That is just what the guys from Mythbusters are going to find out.The crew is using an irradiator in the basement of Hanford's 318 Building just north of Richland. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory usually uses the device to calibrate dosimeters, which measure radiation exposure to humans and animals, and to check for radiation damage of video cameras, fiber optic cables and other equipment... read full post picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

In an update to an ongoing year-long lawsuit, A federal judge in Maryland on Thursday ordered liens on the Westboro Baptist Church building and the Phelps-Chartered Law office. If order is upheld the church and office building will be sold and proceeds going to a Marine's father who won a lawsuit against the church for protesting his son's funeral picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

URUMQI, China - The rosy-cheeked infant swaddled in a blanket snuggled tenderly next to her mother in their hospital bed, hours after her birth Wednesday.

A little over a month ago, Zhang Xiaoyan lay in the rubble of her earthquake-shattered apartment building. Trapped for more than 50 hours, she prayed for the life of her unborn child. picked by bevissimo 1 year ago

One of the largest and most luminous stars in our galaxy is a surprisingly prolific building site for complex molecules important to life on Earth, new measurements reveal. picked by DrNothing 2 years ago

A step-by-step guide to building a relatively sophisticated home distillation unit that produces a highly refined distillate. picked by kakana 2 years ago

Green roofs reduce heating and cooling loads on a building, reduce stormwater run off, filter pollutants and heavy metals out of rainwater, and
filter pollutants and CO2 out of the air. And they can be beautiful too! Check out these pictures of mega-green roofs throughout the world. picked by hypermiler 2 years ago

A new study suggests that extreme chemical reactions fired up by meteorite impacts may have jump-started life in the early oceans, rather than delivering its building blocks preformed. picked by muppet 12 months ago

How to rivet your prospects’ attention with the 10 Magic Words that never go out of style!
6 proven methods for getting a ton of qualified traffic and building a huge, hungry list – fast! 3 simple questions that eliminate hours of hair-tearing agony in writing a sales letter... picked by jpjameson 2 years ago

Imagine cramming 30,000 full-length movies into a gadget the size of an iPod. Scientists at IBM said on Thursday they had moved closer to such a feat by learning how to steer single atoms in a way that could create building blocks for ultra-tiny storage devices. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

The United States is finally ditching analog television broadcasting, and the rest of the world is doing the same. Unless you've got a converter, the government has just morphed your trusty analog boob tube into an inert piece of furniture. Mind you, this is a good thing. Digital TV (DTV) offers better picture quality. For example, the ghost images caused by signal reflections off that high-rise o... read full post picked by kakana 5 months ago

New wall is a relative miniature at 1 meter (3.3 feet) high -- to guard against hordes of pillaging mice. ``The wall is a symbolic gesture to quiet public concern,'' Wen said. ``It's not going to work in the long run.'' picked by misswinkle 2 years ago

The author of the GAO report, Richard Stana, said most of those who were wrongly allowed to enter were economic migrants who did not present a security risk.


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"Oh, I know, let's waste taxpayer money building a wall so that we can just let them through the front gate instead" picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

For centuries Hindus have revered the sun god, Surya, as a source of health and prosperity, building lavish temples and holding festivals in his honour across a country with more than 300 days of sunshine a year. picked by kakana 4 months ago

Russia plans to build the world's longest tunnel under the Bering Strait to Alaska, as part of a $65 billion project to supply the U.S. with oil, natural gas and electricity from Siberia. The planned undersea tunnel would contain a high-speed railway, highway and pipelines, as well as power and fiber-optic cables. picked by BrownTrout 3 years ago

Swaying and dancing 15 feet up in the air. Saw one of their performances, free, yesterday in the plaza in front of my office building. Awesome picked by suebe 2 years ago

Chinese amateur inventor Wu Yulu has spent 22 years building robots out of wire, metal, screws and nails found in rubbish sites and the best use he could come up with was as a rickshaw driver. Check out more of his robots here picked by suebe 11 months ago

The concept of 'harvest' is explored in the project through the vertical farming of vegetables, herbs, fruits, fish, egg laying chickens, and a boutique goat and sheep dairy facility. In addition, renewable energy will be harvested via green building design elements harnessing geothermal, wind and solar power.
Other designs were earlier discussed here . picked by rambler 6 months ago

It was supposed to be a quiet, romantic dinner for a young couple, who were enjoying a summer evening in Sushi Bar, until a slab of decorative concrete fell 18 storeys. Tragic...so tragic picked by wildminou 5 months ago

Scientists have taken a giant leap toward making possible the dream of building a powerful telescope on the moon that could withstand even the harshest of lunar conditions. picked by DrNothing 2 years ago

Comic strip about building robots to argue with Christians... So we don't have to. picked by misswinkle 2 years ago