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Well, I can't remember where I read the thing I was originally paraphrasing, and your link is rather explicit. (I'd recommend anyone interested in this to check it out. https://warisboring.com/the-sc...

And tends to lodge in the bone marrow, leading to leukemia. And my guess is that "30 years" is an estimate which is assuming a minimal exposure. At one point, IIRC, what they recommended was "if that gets in an open wound, go for immediate high amputation".

No, amputation as treatment of exposure was never the protocol.

https://warisboring.com/the-sc...

They'd fish out the particles big enough to see and could recover without doing permanent damage to tissue. If it was too small to see then it was not considered a health hazard. The long term effects on health are difficult to measure given that the few people that have died since their exposure were heavy smokers (lung cancer did them in) and victims of motor vehicle accidents (can't blame that on the plutonium).

Acute radiation exposure is known to produce organ failure and death in a matter of hours or days. Chronic exposure is expected to produce a risk of cancers in bone, marrow, thyroid, and other sensitive organs. There is no evidence of this in the people with known exposure. Dogs injected with plutonium have died relatively quickly but that's an unusual and quite deliberate form of exposure, not something likely as an accident. Inhaling plutonium would likely raise the risk of health problems if those particles remained in the lungs. The lungs will naturally clear out particles that are inhaled and gets dumped into the digestive tract, where it is expelled out the "tailpipe". Any plutonium in the blood is filtered out by the urinary tract.

Plutonium may get incorporated into the bones but it has a half life of thousands of years, which for someone that might expect a lifespan measured in decades means that there would have to be a lot of plutonium before the decay emissions exceed that of naturally occurring potassium and such. I'm sure someone could look up a "banana equivalent dose" to get an idea of the hazard.

They die a horribble death by leukemia and bonce cancer.

Not quite.
http://warisboring.com/the-sci...

The one death from cancer was lung cancer, in someone that smoked heavily.

Why you are such an idiot is beyond me. Perhaos you read to many spy stories and take stuff like 'Pollonium can be flushed down the toilett and is then non detectable after a few days" literally? Sorry ... to really write such nonsense you don't had bad teachers in school but you simply are an idiot.

Perhaps "a few days" is a slight exaggeration but it is very difficult to detect, and decays to a common isotope of lead in a short time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Perhaps you could explain how polonium would be detected if flushed down a toilet?

https://warisboring.com/india-... :

In the past decade, the Indian Air Force has bought hundreds of Su-30MKI fighter jets from Russia. ...
But it turns out, the twin-engine jets have failure-prone motors. Their AL-31FP engines break down with alarming frequency. ...
Parrikar attributed the failures to faulty bearings that contaminated the plane’s oil supply. It seems that metal fatigue led to tiny pieces of metal shearing off the friction-reducing bearings, which then entered the oil system. ...
However, a more general worry for the Air Force is the poor serviceability of the Su-30MKI fleet—meaning the number of aircraft actually available for operations on a daily basis. ...
Based on figures given by Parrikar, only 110 Su-30MKIs are “operationally available.” From a total of more than 200 aircraft that Irkut and HAL had delivered by February 2015, that means 56 percent are ready at any given time.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n... :

According to a report by the Beijing-based Sina Military Network, the Russian-built engine used in the J-10 is prone to malfunction, having caused multiple crashes in recent years. ...
The Russian-built engine had lost power at over 11,000 feet, said pilot Li Tong, who ejected at 1,000 feet following an abortive 198-second attempt to glide the aircraft to a local airfield. ...
According to Chinese naval publications cited by Sina, consultations with Russian providers to find a solution for the AL-31 compatibility issues have been delayed for want of funding.

It's not like this isn't a widely reported problem... It isn't exclusive to the AL-31 series engine used in the Su-27 and derivatives either. The RD-33 engines used in the Mig-29 allegedly have such low lifetimes that most of them have been retired in the countries that actually did buy them. While Mig-21 from the 1960s are still flying...

