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If the fuel prices don't kill you, the fuel will. Will that be regular, enriched, or high-neutron today?
 
I like the front overhang myself.... Passenger compartment / crumple zone on the worlds most useless Ranchero!

Hope the floors don't rust... People may "fallout" da dum dum dum. <rimshot>
 
Everybody is *fission* to find puns. Hope it doesn't cause too much con*fusion*

Would standing by the tail pipe make you a "down-winder"?

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JACK
 
ya know.... that just somehow seems..... obscene.... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

Hey! Is that a nuclear reactor under your bonnet, or are ya just that happy to see me?
 
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ya know.... that just somehow seems..... obscene.... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

Hey! Is that a nuclear reactor under your bonnet, or are ya just that happy to see me?

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Well, when the PBMR was first announced my thought was "hrm, small self-contained encapsulated fuel pellets...wonder whether the steam-powered car could make a comeback...."
 
I'd own a modern steam car!
 
Hmmmm. I wonder if it would have to pass State "emissions" tests?
And would a major wreck with these things be an "Atomic pile"-up
It would give new meaning to "ruaway car"
Would we go back to measuring in "rods"
 
But was this car a barn find? At least we know that even with a nuclear car a rod ejection is a bad thing. Well, this is boron, I've got to SCRAM.


barn: Unit of cross-sectional area of nuclei (equivalent to 10^-24 cm2), coined at Purdue in 1942. There is, also, a smaller version: the shed (10^-48 cm2).

rod ejection: Type of accident scenario where a control rod is "removed" from the reactor

boron: Element that is a strong neutron absorber, used to "poison" (slow down) some reactors quicky under accident scenarios.

SCRAM: Safety Control Rod Axe Man - emergency shutdown of reactor
 
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barn: Unit of cross-sectional area of nuclei (equivalent to 10^-24 cm2), coined at Purdue in 1942. There is, also, a smaller version: the shed (10^-48 cm2).



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No wonder it's always crowded in Doc's chat room /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Ariel Atom?
 
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barn: Unit of cross-sectional area of nuclei (equivalent to 10^-24 cm2), coined at Purdue in 1942. There is, also, a smaller version: the shed (10^-48 cm2).


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Of course my shed's volume is irrelevant, it possesses all the characteristics of a black hole... things enter, never to return....
 
Sounds like my closet.... and we're getting into quantum physics here... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Ode to a Quark:

Blue quark, blue quark in my wall,
Way down in the stuff so small...
Are you really there at all?
Strange blue up quark in my wall.
 
Wonder what would happen if you hit "88 MILES PER HOUR!!" in that car? We do know what happened in the previous nuclear automobile that hit that speed...which was, ironically enough, a British car /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif.

Actually, I went to school with a boy who bought a DeLorean; the first thing he did was figure out what happened in a DeLorean when it hit 88 mph. Result: jail time, not time travel /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif.
 
hmmmm... Is it really British if it was manufactured in Northern Ireland?

There are some passionate people in that area... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
 
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hmmmm... Is it really British if it was manufactured in Northern Ireland?

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It could be argued that it isn't... its the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Great Britain being England, Wales & Scotland.... Little Britain is just an inane attempt at "humor".... The Great derives from an attempt to distinguish Britain from Brittany....

So being pedantic, no....

And my car manufactured near Coventry is an English Peugeot... Oui?
 
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