Probably true - the typical modern nuclear plant will emit roughly ZERO radiation to biosphere as a result of its operation (yes, other industrial processes associated with its construction and operation will emit some radiation, but the amount will be more or less identical for coal plant construction and much higher for its operation/coal mining)
In contrast, emitting significant amounts of radiation to biosphere is a daily routine for coal plant.
Check your facts. Shuttle carries over 20 tons of cargo, which is in ballpark of current heavy launchers and waaaay smaller than what Saturn or Energia could do.
And anyway, those are inadequate examples when talking about risk of nuclear power. In categories of risk - Shuttle is actually quite comparable to other launch systems but its complexity and cost didn't give us anything. Helmet costs almost nothing, doesn't get in your way, but significantly lessens the risk. Don't use those examples when talking about nukes, they are counterproductive.
It's just a measure of fear arising in populace from understanding vs. not understanding something.
Coal powerplant is like a big campfire, right? So how bad can it be? People were doing it since forever and it's quite nice actually!
But nuclear leads them instantly to Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombings, Chernobyl, that scary warning signs at roentgen lab, and so on. Also, "if I can't understand it, surely nobody else can either"
BTW, I remember a "debate" in national TV here few years back. Anti-nuke zealots didn't even know what radiation is when asked.
You do realize that typical coal fired powerplant emits more radioactive waste to the biosphere in one day than typical, modern nuclear powerplant will emit in its whole lifetime?
I see and understand what you're generally saying, but how does that follow from Space Shuttle and helmets?
Space Shuttle is simply obsolete...or rather, was a marriage of advanced concept with inappropriate technology; way too early before its time. And helmets...is there anything negative about them?
Game demos are readily available for consoles since the time of PS1; over a decade.
Furthermore, the signal to noise ratio was actually kept high also, among other things, closed market (for devs) - with barriers of entry it was sensible to try harder. It was also sensible to focus more on gameplay, since you knew the rough limits in GFX. Most importantly there were strong forces at work - console manufacturers - that promoted development of very good games.
And...console games have generally better resale value, so stumbling on something not very good wasn't that big of a problem.
But hey, keep going if you want to feel more elitist, more wise than those stupid folks who were also buying consoles...
Considering how, supposedly, the ratio of SMS to voice traffic is much higher in India and other developing economies, this isn't that far-fetched as it seems.
Even more, "white" (it's far from white...) skin is the trait that is more "primitive". It's more or less the default state for mammals, when its color is irrelevant (when it's covered in fur).
However, ancestors of humans begun to lose fur at some point, possibly mainly to allow thermoregulation via sweating, necessary for enlarged brain and highly mobile way of living in very warm conditions. But that exposed the skin to solar damage, so it developed protection. Trait which became unnecessary for populations living in different conditions; even in places where it was actually beneficent to return to more "primitive" state of skin color.
I'm not sure if Darwin's theory mattered much in this context? Such comparisons are much older.
And for quite some time there seems to be inverse correlation, in many places, between accepting evolution and being racist; how long was the window when that wasn't the case?
Are you sexist if you do not want to treat males and females the same by running a co-ed 100m race at the Olympics?
...yes, you are. That comes simply from completely neutral look at definitions of sexism
(though what you suggest could be only part of the solution - for example, not only making all disciplines co-ed, but also balancing the kinds of disciplines at the Olympics so that the overall number of medalists would be split roughly equal between the sexes)
Not the only time in Italy - media empire of Berlusconi pointing fingers at external factors, the deal with crosses being obviously the fault of Strasburg and not a case of not following your own damn laws, season immigrants from new EU memberstates being put effectively into slavery because of their own fault of not being able to prevent it...it's always easier to look for blame abroad.
And when you do you actually get to win the popularity contest...
Since stock market is a game of imaginary monetary values and FB involves large number of people playing imaginary social life...that could self propel itself nicely, yes/no?;)
...can only send numeric mass pages, not emails...
Though "numeric mass pages" is more fitting to...text messages/SMS, no?;) (and anyway, one would think that what you describe shouldn't be much of a problem; SMS has this nice feature of confirmation of delivery)
Cellphone is good though if you want to contact somebody in an emergency. From that point of view (and of current price realities - 20 Euro for cheapest cellphone (quite sturdy and with very long battery life) + few Euro for prepaid SIM card and recharge that keeps it alive for a year) there's not much reason NOT to have a cellphone... (hint: you can always turn it off if you feel like it)
And, the way you paint it, it appears much less "bleak" (assuming we all wish for FTL...) than it actually is; light speed limit on information, matter, energy transfer - the way things apparently are, regions that "did" FTL from our point of view might as well cease to exist.
Even better, make those lenses so that they emit faint red light "outwards", scaring the crap out of most people that will look into your eyes.
(might be already doable, with "phosphor" & low intensity radiation source, like in Russian watches...not sure about the shielding and the risk of cataract though;/ )
But this isn't FTL as we understand in this discussion; and it happens all the time even in our universe (for the areas of it that are beyond our "horizon") - the space itself got "stretched", no information gets transmitted between the regions, they get causally decoupled...forever.
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Please note that all the time I'm talking specifically about the biosphere.
Probably true - the typical modern nuclear plant will emit roughly ZERO radiation to biosphere as a result of its operation (yes, other industrial processes associated with its construction and operation will emit some radiation, but the amount will be more or less identical for coal plant construction and much higher for its operation/coal mining)
In contrast, emitting significant amounts of radiation to biosphere is a daily routine for coal plant.
