I like the way the walls go out. Gives you an open feeling. Firefly is a good design. People don't appreciate the substance of things. Objects in space. People miss out on what's solid.

Early ,'Objects In Space'


Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Typo Boy - Sep 14, 2013 10:07:35 pm PDT #5303 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Ginger, the Academy of Sciences does not agree with you on this one. Low level radiation is now pretty much agreed by scientific consensus to work just the way you say it does not being hit by one hammer over 30 months is about the same as being hit 30 hammers in one month. There maybe a little difference - maybe being hit by one hammer once a month for 30 months is like being hit by 20 hammers. But not a lot of difference from linear [link]

Calculations in this report suggest that approximately one cancer (star) per 100 people could result from a single exposure to 0.1 Sv of low-LET radiation above background average, assuming a sex and age distribution similar to that
of the entire U.S. population, the BEIR VII lifetime risk model predicts that approximately 1 person in 100 would be expected to develop cancer (solid cancer or leukemia) from a dose of 0.1 Sv above background, while approximately 42 of the 100 individuals would be expected to develop solid cancer or leukemia from other causes. Lower doses would produce proportionally lower risks.

So standard assumption as of 2006 was the Linear Threshold Model, the one you are rejecting. Since Academy links are trick, if it does not work you can google " Health Risks from Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation:BEIR VII Phase 2 (2006)" Now there are dissenter - quite a number of them arguing that there is indeed a threshold that below it the body is self healing and radiation may even have a homeopathic effect. Similarly there are dissenters who say that below a certain level the bodies defenses fail and that effects are even greater per fraction of a Sievert at very low doses. The linear No Threshold appears to be the conservative estimate at the moment. I know the French Academy of Sciences disagree, but at any rate that the LNT is false if far from settled science.

More recent EPA 2009 [link] That is the "One hammer per month for 30 months is like 20 hammers" version - That is at low doses the effect is 1.5 less than at high doses. Still pretty close to linear.


Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 15, 2013 2:23:04 am PDT #5304 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Plutonium is not water soluble. It also mainly emits alpha particles, which means it has to be ingested to do any harm.

Isn't the chemical toxicity of plutonium much greater than the radiation danger from such close contact? I remember it being listed as the most poisonous substance back when I read Guiness records for entertainment.


Zenkitty - Sep 15, 2013 2:23:54 am PDT #5305 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Note to self: don't drink plutonium.


Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 15, 2013 2:24:20 am PDT #5306 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

YOLO.


Sheryl - Sep 15, 2013 4:58:42 am PDT #5307 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Quiet Sunday here. After groceries, I'm getting a trim.(one or two inches off my hair, just to even things out.)


-t - Sep 15, 2013 5:32:14 am PDT #5308 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I am quite pleased with my cheesecake so far, now to see how it handles freezing. Quite a lot to do today, but I feel pretty energetic and it's not supposed to be hot, so maybe I won't leave too much undone...


hippocampus - Sep 15, 2013 5:59:31 am PDT #5309 of 30000
not your mom's socks.

Egad. HPF has asked for an astronomy party for her ninth birthday. I guess we're doing something right? Now what do we do?

Her birthday is the night of the Leonids, which will start after the 5 or 6 nine and ten year olds go to bed. And it will be cold with a full moon. We have one decent telescope. And a bunch of star cookie cutters.


flea - Sep 15, 2013 6:22:41 am PDT #5310 of 30000
information libertarian

I say outsource. [link] or [link]


Amy - Sep 15, 2013 8:37:08 am PDT #5311 of 30000
Because books.

Are we back?


Theodosia - Sep 15, 2013 8:39:17 am PDT #5312 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I'm back. I don't know about the rest of you.

Definitely having a CFS day. I got out early and did some very necessary food shopping, but my get-up seems to have gone.