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DreamSmoker

(841 posts)
1. Much more dangeruos that you can imagine..
Sun Apr 19, 2015, 04:20 PM
Apr 2015

At the same time that Water continues to keep the rest of that pile of Rods cool..
If any of them move and touch?? This can start all over again...

I am the only Private Citizen I know who took measurements here in Pomona California back then..
I measured a slight rise in Back Ground Radiation.. Interesting thing was I had been doing this for months before the Accident.. So I had a good base to start.. It was barely noticeable unless you were doing as I did and had a good feel for what was normal.. It was in the counts per hour that it was noticeable.

Though no reports.. This rise stayed for months..
Today its not noticeable anymore like it was..
But I still take my Kelp Pills everyday...

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
8. The geometry required to achieve criticality with fuel at that enrichment level is a little more
Sun Apr 19, 2015, 11:07 PM
Apr 2015

precise than any two or three rods simply touching.

MisterP

(23,730 posts)
3. silence, you creationist hippie "Ancient Aliens"-watching postmodernist!
Sun Apr 19, 2015, 04:44 PM
Apr 2015

Dow has won Vietnam, Monsanto has ended world hunger, freeways have ended congestion, and the Martian embassy is up and running!

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
5. Radiation is healthy -- even nutritious!
Sun Apr 19, 2015, 05:12 PM
Apr 2015
- Why if it weren't for radiation we'd all be just amoebas now. Or, some kind of reptile......




Mnemosyne

(21,363 posts)
11. And I have no bananas or potato chips here, damn it.
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 04:08 PM
Apr 2015


See no one did show up to 'debunk' after all, wonder why?

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
7. Decay heat is pretty high. The inside of the containment is like the worlds most deadly sauna.
Sun Apr 19, 2015, 11:06 PM
Apr 2015

You can see the steam rising, and the water that condenses out at the top raining back down to repeat the cycle.

2naSalit

(86,586 posts)
9. As far as the concern
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 01:39 AM
Apr 2015

for population decline, that can't be all bad. I am not thrilled with the manner in which it is taking place but the end result of fewer humans... that will probably end up being a good thing for all other life forms on the planet.

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
12. The planet can handle it.
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 06:41 PM
Apr 2015

It us that are so fucking stupid/afraid that we don't know how to accomplish it. Our stupidity lies in the fact that we've allowed all the things we've learned from 100,000+ years of evolution and learning everything we know via error/death/maiming to be taken from us by elites through their puppet governments and replace with worthless knowledge designed to put you in a cubicle for the rest of your life. That's their idea of a successful existence, being of value to them.

Our fear lies in the fact that we already have the technology to feed, clothe, house and educate everyone on the planet. But we've been hoodwinked since birth with stupid belief systems like religion and even science is now becoming a dogma (captured as it is now by the rich and powerful to control us even more than they already do), more than a tool for discovery. We're afraid to demand our rights as humans. We allow a handful of people claim they have the right to all the earth's resources and we can't do shit about it.

- As long as we accept these premises, we're little more than their cattle......



[font color=gray size=3]A Different Perspective[/font]

If Everyone In The World Lived In Texas

If you divided the square footage of the State of Texas by the world's population, what would be the square foot area available per person?

Texas land area is: 261,232 square miles
1 square mile = 640 acres: 261,232 x 640 = 167,188,480 square acres

1 acre = 43,560 square feet: 167,188,480 x 43,560 = 7,282,730,188,800 square feet

World Population: 7,000,000,000

Thus: 7,282,730,188,800 square feet divided by 7,000,000,000 people = 1040.39 square feet per person

Conclusions:
The purpose of this exercise is not for anyone to move to Texas, but rather to demonstrate by example just how extreme the gulf is between our true size and impact upon the earth, relative to its ability to sustain us. Particularly if we managed and treated our mother Gaia as a living heritage for us all. Every cell in our bodies contains all the particulates of this planet. We are it and it is us. We ARE the planet.

Yet we are constantly told that we're using everything up and tearing everything down. A drag on the planet. It's all our fault, the way things are. And we need to sacrifice some more. But few consider the dynamics of what this means relative to the size and variability of our planet.

The view of resource limits is primarily a lie that is perpetrated to keep the existing system in-place and running. Profit, ownership and capitalism all require competition, scarcity and demand as the central theme of society. The need for the concept of scarce goods makes us fight each other to obtain them while driving up prices and resulting in ''wealth.'' For some. But the truth is no one owns anything. On this planet nor anywhere else. We woke up here one day, and there everything was, already pre-packaged for us.

It occurs to me that if the world's population could fit inside an area the size of Texas giving each person 1000 or so square feet each to live in (about size of the average 2BR apartment), that would put the ratio between all the people of the world to its resources in a mind-boggling skew in favor of people, thousands and thousands of times over.

Think of all that vacant land out there and the resources upon and within them if everyone's living in Texas? No one in all of North America. No one in Europe, Asia, Russia. Australia is a blank, and not a soul in all of Africa nor South America. In theory, we could all fit quite nicely in Texas. Of all places.

On paper we are all theoretical billionaires, in-common. So how can there be homelessness in a land of vacant houses? How can there be hunger, when 40% of the food we grow never leaves the fields? This is our world of scarcity that we've been sold as ''reality.'' Given the truth, why does this planet have any poor people? At all? We all know the answer to that question.

[font size=4]AND THAT'S AT THE CORE OF ALL OUR PROBLEMS[/font].

~DeSwiss

snappyturtle

(14,656 posts)
13. K&R I think that many people believe Fukushima has been resolved one way
Wed Apr 22, 2015, 10:56 AM
Apr 2015

or another OR not all that dangerous. WHY has Fukushima droppoed off the news? Maybe TPTB with their war agenda don't want the minions to trouble their minds over radiation.

Thanks for #12 too.

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