Yeah, I know, what I meant was "tapping into" the nerves that run down the arms and legs or the facial area. It would be a lot more efficient than going for the spine or brain, obviously.
They wire electrodes to somewhere unrelated, the brain learns to integrate it into it's body like nothing was the matter. This is so awesome. It would be even more awesome if they could wire stuff to the motor nerves and have the brain treat it as a new body part to control, rather than retraining old nerves, though.
Alternatively, someone is testing out software to spamflood the site (or similar) and needs to check what gets through the filters. That's obviously generated text combined with some random text from the internet, to have the structure of a real post while actually being nonsense.
I only have HS equivalent chemistry/biology knowledge, but I can see how the mechanics of the body could affect medicine dispersal/absorption. But it does not matter in this case since they sent the medicine back to earth before testing. I don't know what the word "potency" means in this case, but even if they did test them on people/animals it wouldn't have mattered.
If we're talking about those little white pills, they're basically just a solid mix of medicine and some sort of binder usually packed in one of those foil/plastic packages that at least looks to be airtight, right? So logically it must be radiation, but how could you easily shield against the kind of radiation that would penetrate into the station's interior? Medicine storage crates with thick lead lining?
It seems unrelated - he was treated as an anonymous source by the television programme, according to TFA. I can't see how the french police could have gotten anything out of that. They probably followed the money trail somehow since he was using stolen credit card data. And good riddance too, anyone using stolen credit cards is no better than a pickpocket no matter how they go about it.
You are a minority. Most people would go insane if they just loafed around without doing anything, not the least because of the depression/ennui induced by lack of social status and recognition.
The problem with that argument is that the large media companies and their employees are much like "the starving children in Africa" to effectively anyone that can't directly relate to them. And they get even less moral weighing, because they aren't "victims" in the same sense. Depending on where you stand in the piracy/lawsuit debate, they may even get viewed as "equal opportunity aggressors."
Besides that, the "damage" done to the company and ultimately the creators from a single act of piracy is so small that it isn't even weighed into the moral picture. It's like buying a shirt made by a company that may or may not employ child labour in some far-away country.
The problem would be (as it is with the UN) to get all the individual forces that invariably would compose the backing of that organization to cooperate.
Yeah, spending time inside the reactor containment would make it impossible to survive. At least that's how I read "1000 mSv inside the air in the pit".
I was confused by that too. Are we still talking about the reactor pit (which is the sealed containment where the waste is kept in, like a huge jar), or a pit now connected to that one by a crack? I assumed it was a bad translation, and that they meant that "the reactor generates 1000/mSv of radiation inside the pit, and we found a crack in the pit leaking radiation".
It's still a useless number unless we know how they factored in exposure. So would the number for exposure to contaminated material be, unless you gave the proximity you calculated it for.
Actually, she's correct. It's just that she's an avatar of Nyarlathotep so the human mind can't grasp the logic she espouses, much like an ant can't begin to understand high-level human problems; the capacity doesn't exist in our cognitive universe.
It's unclear what they mean when they say 1000 mSv (which is a measure of exposure and not radioactivity as one other poster noted), but we can perhaps assume that they mean that the area of water directly outside the reactor crack would result in 1000 mSv of exposure if you where immersed in it. It's clearly a problem, but it's not like the radiation travels through the water and up into the air. Even if the water evaporates and makes it into the lungs of people in the area, it wouldn't lead to even a fraction of the dose (by the logic that there's less radioactive material to ingest and/or be irradiated by)
0 – 0.25 Sv (0 – 250 mSv): None
0.25 – 1 Sv (250 – 1000 mSv): Some people feel nausea and loss of appetite; bone marrow, lymph nodes, spleen damaged.
1 – 3 Sv (1000 – 3000 mSv): Mild to severe nausea, loss of appetite, infection; more severe bone marrow, lymph node, spleen damage; recovery probable, not assured.
3 – 6 Sv (3000 – 6000 mSv): Severe nausea, loss of appetite; hemorrhaging, infection, diarrhea, peeling of skin, sterility; death if untreated.
6 – 10 Sv (6000 – 10000 mSv): Above symptoms plus central nervous system impairment; death expected.
Above 10 Sv (10000 mSv): Incapacitation and death.
That's still not a problem if it's contain-able, though, and if that becomes a problem it's still only a problem in proportion to the breach of containment and spread of radioactivity.
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But what if you replace the brain neuron by neuron, without a break in conciousness?
But what if you remove too much bone marrow? I suppose, if you could keep enough bone marrow alive inside another implant in the gut or something...
Quake?
Yeah, I know, what I meant was "tapping into" the nerves that run down the arms and legs or the facial area. It would be a lot more efficient than going for the spine or brain, obviously.
