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Another Earthquake, Tsunami's expected in over 50 countries.

CrackedPepper said:
hannaugh said:
At least we're finally going to build a new nuclear plant after so many years of idiots who know nothing about nuclear power railing on about how bad it is. 
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I hope you are right but I don't think the so-called green movement will ever let a nuclear plant to be built without lawsuit after lawsuit blocking its construction.
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Oh, I'm sure there will be plenty of ignorant hippies pitching a fit, but at least Obama is promoting this one, so maybe it won't be so bad. 
 
Another interesting point regarding the sun.

It doesn't stay in the same place relative to the planets.  It's a physics thing.  The earth's orbit is elliptical, not circular, and the way gravity works we all (the planets) interact with one another and revovle around the centre of mass of the solar system, which is not the sun itself.  It's actually at the surface of the sun.  So the sun moves too. even if it only orbits around a point at its surface.  But seeing as how many earths can fit inside its radius. I'd say that makes a significant difference in how the season work as we move around it.
 
Anyone care to venture what the biggest radioactive waste from Nukes is?  It's not depleted fuel.  It's contaminated handtools from maintenance employees.
 
Volitions Advocate said:
Another interesting point regarding the sun.

It doesn't stay in the same place relative to the planets.  It's a physics thing.  The earth's orbit is elliptical, not circular, and the way gravity works we all (the planets) interact with one another and revovle around the centre of mass of the solar system, which is not the sun itself.  It's actually at the surface of the sun.  So the sun moves too. even if it only orbits around a point at its surface.  But seeing as how many earths can fit inside its radius. I'd say that makes a significant difference in how the season work as we move around it.
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The Earth orbits around the foci of the sun, so yes, it wobbles.  The amount, and type, of the wobble is how we know the mass and number of planets in other solar systems without actually seeing them based on the red/blue shift.  This is also how the existence of other planets in our own solar system were discovered without visible confirmation (and why there is more mass out there than visually accounted for).  The distance from the Sun actually affects climate little.  We could be much closer or further away from the Sun and the climate wouldn't change.  For example, Mercury is closer to the Sun but Venus has a hotter [average] temperature.  Actually, because the Earrth's [and all] orbit is elliptical, the orbit is not at a constant speed.  At our furthest point from the sun we are moving slowest and vice versa.  In the Northern Hemsisphere at least, our winter occurs when we are closest to the Sun.
 
hannaugh said:
[Oh, I'm sure there will be plenty of ignorant hippies pitching a fit, but at least Obama is promoting this one, so maybe it won't be so bad.  
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If nuclear power is good enough for our European brothers and sisters, it should be good enough for the USA.  I just think it is ironic that the intellectual elite in this country loves all things Europe unless we're talking about nuclear power.  Then it's all "Oh no, we can't have nuclear power, it's too dangerous.  We might have another Three Mile Island or a Chernobyl."  Of course, we can't have coal fired power plants (too dirty/too much CO2), hydroelectric power (fish can't swim upstream), windmill farms (take your pick: they're ugly, I don't like the constant whoop-whooop-whoop from the blades, they cut up birds).
 
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