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I heard that Chernobyl actually created a few new species of animals like a three foot earthworm. What would we do without the three foot earthworm?!

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Very cool list I found just the other day when I heard about the new Russia-America arms reduction deal coming through I looked up to see what the peak was. A lot of neat facts including that we have 1 nuclear plane hangar but never have we built a nuclear plane.

At least if we build the plane, we'll have a place to keep it.

stitch626 wrote:

Sionnach Glic wrote:Personally I prefer our one, since WYSIWYG. I want to pay the price I see on the label - not that + 21%.

21%!!!!!!!
Ours is only 8.125 (here in New York at least).

Welcome to Europe.

"Tax cuts? What are they?"

Well at least we have government services worth a damn.

Mikey wrote:At least if we build the plane, we'll have a place to keep it.

Maybe we'll use it to find those 10 missing warheads!

Monroe wrote:I heard that Chernobyl actually created a few new species of animals like a three foot earthworm. What would we do without the three foot earthworm?!

And let's not forget the 295 foot mutated Iguana.

Hmmm. There may have been some different technologies.

The car thing might actually be possible. I don't think there is a practical shielding solution for a proper fission reaction. However there are a handful of isotopes produces by reactors that will undergo fission from interaction with....hmmm I bet it was alpha particles. So you could mix an alpha emiter with these things and (presuming they don't kick off neutrons in their reaction very often) you'd have a small scale and shieldable fission reactor.

I'd have to think the expense for such things would be out of the reach for most people, but given how much of a major pain it is for militaries to keep their tanks and such fuled we might have seen some of those.

But I dunno if it'd actually work out once you tried to implement it.