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Potential power
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(Antimatter has tremendous energy potential, if it could ever be harnessed. A solar flare in July 2002 created about a pound of antimatter, or half a kilo, according to new NASA-led research. That's enough to power the United States for two days.
Laboratory particle accelerators can produce high-energy antimatter particles, too, but only in tiny quantities. Something on the order of a billionth of a gram or less is produced every year.
Nonetheless, sci-fi writers long ago devised schemes using antimatter to power space travelers beyond light-speed. Antimatter didnt get a bad name, but it sunk into the collective consciousness as a purely fictional concept. Given some remarkable physics breakthrough, antimatter could in theory power a spacecraft. But NASA researchers say it's nothing that will happen in the foreseeable future.
Meanwhile, antimatter has proved vitally useful for medical purposes. The fleeting particles of antimatter are also created by the decay of radioactive material, which can be injected into a patient in order to perform Positron Emission Tomography, or PET scan of the brain. Here's what happens:
A positron that's produced by decay almost immediately finds an electron and annihilates into two gamma rays, Share explains. These gamma rays move in opposite directions, and by recording several of their origin points an image is produced. }
Just found this article perhaps the first and second paragraphs show with the OIL running out? they are looking for alternatives.
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(Antimatter has tremendous energy potential, if it could ever be harnessed. A solar flare in July 2002 created about a pound of antimatter, or half a kilo, according to new NASA-led research. That's enough to power the United States for two days.
Laboratory particle accelerators can produce high-energy antimatter particles, too, but only in tiny quantities. Something on the order of a billionth of a gram or less is produced every year.
Nonetheless, sci-fi writers long ago devised schemes using antimatter to power space travelers beyond light-speed. Antimatter didnt get a bad name, but it sunk into the collective consciousness as a purely fictional concept. Given some remarkable physics breakthrough, antimatter could in theory power a spacecraft. But NASA researchers say it's nothing that will happen in the foreseeable future.
Meanwhile, antimatter has proved vitally useful for medical purposes. The fleeting particles of antimatter are also created by the decay of radioactive material, which can be injected into a patient in order to perform Positron Emission Tomography, or PET scan of the brain. Here's what happens:
A positron that's produced by decay almost immediately finds an electron and annihilates into two gamma rays, Share explains. These gamma rays move in opposite directions, and by recording several of their origin points an image is produced. }
Just found this article perhaps the first and second paragraphs show with the OIL running out? they are looking for alternatives.
Looks like you were as right as ever bob 
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I posted this earlier.
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Yes, Indeeeeeeeeeed!!!
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Further,
"Hey, is it getting warm in here? Wow look! its a Black Ho........................................................................................................................."
Oh well that's ok then. as long as you had a great start eh?... 'it was all going so well then, POW!!!! a Black Hole ate EVERYTHING'!
So what happens if it 'warms slightly' when they are flinging particals around at the speed of light and smashing them into each other?...
"Hey, is it getting warm in here? Wow look! its a Black Ho........................................................................................................................."
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Right who do i sue . Got up this morning told the mrs what i thought of her and have been sh##ing her best mate for two years . Thought well what does it matter we wont be here by tonight. talk about being in the deep S....
talk about being in the deep S.... 
Nice one
backwards it spells: Not Wenca as I
spooky!!
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