Check your facts. Shuttle carries over 20 tons of cargo, which is in ballpark of current heavy launchers and waaaay smaller than what Saturn or Energia could do.
And anyway, those are inadequate examples when talking about risk of nuclear power. In categories of risk - Shuttle is actually quite comparable to other launch systems but its complexity and cost didn't give us anything. Helmet costs almost nothing, doesn't get in your way, but significantly lessens the risk. Don't use those examples when talking about nukes, they are counterproductive.
It's just a measure of fear arising in populace from understanding vs. not understanding something.
Coal powerplant is like a big campfire, right? So how bad can it be? People were doing it since forever and it's quite nice actually!
But nuclear leads them instantly to Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombings, Chernobyl, that scary warning signs at roentgen lab, and so on. Also, "if I can't understand it, surely nobody else can either"
BTW, I remember a "debate" in national TV here few years back. Anti-nuke zealots didn't even know what radiation is when asked.
You do realize that typical coal fired powerplant emits more radioactive waste to the biosphere in one day than typical, modern nuclear powerplant will emit in its whole lifetime?
I see and understand what you're generally saying, but how does that follow from Space Shuttle and helmets?
Space Shuttle is simply obsolete...or rather, was a marriage of advanced concept with inappropriate technology; way too early before its time. And helmets...is there anything negative about them?
In several previous stories Murdoch apparently wanted money from search engine for the "privilege" of directing internet users to his stories.
"Reverse Adsense", if you will...
It's NOT obscurity in this case! "Closed" here describes sandboxing/etc. mechanisms, which might just as well be OSS (AppArmour, SELinux)
Game demos are readily available for consoles since the time of PS1; over a decade.
Furthermore, the signal to noise ratio was actually kept high also, among other things, closed market (for devs) - with barriers of entry it was sensible to try harder. It was also sensible to focus more on gameplay, since you knew the rough limits in GFX. Most importantly there were strong forces at work - console manufacturers - that promoted development of very good games.
And...console games have generally better resale value, so stumbling on something not very good wasn't that big of a problem.
But hey, keep going if you want to feel more elitist, more wise than those stupid folks who were also buying consoles...
Considering how, supposedly, the ratio of SMS to voice traffic is much higher in India and other developing economies, this isn't that far-fetched as it seems.
Even more, "white" (it's far from white...) skin is the trait that is more "primitive". It's more or less the default state for mammals, when its color is irrelevant (when it's covered in fur).
However, ancestors of humans begun to lose fur at some point, possibly mainly to allow thermoregulation via sweating, necessary for enlarged brain and highly mobile way of living in very warm conditions. But that exposed the skin to solar damage, so it developed protection. Trait which became unnecessary for populations living in different conditions; even in places where it was actually beneficent to return to more "primitive" state of skin color.
Hm, since there are certainly web frameworks for C++, you shouldn't be too surprised if you stumble once on one for asm ;)
...which is largely due to external factors.
(not saying .Net isn't nice, but ask yourself if it would do that well if it came from some small 3rd party dev)
What is "common" nowadays?
I suspect large part of roots reggae might...surprise you. Heck, don't be surprised at hearing "kill whitey", etc. in lyrics of quite known musicians.
I'm not sure if Darwin's theory mattered much in this context? Such comparisons are much older.
And for quite some time there seems to be inverse correlation, in many places, between accepting evolution and being racist; how long was the window when that wasn't the case?
Not generally disagreeing with you, but...
Are you sexist if you do not want to treat males and females the same by running a co-ed 100m race at the Olympics?
...yes, you are. That comes simply from completely neutral look at definitions of sexism
(though what you suggest could be only part of the solution - for example, not only making all disciplines co-ed, but also balancing the kinds of disciplines at the Olympics so that the overall number of medalists would be split roughly equal between the sexes)
Not the only time in Italy - media empire of Berlusconi pointing fingers at external factors, the deal with crosses being obviously the fault of Strasburg and not a case of not following your own damn laws, season immigrants from new EU memberstates being put effectively into slavery because of their own fault of not being able to prevent it...it's always easier to look for blame abroad.
And when you do you actually get to win the popularity contest...
Since stock market is a game of imaginary monetary values and FB involves large number of people playing imaginary social life...that could self propel itself nicely, yes/no? ;)
...can only send numeric mass pages, not emails...
Though "numeric mass pages" is more fitting to...text messages/SMS, no? ;) (and anyway, one would think that what you describe shouldn't be much of a problem; SMS has this nice feature of confirmation of delivery)
Cellphone is good though if you want to contact somebody in an emergency. From that point of view (and of current price realities - 20 Euro for cheapest cellphone (quite sturdy and with very long battery life) + few Euro for prepaid SIM card and recharge that keeps it alive for a year) there's not much reason NOT to have a cellphone... (hint: you can always turn it off if you feel like it)
And, the way you paint it, it appears much less "bleak" (assuming we all wish for FTL...) than it actually is; light speed limit on information, matter, energy transfer - the way things apparently are, regions that "did" FTL from our point of view might as well cease to exist.
But imagine the reaction to faint red glow of your eyes...
Even better, make those lenses so that they emit faint red light "outwards", scaring the crap out of most people that will look into your eyes.
(might be already doable, with "phosphor" & low intensity radiation source, like in Russian watches...not sure about the shielding and the risk of cataract though ;/ )
Don't hold your breath; from your description it seems the US system took their lessons from religions, and look how quickly they react...
But this isn't FTL as we understand in this discussion; and it happens all the time even in our universe (for the areas of it that are beyond our "horizon") - the space itself got "stretched", no information gets transmitted between the regions, they get causally decoupled...forever.