[img]http://www.iter.org/img/crop-900-90/all/content/com/img_galleries/iron_f4e.jpg[/img]
The foundation of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
[QUOTE]Once the B2 basemat is in place—the 1.5-metre-thick floor of the Tokamak Complex—building can begin on the Diagnostic, Tritium and Tokamak Buildings. Photo: F4E[/QUOTE]
This is by far the scientific project I am the most hyped about
[url]http://www.iter.org/[/url]
I wonder how bad a catastrophic failure would be. But I am glad the Tokamak is getting a larger complex.
[editline]13th November 2013[/editline]
Also, that picture doesn't entirely do it justice, it's really big.
[t]http://www.iter.org/img/crop-900-90/all/content/com/img_galleries/pit_small.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=Binladen34;42850611]I wonder how bad a catastrophic failure would be. But I am glad the Tokamak is getting a larger complex.
[editline]13th November 2013[/editline]
Also, that picture doesn't entirely do it justice, it's really big.
[t]http://www.iter.org/img/crop-900-90/all/content/com/img_galleries/pit_small.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
I remember reading that there basically can't be a "catastrophic failure". If it goes to shit, it just gets powered down.
[QUOTE=booster;42851105]I remember reading that there basically can't be a "catastrophic failure". If it goes to shit, it just gets powered down.[/QUOTE]
And they said the Titanic was unsinkable :v:
[QUOTE=Dacheet;42842738]Since I saw plane pictures, my aviation-boner kicked up and I felt like sharing one of my favorite planes: the Convair B-36 Peacemaker
[img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/B-36aarrivalcarswell1948.jpg[/img]
See that tiny fucker on the left? B-29. AKA the bomber that dropped the nukes on Japan. AKA the biggest plane in World War Two.
And the B-36 is bigger than that bitch
And I know what you're saying. You're saying "Dacheet those goddamned engines are on backwards!" NO THEY AREN'T THEY ARE SO AWESOME THAT THEY PUSH AIR INSTEAD OF PULL IT. SIX FUCKING PRATT AND WHITNEY WASP MAJOR 3,800 HP ENGINES. SIX. Not only that, but they felt the need to also strap [I]JET ENGINES[/I] to it, in conjunction with a total of 22,800 HORSEPOWER
And now you're probably bitching that it never saw combat. You know why it never saw combat? Because it was the [I]Peacemaker.[/I] Those Ruskies saw that big-ass plane flying and dropped their vodka bottles in fear.
The B-36 was SO BIG ([I]how big was it[/I]) that one day, the Air Force decided "you know what? Let's put a motherfucking [I]nuclear reactor[/I] on this thing to power it." And that's what they did.
Those crazy shits added a 3,600 pound nuclear reactor to that shit, and it could still carry bombs with [I]an operational nuclear reactor on board.[/I]
It was so big that instead of putting guns on the plane, they put guns on a plane [I]on the plane.[/I] They put what's known as a parasite aircraft inside the bomb bay, and that little fuck was designed to fall out of the bomb bar with a dude inside and shoot incoming aircraft.
[I]How cool was that?[/I]
(realistic note: the nuclear generator did not power the aircraft (though it probably could have) but was instead used to test radiation on aircraft systems, and the F-85 Goblin was a disaster because it was a load of shit. Also I Realize now how much I curse)[/QUOTE]
And because this still wasn't big enough, they -like with almost every former 40/50's bomber- tried to turn it into a civillian cargo plane... Lemme introduce you the XC-99
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Convair_XC-99_and_B-36B_in_flight_c1949.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=Binladen34;42850611]I wonder how bad a catastrophic failure would be.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=booster;42851105]I remember reading that there basically can't be a "catastrophic failure". If it goes to shit, it just gets powered down.[/QUOTE]
Well, unlike nuclear fission, which uranium naturally tends to do (evidence points to a critical mass once forming naturally in Africa, millions of years ago), hydrogen really doesn't want to fuse into helium. That's why there's so damn much of it. If containment is lost, the reaction STOPS. So the only risk is from the matter currently in the reactor.
Hydrogen itself is relatively safe. It's flammable, yes, but the combustion product is water, so it's not exactly a dangerous burning. It fuses at a very high temperature (hundreds of millions of degrees), but there really just isn't much of it in there - a "full" tokamak has a lower particle density than some vacuums, except in the areas electromagnets are constricting it to fusion. Overall you have only a few grams of hydrogen.
