Thanks, you to man, when, busy holidays for sure, how about you?

Thanks good sir, and to you as well!

Thanks, and nice hat!

After I saw this, I bought some rare earth magnets online and went down to home depot and picked up a simple copper pipe and have the same little fun experiment. Want I want to do is to get a circular track, and it with a ball magnet inside and let it slowly roll around and generate a bunch of heat just by the magnet falling.

Indeed, haven't been as active these days. I pretty much decided to completely avoid all the political threads as I wasted to many brain cells of that kind of worry. I spend most of my days now indulging in nuclear science, as I am trying to head back to school for Nuclear Engineering. At any rate, hope your holidays go well sir, and have a happy Christma-Hanu-Rama-Ka-Dona-Kwanzaa!

Wow, it must be Christmas season. Thanks for the power point, I shall spend it to promote my agenda of word domination MUHAHAHAHHAH.

Howdy, VS5 update has allowed me to fix this video if you had any interest in watching it...was quite awhile ago it busted and you might of seen it sense. Anywho, thanks for the notification on this.

http://videosift.com/video/The-Limits-of-Understanding-Part-1

>> ^charliem:

Whats its application?


Many new reactors are experimenting with new fuel types. This has a higher fissile density because of the structure, so you can pack more fuel into a given space, it also has better thermal transfer and less susceptible to radiation damage that traditional uranium oxide. Hyperion Power Generation plans to use a uranium nitride compound in their Gen4 reactor. Gen4 reactors are a whole new breed of reactor, the infusion of modern computer modeling and materials development. While we still have a shitty regulatory system in the US as to not allow newer safer reactors to come online here, they will be launching in places like China, the UAE, and Korea in the future. America is poised to fall behind in the technology it invented, as it has with many other areas that aren't wall street or the technology sector.

Helpful in zombie Apocalypse, or you just cleaned the kitchen.

A single particle with the mass of tellurium (Te126), that's one big baby.

No, thank you for the great link! I am such a sap, I actually teared up at the end.

In reply to this comment by Hybrid:
Thanks for the quality!
In reply to this comment by GeeSussFreeK:
holy crap, this is high *quality. Eat your heart out Ebert, video games aren't art my ass. (then again, this wasn't really a game, more like a movie, DAMN YOU EBERT!)

Thanks for the promote!
In reply to this comment by marinara:
*promote

@deathcow

O wow, that is all really interesting! Now that you mention it, I am a glasses wearing fellow and have to take regular eye exams. My left eye, shes a bad one, basically legally blind, all she can see is the big E. Right eye, however, sees pretty well, but not perfect. But, for whatever reason, when I use both eyes I get a better score than the highest eye. In other words, my nearly blind eye can still help my much better eye see the world more clearly. Or more accurately, the brain is able to do some magic with more information even if that information is badly corrupted. I hadn't considered that "feels larger" thing, though, for TVs that most likely won't apply because you are seeing it with both eyes already (albit 2 perspectives of one perspective). Even so, I think that is really neat! I remember the old days of looking through microscopes and could definitely remember that "smaller" feeling.

So maybe there is some fine balance that could be struck between pure fidelity and depth fidelity. Perhaps you don't have to dedicate 50/50 to each perspective (and lower the overall fidelity by half), perhaps you can get away with only showing 80% of one perspective of the native resolution and 20% of the other. Then every ones brain will be doing what my brain is doing for me, filling in the gaps and still presenting a 3d image before your minds eye. Or perhaps that will just give people headaches.

Ya, I did notice the extra information was nice in a certain way. I remember in avatar, the simple action of walking down a corridor had more depth because of the...well, perceived depth. I like the idea of 3d, I just don't want to compromise! Short of goofy headsets, or retinal scanners, I don't think my slightly unreasonable need for fidelity can be realized. That said, has any one done any 3d glasses gaming? My card supports it, in theory, but it is ancient and I don't want it to explode.

>> ^deathcow:

I wont argue your point, but I can say for sure the extra depth information gained by using two eyes offsets the resolution loss to some degree.

3D is stupid anyway. You are trying to display twice as much data in the same area, which means your going to get a lower resolution image. It is effectively half scaling the clarity for this "trick". Less fidelity isn't really worth it. The only way you can solve that is to have 2 separate video signals piped directly to the eye. You could pull something like this off, instead of the normal 3d glasses, you would have a clear lens, the normal image on the screen, and the offset image beamed directly into your other eye . This way, you would get no loss of clarity. Perhaps, though, the movie version doesn't suffer this loss in clarity, I don't know the properties of different polorizations of light. But I know as far as pixels are concerned, if you have 1 million and try to do 2 things with them, you effectively only have half.