Hate to break it to you all but lots of recent planes are composed of significant amounts of carbon composites.... Not as much as our favorite problem child, the 787, but enough to change the radiation penetration behavior of the fuselage.
That said, neither 1/4 inch of aluminum or composite is going to do much to a high energy gamma ray.
How do I trust YOUR 'educated friends'? Maybe they're scammers, maybe they're legit. If I am researching a subject that I am unfamiliar with and unfamiliar with the top echelon folks in the field, how do I break into their web of trust to find a competent journal?
Oh we know what we want to do. More basic research.
This, OTOH is just a typical presidential PR stunt. A 'dream team' approach. Well, that doesn't even work so well in sports and science isn't a basketball game.
It's just a way to 1) make noise 2) make some more noise and 3) toss some money to some politically connected friends.
Yeah, but the stupid FA just said the crabs were fed 'carbon'. So we really don't know what happened.
In the spirit of serendipity, I'm going to suggest that this was discovered when a confused research assistant dumped the charcoal briquets in the pail instead of putting them in the grill. Two days later and giant crabs have taken over the subdivision.
Could be a reality show next year. Better plot line than some I've seen.
If the doctor doesn't ruin your life, then you don't get to ruin his day. Works for both 'concerns'.
Not that I'm sure the touted system will work as planned (it never does) but trying to minimize bad outcomes is sort of the whole point to improving medical practice.
and products like this are already below $100 [and its very appealing]
You are just missing one small detail here. The presumed price of the iWatch (presuming it even exists) will be MORE expensive than everyone else. Thus, Apple will have a built in differentiator from the crowded field. One that they've used before to good effect.
Whether we think it's worth the added price is irrelevant (and I point out that Slashdot's long term ability to predict the popularity of various Apple products is a bit limited).
This comes up every time we talk about this problem.
Israel is not a good model for the US. It is the size of New Jersey with a single International airport. Their admittedly effective system cannot be used in the US - it just won't scale and it revolves around racial profiling - another no no in America.
Sounds like Gitmo is the place to be. Lots of educated and devoted people. Would be a good group to work with. Furthermore, I love the Cuban climate and the cigars are to die for.
Yeah, keeping teens from having sex is far more important than keeping them safe from firearms. Priorities, man, where does the constitution say anything about a right to fuck?
There are a couple of things that supersede the US Constitution.
Happily, you're not the one making policy decisions on this.
Ebola comes to mind.
Go back to your corner.
Speaking of corners, Elboa sits in one. It's not a very good bioweapon. Really virulent viruses tend to be crappy weapons. Once you kill your vector, you're pretty much dead yourself unless you simultaneously invoke the deux ex machina of a Zombie Apocalypse.
Now that would be a good bioweapon. Even the CDC agrees with that.
I'm sure that there are certain sequences of nucleic acid or protein that, once synthesized and not "contained" could represent an existential threat to life on this planet.
Speaking of naive. You're sure of this. Just a 'few sequences' and poof, the end of life as we know it?
Slashdot is supported in part by coal industry shills.
You know, if Slashdot were really supported by every flavor of shill that is attributed to this site, then Dice Holdings picked a great meal ticket. Given the fact that Slashdot has just now figured out part of unicode (and then blundered several steps back with the mobile site), I find this a bit hard to believe.
Or maybe Timothy et. al. are just getting rich. Filthy rich. 1% rich.
Just make it look official and let everybody know you're using all the most modern coding tools. For example, your mythical patient could suffer from a burn due to water skis being on fire (ICD 10 code V91.07XA). Or he could have been attacked by a turtle (W5921XA).
Real codes, but it would be rather unlikely to find such traumatic incidents in actual medical practice.
Can't they mix this water into the ocean, diluting it to background levels? Surely the ocean has a certain amount of naturally occurring radioactive materials in it and I'm sure this wouldn't change it much.
When you first heard one of the "a horse walks into a bar" jokes, did you reply by citing a law the bans horses from bars and then explain that the premise of the joke was simply untenable?
I hope that your grasp of sarcasm is better than your grasp of humor.
You see, this is a problem with kids these days. They didn't grow up with "Mr. Ed" or "Green Acres" (or "I Dream of Jeanie" for that matter, but I digress). The subtle twists of cross species humor are just lost on them.
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Hate to break it to you all but lots of recent planes are composed of significant amounts of carbon composites.... Not as much as our favorite problem child, the 787, but enough to change the radiation penetration behavior of the fuselage.
That said, neither 1/4 inch of aluminum or composite is going to do much to a high energy gamma ray.
Let's not go all emo here. We've work to do.
How do I trust YOUR 'educated friends'? Maybe they're scammers, maybe they're legit. If I am researching a subject that I am unfamiliar with and unfamiliar with the top echelon folks in the field, how do I break into their web of trust to find a competent journal?
Oh we know what we want to do. More basic research.
