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There is of course another alternative - radically cut domestic energy consumption by draconian orders to cut off the power. When I was little, the following happened in the UK in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis: Wikipedia That was a real crisis, the present day one seems a bit tame in...

My Vostok1-Yuri Gagarin tribute video. The music is "Trava U Doma" by Zemylane There's the techno version

Any of these methods involves a tremendous expense and huge risk to the workers involved, and all of them involve years of work. My mind is boggling already at the idea of disassembling these reactors or moving them whole by ship, and using armies of rad-hardened robots or suicide workers to...

My uncle Padraig was actually an international cricket player with the Ireland team. Nobody except the team members knew it existed.

Go back to 1968 and try to get a date with Brigitte Bardot, Ursula Andress or Tamara Dobson.

In the words of Fred Haise in tribute to LM Aquarius:

I'm not a cricket fan either - I find it boring, frankly - but this is not the Ashes. It's a major cultural and political event, way beyond the quaint little Ashes competition.

The World Cup cricket semi-final between home nation India and Pakistan is happening right now in Mohali. The Prime Ministers of both countries are to watch it together and over the 8 hours that the game is expected to last, may talk about peace between these two conflicting countries. Hopes...

What would a radiation containment "sarcophagus" really be like in this case? I am imagining a huge mound of sand topped off with thick plastic sheeting. Then a sea containment barrier in some form. Big plastic sheeting to contain water flows from the coast near Fukushima? As for trying to...

Oh yes, the Irish may not be good enough to win but we can at least spoil the English "grand slam" party. In a perverse way that's even better than winning the trophy.

Funny clip from Fox News where the blond bombshell (a dud) Megyn Kelly tries to stir up a bit of panic about it in the US http://www.mediaite.com/tv/japanese-radiation-found-in-us-water-megyn-kelly-asks-if-we-need-to-worry/

All the reports studied in this research were in the English language and analyzed through the Elsevier database. They talk about the language barrier on p58 of the report: As someone who deals with a huge volume of translations between English and Spanish, I can confirm that the language...

I'm changing sides as quick as I can to be on the winning team ;)

Looks like a cool game, thanks for the tip. My son is doing a history project on the space race and I'm sure he would love it as well.

A report published by the BBC today covers a phenomenon studied in depth by the Royal Society in the UK (the Royal Society is a centuries-old organization dedicated to the pursuit of science). http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12885271 Briefly, the RS report analyses the number of...

So all of last week while they were telling everyone it was all under control, and that there was no significant radiation, they knew about the plutonium leak. The 2003 falsified reports and now this confirm what we suspected: that TEPCO is a company with a culture of secrecy and lies. Who...

You're kidding, right?

Excellent idea to have people collaborate. Regretfully I have to decline because I'm already up to my neck in writing projects, scripts, etc. "Proceeds" are likely to be imaginary, think of it as a fun project rather than a moneymaker. First stop: outline - a three or four page synopsis of...

A good basic idea, which could be developed into an excellent cyber-thriller. You have to think of another virus scare - Y2K is 11 years out of date. I suggest the Stuxnet worm as a real and very scary threat Stuxnet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia If you want to see what a really savage...

TEPCO is really a very sorry company, clearly filled to the brim with incompetents http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12877198 Yes, they may well be overworked and under stress, but somebody with a clear mind has to go through the figures and check them. If they are no longer in a...