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There's also the mass of the shell to consider. If the thickness is 1m and the material is as dense as steel then that puts r on the order of 10^11m (assuming I haven't done something silly). I have no idea what material you'd actually need, or how dense such a material would be, but it shows that t...

A little plot hole someone pointed out to me today:- without the doctor Pompei wouldn't have been destroyed and the lava monsters would have taken over the world. A bit of a continuity problem really.

<de-lurk> I thought it was obvious that she was saved by the teraforming gas. The stuff she breathes out is glowy-smoky in exactly the same was as the stuff in the previous scene. The regeneration effects from him turning into the current doctor were completely different. Incidentally I enjoyed the ...

Sounds like he should never have been released from the hospital in the first place. Seriously, what were the doctors thinking? People expect far too much from psychiatrists. The rate of false positives and false negatives from any diagnosis is pretty high, which makes it had to know what to do wit...

So how long before plebs such as myself are told by higher authorities whether this theory is The Real Thing, or a good advance, or merely useful, or just another competing theory, or outright wrong? I imagine papers like these take time to criticise. We might get something from CERN in the next fe...

British nukes were protected by bike locks By Meirion Jones Newsnight producer Newsnight has discovered that until the early days of the Blair government the RAF's nuclear bombs were armed by turning a bicycle lock key. There was no other security on the Bomb itself. While American and Russian weap...

The paper is available here for free. Sadly it's all just slightly beyond me generally, except for the bits that I just don't understand at all.

Is SM armour self repairing at all? Could something like a cavalry charge with thrown pots of acid do enough damage to fuck him up? Melt his sensors perhaps? Or maybe ruin his bolter? And how strong is he really? How about the same cavalry but with heavy nets? Enough weighted nets made out of strong...

From the beeb . The type of bird flu found in turkeys on a Suffolk farm is the virulent H5N1 strain, according to government vets. The virus was discovered on Sunday at Redgrave Park Farm near Diss, where all 6,500 birds, most of them turkeys, are being slaughtered. A 3km protection zone and a 10km ...

An interesting article. I'm curious as to how does a AGR compare with other reactor types, like FBRs, in terms of power efficiency though. AGRs operate at quite a high temperature so they have quite a good thermal efficiency, that is a higher than normal percentage of the heat produced is converted...

Lost Soal wrote: Except they aren't going to simply repeal the entire Health & Safety Act

They want to save 14 billion pounds. While they probably can't be planning to repeal the entire health and safety act, they certainly can't make that kind of saving by slight tinkering.

The statement said review or repeal followed by a number or different things. Their is nothing wrong with reviewing the Health & Safety Act, and it is in fact standard policy for all companies to regularly review their own safety policies. Where as simply repealing them is pretty much evil.

Telegraph Tories plan £14bn cuts to red tape By Patrick Hennessy, Political Editor, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 12:35am BST 12/08/2007 The Conservatives have drawn up a radical programme of cuts in red tape and regulation aimed at saving British businesses £14 billion a year, The Sunday Telegrap...

This is from wikipedia , but other websites say the same thing. I'm surprised I completely missed this at the time. Webisodes On July 15, 2007 it was announced that Farscape would return in ten webisode installments. The episodes are expected to be a few minutes long each and may eventually be broad...

Brown puts stamp on US relations as he signals British pull-out from Iraq This doesn't actually say that. All it says is what we've heard all along: we want to reduce troop numbers, and switch them to an over watch role, as the security situation improves and as the Iraqi forces become ready. It's ...

US concerns over Guantanamo men The US is considering a request from the British Foreign Office to release five former UK residents from Guantanamo Bay detention centre. A senior US official said Washington would seek guarantees that the men would be treated humanely and would not be allowed to pos...

I thought boarding school is usually at secondary level? Also, I doubt any other school can be as safe as Hogwarts. There are some boarding schools that take primary pupils. I was thinking he could go to one of those and still be protected by the blood protection. Or perhaps it only works at full e...

One thing bugging me about this whole scenario (well, okay, several, but just this one point for now), but if the planet is flooded with radiation how are phasers supposed to work at all? Star Trek IV establishes that even minimal amounts of radiation are enough to screw around with whatever it is ...

It would have to be something good to protect him from an attack like the one on the Longbottom's. It's possible the only other adequate protections would be the fidelius charm or the ones surrounding Hogwarts. The other important point is that he's going to need some help to survive the first year ...

I got the impression that the original Galaxy class design /was/ only a small fraction of the fleet - they only built six of them This is pure unsupported speculation, but I wonder if it was in part a sort of proof of concept design. Perhaps they planned to build a real city ship later. It's the so...

Which society are you? For dark ages we're with the Vikings. I'm not actually sure how medieval events work, possibly we just turn up as our group. I'm not really involved in any of the organisational stuff. I think all of our medieval shows are war of the roses events. As for the SCA, it sounds pr...

I think part of the problem with American politics is that as a group you've come to accept useless politicians. They tell people that the government shouldn't do very much, and don't do very much themselves. Then people become incredibly cynical, and don't expect the new lot to be able to do any be...

Thamesreach = London. How well linked in are you with your shire?? I'm afraid I don't understand the question. We're on good terms with a few local groups. For dark age we're sort of affiliated with Draum Broedr (part of the vikings) in Leicester, and we get invited to their events. Apologies for b...

Exmoor Cat wrote: Thamesreach = London. How well linked in are you with your shire??

I'm afraid I don't understand the question.

We're on good terms with a few local groups. For dark age we're sort of affiliated with Draum Broedr (part of the vikings) in Leicester, and we get invited to their events.

SancheztheWhaler wrote: Since Hogwarts is the only magical school in the UK, theoretically each of the Irish quidditch players (in the World Cup) must have attended there at one time or another, but no mention is made of them.

The Republic of Ireland isn't part of the United Kingdom. They probably have their own school.