Below are the most recent 5 friends' journal entries.

Saturday, December 5th, 2009
mr_gameandwatch	4:49p	Two quotes. One thought. 'We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed and broken. We are perplexed, but we don't give up and quit. We are hunted down, but G(g)od never abandons us. We get knocked down but we get up again and keep going' ~ 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 'Never give in - never, never, never, never, no nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never, yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming...' ~ Winston Churchill There's a good story behind finding these. Not so much ljable. Lots of hand talking required. It's good being a human. Posted via LiveJournal.app. (Comment on this)
Monday, November 30th, 2009
mr_gameandwatch	6:34a	Read #3 http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Nuclear_Physics/Nuclear_Fusion_and_Fission "Energy is released from the nucleus if the Nuclear Binding Energies of the nucleus is increased. This can be done in two ways. Splitting heavier elements (Fission) or Joining Lighter Elements (Fusion)." Anyone know how much energy is required to join heavier elements or why that can't happen currently (or ever)? Edit: Ah " As well as having heavy implications in Electromagnetism and other fields, it says that energy and mass are like beasts, and you can convert one to the other. The Binding Energy, also known as the mass defect, is where this energy comes from. Mass is lost from the nucleus, and energy is released." Fusion "The process stops when all the atoms are converted to Iron (Fe) and the star is thus dead. The reason for this is that once the atoms reach Iron and higher, the energy required to fuse the atoms becomes greater than the energy released by the atoms." Fission For power generation only nuclear fission occurring in a chain reaction is of interest. It is performed controlled in a reactor and uncontrolled in a nuclear bomb. For running a chain reaction the absence of neutron captures and materials with fissionables nuclei are required. The only natural nuclei, which can be used for reactor operation is uranium235. Others like plutonium239 have to be created artificially, however also in a reactor, which requires a fuel like uranium235 or plutonium239. Interestingly a few billion years ago, building a reactor would have been much easier, as there was a much higher concentration of uranium235 in natural uranium! You can read the exact content therefore under Change of isotope composition of natural uranium. I think I just found what I'd like to study if/when attending graduate school. Finally. It seems to me like we need to make fusion happen eventually. It'd probably be good to work for this guy's legacy. (Comment on this)
mr_gameandwatch	5:33a	read #2 Worst time of the year to start reading something new, but it will all work out. "Uranium and Plutonium Whereas the U-235 nucleus is 'fissile', that of U-238 is said to be 'fertile'. This means that it can capture one of the neutrons which are flying about in the core of the reactor and become (indirectly) plutonium-239, which is fissile. Pu-239 is very much like U-235, in that it fissions when hit by a neutron and this also yields a lot of energy. Because there is so much U-238 in a reactor core (most of the fuel), these reactions occur frequently, and in fact about one third of the energy yield comes from "burning" Pu-239. But sometimes a Pu-239 atom simply captures a neutron without splitting, and it becomes Pu-240. Because the Pu-239 is either progressively "burned" or becomes Pu-240, the longer the fuel stays in the reactor the more Pu-240 is in it.* * The significance of this is that when the spent fuel is removed after about three years, the plutonium in it is not suitable for making weapons but can be recycled as fuel." Current Mood: tired (Comment on this)
mr_gameandwatch	5:21a	Wikipedia "...Spencer states that nuclear power must be a manifestation of the Aquarian Age and comments on the parallel between the 25,000 years it takes for uranium to decay with the 26,000 cycle of the astrological ages.