Off Topic: Soccer and NASCAR

[Marko69]

Got your PM, buddy, and you used reply so I saw my original post....., and that number is correct. There must be an extra code you add to it, which I am sure the phone co will help.

And thanks for your number....., but DanO......, you are forgetting a huge detail here! I am a Scotsman. I am WAAAAAY to tight to pay for a call to the US of A!

[DeanUK]

Dano are you dropping the zero at the startbof the number. A UK number is 01111 111111, but when dialling from abroad you drop the 0 atvthe beginning
Just found this http://m.wikihow.com/Call-the-UK-from-the-United-States don't forget to say how you love his English accent

[DanO]

I just called my phone service They gave me the "exchange" to Scotland which I specified. I tried calling. No matter what combination of numbers you gave me. The closest I came was an actually recording that said the number was disconnected.

[Marko69]

My brother called me 25 minutes ago....., my phone is connected.

[Tony G]

Marko, you aren't trying to set him up with a scottish dial a porn service are you?

[Dr. Emmett.L.Brown]

How bout that Dale Earnhardt Jr. eh? Off to a smokin' start this season...

(this concludes NASCAR talk...now back to the 24/7 soccer thread)

[froot loops]

Junior is starting off red hot.

It will be interesting to see how they fare at Vegas. So many of these Nascar tracks are these cookie cutter 1.5 mile ovals.

[CGVT]

Did somebody say Dale Earnhardt Jr...


Jr?

[ame]http://youtu.be/Zh0WOhbGlvk[/ame]

[Tony G]

I do like the new format. "Win and you're in" should liven up the racing and reduce the number of times we see drivers settle for points.

At the same time, Indy just fucked up the qualifying format for The 500

[Malto Marko]

I just called my phone service They gave me the "exchange" to Scotland which I specified. I tried calling. No matter what combination of numbers you gave me. The closest I came was an actually recording that said the number was disconnected.

Got your glasses on and sure the numbers are correct......with the International call prefix of 0?

Dano are you dropping the zero at the startbof the number.

Read: Start of.

From Dean, and always used with International numbers.

[CGVT]

BTW, that song is a cover of this song that was based on a book based on the incident at the Fermi 1 Power plant in 1966

[ame]http://youtu.be/OLdOJBZRgMs[/ame]



U.S. nuclear plant had partial meltdown years before Three Mile Island
The news media took note of Monday's anniversary of the nuclear accident at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island power plant, but a partial meltdown at another U.S. reactor seems to have slipped from the public memory.

Fermi 1, a small nuclear reactor south of Detroit, experienced a loss-of-coolant accident in October 1966.

Fermi 1, owned by a consortium of utilities and industrial giants, went into service on leased Detroit Edison land in 1963. It was a prototype fast breeder reactor, meaning it was designed to create more fuel than it consumed.

In breeder reactors, a fertile radioactive material such as uranium-238 is bombarded with neutrons to create more potent materials such as plutonium-239, which can be used in typical fission reactors, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

The small, experimental plant was not intended to produce commercial power, generating just 61 megawatts of electricity, said Guy Cerullo, a spokesman for DTE Energy, the successor to Detroit Edison.

"That could run a neighborhood," but not much more, Cerullo said.

The commercial Fermi 2 light water reactor next door, by comparison, produces 1,100 megawatts.

In October 1966, a piece of zirconium cladding inside the reactor chamber came loose. The metal blocked liquid sodium coolant from reaching two of the reactor's 103 subassemblies, each holding multiple fuel rods.

That fuel heated to the point of melting.

Because Fermi 1 was sodium-cooled, operators couldn't dump water on the fuel to cool it down, as engineers in Japan have been doing at the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant.

"You can't shut down easily because sodium will burn if you hit it with water," said Bill Martin, a professor of nuclear engineering at the University of Michigan. "... Sodium and water don't like each other."

Fortunately, the melted fuel rods stayed inside their subassemblies, allowing plant operators to carry out an orderly shutdown using spring-loaded boron control rods, Cerullo said.

"About 1% of the fuel was damaged," he said. "Everything was contained."

Using creative methods and purpose-made tools, engineers fished the loose zirconium plate out of the reactor vessel in December 1968, more than two years after the accident, Cerullo said, citing a 1975 official report.

The accident was described in John G. Fuller's fact-filled but somewhat sensational 1975 book, "We Almost Lost Detroit." Fuller is deceased and the book is out of print.

Detroit was in little or no danger during the Fermi 1 accident, Martin said.

"I think that requires a lot of assumptions that aren't very realistic," the professor said.

The damaged subassemblies were replaced, and the unit returned to service in July 1970, according to a Georgia State University online physics forum. Its operating license was not renewed in 1972, and the decommissioning process began. The fuel was returned to the federal government in the mid-1970s, Cerullo said.

The unused Fermi 1 building still stands, and the containment vessel is being cut up now, Cerullo said. The utility hopes, in the end, to leave no trace of the building.

"The eventual goal is to put it back to a green field," Cerullo said.

[Tony G]

Allow A Former MLS Player To Convince You Otherwise

[Marko69]

Hey, DanO, it worked! Awesome to speak with you man, that was superb. I have this feeling you didn't understand a feckin word I said. Sacha was sitting beside me whispering, "Talk slower!" Haha.

The Chinese food was shyte by the way....., chewy rice. I hate that.

You get that avatar changed!

[LionsFanInJapan]

Why didn't you guys just use Skype? It's free and you don't have to worry about all those international codes.

Marko & DanO. I expect Skype calls this week.

[DanO]

Hey, DanO, it worked! Awesome to speak with you man, that was superb. I have this feeling you didn't understand a feckin word I said. Sacha was sitting beside me whispering, "Talk slower!" Haha.

The Chinese food was shyte by the way....., chewy rice. I hate that.

You get that avatar changed!

Same here my friend. As I told you on the phone, I didn't expect your "accent" to be quite so strong. It doesn't come through in your posts. LOL.

GREAT to speak with you my friend. You and Sacha are great people.

Forum Game next year? You pay for the airfare for you and Sacha to get here and everything else is on me.................and I mean that.

Avatar? My memory's a little fuzzy on that. :-)


Great idea LFIJ. I'm guessing I dropped about $50.00 last night. While I've used Skype a few times I'm not all that familiar with it. Do I just type in "stupid Montana dude living in Japan" and it comes up with your number?