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    The vast majority of Neptunium is created in standard Uranium pile fission reactors. Uranium captures enough neutrons to become a unique element. There has been some experimentation on using it in nuclear warheads, but the short half-life of its most useful isotopes makes that impractical. There has been some discussion of using NP in enhanced radiation warheads (EMP), but it has the same practical difficulty. The shelf life on any Neptunium-based warhead would only be, at most, a dozen years before the fissile components would have to be reprocessed.
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    Sounds expensive.
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    Equus
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    It's safer to throw me sausage and biscuits and run away.
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    More like be careful, it's a bear fresh out of hibernation.
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    I can be fairly phlegmatic before eight in the morning, but by then I'm awake.
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    Paws No. I was thinking of this one.
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    Oxygen is one of the most reactive elements due to the configuration of its electron shell. It makes connections easily and rapidly with ionic or covalent bonds. In fact, you might call any fire rapid oxidation. It is known as a promiscuous element for its wild and crazy ways of hooking up with damn near anything. Who says chemistry can't be sexy?
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    hermit ____ There was an old hermit named Dave Who kept....... [carried away by the mods]
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    Oh, thank god I'm not orthodox, so don't have to be observant.
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    The Chelyabinsk meteor exploded with an estimated yield of 200 kilotons and did a considerable amount of damage and injuries on the ground. The kind of damage a much larger one might do could be literally civilization ending. This incident inspired NASA, the ESA and the Russians to keep a closer watch on the skies.
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    No. Meteoroids are much too small for that kind of destruction. An asteroid could do it, but they are exponentially bigger in scale. While a meteoroid may be big as a tractor-trailer rig, asteroids start out the size of a small city and go up. There has been some debate on whether to call the bigger ones asteroids or dwarf planets. The largest ones we know about have diameters of hundreds of kilometers.
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    Meteoroid has a specific scientific meaning. They can be rocks the size of a bus, down to tiny pebbles, or even ice chunks wandering through space under the influence of gravity. There is a constellation of unknown thousands of them in somewhat stable orbits around earth until they are disturbed by gravitational influences like our moon. They only become meteors when they dive into our atmosphere and burn up. Only a rare few, based on their composition or size, make it all the way to the ground. Untold thousands of tons make it down in the form of dust motes.
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    Did someone call?
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    I think I was at that show! When I think of midriffs, I am reminded of the half-shirts we used to wear back in the 70s-80s for sports. Noah Hathaway or Boxy from the original Battlestar Galactica(78) or Atreyu from Neverending Story(84) rocking a half-shirt and showing off his midriff. I never missed an episode!
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    Oh, no. It's miles from hold my beer and watch this. I'm going to liven this up is what a redneck says when he spikes the punch with tequila.
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    Leave it up to an orange cat to liven your day.
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    grid
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    Dat's how my Saints were for years. They were in the same misbegotten old NFC West division with the Fail-cons, Rams, and 49ers (Montana, Young), winning the division was not happening for decades with the storied legend of the 49ers dynasty happening. It wasn't until the late 90s, the Saints were even decent competition. That's why I'm having fun watching perennial loser Detroit building themselves into a competitive team. Your point is well taken about long-term losers like the Browns, Giants, Jets. They all have one thing in common: sub-par offensive lines.
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    coal
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    head
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    A Dizeny villain lair in the caldera of an extinct volcano: KK (rubbing the Pander Stone) How can we pander to the most people and still make the most horrendous Star Warz movie possible?
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    I had a nasty bout of that mess after a cold, rainy night game in November. I think it took until spring break for the cough to completely go away.
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