Moontanman

As far as i am aware there are no nuclear reactions that are capable of being tiny, safe, and capable of producing enough energy to even come close to doing what you suggest, even on a tiny scale of a model. In fact it would probably be easier to do on a large scale than a tiny one. Not to mention dangerous and not energetic enough to do what you want. Deuterium is stable, tritium is not but it would still not work in a fission reaction. I doubt any nuclear material capable of producing energy significant enough to do what you suggest would be legal. Then you know there are no tiny nuclear energy sources?

Fission? With deuterium? You must know something no one else does.

If this is true then it wouldn't produce significant amounts of useful energy.

There have been some ideas floating around considering the possibility of a floating type structure in the atmosphere of Jupiter kept aloft by heating a huge balloon full of Jupiter's atmosphere via a nuclear, fusion I think, reactor. I am pretty sure it wasn't meant to be manned so radiation shielding wasn't as much of a problem for this application as it would be if humans were on board.

Actually a fuel cell should work for this, it of course takes fuel but it is well with in the possibilities of current technology. Then you wan to look into aneutronic nuclear reactions, helium 3 is often cited as the best fuel, deuterium deuterium reactions produce neutrons which require quite a bit of shielding to be safe for bystanders, lol

Actually zolar i once had some fantasies around a floating island type environment, you can generate power by using the difference in temps between the deep ocean the surface. I thought of a hollow ferro-cement body full of foam with ballast tanks and even a freshwater lake in the center. Not very practical, probably be millions of dollars an acer to build, possibly much of the living areas could be underground, but still not impossible. Merged post follows: Consecutive posts mergedOOOhh, I was thinking of floating in the ocean, not the air, my bad

Zolar, what type of reaction are you thinking of here? Chemical? If so then it is more or less identical to regular hydrogen, nuclear? then no it is not any more self sustaining under normal conditions than hydrogen fusion would be. In other words nothing at all. Under the conditions of the sun and possibly the center of large planets like Jupiter then yes D-D reactions do indeed work like nuclear fusion, are easier to fuse, and are self sustaining until the deuterium runs out. It has been postulated that Jupiter had self sustaining nuclear reactions until it's supply of deuterium ran out. At this time Jupiter would have glowed red hot from these reactions and the in-fall of matter. Jupiter probably looked like a red glowing ball for many thousands of years.

It might prevent her from getting inappropriate material on her phone but her friends have them and they do share! The idea that sexting will ruin their lives is bullshit. Getting caught might be avery bad thing and I would stress that being caught is very bad in our day and age but having pics of your self out there or seeing others will not hurt you but it does make you look stupid for trusting a teenage boy not to share any pics you send. I know many people want thier kids to be as naive as possible but being innocent can also cause you to be easily taken advantage of. Teaching only abstinence is just plain silly, no intelligent person who really wants mature children who can make good decisions on their own would teach such a one sided lifestyle. For the record Severn I honestly doubt you would be the type to teach only one side of an issue. But smile when you say liberal, a big part of the liberal ideal is being able to see issues in living color rather than simply black and white. Good vision is also part of being intelligent, but I reject the labels of Liberal or Conservative, both labels are far too restrictive for me. Both so called "sides" are full of idiots who cannot think for themselves. I raised what I think (and most who know them would agree) are fine young men. I told them up front about sex as soon as they wanted to know, I told them the truth. No scare tactics or just because I said so tactics. (I did the same thing on drugs as well) I told them that one day they would look back on being teenagers and realize they did not know as much as they thought they did then. Both of them have come back to me after they got into their 20's and told me how accurate that was and how glad they were I gave them the facts and didn't lie. Raising a daughter would be a nightmare i think, (just remembering myself as a teenage boy is enough to make me glad I had boys, lol) but girls deserve the truth as well as boys and i am sure yours will make the right choices based on what you tell her. You strike me as an intelligent man so i am sorry if you took what I said as demeaning in anyway. (but it was funny)

Uh, mag lev trains come to mind.

hmmmm, they have a name for parents who only teach abstinence, lets see what was that again? it's what Sarah Palin and her Hubby is... Oh yeah, Grandparents!

Ok, this is my idea for a space ship, a toroidal shape, artificial gravity on the inside surface by spinning the craft, in the center is a place for docking, engines, a place to attach a towed nuclear reactor, and or anything that requires zero gee. Magnetic sails could be used or even material sails could be kept taunt by the crafts rotation. such a craft could be inhabited long term as it was gravity assisted through orbits that could include several planets and be slowly changed in it's orbit and restocked by other space craft when it's orbit came close to the earth. Kind of like a base in space that could house different crews for various time spans and missions.

I once read somewhere that the information necessary to define a human a particular human being well enough to reconstruct them would take a stack of CD's that would be 75,000 light years high. Probably one of those senseless quotes you often read but to do such a reconstruction that would include things like memories would seem to be a prodigious amount of very precise information to say the least. I would think it would have to include things like quantum states as well, I can't see how the Heisenberg's uncertainty principle wouldn't make it far more difficult. "Question at a Star Trek convention" "How does your Heisenberg uncertainty compensator work?" Answer, "Very well, thank you!"

For most of the concepts in Star Trek to eventually be real would require that we are dumb as stumps about how the universe really works, heres to hoping we're totally wrong! and Star Ships are real!

The idea of "beaming" was thought up as a plot aid to allow the TV show Star Trek to be produced easier and cheaper. I am not sure there is anything that would allow the concept to be real.

It can't be true, it wasn't reported on FOX News.....

to hear the media everyone who see someone nude goes blind the person who is nude dies tragically. has to be 100% true cause and effect.

I guess it was just too damn much to let people dream about warp drive, they had to take that away too, lol

I think it's a tempest in a tea pot, i can remember when Polaroid was the rage, lots of girls took nudes of themselves and each other guys did too, it didn't ruin any lives or make anyone go bad. I think most of the problem is the media trying blow smoke up peoples skirts to get their attention.

Wouldn't be more accurate to say we couldn't use the speed of light as a measurement tool? Merged post follows: Consecutive posts merged We would see everything as it is today, the speed of light could no longer be used to see into the past so the big bang would be long gone in deep time.

I think it's with in our technology to build a space ship that could cruise around the solar system. Visiting the various planets on missions that would last several years. It might not be as glamorous as traveling the galaxy but it is much more practical and doable. A reusable space craft that travels the solar system should be on the agenda of our space programs.

I figured this was on of those once in a life time random effects that just happened.

I'd like to see them reproduce that exactly one more time, lol

The thin bottom is the beginning not the end, this is a weird thing for sure. I am willing to believe zolar for now, he seems to have the inside line on this. The dark circle is not the moon it's the inner part of the spiral after the fuel ran out of the rocket. i can believe this was a one time event but if it happens again exactly this way then it's either staged or something really odd that needs to be looked into.

In the center of the spiral? It's the rocket. at least that's what they say Merged post follows: Consecutive posts mergedIf you look in the 4th pic there is a black zone at the center with no bright spot.