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Fermilab Illinois, by Mattb325. --------------------------------------- Made as a request, this is the main hall building of the Fermilab Particle Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. Constructed in the 1970s, the building was inspired by Cathedral architecture (realised in the brutalist style) at the insistence of the lab's first director (Robert Wilson) who insisted that the buildings on the site were not merely concrete blocks. The Hi-tech building is offered as a non-conditional reward and is a modified version of the advanced research centre. It does not generate radiation (which the in game reasearch centre does) and it looks best placed as an ex-urban-style campus surrounded by large tracts of woodland/open land/ponds, etc. In addition to providing your sims with 3,524 highly desirable civic jobs that are filled by all wealth levels, this is a CAP busting lot. It will raise demand by the following amounts: Manufacturing: 290,000 HiTech Industry: 690,000 CO$$: 100,000 CO$$$: 100,000 R$$: 50,000 Placing this lot will also give additional residential and commercial cap relief by providing positive Park, Mayor and Landmark effects. Obviously placing this building will give a real boost to your IHT and CO demand. All these benefits do have a cost (which is only fair). In addition to the $120K outlay, this will set the city back $530 per month. * It is offered as a reward without needing pre-existing conditions. * It is located in the REWARD Menu. * It can be placed more than once in a city. * It DOES NOT over-write the ingame Advanced Research Center (or any re-lotted versions there-of), so can be used in conjunction with the standard Maxis reward. Placing rewards is an essential part of growing a large city and region, given their cap-busting and desirability increasing effects. --------------------------------------- STATS: Lot size : 6x14 Plop Cost: $ 120,000 Monthly Cost: $ 530 Budget Item: Government Buildings Occupant Groups: Reward, Crowd White Coat, YIMBY Demand Created: Jobs$: 10, Jobs$$: 2,661, Jobs$$$: 853. Landmark Effect: +205 over 53 tiles Park Effect: +10 over 53 tiles Mayor Rating: +25 over 220 tiles Pollution: Air 25 over 2 tiles, Water 92 over 3 tiles, Garbage 140 over 0 tiles Power consumed:468 MwH Water consumed: 842 Gallons/Month Bulldoze Cost: $ 30,000 --------------------------------------- NOTE ABOUT DARK NITE vs MAXIS NITE: This download contains TWO model files; one for dark nite users (and other night-time darkening mods, such as Gizmos night-mod) and one for the standard Maxis nite. You must keep only one file - depending on which version you use. If you are unsure whether you have a night-darkening mod installed, then choose the Maxis night version. Regardless of which file you choose to keep, make sure you DO NOT delete the Lot File! If you use the dark nite version, you will need a dark nite mod. Either: (http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/23089-simfox-day-and-nite-modd/) OR (http://gizmo.aplaceforwebsite.com/index.php) --------------------------------------- DEPENDENCIES: To ensure proper functionality, make sure the following files are in your plugins: *BSC MEGA Props - CP Vol01.dat (https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1180) *BSC Mega Props - CP Vol02.dat (https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=2790) *BSC Texture Pack - Cycledogg V01.dat (https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=101) *Diggis Ponds Grass Base Models: (https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=2090) *Maxis International DayOfPeace: (https://community.simtropolis.com/sc4-maxis-files/) --------------------------------------- To install, simply unzip the contents of this file into your plugins folder.- 6 Comments
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Description: Planetarium Plaza is a fictional model of the solar system not only for display outside a prominent city science center or as eye candy for astronomers, but also as a memorial to Pluto's lost planethood. It provides both landmark and park effects as well as a small, localized EQ boost. Stats: Lot Size: 2x2 Landmark Effect: 45 over 18 Park Effect: 35 over 25 EQ Boost (and radius): 5 (80m) Mayor Rating Effect: 10 over 256 Pollution: 0/0/0/0 @ 0/0/0/0 Power Consumed: 3 Water Consumed: 1 Dependencies: None- 1 Comment
