<article>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#article09_11_23_1859204</id>
	<title>Program To Detect Smuggled Nuclear Bombs Stalls</title>
	<author>ScuttleMonkey</author>
	<datestamp>1258974660000</datestamp>
	<htmltext><a href="http://hughpickens.com/" rel="nofollow">Pickens</a> writes <i>"The NY Times reports that a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/us/23helium.html">program to detect plutonium or uranium in shipping containers has stalled</a> because the United States has run out of helium 3, a crucial raw material needed to build the 1,300 to 1,400 machines to be deployed in ports around the world to thwart terrorists who might try to deliver a nuclear bomb to a big city by stashing it in one of the millions of containers that enter the United States every year. Helium 3 is an unusual form of the element that is formed when tritium, an ingredient of hydrogen bombs, decays &mdash;  but the government mostly stopped making tritium in 1989 after accumulating a substantial stockpile of Helium 3 as a byproduct of maintaining nuclear weapons. 'I have not heard any explanation of why this was not entirely foreseeable,' says Representative Brad Miller, chairman of a House subcommittee that is investigating the problem. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium\_3">Helium 3 is not hazardous or even chemically reactive</a>, and it is not the only material that can be used for neutron detection. The Homeland Security Department has older equipment that can look for radioactivity, but it does not differentiate well between bomb fuel and innocuous <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2120491/">materials that naturally emit radiation  like cat litter, ceramic tiles and bananas</a> &mdash; and sounds false alarms more often. In a letter to President Obama, Miller called the shortage 'a national crisis' and said the price had jumped to $2,000 a liter from $100 in the last few years. With continuing concern that Al Qaida or other terrorists will try to smuggle a nuclear weapon into the United States, Congress has <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090624152828.htm">mandated that, by 2012, all containers bound for the US be inspected overseas</a>."</i></htmltext>
<tokenext>Pickens writes " The NY Times reports that a program to detect plutonium or uranium in shipping containers has stalled because the United States has run out of helium 3 , a crucial raw material needed to build the 1,300 to 1,400 machines to be deployed in ports around the world to thwart terrorists who might try to deliver a nuclear bomb to a big city by stashing it in one of the millions of containers that enter the United States every year .
Helium 3 is an unusual form of the element that is formed when tritium , an ingredient of hydrogen bombs , decays    but the government mostly stopped making tritium in 1989 after accumulating a substantial stockpile of Helium 3 as a byproduct of maintaining nuclear weapons .
'I have not heard any explanation of why this was not entirely foreseeable, ' says Representative Brad Miller , chairman of a House subcommittee that is investigating the problem .
Helium 3 is not hazardous or even chemically reactive , and it is not the only material that can be used for neutron detection .
The Homeland Security Department has older equipment that can look for radioactivity , but it does not differentiate well between bomb fuel and innocuous materials that naturally emit radiation like cat litter , ceramic tiles and bananas    and sounds false alarms more often .
In a letter to President Obama , Miller called the shortage 'a national crisis ' and said the price had jumped to $ 2,000 a liter from $ 100 in the last few years .
With continuing concern that Al Qaida or other terrorists will try to smuggle a nuclear weapon into the United States , Congress has mandated that , by 2012 , all containers bound for the US be inspected overseas .
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<sentencetext>Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that a program to detect plutonium or uranium in shipping containers has stalled because the United States has run out of helium 3, a crucial raw material needed to build the 1,300 to 1,400 machines to be deployed in ports around the world to thwart terrorists who might try to deliver a nuclear bomb to a big city by stashing it in one of the millions of containers that enter the United States every year.
Helium 3 is an unusual form of the element that is formed when tritium, an ingredient of hydrogen bombs, decays —  but the government mostly stopped making tritium in 1989 after accumulating a substantial stockpile of Helium 3 as a byproduct of maintaining nuclear weapons.
'I have not heard any explanation of why this was not entirely foreseeable,' says Representative Brad Miller, chairman of a House subcommittee that is investigating the problem.
Helium 3 is not hazardous or even chemically reactive, and it is not the only material that can be used for neutron detection.
The Homeland Security Department has older equipment that can look for radioactivity, but it does not differentiate well between bomb fuel and innocuous materials that naturally emit radiation  like cat litter, ceramic tiles and bananas — and sounds false alarms more often.
In a letter to President Obama, Miller called the shortage 'a national crisis' and said the price had jumped to $2,000 a liter from $100 in the last few years.
With continuing concern that Al Qaida or other terrorists will try to smuggle a nuclear weapon into the United States, Congress has mandated that, by 2012, all containers bound for the US be inspected overseas.
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30208204</id>
	<title>A problem for physics research</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1258980120000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Helium-3 is also used for detecting neutrons in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron\_scattering" title="wikipedia.org" rel="nofollow">Neutron scattering</a> [wikipedia.org] experiments. Neutron scattering is used in lots of materials research, and for many purposes it's the only feasible technique. The strain on Helium-3 reserves is already felt when building new detectors or an old one needs the occasional refill.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Helium-3 is also used for detecting neutrons in Neutron scattering [ wikipedia.org ] experiments .
Neutron scattering is used in lots of materials research , and for many purposes it 's the only feasible technique .
The strain on Helium-3 reserves is already felt when building new detectors or an old one needs the occasional refill .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Helium-3 is also used for detecting neutrons in Neutron scattering [wikipedia.org] experiments.
Neutron scattering is used in lots of materials research, and for many purposes it's the only feasible technique.
The strain on Helium-3 reserves is already felt when building new detectors or an old one needs the occasional refill.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30208748</id>
	<title>Re:Umm, what?</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1258983420000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Interestin</modclass>
	<modscore>4</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Personal speedboat goes out a couple miles. Bomb is loaded onboard. Boat comes back in and is towed to the final destination hitched to an SUV. Just in case, also put a few kilos of cocaine onboard. That way if the police find it they'll take it to the impound yard in a populated area.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Personal speedboat goes out a couple miles .
Bomb is loaded onboard .
Boat comes back in and is towed to the final destination hitched to an SUV .
Just in case , also put a few kilos of cocaine onboard .
That way if the police find it they 'll take it to the impound yard in a populated area .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Personal speedboat goes out a couple miles.
Bomb is loaded onboard.
Boat comes back in and is towed to the final destination hitched to an SUV.
Just in case, also put a few kilos of cocaine onboard.
That way if the police find it they'll take it to the impound yard in a populated area.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30209160</id>
	<title>Re:Congressional mandate</title>
	<author>Keith\_Beef</author>
	<datestamp>1258986780000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p><div class="quote"><p> <i>"Congress has mandated that, by 2012, all containers bound for the US be inspected overseas."</i> </p><p>Eh, what'll it matter. It'll only be in effect for a few months.</p></div><p>Oh great...

</p><p>I'm sure it's easier to bribe officials or otherwise get around the inspections in somewhere like Namibia, Pakistan or the Philipines, rather than at the US port.

</p><p>K.</p></div>
	</htmltext>
<tokenext>" Congress has mandated that , by 2012 , all containers bound for the US be inspected overseas .
" Eh , what 'll it matter .
It 'll only be in effect for a few months.Oh great.. . I 'm sure it 's easier to bribe officials or otherwise get around the inspections in somewhere like Namibia , Pakistan or the Philipines , rather than at the US port .
K .</tokentext>
<sentencetext> "Congress has mandated that, by 2012, all containers bound for the US be inspected overseas.
" Eh, what'll it matter.
It'll only be in effect for a few months.Oh great...

I'm sure it's easier to bribe officials or otherwise get around the inspections in somewhere like Namibia, Pakistan or the Philipines, rather than at the US port.
K.
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30209296</id>
	<title>National Crisis: America Needs Break, Urgently</title>
	<author>Jesus\_666</author>
	<datestamp>1258987920000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>WASHINGTON - Yet another national crisis shakes the American people as the White House announced that America is in dire need of a break from all those national crisises. "It's really getting to me," a visibly aggravated Barack Obama told the press, "first we have yet another terrorist warning, then we're out of nuclear weapons to build nuclear weapon detectors and just this morning I had three more peak oil predictions on my desk." Obama then curled up into a fetal position, rocking back and forth, mumbling to himself: "No more crisises, please, make it stop!"<br>
<br>
"If we look at the numbers, it's really clear that we're currently at a record crisis high," told us crisis expert Albert E. Backenhauer in an interview. "We've got the onslaught of national crisises an economic depression brings with it in addition to the ongoing wars on drugs, terrorism and consumers. If this keeps up and, say, the Super Bowl gets canceled because of persisting bad weather, this country might go tits up." He then looked at our reporter like a cow looks at an oncoming train and added: "Oh shit, now they're recursive!" before proceeing to jump out of his window.<br>
<br>
The internet has yet to take a stance on this delicate issue, although seasoned YouTube pundit dirtysanchezlol offered a silver lining of hope by reassuring us that "everythings normal youre still all gay fags".</htmltext>
<tokenext>WASHINGTON - Yet another national crisis shakes the American people as the White House announced that America is in dire need of a break from all those national crisises .
" It 's really getting to me , " a visibly aggravated Barack Obama told the press , " first we have yet another terrorist warning , then we 're out of nuclear weapons to build nuclear weapon detectors and just this morning I had three more peak oil predictions on my desk .
" Obama then curled up into a fetal position , rocking back and forth , mumbling to himself : " No more crisises , please , make it stop !
" " If we look at the numbers , it 's really clear that we 're currently at a record crisis high , " told us crisis expert Albert E. Backenhauer in an interview .
" We 've got the onslaught of national crisises an economic depression brings with it in addition to the ongoing wars on drugs , terrorism and consumers .
If this keeps up and , say , the Super Bowl gets canceled because of persisting bad weather , this country might go tits up .
" He then looked at our reporter like a cow looks at an oncoming train and added : " Oh shit , now they 're recursive !
" before proceeing to jump out of his window .
The internet has yet to take a stance on this delicate issue , although seasoned YouTube pundit dirtysanchezlol offered a silver lining of hope by reassuring us that " everythings normal youre still all gay fags " .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>WASHINGTON - Yet another national crisis shakes the American people as the White House announced that America is in dire need of a break from all those national crisises.
"It's really getting to me," a visibly aggravated Barack Obama told the press, "first we have yet another terrorist warning, then we're out of nuclear weapons to build nuclear weapon detectors and just this morning I had three more peak oil predictions on my desk.
" Obama then curled up into a fetal position, rocking back and forth, mumbling to himself: "No more crisises, please, make it stop!
"

"If we look at the numbers, it's really clear that we're currently at a record crisis high," told us crisis expert Albert E. Backenhauer in an interview.
"We've got the onslaught of national crisises an economic depression brings with it in addition to the ongoing wars on drugs, terrorism and consumers.
If this keeps up and, say, the Super Bowl gets canceled because of persisting bad weather, this country might go tits up.
" He then looked at our reporter like a cow looks at an oncoming train and added: "Oh shit, now they're recursive!
" before proceeing to jump out of his window.
The internet has yet to take a stance on this delicate issue, although seasoned YouTube pundit dirtysanchezlol offered a silver lining of hope by reassuring us that "everythings normal youre still all gay fags".</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30210048</id>
	<title>Jupitoris Fleet!</title>
	<author>PixetaledPikachu</author>
	<datestamp>1258996200000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>It's the time for us to build the Jupitoris fleet

--
Mohammad Ikhsan</htmltext>
<tokenext>It 's the time for us to build the Jupitoris fleet -- Mohammad Ikhsan</tokentext>
<sentencetext>It's the time for us to build the Jupitoris fleet

--
Mohammad Ikhsan</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30220338</id>
	<title>Re:nuclear reactors to the rescue</title>
	<author>petermgreen</author>
	<datestamp>1259064780000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>12 years is long enough to be a PITA, according to wikipedia that means you need 18 tons of tritium in storage for every ton of helium 3 production.</p><p>And of course you have to make the tritium in the first place.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>12 years is long enough to be a PITA , according to wikipedia that means you need 18 tons of tritium in storage for every ton of helium 3 production.And of course you have to make the tritium in the first place .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>12 years is long enough to be a PITA, according to wikipedia that means you need 18 tons of tritium in storage for every ton of helium 3 production.And of course you have to make the tritium in the first place.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30212916</id>
	<title>Re:There's plenty on the moon!</title>
	<author>physburn</author>
	<datestamp>1259073780000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>I'm all for a Lunar Base and Lunar Mining, but its not easy and realistical its not
going to happen until at least 2030. In the mean that helium 4 comes from
the same places that natural gas comes from and contains traces of helium 3
so stocks of helium 3 will regrow slowly until we run out of natural gas. Perphaps
we can find some other way to detect radioactive materials.
<p>
---
</p><p>
<a href="http://www.feeddistiller.com/blogs/Nuclear\%20Proliferation/feed.html" title="feeddistiller.com">Nuclear Proliferation</a> [feeddistiller.com] Feed @ <a href="http://www.feeddistiller.com/" title="feeddistiller.com">Feed Distiller</a> [feeddistiller.com]</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I 'm all for a Lunar Base and Lunar Mining , but its not easy and realistical its not going to happen until at least 2030 .
In the mean that helium 4 comes from the same places that natural gas comes from and contains traces of helium 3 so stocks of helium 3 will regrow slowly until we run out of natural gas .
Perphaps we can find some other way to detect radioactive materials .
--- Nuclear Proliferation [ feeddistiller.com ] Feed @ Feed Distiller [ feeddistiller.com ]</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I'm all for a Lunar Base and Lunar Mining, but its not easy and realistical its not
going to happen until at least 2030.
In the mean that helium 4 comes from
the same places that natural gas comes from and contains traces of helium 3
so stocks of helium 3 will regrow slowly until we run out of natural gas.
Perphaps
we can find some other way to detect radioactive materials.
---

