The INL itself is still an active nuclear research facility. The SL-1 building is just a big sheet metal shed, mostly empty now and far away from any current activity, except sheep grazing.

INL was founded as a peacetime ’sister’ to Hanford, where weapons-grade material is made. For instance, there is a surgical suite with an active reactor for boron-neutron capture therapy of certain cancers. In one form of that therapy, they remove the top of the skull and expose the brain directly to the neutron source.

Yeah, it’s a wild place.

To give proper credit to your original question then. Assuming that others share the drive to discover the actual truth in a situation and are willing to do what it takes to get there may be regarded as an ‘ND mistake’.

You have no idea how rich the interlinked backstories of all my tchotchkes are. It far surpasses the MCU or Dianetics in richness.

I may have a similar perspective?

Let’s see.

I am sick to god-damn death of having my exceptional abilities turned into illnesses!

I have driven myself to the point of stress induced disability trying to learn how to convey meaning clearly. Like many ND, I can intuit large conceptual leaps, often correctly. But not always. So I learned to do my homework, fill in the gaps for others (and frankly myself, as I am not always correct and have learned to curb my enthusiasm when my disciplined research shows this).

At this point, after a modest amount of that sort of effort, I am now inclined to tell people to do their own god-damn homework. If they aren’t gonna try, fuck em.

The article is about EBR-1. The steam explosion was at SL-1

I got to peek inside the decommissioned SL1 building where a fatal reactor incident happened. They still scoop up bits of fuel from ant mounds in the vicinity because the fuel pellets happen to be the size of particles ants prefer in their mounds. Did a few seasons of ecological surveys on the INL and it is a wacky place.

Remedial soul

That might have been safer than the OP concept.

If this becomes common, eventually there will be a chain reaction on a crowded grid-locked freeway.

It will work something like this:

Nuclear Fission

Oh the huge manatee!

I don’t usually like horror, but a while ago I got sucked into Jason “David Wong” Pargin’s John dies at the end series.

The film adaptation had to leave out so much. The books really got me in the gizzard.

Just be sure to eat your veggies! You will know when the time is right.

Or a burst shot.

Yes. I grew up during the fight for ERA (equal rights amendment). I clearly remember asking my mom what the fuss was about and she said it would make separate mens and womens bathrooms illegal. About 1977ish I think this was

I love his commitment to the bit. True dedication

I don’t have the circuit diagramed out, I just built it on a breadboard using what I had on hand already. I dug out the breadboard to at least give you what info I can.

It is an old project so I pulled some of the passive components for use elsewhere. But I can at least give some guidance.

I mis-spoke on the capacitance. I used two 4F supercapacitors in parallel, chosen based solely on voltage and economy for small purchase quantities.

I used a dual voltage comparator LM393 to detect full charge and the cutoff voltage and NPN switching transistor 2N222a to turn things off and on.

I used trimpots to set and tweak the on and off threshold voltages.

I didn’t bother with any output voltage conditioning because the application was to run a small air pump to aerate a tiny aquarium intermittently. The air pumps operate on a wide voltage range (4-6v are fine) so I opted for simplicity and lower losses. It ran for five months without a hitch, as I recall. The pump drew about 500ma steady state.

The research that I am really interested in is into biodegradable polymers for super capacitors. One of the main problems with batteries is the need for exotic materials that are expensive and harder to recycle when they inevitably wear out. There are so many applications that can be powered intermittently and eliminating batteries when possible can lower cost and circuit part count significantly.

Hope that helps.

Whatever you call them, people will respect you more when you use them.

A standard US nickel, yes.

I prefer better odds than that…

Thick Nickels

They are leaders! They are first in line when the annual bonuses come out!

I’m not assuming any of that. The social media companies do monitor for bots and influence operations. Just because they let some keep operating doesn’t change the technical reason for using actual phones vs emulators.

It is both cat and mouse AND kabuki theater.

Used phones have actual human usage history associated with their hardware identifiers. If you were to use emulated devices with spoofed identifiers, it would be easier for the large social media services to filter out the bot traffic.

Using old devices that were once used by real people leaves a digital paper trail that makes it harder to make algorithms to filter out bots.

It is actually incredibly hard to create a perfect emulated environment that cannot be detected by the software running within it, in this case the official social media app the bots have to use. The apps of the social media platforms cannot really be fooled by an emulated environment. There are too many ways for it to check whether it is running on hardware or in a virtual machine or container.

Case in point ask anyone who has ever tried to use a graphics driver with windows in a virtual machine.