we have to be cautious, if the politicians learn about ambiguity of existence in quantum world, they may start getting "quantum brib^H^H^H^H campaign donations" that just happen to "not be" when the time to file a fiscal report comes and simultaneously "be and not be" during the trials...
You can buy Geiger counters (you should be looking for dosimeters though) on eBay. They're not exactly cheap (around $500) but they're not unattainable.
There was also a wide population testing of humans in affected areas. There was no statistically significant increase in leukemia or birth defects in affected areas. Only the thyroid cancer was higher, which is operable and non lethal even in later stages. And by higher I mean less than two fold increase.
Yes, high levels of radioactivity are harmful. We still don't know what levels of radioactivity are not harmful. There have even been suggestions that increased background radiation reduced chances of cancer.
I'll gladly put a nuclear reactor in my backyard, give me a thorium fuelled one and I'll sleep on the bloody thing.
One also has to remember that everybody has a chance of developing cancer of about 30%. Being introduced to high levels of radiation over a long period will increase it by 1-2%. There are places with natural background radiation higher than detected at any time in Fukushima!
Sorry, I'm more worried about RSI, car accidents and heart attacks.
the radiation levels considered "safe" are set using the "lowest level reasonably achievable" not using the "highest known safe levels". The difference between them over 4 orders of magnitude between them.
If all industries used the same limits as nuclear energy you couldn't get your chest X-ray, let alone MRI scan made.
There's no such thing as "china syndrome" as far as nuclear power plants are concerned. Stop reading and watching sensationalist fiction. No core has enough energy to melt through concrete base. This has not happened in Chernobyl and the Russians skimped on security as much as they could there.
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It still works quite well, thankyouverymuch
you mean your local CUPS server doesn't have a print-to-PDF function?!
Kingdom for mod points!
Now that's prudish.
And I have read it in his voice.
That seems impossible to truly do. They are mutually exclusive
You're just not using doublethink.
What's this soccer you talking about?
we have to be cautious, if the politicians learn about ambiguity of existence in quantum world, they may start getting "quantum brib^H^H^H^H campaign donations" that just happen to "not be" when the time to file a fiscal report comes and simultaneously "be and not be" during the trials...
You're joking, right?!
I mean with licenses like this you're two steps from plain slavery!
The land of the free indeed
Thankfully, out judges and politicians are still learning this Art.
Yes, after they have been throughly checked and, in most cases, domesticated.
Linux had it in form of bcache and flashcache for few years. Just like Solaris with ZFS.
there's also flashcache: https://github.com/facebook/flashcache/ currently under development
Either way it's large graphene sheet.
It would have to be the rotation around galaxy core, I doubt they were able to do those 15000 measurements in under a month...
Return of aether?
Colony drops are better... less fallout.
Not for long
kingdom for modpoints
You can buy Geiger counters (you should be looking for dosimeters though) on eBay. They're not exactly cheap (around $500) but they're not unattainable.
There was also a wide population testing of humans in affected areas. There was no statistically significant increase in leukemia or birth defects in affected areas. Only the thyroid cancer was higher, which is operable and non lethal even in later stages. And by higher I mean less than two fold increase.
Yes, high levels of radioactivity are harmful. We still don't know what levels of radioactivity are not harmful. There have even been suggestions that increased background radiation reduced chances of cancer.
I'll gladly put a nuclear reactor in my backyard, give me a thorium fuelled one and I'll sleep on the bloody thing.
One also has to remember that everybody has a chance of developing cancer of about 30%. Being introduced to high levels of radiation over a long period will increase it by 1-2%. There are places with natural background radiation higher than detected at any time in Fukushima!
Sorry, I'm more worried about RSI, car accidents and heart attacks.
the radiation levels considered "safe" are set using the "lowest level reasonably achievable" not using the "highest known safe levels". The difference between them over 4 orders of magnitude between them.
If all industries used the same limits as nuclear energy you couldn't get your chest X-ray, let alone MRI scan made.
There's no such thing as "china syndrome" as far as nuclear power plants are concerned. Stop reading and watching sensationalist fiction. No core has enough energy to melt through concrete base. This has not happened in Chernobyl and the Russians skimped on security as much as they could there.
Selling OEM licenses for less than $20 a pop isn't making deals?! I don't know which world are you in, it certainly isn't the one I live in.