Nuclear Proliferation [feeddistiller.com] Feed @ Feed Distiller [feeddistiller.com]</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30208100</id>
	<title>nuclear reactors to the rescue</title>
	<author>wizardforce</author>
	<datestamp>1258979580000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Insightful</modclass>
	<modscore>4</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I'm guessing there's also a shortage of Tritium which decays into Helium-3 with a half-life of 12 years.  If you have enough Tritium around and wait long enough, you'll have fresh Helium-3.  You can make more Tritium by exposing Lithium-6 to a high neutron flux like that found in nuclear reactors.  The neutron splits the Li6 as LI6 + n =&gt; T + He4.  Russia might have quite a bit of it laying around owing to the size of their nuclear arsenal that we could buy.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I 'm guessing there 's also a shortage of Tritium which decays into Helium-3 with a half-life of 12 years .
If you have enough Tritium around and wait long enough , you 'll have fresh Helium-3 .
You can make more Tritium by exposing Lithium-6 to a high neutron flux like that found in nuclear reactors .
The neutron splits the Li6 as LI6 + n = &gt; T + He4 .
Russia might have quite a bit of it laying around owing to the size of their nuclear arsenal that we could buy .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I'm guessing there's also a shortage of Tritium which decays into Helium-3 with a half-life of 12 years.
If you have enough Tritium around and wait long enough, you'll have fresh Helium-3.
You can make more Tritium by exposing Lithium-6 to a high neutron flux like that found in nuclear reactors.
The neutron splits the Li6 as LI6 + n =&gt; T + He4.
Russia might have quite a bit of it laying around owing to the size of their nuclear arsenal that we could buy.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30209708</id>
	<title>Tritium production is politically impossible</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1258991940000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Informativ</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>The reason Helium 3 is not being produced from Tritium is that storage and generation of tritium has been made politically impossible after a few accidents involving releases near the public. Oddly this doesn't seem to be mentioned on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium#Production\_history" title="wikipedia.org">wikipedia page</a> [wikipedia.org]. But google finds some of the coverage like <a href="http://www.berkeleycitizen.org/lbnl/tritiumlab5.html" title="berkeleycitizen.org">this from LBL</a> [berkeleycitizen.org].</htmltext>
<tokenext>The reason Helium 3 is not being produced from Tritium is that storage and generation of tritium has been made politically impossible after a few accidents involving releases near the public .
Oddly this does n't seem to be mentioned on the wikipedia page [ wikipedia.org ] .
But google finds some of the coverage like this from LBL [ berkeleycitizen.org ] .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>The reason Helium 3 is not being produced from Tritium is that storage and generation of tritium has been made politically impossible after a few accidents involving releases near the public.
Oddly this doesn't seem to be mentioned on the wikipedia page [wikipedia.org].
But google finds some of the coverage like this from LBL [berkeleycitizen.org].</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30209156</id>
	<title>Say hello to expensive bananas</title>
	<author>Interoperable</author>
	<datestamp>1258986720000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>I have nothing more to add.</htmltext>
<tokenext>I have nothing more to add .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I have nothing more to add.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30207912</id>
	<title>Foreseeable doesn't mean foreseen</title>
	<author>Todd Knarr</author>
	<datestamp>1258978740000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Insightful</modclass>
	<modscore>4</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Sure, this was foreseeable. But at the time nobody <i>needed</i> large quantities of this sort of radiation-detection gear, and nobody foresaw circumstances where we'd suddenly develop a huge demand for it. So when production was stopped, nobody saw the consequences as being any major problem.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Sure , this was foreseeable .
But at the time nobody needed large quantities of this sort of radiation-detection gear , and nobody foresaw circumstances where we 'd suddenly develop a huge demand for it .
So when production was stopped , nobody saw the consequences as being any major problem .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Sure, this was foreseeable.
But at the time nobody needed large quantities of this sort of radiation-detection gear, and nobody foresaw circumstances where we'd suddenly develop a huge demand for it.
So when production was stopped, nobody saw the consequences as being any major problem.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30208456</id>
	<title>Re:Is there plenty in Russia?</title>
	<author>jfb2252</author>
	<datestamp>1258981560000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>RTFA.  It states that He-3 is being supplied comercially by the US and Russia.  Total available ~20,000 liters/year.   With DHS, annual requirement is 65,000 liters/year.  I've seen another article, which I didn't bother to search for, which suggested the Russian's had cut back on selling the stuff until the price went up still more.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>RTFA .
It states that He-3 is being supplied comercially by the US and Russia .
Total available ~ 20,000 liters/year .
With DHS , annual requirement is 65,000 liters/year .
I 've seen another article , which I did n't bother to search for , which suggested the Russian 's had cut back on selling the stuff until the price went up still more .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>RTFA.
It states that He-3 is being supplied comercially by the US and Russia.
Total available ~20,000 liters/year.
With DHS, annual requirement is 65,000 liters/year.
I've seen another article, which I didn't bother to search for, which suggested the Russian's had cut back on selling the stuff until the price went up still more.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30208760</id>
	<title>Re:nuclear reactors to the rescue</title>
	<author>IvyKing</author>
	<datestamp>1258983540000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>Another way to do this would be to use a D-D neutron source, in which you will get tritium from 6Li(n,alpha)T reaction, plus you will get get tritium and 3He from the D-D reactions.</htmltext>
<tokenext>Another way to do this would be to use a D-D neutron source , in which you will get tritium from 6Li ( n,alpha ) T reaction , plus you will get get tritium and 3He from the D-D reactions .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Another way to do this would be to use a D-D neutron source, in which you will get tritium from 6Li(n,alpha)T reaction, plus you will get get tritium and 3He from the D-D reactions.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30210546</id>
	<title>There are other technologies available.</title>
	<author>Animats</author>
	<datestamp>1259003160000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>
Competitive technologies are available. Here's a <a href="http://www.drct.com/neutron\_detection/DSI-2NT-Neutron\_Detector.html" title="drct.com">commercial small, low-cost neutron monitor</a> [drct.com]. That uses zinc sulfide with boron.
Boron detectors <a href="http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&amp;id=APPLAB000090000012124101000001&amp;idtype=cvips&amp;gifs=yes" title="aip.org">seem to be gaining on helium-3 detectors</a> [aip.org].
What seems to have happened is that Homeland Security locked onto a specific detector technology and supplier, and now the supplier has problems. This is a bureaucracy problem, not a technology problem.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Competitive technologies are available .
Here 's a commercial small , low-cost neutron monitor [ drct.com ] .
That uses zinc sulfide with boron .
Boron detectors seem to be gaining on helium-3 detectors [ aip.org ] .
What seems to have happened is that Homeland Security locked onto a specific detector technology and supplier , and now the supplier has problems .
This is a bureaucracy problem , not a technology problem .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>
Competitive technologies are available.
Here's a commercial small, low-cost neutron monitor [drct.com].
That uses zinc sulfide with boron.
Boron detectors seem to be gaining on helium-3 detectors [aip.org].
What seems to have happened is that Homeland Security locked onto a specific detector technology and supplier, and now the supplier has problems.
This is a bureaucracy problem, not a technology problem.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30209346</id>
	<title>Re:Is there plenty in Russia?</title>
	<author>Falconhell</author>
	<datestamp>1258988340000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Insightful</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>ROFLMAO, come on mods, he cant be serious.</p><p>No one is THAT stupid surely.</p><p>Then again whenever someone writes Barrack "Hussein" Obama you just never know if they are real paranoid right wing nutjobs, or just satirising them.</p><p>Words cannot describe how much I enjoy their terrified thrashing around now a decent intelligent black man is President. Fun times.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>ROFLMAO , come on mods , he cant be serious.No one is THAT stupid surely.Then again whenever someone writes Barrack " Hussein " Obama you just never know if they are real paranoid right wing nutjobs , or just satirising them.Words can not describe how much I enjoy their terrified thrashing around now a decent intelligent black man is President .
Fun times .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>ROFLMAO, come on mods, he cant be serious.No one is THAT stupid surely.Then again whenever someone writes Barrack "Hussein" Obama you just never know if they are real paranoid right wing nutjobs, or just satirising them.Words cannot describe how much I enjoy their terrified thrashing around now a decent intelligent black man is President.
Fun times.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30208278</id>
	<title>from the i-see-a-business-opportunity-here dept.</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1258980660000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>What a coincidence that the cousin of the DoHS's director owns a chemical manufacturing plant that can produce helium 3...</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>What a coincidence that the cousin of the DoHS 's director owns a chemical manufacturing plant that can produce helium 3.. .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>What a coincidence that the cousin of the DoHS's director owns a chemical manufacturing plant that can produce helium 3...</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30213540</id>
	<title>Re:Foreseeable doesn't mean foreseen</title>
	<author>oh\_my\_080980980</author>
	<datestamp>1259077320000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>
Get a dictionary.
<br> <br>
foreseeable, adjective
<br> <br>
1 : being such as may be reasonably anticipated
2 : lying within the range for which forecasts are possible
<br> <br>
foreseen \-sn\, transitive verb
to see (as a development) beforehand
<br> <br>
They the same meaning!</htmltext>
<tokenext>Get a dictionary .
foreseeable , adjective 1 : being such as may be reasonably anticipated 2 : lying within the range for which forecasts are possible foreseen \ -sn \ , transitive verb to see ( as a development ) beforehand They the same meaning !</tokentext>
<sentencetext>
Get a dictionary.
foreseeable, adjective
 
1 : being such as may be reasonably anticipated
2 : lying within the range for which forecasts are possible
 
foreseen \-sn\, transitive verb
to see (as a development) beforehand
 
They the same meaning!</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30207968</id>
	<title>Concern? Who's concerned?</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1258978980000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>"With continuing concern that Al Qaida or other terrorists will try to smuggle a nuclear weapon into the United States..." Who, exactly, has continuing concern about terrorist nuclear bombs smuggled through US ports?</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>" With continuing concern that Al Qaida or other terrorists will try to smuggle a nuclear weapon into the United States... " Who , exactly , has continuing concern about terrorist nuclear bombs smuggled through US ports ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>"With continuing concern that Al Qaida or other terrorists will try to smuggle a nuclear weapon into the United States..." Who, exactly, has continuing concern about terrorist nuclear bombs smuggled through US ports?</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30211104</id>
	<title>Re:Glad we got that covered.</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1259056620000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Interestin</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>Google "Emma Maersk"<br>
Happy geek wet tech dreams</htmltext>
<tokenext>Google " Emma Maersk " Happy geek wet tech dreams</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Google "Emma Maersk"
Happy geek wet tech dreams</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30209424</id>
	<title>Re:Concern? Who's concerned?</title>
	<author>cusco</author>
	<datestamp>1258989060000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Informativ</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext>Pretty much anyone who knows the state of the former Soviet stockpile.  Victor Bout at one point was said to have one for sale for $40 million.  No one is sure where it went, but since Valerie Plame and Brewster Jennings hadn't yet been exposed it likely ended up in the US stockpile.</htmltext>
<tokenext>Pretty much anyone who knows the state of the former Soviet stockpile .
Victor Bout at one point was said to have one for sale for $ 40 million .
No one is sure where it went , but since Valerie Plame and Brewster Jennings had n't yet been exposed it likely ended up in the US stockpile .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Pretty much anyone who knows the state of the former Soviet stockpile.
Victor Bout at one point was said to have one for sale for $40 million.
No one is sure where it went, but since Valerie Plame and Brewster Jennings hadn't yet been exposed it likely ended up in the US stockpile.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30208666</id>
	<title>mod do38</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1258982940000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Flamebait</modclass>
	<modscore>-1</modscore>
	<htmltext>large - kkep your incomLpatibilities</htmltext>
<tokenext>large - kkep your incomLpatibilities</tokentext>
<sentencetext>large - kkep your incomLpatibilities</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30209214</id>
	<title>Congress blocks progress again.</title>
	<author>DerekLyons</author>
	<datestamp>1258987260000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p><i> 'I have not heard any explanation of why this was not entirely foreseeable,' says Representative Brad Miller, chairman of a House subcommittee that is investigating the problem.</i> <br>
&nbsp; <br>To some extent it wasn't foreseeable - this program is part of the fallout of 9/11.  OTOH, we've had this program coming down the pike for years.<br>
&nbsp; <br>In reality, the DoE has been asking for funding to expand tritium production (for a wide variety of uses) since the mid 90's (correctly foreseeing that there would be a shortage of a material with a limited life span) and Congress has routinely refused the funding.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>'I have not heard any explanation of why this was not entirely foreseeable, ' says Representative Brad Miller , chairman of a House subcommittee that is investigating the problem .
  To some extent it was n't foreseeable - this program is part of the fallout of 9/11 .
OTOH , we 've had this program coming down the pike for years .
  In reality , the DoE has been asking for funding to expand tritium production ( for a wide variety of uses ) since the mid 90 's ( correctly foreseeing that there would be a shortage of a material with a limited life span ) and Congress has routinely refused the funding .</tokentext>
<sentencetext> 'I have not heard any explanation of why this was not entirely foreseeable,' says Representative Brad Miller, chairman of a House subcommittee that is investigating the problem.
  To some extent it wasn't foreseeable - this program is part of the fallout of 9/11.
OTOH, we've had this program coming down the pike for years.
  In reality, the DoE has been asking for funding to expand tritium production (for a wide variety of uses) since the mid 90's (correctly foreseeing that there would be a shortage of a material with a limited life span) and Congress has routinely refused the funding.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30209154</id>
	<title>Who Pays?</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1258986660000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>The article mentions a cost per container of as much as $12.00.  Who pays this cost?  Is it the shippers?  Will it lead to higher prices on imported goods.  The program is bound to be in effect for a long time to come and these are important questions.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>The article mentions a cost per container of as much as $ 12.00 .
Who pays this cost ?
Is it the shippers ?
Will it lead to higher prices on imported goods .
The program is bound to be in effect for a long time to come and these are important questions .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>The article mentions a cost per container of as much as $12.00.
Who pays this cost?
Is it the shippers?
Will it lead to higher prices on imported goods.
The program is bound to be in effect for a long time to come and these are important questions.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30209072</id>
	<title>Re:There's plenty on the moon!Christmas gifts</title>
	<author>coolforsale122</author>
	<datestamp>1258985880000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Troll</modclass>
	<modscore>-1</modscore>
	<htmltext><a href="http://www.coolforsale.com/" title="coolforsale.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.coolforsale.com/</a> [coolforsale.com]  Dear ladies and gentlemen Hello, In order to meet Christmas, Site launched Christmas spree, welcome new and old customers come to participate in the there are unexpected surprises, look forward to your arrival. Only this site have this treatmentOur goal is "Best quality, Best reputation , Best services". Your satisfaction is our main pursue. You can find the best products from us, meeting your different needs. Ladies and Gentlemen weicome to my coolforsale.com.Here,there are the most fashion products . Pass by but don't miss it.Select your favorite clothing! Welcome to come next time ! Thank you! <a href="http://www.coolforsale.com/productlist.asp?id=s76" title="coolforsale.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.coolforsale.com/productlist.asp?id=s76</a> [coolforsale.com]  (Tracksuit w) ugg boot,POLO hoody,Jacket, Air jordan(1-24)shoes $33 Nike shox(R4,NZ,OZ,TL1,TL2,TL3) $35 Handbags(Coach lv fendi d&amp;g) $35 Tshirts (Polo<nobr> <wbr></nobr>,ed hardy,lacoste) $16 free shipping Thanks!!! Advance wish you a merry Christmas.</htmltext>
<tokenext>http : //www.coolforsale.com/ [ coolforsale.com ] Dear ladies and gentlemen Hello , In order to meet Christmas , Site launched Christmas spree , welcome new and old customers come to participate in the there are unexpected surprises , look forward to your arrival .
Only this site have this treatmentOur goal is " Best quality , Best reputation , Best services " .
Your satisfaction is our main pursue .
You can find the best products from us , meeting your different needs .
Ladies and Gentlemen weicome to my coolforsale.com.Here,there are the most fashion products .
Pass by but do n't miss it.Select your favorite clothing !
Welcome to come next time !
Thank you !
http : //www.coolforsale.com/productlist.asp ? id = s76 [ coolforsale.com ] ( Tracksuit w ) ugg boot,POLO hoody,Jacket , Air jordan ( 1-24 ) shoes $ 33 Nike shox ( R4,NZ,OZ,TL1,TL2,TL3 ) $ 35 Handbags ( Coach lv fendi d&amp;g ) $ 35 Tshirts ( Polo ,ed hardy,lacoste ) $ 16 free shipping Thanks ! ! !
Advance wish you a merry Christmas .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>http://www.coolforsale.com/ [coolforsale.com]  Dear ladies and gentlemen Hello, In order to meet Christmas, Site launched Christmas spree, welcome new and old customers come to participate in the there are unexpected surprises, look forward to your arrival.
Only this site have this treatmentOur goal is "Best quality, Best reputation , Best services".
Your satisfaction is our main pursue.
You can find the best products from us, meeting your different needs.
Ladies and Gentlemen weicome to my coolforsale.com.Here,there are the most fashion products .
Pass by but don't miss it.Select your favorite clothing!
Welcome to come next time !
Thank you!
http://www.coolforsale.com/productlist.asp?id=s76 [coolforsale.com]  (Tracksuit w) ugg boot,POLO hoody,Jacket, Air jordan(1-24)shoes $33 Nike shox(R4,NZ,OZ,TL1,TL2,TL3) $35 Handbags(Coach lv fendi d&amp;g) $35 Tshirts (Polo ,ed hardy,lacoste) $16 free shipping Thanks!!!
Advance wish you a merry Christmas.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30208210</id>
	<title>Re:Foreseeable doesn't mean foreseen</title>
	<author>thermopile</author>
	<datestamp>1258980180000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Informativ</modclass>
	<modscore>4</modscore>
	<htmltext>There are other neutron detection technologies out there.  Commercial nuclear power reactors <a href="http://www.gepower.com/prod\_serv/products/oc/en/reuter\_stokes/nuclear\_instr/pwr\_nuclear.htm" title="gepower.com"> have used other technologies for years.</a> [gepower.com] <br> <br>

Boron-10 lined proportional counters, fission chambers, boron trifluoride, lithium doped glass<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... there are lots of other options out there.  None of them may have quite the same sensitivity, but you can just pack more sensors in to overcome sensitivity. <br> <br>

To make a slashdot analogy, it's kind of like if all Debian developers caught swine flu and perished.  Not a big deal, just move over to Ubuntu or Fedora.</htmltext>
<tokenext>There are other neutron detection technologies out there .
Commercial nuclear power reactors have used other technologies for years .
[ gepower.com ] Boron-10 lined proportional counters , fission chambers , boron trifluoride , lithium doped glass ... there are lots of other options out there .
None of them may have quite the same sensitivity , but you can just pack more sensors in to overcome sensitivity .
To make a slashdot analogy , it 's kind of like if all Debian developers caught swine flu and perished .
Not a big deal , just move over to Ubuntu or Fedora .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>There are other neutron detection technologies out there.
Commercial nuclear power reactors  have used other technologies for years.
[gepower.com]  