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Hi again Sim Bros and Sis... These are my second custom lots here uploaded. So this time about the scientist place for meeting, gathering, chit chat, thinking, works, and conferencing (only after covid-19....hehehe). The lots provide you Hall and Office Tower in separate files. There are not many dependencies, only requires: - BSC files (Essential & Props) - bldgprop_vol1.dat - bldgprop_vol2.dat The buildings after plopping will generate income and cost but not too worry about that...they will make you fun....hopefully...enjoy playing!!! By the way...I am developing a lot with multi building and multi purpose (MUBUMUPU)...wondering huh???...never see one lot with many buildings (not props) inside? Just wait...see you and thanks for using my creation. BobHPB -
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Street and Building Arrangement Affects Heat in Cities
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Hopefully this thread will generate a few ideas of how to deal with articles on the internet and quality of especially scientific information we consume. As the false news and false science movement/industry explodes, its a good idea to generate some criteria to keep the focus real. Simply, look for any link or reference to any reputable source of data, research, and cross-reference a few sources. Always have several different sources and wait for them all to report on the same topic. The theory is that even if there is a bit of 'fudging' of information between reputable sources, it will be easy to see what is consistently not 'fudged'. If an article makes conclusions not based on the actual data referred to then assume the conclusion is false in the sense that it is an opinion, but not a scientific one. A journalist may have science credentials but more likely the reason why they're not employed as a scientist is because they're not very good at it, so they get jobs as journalists and make up scientific opinion based on their political beliefs or financial stock options. Always assume politics and business are anti-science. Science generally promotes independent and thorough critical thinking. Politics and business rely primarily on helplessness, dependency, deference to authority, and mass confusion. Look for omission of information. What critical information is missing in an article, what questions would you have beyond the conclusion that you are being led to believe is a final authoritative opinion or fact. Don't bother using comments to protest or challenge the falsity, comment areas are part of the operation of keeping you hooked on false news and false science. The best way to retaliate or challenge is to participate in reputable news and science venues so to build strength of real news and science over the false. If any news agency promotes themselves as The Most Reputable, The One That Most People Rely on, assume every story they report is a fraud in progress. And most of all "Disobey Television" Meaning, disobey the prima facie evidence or fact presented by any media. In the event of requiring information regarding any emergency situation, go directly to a reputable science data reporting site.
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The still ongoing question 'how close were the nazis to have the atomic bomb' was answered a few years ago. They were ready in 1941. They knew how to get the material and they knew how to built it. The only thing they didn't had was a reactor to produce plutonium. But why didn't they built this reactor? Nazis were always aware they never would have been able to produce charged uranium in an amount crucial for the war. This was their believe. So the atomic bomb wasn't really high on their priorities list. But in 1941 the so called 'uranium project' around Werner Heisenberg had discovered another fission product: plutonium. And they developed also a method without the need of uranium235 (charged uranium), the implosion driven chain reaction. According to Heisenbergs own memories, in 1942, he was asked by Albert Speer (minister of armaments industry) how long it would take to make an 'uranium bomb' (the nazi-german atom bomb project was called 'uranium project' and therefore the familiar name by this time was 'uranium bomb' instead of 'atomic bomb'). He answered, about 3 years, concealing that they were ready to built a plutonium only bomb. (Well, he even didn't lie). That was the point, according to Heisenberg, Nazi leaders lost interest on the 'uranium project'. Until 2007 there was no proof for this testimony given in 1952. By then in an archive in Moscov was discovered a patent application from Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, written in 1941. Weizsäcker by this time was a member of Heisenbergs research team on the 'uranium bomb'. Weizsäcker died in 2007 and therefore a biographer who wanted to write about him, made this discovery. This patent application describes exactly the plutonic bomb. As this application seems never to have been handed over to nazi authorities - it seems true what