and learned that the fast neutrons cause neutron activation, creating often long-lived radioactive isotopes of what they hit
Or non-radioactive isotopes. Or short-lived radioactive isotopes. Or fission (yes, you can do fission with fast neutrons, it's just inadvisable). Just depends on what they hit.
So yes, every nuclear reactor that thinks and sooner later gets breached: is a ecologic disaster. And YOU certainly would not like to live close to it or be depending on fish fished there.
I'm curious as to how a fusion reactor can be an ecological disaster.
Yeah, the fuel will spread all over the ocean, but the fuel is hydrogen, so it's not like we're going to notice a few kg extra hydrogen in an ocean that is 1/9th hydrogen.
The fusion byproducts are tritium (again, hydrogen), and helium (chemically inert, and part of the atmosphere).
The shell? It might get irradiated. But slightly radioactive iron isn't really a meaningful disaster, unless you've managed to stick a megaton or so of iron into the 500 cubic feet of that reactor (hmm, 7 foot by 10 foot. Wonder if that's seven feet in diameter and ten tall, or seven feet tall and ten in diameter?). Hint: a million tons of iron won't fit into that volume....
Note that what all these companies everyone here loves to hate are doing is also legal....
And when Ireland changes its rules so it's no longer advantageous to be based out of Ireland, they'll move HQ to elsewhere, and Ireland will be out some tax dollars that won't be much by US standards, but might be a lot by Irish standards (or not)....
Anecdotally, I occasionally play EQ and EQ2 (yes, there really are players of EQ2 still out there). As does my wife.
More than half my guildies in EQ2 are women (we use voice chat a lot, if you're planning on asserting that they only claim to be women). The GM's include two Grandmothers. And (some of) their children are in guild. As are a grandchild or two...
EQ was fairly bad at putting the female characters in "slut-mail"
Yah, that always annoyed me. One of the reasons I started doing EQ2 was that I could avoid that sort of armour for my female characters (about half of them, in each of EQ1 and EQ2)
Realistically we need some kind of transaction layer tax system that captures at point of sale.
So, in your example (If I purchase something from Amazon, while in New Zealand, with my UK credit card, shipped to my Aussie address.), where, exactly, is the "point of sale"? New Zealand? Australia? Wherever the Amazon billing department processes your credit card? Wherever the product was packaged up for shipping to you?
there are a number of well documented cases of aircraft ditching and people inflating life-jackets inside the aircraft and people needlessly ending up drowned.
Citation?
I can't recall ever seeing that in a description of an airplane accident, but I don't read about all of them....
For those who said "No need to panic"... are we there yet?
No.
We MIGHT (and I stress "might") be getting to time to panic the first time we get an ebola victim who hasn't been to Africa, and hasn't been in contact with any known Ebola victim.
Note that this case is one of the 48 people who are currently being monitored due to contact with that ebola victim who brought it here from Africa.
From TFA, the absolute error closely approximates 0.000000000000000000004.
So you'll only see a relative error as large as you're showing (off in the fifth decimal place), if the correct answer is something like 0.000000000000000012345, which might show up as 0.000000000000000012344.
Pakistan and India have been hostile since they first were separated from each other, but they're not so different!!
The people of Pakistan and the people of India have been hostile toward each other much longer than that. Of course, they weren't "people of Pakistan and India" before the end of British rule of what is now India and Pakistan.
About the only period they weren't hostile was during the Raj, when the British tried to prevent that sort of thing.
Note that during the post-British period, when they were split into two countries, the Hindus living in what is now Pakistan were attacked by their Muslim neighbors and driven out of the country.
Likewise, during the same period, the Muslims living in what is now India were attacked by their Hindu neighbors. This reached the point that trainloads of Muslims fleeing to Pakistan were stopped by the Indian Army and machinegunned before being allowed to continue into Pakistan.
Surely this gesture will make them realize this and they'll have no choice but to bury the hatchet, that's just how human psychology works.
Bury the hatchet in each other's head, yes.
The way you mean it, no.
And do you really know so little of human psychology?
If they're made from someone else, the patient has to take immunosuppresive drugs.
Depends on the quality of the match. For my bone marrow transplant, they found a truly excellent match (no, it wasn't from a relative). I'm two years past the transplant, and haven't taken immunosuppressive drugs for seven or eight months now. No ill effects, not even any GVHD (Graft Vs. Host Disease), which used to manifest as rashes on the backs of my hands/wrists fairly regularly....
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Can't tell here if your chimney was built by pigs, or had a pig stuck in it.
Please clarify.
I thought everyone knew that Iraq had no WMDs (yes, chemical weapons are WMDs), so how could our soldiers be injured by chemical weapons in Iraq?
Likewise, we don't have to worry about ISIS capturing any chemical weapons in Iraq, since Iraq had no WMDs, therefore no chemical weapons....
Or non-radioactive isotopes. Or short-lived radioactive isotopes. Or fission (yes, you can do fission with fast neutrons, it's just inadvisable). Just depends on what they hit.