Boron-10 lined proportional counters, fission chambers, boron trifluoride, lithium doped glass ... there are lots of other options out there.
None of them may have quite the same sensitivity, but you can just pack more sensors in to overcome sensitivity.
To make a slashdot analogy, it's kind of like if all Debian developers caught swine flu and perished.
Not a big deal, just move over to Ubuntu or Fedora.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30208306</id>
	<title>Another Crisis?</title>
	<author>Vengance Daemon</author>
	<datestamp>1258980780000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Insightful</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext>Is there anything going on in the U.S. today that is NOT a "national crisis"?  We need a break.</htmltext>
<tokenext>Is there anything going on in the U.S. today that is NOT a " national crisis " ?
We need a break .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Is there anything going on in the U.S. today that is NOT a "national crisis"?
We need a break.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30215326</id>
	<title>Re:There's plenty on the moon!</title>
	<author>TheCarp</author>
	<datestamp>1259084640000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Sadly, I think this is insightful. Not because it would really keep us safe, just the very idea that we are "in danger" or that anyone with nukes would actually use them in such a way is well.... so ridiculous that you may as well use it to justify a lunar base.</p><p>I mean seriously, this unceasing snipe hunting is just ridiculous. We are talking about a group of people that generate unrealistic attack vectors and gets caught incompetently failing to even get their ideas off the ground way more often than they manage even a low-tech attack.</p><p>So far, in all of history, we are looking at a statistically insignificant number of large events, which mostly have no effect but to make us overreact and waste time and money on unscrupulous "security experts" to dream up new attack vectors to protect us from... even after the very people we are to be protected from show themselves time and again to be incompetent and disorganized.... when they even exist (more frequently, they don't even manage that)</p><p>0 benefit pork barrel program stalled. Our risk remains at infinitesimally small,</p><p>-Steve</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Sadly , I think this is insightful .
Not because it would really keep us safe , just the very idea that we are " in danger " or that anyone with nukes would actually use them in such a way is well.... so ridiculous that you may as well use it to justify a lunar base.I mean seriously , this unceasing snipe hunting is just ridiculous .
We are talking about a group of people that generate unrealistic attack vectors and gets caught incompetently failing to even get their ideas off the ground way more often than they manage even a low-tech attack.So far , in all of history , we are looking at a statistically insignificant number of large events , which mostly have no effect but to make us overreact and waste time and money on unscrupulous " security experts " to dream up new attack vectors to protect us from... even after the very people we are to be protected from show themselves time and again to be incompetent and disorganized.... when they even exist ( more frequently , they do n't even manage that ) 0 benefit pork barrel program stalled .
Our risk remains at infinitesimally small,-Steve</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Sadly, I think this is insightful.
Not because it would really keep us safe, just the very idea that we are "in danger" or that anyone with nukes would actually use them in such a way is well.... so ridiculous that you may as well use it to justify a lunar base.I mean seriously, this unceasing snipe hunting is just ridiculous.
We are talking about a group of people that generate unrealistic attack vectors and gets caught incompetently failing to even get their ideas off the ground way more often than they manage even a low-tech attack.So far, in all of history, we are looking at a statistically insignificant number of large events, which mostly have no effect but to make us overreact and waste time and money on unscrupulous "security experts" to dream up new attack vectors to protect us from... even after the very people we are to be protected from show themselves time and again to be incompetent and disorganized.... when they even exist (more frequently, they don't even manage that)0 benefit pork barrel program stalled.
Our risk remains at infinitesimally small,-Steve</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30208454</id>
	<title>we don't need no steenkin' helium</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1258981560000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>large mass of plastic and  scintillating material is all that's needed, someone is just making excuses</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>large mass of plastic and scintillating material is all that 's needed , someone is just making excuses</tokentext>
<sentencetext>large mass of plastic and  scintillating material is all that's needed, someone is just making excuses</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30208604</id>
	<title>It stalled because...</title>
	<author>travisco\_nabisco</author>
	<datestamp>1258982580000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Funny</modclass>
	<modscore>3</modscore>
	<htmltext>I probably stalled because it is near impossible to tell the difference between a smuggled nuclear bomb and a TSA approved nuclear bomb in check luggage.</htmltext>
<tokenext>I probably stalled because it is near impossible to tell the difference between a smuggled nuclear bomb and a TSA approved nuclear bomb in check luggage .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I probably stalled because it is near impossible to tell the difference between a smuggled nuclear bomb and a TSA approved nuclear bomb in check luggage.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30219054</id>
	<title>Re:Is there plenty in Russia?</title>
	<author>Falconhell</author>
	<datestamp>1259058780000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I was replying to the post below yours.</p><p>Watch otu though your racism is showing, despite your attempts to hide it.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I was replying to the post below yours.Watch otu though your racism is showing , despite your attempts to hide it .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I was replying to the post below yours.Watch otu though your racism is showing, despite your attempts to hide it.</sentencetext>
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</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30208422</id>
	<title>Re:Wired covered this one in Aug 2000</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1258981380000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p><div class="quote"><p>http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.08/helium.html</p></div><p>Don't worry it could be worse. Tomorrows top story is "First Atomic Bomb Test a Success!" Personally I can't wait for the coverage of the first man to walk on the Moon. The Wright Brothers story last week is still one of my favorites.</p></div>
	</htmltext>
<tokenext>http : //www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.08/helium.htmlDo n't worry it could be worse .
Tomorrows top story is " First Atomic Bomb Test a Success !
" Personally I ca n't wait for the coverage of the first man to walk on the Moon .
The Wright Brothers story last week is still one of my favorites .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.08/helium.htmlDon't worry it could be worse.
Tomorrows top story is "First Atomic Bomb Test a Success!
" Personally I can't wait for the coverage of the first man to walk on the Moon.
The Wright Brothers story last week is still one of my favorites.
	</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30209666</id>
	<title>Problem across many fields</title>
	<author>diqrtvpe</author>
	<datestamp>1258991460000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>As a low-temperature physicist, I've been following this issue for some time now, as have many others in my field.  At a conference this summer there was a panel discussion on the problem, and how seriously it is affecting not just the low-temp physics community, but many others, as well.  A few years ago we could buy He-3 for a few hundred dollars per gaseous liter; it is now pretty much impossible to get your hands on any new He-3, and the prices quoted are in the many thousands of dollars per liter (for when it does eventually become available).  As another poster above pointed out, it's used in dilution refrigerators to achieve sub-Kelvin temperatures, necessary for many scientific experiments, as well as some other specialized applications.  As others have also pointed out, it's used for MRI; and obviously it's used for neutron detection.  There are myriad applications for He-3, and only some of them can be achieved with lesser efficiency with other materials.

Part of the reason prices were so low until very recently is that the government had tens of thousands of liters stockpiled, collected over time from tritium decay.  A decision was made to start releasing the stockpile, and so global production was bolstered by this stockpiled material, which, while substantial, pales in comparison to the amounts required by DHS.  The stockpile has been steadily shrinking for a number of years, and even if we were to access it and use it, that would be a very brief respite to the shortage.  He-3 production has been decreasing as we disarm, and it's mind-boggling to think that nobody in the government saw this coming.  They're basically the only ones producing He-3, so you'd think they'd be able to do the simple math and see that the amount they'd need to implement their plan would be leaps and bounds beyond what even the US and Russia combined could supply.