Heisenberg wrote later. They were ready to built it since 1941 but they didn't tell it to authorities and therefore no fission reactor was built to produce the necessary plutonium. But then - this are really strange coincidences. As till summer 1941 the manhatten project didn't made any great progress by searching how to get the process stable to split uranium 235 from uranium ore. Then suddenly they discovered how they could split plutonium from the uranium and they developed the idear of an implosion based bomb (the principle later leaded to the two-stage-reaction of the hydrogen bomb), all at the same time. And in 1942 they had in Chicago the world wide first reactor ready to produce plutonium. And it is the next strange coincidence that the russians shortly after the end of ww2 made the same progress, so that Edward Teller and Andrei Sakholov had both the exactly same concept for a nuclear fusion based weapon ready at the same time, in 1948. And the world wide first nuclear bomb, the trinity test bomb, was a plutonium only bomb with the principle of an implosion bomb - exactly as described by Weizsäcker in 1941 in his unpublished patent application. The bomb on Hiroshima, 1945, was a complete different technology than the bomb in the trinity test. The Hiroshima bomb was build in a more 'old fashioned' way, not to compress the material, but to unite materials (plutonium and uranium235) to reach critical mass. Apart from plutonium and uranium 235 there are roundabout 200 other fission products you can get by shooting neutrinos on an uranium core. Don't want to go for a conspiration theory - but it's strange that they went for the same combination of fission product and technique to cause a chain reaction, as there are quite many possible combinations to realize a nuclear bomb. Well, it's know Weizsäcker and Heisenberg met Niels Bohr - guess when - 1941 in Copenhagen. And until today this meeting is a big enigma to historians - what was the reason? What did they talk about? Heisenberg later explained, he wanted to convince Bohr, that the germans weren't able to built the bomb and therefore americans should stop researches too. But it's also known that Bohr remained deeply shocked by what they told him. And his memories are completely different. Until his death Weizsäcker was asked about that meeting and Weizsäcker always said "Bohr missunderstood us completely". Well, maybe not? Maybe thats the key to this enigma? Maybe they told him about the possibility to built a plutonium based implosion bomb. And Bohr recognized the possibility and told Teller. And Teller ... well the rest of the story is known.
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Frankfurt Hochschule ! Last CJ I showed you a more wide view of the city and some of the startup problems ! Red-Green flag seem to be a road or street kind of road or street prop or mod using or confliciting with maxis props; relaying sections of road or street resolve the problem ! NAM 34 may resolve the catenary on rail bridges or replacing with HSR; Elevated rail do have pieces but connecting it to normal rail will crash the game. Last not mentioned where the large maxis estates in suburb wich connected four plots of 2x2 to a 4x4 lot; special mod would prevent this but making a plot historical is easier ! This CJ is relatively short, proges is made; city only development is taking it´s toll; endless neighbourhoods, road-rail infrastructure and at last some development on a neighbouring city wich will be revealed soon; some innercity works need to be finished first. Rural Europe will be there aswell but custom content not yet up to a reasonable level to do anything ! Well let´s start this CJ ! Frankfurt Hochschule was established late 19 Century, Universtiy was proposed but at the heart of Germany and with Heidelberg nearby a more technical education was more suiting ! Frankfurt Alte Bibliotheke ! Faculty´s for Science and Mathematics ! University and Hochschule have a good relation on sharing facilty´s !Some new labs at the university and the sporting grounds are a good example ! Another view of the Hochschule ! Last one shot of a neighbouring city wich will be revealed later in this series, picture for the imagination; European city´s seem to be more popular the last month´s so I don´t like to give away too much about it ! Hope you like this CJ and see you back next time !
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UKs "Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority" (HFEA) has approved a research application from the Francis Crick Institute, London, to use new "gene editing" techniques on human embryos. Also BBC doesn't explain it well - or maybe I don't get it - they're talking about living embryos, don't they?