[16] No isotopes of uranium have a half-life of 25,000 years though, naturally occurring forms have half-lives of 4.46 billion years(U-238), 700 million years(U-235), and 245,000 years(U-234). "Nuclear fission : Nuclear fission is the process of splitting atoms. When a nucleus of an (e.g. Uranium 235) atom is hit by a neutron bullet and splits into two parts, it is called fission. The total mass of the two parts will be less than the initial mass. The "lost" mass will be converted into energy according to Einstein's equation, E = mc2 (E = energy | m = mass | c = speed of light ~ 3 x 108m s-1.)" Put equal energy back in at a faster rate than a half life (which is generally very long) and "replenish" (I guess you could call it that) U-235 which is generally used in nuclear reactors. As opposed to depleting uranium (DU) which takes a single amount of natural uranium and creates an amount of DU and an amount of enriched uranium. I'm all of this stuff is super non linear and there's a lot to learn. Initial thought: instead of a neutron bullet hit two atoms pushed together somehow with an energy bullet. I guess the thought of solving a nuclear waste problem is worth the thought and research that will be fun to do if nothing else. Think fusion power but instead of smashing two masses (using external energy source) together with the intention of creating large amounts of energy apply some amount of energy, the right amount of energy, to replenish the uranium. Maybe energy can be collected and applied at a rate quicker than the half life. Or this would be done already if it were that easy. It just seems right that, as with most laws, some theoretical reciprocities can have their real wold irreversibilites designed around with enough knowledge and effort. At worst I'll read about it and maybe there will be a good nuclear question at trivia night. Current Mood: awake Current Music: combat baby (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 29th, 2009
mr_gameandwatch	3:19a	I didn't study film but this was a good movie. Just saw Assassination of a High School President and thought it was friggin' brilliant. Like Gummo (bath tub scene with the hair was for sure a callout to that movie) meets Brick (kids, film noir, something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue) meets my childhood meets color/clothing/space/every other trend everything I'm incapable of noticing or describing that I may or may not catch in the next few times that I watch it. It was just really nice to see a movie that I'll put with 2001:, Harold and Maude, most things with/by Benigni (the Italian that climbed over chairs at the Oscars), Pulp Fiction, Waiting for Guffman (Would 'for' be capitalized in that?), American Psycho, The Life Aquatic, etc. Reading the wikipedia also says that the production company, Yari Film Group, went bankrupt.  Part of me tends to think of this as a new way of releasing anything.  Giving it a real story.  Something human.  I hope they really went bankrupt and this isn't all some sick new way of bringing films to market using good design word of mouth/"viral media" a bullshit story to tell .  I just hope that the story is real.  In that case I'm all about word or mouth good design pushing something to the top.  Looking briefly on the Wikipedia kind of validates the viral media idea [footnotes 4-12].  And if it is true maybe this is what little Yari needs.   Calpin pulls half of the magic from a prep school he went to in Scranton......The Office......also good...all things connected. To stay on point: Shit, at least the movie promoted thinking on my part.  A 5am night in the city with some good people that I haven't seen in forever, followed by a first day sailing (something that I'll be doing a lot more of), and now I'm up writing this at 4am in the good old lj. I kind of decided to write this to keep my thoughts together because when looking up the movie I found the following MTV review which told me nothing:  Look for yourself. "The film was highly praised by MTV, favourably comparing it to Rushmore, The Usual Suspects, Chinatown, Sixteen Candles and Fast Times at Ridgemont High. The network added that "The film's central mystery keeps you guessing intelligently, but brilliantly balances every reference to Nietzsche with a joke about a chocolate swirly." The casting choices were also praised, Willis is "hillariously intense" and Barton "brings the femme fatale back for a new generation." Way to go Miss Chloe...and hillariously is not.....whatever. Cut the shit dudes.  Make me think.  Buona notte. Anyone know how to do the hyper links like MTV fools but not blue - hyperlinks (spellcheck: hyperlink as one word, I think is a word) that aren't a different color, without bars under them, and that encourage reading slowly maybe?   Started via LiveJournal.app.  Finished via my IBM laptop because the app, however promising, still has some bugs that google chrome just doesn't have and this computer is 4 years old and still kicking.  Made possible by: Kyle showing me this movie, a brain, and the internet (which is kind of almost like a brain sometimes).   Current Mood: content (1 Comment |Comment on this)