On a slightly more technical note, this is also very bad news for the low-temperature community.  As mentioned before, dilution fridges need He-3 to function, but they also generally need to be immersed in a bath of liquid He-4.  With the global He-4 shortage that has also recently been in the news, most new dilution fridges are now what is called cryogen-free, not requiring the bath of 4K He-4 to stay cold, and thus not requiring hundreds of dollars of helium to be cycled through the system daily.  However, the cryogen-free fridges happen to require a significantly larger quantity of He-3 to get cold.  So not only are we forced to move away from more traditional helium-cooled cryostats, we're also currently unable to fill any of the new type of fridge, at least until the hold on He-3 is lifted, and then probably at significantly increased prices.  In the most recent issue of Science there was an article about this, and there's a quote from of one of the dilution fridge manufacturers that if things don't change for the better, they will be out of business in a year.  All thanks to the monumental short-sightedness of DHS.</div>
	</htmltext>
<tokenext>As a low-temperature physicist , I 've been following this issue for some time now , as have many others in my field .
At a conference this summer there was a panel discussion on the problem , and how seriously it is affecting not just the low-temp physics community , but many others , as well .
A few years ago we could buy He-3 for a few hundred dollars per gaseous liter ; it is now pretty much impossible to get your hands on any new He-3 , and the prices quoted are in the many thousands of dollars per liter ( for when it does eventually become available ) .
As another poster above pointed out , it 's used in dilution refrigerators to achieve sub-Kelvin temperatures , necessary for many scientific experiments , as well as some other specialized applications .
As others have also pointed out , it 's used for MRI ; and obviously it 's used for neutron detection .
There are myriad applications for He-3 , and only some of them can be achieved with lesser efficiency with other materials .
Part of the reason prices were so low until very recently is that the government had tens of thousands of liters stockpiled , collected over time from tritium decay .
A decision was made to start releasing the stockpile , and so global production was bolstered by this stockpiled material , which , while substantial , pales in comparison to the amounts required by DHS .
The stockpile has been steadily shrinking for a number of years , and even if we were to access it and use it , that would be a very brief respite to the shortage .
He-3 production has been decreasing as we disarm , and it 's mind-boggling to think that nobody in the government saw this coming .
They 're basically the only ones producing He-3 , so you 'd think they 'd be able to do the simple math and see that the amount they 'd need to implement their plan would be leaps and bounds beyond what even the US and Russia combined could supply .
On a slightly more technical note , this is also very bad news for the low-temperature community .
As mentioned before , dilution fridges need He-3 to function , but they also generally need to be immersed in a bath of liquid He-4 .
With the global He-4 shortage that has also recently been in the news , most new dilution fridges are now what is called cryogen-free , not requiring the bath of 4K He-4 to stay cold , and thus not requiring hundreds of dollars of helium to be cycled through the system daily .
However , the cryogen-free fridges happen to require a significantly larger quantity of He-3 to get cold .
So not only are we forced to move away from more traditional helium-cooled cryostats , we 're also currently unable to fill any of the new type of fridge , at least until the hold on He-3 is lifted , and then probably at significantly increased prices .
In the most recent issue of Science there was an article about this , and there 's a quote from of one of the dilution fridge manufacturers that if things do n't change for the better , they will be out of business in a year .
All thanks to the monumental short-sightedness of DHS .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>As a low-temperature physicist, I've been following this issue for some time now, as have many others in my field.
At a conference this summer there was a panel discussion on the problem, and how seriously it is affecting not just the low-temp physics community, but many others, as well.
A few years ago we could buy He-3 for a few hundred dollars per gaseous liter; it is now pretty much impossible to get your hands on any new He-3, and the prices quoted are in the many thousands of dollars per liter (for when it does eventually become available).
As another poster above pointed out, it's used in dilution refrigerators to achieve sub-Kelvin temperatures, necessary for many scientific experiments, as well as some other specialized applications.
As others have also pointed out, it's used for MRI; and obviously it's used for neutron detection.
There are myriad applications for He-3, and only some of them can be achieved with lesser efficiency with other materials.
Part of the reason prices were so low until very recently is that the government had tens of thousands of liters stockpiled, collected over time from tritium decay.
A decision was made to start releasing the stockpile, and so global production was bolstered by this stockpiled material, which, while substantial, pales in comparison to the amounts required by DHS.
The stockpile has been steadily shrinking for a number of years, and even if we were to access it and use it, that would be a very brief respite to the shortage.
He-3 production has been decreasing as we disarm, and it's mind-boggling to think that nobody in the government saw this coming.
They're basically the only ones producing He-3, so you'd think they'd be able to do the simple math and see that the amount they'd need to implement their plan would be leaps and bounds beyond what even the US and Russia combined could supply.
On a slightly more technical note, this is also very bad news for the low-temperature community.
As mentioned before, dilution fridges need He-3 to function, but they also generally need to be immersed in a bath of liquid He-4.
With the global He-4 shortage that has also recently been in the news, most new dilution fridges are now what is called cryogen-free, not requiring the bath of 4K He-4 to stay cold, and thus not requiring hundreds of dollars of helium to be cycled through the system daily.
However, the cryogen-free fridges happen to require a significantly larger quantity of He-3 to get cold.
So not only are we forced to move away from more traditional helium-cooled cryostats, we're also currently unable to fill any of the new type of fridge, at least until the hold on He-3 is lifted, and then probably at significantly increased prices.
In the most recent issue of Science there was an article about this, and there's a quote from of one of the dilution fridge manufacturers that if things don't change for the better, they will be out of business in a year.
All thanks to the monumental short-sightedness of DHS.
	</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30211480</id>
	<title>How tell if the is a real crisis in the US</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1259063100000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Cheney will be cowering in his Bunker</p><p>That is all</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Cheney will be cowering in his BunkerThat is all</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Cheney will be cowering in his BunkerThat is all</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30208276</id>
	<title>welcome to science in the US</title>
	<author>Goldsmith</author>
	<datestamp>1258980600000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Insightful</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>It seems we know how to do just about anything these days, but lack the ability to actually get it done</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>It seems we know how to do just about anything these days , but lack the ability to actually get it done</tokentext>
<sentencetext>It seems we know how to do just about anything these days, but lack the ability to actually get it done</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30210616</id>
	<title>Re:Foreseeable doesn't mean foreseen</title>
	<author>Antique Geekmeister</author>
	<datestamp>1259004540000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Except for that fission research group hawking laser-compressed deuterium-tritium pellets here on Slashdot a few weeks ago, whose premise of using tritium as a critical component of their fuel are, once again, trumped by reality.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Except for that fission research group hawking laser-compressed deuterium-tritium pellets here on Slashdot a few weeks ago , whose premise of using tritium as a critical component of their fuel are , once again , trumped by reality .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Except for that fission research group hawking laser-compressed deuterium-tritium pellets here on Slashdot a few weeks ago, whose premise of using tritium as a critical component of their fuel are, once again, trumped by reality.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30210044</id>
	<title>Re:There's plenty on the moon!</title>
	<author>Larryish</author>
	<datestamp>1258996140000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Oh wow.</p><p>I am SOOO trying to think of something clever to say that involves DHS, TSA, and my "radioactive banana".</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Oh wow.I am SOOO trying to think of something clever to say that involves DHS , TSA , and my " radioactive banana " .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Oh wow.I am SOOO trying to think of something clever to say that involves DHS, TSA, and my "radioactive banana".</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30207952</id>
	<title>This could slow down other work</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1258978920000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>Helium 3 is also used in cryogenic coolers that reach temperatures below 0.4K. These are used for cooling radiotelescope bolometers and other exotic scientific instruments.
I remember pricing it a few years ago for a bolometer we had that lost its He3, and being astounded at the price. Sounds like it was a bargain back then.</htmltext>
<tokenext>Helium 3 is also used in cryogenic coolers that reach temperatures below 0.4K .
These are used for cooling radiotelescope bolometers and other exotic scientific instruments .
I remember pricing it a few years ago for a bolometer we had that lost its He3 , and being astounded at the price .
Sounds like it was a bargain back then .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Helium 3 is also used in cryogenic coolers that reach temperatures below 0.4K.
These are used for cooling radiotelescope bolometers and other exotic scientific instruments.
I remember pricing it a few years ago for a bolometer we had that lost its He3, and being astounded at the price.
Sounds like it was a bargain back then.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30208638</id>
	<title>Check the market</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1258982820000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I'm sure there's plenty on sale in Jita.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I 'm sure there 's plenty on sale in Jita .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I'm sure there's plenty on sale in Jita.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30210012</id>
	<title>Re:Umm, what?</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1258995780000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext>I actually work directly on this project. Ive been saying this all along jokingly to my coworkers. If they have been backpacking coke across remote borders for this many years...The technology and science behind it are fascinating and its really fun work but ultimately I just have a hard time believing in the end product. To me it just seems like some sort of stereotypical government pork barrel type project. Ah well, whatever brings home the bacon I guess</htmltext>
<tokenext>I actually work directly on this project .
Ive been saying this all along jokingly to my coworkers .
If they have been backpacking coke across remote borders for this many years...The technology and science behind it are fascinating and its really fun work but ultimately I just have a hard time believing in the end product .
To me it just seems like some sort of stereotypical government pork barrel type project .
Ah well , whatever brings home the bacon I guess</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I actually work directly on this project.
Ive been saying this all along jokingly to my coworkers.
If they have been backpacking coke across remote borders for this many years...The technology and science behind it are fascinating and its really fun work but ultimately I just have a hard time believing in the end product.
To me it just seems like some sort of stereotypical government pork barrel type project.
Ah well, whatever brings home the bacon I guess</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30210984</id>
	<title>Re:There's plenty on the moon!</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1259054280000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>While waiting to get back to the moon, let's build up our thermonuclear stockpile.  Then when our detection system is in place, we can sell the excess nukes to the terrorists. They will be thwarted by our detection network and confiscated to be resold to extremists.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>While waiting to get back to the moon , let 's build up our thermonuclear stockpile .
Then when our detection system is in place , we can sell the excess nukes to the terrorists .
They will be thwarted by our detection network and confiscated to be resold to extremists .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>While waiting to get back to the moon, let's build up our thermonuclear stockpile.
Then when our detection system is in place, we can sell the excess nukes to the terrorists.
They will be thwarted by our detection network and confiscated to be resold to extremists.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30208066</id>
	<title>Hmmm...</title>
	<author>Last\_Available\_Usern</author>
	<datestamp>1258979460000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>
I typed two posts prior to this one, and backspaced over both of them.  The first was the thought that the machines were already there and this publicity was a rouse to try to catch trafficers.  Then I realized I was just feeding the conspiricy side of my brain.  I then typed up a joke about how I wasn't going to fall for their ploy to seize my precious nuclear product.  I then decided better of that given I didn't relish the thought of MiB showing up at my front door based on some lame FBI web crawler hit.  So yea, here I am.  How's it going guys?</htmltext>
<tokenext>I typed two posts prior to this one , and backspaced over both of them .
The first was the thought that the machines were already there and this publicity was a rouse to try to catch trafficers .
Then I realized I was just feeding the conspiricy side of my brain .
I then typed up a joke about how I was n't going to fall for their ploy to seize my precious nuclear product .
I then decided better of that given I did n't relish the thought of MiB showing up at my front door based on some lame FBI web crawler hit .
So yea , here I am .
How 's it going guys ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>
I typed two posts prior to this one, and backspaced over both of them.
The first was the thought that the machines were already there and this publicity was a rouse to try to catch trafficers.
Then I realized I was just feeding the conspiricy side of my brain.
I then typed up a joke about how I wasn't going to fall for their ploy to seize my precious nuclear product.
I then decided better of that given I didn't relish the thought of MiB showing up at my front door based on some lame FBI web crawler hit.
So yea, here I am.
How's it going guys?</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30213714</id>
	<title>Re:0.4 Kevins</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1259078220000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I just pissed my pants from laughing so hard at this one!!!!!</p><p>Nice!</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I just pissed my pants from laughing so hard at this one ! ! ! !
! Nice !</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I just pissed my pants from laughing so hard at this one!!!!
!Nice!</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30208134</id>
	<title>Re:Foreseeable doesn't mean foreseen</title>
	<author>Tubal-Cain</author>
	<datestamp>1258979760000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>Miller is saying there is no reason we shouldn't have been able foresee running out before attempting to build so many radiation detectors.</htmltext>
<tokenext>Miller is saying there is no reason we should n't have been able foresee running out before attempting to build so many radiation detectors .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Miller is saying there is no reason we shouldn't have been able foresee running out before attempting to build so many radiation detectors.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30211454</id>
	<title>Re:There's plenty on the moon!</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1259062920000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I'm sure that's the point of this.  Mine the moon or we're not safe from suit-case nukes.  They aren't as dumb as we are.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I 'm sure that 's the point of this .
Mine the moon or we 're not safe from suit-case nukes .
They are n't as dumb as we are .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I'm sure that's the point of this.
Mine the moon or we're not safe from suit-case nukes.
They aren't as dumb as we are.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30209372</id>
	<title>Re:Umm, what?</title>
	<author>deuterium</author>
	<datestamp>1258988580000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Politics. Some day, if something happens, someone might ask "why didn't we do this?" Fear of "common" sense.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Politics .
Some day , if something happens , someone might ask " why did n't we do this ?
" Fear of " common " sense .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Politics.
Some day, if something happens, someone might ask "why didn't we do this?
" Fear of "common" sense.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30209994</id>
	<title>Re:There's plenty on the moon!</title>
	<author>Fantastic Lad</author>
	<datestamp>1258995420000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>And we don't even have to man it!  We can use clones and HALs with Kevin Spacey's voice.</p><p>-FL</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>And we do n't even have to man it !
We can use clones and HALs with Kevin Spacey 's voice.-FL</tokentext>
<sentencetext>And we don't even have to man it!
We can use clones and HALs with Kevin Spacey's voice.-FL</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30210376</id>
	<title>Re:There's plenty on the moon!</title>
	<author>LifesABeach</author>
	<datestamp>1259000820000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>I would stand up and give a Rebel Yell if head screw at NASA got a memo stating, "We NEED a Moon Base with a working H3 Refinery, YESTERDAY!!!  Where the hell is it?" Sincerly Barack.  Looks like another Disney script in the making...</htmltext>
<tokenext>I would stand up and give a Rebel Yell if head screw at NASA got a memo stating , " We NEED a Moon Base with a working H3 Refinery , YESTERDAY ! ! !
Where the hell is it ?
" Sincerly Barack .
Looks like another Disney script in the making.. .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I would stand up and give a Rebel Yell if head screw at NASA got a memo stating, "We NEED a Moon Base with a working H3 Refinery, YESTERDAY!!!
Where the hell is it?
" Sincerly Barack.
Looks like another Disney script in the making...</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30212488</id>
	<title>Waste Fraud and Abuse</title>
	<author>anorlunda</author>
	<datestamp>1259071260000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Insightful</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>The NYT article says that the current demand for H3 is 65,000 liters per year.   WTF!!!</p><p>I can't believe that so much H3 is needed for new screening machines.  It must be true that the machines are leaking the H3 or contaminating it and thus needing to replenish it all the time.</p><p>If it were private industry rather than Homeland Security that wanted the screening function, the regulators would force them to refine the design until they need only one liter or less per machine, and then to protect the asset so that it never leaks or gets contaminated. One liter per ten years per screening machine sounds like a more reasonable quota.</p><p>I attribute this crisis to the inability of government to regulate itself.</p><p>By the way, I live on my sailboat and cruise internationally.  I know that hundreds of thousands of recreational boats enter the USA every year. Every one of them is capable of carrying one or more nuclear warheads. Are these boats screened? No.  In many cases they just call a 800 number to report their entry.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>The NYT article says that the current demand for H3 is 65,000 liters per year .
WTF ! ! ! I ca n't believe that so much H3 is needed for new screening machines .
It must be true that the machines are leaking the H3 or contaminating it and thus needing to replenish it all the time.If it were private industry rather than Homeland Security that wanted the screening function , the regulators would force them to refine the design until they need only one liter or less per machine , and then to protect the asset so that it never leaks or gets contaminated .
One liter per ten years per screening machine sounds like a more reasonable quota.I attribute this crisis to the inability of government to regulate itself.By the way , I live on my sailboat and cruise internationally .
I know that hundreds of thousands of recreational boats enter the USA every year .
Every one of them is capable of carrying one or more nuclear warheads .
Are these boats screened ?
No. In many cases they just call a 800 number to report their entry .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>The NYT article says that the current demand for H3 is 65,000 liters per year.
WTF!!!I can't believe that so much H3 is needed for new screening machines.
It must be true that the machines are leaking the H3 or contaminating it and thus needing to replenish it all the time.If it were private industry rather than Homeland Security that wanted the screening function, the regulators would force them to refine the design until they need only one liter or less per machine, and then to protect the asset so that it never leaks or gets contaminated.
One liter per ten years per screening machine sounds like a more reasonable quota.I attribute this crisis to the inability of government to regulate itself.By the way, I live on my sailboat and cruise internationally.
I know that hundreds of thousands of recreational boats enter the USA every year.
Every one of them is capable of carrying one or more nuclear warheads.
Are these boats screened?
No.  In many cases they just call a 800 number to report their entry.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30210278</id>
	<title>Didn't Slashdot talk about this last year?</title>
	<author>Fallen Kell</author>
	<datestamp>1258999500000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>Well, not directly He3 I guess, but we did talk about a helium shortage coming... <a href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/14/0219246" title="slashdot.org">http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/14/0219246</a> [slashdot.org]</htmltext>
<tokenext>Well , not directly He3 I guess , but we did talk about a helium shortage coming... http : //news.slashdot.org/article.pl ? sid = 08/01/14/0219246 [ slashdot.org ]</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Well, not directly He3 I guess, but we did talk about a helium shortage coming... http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/14/0219246 [slashdot.org]</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30209264</id>
	<title>Why bring a Nuke into the Country?</title>
	<author>deboli</author>
	<datestamp>1258987680000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Insightful</modclass>
	<modscore>3</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>You don't need to land the bomb to cause lots of damage. Anyone resourceful enough to get hold of a nuclear bomb will probably know about the detection system and the best risk avoidance is to detonate it before unloading. You could detonate it below the waterline (in the ship) or above ground (hoisted off deck by the port crane) to be as destructive as possible. No detection possible unless you scan cargo 20km offshore.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>You do n't need to land the bomb to cause lots of damage .
Anyone resourceful enough to get hold of a nuclear bomb will probably know about the detection system and the best risk avoidance is to detonate it before unloading .
You could detonate it below the waterline ( in the ship ) or above ground ( hoisted off deck by the port crane ) to be as destructive as possible .
No detection possible unless you scan cargo 20km offshore .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>You don't need to land the bomb to cause lots of damage.
Anyone resourceful enough to get hold of a nuclear bomb will probably know about the detection system and the best risk avoidance is to detonate it before unloading.
You could detonate it below the waterline (in the ship) or above ground (hoisted off deck by the port crane) to be as destructive as possible.
No detection possible unless you scan cargo 20km offshore.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30207834</id>
	<title>There's plenty on the moon!</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1258978320000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Insightful</modclass>
	<modscore>4</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>The moon is covered in helium 3.  There, we have to have a manned lunar colony in order to be safe from terrorists!</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>The moon is covered in helium 3 .
There , we have to have a manned lunar colony in order to be safe from terrorists !</tokentext>
<sentencetext>The moon is covered in helium 3.
There, we have to have a manned lunar colony in order to be safe from terrorists!</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30209552</id>
	<title>Re:Umm, what?</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1258990380000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Funny</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p><div class="quote"><p>There's seriously a program aimed at developing and deploying a fleet of nuclear bomb detectors at every port in the United States?</p><p>What kind of ridiculous bullshit is this? Did someone at the DHS watch a few episodes of 24 to come up with this? It's movie-plot anti-terrorism at its absolute worst: imaging ridiculously specific scenarios and spending enormous amounts of money to guard against them.</p><p>As if a terrorist organization resourceful enough to obtain a *nuclear fucking weapon* would somehow have difficulty bringing it into the country. This is a nation into which several metric tonnes of cocaine and thousands of illegal immigrants are successfully smuggled every year, and someone imagines that they'll be able to erect a perfect wall to keep a few kilograms of metal out of the country?</p><p>What congressman's nephew is being paid to make these detectors?</p></div><p>Hey!  I know you!  You're the same guy who'll be bitching and screaming at the top of his lungs about how the government should have known a nuclear terrorist attack was in the works and how they should have done something to stop it.</p></div>
	</htmltext>
<tokenext>There 's seriously a program aimed at developing and deploying a fleet of nuclear bomb detectors at every port in the United States ? What kind of ridiculous bullshit is this ?
Did someone at the DHS watch a few episodes of 24 to come up with this ?
It 's movie-plot anti-terrorism at its absolute worst : imaging ridiculously specific scenarios and spending enormous amounts of money to guard against them.As if a terrorist organization resourceful enough to obtain a * nuclear fucking weapon * would somehow have difficulty bringing it into the country .
This is a nation into which several metric tonnes of cocaine and thousands of illegal immigrants are successfully smuggled every year , and someone imagines that they 'll be able to erect a perfect wall to keep a few kilograms of metal out of the country ? What congressman 's nephew is being paid to make these detectors ? Hey !
I know you !
You 're the same guy who 'll be bitching and screaming at the top of his lungs about how the government should have known a nuclear terrorist attack was in the works and how they should have done something to stop it .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>There's seriously a program aimed at developing and deploying a fleet of nuclear bomb detectors at every port in the United States?What kind of ridiculous bullshit is this?
Did someone at the DHS watch a few episodes of 24 to come up with this?
It's movie-plot anti-terrorism at its absolute worst: imaging ridiculously specific scenarios and spending enormous amounts of money to guard against them.As if a terrorist organization resourceful enough to obtain a *nuclear fucking weapon* would somehow have difficulty bringing it into the country.
This is a nation into which several metric tonnes of cocaine and thousands of illegal immigrants are successfully smuggled every year, and someone imagines that they'll be able to erect a perfect wall to keep a few kilograms of metal out of the country?What congressman's nephew is being paid to make these detectors?Hey!
I know you!
You're the same guy who'll be bitching and screaming at the top of his lungs about how the government should have known a nuclear terrorist attack was in the works and how they should have done something to stop it.
	</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30207998</id>
	<title>Congressional mandate</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1258979220000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p><i>"Congress has mandated that, by 2012, all containers bound for the US be inspected overseas."</i></p><p>Eh, what'll it matter. It'll only be in effect for a few months.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>" Congress has mandated that , by 2012 , all containers bound for the US be inspected overseas .
" Eh , what 'll it matter .
It 'll only be in effect for a few months .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>"Congress has mandated that, by 2012, all containers bound for the US be inspected overseas.
"Eh, what'll it matter.
It'll only be in effect for a few months.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30221864</id>
	<title>Re:Sorry, I ate some of it.</title>
	<author>Tweenk</author>
	<datestamp>1259074860000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Tritium does not emit alpha particles.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Tritium does not emit alpha particles .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Tritium does not emit alpha particles.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30212210</id>
	<title>Not a real biggie</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1259068860000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Canada has had heavy water reactors for years.  Unlike American light water nuclear reactors (which have enriched fuel and a light moderator), Canada has less-enriched fuel, but uses heavy water as a moderator.  Once spent fuel rods are removed from the reactor core, they are assembled into bundles and stored in pools of water.  Most of the radioactivity is gone, but what little remains makes the water slightly radioactive, and as a by-product of that, a certain amount of tritium is produced.  You want it baby?  We got it.  Take all you want, all sales final.  Remember the half life of this stuff is 12 years, so 50 metric tons of this stuff will still have 0.48 kg radioactive in 200 years.   (50 metric tons is 50000 kg, and 50000 *<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.5 ^ (200/12) = 0.48).</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Canada has had heavy water reactors for years .
Unlike American light water nuclear reactors ( which have enriched fuel and a light moderator ) , Canada has less-enriched fuel , but uses heavy water as a moderator .
Once spent fuel rods are removed from the reactor core , they are assembled into bundles and stored in pools of water .
Most of the radioactivity is gone , but what little remains makes the water slightly radioactive , and as a by-product of that , a certain amount of tritium is produced .
You want it baby ?
We got it .
Take all you want , all sales final .
Remember the half life of this stuff is 12 years , so 50 metric tons of this stuff will still have 0.48 kg radioactive in 200 years .
( 50 metric tons is 50000 kg , and 50000 * .5 ^ ( 200/12 ) = 0.48 ) .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Canada has had heavy water reactors for years.
Unlike American light water nuclear reactors (which have enriched fuel and a light moderator), Canada has less-enriched fuel, but uses heavy water as a moderator.
Once spent fuel rods are removed from the reactor core, they are assembled into bundles and stored in pools of water.
Most of the radioactivity is gone, but what little remains makes the water slightly radioactive, and as a by-product of that, a certain amount of tritium is produced.
You want it baby?
We got it.
Take all you want, all sales final.
Remember the half life of this stuff is 12 years, so 50 metric tons of this stuff will still have 0.48 kg radioactive in 200 years.
(50 metric tons is 50000 kg, and 50000 * .5 ^ (200/12) = 0.48).</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30215250</id>
	<title>Re:0.4 Kevins</title>
	<author>sexconker</author>
	<datestamp>1259084400000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Yes.  That's the joke.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Yes .
That 's the joke .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Yes.
That's the joke.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30207974</id>
	<title>Wired covered this one in Aug 2000</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1258979100000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Informativ</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.08/helium.html</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>http : //www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.08/helium.html</tokentext>
<sentencetext>http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.08/helium.html</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30208376</id>
	<title>another way to make tritium</title>
	<author>jfb2252</author>