Yeah, fusion should be pretty safe. A catastrophic failure would only be a catastrophe for the reactor equipment itself.
I imagine the worst that could happen if the chamber was somehow breached would be a large release of steam from the heat of the reaction. Which could be quite violent.
[QUOTE=OvB;42852303]I imagine the worst that could happen if the chamber was somehow breached would be a large release of steam from the heat of the reaction. Which could be quite violent.[/QUOTE]
Nice avatar update.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;42851758]Well, unlike nuclear fission, which uranium naturally tends to do (evidence points to a critical mass once forming naturally in Africa, millions of years ago), hydrogen really doesn't want to fuse into helium. That's why there's so damn much of it. If containment is lost, the reaction STOPS. So the only risk is from the matter currently in the reactor.
Hydrogen itself is relatively safe. It's flammable, yes, but the combustion product is water, so it's not exactly a dangerous burning. It fuses at a very high temperature (hundreds of millions of degrees), but there really just isn't much of it in there - a "full" tokamak has a lower particle density than some vacuums, except in the areas electromagnets are constricting it to fusion. Overall you have only a few grams of hydrogen.
Yeah, fusion should be pretty safe. A catastrophic failure would only be a catastrophe for the reactor equipment itself.[/QUOTE]
Here's a pic of the reactor
[IMG]http://b4.img.v4.skyrock.net/0628/18600628/pics/900837940_small.jpg[/IMG]
The plan was originally to turn the massive amouts of heat genrated by the reaction into power, by using a statoreactor. Basically, instead of compressing air using turbines and heating it up with injected fuel, it compressed itself by being rammed at high-speed, and was heated here by the nuclear reactor.
That high quality pic show the generic concept
[IMG]http://home.nordnet.fr/dmorieux/images-moteur/statoreacteur_01.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=gman003-main;42851758]Well, unlike nuclear fission, which uranium naturally tends to do (evidence points to a critical mass once forming naturally in Africa, millions of years ago), hydrogen really doesn't want to fuse into helium. That's why there's so damn much of it. If containment is lost, the reaction STOPS. So the only risk is from the matter currently in the reactor.
Hydrogen itself is relatively safe. It's flammable, yes, but the combustion product is water, so it's not exactly a dangerous burning. It fuses at a very high temperature (hundreds of millions of degrees), but there really just isn't much of it in there - a "full" tokamak has a lower particle density than some vacuums, except in the areas electromagnets are constricting it to fusion. Overall you have only a few grams of hydrogen.
Yeah, fusion should be pretty safe. A catastrophic failure would only be a catastrophe for the reactor equipment itself.[/QUOTE]
Worst case scenario a quench on one of the magnets occurs, which would shut the reactor down for months. It could possibly kill everyone in the building as well, because helium displaces air. It could also cause serious damage to the reactor, since quenches can be explosive.
[quote]I'm currently staying at a friends house.. Here's why.[/quote]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/vlgdKMl.jpg[/t]
[quote]I moved into a house about a year ago. The previous owners built the house in the early 2000's, and moved to India two years ago. This picture above shows my parents' room. Then the other day, we found this.[/quote]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/Byotqir.jpg[/t]
[quote]My little brother and me were messing around, and I pushed him into the shelf. When he fell, he pulled out the bookshelf with him. We always assumed it was just built into the wall.[/quote]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/ojj1M75.jpg[/t]
[quote]There's a fucking spiral staircase in here. So we went down.. bad idea.[/quote]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/X8l12r5.jpg[/t]
[quote]Here's a shot of what it looked like from the top. At the bottom, the stairs led into a wall. Seemingly pointless, right?[/quote]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/7YAlLYg.jpg[/t]
[quote]This crawlspace was about halfway down. It looked empty, but if you crawled in..[/quote]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/R6ub2hK.jpg[/t]
[quote]You would find this. Someone was living in our walls. IN OUR WALLS. That is my Halloween candy. That someone came into my room, took from my bag, and then brought back in here. Banana peel for scale. About 30 seconds after taking this picture, we realized what it meant and got the fuck out of there.[/quote]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/AjjmYbT.jpg[/t]
[quote]Here are the things that they had with them. This elephant was hidden under the blankets.[/quote]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/wOZ9nxZ.jpg[/t]
[quote]We also found this key, we have not the slightest clue what it unlocks.[/quote]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/11vvQP1.jpg[/t]
[quote]Then the fucking dolls. These little shits are creepy.[/quote]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/hhq2y8G.jpg[/t]
[quote]Sorry for taking pictures with a potato, but it was the best I could do in these circumstances. I'll try and give an update on what the cops find and stuff. [/quote]
What the fuck.
