Author Topic: W-H-I-Y-L - boom shake-shake shake the-room. (Read 3632756 times)

Klaustrophobia · **Reply #18580 on:** December 16, 2011, 07:06:16 pm

put simply, it's a blue glow. and if you see it, you might as well stay and enjoy the pretty lights, because it's already too late. (unless you're watching it under 20 feet of water from on top of the reactor pool)

FireSpawn · **Reply #18581 on:** December 17, 2011, 12:44:13 am

So no "nucwear wessells" then? Daaaaaw

NGTM-1R · **Reply #18582 on:** December 17, 2011, 02:03:48 am

Quote from: FireSpawn on December 16, 2011, 06:48:19 pm

What's "Cherenkov radiation"? Does it cause anyone exposed to it to speak poor english with a russian accent, while giving them the ability to man the helm of a starship?

Blue glow (among other things) caused by radiation exceeding the speed of light in a substance.

qazwsx · **Reply #18583 on:** December 17, 2011, 04:28:59 pm

Quote from: NGTM-1R on December 17, 2011, 02:03:48 am

Quote from: FireSpawn on December 16, 2011, 06:48:19 pm
What's "Cherenkov radiation"? Does it cause anyone exposed to it to speak poor english with a russian accent, while giving them the ability to man the helm of a starship?

Blue glow (among other things) caused by radiation exceeding the speed of light in a substance.

charged particles, like electrons. glow is blue due to the kinetic energy being lost as light. High energy -> high frequency light.

Ravenholme · **Reply #18584 on:** December 17, 2011, 04:46:44 pm

OMK2 got announced, I'm currently in fanrapture.

http://youtu.be/auQxnT6iX1k

sigtau · **Reply #18585 on:** December 17, 2011, 06:28:36 pm

Disregard females, acquire music:

Be jealous. Be very jealous.

This is an original vinyl with some cosmetic wear on the album cover, but the record itself plays flawlessly without skipping. Picked it up today for $5.

If I keep up the deal hunting, I might just secretly start collecting vinyl.

EDIT: Holy ****. This is an original 1973 copy. As in, the release year for Dark Side of the Moon. And I just bought it for $5.

Dragon · **Reply #18586 on:** December 17, 2011, 06:48:27 pm

Quote from: qazwsx on December 17, 2011, 04:28:59 pm

Quote from: NGTM-1R on December 17, 2011, 02:03:48 am
Quote from: FireSpawn on December 16, 2011, 06:48:19 pm
What's "Cherenkov radiation"? Does it cause anyone exposed to it to speak poor english with a russian accent, while giving them the ability to man the helm of a starship?

Blue glow (among other things) caused by radiation exceeding the speed of light in a substance.
charged particles, like electrons. glow is blue due to the kinetic energy being lost as light. High energy -> high frequency light.

Think of it as a photon equivalent of a sonic boom, it's created when particles move in a medium in which speed of light is lower than their own speed. That's perfectly doable, provided you accelerate them in a different medium where speed of light is higher.
It's a perfectly normal thing in nuclear reactors, and in most cases is blue.

BTW, the helmsman from Star Trek: TOS was named Chekov. [/geek]

FireSpawn · **Reply #18587 on:** December 17, 2011, 06:53:13 pm

Quote from: Dragon on December 17, 2011, 06:48:27 pm

BTW, the helmsman from Star Trek: TOS was named Chekov. [/geek]

I know, that was the whole point of my original post. Although, I've learnt more about nuclear physics and thus, my quest towards world domination is one step closer. Thanks a bunch NGT and Qaz!

headdie · **Reply #18588 on:** December 18, 2011, 04:08:43 am

holy **** sigtau, serious kudos for that one

Nuke · **Reply #18589 on:** December 18, 2011, 07:06:52 pm

i fixed the last bug with my new rig. i was getting lockups whenever i tried to play a game or do anything that required some go. i first suspected that my psu wasnt providing enough juice for the gpu dispite being 120 watts over what the power calculator said it would need. i was thinking that the fact that i had 3 12v rails (with the gpu and cpu each getting their own independent rail, and the last for everything else), that the juice was distributed between them not providing enough power to the rail that the gpu was on. but after scaning over the documentation for the parts i found that the rail the gpu was on could deliver a couple amps more than the gpu needed. so my suspicion shifted to the memory. i ran my diagnostics and all the cpu stuff passed with flying colors, then the memory tests started. every memory tester i used would lock up on me after some 30%, but without producing any actual errors. so i upped my memory voltage from 1.25v to 1.27v and boom el work-o. the morale of this story: ram needs power.