	<datestamp>1258981140000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Interestin</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>International Committee on Future Accelerators Beam Dynamics section newsletter abstract under the URL.</p><p>While the emphasis in the six articles is on transmutation of nuclear waste and accelerator driven nuclear power plants, the same accelerators can generate neutrons to breed tritium from lithium.  The fusion demonstration ITER will have blanket with lithium to demonstrate breeding since its fuel is a deuterium-tritium mixture.</p><p>It would be lovely for the US accelerator community if the US DHS forked over $1.5B for a system to breed tritium and, in its spare time, transmute long lived waste isotopes so used fuel rods would decay to radiation levels below that of natural uranium ore within one thousand instead of one hundred thousand years.</p><p><a href="http://www-bd.fnal.gov/icfabd/Newsletter49.pdf" title="fnal.gov" rel="nofollow">http://www-bd.fnal.gov/icfabd/Newsletter49.pdf</a> [fnal.gov]</p><p>The theme is "Accelerator Driven Sub-Critical Assemblies (ADS) and its challenge to accelerators." This is a topic that could have a deep impact on the future of our society. As we all know, developing clean energy and protecting the environment are two top priorities in countries around the world. ADS is an accelerator-based technology that may provide a viable solution to these major problems. Jiuqing collected 6 excellent articles in the theme section. They give a comprehensive review of this important accelerator field, including valuable lessons learned from the past.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>International Committee on Future Accelerators Beam Dynamics section newsletter abstract under the URL.While the emphasis in the six articles is on transmutation of nuclear waste and accelerator driven nuclear power plants , the same accelerators can generate neutrons to breed tritium from lithium .
The fusion demonstration ITER will have blanket with lithium to demonstrate breeding since its fuel is a deuterium-tritium mixture.It would be lovely for the US accelerator community if the US DHS forked over $ 1.5B for a system to breed tritium and , in its spare time , transmute long lived waste isotopes so used fuel rods would decay to radiation levels below that of natural uranium ore within one thousand instead of one hundred thousand years.http : //www-bd.fnal.gov/icfabd/Newsletter49.pdf [ fnal.gov ] The theme is " Accelerator Driven Sub-Critical Assemblies ( ADS ) and its challenge to accelerators .
" This is a topic that could have a deep impact on the future of our society .
As we all know , developing clean energy and protecting the environment are two top priorities in countries around the world .
ADS is an accelerator-based technology that may provide a viable solution to these major problems .
Jiuqing collected 6 excellent articles in the theme section .
They give a comprehensive review of this important accelerator field , including valuable lessons learned from the past .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>International Committee on Future Accelerators Beam Dynamics section newsletter abstract under the URL.While the emphasis in the six articles is on transmutation of nuclear waste and accelerator driven nuclear power plants, the same accelerators can generate neutrons to breed tritium from lithium.
The fusion demonstration ITER will have blanket with lithium to demonstrate breeding since its fuel is a deuterium-tritium mixture.It would be lovely for the US accelerator community if the US DHS forked over $1.5B for a system to breed tritium and, in its spare time, transmute long lived waste isotopes so used fuel rods would decay to radiation levels below that of natural uranium ore within one thousand instead of one hundred thousand years.http://www-bd.fnal.gov/icfabd/Newsletter49.pdf [fnal.gov]The theme is "Accelerator Driven Sub-Critical Assemblies (ADS) and its challenge to accelerators.
" This is a topic that could have a deep impact on the future of our society.
As we all know, developing clean energy and protecting the environment are two top priorities in countries around the world.
ADS is an accelerator-based technology that may provide a viable solution to these major problems.
Jiuqing collected 6 excellent articles in the theme section.
They give a comprehensive review of this important accelerator field, including valuable lessons learned from the past.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30210736</id>
	<title>Re:CANDU reactors</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1259092860000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Canadian helium-3, eh? That stuff isn't bad, but since national security is at stake, I think they'll insist on real American helium-3.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Canadian helium-3 , eh ?
That stuff is n't bad , but since national security is at stake , I think they 'll insist on real American helium-3 .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Canadian helium-3, eh?
That stuff isn't bad, but since national security is at stake, I think they'll insist on real American helium-3.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30207838</id>
	<title>Fear it not!</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1258978380000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq9BDjMDRRk" title="youtube.com" rel="nofollow">Now this is The roxerz!</a> [youtube.com]</htmltext>
<tokenext>Now this is The roxerz !
[ youtube.com ]</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Now this is The roxerz!
[youtube.com]</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30207988</id>
	<title>Glad we got that covered.</title>
	<author>IndustrialComplex</author>
	<datestamp>1258979160000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p><i>Congress has mandated that, by 2012, all containers bound for the US be inspected overseas.</i></p><p>It's a good thing that it is impossible to place a container on a non-commercial vessel.  It is also good that it is impossible to NOT ship a weapon in a large cargo container.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Congress has mandated that , by 2012 , all containers bound for the US be inspected overseas.It 's a good thing that it is impossible to place a container on a non-commercial vessel .
It is also good that it is impossible to NOT ship a weapon in a large cargo container .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Congress has mandated that, by 2012, all containers bound for the US be inspected overseas.It's a good thing that it is impossible to place a container on a non-commercial vessel.
It is also good that it is impossible to NOT ship a weapon in a large cargo container.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30208686</id>
	<title>Re:Glad we got that covered.</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1258983060000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>This sounds like a huge fucking waste of time, and it won't be done seriously for more than the first 3 days or so.  The amount of freight bound for the US has to be absolutely enormous.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>This sounds like a huge fucking waste of time , and it wo n't be done seriously for more than the first 3 days or so .
The amount of freight bound for the US has to be absolutely enormous .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>This sounds like a huge fucking waste of time, and it won't be done seriously for more than the first 3 days or so.
The amount of freight bound for the US has to be absolutely enormous.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30209824</id>
	<title>I call BS on several levels</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1258993500000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Interestin</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>One:</p><p>
 We're not out of He3, not even close, and you can buy a He3 detector if you can afford it.  I just did, and I'm neither  a government guy, or in some eyes, a legit scientist (my degree is elsewhere).  But I do nuclear fusion (D-D) research here on my own time and money (programming made me well off) and needed some good detectors for my work, called up LND, and no problem - they are expensive to be sure, but not unavailable, not hardly, they really wanted a sale.  And more He3 can be made, just like the stuff we had was "made", primarily.  You can thank a recent administration for releasing zillions of tons of our strategic reserve of He (some of which was recoverable He3) because they didn't want to pay the rent on the salt domes it was stuffed under.  Thanks George. Was it somehow affecting your profit kickbacks from wanna be oil wells in the same area of Texas?</p><p>But more is coming out of just about every gas or oil well all the time -- you just have to decide it's worth saving (and pay the money to separate it from all the other junk, but it's an easier separation than for heavier elements).  A He3 detector doesn't need all that much.  A really good one might be a 1" diameter tube a couple feet long stuffed with 10 atmospheres worth, but it takes quite a lot less than that to make a decent detector.  That one, I bought, it cost about 2.5k$.  They go down in price and sensitivity to about $700 (it's kind of a limited competition market, they get $700 for sneezing in your general direction and $100 for a line cord) and up to the sky for really large ones, which are really just a lot of little ones stuffed into the same moderator.</p><p>Two:<br>No you can't just use more other kinds of detectors to get the same sensitivity.  There are only so many neutrons coming out of the source, and the other types have far lower quantum efficiency re detection, but once you're got a moderator, the ones that don't "hit" a detector are more or less lost, no second chance, maybe, certainly no third.</p><p>The B10 class detectors (B10 lined tubes or BF3 gas geigers) are only sensitive to slow neutrons, just like He3, but far less quantum efficient (and He3 ain't that great).  You can't just stuff them all over the place and not have a moderator to up sensitivity beyond a point.<br>And -- they also see gamma rays etc, and produce one heck of a background count on things like cosmic rays and kitty litter (which does not give off neutrons, very few things do in fact).</p><p>To discriminate against the increased background count of the Boron types, you need to count longer -- much longer.<br>(See statistics 101, it's kind of depressing when the counts are about the same as background --)</p><p>There are other neutron detectors, scintillator plastics that are large area and can see recoil protons from collisions with fast neutrons, and an interesting design called a Hornyak detector, some of which I've made myself.  Not in the same class, and see "background".  I doubt we want to push screened things into underground mines to kill off the cosmic background.<br>Which isn't even the only one, there's still that kitty litter.  That's what they make gamma ray spectrometers for, by the way, and we're not close to running out of the stuff to make them out of, any of the several technologies that can be used, depending on the resolution you need.  And, oh, gammas are what mostly come out of weapons fuel, along with alphas that are easy to shield against, a piece of paper stops them.  And oh yes, daughter products -- radon and so on that are more or less impossible to stop leaking out.  The sad thing is, a nuke just doesn't make that much noise about itself until bang time.</p><p>
  Would you like to wait essentially forever if each screen took an hour, and there were 10,000 things an hour needing it?<br>At every port of entry?  It adds up fast.</p><p>Not that this is really needed for the DHS job, they just like to have the nicest and best of everything *your* money can buy them, to cover their butts.  Now that</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>One : We 're not out of He3 , not even close , and you can buy a He3 detector if you can afford it .
I just did , and I 'm neither a government guy , or in some eyes , a legit scientist ( my degree is elsewhere ) .
But I do nuclear fusion ( D-D ) research here on my own time and money ( programming made me well off ) and needed some good detectors for my work , called up LND , and no problem - they are expensive to be sure , but not unavailable , not hardly , they really wanted a sale .
And more He3 can be made , just like the stuff we had was " made " , primarily .
You can thank a recent administration for releasing zillions of tons of our strategic reserve of He ( some of which was recoverable He3 ) because they did n't want to pay the rent on the salt domes it was stuffed under .
Thanks George .
Was it somehow affecting your profit kickbacks from wan na be oil wells in the same area of Texas ? But more is coming out of just about every gas or oil well all the time -- you just have to decide it 's worth saving ( and pay the money to separate it from all the other junk , but it 's an easier separation than for heavier elements ) .
A He3 detector does n't need all that much .
A really good one might be a 1 " diameter tube a couple feet long stuffed with 10 atmospheres worth , but it takes quite a lot less than that to make a decent detector .
That one , I bought , it cost about 2.5k $ .
They go down in price and sensitivity to about $ 700 ( it 's kind of a limited competition market , they get $ 700 for sneezing in your general direction and $ 100 for a line cord ) and up to the sky for really large ones , which are really just a lot of little ones stuffed into the same moderator.Two : No you ca n't just use more other kinds of detectors to get the same sensitivity .
There are only so many neutrons coming out of the source , and the other types have far lower quantum efficiency re detection , but once you 're got a moderator , the ones that do n't " hit " a detector are more or less lost , no second chance , maybe , certainly no third.The B10 class detectors ( B10 lined tubes or BF3 gas geigers ) are only sensitive to slow neutrons , just like He3 , but far less quantum efficient ( and He3 ai n't that great ) .
You ca n't just stuff them all over the place and not have a moderator to up sensitivity beyond a point.And -- they also see gamma rays etc , and produce one heck of a background count on things like cosmic rays and kitty litter ( which does not give off neutrons , very few things do in fact ) .To discriminate against the increased background count of the Boron types , you need to count longer -- much longer .
( See statistics 101 , it 's kind of depressing when the counts are about the same as background -- ) There are other neutron detectors , scintillator plastics that are large area and can see recoil protons from collisions with fast neutrons , and an interesting design called a Hornyak detector , some of which I 've made myself .
Not in the same class , and see " background " .
I doubt we want to push screened things into underground mines to kill off the cosmic background.Which is n't even the only one , there 's still that kitty litter .
That 's what they make gamma ray spectrometers for , by the way , and we 're not close to running out of the stuff to make them out of , any of the several technologies that can be used , depending on the resolution you need .
And , oh , gammas are what mostly come out of weapons fuel , along with alphas that are easy to shield against , a piece of paper stops them .
And oh yes , daughter products -- radon and so on that are more or less impossible to stop leaking out .
The sad thing is , a nuke just does n't make that much noise about itself until bang time .
Would you like to wait essentially forever if each screen took an hour , and there were 10,000 things an hour needing it ? At every port of entry ?
It adds up fast.Not that this is really needed for the DHS job , they just like to have the nicest and best of everything * your * money can buy them , to cover their butts .
Now that</tokentext>
<sentencetext>One:
 We're not out of He3, not even close, and you can buy a He3 detector if you can afford it.
I just did, and I'm neither  a government guy, or in some eyes, a legit scientist (my degree is elsewhere).
But I do nuclear fusion (D-D) research here on my own time and money (programming made me well off) and needed some good detectors for my work, called up LND, and no problem - they are expensive to be sure, but not unavailable, not hardly, they really wanted a sale.
And more He3 can be made, just like the stuff we had was "made", primarily.
You can thank a recent administration for releasing zillions of tons of our strategic reserve of He (some of which was recoverable He3) because they didn't want to pay the rent on the salt domes it was stuffed under.
Thanks George.
Was it somehow affecting your profit kickbacks from wanna be oil wells in the same area of Texas?But more is coming out of just about every gas or oil well all the time -- you just have to decide it's worth saving (and pay the money to separate it from all the other junk, but it's an easier separation than for heavier elements).
A He3 detector doesn't need all that much.
A really good one might be a 1" diameter tube a couple feet long stuffed with 10 atmospheres worth, but it takes quite a lot less than that to make a decent detector.
That one, I bought, it cost about 2.5k$.
They go down in price and sensitivity to about $700 (it's kind of a limited competition market, they get $700 for sneezing in your general direction and $100 for a line cord) and up to the sky for really large ones, which are really just a lot of little ones stuffed into the same moderator.Two:No you can't just use more other kinds of detectors to get the same sensitivity.
There are only so many neutrons coming out of the source, and the other types have far lower quantum efficiency re detection, but once you're got a moderator, the ones that don't "hit" a detector are more or less lost, no second chance, maybe, certainly no third.The B10 class detectors (B10 lined tubes or BF3 gas geigers) are only sensitive to slow neutrons, just like He3, but far less quantum efficient (and He3 ain't that great).
You can't just stuff them all over the place and not have a moderator to up sensitivity beyond a point.And -- they also see gamma rays etc, and produce one heck of a background count on things like cosmic rays and kitty litter (which does not give off neutrons, very few things do in fact).To discriminate against the increased background count of the Boron types, you need to count longer -- much longer.
(See statistics 101, it's kind of depressing when the counts are about the same as background --)There are other neutron detectors, scintillator plastics that are large area and can see recoil protons from collisions with fast neutrons, and an interesting design called a Hornyak detector, some of which I've made myself.
Not in the same class, and see "background".
I doubt we want to push screened things into underground mines to kill off the cosmic background.Which isn't even the only one, there's still that kitty litter.
That's what they make gamma ray spectrometers for, by the way, and we're not close to running out of the stuff to make them out of, any of the several technologies that can be used, depending on the resolution you need.
And, oh, gammas are what mostly come out of weapons fuel, along with alphas that are easy to shield against, a piece of paper stops them.
And oh yes, daughter products -- radon and so on that are more or less impossible to stop leaking out.
The sad thing is, a nuke just doesn't make that much noise about itself until bang time.
Would you like to wait essentially forever if each screen took an hour, and there were 10,000 things an hour needing it?At every port of entry?
It adds up fast.Not that this is really needed for the DHS job, they just like to have the nicest and best of everything *your* money can buy them, to cover their butts.
Now that</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30209024</id>
	<title>Re:Umm, what?</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1258985460000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Interestin</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Or just ship it in a commercial container and detonate the thing in the port of Los Angeles, it's not like it's remote.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Or just ship it in a commercial container and detonate the thing in the port of Los Angeles , it 's not like it 's remote .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Or just ship it in a commercial container and detonate the thing in the port of Los Angeles, it's not like it's remote.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30208662</id>
	<title>Use BF3</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1258982940000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Informativ</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Just get the bloody shipping regs to recognize that a wee bit of BF3 in a radiation detector is not a major hazmat issue.  BF3 tubes tended to be the norm for neutron detectors until a change in the HAZMAT regs a few years ago...  The regs just need to be amended to include an excepted quantity rule for BF3 in a rad detector.  Problem solved.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Just get the bloody shipping regs to recognize that a wee bit of BF3 in a radiation detector is not a major hazmat issue .
BF3 tubes tended to be the norm for neutron detectors until a change in the HAZMAT regs a few years ago... The regs just need to be amended to include an excepted quantity rule for BF3 in a rad detector .
Problem solved .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Just get the bloody shipping regs to recognize that a wee bit of BF3 in a radiation detector is not a major hazmat issue.
BF3 tubes tended to be the norm for neutron detectors until a change in the HAZMAT regs a few years ago...  The regs just need to be amended to include an excepted quantity rule for BF3 in a rad detector.
Problem solved.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30208268</id>
	<title>Umm, what?</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1258980600000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Insightful</modclass>
	<modscore>5</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>There's seriously a program aimed at developing and deploying a fleet of nuclear bomb detectors at every port in the United States?</p><p>What kind of ridiculous bullshit is this? Did someone at the DHS watch a few episodes of 24 to come up with this? It's movie-plot anti-terrorism at its absolute worst: imaging ridiculously specific scenarios and spending enormous amounts of money to guard against them.</p><p>As if a terrorist organization resourceful enough to obtain a *nuclear fucking weapon* would somehow have difficulty bringing it into the country. This is a nation into which several metric tonnes of cocaine and thousands of illegal immigrants are successfully smuggled every year, and someone imagines that they'll be able to erect a perfect wall to keep a few kilograms of metal out of the country?</p><p>What congressman's nephew is being paid to make these detectors?</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>There 's seriously a program aimed at developing and deploying a fleet of nuclear bomb detectors at every port in the United States ? What kind of ridiculous bullshit is this ?
Did someone at the DHS watch a few episodes of 24 to come up with this ?
It 's movie-plot anti-terrorism at its absolute worst : imaging ridiculously specific scenarios and spending enormous amounts of money to guard against them.As if a terrorist organization resourceful enough to obtain a * nuclear fucking weapon * would somehow have difficulty bringing it into the country .
This is a nation into which several metric tonnes of cocaine and thousands of illegal immigrants are successfully smuggled every year , and someone imagines that they 'll be able to erect a perfect wall to keep a few kilograms of metal out of the country ? What congressman 's nephew is being paid to make these detectors ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>There's seriously a program aimed at developing and deploying a fleet of nuclear bomb detectors at every port in the United States?What kind of ridiculous bullshit is this?
Did someone at the DHS watch a few episodes of 24 to come up with this?
It's movie-plot anti-terrorism at its absolute worst: imaging ridiculously specific scenarios and spending enormous amounts of money to guard against them.As if a terrorist organization resourceful enough to obtain a *nuclear fucking weapon* would somehow have difficulty bringing it into the country.
This is a nation into which several metric tonnes of cocaine and thousands of illegal immigrants are successfully smuggled every year, and someone imagines that they'll be able to erect a perfect wall to keep a few kilograms of metal out of the country?What congressman's nephew is being paid to make these detectors?</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30219070</id>
	<title>Re:There's plenty on the moon!</title>
	<author>lennier</author>
	<datestamp>1259058900000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>"The moon is covered in helium 3. There, we have to have a manned lunar colony in order to be safe from terrorists!"</p><p>Well, technically it only needs to be 'manned' by ONE crewmember... and a Gerty.</p><p>Just make sure the long-range communications relay satellite has a 'malfunction', know what I mean?</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>" The moon is covered in helium 3 .
There , we have to have a manned lunar colony in order to be safe from terrorists !
" Well , technically it only needs to be 'manned ' by ONE crewmember... and a Gerty.Just make sure the long-range communications relay satellite has a 'malfunction ' , know what I mean ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>"The moon is covered in helium 3.
There, we have to have a manned lunar colony in order to be safe from terrorists!
"Well, technically it only needs to be 'manned' by ONE crewmember... and a Gerty.Just make sure the long-range communications relay satellite has a 'malfunction', know what I mean?</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30207834</parent>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30208474</id>
	<title>CANDU reactors</title>
	<author>debrain</author>
	<datestamp>1258981680000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Informativ</modclass>
	<modscore>4</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>A byproduct of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU\_reactor" title="wikipedia.org">CANDU</a> [wikipedia.org] reactors is Helium-3.</p><p>I'm not the first to note this, <a href="http://ca.entertainment.yahoo.com/s/capress/091123/national/nuclear\_helium3" title="yahoo.com">evidently</a> [yahoo.com].</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>A byproduct of CANDU [ wikipedia.org ] reactors is Helium-3.I 'm not the first to note this , evidently [ yahoo.com ] .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>A byproduct of CANDU [wikipedia.org] reactors is Helium-3.I'm not the first to note this, evidently [yahoo.com].</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30214664</id>
	<title>We buy their oil...</title>
	<author>ebombme</author>
	<datestamp>1259082180000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>Maybe we should just buy some from Iran...</htmltext>
<tokenext>Maybe we should just buy some from Iran.. .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Maybe we should just buy some from Iran...</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30209164</id>
	<title>Re:0.4 Kevins</title>
	<author>Jesus\_666</author>
	<datestamp>1258986840000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Funny</modclass>
	<modscore>5</modscore>
	<htmltext><blockquote><div><p>His family being Catholic, he had already been given his last rights.</p></div></blockquote><p>"You have the right to die silently. Anything you say or do can and will be used against you on Judgement Day. You have the right to an attorney, although the judge is already omniscient so it's fairly pointless. If you cannot afford an attorney on Judgment Day don't worry, neither can anyone else. If you understand these rights as they have been read to you then say 'amen'."</p></div>
	</htmltext>
<tokenext>His family being Catholic , he had already been given his last rights .
" You have the right to die silently .
Anything you say or do can and will be used against you on Judgement Day .
You have the right to an attorney , although the judge is already omniscient so it 's fairly pointless .
If you can not afford an attorney on Judgment Day do n't worry , neither can anyone else .
If you understand these rights as they have been read to you then say 'amen' .
"</tokentext>
<sentencetext>His family being Catholic, he had already been given his last rights.
"You have the right to die silently.
Anything you say or do can and will be used against you on Judgement Day.
You have the right to an attorney, although the judge is already omniscient so it's fairly pointless.
If you cannot afford an attorney on Judgment Day don't worry, neither can anyone else.
If you understand these rights as they have been read to you then say 'amen'.
"
	</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30210284</id>
	<title>Re:Foreseeable doesn't mean foreseen</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1258999560000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p><i>None of them may have quite the same sensitivity, but you can just pack more sensors in to overcome sensitivity.</i><br>Well, that's just the thing: you can't do that <b>and</b> have your detector be man-portable. Ideally, customs officials and/or DHS inspectors would be able to sweep containers <b>before</b> they're unloaded at one of our ports. If the terrorists manage to get a nuclear weapon into Long Beach harbor, or New Orleans, or wherever, they can just set it off right there.</p><p>This story is a big deal only insofar as you think it likely that terr'ists will actually get their hands on a functioning nuclear explosive. Personally, I think these fears are somewhat overblown. But hey, I know a lot of hardworking nuclear scientists at PNNL and elsewhere who are more than happy to apply for those DHS grants to solve this particular problem. They gotta eat, too.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>None of them may have quite the same sensitivity , but you can just pack more sensors in to overcome sensitivity.Well , that 's just the thing : you ca n't do that and have your detector be man-portable .
Ideally , customs officials and/or DHS inspectors would be able to sweep containers before they 're unloaded at one of our ports .
If the terrorists manage to get a nuclear weapon into Long Beach harbor , or New Orleans , or wherever , they can just set it off right there.This story is a big deal only insofar as you think it likely that terr'ists will actually get their hands on a functioning nuclear explosive .
Personally , I think these fears are somewhat overblown .
But hey , I know a lot of hardworking nuclear scientists at PNNL and elsewhere who are more than happy to apply for those DHS grants to solve this particular problem .
They got ta eat , too .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>None of them may have quite the same sensitivity, but you can just pack more sensors in to overcome sensitivity.Well, that's just the thing: you can't do that and have your detector be man-portable.
Ideally, customs officials and/or DHS inspectors would be able to sweep containers before they're unloaded at one of our ports.
If the terrorists manage to get a nuclear weapon into Long Beach harbor, or New Orleans, or wherever, they can just set it off right there.This story is a big deal only insofar as you think it likely that terr'ists will actually get their hands on a functioning nuclear explosive.
Personally, I think these fears are somewhat overblown.
But hey, I know a lot of hardworking nuclear scientists at PNNL and elsewhere who are more than happy to apply for those DHS grants to solve this particular problem.
They gotta eat, too.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30208210</parent>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30212772</id>
	<title>Re:Is there plenty in Russia?</title>
	<author>drinkypoo</author>
	<datestamp>1259072940000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p><div class="quote"><p>Well, at least we know that all of this so-called social justice crap really is the euphemism for hating white people that we suspected it to be.</p></div><p>You know, when someone hates a class of people, let's say Catholics (the boy-rape really makes them a convenient target) they don't hate every member of the class. At the same time, Catholics will take ownership of people ("they are good catholics, there are 42532362632 of us") until they become too inconvenient, and then they decry their actions. Perhaps we the light-colored people of the world should <a href="http://www.armory.com/~crisper/Scorch/" title="armory.com">take up our lead pipes</a> [armory.com] and smite down the racist whites so that the rest of us can move on down the road. No? Then I guess we'll just have to accept that many persons of color will despise us all, since we all look the same.</p></div>
	</htmltext>
<tokenext>Well , at least we know that all of this so-called social justice crap really is the euphemism for hating white people that we suspected it to be.You know , when someone hates a class of people , let 's say Catholics ( the boy-rape really makes them a convenient target ) they do n't hate every member of the class .
At the same time , Catholics will take ownership of people ( " they are good catholics , there are 42532362632 of us " ) until they become too inconvenient , and then they decry their actions .
Perhaps we the light-colored people of the world should take up our lead pipes [ armory.com ] and smite down the racist whites so that the rest of us can move on down the road .
No ? Then I guess we 'll just have to accept that many persons of color will despise us all , since we all look the same .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Well, at least we know that all of this so-called social justice crap really is the euphemism for hating white people that we suspected it to be.You know, when someone hates a class of people, let's say Catholics (the boy-rape really makes them a convenient target) they don't hate every member of the class.
At the same time, Catholics will take ownership of people ("they are good catholics, there are 42532362632 of us") until they become too inconvenient, and then they decry their actions.
Perhaps we the light-colored people of the world should take up our lead pipes [armory.com] and smite down the racist whites so that the rest of us can move on down the road.
No? Then I guess we'll just have to accept that many persons of color will despise us all, since we all look the same.
	</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30208292</id>
	<title>As he reads this,</title>
	<author>byrdfl3w</author>
	<datestamp>1258980720000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><a href="http://ken-welch.com/PageOne.html" title="ken-welch.com" rel="nofollow">Ken Welch</a> [ken-welch.com] is dancing a jig in reverse.</htmltext>
<tokenext>Ken Welch [ ken-welch.com ] is dancing a jig in reverse .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Ken Welch [ken-welch.com] is dancing a jig in reverse.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30213598</id>
	<title>Re:nuclear reactors to the rescue</title>
	<author>necro81</author>
	<datestamp>1259077680000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>There is a program to restart tritium (and, by extension, 3-He) production at one of the Oak Ridge reactors.  The problem, however, is that this can't be done with the push of a button.  The reactor may need some retrofitting to accommodate the 6-Li stock, then there's the equipment to capture the tritium and purify it, then the wait for enough of it to decay to 3-He before you have a usable quantity.  It's something that you'd hope someone would have had the foresight to have up and running, oh, a decade ago, but alas there isn't someone with that kind of foresight calling these shots.<br> <br>

