. :)Relax Maxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-75731012048014109592009-03-27T10:52:00.000-06:002009-03-27T10:52:00.000-06:00UNRELATED TO POST: I won't make you of course....UNRELATED TO POST: I won't make you of course. I believe you have Skype and can on accasion say moderately witty things - two big pluses in my book right now. Its going to take me a few weeks to figure out what I'm doing - just think about it for now. If you do have Skype - look me up, we can discuss.Canuckleheadhttp://www.canucklehead.ca/blog/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-54894524063232876252009-03-28T11:50:00.000-06:002009-03-28T11:50:00.000-06:00Would you please delve into the isotopes thing a l...Would you please delve into the isotopes thing a little deeper, I'm just not getting it.Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035409330352625930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-3420977454894659822009-03-30T02:50:00.000-06:002009-03-30T02:50:00.000-06:00Please ignore this, I'm just testing something...Please ignore this, I'm just testing something. Fusion or something. Don't let it worry you.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04709794851766685322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-35047062317322293992009-03-31T07:00:00.000-06:002009-03-31T07:00:00.000-06:00sorry I have been gone, but this post inspired me ...sorry I have been gone, but this post inspired me to go see the Blue Man Group again.Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15059528663560612371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-69472982824236969642009-04-01T08:11:00.000-06:002009-04-01T08:11:00.000-06:00Re: commentary on Lidian's lurid past - hahaha...Re: commentary on Lidian's lurid past - hahahahahahahahahahaha! No offense Lidian, but I laughed all the way through that.Janethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02190489990653412687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-48529833424240459472009-04-01T09:01:00.000-06:002009-04-01T09:01:00.000-06:00Technically, fusion is the primal power of the uni...Technically, fusion is the primal power of the universe, which has completely different power potential. Unfortunately, our attempts to harness it to date have been less than successful. However, it has a great deal of potential if it can be pulled off (and considerably less dangerous waste).<br><br>Interesting discussion. Chernobyl was a horrific disaster and we've had several significant radiation releases as big or bigger than 3 mile island worldwide (WIkipedia has a fine article and links to more info on that for the interested). There's also a website that identifies all the world's nuclear reactors and their methodology. <br><br>In Europe, it is believed they have a considerably safer nuclear (fission) reactor, water cooled. However, to the best of my knowledge, we don't have any of this second or third generation nuclear plant here, possibly because we haven't built a new on in decades.Stephaniehttp://rocketscientist.today.comnoreply@blogger.com