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Collapse of the service access platform at Site 31 in Baikonur? BuckGalaxy November 27, 2025 12:54 pm (Space/Science)

"Pluribus" RobVG November 10, 2025 9:06 am (Science Fiction)

I'm a California Man BuckGalaxy November 27, 2025 2:35 pm (CurrentEvents)

This is not a drill. NOT a drill. General Quarters, General Quarters. All hands man your battle stations. ER November 24, 2025 4:58 pm (CurrentEvents)

Why the reflections? ER November 27, 2025 8:16 am (GeekSpeak)

Xi called Trump RobVG November 24, 2025 10:26 am (CurrentEvents)

So you Millennials think the world has given you a raw deal? ER November 25, 2025 5:27 pm (Off-Topic)

I thought this was fake news when I first saw it online BuckGalaxy November 23, 2025 10:13 pm (Space/Science)

And the worms ate into his brain BuckGalaxy November 23, 2025 7:37 pm (CurrentEvents)

Cracks propagate podrock November 22, 2025 8:54 pm (CurrentEvents)

Carmakers want to build robot armies BuckGalaxy November 18, 2025 5:50 pm (Flame)

Origin of a word inquiry... by Jody March 1, 2012 8:55 am

See this link from the Online Etymology Dictionary. by TB 2012-03-01 09:57:19
- Thank you Tom...I am working on something and I was quite curious. I dunno ifin' I agree with the origin...but ... by Jody 2012-03-01 18:22:03

Snow Circles! by TB February 29, 2012 1:44 pm

Pretty! by Jody 2012-02-29 17:53:38
Since humans are clearly unable to create such things, the "man who walked all day" is a clever cover story ... by alcaray 2012-02-29 16:09:31

Targeted advertising by TB February 25, 2012 7:37 pm

That may not be the opt-out you think it is. by Robert 2012-02-28 11:40:30
- One thing that bothers me is that I'm not sure of the actual mechanisms here. by TB 2012-02-28 11:50:11
That was scary. Thanks! n/t by Tony 2012-02-28 10:20:22

The roots of primate... mammalian moral outrage. by alcaray February 20, 2012 8:07 pm

That's fascinating, really. It can be applied to economic systems and other relationships, too. (I especially admired the ... by bowser 2012-02-20 21:43:49

Twitter, a big surprise... by FrankC February 9, 2012 11:36 pm

Seems like too much tech just to enable the return of the telegram. n/t by alcaray 2012-02-14 17:34:54
EEEEGADS! Can you imagine the Zone on Twitter? by Jody 2012-02-10 12:23:28
- You know, I hadn't thought of that. HEY ROBERT You should create a twitter account for the zone, and our political gurus ... by FrankC 2012-02-10 12:38:25
  - If a person twittered what they wrote on HZ, could a recipient of that tweet follow it back to the ... by bowser 2012-02-10 12:48:17
    - Yes Bowser! by Jody 2012-02-10 13:29:37
      - Methinks we shouldn't jump the gun here. For starters, what are we going to post? Who are we ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-02-10 20:15:31
        
        I have a blog, and my son made it so I could post my entries on Twitter or Facebook....maybe Roberto ... by Jody 2012-02-10 21:31:27
        
        Googling "wordpress twitter plugin" returned 99,700,000 hits. by Robert 2012-02-10 23:45:27
        
        Search on Wordpress' internal back end plugin page. There are dozens relating to social media. Just read each summary, and ... by Jody 2012-02-11 09:36:00
        
        Thank you Jody. by Robert 2012-02-11 12:42:28
        
        You're welcome. by bowser 2012-02-11 08:14:53
        
        Ah, bowser, I'm sorry. by Robert 2012-02-11 12:40:07

Monday unusual links by TB February 13, 2012 6:48 pm

Freediving by TB February 11, 2012 1:16 pm

Nice article by Tony 2012-02-13 10:54:05
Lemme think... As long as I had a scuba diver next to me at ALL TIMES with a scuba tank ready ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-02-11 23:58:32
Never gonna do it....wouldn't be prudent. I will die. by Jody 2012-02-11 14:29:42

An observation by Jody February 11, 2012 11:36 am

Well, there's Sadie Hawkin's Day coming up, but then what? by Jeff-Wash February 11, 2012 12:32 am

Some things are better. by bowser February 7, 2012 11:24 am

The testing, animated by RobVG 2012-02-07 19:03:00
- I couldn't help but wonder if the tests were a form of posturing by RobVG 2012-02-10 18:03:18
- Except for the first 40 or so, all those nuclear explosions took place in my lifetime. by Robert 2012-02-10 10:36:19
- The mix includes some surprises for some people. The Tsar Bomba, ostensibly 100 megatons, was detuned by the Russian scientists to ... by bowser 2012-02-09 22:00:59
- I've never seen that. It is terrifying. Did you notice the 20-odd bursts in the South Atlantic, SW ... by ER 2012-02-07 20:52:23
  - I don't have the citations available right now, but I've read that the South Africans and Israel collaborated and each ... by bowser 2012-02-10 12:51:31
When I was being trained for work in the nuke industry (1972), we were given a tour of a laboratory ... by ER 2012-02-07 13:08:05
- I had no idea they were that detectable. In HS in the late '50s I was the student lab assistant in ... by bowser 2012-02-07 13:52:17
  - A radio-isotope decays by emitting alpha and beta particles, and gamma rays, of various energies, into other isotopes, some of ... by ER 2012-02-07 14:56:35
    - Neutron source by RobVG 2012-02-07 19:21:46
      - Yes, I think I must have looked up the same Wiki article! Several of the Transuranics undergo spontaneous fission, or ... by ER 2012-02-07 20:14:05
        
        The construction industry (soils engineers) uses density meters to test soil compaction. There's a joke among heavy equipment operators, "if you ... by RobVG 2012-02-07 21:03:04
        
        I also found this: "Neutrons are produced when alpha particles impinge upon any of several low atomic weight isotopes including isotopes ... by ER 2012-02-07 20:22:32
    - That is a very good question. The second I read your post I started wondering. I was 16 and 17 ... by bowser 2012-02-07 16:21:46

How many of you have had a chance to read the poem, Locksley Hall? by Jeff-Wash February 8, 2012 5:52 pm

I'm not sure I cared much for that one. by ER 2012-02-08 18:44:40
- I love that poem. by TB 2012-02-08 19:01:11
  - Actually, there is a sequel to the Odyssey, although it was written much later, and not by Homer. A ... by ER 2012-02-08 20:30:10
    - Perhaps I should have been more specific. I was thinking how astonishingly prescient he was. "Commerce" in the skies. "Ghastly bales" dropped. Even the "Parliament ... by Jeff-Wash 2012-02-08 22:57:58
      - The 1830's, when the poem was written, can be considered to be the very beginning of modernity. The electric ... by ER 2012-02-09 09:01:23
        
        Hint? OK! Set some time aside and read that subchapter set against the backdrop of the "Crystal Palace" in my story ... by Jeff-Wash 2012-02-10 13:37:48

Someone was thinking outside the box on this one. FN-90 by bowser February 8, 2012 5:27 pm

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