I'm curious as to how a fusion reactor can be an ecological disaster.
Yeah, the fuel will spread all over the ocean, but the fuel is hydrogen, so it's not like we're going to notice a few kg extra hydrogen in an ocean that is 1/9th hydrogen.
The fusion byproducts are tritium (again, hydrogen), and helium (chemically inert, and part of the atmosphere).
The shell? It might get irradiated. But slightly radioactive iron isn't really a meaningful disaster, unless you've managed to stick a megaton or so of iron into the 500 cubic feet of that reactor (hmm, 7 foot by 10 foot. Wonder if that's seven feet in diameter and ten tall, or seven feet tall and ten in diameter?). Hint: a million tons of iron won't fit into that volume....
Yet another reason to be down on religion, if even Ebola is praying....
Not yet.
Wait for the first one case not related to a previously known case, or the hundredth case, whichever comes first.
Which is legal, so that's not an issue.
Note that what all these companies everyone here loves to hate are doing is also legal....
And when Ireland changes its rules so it's no longer advantageous to be based out of Ireland, they'll move HQ to elsewhere, and Ireland will be out some tax dollars that won't be much by US standards, but might be a lot by Irish standards (or not)....
Anecdotally, I occasionally play EQ and EQ2 (yes, there really are players of EQ2 still out there). As does my wife.
More than half my guildies in EQ2 are women (we use voice chat a lot, if you're planning on asserting that they only claim to be women). The GM's include two Grandmothers. And (some of) their children are in guild. As are a grandchild or two...
Yah, that always annoyed me. One of the reasons I started doing EQ2 was that I could avoid that sort of armour for my female characters (about half of them, in each of EQ1 and EQ2)
So, in your example (If I purchase something from Amazon, while in New Zealand, with my UK credit card, shipped to my Aussie address.), where, exactly, is the "point of sale"? New Zealand? Australia? Wherever the Amazon billing department processes your credit card? Wherever the product was packaged up for shipping to you?
And why?
Thank you.
Citation?
I can't recall ever seeing that in a description of an airplane accident, but I don't read about all of them....
Cede. Try not to write words you've never seen in print.
Antibiotics to deal with secondary infections resulting from a viral illness aren't exactly unusual. Nor are they necessarily medically wrong.
Umm, your quote uses the phrase "state law". The ACA, which makes that whole pre-existing condition thing illegal is FEDERAL law.
Might want to check up on Supreme rulings about the primacy of Federal law....
Well, if 3% is 1/3, then you're right.
Otherwise, your estimates for the 1918 flu are a bit off, and I'll assume your other estimates are similarly off....
I'm curious - does that apply to marijuana users? If so, how was illegal marijuana use fundamentally different than this?
*shrugs*
Feel free to panic, then. I suggest a cabin in a remote corner of Alaska.
Go there, avoid all human contact for at least ten years.
You should be safe by then, so you can rejoin the world no later than early 2025....
By my logic, if you people start getting ebola with no KNOWN ebola contact, it's time to think about maybe panicking.
Because that would mean an unidentified reservoir of ebola in the country. Which is potentially disastrous.
So long as we have a clear eye on patient zero and everyone in contact with him, we don't need to be terribly worried....
No.
We MIGHT (and I stress "might") be getting to time to panic the first time we get an ebola victim who hasn't been to Africa, and hasn't been in contact with any known Ebola victim.
Note that this case is one of the 48 people who are currently being monitored due to contact with that ebola victim who brought it here from Africa.
Well, no.
From TFA, the absolute error closely approximates 0.000000000000000000004.
So you'll only see a relative error as large as you're showing (off in the fifth decimal place), if the correct answer is something like 0.000000000000000012345, which might show up as 0.000000000000000012344.
No, you're not. But there don't seem to be many of us....
The people of Pakistan and the people of India have been hostile toward each other much longer than that. Of course, they weren't "people of Pakistan and India" before the end of British rule of what is now India and Pakistan.
About the only period they weren't hostile was during the Raj, when the British tried to prevent that sort of thing.
Note that during the post-British period, when they were split into two countries, the Hindus living in what is now Pakistan were attacked by their Muslim neighbors and driven out of the country.
Likewise, during the same period, the Muslims living in what is now India were attacked by their Hindu neighbors. This reached the point that trainloads of Muslims fleeing to Pakistan were stopped by the Indian Army and machinegunned before being allowed to continue into Pakistan.
Bury the hatchet in each other's head, yes.
The way you mean it, no.
And do you really know so little of human psychology?
Umm, no.
4000 km^2 != 4 Mm^2.
4000 km^2 = 0.004 Mm^2.
Over seven years. The CO2 figure just covers one year, so it's actually a lot closer to 0.024%...
Depends on the quality of the match. For my bone marrow transplant, they found a truly excellent match (no, it wasn't from a relative). I'm two years past the transplant, and haven't taken immunosuppressive drugs for seven or eight months now. No ill effects, not even any GVHD (Graft Vs. Host Disease), which used to manifest as rashes on the backs of my hands/wrists fairly regularly....