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    Cosmic Rays Hit A New High: Time To Buy A Better Umbrella?

    The Most Efficient Particle Accelerator Known To Humanity

    Why The Sun Is A Delinquent Parent

    Science To Test Fantastic Four Theory
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    09/30/09

    In reply to Cosmic Rays Hit A New High: Time To Buy A Better Umbrella?
    Gaia is clearly pissed. She's talking with big sister Sol and the two are conspiring to wipe us out. Sure, it'll take a while but she's patient.
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    09/30/09

    In reply to Cosmic Rays Hit A New High: Time To Buy A Better Umbrella?
    No, no. You guys have it all completely wrong.

    More cosmic rays are not hitting Earth, more cosmic rays are penetrating the Heliopause. Earth's magnetic field is still doing the same protective thing it always has done.

    While this might cause some infinitesimal increase in cosmic rays hitting Earth, the major effect is on deep-space craft.
    -Kle.
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    Image of Mathmos Mathmos
    09/30/09

    In reply to Cosmic Rays Hit A New High: Time To Buy A Better Umbrella?
    There is already some evidence that slightly greater radiation exposure for air crews, who spend significant periods at higher altitudes with less atmospheric shielding, leads to higher risk of some cancers. The effects, if any, will be greater now.
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    Image of Gann Gann
    09/30/09

    @Mathmos: And they laughed when I lined my undies with lead.
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    Image of burlybax burlybax
    09/30/09

    In reply to Cosmic Rays Hit A New High: Time To Buy A Better Umbrella?
    Am I supposed to understand that diagram?
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    Image of strideo strideo
    09/30/09

    @burlybax: You're supposed to understand that it looks awesome!
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    Image of matthewabel matthewabel
    09/30/09

    In reply to Cosmic Rays Hit A New High: Time To Buy A Better Umbrella?
    I call fire powers. You can call things, right? I don't want rock skin, or stretchiness. Oooh, maybe I do.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    06/29/09

    In reply to Why The Sun Is A Delinquent Parent
    What can you expect the sun to do when we keep running away, coming back, running away, coming back. We want to be independent, but we also want someone to do our laundry and provide a home cooked meal on the weekends.


    If we were willing to live by the Sun's rules, we could live in its house like our little sibling Mercury.


    Or if we were really willing to go out on our own, we'd suck it up and cross the asteroid belt like big sibs Jupiter and Saturn.


    But no, we just want it all. Neglected yet spoiled middle child that we are.

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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    06/29/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: we're still beter than venus with all of her goth makeup and the brooding and the poems. we'll move out and get a real job when she lays off the sulfuric acid!
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    Image of Goodnightbabytron Goodnightbabytron
    06/29/09

    @tetracycloide: Or that useless layabout Mars, still carrying the scars from when it had a life but now all strung out an listless. We keep making these remote attempts to connect with it, but when we try to get beneath the dull surface, all we find is either dirt or ice...hard to tell.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    06/29/09

    @Goodnightbabytron: I still feel bad about what happened to l'il ol Pluto. Cast out while still so small. Thrown out on it's own, into the dark and cold night, to make it's own way. Last I heard, it was straight-up disowned.


    Just not right.

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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    06/06/09

    In reply to Science To Test Fantastic Four Theory
    Which dummy is Dr. Doom?
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    Image of The_Thing The_Thing
    06/06/09

    In reply to Science To Test Fantastic Four Theory
    Also they apparently strapped one of these dummies to the outside of the International Space Station. For some reason that sounds like the start of a horror move, like Chucky in Space.
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    Image of Palmerlime Palmerlime
    06/06/09

    @The_Thing: That's how the Reavers started.

    (Browncoat cred increased by +1...)
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    06/06/09

    @Palmerlime: No, that's how they continued, but not how they started. As we learned in "Serenity".


    (Browncoat cred increased by +10)

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    Image of Raven Raven
    06/07/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.:


    I would've thought the bodies on the exterior of ships would be more like a figurehead or a physical way of showing possible status? More or less, a decoration.
    How they continued was through a sort of mental conditioning in some cases. If you remember Bushwhacked, that's one possible way of Reaver continuity.
    Now incrase my Browncoat cred by however much you see fit.

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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    06/07/09

    @Raven: + 25. I'm correct, but you are more correct.
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    Image of The_Thing The_Thing
    06/06/09

    In reply to Science To Test Fantastic Four Theory
    If by turn super elastic you mean melt all over the floor then it's certainly possible if they turn the beam up too high.


    Also, I don't know why they don't do this test on a model organism. You are going to get results much closer to those of a human if you work in vivo. You'd probably have to find something with similar weight to a human but really the response to intense radiation is going to be pretty similar across mammals.

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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    06/06/09

    @The_Thing: Pigs are always good human analogs.
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