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Humanity has accomplished great progress in many areas but with the great power granted by our knowledge comes great responsibility. We, as a civilization, have the knowledge of what inflicts harm, decreases harm, provides pleasure, bestows peace, propagates instability, bestows joy, and hastens the rate of progress. Those with the expertise in how to help humanity have a duty to share their knowledge (which most have been doing to the best of their abilities) but those with power and authority have a duty to listen to the experts, interpret the knowledge, and enact changes to make their jurisdiction a better place. Progress can be delayed and even prevented by adherence to traditions that no longer work in modern society, rejection of experimentation on larger scales with new techniques & philosophies that have been proven to work on smaller scales, and inertia at adapting and refining methods as they are continuously tested in the real world. Thomas Jefferson, one of The Founding Fathers, once said "Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of nineteen years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right." That is why the Constitution to the United States of America allows for amendments. The last amendment to be ratified was almost 25 years ago and it took over 2 centuries to be ratified. Traditionalism in the USA has caused the most strife in the 21st Century so far. The Republican Party holds onto ideals and traditions that, although worked in the past, no longer work today. Discrimination is a type of harmful behavior arising from continued use of preconceptions about specific demographics after experience has proven those preconceptions to be inaccurate. On the other end of the spectrum is the movement to enforce Politically Correct communication. This movement has propagated thanks to privileged (wealth, first-world citizenship, access to education and the Internet) youth complaining that their emotions are more important than learning, problem-solving, critical thinking, logic and even reason. Between the extremes of traditionalism & discrimination and the PC thought police is the vast middle ground occupied by the silent majority. Some members of the silent majority might view one extreme more favorably than the other but the vocal minority extremists view all outsiders (read: the majority) as threats to their ways of life. In the civilized world, the vast majority of Negative Rights are universally granted (on paper) according to the law. A growing movement to force governments to provide things to its citizens has pushed for more Positive "Rights to be granted (on paper). I believe that even more progress can be achieved in the areas of science, peace, prosperity, health and general happiness if Informed Consent (which already has perfectly strict definitions) allowed more to be done. I once heard about animal rights activists who violently free lab animals and believe that animals should have the same rights as humans. I think that animal testing should continue where optimal but "organs on chips" and expanded powers of Informed Consent to legally allow informed people to willingly allow researchers to treat them as lab rats (allowing all experiments allowed on rodents in the USA in 2000) with sufficient compensation according to risk (comparable to military members undergoing similar potential risks), harm to subjects (compensation to next of kin for medical expenses or death), and benefits to humanity (akin to a royalty authors get per book published). Most Negative Rights are 100% Fundamental, such as the following: Right to libertyRight to due process of lawRight to freedom of movementRight to freedom of thoughtRight to freedom of religionRight to freedom of expressionRight to peacefully assembleRight to freedom of associationMany new Positive Rights are merely Privileges that are considered desirable nowadays such as provision of services, internet access and subsidies. Negative Rights tend to trump Positive Rights when the two conflict, as such Negative Rights are considered prima facie. Privileges are benefits enjoyed for being a member of a certain exclusive group. There are privileges granted from being born in certain places, looking like people in power where you live, holding at least a certain minimum of wealth, holding a certain position, recognition for certain achievements, and ability to do certain things. Forcing a government to legally enforce more Positive "Rights" results in the privilege of citizenship (or legal residency) to outweigh other privileges both unearned (genetics and family wealth) AND earned (diplomas, degrees, certificates, elections, self-improvement, and economic success). Privileges are best when they can be earned and lost--such as through gaining and losing residency and citizenship for Positive Rights--which is why I believe that accomplishment should be actively rewarded and failure should be passively & indirectly punished. Your accomplishments measure how well you utilized your gifts (talents, opportunities, resources, etc) but doesn't directly measure quantity of gifts. Upwards Social Mobility in the absence of subsidies comes from extreme utilization of a small amount of gifts and downwards Social Mobility comes from squandering gifts. Respect is an English word often misused. Every living, breathing human being deserves love, understanding, tolerance and support. Admiration, appreciation, agreement, and the power of fame are earned through a different type of "respect." English has better words than 'respect' for what all humans deserve from the lowest rungs of nonviolent criminals to the wonderful people who nurtured and taught us. All people deserve Rights and Acceptance. However, Privileges and Admiration can only be earned (sometimes others earn them on your behalf) but are often called "Rights and Respect." What do you think? Did I get anything wrong? Did I oversimplify anything important? What are your opinions? Most importantly, what rights do you think humans innately possess? How often are these Fundamental Human Rights denied? Do you believe any Fundamental Human Rights can be lost (through atrocities), if so can they ever be regained through good deeds?
