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Need a power source for your
electric car?
Be careful
building a nuclear power
plant in
your back yard, or you could be the center of the next suburban
superfund cleanup.
And it is perhaps best that he does not work on the ship's eight reactors, for EPA scientists worry that his previous exposure to radioactivity may have greatly cut short his life. All the radioactive materials he experimented with can enter the body through ingestion, inhalation, or skin contact and then deposit in the bones and organs, where they can cause a host of ailments, including cancer.
posted to MetaFilter by b1tr0t
at 11:18 AM on June 28, 2005
(19 comments)
It has been four years since the dot-coms crashed, sweeping ideas like mylacky.com, pets.com and kozmo.com into the circular file. The remaining survivors have been remarkably successful.
Google owns the search space and has redefined web mail.
Orbitz and
Expedia take most of the pain out of travel planning and reservations.
Tenzing has spent close to half a decade pushing for
IFE certification for
Linux. Once properly certified, they built a system light enough, cheap enough, and reliable enough for installation aboard
aircraft. All this effort just so you can
read email the next time you travel by air. Aerospace giant
Boeing is hard at work on a
similar product but their demonstration is far more
limited than start-up Tenzing's. (no, not
that Tenzing)
posted to MetaFilter by b1tr0t
at 4:33 PM on October 15, 2004
(12 comments)