This, OTOH is just a typical presidential PR stunt. A 'dream team' approach. Well, that doesn't even work so well in sports and science isn't a basketball game.
It's just a way to 1) make noise 2) make some more noise and 3) toss some money to some politically connected friends.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Yeah, but the stupid FA just said the crabs were fed 'carbon'. So we really don't know what happened.
In the spirit of serendipity, I'm going to suggest that this was discovered when a confused research assistant dumped the charcoal briquets in the pail instead of putting them in the grill. Two days later and giant crabs have taken over the subdivision.
Could be a reality show next year. Better plot line than some I've seen.
Be sure to leave the lithium batteries inside.
(We never did like that particular autoclave anyway.)
If the doctor doesn't ruin your life, then you don't get to ruin his day. Works for both 'concerns'.
Not that I'm sure the touted system will work as planned (it never does) but trying to minimize bad outcomes is sort of the whole point to improving medical practice.
It's not just BMWs and trophy wives.
Damn it.
This time it is Obama's fault!
and products like this are already below $100 [and its very appealing]
You are just missing one small detail here. The presumed price of the iWatch (presuming it even exists) will be MORE expensive than everyone else. Thus, Apple will have a built in differentiator from the crowded field. One that they've used before to good effect.
Whether we think it's worth the added price is irrelevant (and I point out that Slashdot's long term ability to predict the popularity of various Apple products is a bit limited).
Ah, well, welcome to Slashdot. We don't like nobody. You'll fit right in.
Even if we don't like you.
And sex lasted ...
Well, I've got nothing.
This comes up every time we talk about this problem.
Israel is not a good model for the US. It is the size of New Jersey with a single International airport. Their admittedly effective system cannot be used in the US - it just won't scale and it revolves around racial profiling - another no no in America.
Try again.
Sounds like Gitmo is the place to be. Lots of educated and devoted people. Would be a good group to work with. Furthermore, I love the Cuban climate and the cigars are to die for.
Sign me up!
Someday children will have stories about how their parents met while suing each other for sneezing inappropriately. Times are changing.
My daddy's lawyers are bigger than your daddy's lawyers.
Yeah, keeping teens from having sex is far more important than keeping them safe from firearms. Priorities, man, where does the constitution say anything about a right to fuck?
There are a couple of things that supersede the US Constitution.
Rule 34 is one of them.
Happily, you're not the one making policy decisions on this.
Ebola comes to mind.
Go back to your corner.
Speaking of corners, Elboa sits in one. It's not a very good bioweapon. Really virulent viruses tend to be crappy weapons. Once you kill your vector, you're pretty much dead yourself unless you simultaneously invoke the deux ex machina of a Zombie Apocalypse.
Now that would be a good bioweapon. Even the CDC agrees with that.
That's incredibly naive.
I'm sure that there are certain sequences of nucleic acid or protein that, once synthesized and not "contained" could represent an existential threat to life on this planet.
Speaking of naive. You're sure of this. Just a 'few sequences' and poof, the end of life as we know it?
Dr. Critchon, I thought you were dead.
Slashdot is supported in part by coal industry shills.
You know, if Slashdot were really supported by every flavor of shill that is attributed to this site, then Dice Holdings picked a great meal ticket. Given the fact that Slashdot has just now figured out part of unicode (and then blundered several steps back with the mobile site), I find this a bit hard to believe.
Or maybe Timothy et. al. are just getting rich. Filthy rich. 1% rich.
Or maybe not.
Picked up by pants?
Nuclear concentration by clothing? Could make 'hot to trot' a reality.
Just make it look official and let everybody know you're using all the most modern coding tools. For example, your mythical patient could suffer from a burn due to water skis being on fire (ICD 10 code V91.07XA). Or he could have been attacked by a turtle (W5921XA).
Real codes, but it would be rather unlikely to find such traumatic incidents in actual medical practice.
If it's encrypted, it's fine.
But since it's by a physician, it's likely not encrypted and is a HIPAA violation waiting to happen.
If you see him again, ask him if he understands the concept of data normalization.
Can't they mix this water into the ocean, diluting it to background levels? Surely the ocean has a certain amount of naturally occurring radioactive materials in it and I'm sure this wouldn't change it much.
Been there done that.
On top of the millions of bequarels they've dumped so far. "It's only a little drop in the ocean".
I hope you don't like seafood.
Maybe because he's pushing several orders of magnitude more data through the system than your 20 khz headphones?
Size matters.
All of that is Obama's fault.
When you first heard one of the "a horse walks into a bar" jokes, did you reply by citing a law the bans horses from bars and then explain that the premise of the joke was simply untenable?
I hope that your grasp of sarcasm is better than your grasp of humor.
You see, this is a problem with kids these days. They didn't grow up with "Mr. Ed" or "Green Acres" (or "I Dream of Jeanie" for that matter, but I digress). The subtle twists of cross species humor are just lost on them.
And no, Dick Cheney doesn't count.