We do know what radiation does. We do know the dose is insignificant compared to want you received from space. It really doesn't accumulate much at all. To be a concern it would need to accumulate trillions of fold increase. It can't do that. And these things have decay profiles on the order of a human life, not geological time scales.

It really is something we do know. For example that bad diet is *way* more of a risk. Driving ever in your life is more risk. We *know* from the *data* that this does not pose any measurable risk at all at these levels.

You guys are getting all your facts out of kilter. Iodine is the one that does the Thyroid thing and it doesn't bio accumulate at all (just take lots of non radioactive Iodine). Caesium-137 get distributed throughout the body and also does not bio accumulate (70 day half life), this can be reduced to a 30 day half life with treatment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C....

There is a lot of data for the threshold model with ionizing radiation exposure, but because of liability reasons no one is going to make policy with it.

If its a great book, then it won't translate to a movie well at all. Good movies are either written that way from the start, heavily adapted, or only a short story.

The problem with this idea, is that it would make a great food source to the much faster replicating, and therefor evolving traditional life forms.

If the news you get makes you stupid... it is because you are stupid.

bio-fouling happens on moving surfaces as well. It will be expensive keeping them clean.

And now you have some of the most expensive electricity ever.

You would be surprised how much can't be 3d printed. For example even if you can print aluminum, you couldn't print the outside edge of a iPhone. It is forged to get the right set of crystal structure and work hardening to give it the properties it needs.

And then there are electronics and all the different materials you would need. It won't be quite the revolution you think it will be. It is not like they are new or anything.

We do need a good open source cad program. While not cad both these projects (Art of Illusion and Blender) are fairly good. Blender is getting so much work put into over the last few years, and is getting pretty impressive. If they decided to add a "CAD" mode. It would be implemented fairly fast.

Of course even really good free/cheap CAD does not make everyone a CAD designer or whatever. 3D printers at home will do what most printers do at home. Print clip art (other peoples models) or photos (3d scan).

using just a camera you can 3d scan things.

So your measuring your reproductive potential with how much money you have? Well i guess you can afford a lot of blue pills, but last I heard hookers tend to want you to use protection or are on the pill.

It is far better to be happy than wealthy.

I think you should. They are not as advertised.

High pulp does. I love high pulp... Basically just blend that fruit... mmmmmmmmmmm

The whole point of a drinking game, is for it to "go to shit" or at least some shit to go down when someone, or a few people get really tanked. Life is too short, even with moderate drinking, not to have fun every step of the way.

Bullshit. Plenty of fields require much more confidence. 1 in 20 is something that happens lots. Its like rolling a 1 on a 20 sided die. Many fields use the so called 4 to 6 nines (99.99 to 99.9999) and other use 4 to 6 sigma....

Don't be so hard on the US. They really do provide a lot of funding compared to many countries. Sure it is distributed in perhaps not the best way (few very large grants), but its pretty substantial. For example my PhD was 100% funded under a NSF grant despite the fact that i was not in the US. We also had the requirement that we had to make all findings and contributions reasonable public.

I can't quite see how non profit driven medical research would need patents?