Church used to hold more sway with people in forming communities. When at its best, it provides a safe place for strengthening relationships, celebrating the community's successes and mourning with the time calls for it. If you are lonely, try a church regardless of your spiritual beliefs. You are always welcome at mine!

How much were they making for 12 hour weeks?

Probably enough that the office couldn't afford more than 12 hours?

Awesome! Will you share the code and what made it specifically a PWA?

Yes, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

The gadget is a cup and have the microwave oven in a deep freezer. :)

Red Sox 2004 postseason comeback, Kick 6 Auburn vs Alabama college football.

Does the beam dumps make the meterial they were dumped into radioactive? What is that process like?

As discussed in one of the decommissioning articles someone else posted, it does make the beam dumb radioactive! I hadn't thought about it but it makes sense with how much energy you are pumping into not that many atoms in the end, and when you do that, you tend to get radioactive atoms.

The protons that are hitting the dump are at energy far beyond the binding energy of a nucleus. When they hit nuclei there, they shatter them. A shower of progressively less energetic particles forms, including large numbers of newly freed neutrons.

There are accelerator-driven fission reactor ideas that would use ~1 GeV protons (much less energetic than the protons here) to produce neutrons to drive a subcritical target. These might be useful to destroy certain nuclear waste isotopes.

Not just any energy but ultrarelativistic protons! That’s going to result in all sorts of interesting daughter nuclei when they slam into the atoms in the buffer.

Not OP, but apparently in the movie Interstellar a school teacher is convinced that the moon landings were faked to bankrupt the Soviet Union. I've spoken to an amateur Apollo historian/buff and I am convinced we landed on the moon in the 1960s.

The Soviet Union was actually so wealthy, in the early 1960s, to make these bankruptcy-based conspiracies look really silly. I mean, the West perceived it as a threat largely because their economic system appeared superior for a pretty long time. It wasn't until the late '70s that the Soviets really started to sputter.

Americans really don't appreciate the Soviet Union at the height of its power.

Americans themselves benefited greatly from it as our government felt it needed to do more to compete against socialism. Granted, much of that was undone/tapered off after the threat was gone, but it’s an interesting piece of history.

Clear tradeoff for safety.

Which policies are you referring to?