Pred the Penguin · **Reply #18590 on:** December 18, 2011, 08:08:56 pm

Quote from: sigtau on December 17, 2011, 06:28:36 pm

Disregard females, acquire music:

*snip*

Be jealous. Be very jealous.

This is an original vinyl with some cosmetic wear on the album cover, but the record itself plays flawlessly without skipping. Picked it up today for $5.

If I keep up the deal hunting, I might just secretly start collecting vinyl.

EDIT: Holy ****. This is an original 1973 copy. As in, the release year for Dark Side of the Moon. And I just bought it for $5.

How in the world did you manage that... o_o

LordMelvin · **Reply #18591 on:** December 18, 2011, 08:18:22 pm

Quote from: sigtau on December 17, 2011, 06:28:36 pm

If I keep up the deal hunting, I might just secretly start collecting vinyl.

EDIT: Holy ****. This is an original 1973 copy. As in, the release year for Dark Side of the Moon. And I just bought it for $5.

You lucky [redacted], my original copy's been played half to pieces and I have to listen to the vinyl remastered 25th anniversary version instead.

Firstdragon34 · **Reply #18592 on:** December 18, 2011, 08:26:49 pm

Nice, dude! That's awesome!

Also, I'm trying uncover a conspiracy theory of an alien space ship parked next to Mercury. A supposedly cloaked ship that was revealed when it was exposed to a solar flare.

Are the Greys coming for us? I don't know. Maybe they're coming for me.

Nuke · **Reply #18593 on:** December 18, 2011, 08:41:05 pm

Quote from: Firstdragon34 on December 18, 2011, 08:26:49 pm

Nice, dude! That's awesome!

Also, I'm trying uncover a conspiracy theory of an alien space ship parked next to Mercury. A supposedly cloaked ship that was revealed when it was exposed to a solar flare.

Are the Greys coming for us? I don't know. Maybe they're coming for me.

i saw a video of that. what the conspiracy theorists dont know is that when you take close in pictures of the sun you filter the **** out of it so youre only seeing every 100th photon. at that point any space debris not emitting light appears black to space. it needed to have its surface impacted with tonnes of super-hot solar ejecta to become visible. disregard the fact that the radiation from the flare would have baked anyone inside of it with a ****ton of radiation. the "cloaked ship" hypothesis is bogus as ****.

Firstdragon34 · **Reply #18594 on:** December 18, 2011, 08:48:43 pm

I knew you say something like that Nuke. Only time will tell. Isn't there a probe orbiting mercury? Messenger? I say we swing that orbiter around or the Hubble and take special pictures in that area again.

If its just a hoax, then, damn so close but so far.

The 'ship' has to be emitting something, just saying.

Nuke · **Reply #18595 on:** December 18, 2011, 08:57:25 pm

yes, because it just got hit by tons of plasma and the surface is now glowing, not to mention the illumination provided by the flare.

Firstdragon34 · **Reply #18596 on:** December 18, 2011, 09:04:39 pm

Well, damn

deathfun · **Reply #18597 on:** December 19, 2011, 02:09:14 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X96xI1gLdQ
Link to the above conversation

Quote

disregard the fact that the radiation from the flare would have baked anyone inside of it with a ****ton of radiation.

Counter argument. We can't assume that aliens share the same weaknesses that we do. They could very well thrive in high radiation environments, or be resilient enough to not be affected

NGTM-1R · **Reply #18598 on:** December 19, 2011, 02:16:00 am

Quote from: deathfun on December 19, 2011, 02:09:14 am

Counter argument. We can't assume that aliens share the same weaknesses that we do. They could very well thrive in high radiation environments, or be resilient enough to not be affected

At the levels we're talking anything you or I would recognize as alive is dead.

Scotty · **Reply #18599 on:** December 19, 2011, 02:31:02 am

Then they quite obviously must be Ghouls, and radiation heals them.

Woo Fallout Physics! Or would it be biology?

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