My friend's dog representing love for the LGBT community and marriage equality

10/5/2012 6:35:19 PM

Ironic... protesting against applying values to others by painting an animal without its consent.

10/5/2012 7:09:45 PM

This song will go well with your comment. Right?

10/5/2012 7:12:53 PM

Quote :

"Ironic... protesting against applying values to others by painting an animal without its consent."

10/5/2012 7:21:02 PM

I am glad you have your views that dogs are equal to humans in that they can express consent. I still think it is neat.

10/5/2012 7:23:47 PM

don't let them troll you amna. it's totally cute

10/5/2012 7:33:49 PM

it's totally cute and absolutely not shitty your friend treats an animal like posterboard





[Edited on October 5, 2012 at 8:30 PM. Reason : .]

10/5/2012 8:29:18 PM

Yes! Both of those things are true.

I'm ok with getting tolled, ddk. Opinions are never facts. I have them, too. But i ask that you please don't ruin this thread. It is such a nice thread.

10/5/2012 9:37:19 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61qj_Zv7dLA

10/5/2012 9:37:48 PM

do people not even know what it actually means to troll anymore?

[Edited on October 5, 2012 at 9:43 PM. Reason : .]

10/5/2012 9:41:55 PM

Ok but a spade is a spade. Shoo... shoo...run along troll.

10/5/2012 9:46:06 PM

trolling would be if I said something like "it figures someone who defends that attention whore joie would like something like that"

calling your friend an asshole for painting his dog is not a troll

10/5/2012 9:51:08 PM

Ok. You are correct. Why didn't you just call it shitty instead of being covert with sarcasm? That's why I was confused. im posting what i thought was the best thing and you come in and covertly call it shitty. I thought you were trying to get an emotional response out of me like a troll would do.

Meh. I guess it's chit chat and we can't have nice things or pleasant conversation.

[Edited on October 5, 2012 at 10:00 PM. Reason : n]

10/5/2012 9:53:41 PM

in all seriousness I thought the posterboard comment was non-subtle sarcasam. fwiw, I don't have any issue with you or anything. i just went with the first really-trolly thing I could think of for that last post. I just really don't like people treating pets like that

10/6/2012 12:22:23 AM

Sandia National Labs annular-core pulse reactor: http://youtu.be/pa0Fmcv83nw

Freaking incredible, and terrifying--that pulse generates 35GW for .007 seconds. For reference, a typical commercial power reactor, several times the size of the one in the video, runs continually on the order of 1GW.

[WORDS]
Quick explanation of what is going on for those that are curious: "criticality" of a nuclear reactor refers to a condition where the production of neutrons due to fission equals that being lost via absorption, leakage, etc., and is generally the steady-state operating regime. There are two states of neutron release: prompt and delayed. Prompt neutrons are released immediately as a nucleus fissions, for example U-235, and delayed neutrons are released as a result of the decay or fission of the daughter nuclei and are produced anywhere from microseconds to several minutes after the original event. Your typical commercial and research reactors, such as the one in the video, are designed such that they are just sub-critical with respect to prompt generation and become critical as the delayed neutrons are added in. This creates an effective delay time in reactor response that allows operators to make adjustments to the control rods, which absorb neutrons and decrease reactivity, to keep the chain reaction steady and safe; it's pretty much the phenomenon that nuclear power is predicated on.

What you're seeing in the video is a "pulse" operation, where the reactor is allowed to go prompt-critical VERY briefly. They do this essentially by bringing the reactor delayed-critical at a low power and carefully configuring the control rods, then using pneumatics to yank one out and back in such that the core suddenly goes prompt-critical (like a bomb) and is quickly SCRAM'd. Though it wouldn't quite happen this way due to phenomena like Doppler broadening, void fraction increase due to boiling and other negative reactivity additions, if that level of power were maintained for even a second the entire core structure would likely fail and they'd have quite a mess on their hands. The blue light you're seeing is called Cherenkov radiation and is a by-product of all water-moderated reactors; that's another paragraph for another day but basically it's the frequency of light produced when electrons flying around exceed the phase velocity of light in water, roughly akin to an electromagnetic sonic boom.

