The new $133 million supercomputer, called Roadrunner in a reference to the state bird of New Mexico, was devised and built by engineers and scientists at IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory, in New Mexico. It will be used principally to solve classified military problems to ensure that nuclear weapons will continue to work correctly [...]

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A leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on Wednesday threatened to storm Egyptian border if Israeli blockade on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip remains in place.
Osama al-Muzini’s threat was made as he warned from “public explosion,” adding that the angry people’s outburst “will go in all directions” and that Rafah border [...]

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Why are we going to experience a geometric explosion (price doubling and redoubling) in oil prices?
1. Peak oil and declining production around the world. Plus you need to factor in oil producing countries’ local consumption. Rising local consumption in oil producing countries means they will stop exporting oil long before they run out.
a. You see [...]

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Twenty-two years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, work is under way on a colossal new shelter to cover the ruins and deadly radioactive contents of the exploded Soviet-era power plant.
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The explosion at reactor No. 4 on April 26, 1986 was the world’s worst nuclear accident, spewing radiation over a large swath of the former Soviet [...]

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A useful rule-of-thumb is the “rule of sevens”. This rule states that for every seven-fold increase in time following a fission detonation (starting at or after 1 hour), the radiation intensity decreases by a factor of 10. Thus after 7 hours, the residual fission radioactivity declines 90%, to one-tenth its level of 1 hour. After [...]

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