so waht ya doin today?

Brad

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Ian said:
The engineers at Boeing never got my jokes either. :rolleyes:
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Probably not enough neutrons for them to be funny?

A 3 neutron for of hydrogen has been made in particle accelerators and it has an extremely short half life.

4H (atomic mass is 4.02643(11) u) contains one proton and three neutrons in its nucleus. It is a highly unstable isotope of hydrogen. It has been synthesised in the laboratory by bombarding tritium with fast-moving deuterium nuclei.[9] In this experiment, the tritium nucleus captured a neutron from the fast-moving deuterium nucleus. The presence of the hydrogen-4 was deduced by detecting the emitted protons. It decays through neutron emission into hydrogen-3 (tritium) with a half-life of about 139 ± 10 yoctoseconds, or (1.39 ± 0.10 × 10−22 seconds).[10]
 
Pistolero

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Yep, pretty much what I figured. Lots of energy to do it, and won't stay stuck for squat.

And, Yes, I knew you were kidding, Ian. But it is kinda interesting to thing about.

10^ -22 seconds......now THAT is short. Even shorter than a New York minute.

Bill
 
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Pistolero

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Shows you that those accelerator dudes got way too much time on their hands.

"Hey, Ernie, I'll bet you a sawbuck I can stick another neutron on that SOB."

"Can't" "Can, too." "Can't" "Yeah, well WATCH THIS." "Hold my beer."

They got 7 to stick for at least a yocto-nano-wiggle. Nerd games.

Bill
 
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Brad

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Yep, highly intelligent people with little knowledge useful outside of their realm.
 
fiver

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but that ability could lead to something else quite useful.
think about being able to stick another atom onto something like spider silk, or onto PVC then stretching it to make something else like a 1/4" rope that will lift 5,000 lbs, or just to increase the length it will stretch under a load.
 
Bret4207

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Brad said:
Nitrogen IS a great fertilizer, but not nitrogen gas. Nitrogen gas is extremely chemically stable and most plants can't use it at all.

Chemical fertilizers use nitrogen containing substances like anhydrous ammonia. These are created in industrial plants largely thru the Haber process.

There likely is some nitrogen in rain but mostly from nitrogen oxides reacting with the water to form acid rain.
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I won't pretend to know what the make up or type of nitrogen in the atmosphere is, but I do know that whatever is carried in rain, or better- snow, does affect grasses. A late snow fall that melts in the sun will always give you green spots where the snow collected from the little N boost. The N in anhydrous I'm sure is tied up in a chem mixture that is aimed specifically as making it available to plants. How a legume takes N2 and turns it into NH3 I also don't know squat about, but there must be something in the atmosphere the N2 combines with in rain, at least to a small degree, to offer a little of it to the plants, be it forming an acid or whatever. I can only wish we got more usable N in rain, and I'd also order up some calcium based lime , potash and a little selenium and boron too!
 
Bret4207

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JonB said:
Grass? I don't care about grass.


I've heard the nitrogen story and am skeptical the plants would react that quickly. I've also read that rain water has a higher concentration of Oxygen...and it seems plausible to me that is what is perking up the plants.


Maybe it's God's hand in the mix?
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No doubt it's God's hand, or plan, but H2O is H2O. I don't believe it becomes H3O, whatever that is. I'd also wonder why a plant that produces
O would benefit from more O. Now if it's CO2 in the rainwater, that might make more sense to me. But I have no training beyond a lot of reading and observation in this area. Could it be another one of those "We don't know what we don't know" things?
 
Bret4207

Bret4207

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A yacto second? At last! We finally have a way of measuring how fast a politicians promise will last! Huzzah!

Was working on the F350 exhaust Friday and blew out my knee by doing something foolish- I tried to get up off the ground! Spent Sat and Sun renewing my friendship with Mr. Heating Pad. Did manage to move sheep fence and do chores but it was real slow going. Only good thing to come out of it was finding a You Tube channel that I found absolutely fascinating. Look up "Essential Craftsman". Carpentry, welding, blacksmithing, logging, more tools than you can shake a stick at, plus knifemaking and an enormous power hammer! And not a curse word in any of it! Good stuff.
 
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Ian

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Nerd games is why some people worry about a certain superconducting super collider in northern Europe becoming the center of a new black hole. Some of the stuff going on there is absolutely mind-boggling.
 
Bret4207

Bret4207

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And here I thought I was alone in wondering if someday someone nerdy is going to do something really mind boggling (and stupid) and create a whole new set of problems no one ever even considered a possibility. Think Madame Curie...
 
Ian

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You had 30 years to plan and still haven't settled on a place? :p

Congrats to you, that's a long time indeed, I wasn't even in high school yet when you two got hitched up.
 
Rick

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Not in high school yet? I had been in the Marines and divorced for 10 years by then. October 4th is my 40th anniversary. :D
 
Hawk

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Congrats. My wife always wants to go to her favorite places, as opposed to expensive places to celebrate.
On her birthday, we went to Fuzzy Tacos!
Although she also really likes sushi.
 
Bret4207

Bret4207

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Congrats Brad! I think our 30th was 3 or 4 years ago. Been together since '78.

Not in high school yet? I literally have clothes older than you are Ian!
 
Brad

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We narrowed the choices quickly to the old standards.
I don’t care
You decide
I don’t know
Pretty much par for the course.
 
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