This is very similar to the occasional hiccups in the <a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/12/12/2329216.shtml" title="slashdot.org">supply of medical radioisotopes</a> [slashdot.org].  Most of the world's supply is produced by a relatively ancient heavy-water reactor in Canada.  To reduce the risk, assure supply, and generally be smart, I would have expected the United States to develop its own production capabilities at some nuclear plant a long time ago. <br> <br>

But, again, although there seems to be enough diffuse understanding of this problem in government, it isn't concentrated enough to create the necessary supercriticality to cause anything to happen.</htmltext>
<tokenext>There is a program to restart tritium ( and , by extension , 3-He ) production at one of the Oak Ridge reactors .
The problem , however , is that this ca n't be done with the push of a button .
The reactor may need some retrofitting to accommodate the 6-Li stock , then there 's the equipment to capture the tritium and purify it , then the wait for enough of it to decay to 3-He before you have a usable quantity .
It 's something that you 'd hope someone would have had the foresight to have up and running , oh , a decade ago , but alas there is n't someone with that kind of foresight calling these shots .
This is very similar to the occasional hiccups in the supply of medical radioisotopes [ slashdot.org ] .
Most of the world 's supply is produced by a relatively ancient heavy-water reactor in Canada .
To reduce the risk , assure supply , and generally be smart , I would have expected the United States to develop its own production capabilities at some nuclear plant a long time ago .
But , again , although there seems to be enough diffuse understanding of this problem in government , it is n't concentrated enough to create the necessary supercriticality to cause anything to happen .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>There is a program to restart tritium (and, by extension, 3-He) production at one of the Oak Ridge reactors.
The problem, however, is that this can't be done with the push of a button.
The reactor may need some retrofitting to accommodate the 6-Li stock, then there's the equipment to capture the tritium and purify it, then the wait for enough of it to decay to 3-He before you have a usable quantity.
It's something that you'd hope someone would have had the foresight to have up and running, oh, a decade ago, but alas there isn't someone with that kind of foresight calling these shots.
This is very similar to the occasional hiccups in the supply of medical radioisotopes [slashdot.org].
Most of the world's supply is produced by a relatively ancient heavy-water reactor in Canada.
To reduce the risk, assure supply, and generally be smart, I would have expected the United States to develop its own production capabilities at some nuclear plant a long time ago.
But, again, although there seems to be enough diffuse understanding of this problem in government, it isn't concentrated enough to create the necessary supercriticality to cause anything to happen.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30209186</id>
	<title>Serious physics question</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1258987080000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>Regarding nuclear fusion. It is often said that Hydrogen fusion will produce Helium 4 which will then emit a neutron to become Helium 3 - some argument about the Helium 4 having too much energy to remain that way. To digress a bit - this was used as evidence against cold fusion (the neutrons should have killed them). So I looked it up and Helium 4 is far more abundant than 3 both on earth and apparently on the moon. As you can see by the abundance of kids balloons, we are not out of Helium 4 which is in much wider use. So can someone explain to me where all the Helium 4 comes from that was supposed to emit neutrons and turn into Helium 3???<br> <br>

Thanks,</htmltext>
<tokenext>Regarding nuclear fusion .
It is often said that Hydrogen fusion will produce Helium 4 which will then emit a neutron to become Helium 3 - some argument about the Helium 4 having too much energy to remain that way .
To digress a bit - this was used as evidence against cold fusion ( the neutrons should have killed them ) .
So I looked it up and Helium 4 is far more abundant than 3 both on earth and apparently on the moon .
As you can see by the abundance of kids balloons , we are not out of Helium 4 which is in much wider use .
So can someone explain to me where all the Helium 4 comes from that was supposed to emit neutrons and turn into Helium 3 ? ? ?
Thanks,</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Regarding nuclear fusion.
It is often said that Hydrogen fusion will produce Helium 4 which will then emit a neutron to become Helium 3 - some argument about the Helium 4 having too much energy to remain that way.
To digress a bit - this was used as evidence against cold fusion (the neutrons should have killed them).
So I looked it up and Helium 4 is far more abundant than 3 both on earth and apparently on the moon.
As you can see by the abundance of kids balloons, we are not out of Helium 4 which is in much wider use.
So can someone explain to me where all the Helium 4 comes from that was supposed to emit neutrons and turn into Helium 3???
Thanks,</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30207972</id>
	<title>make it so</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1258979040000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Having these detectors would be about 1000X more effective at protecting the USA from attack compared to the GWBush/NeoCon approach. Instead the idiots decided to waste $$$TRILLIONS in the Middle East searching for non-existant WMDs... hoping the current administration is better in the long term.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Having these detectors would be about 1000X more effective at protecting the USA from attack compared to the GWBush/NeoCon approach .
Instead the idiots decided to waste $ $ $ TRILLIONS in the Middle East searching for non-existant WMDs... hoping the current administration is better in the long term .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Having these detectors would be about 1000X more effective at protecting the USA from attack compared to the GWBush/NeoCon approach.
Instead the idiots decided to waste $$$TRILLIONS in the Middle East searching for non-existant WMDs... hoping the current administration is better in the long term.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30207836</id>
	<title>The dollar is tanking!!</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1258978320000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>hyperinflation ensues</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>hyperinflation ensues</tokentext>
<sentencetext>hyperinflation ensues</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30211860</id>
	<title>Re:There's plenty on the moon!</title>
	<author>bill\_mcgonigle</author>
	<datestamp>1259066160000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p><i>The moon is covered in helium 3. There, we have to have a manned lunar colony in order to be safe from terrorists!</i></p><p>If it's not possible to shut down DHS, then perhaps second-best would be transferring a large chunk of their budget to NASA.  Somebody see to that please.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>The moon is covered in helium 3 .
There , we have to have a manned lunar colony in order to be safe from terrorists ! If it 's not possible to shut down DHS , then perhaps second-best would be transferring a large chunk of their budget to NASA .
Somebody see to that please .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>The moon is covered in helium 3.
There, we have to have a manned lunar colony in order to be safe from terrorists!If it's not possible to shut down DHS, then perhaps second-best would be transferring a large chunk of their budget to NASA.
Somebody see to that please.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30209064</id>
	<title>Hey Wicked Cool!</title>
	<author>gbutler69</author>
	<datestamp>1258985820000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Interestin</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>
I just finished working on this project a year ago. I worked as a sub-contractor for Thermo-Fisher Scientific, one of the prime contractors, to DNDO, DHS, and CBP. It was an interesting project. My team was responsible for developing the
command and control software for these systems. Had a lot of ups and downs. The technology works fairly well. We did A LOT of testing of the system in both laboratory and field conditions in order to validate the software. Got to travel to
great and wonderous places like Nevada Test Site, Southampton, UK, and Antwerp, Belgium. Who'd a thought something like this would put a monkey in the works?