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Some people speculate that, by splitting the so-called G.O.D. particle (boson), the scientists at CERN could potentially open a portal/wormhole to an alternate reality, creating a time paradox, a black hole that may swallow the Earth, or even a new baby universe, that will expand, and destroy our current universe, "overwriting" the save file in the matrix. At this stage, we shouldn't be playing with energies approaching the Planck level. Technological progress is by far overpacing our corrupt and obsolete society, and the consequences may be dire indeed.
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From the album Weekly Challenge #18 - City Life
Of all the old pictures I have to show, this one is one of the few that I can share without feeling ashamed. Welcome to Mars, the Red Planet. Overpopulation, climate changes, the global financial depression and the fear of a nuclear war forced the humanity to give Earth a break and spread to the Cosmos, feeding its hunger for knowledge and adventure and looking for a salvation. Mars is one of the first world that has been explored and colonized by the mankind and today a progress of terraforming is on the way. Until the beginning of the Green Mars Age, the colonists will have to survive on this tough planet, while building the fountains of a better future for their children.© Terring
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Do you want to put your city at the forefront of astronomical research and make it a destination for space enthusiasts everywhere? Than build the Sagan-Tyson Center for Space, and citizens will come from all around to bask in the wonders of the cosmos! The Sagan-Tyson Center for Space boasts an impressive collection of labs and offices for your city's brightest astronomers and astrophysicists, a rooftop observatory with a small-diameter telescope, a spacious planetarium with the latest in projection technology, several great exhibits on the history and future of space exploration and the nature of the cosmos, and a full-size mock-up of a Saturn V rocket from NASA's Apollo program. The basics: Found under Unique Buildings, Level 5. 14x10 lot. The custom model is 13,949 triangles. Includes diffuse, specular, alpha, illumination, and normal textures at 2048x2048. Includes custom LOD with custom textures. The LOD is 854 tris, with 256x256 textures. Costs $30,000 in-game. Has 4 entrances and several hangout areas. Towering above the city at 110.6 meters (363 feet), the Saturn V rocket is 1:1 scale, and gives an idea of just how big these rockets were. This is a fictional building, with some elements inspired by real buildings, mainly the rooftop observatory, based on the Doane Observatory at Chicago's Adler Planetarium, and the planetarium, based on the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium. Installation: Download the desired file. Extract the .CRP file/s from the ZIP archive you downloaded. Place the .CRP file in: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Colossal Order\Cities_Skylines\Addons\Assets Please let me know if there are any issues, or if you have any ideas or designs for other buildings you'd be interested in seeing made! Thanks for downloading, and enjoy! -
Wat. http://news.yahoo.com/universe-really-hologram-203240505.html Every part of this article made me laugh; one of the few well-written ones on Yahoo. And the last line was just the icing on the cake. Sure will be interesting to hear what they find.
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Hi I found an interesting article about the hollow Earth theory.The arguments given here seem logical enough.What do you guys think?Is it real science,popular science,or pesudo science? http://www.v-j-enterprises.com/janhol.html#Def
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Everything is explained at https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/view.asp?topicID=70215&forumID=36&search=1&searchstring= # Contains informations highly classified by Zanapolis Cosmoforce (Space Force) # The package contains 1.Ci Doramian Lightweight Cosmocarrier (Lots: Parked on ground and flying above water) 2. Dai Ganda Starcruiser (Lots: Parked on ground and flying above water) 3. Figh Maali 2 Flagship-class Cosmocarrier (Lots: Parked on ground and flying above water) They are all eye-candies doing nothing, but adds some defence expenditure to your city. All Landmarks
