IDK, looks a little too complete, if you ask me.

Who thinks Prashant should grow a kick *** goat like the Captain?

Lol, yeah! As a way of trying to get them to stop telling me what to do.

Keep in mind ions have an electric charge, not isotopes. Isotopes merely have an abnormal amount of neutrons in the nucleus. The excess neutrons make the nuclear bonds unstable until either:
A) an entire neutron is ejected from the nucleus,
B) an electron breaks apart from a neutron (turning it into a proton, and thus changing the atom into a different element) and is then ejected from the nucleus,
or
C) a helium nucleus (2 neutrons and 2 protons) are ejected, also changing the atom into a different element.

In some cases there is also pure electromagnetic radiation (no mass is ejected from the nucleus) emitted. Don't ask me how, exactly. It's been a while for me, so I can't tell you.

Alpha radiation, the helium nuclei, being the most massive, has the lowest velocity and is therefore the least harmful form of radiation. Gamma radiation, the electromagnetic type, having no mass travels at a velocity of c and is probably the most damaging form of radiation.

This concludes Radiation 101

I think I see what you are getting at. It sounds like something similar to the way a conductor generates current when it passes through a magnetic field. What makes you think material will behave in any way similar to a conductor just because it is radioactive? Certainly there are radioactive conductors out there, but it seems to me they would behave exactly the same way a non-radioactive conductor would, except for the fact that they are radioactive. Not to mention all the various types of radioactive emissions there are in the first place.

JSYK, I mentioned fusion as an example of impracticality. It sounds like a pretty complicated set-up for a fairly simple concept.

I don't doubt that. But the point is you can't squeeze water from a stone if it isn't there. I don't know what half of the items up mentioned actually do, but let's say it is possible to generate energy in the way you are thinking about. It's most likely that the energy output is only going to be a fraction if the energy you have to put into it. That's the problem with fusion. It requires much more energy than it generates. So it's possible, it just isn't very practical.

Red Robin - Yum!

When are these damned earthquakes going to stop?

Ok, so 90% of several species are gone?

Ok, umm. Whoever wrote this, did they take into account that 90% of the world's oceans remain unexplored? If the very first sentence is so blatantly inaccurate, I'm not very likely to believe anything written after it.

I think if there were a way to derive useful energy from radioactive byproducts we wouldn't be burying our spent nuclear cores in the desert on top of a geologically sound tectonic plate to ensure their safety and stability for the next couple of millennia.

The thought of putting them to some kind of more productive use does have some merit to it. Although I don't exactly see how these ramblings would accomplish that.

I've been struggling for quite a while trying to find a balance between the Buddhist concept of "letting go" of the 5 skandhas (form, sensation, perception, volition, and consciousness) that attach us to the physical world, and the concept of dating entirely seeing as how it is predominantly concerned with deriving pleasure from the physical world. For me, it is by far the strongest desire to overcome, most likely because I don't WANT to overcome it.

But then I re-read a passage about non-doing or non-action. In other words, doing something without being concerned about the fruits or results of that particular action. Basically it means you should do a good deed because it needs to be done, not because you seek to gain some reward or merit from doing the action.

And then it occurred to me, "How often do people do things in a relationship with the intent of eliciting a certain response from their partner?" Or more importantly, "How often do people experience frustration or disappointment or sometimes even pain when the actual response from their partner differs from the one they were anticipating?"

I think this can pretty much sum up how every relationship I've had in the past has ended. My girlfriends were expecting a particular response from me and no matter what they did, I could not, or would not react the way they wanted me to.

Like a good neighbor State Farm is there, with a condom.

If you're ever in Waikiki go to the Banana Patch Lounge in the Mirimar Hotel lobby. Best karaoke spot on the island.

"Damn it, would you just look at them! Damned Catholics filling up the damned world with damned children they damned well can't afford to feed!"

In A Gada Da Vida

I'm on a boat, in between the sheets!

You have obviously never seen Monty Python and the holy Grail.

Rama-lama ding-dong, baby... Forever!

And each time I say "dip, da-dip, da-dip!" I mean it from the very bottom of my boogity-boogity shoes!