</p><p>
Funny anecdote: When we installed the system in Southampton, UK, the British and Eurpoean Union representatives were most interest in if it could detect "Cigarettes"? Man, they wanna make sure they collect that tax on your smokes!</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I just finished working on this project a year ago .
I worked as a sub-contractor for Thermo-Fisher Scientific , one of the prime contractors , to DNDO , DHS , and CBP .
It was an interesting project .
My team was responsible for developing the command and control software for these systems .
Had a lot of ups and downs .
The technology works fairly well .
We did A LOT of testing of the system in both laboratory and field conditions in order to validate the software .
Got to travel to great and wonderous places like Nevada Test Site , Southampton , UK , and Antwerp , Belgium .
Who 'd a thought something like this would put a monkey in the works ?
Funny anecdote : When we installed the system in Southampton , UK , the British and Eurpoean Union representatives were most interest in if it could detect " Cigarettes " ?
Man , they wan na make sure they collect that tax on your smokes !</tokentext>
<sentencetext>
I just finished working on this project a year ago.
I worked as a sub-contractor for Thermo-Fisher Scientific, one of the prime contractors, to DNDO, DHS, and CBP.
It was an interesting project.
My team was responsible for developing the
command and control software for these systems.
Had a lot of ups and downs.
The technology works fairly well.
We did A LOT of testing of the system in both laboratory and field conditions in order to validate the software.
Got to travel to
great and wonderous places like Nevada Test Site, Southampton, UK, and Antwerp, Belgium.
Who'd a thought something like this would put a monkey in the works?
Funny anecdote: When we installed the system in Southampton, UK, the British and Eurpoean Union representatives were most interest in if it could detect "Cigarettes"?
Man, they wanna make sure they collect that tax on your smokes!</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30215818</id>
	<title>Re:Umm, what?</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1259086920000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>"Personal speedboat goes out a couple miles."</p><p>A couple of miles?  The bomb's already in US waters at that point.  Like roughly 10 miles in territorial, or including continguous 22 miles in.  That's a pretty big f'ing oversight.  Considering inspection would have been in the last 198miles, given economic zone rights.</p><p>The whole point of detectors anyways isn't that they cannot be bypassed, but to detect what they can.  And funnel traffic through other avenues that we'll then attempt to close.</p><p>Personally, I'm in favor of the detectors for another reason--I think there is a lack of screening for radioactive materials in general products, and this could cut down on the spread.  The scenario I'm thinking of is similar to that US national science lab that had detectors at the entry in case someone tried to steal material; instead, it detected incoming nuclear material in something that wasn't supposed to be at all radioactive.</p><p>btw, isn't this hypothetical whole scenario crap you're thinking of the same shit that when Homeland thinks of, they get flak for?  If you can do it, why can't they?  Because they spend money and actually produce devices that might work, while you...well, sit in your mom's basement?</p><p>"Bomb is loaded onboard."</p><p>Speedboat consequently sinks from weight of the bomb plus triggering device and crate, putts back to port so slowly from the weight the coast guard figures something is wrong, or is caught speeding on the water anyways..</p><p>Just kidding.</p><p>"That way if the police find it they'll take it to the impound yard in a populated area."</p><p>At which point it's still exploded at ground level, and the explosion goes freaking straight down and up.  Damage, deadly, etc. and all that, sure, but they might as well have loaded diesel fuel and fertilizer in the same location.</p><p>The real reason a nuclear device works is because it's detonated well before it hits the ground, using the overwhelming force so the blast crushes everything beneath it and the wave blows everything outside of it down from the force.  Explode it at ground level, the force goes up and into air, or into the ground and the impacted is absorbed.  Anything sideways is going to be negated quickly by buildings and such, and thus it acts like a regular bomb.</p><p>So, even with your 24 scenario and little cocaine trick, the nuke acts more like a conventional bomb.  Even the radiation fallout is limited due to ground impact, given most of the material ends up being buried.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>" Personal speedboat goes out a couple miles .
" A couple of miles ?
The bomb 's already in US waters at that point .
Like roughly 10 miles in territorial , or including continguous 22 miles in .
That 's a pretty big f'ing oversight .
Considering inspection would have been in the last 198miles , given economic zone rights.The whole point of detectors anyways is n't that they can not be bypassed , but to detect what they can .
And funnel traffic through other avenues that we 'll then attempt to close.Personally , I 'm in favor of the detectors for another reason--I think there is a lack of screening for radioactive materials in general products , and this could cut down on the spread .
The scenario I 'm thinking of is similar to that US national science lab that had detectors at the entry in case someone tried to steal material ; instead , it detected incoming nuclear material in something that was n't supposed to be at all radioactive.btw , is n't this hypothetical whole scenario crap you 're thinking of the same shit that when Homeland thinks of , they get flak for ?
If you can do it , why ca n't they ?
Because they spend money and actually produce devices that might work , while you...well , sit in your mom 's basement ?
" Bomb is loaded onboard .
" Speedboat consequently sinks from weight of the bomb plus triggering device and crate , putts back to port so slowly from the weight the coast guard figures something is wrong , or is caught speeding on the water anyways..Just kidding .
" That way if the police find it they 'll take it to the impound yard in a populated area .
" At which point it 's still exploded at ground level , and the explosion goes freaking straight down and up .
Damage , deadly , etc .
and all that , sure , but they might as well have loaded diesel fuel and fertilizer in the same location.The real reason a nuclear device works is because it 's detonated well before it hits the ground , using the overwhelming force so the blast crushes everything beneath it and the wave blows everything outside of it down from the force .
Explode it at ground level , the force goes up and into air , or into the ground and the impacted is absorbed .
Anything sideways is going to be negated quickly by buildings and such , and thus it acts like a regular bomb.So , even with your 24 scenario and little cocaine trick , the nuke acts more like a conventional bomb .
Even the radiation fallout is limited due to ground impact , given most of the material ends up being buried .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>"Personal speedboat goes out a couple miles.
"A couple of miles?
The bomb's already in US waters at that point.
Like roughly 10 miles in territorial, or including continguous 22 miles in.
That's a pretty big f'ing oversight.
Considering inspection would have been in the last 198miles, given economic zone rights.The whole point of detectors anyways isn't that they cannot be bypassed, but to detect what they can.
And funnel traffic through other avenues that we'll then attempt to close.Personally, I'm in favor of the detectors for another reason--I think there is a lack of screening for radioactive materials in general products, and this could cut down on the spread.
The scenario I'm thinking of is similar to that US national science lab that had detectors at the entry in case someone tried to steal material; instead, it detected incoming nuclear material in something that wasn't supposed to be at all radioactive.btw, isn't this hypothetical whole scenario crap you're thinking of the same shit that when Homeland thinks of, they get flak for?
If you can do it, why can't they?
Because they spend money and actually produce devices that might work, while you...well, sit in your mom's basement?
"Bomb is loaded onboard.
"Speedboat consequently sinks from weight of the bomb plus triggering device and crate, putts back to port so slowly from the weight the coast guard figures something is wrong, or is caught speeding on the water anyways..Just kidding.
"That way if the police find it they'll take it to the impound yard in a populated area.
"At which point it's still exploded at ground level, and the explosion goes freaking straight down and up.
Damage, deadly, etc.
and all that, sure, but they might as well have loaded diesel fuel and fertilizer in the same location.The real reason a nuclear device works is because it's detonated well before it hits the ground, using the overwhelming force so the blast crushes everything beneath it and the wave blows everything outside of it down from the force.
Explode it at ground level, the force goes up and into air, or into the ground and the impacted is absorbed.
Anything sideways is going to be negated quickly by buildings and such, and thus it acts like a regular bomb.So, even with your 24 scenario and little cocaine trick, the nuke acts more like a conventional bomb.
Even the radiation fallout is limited due to ground impact, given most of the material ends up being buried.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30209032</id>
	<title>Re:Ineffective waste of money</title>
	<author>jonwil</author>
	<datestamp>1258985580000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Except that lead containers show up just fine on other scanners they already use.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Except that lead containers show up just fine on other scanners they already use .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Except that lead containers show up just fine on other scanners they already use.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30211310</id>
	<title>Re:Is there plenty in Russia?</title>
	<author>tjstork</author>
	<datestamp>1259060760000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p><i>ROFLMAO, come on mods, he cant be serious.</i></p><p>I wasn't.  Unlike you guys, we right wingers are capable of self deprecation.</p><p><i>Words cannot describe how much I enjoy their terrified thrashing around now a decent intelligent black man is President. Fun times</i></p><p>Well, at least we know that all of this so-called social justice crap really is the euphemism for hating white people that we suspected it to be. Having heard "finally its our time" and all this other crap from so-called minorities, we can say with great confidence now that 90\% of liberal identity politics is just racism. I mean, if, as Jesse Jackson says that it would be stupid for a black guy to vote against the health care bill, then, why should a white guy vote for it?</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>ROFLMAO , come on mods , he cant be serious.I was n't .
Unlike you guys , we right wingers are capable of self deprecation.Words can not describe how much I enjoy their terrified thrashing around now a decent intelligent black man is President .
Fun timesWell , at least we know that all of this so-called social justice crap really is the euphemism for hating white people that we suspected it to be .
Having heard " finally its our time " and all this other crap from so-called minorities , we can say with great confidence now that 90 \ % of liberal identity politics is just racism .
I mean , if , as Jesse Jackson says that it would be stupid for a black guy to vote against the health care bill , then , why should a white guy vote for it ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>ROFLMAO, come on mods, he cant be serious.I wasn't.
Unlike you guys, we right wingers are capable of self deprecation.Words cannot describe how much I enjoy their terrified thrashing around now a decent intelligent black man is President.
Fun timesWell, at least we know that all of this so-called social justice crap really is the euphemism for hating white people that we suspected it to be.
Having heard "finally its our time" and all this other crap from so-called minorities, we can say with great confidence now that 90\% of liberal identity politics is just racism.
I mean, if, as Jesse Jackson says that it would be stupid for a black guy to vote against the health care bill, then, why should a white guy vote for it?</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30208216</id>
	<title>Program To Detect Smuggled Nuclear Bombs Stalls</title>
	<author>thewils</author>
	<datestamp>1258980240000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I have programs that stall all the time. Just run it under a debugger and you'll see why almost immediately.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I have programs that stall all the time .
Just run it under a debugger and you 'll see why almost immediately .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I have programs that stall all the time.
Just run it under a debugger and you'll see why almost immediately.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30209432</id>
	<title>Re:Umm, what?</title>
	<author>Falconhell</author>
	<datestamp>1258989180000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Insightful</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Because it it totally impossible that a container could be added to a ship already at sea. I mean its not as if ships have cranes or anything.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Because it it totally impossible that a container could be added to a ship already at sea .
I mean its not as if ships have cranes or anything .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Because it it totally impossible that a container could be added to a ship already at sea.
I mean its not as if ships have cranes or anything.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30208428</id>
	<title>Re:Is there plenty in Russia?</title>
	<author>ground.zero.612</author>
	<datestamp>1258981440000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext>mod parent up, i burned my points and my karma for the day!</htmltext>
<tokenext>mod parent up , i burned my points and my karma for the day !</tokentext>
<sentencetext>mod parent up, i burned my points and my karma for the day!</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30210504</id>
	<title>Re:Concern? Who's concerned?</title>
	<author>indi0144</author>
	<datestamp>1259002620000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>Well I don't but just because I don't live there, as an external viewer I'd say that it amazes me that such thing have not happened yet, not that I want it to happen really. But do you understand how Cocaine gets into your country? those are thousands of metric tons of dope coming trough your borders, it comes in airplanes, containers and even some guys with very, VERY basic education can, actually, design and build submarines to deliver the dope<br><br>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdI1y4sdPZE<br><br>So, yes, anyone can build a "dirty" submarine in the middle of the $jungle, without your fancy technology and cutting edge tools and get it too close to USA for someone to pick up the package and smuggle it inside. Are you really not concerned? Who needs ports? Those guys don't need a port, or are you telling me that it doesn't matter because no blow ever reaches US streets? really? DIY Submarines are the new shit! from 5 subs built 4 deliver their cargo! and they return and deliver again several times. A dirty (not even nuclear loaded) sub just need to get too close just one time, wait for the right wind forecast and deli#$\%\%&amp;[SUBMARINE\_CABLE\_CUT]</htmltext>
<tokenext>Well I do n't but just because I do n't live there , as an external viewer I 'd say that it amazes me that such thing have not happened yet , not that I want it to happen really .
But do you understand how Cocaine gets into your country ?
those are thousands of metric tons of dope coming trough your borders , it comes in airplanes , containers and even some guys with very , VERY basic education can , actually , design and build submarines to deliver the dopehttp : //www.youtube.com/watch ? v = KdI1y4sdPZESo , yes , anyone can build a " dirty " submarine in the middle of the $ jungle , without your fancy technology and cutting edge tools and get it too close to USA for someone to pick up the package and smuggle it inside .
Are you really not concerned ?
Who needs ports ?
Those guys do n't need a port , or are you telling me that it does n't matter because no blow ever reaches US streets ?
really ? DIY Submarines are the new shit !
from 5 subs built 4 deliver their cargo !
and they return and deliver again several times .
A dirty ( not even nuclear loaded ) sub just need to get too close just one time , wait for the right wind forecast and deli # $ \ % \ % &amp; [ SUBMARINE \ _CABLE \ _CUT ]</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Well I don't but just because I don't live there, as an external viewer I'd say that it amazes me that such thing have not happened yet, not that I want it to happen really.
But do you understand how Cocaine gets into your country?
those are thousands of metric tons of dope coming trough your borders, it comes in airplanes, containers and even some guys with very, VERY basic education can, actually, design and build submarines to deliver the dopehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdI1y4sdPZESo, yes, anyone can build a "dirty" submarine in the middle of the $jungle, without your fancy technology and cutting edge tools and get it too close to USA for someone to pick up the package and smuggle it inside.
Are you really not concerned?
Who needs ports?
Those guys don't need a port, or are you telling me that it doesn't matter because no blow ever reaches US streets?
really? DIY Submarines are the new shit!
from 5 subs built 4 deliver their cargo!
and they return and deliver again several times.
A dirty (not even nuclear loaded) sub just need to get too close just one time, wait for the right wind forecast and deli#$\%\%&amp;[SUBMARINE\_CABLE\_CUT]</sentencetext>
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	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30210082</id>
	<title>the lead factor?</title>
	<author>bob\_slash\_kbd</author>
	<datestamp>1258996740000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>Sorry if I'm dense (!) but if you just wrap your nuclear bomb in a lot of lead, doesn't that make it pretty much invisible to any detector?</htmltext>
<tokenext>Sorry if I 'm dense ( !
) but if you just wrap your nuclear bomb in a lot of lead , does n't that make it pretty much invisible to any detector ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Sorry if I'm dense (!
) but if you just wrap your nuclear bomb in a lot of lead, doesn't that make it pretty much invisible to any detector?</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30214158</id>
	<title>One Invisible Hand clapping</title>
	<author>handy\_vandal</author>
	<datestamp>1259080260000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p> <em>"... the 'price had jumped to $2,000 a liter from $100 in the last few years. </em> </p><p>Profit!  Further evidence that the free market works: the sound of one Invisible Hand clapping.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>" ... the 'price had jumped to $ 2,000 a liter from $ 100 in the last few years .
Profit ! Further evidence that the free market works : the sound of one Invisible Hand clapping .</tokentext>
<sentencetext> "... the 'price had jumped to $2,000 a liter from $100 in the last few years.
Profit!  Further evidence that the free market works: the sound of one Invisible Hand clapping.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30221980</id>
	<title>Re:Tritium production is politically impossible</title>
	<author>Tweenk</author>
	<datestamp>1259075820000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>The source you cite is gibberish.</p><p>"It is now known that low-level radiation is five times more dangerous than bomb radiation with respect to human chromosome damage." Even linear no-threshold is disputable, and their going as far as inverse hormesis is just silly.</p><p>Each cell of a human's body has to cope with about 20000 DNA damage events per year from oxidative damage, and natural radiation adds about 5 such events. Maximum allowed exposure adds another 2-3 events. They also completely omit the fact that there are considerable doses of radioactivity to be found in almost anything in the environment. Potassium-40 in an average human's body generates over 4000 beta decays PER SECOND. And they fail to mention that even under LNT, harm is assumed to be proportional to exposure - sufficiently small doses are completely negligible because they might on average reduce your lifespan by a fraction of a second. It's more rational to worry about a meteor hitting you on the head.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>The source you cite is gibberish .
" It is now known that low-level radiation is five times more dangerous than bomb radiation with respect to human chromosome damage .
" Even linear no-threshold is disputable , and their going as far as inverse hormesis is just silly.Each cell of a human 's body has to cope with about 20000 DNA damage events per year from oxidative damage , and natural radiation adds about 5 such events .
Maximum allowed exposure adds another 2-3 events .
They also completely omit the fact that there are considerable doses of radioactivity to be found in almost anything in the environment .
Potassium-40 in an average human 's body generates over 4000 beta decays PER SECOND .
And they fail to mention that even under LNT , harm is assumed to be proportional to exposure - sufficiently small doses are completely negligible because they might on average reduce your lifespan by a fraction of a second .
It 's more rational to worry about a meteor hitting you on the head .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>The source you cite is gibberish.
"It is now known that low-level radiation is five times more dangerous than bomb radiation with respect to human chromosome damage.
" Even linear no-threshold is disputable, and their going as far as inverse hormesis is just silly.Each cell of a human's body has to cope with about 20000 DNA damage events per year from oxidative damage, and natural radiation adds about 5 such events.
Maximum allowed exposure adds another 2-3 events.
They also completely omit the fact that there are considerable doses of radioactivity to be found in almost anything in the environment.
Potassium-40 in an average human's body generates over 4000 beta decays PER SECOND.
And they fail to mention that even under LNT, harm is assumed to be proportional to exposure - sufficiently small doses are completely negligible because they might on average reduce your lifespan by a fraction of a second.
It's more rational to worry about a meteor hitting you on the head.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30217936</id>
	<title>Re:Umm, what?</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1259053860000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>And now you know that the terrorists won the "war on terror" years and years ago.</p><p>Create turmoil in america?  Check.<br>Cause financial chaos?  Twin towers = check.<br>Create a society run by fear?  Check.</p><p>Basically, they destroyed america with a few lives and some propaganda videos afterwards.  Win, win, win.</p><p>I just find it both sad and amusing that the USA keeps fighting this "war on terror" that they lost long ago.  I mean seriously, accept your loss and move on!  You can't win EVERY war.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>And now you know that the terrorists won the " war on terror " years and years ago.Create turmoil in america ?
Check.Cause financial chaos ?
Twin towers = check.Create a society run by fear ?
Check.Basically , they destroyed america with a few lives and some propaganda videos afterwards .
Win , win , win.I just find it both sad and amusing that the USA keeps fighting this " war on terror " that they lost long ago .
I mean seriously , accept your loss and move on !
You ca n't win EVERY war .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>And now you know that the terrorists won the "war on terror" years and years ago.Create turmoil in america?
Check.Cause financial chaos?
Twin towers = check.Create a society run by fear?
Check.Basically, they destroyed america with a few lives and some propaganda videos afterwards.
Win, win, win.I just find it both sad and amusing that the USA keeps fighting this "war on terror" that they lost long ago.
I mean seriously, accept your loss and move on!
You can't win EVERY war.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30209228</id>
	<title>Re:Foreseeable doesn't mean foreseen</title>
	<author>hardburn</author>
	<datestamp>1258987380000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Wow, didn't even read the summary:</p><p><div class="quote"><p>The Homeland Security Department has older equipment that can look for radioactivity, but it does not differentiate well between bomb fuel and innocuous materials that naturally emit radiation like cat litter, ceramic tiles and bananas &mdash; and sounds false alarms more often.</p></div><p>Other types of detectors work in nuclear power plants because nobody is trying to ship a boatload of coffee beans through the middle of a power plant.</p></div>
	</htmltext>
<tokenext>Wow , did n't even read the summary : The Homeland Security Department has older equipment that can look for radioactivity , but it does not differentiate well between bomb fuel and innocuous materials that naturally emit radiation like cat litter , ceramic tiles and bananas    and sounds false alarms more often.Other types of detectors work in nuclear power plants because nobody is trying to ship a boatload of coffee beans through the middle of a power plant .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Wow, didn't even read the summary:The Homeland Security Department has older equipment that can look for radioactivity, but it does not differentiate well between bomb fuel and innocuous materials that naturally emit radiation like cat litter, ceramic tiles and bananas — and sounds false alarms more often.Other types of detectors work in nuclear power plants because nobody is trying to ship a boatload of coffee beans through the middle of a power plant.
	</sentencetext>
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	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30209942</id>
	<title>Irony</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1258994880000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Flamebait</modclass>
	<modscore>-1</modscore>
	<htmltext>If a WMD bomb does sneak thru, and is used to kill a large number of Americans, it will most likely be in a heavily "blue" area - like NYC or DC... then, the reaction from the "red" area will be led by an even greater majority...</htmltext>
<tokenext>If a WMD bomb does sneak thru , and is used to kill a large number of Americans , it will most likely be in a heavily " blue " area - like NYC or DC... then , the reaction from the " red " area will be led by an even greater majority.. .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>If a WMD bomb does sneak thru, and is used to kill a large number of Americans, it will most likely be in a heavily "blue" area - like NYC or DC... then, the reaction from the "red" area will be led by an even greater majority...</sentencetext>
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	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30210830</id>
	<title>Sorry, I ate some of it.</title>
	<author>mudshark</author>
	<datestamp>1259094420000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Funny</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext>Back in the 1960s and 70s, a small factory made glow-in-the-dark clock and watch faces across the street from the bakery and kitchens for my school district. They used a paint which released tritium as it dried, and their fume hoods vented out the roof (why not? plenty of air circulation!) and the prevailing breezes carried a nice dose of alpha particles across the street on most days to settle out on the food that we were served. When somebody somewhere was tipped off that this arrangement may not have been completely kosher, some local muckrakers and a couple of curious scientists showed up with a Geiger counter. One dish in particular, sunshine cake, was damn hot and legend has it that the name alludes to its brightness....I blame all my societal maladjustment on this lapse in food safety.<br> <br>
Kids, don't trust the food just because the lady with the hairnet says it's OK. Get it checked out by one of the guys in the hazmat suits.</htmltext>
<tokenext>Back in the 1960s and 70s , a small factory made glow-in-the-dark clock and watch faces across the street from the bakery and kitchens for my school district .
They used a paint which released tritium as it dried , and their fume hoods vented out the roof ( why not ?
plenty of air circulation !
) and the prevailing breezes carried a nice dose of alpha particles across the street on most days to settle out on the food that we were served .
When somebody somewhere was tipped off that this arrangement may not have been completely kosher , some local muckrakers and a couple of curious scientists showed up with a Geiger counter .
One dish in particular , sunshine cake , was damn hot and legend has it that the name alludes to its brightness....I blame all my societal maladjustment on this lapse in food safety .
Kids , do n't trust the food just because the lady with the hairnet says it 's OK. Get it checked out by one of the guys in the hazmat suits .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Back in the 1960s and 70s, a small factory made glow-in-the-dark clock and watch faces across the street from the bakery and kitchens for my school district.
They used a paint which released tritium as it dried, and their fume hoods vented out the roof (why not?
plenty of air circulation!
) and the prevailing breezes carried a nice dose of alpha particles across the street on most days to settle out on the food that we were served.
When somebody somewhere was tipped off that this arrangement may not have been completely kosher, some local muckrakers and a couple of curious scientists showed up with a Geiger counter.
One dish in particular, sunshine cake, was damn hot and legend has it that the name alludes to its brightness....I blame all my societal maladjustment on this lapse in food safety.
Kids, don't trust the food just because the lady with the hairnet says it's OK. Get it checked out by one of the guys in the hazmat suits.</sentencetext>
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	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30209698</id>
	<title>Canada has lots</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1258991820000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Why don't they just buy tritium from Canada, we have lots at the <a href="http://www.opg.com/power/nuclear/darlington/" title="opg.com" rel="nofollow">Tritium Removal Facility</a> [opg.com] at Darlington.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Why do n't they just buy tritium from Canada , we have lots at the Tritium Removal Facility [ opg.com ] at Darlington .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Why don't they just buy tritium from Canada, we have lots at the Tritium Removal Facility [opg.com] at Darlington.</sentencetext>
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	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30210956</id>
	<title>Re:Umm, what?</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1259053740000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Currently we have something around 94\%  detector coverage across all of our ports and 99.??? coverage of all mail in the US.</p><p>Just to note, a terrorist attack will not be from a nuke. It will be from an orphaned radiation source:<br>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi\%C3\%A2nia\_accident</p><p>All deaths were caused by hand contact from something found in a junkyard.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Currently we have something around 94 \ % detector coverage across all of our ports and 99. ? ? ?
coverage of all mail in the US.Just to note , a terrorist attack will not be from a nuke .
It will be from an orphaned radiation source : http : //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi \ % C3 \ % A2nia \ _accidentAll deaths were caused by hand contact from something found in a junkyard .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Currently we have something around 94\%  detector coverage across all of our ports and 99.???
coverage of all mail in the US.Just to note, a terrorist attack will not be from a nuke.
It will be from an orphaned radiation source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi\%C3\%A2nia\_accidentAll deaths were caused by hand contact from something found in a junkyard.</sentencetext>
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	<title>inspected overseas.</title>
	<author>jamesh</author>
	<datestamp>1258996200000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p><div class="quote"><p>inspected overseas</p></div><p>Date of scan - 24 Nov 2009<br>Results of scan - No radioactivity detected<br>Operator - Osama</p><p><div class="quote"><p>impossible to NOT ship a weapon in a large cargo container.</p></div><p>Definitely. I'd be more worried by the ones that arrive under their own power<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)</p></div>
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<tokenext>inspected overseasDate of scan - 24 Nov 2009Results of scan - No radioactivity detectedOperator - Osamaimpossible to NOT ship a weapon in a large cargo container.Definitely .
I 'd be more worried by the ones that arrive under their own power : )</tokentext>
<sentencetext>inspected overseasDate of scan - 24 Nov 2009Results of scan - No radioactivity detectedOperator - Osamaimpossible to NOT ship a weapon in a large cargo container.Definitely.
I'd be more worried by the ones that arrive under their own power :)
	</sentencetext>
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	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30208214</id>
	<title>Re:Ineffective waste of money</title>
	<author>Snarkalicious</author>
	<datestamp>1258980240000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Insightful</modclass>
	<modscore>4</modscore>
	<htmltext>The purpose of the border check system was never to actually stop the flow of drugs, silly.  It was to drive out as many small players as possible, and concentrate the market into a few well funded/armed cartels.  In this way, bribes come in at the director/secretary/senatorial level in a quiet and efficiant manner.  Skipping the middle man (i.e. the border guard/local sheriff) on the bribery chain keeps my smack nice n' cheap.</htmltext>
<tokenext>The purpose of the border check system was never to actually stop the flow of drugs , silly .
It was to drive out as many small players as possible , and concentrate the market into a few well funded/armed cartels .
In this way , bribes come in at the director/secretary/senatorial level in a quiet and efficiant manner .
Skipping the middle man ( i.e .
the border guard/local sheriff ) on the bribery chain keeps my smack nice n ' cheap .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>The purpose of the border check system was never to actually stop the flow of drugs, silly.
It was to drive out as many small players as possible, and concentrate the market into a few well funded/armed cartels.
In this way, bribes come in at the director/secretary/senatorial level in a quiet and efficiant manner.
Skipping the middle man (i.e.
the border guard/local sheriff) on the bribery chain keeps my smack nice n' cheap.</sentencetext>
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	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30208250</id>
	<title>0.4 Kevins</title>
	<author>sexconker</author>
	<datestamp>1258980480000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Funny</modclass>
	<modscore>5</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>How do you get 0.4 Kevins?  Is this some sort of midget?  It's dangerously close to 0 Kevins.</p><p>My home town nearly went to zero Kevins back in 1978.</p><p>It was a particularly cold winter, and we were already down to 3 Kevins (due to their low popularity at the time).</p><p>Kevin Thomas had flown out to be with his son's family for a wedding and got stuck in Boston for a whole week due to the weather. 2 Kevins left.</p><p>Kevin Lemmer was rushed to the hospital during my shift. I still remember the call from the EMTs as the ambulance was rushing toward us. "It's Lemmer. He's in bad shape. Drove right into the fucking ditch." We called the time of death at 6:15 PM.</p><p>At 6:16, all eyes turned to room 2217. Kevin Spencer was 82 and on his death bed with leukemia. His family being Catholic, he had already been given his last rights. If he couldn't hold out until Kevin Thomas returned, we would be at zero Kevins. Sure, we had 4 perfectly healthy Calvins, but they're just not the same.</p><p>It was 7:15 when Carla Brooks and her husband James burst through the main entrance. "She's not due for 2 weeks!", James exclaimed. As the staff bustled around getting the Brookses settled, they exchanged darting glances with each other. This was their first child, and they wanted to keep the baby's sex a secret. Of course, in a small town, secrets don't get kept. Nearly all of the hospital staff new that the child about to rip open Mrs. Brooks was indeed a boy.</p><p>The delivery was routine, and Kevin Brooks was born healthy, if a tad underweight, at 10:52 PM. Kevin Spencer was pronounced dead at 10:54.</p><p>It was, as they say, a close one. Kevin Thomas arrived two days later, the weather having finally cleared up. To this day, we still rib him about it.</p><p>Cedar Falls is currently at 5 Kevins.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>How do you get 0.4 Kevins ?
Is this some sort of midget ?
It 's dangerously close to 0 Kevins.My home town nearly went to zero Kevins back in 1978.It was a particularly cold winter , and we were already down to 3 Kevins ( due to their low popularity at the time ) .Kevin Thomas had flown out to be with his son 's family for a wedding and got stuck in Boston for a whole week due to the weather .
2 Kevins left.Kevin Lemmer was rushed to the hospital during my shift .
I still remember the call from the EMTs as the ambulance was rushing toward us .
" It 's Lemmer .
He 's in bad shape .
Drove right into the fucking ditch .
" We called the time of death at 6 : 15 PM.At 6 : 16 , all eyes turned to room 2217 .
Kevin Spencer was 82 and on his death bed with leukemia .
His family being Catholic , he had already been given his last rights .
If he could n't hold out until Kevin Thomas returned , we would be at zero Kevins .
Sure , we had 4 perfectly healthy Calvins , but they 're just not the same.It was 7 : 15 when Carla Brooks and her husband James burst through the main entrance .
" She 's not due for 2 weeks !
" , James exclaimed .
As the staff bustled around getting the Brookses settled , they exchanged darting glances with each other .
This was their first child , and they wanted to keep the baby 's sex a secret .
Of course , in a small town , secrets do n't get kept .
Nearly all of the hospital staff new that the child about to rip open Mrs. Brooks was indeed a boy.The delivery was routine , and Kevin Brooks was born healthy , if a tad underweight , at 10 : 52 PM .
Kevin Spencer was pronounced dead at 10 : 54.It was , as they say , a close one .
Kevin Thomas arrived two days later , the weather having finally cleared up .
To this day , we still rib him about it.Cedar Falls is currently at 5 Kevins .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>How do you get 0.4 Kevins?
Is this some sort of midget?
It's dangerously close to 0 Kevins.My home town nearly went to zero Kevins back in 1978.It was a particularly cold winter, and we were already down to 3 Kevins (due to their low popularity at the time).Kevin Thomas had flown out to be with his son's family for a wedding and got stuck in Boston for a whole week due to the weather.
2 Kevins left.Kevin Lemmer was rushed to the hospital during my shift.
I still remember the call from the EMTs as the ambulance was rushing toward us.
"It's Lemmer.
He's in bad shape.
Drove right into the fucking ditch.
" We called the time of death at 6:15 PM.At 6:16, all eyes turned to room 2217.
Kevin Spencer was 82 and on his death bed with leukemia.
His family being Catholic, he had already been given his last rights.
If he couldn't hold out until Kevin Thomas returned, we would be at zero Kevins.
Sure, we had 4 perfectly healthy Calvins, but they're just not the same.It was 7:15 when Carla Brooks and her husband James burst through the main entrance.
"She's not due for 2 weeks!
", James exclaimed.
As the staff bustled around getting the Brookses settled, they exchanged darting glances with each other.
This was their first child, and they wanted to keep the baby's sex a secret.
Of course, in a small town, secrets don't get kept.
Nearly all of the hospital staff new that the child about to rip open Mrs. Brooks was indeed a boy.The delivery was routine, and Kevin Brooks was born healthy, if a tad underweight, at 10:52 PM.
Kevin Spencer was pronounced dead at 10:54.It was, as they say, a close one.
Kevin Thomas arrived two days later, the weather having finally cleared up.
To this day, we still rib him about it.Cedar Falls is currently at 5 Kevins.</sentencetext>
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	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30208028</id>
	<title>Ineffective waste of money</title>
	<author>fluffy99</author>
	<datestamp>1258979280000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
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	<htmltext><p>This just means the terrorists will simply drive it over the border.  It's not hard to smuggle stuff into the US without going through an inspection point.  Just look how well 100\% inspection is working for curbing the drug traffic.  They hide it in coffee beans in shipping containers.  Anyone reasonably crafty will just hid the radioactive materials in a lead lined container.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>This just means the terrorists will simply drive it over the border .
It 's not hard to smuggle stuff into the US without going through an inspection point .
Just look how well 100 \ % inspection is working for curbing the drug traffic .
They hide it in coffee beans in shipping containers .
Anyone reasonably crafty will just hid the radioactive materials in a lead lined container .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>This just means the terrorists will simply drive it over the border.
It's not hard to smuggle stuff into the US without going through an inspection point.
Just look how well 100\% inspection is working for curbing the drug traffic.
They hide it in coffee beans in shipping containers.
Anyone reasonably crafty will just hid the radioactive materials in a lead lined container.</sentencetext>
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	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30208228</id>
	<title>Is there plenty in Russia?</title>
	<author>reporter</author>
	<datestamp>1258980360000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Troll</modclass>
	<modscore>-1</modscore>
	<htmltext>We should ask the obvious question, "Does Russia have enough helium-3 to sell to us?"
<p>
The Kremlin created a large arsenal of nuclear weapons and, even this year, mentioned that Russian scientists have perfected a new type of nuclear warhead.
</p><p>
As for why Washington was not prepared for this shortage of helium-3, we need not look further than the shooting at Fort Hood.  A large number of government officials were aware that Major Nidal Malik Hasan had likely converted to radical Islam.  He was monitored by the FBI, and his colleagues at the university had observed that he often turned class presentations into a tirade against the West.
</p><p>
Yet, no one questioned his allegiance to the United States of America.  No one petitioned a military judge to order his arrest.
</p><p>
We Americans failed due to our stupidity, our laziness, and our misguided allegiance to political correctness.  We saw all the symptoms of a problem and did nothing until a 100-percent preventable tragedy occurred.
</p><p>
The same will be true of smuggling a nuclear bomb into the USA.  We knew, long ago, that we would deplete our reserves of helium-3, but we did nothing to remedy the problem.  We will continue to do nothing until a horrible tragedy occurs.  (Buddha, help us!)
</p><p>
Barack Hussein Obama, as leader of the United States, personally rejects the idea that a radical Muslim will detonate a thermonuclear warhead in America.   He believes that radical Muslims are the victims of Western oppression, so he does not see the need to enhance protection (of our cities) against radical Islam.  That he holds such a view is evidenced by the fact that he attended an anti-Western church promoting exactly such a view.
</p><p>
Wafa Sultan, a former Muslim who eyewitnessed the brutality radical Muslims, has repeatedly warned, "<b>[...] because of its multicultural relativism, the Western establishment is still reluctant to openly challenge the dangerous Islamic political ideology.</b>"  She, not Obama, wholeheartedly embraces Western culture and believes that the West is the victim of Islamic brutality.  Read the <a href="http://www.ruthfullyyours.com/2009/10/04/wafa-sultan-speech-at-the-denmark-free-press-society-conference/" title="ruthfullyyours.com" rel="nofollow">full text</a> [ruthfullyyours.com] of her speech in Denmark.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>We should ask the obvious question , " Does Russia have enough helium-3 to sell to us ?
" The Kremlin created a large arsenal of nuclear weapons and , even this year , mentioned that Russian scientists have perfected a new type of nuclear warhead .
As for why Washington was not prepared for this shortage of helium-3 , we need not look further than the shooting at Fort Hood .
A large number of government officials were aware that Major Nidal Malik Hasan had likely converted to radical Islam .
He was monitored by the FBI , and his colleagues at the university had observed that he often turned class presentations into a tirade against the West .
Yet , no one questioned his allegiance to the United States of America .
No one petitioned a military judge to order his arrest .
We Americans failed due to our stupidity , our laziness , and our misguided allegiance to political correctness .
We saw all the symptoms of a problem and did nothing until a 100-percent preventable tragedy occurred .
The same will be true of smuggling a nuclear bomb into the USA .
We knew , long ago , that we would deplete our reserves of helium-3 , but we did nothing to remedy the problem .
We will continue to do nothing until a horrible tragedy occurs .
( Buddha , help us !
) Barack Hussein Obama , as leader of the United States , personally rejects the idea that a radical Muslim will detonate a thermonuclear warhead in America .
He believes that radical Muslims are the victims of Western oppression , so he does not see the need to enhance protection ( of our cities ) against radical Islam .
That he holds such a view is evidenced by the fact that he attended an anti-Western church promoting exactly such a view .
Wafa Sultan , a former Muslim who eyewitnessed the brutality radical Muslims , has repeatedly warned , " [ ... ] because of its multicultural relativism , the Western establishment is still reluctant to openly challenge the dangerous Islamic political ideology .
" She , not Obama , wholeheartedly embraces Western culture and believes that the West is the victim of Islamic brutality .
Read the full text [ ruthfullyyours.com ] of her speech in Denmark .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>We should ask the obvious question, "Does Russia have enough helium-3 to sell to us?
"

