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I never find Wikipedia helpful. Too much jargon.

How I have wrote essays since the start of high school -

1) Go to Wikipedia

2) Copy into jotter

3) Replace all big words with small words

4) Remove unnecessary paragraphs

5)???

6)Profit!

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I'm trying to get my Ion probe into Duna orbit...As you can tell I was too lazy to wait for it to encounter Duna. hence my presence here.

@Mercy: that's Technically plagiarism......I like your style.

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Shame I really can't do much with one of the few nuclear ideas I have.

Some time ago I had a concept that would have been the holy grail of energy- a power source of predictable output that the use of actually resulted in a net improvement in the environment around it, because it worked by removing hazardous radon gas from the air as its fuel. Over time it would eventually accumulate isotopes of lead inside the unit, but that is far safer to clean up than any kind of nuclear material.

The challenge to make it work is a high flow mass spectrometer capable of isolating the desired isotopes to approximately 50% purity with an inert buffer such as helium or argon. I've yet to come up with a way to do this without consuming more than its net energy output, so that's a concept that probably will never leave the theoretical stage.

Worked out to around 1.21 Gigawatts of power per gram of radon allowed to decay, yielded over a roughly 2 week period. But on order of tons of air would have to be filtered to obtain that 1 gram of radon gas, and my calculations ignored thermocouple inefficiency.

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I'm trying to get my Ion probe into Duna orbit...As you can tell I was too lazy to wait for it to encounter Duna. hence my presence here.

Maybe it has reached it, but now its crashed into it or has been shot into a Kerbol SOI escape.

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Chemistry class made me overly cautious when came to checking scent of substances after I check directly (it happen in elementary :P) how Sulphuric acid actually smell.

It looked quite innocent:

340px-Sulphuric_acid_96_percent_extra_pure.jpg

Sniffing corrosive acids is a bad idea, trust me.

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Chemistry class made me overly cautious when came to checking scent of substances after I check directly (elementary :P) how Sulphuric acid actually smell.

It looked quite innocent:

Sulphuric_acid_96_percent_extra_pure.jpg

The best way to tell your acids apart is to taste them. They each have a distinct burning feeling, like a icy burn or a extremely hot pepper.

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The best way to tell your acids apart is to taste them. They each have a distinct burning feeling, like a icy burn or a extremely hot pepper.

Yes because putting things like that in your mouth is always a good idea.

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Its the best way to distinguish things, what's the problem with it?

After failing miserably in creating any sensible response I given up.

Maybe other topic... Well... Anyone here is interested in photography ?

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After failing miserably in creating any sensible response I given up.

Maybe other topic... Well... Anyone here is interested in photography ?

No, but I have a friend who is. She takes real neato pictures.

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As someone who's actually gotten a jolt (no, not from a defibrillator, from a broken toaster) I can agree that electrical shocks are unpleasant. *Extremely sage nod *

I used to do photography, and liked it a fair bit too. My pictures were nothing special, but it was a lot of fun.

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