There's got to be another entrance to that place then, right? There's no way someone would go unnoticed moving in and out of that bookshelf.
[QUOTE=slayer20;42857214]There's got to be another entrance to that place then, right? There's no way someone would go unnoticed moving in and out of that bookshelf.[/QUOTE]
Or, you know, someone has a cool crawlspace in their house and they put some stuff in it and took pictures for attention on the internet.
[QUOTE=Swiket;42857169][t]http://i.imgur.com/vlgdKMl.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/Byotqir.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/ojj1M75.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/X8l12r5.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/7YAlLYg.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/R6ub2hK.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/AjjmYbT.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/wOZ9nxZ.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/11vvQP1.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/hhq2y8G.jpg[/t]
What the fuck.[/QUOTE]
fumigate the house
[QUOTE=DesolateGrun;42857242]fumigate the house[/QUOTE]
manslaughter charges and the house will never smell the same again.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;42857292]manslaughter charges and the house will never smell the same again.[/QUOTE]
fumigate the house
its in your walls.. that is some creepy shit if its real
Can he outlast ?
[QUOTE=kirby2112;42857235]Or, you know, someone has a cool crawlspace in their house and they put some stuff in it and took pictures for attention on the internet.[/QUOTE]
pfft, you're no fun
besides, it's not like someone would LIE on the internet
[QUOTE=shian;42822474]
Swapping famous logos
[img]http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/195o85z7zrh6yjpg/ku-xlarge.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
The McDonald's logo isn't really swapped for the Netherlands.
[img]http://www.mcdonalds.nl/sites/all/themes/macdo/image/img-logo-head.gif[/img]
[url=http://www.mcdonalds.nl/sites/default/files/mcdonalds_restaurant_muntbergweg_amsterdam_zuid-oost_entree.png]McDonalds Amsterdam[/url]
Don't most European McDonald's look that way? They're nice.
[QUOTE=galimatias;42860601]Don't most European McDonald's look that way? They're nice.[/QUOTE]
UK ones don't, at least not the ones near me.
[QUOTE=galimatias;42860601]Don't most European McDonald's look that way? They're nice.[/QUOTE]
All the ones in eastern Canada at least were turned into McCafe's about a year or two ago. They look completely different from a Traditional McDonalds now.
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/McDonald%27s_McCafe_Fox_Street_2.jpg[/t]
[img]http://www.food-service-europe.com/trendscout/gif/artikel4-543-org.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=pentium;42861896]All the ones in eastern Canada at least were turned into McCafe's about a year or two ago. They look completely different from a Traditional McDonalds now.
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/McDonald's_McCafe_Fox_Street_2.jpg[/t]
[IMG]http://www.food-service-europe.com/trendscout/gif/artikel4-543-org.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Some McDonalds around where I live were revovated to look more like this too
Cat lungs, being inflated with a straw.
[img]http://24.media.tumblr.com/baa598de9a87ee02b6d96830fbd3b50b/tumblr_mw8zrhxdQ51qga4pio1_400.gif[/img]
[img]http://25.media.tumblr.com/aa12293fcd1af68b578aaf86e2c4cb8c/tumblr_mw8zrhxdQ51qga4pio2_400.gif[/img]
[QUOTE=Rents;42865680]Cat lungs, being inflated with a straw.
[img]http://24.media.tumblr.com/baa598de9a87ee02b6d96830fbd3b50b/tumblr_mw8zrhxdQ51qga4pio1_400.gif[/img]
[img]http://25.media.tumblr.com/aa12293fcd1af68b578aaf86e2c4cb8c/tumblr_mw8zrhxdQ51qga4pio2_400.gif[/img][/QUOTE]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Tbsqzy5.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Rents;42865680]:pwn:[/QUOTE]
holy shit that is disgusting
[img]http://25.media.tumblr.com/73bc318e6d650c69557f7d7ca87632ae/tumblr_mw9zrdVlVO1r8vrhxo1_500.jpg[/img]
railroad in NZ after earthquake
from malformalady.tumblr
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101III-Mielke-036-23%2C_Waffen-SS%2C_13._Gebirgs-Div._%22Handschar%22.jpg[/IMG]
Muslim Nazis wearing fez hats from the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (Croatian Puppet State)
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