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Flying in Airplanes Exposes People To More Radiation Than Standing Next To a Nuclear Reactor (businessinsider.com)
Traveling the skies by jet lifts us far from the hustle and bustle of the world below. From a report: But many flyers don't know that soaring miles above Earth also takes us out of a vital protective cocoon -- and a little closer to a place where our cells can be pummeled by radiation from colliding stars, black holes, and more. You can't see these high-energy charged particles, but at any given moment, tens of thousands of them are soaring through space and slamming into Earth's atmosphere from all directions. Also called cosmic rays or cosmic ionizing radiation, the particles are the cores of atoms, such as iron and nickel, moving at nearly light-speed. They can travel for millions of years through space before randomly hitting Earth. These rays don't pose much of a risk to humans on Earth's surface, since the planet's atmosphere and magnetic field shield us from most of the threat.
Sadly, he is correct. You guys are nothing more than sheisters trying to milk the last couple dollars out of slashdot.
You have no plan or vision for the site. You just bought a corpse and hoped for the best. Hoping that slashdot would somehow become popular again. Maybe if the owners trolled the boards? Maybe that'll work.
I remember when BizX first purchased slashdot. They were all up and down the forums asking for advice and asking users what they want to see done. All that advice was a waste of time. It all fell on deaf ears. You guys don't participate with the community, you just troll post. When Taco ran slashdot at least he participated in the discussion.
Do you guys know why slashdot keeps getting sold over and over again? Because people like you who think it will just run on autopilot. You wanted a recurring income source without doing any real work. The bare minimum. After a year or two you realize it takes ACTUAL work, and slashdot goes up for sale. Rinse wash repeat.
Why not fix the bugs? Hire some real moderators or staff for Christ sakes, who actually participate in the threads. Not a bunch of trolls who are so self entitled they have a (1) by their name to make them feel special. I mean seriously. (1)? Come on man.
But nope, all we will get is the same shit year after year. Thus is slashdot. We are used to the neglect.
The king is dead.
Long live the king.
Long live the king. ***shutters***