They wire electrodes to somewhere unrelated, the brain learns to integrate it into it's body like nothing was the matter. This is so awesome. It would be even more awesome if they could wire stuff to the motor nerves and have the brain treat it as a new body part to control, rather than retraining old nerves, though.
Alternatively, someone is testing out software to spamflood the site (or similar) and needs to check what gets through the filters. That's obviously generated text combined with some random text from the internet, to have the structure of a real post while actually being nonsense.
Sweden is. As in, you may laugh about it.
No it is not. For the same reason you don't shoot shoplifters.
I only have HS equivalent chemistry/biology knowledge, but I can see how the mechanics of the body could affect medicine dispersal/absorption. But it does not matter in this case since they sent the medicine back to earth before testing. I don't know what the word "potency" means in this case, but even if they did test them on people/animals it wouldn't have mattered.
Microgravity can cause proteins to fold differently? Or radiation? I thought radiation just "smashed" protein chains.
If we're talking about those little white pills, they're basically just a solid mix of medicine and some sort of binder usually packed in one of those foil/plastic packages that at least looks to be airtight, right? So logically it must be radiation, but how could you easily shield against the kind of radiation that would penetrate into the station's interior? Medicine storage crates with thick lead lining?
It seems unrelated - he was treated as an anonymous source by the television programme, according to TFA. I can't see how the french police could have gotten anything out of that. They probably followed the money trail somehow since he was using stolen credit card data. And good riddance too, anyone using stolen credit cards is no better than a pickpocket no matter how they go about it.
You are a minority. Most people would go insane if they just loafed around without doing anything, not the least because of the depression/ennui induced by lack of social status and recognition.
The problem with that argument is that the large media companies and their employees are much like "the starving children in Africa" to effectively anyone that can't directly relate to them. And they get even less moral weighing, because they aren't "victims" in the same sense. Depending on where you stand in the piracy/lawsuit debate, they may even get viewed as "equal opportunity aggressors."
Besides that, the "damage" done to the company and ultimately the creators from a single act of piracy is so small that it isn't even weighed into the moral picture. It's like buying a shirt made by a company that may or may not employ child labour in some far-away country.
The problem would be (as it is with the UN) to get all the individual forces that invariably would compose the backing of that organization to cooperate.
It was a wondefully terse piece of work. He's got a talent for writing. You won't be wasting your time, RTFA.
Yeah, the air inside the sealed reactor pit full of meltdown waste. Not the air outside the crack.
Yeah, spending time inside the reactor containment would make it impossible to survive. At least that's how I read "1000 mSv inside the air in the pit".
I was confused by that too. Are we still talking about the reactor pit (which is the sealed containment where the waste is kept in, like a huge jar), or a pit now connected to that one by a crack? I assumed it was a bad translation, and that they meant that "the reactor generates 1000/mSv of radiation inside the pit, and we found a crack in the pit leaking radiation".
It's still a useless number unless we know how they factored in exposure. So would the number for exposure to contaminated material be, unless you gave the proximity you calculated it for.
Actually, she's correct. It's just that she's an avatar of Nyarlathotep so the human mind can't grasp the logic she espouses, much like an ant can't begin to understand high-level human problems; the capacity doesn't exist in our cognitive universe.
It's unclear what they mean when they say 1000 mSv (which is a measure of exposure and not radioactivity as one other poster noted), but we can perhaps assume that they mean that the area of water directly outside the reactor crack would result in 1000 mSv of exposure if you where immersed in it. It's clearly a problem, but it's not like the radiation travels through the water and up into the air. Even if the water evaporates and makes it into the lungs of people in the area, it wouldn't lead to even a fraction of the dose (by the logic that there's less radioactive material to ingest and/or be irradiated by)
But wouldn't you have to, you know, ingest the water into the body somehow to receive the full dose, not just be next to it?
According to Wikipedia:
0 – 0.25 Sv (0 – 250 mSv): None
0.25 – 1 Sv (250 – 1000 mSv): Some people feel nausea and loss of appetite; bone marrow, lymph nodes, spleen damaged.
1 – 3 Sv (1000 – 3000 mSv): Mild to severe nausea, loss of appetite, infection; more severe bone marrow, lymph node, spleen damage; recovery probable, not assured.
3 – 6 Sv (3000 – 6000 mSv): Severe nausea, loss of appetite; hemorrhaging, infection, diarrhea, peeling of skin, sterility; death if untreated.
6 – 10 Sv (6000 – 10000 mSv): Above symptoms plus central nervous system impairment; death expected.
Above 10 Sv (10000 mSv): Incapacitation and death.
That's still not a problem if it's contain-able, though, and if that becomes a problem it's still only a problem in proportion to the breach of containment and spread of radioactivity.