The Kremlin created a large arsenal of nuclear weapons and, even this year, mentioned that Russian scientists have perfected a new type of nuclear warhead.
As for why Washington was not prepared for this shortage of helium-3, we need not look further than the shooting at Fort Hood.
A large number of government officials were aware that Major Nidal Malik Hasan had likely converted to radical Islam.
He was monitored by the FBI, and his colleagues at the university had observed that he often turned class presentations into a tirade against the West.
Yet, no one questioned his allegiance to the United States of America.
No one petitioned a military judge to order his arrest.
We Americans failed due to our stupidity, our laziness, and our misguided allegiance to political correctness.
We saw all the symptoms of a problem and did nothing until a 100-percent preventable tragedy occurred.
The same will be true of smuggling a nuclear bomb into the USA.
We knew, long ago, that we would deplete our reserves of helium-3, but we did nothing to remedy the problem.
We will continue to do nothing until a horrible tragedy occurs.
(Buddha, help us!
)

Barack Hussein Obama, as leader of the United States, personally rejects the idea that a radical Muslim will detonate a thermonuclear warhead in America.
He believes that radical Muslims are the victims of Western oppression, so he does not see the need to enhance protection (of our cities) against radical Islam.
That he holds such a view is evidenced by the fact that he attended an anti-Western church promoting exactly such a view.
Wafa Sultan, a former Muslim who eyewitnessed the brutality radical Muslims, has repeatedly warned, "[...] because of its multicultural relativism, the Western establishment is still reluctant to openly challenge the dangerous Islamic political ideology.
"  She, not Obama, wholeheartedly embraces Western culture and believes that the West is the victim of Islamic brutality.
Read the full text [ruthfullyyours.com] of her speech in Denmark.</sentencetext>
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	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_11_23_1859204.30212792</id>
	<title>Why don't they just tell everybody!!</title>
	<author>DNX Blandy</author>
	<datestamp>1259073060000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>I mean, we have no Helium 3 left, lets tell everybody so they know that they can import nukes without being found out.

I would have thought it best to keep this sort of thing COMPLETELY under wraps, what the enemy don't know doesn't hurt.</htmltext>
<tokenext>I mean , we have no Helium 3 left , lets tell everybody so they know that they can import nukes without being found out .
I would have thought it best to keep this sort of thing COMPLETELY under wraps , what the enemy do n't know does n't hurt .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I mean, we have no Helium 3 left, lets tell everybody so they know that they can import nukes without being found out.
I would have thought it best to keep this sort of thing COMPLETELY under wraps, what the enemy don't know doesn't hurt.</sentencetext>
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