Factoid: NCSU's PULSTAR reactor was designed as a pulsing reactor, though we're no longer licensed for it. Yes, it glows blue. What I particularly liked about the Sandia video is a few seconds after the pulse you can see all the bubbles rising to the surface of the pool. 7 milliseconds of power created enough heat in those rods to boil the water around it. Awesome stuff.


[Edited on October 6, 2012 at 5:29 AM. Reason : /WORDS]

10/6/2012 5:14:03 AM

^Pretty damn epic. Thanks for giving some background to the video

10/6/2012 12:57:45 PM

10/6/2012 2:57:54 PM

heheh. He said annular and pulsating.

10/6/2012 3:01:46 PM

I will say that my nerd side thought the Sandia National Labs annular-core pulse reactor video was pretty damn beastly. Awesome stuff.

10/6/2012 3:33:38 PM

Go to http://blackacrebrewing.com and select "I am under 21".

10/6/2012 8:36:29 PM

lol

10/6/2012 8:43:07 PM

incredible

10/6/2012 10:03:30 PM

lol

10/6/2012 11:05:46 PM

http://bereketdunyasi.tumblr.com/post/20264977636#Notes


nsfw

10/7/2012 3:20:48 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAzzbrFgcUw&feature=player_embedded

10/7/2012 1:49:59 PM

Ok that was badass

10/7/2012 2:05:23 PM

not the best I've seen, but for being in the US, pretty damn good. Lots of skill needed to pull something off of that caliber.

10/7/2012 2:17:28 PM

do share

10/7/2012 2:23:56 PM

nsfw, obviously - LOL

http://cdn1.image.watchmygf.com/videothumbs/url2/12.jpg

10/7/2012 3:00:46 PM

Quote :

"do share"

I'll have to find it later, but its an obscure old massive choreography animation from Japan back in the 90's of where they had something like 1000+ people in different colored shirts animating a scene of a guy climbing a mountain. The scope and scale of it was on the wow factor, but the marching band is equally as jarring since they need to hold the skill of playing an instrument and good choreography.

10/7/2012 3:34:50 PM

oh I think I saw that

Japanese dont count, they aren't human

10/7/2012 3:38:10 PM

exactly why I said "for being in the US"... Hard to compare to OCD Japanese people since they always take things to the next level even if we didn't ask them to.

10/7/2012 4:16:16 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ObnEpRccHM

10/7/2012 4:48:11 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBPhJjzLjmk

10/8/2012 3:29:57 AM

^^That was really awesome

10/8/2012 11:17:29 AM

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10/8/2012 2:39:27 PM

aha I would LOVE to enjoy the breathtaking vantages of the crisp autumn conditions from my very own secluded porch!

10/8/2012 3:21:14 PM

Make fall a verb.

10/8/2012 3:22:23 PM

guess I should have added the

[/sarcasm]

to the end but I thought obvious sarcasm was obvious...

10/8/2012 4:31:38 PM

It was.

10/8/2012 4:35:54 PM

kermit the pugs



yup, i'm lame.

10/8/2012 4:53:42 PM

this was on my newsfeed

10/8/2012 6:42:31 PM

i dont get it

10/8/2012 6:47:56 PM

A kid got arrested for bringing a gun to school, and the post above it is about how shooting is bonding time. I just thought it was odd.

10/8/2012 6:54:21 PM

10/8/2012 7:07:39 PM

10/8/2012 7:19:25 PM

too many pics to put directly in the thread, but funny nonetheless

http://profootballmock.com/?p=4810

[Edited on October 8, 2012 at 7:45 PM. Reason : ;]

[Edited on October 8, 2012 at 7:49 PM. Reason : 4500th post w00t!]

10/8/2012 7:44:59 PM

That has got to be pretty bad for your knees

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

10/8/2012 7:58:40 PM

^^that was so damn funny!

10/8/2012 8:06:27 PM

^^^ yeah, thats pretty good... I'd post it here if i weren't on my phone

10/8/2012 8:13:32 PM