Perhaps you'd care to believe actual combat pilots who have flown the aircraft in mock engagements

Whatever you say:

1. It Turns Out the F-35 Can Dogfight
2. Is the F-35 a ‘Velociraptor’ or Easy Prey?
3. U.S. Air Force Tester: F-35 Is Too Good For War Games

Perhaps you'd care to believe actual combat pilots who have flown the aircraft in mock engagements

Whatever you say:

1. It Turns Out the F-35 Can Dogfight
2. Is the F-35 a ‘Velociraptor’ or Easy Prey?
3. U.S. Air Force Tester: F-35 Is Too Good For War Games

I could go on all day, but you get the idea.

Here are some different ideas from people who have actually flown and tested the F-35:

1. It Turns Out the F-35 Can Dogfight
2. Is the F-35 a ‘Velociraptor’ or Easy Prey?
3. U.S. Air Force Tester: F-35 Is Too Good For War Games

I could go on all day, but you get the idea.

Here are some different ideas from people who have actually flown and tested the F-35:

1. It Turns Out the F-35 Can Dogfight
2. Is the F-35 a ‘Velociraptor’ or Easy Prey?
3. U.S. Air Force Tester: F-35 Is Too Good For War Games

Perhaps you'd care to believe actual combat pilots who have flown the aircraft in mock engagements, and consider it substantially inferior to both the F-16 and the 1970's vintage F-15?

Or independent organizations contracted to analyze the program who report the performance specifications for the F-35 have actually been downgraded numerous times as costs have exploded. Ultimately, too many design trade-offs between the Air Force, Navy, and Marines, and a terrible design process, resulted in a mediocre air frame that is not good at anything other than harming U.S security interests and sucking up tax dollars?

This is a 1.5T dollar program that failed to deliver an acceptable result. The US better hope it never needs these in combat against a major world power. They will of course be adequate against people with no tech higher than tents in the desert... but so were aircraft we had in the 1950's.

There was a far better combination available in the F-22 for air combat and the A-10 for air to ground, but the US elected to halt the F-22 program, even though it now appears the F-35 will have the same unit costs for dramatically inferior performance. It is also dramatically inferior in capability and survivability vs the A-10, an aircraft you can buy ten of for the price of one F-35.

This is typical Russian Wunderwaffe-style bullshit.

Their economy is in the shitter, and they can't even close the deal on a 4.5 gen fighter pretending to be a 5th gen machine. India is pissed, and Russia is looking to cancel orders.

Even if they get this 'bomber' off the ground it's going to have it's own fan club courtesy of the USAF.

So whatever.. as soon as a US city goes up in nuclear flames so does the world.

True. Better to hear from a pilot who has flown the F-35.

but pray you don't end up in a dogfight with it

Pilots who have flown it say the F-35 can dogfight. Have you flown one?

The same website that was pushing the "F-35 defeated by F-16 in dogfight" story that hit Slashdot a few weeks ago took another look in a maybe more appropriate wargaming scenario. This is an off-the-shelf commercial software simulation done by dedicated non-government folks based on educated guesses about classified aircraft, so I wouldn't dream of saying it's a realistic simulation, but it does show you a different view of the F-35.

From the enemy fighter's perspective, you're cruising around looking for trouble, and the first sign of it you see is incoming long-range missiles. Your amazing maneuverability comes in to play as you try to dodge hypersonic missiles, but in the end you and all your friends get blown up before the F-35s appear on your radar screen. Through countless simulations, the Russian jets were invariably wiped out with negligible losses on the American side.

Like I said, that's not the real world. But it demonstrates that comparing the maneuverability of a stealth aircraft against a non-stealth fighter is kind of an empty hypothetical.

In the sci-fi book, the author had a system than were land trains that were created using whatever cars were on the road at the time. All the cars were controlled from a central location. I think something like this will replace the HOV lanes in the future. What they are talking about now seems to be the first step to working up to something better. Also don't confuse these roads trains with those from the past like TC-497 Overland Train. http://www.warisboring.com/2007/07/23/army-overland-train-hybrids-in-the-1950s/

What's funny (in a non-humorous way) is that the US attempt to build a jump jet, that the UK plans on purchasing, is way behind schedule, over budget and having all kinds of issues. Which makes the Harrier, for all its warts, maybe not look quite as bad.