Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org and keep reading!

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×

Comment Re:already done (Score 0) 133

If the outside power was not cut, the plant wasn't doomed ... or was it?

Are you trying to make an idiot out of yourself?

You claimed the plant was not at all affected by the earthquake, which is wrong.

There was plenty of structural damage by a quake nearly 500 miles away ...

The rest we all know, not much to talk about. Except your ignorance ofc.

Comment Re:already done (Score 1) 133

It won't.
The reactors at Fukushima did not feel anything from the earth quake.
They where 450 miles away from the epicenter. They suffered because surrounding pillars for electric wires collapsed ... they got damaged enough to be broken beyond repair and finally they got hit by a tsunami destroying the emergency cooling.
So an earthquake that was at the site certainly below 6 on the Richter Scale already did server damage.
The news that is survived a 9.x quake is a myth, the 9.x quake was as far away as the distance between New York and Cleveland Conneticut.
So you have a quake in Conneticut and a plant in New York fails (mainly because the plower lines around it got nocked down) and you claim: the plant survived a quake ...
Sorry it did not.
Even without the tsunami nocking out the emergency generators, the plant was doomed.
Even more important: Japans government failed to place there alternative diesel engines. Can't be so hard to drive them in with trucks, every military has such things. Even if we had needed to fly them in from Germany with Trans All's and using tanker air planes for refueling and parachuting them down would have been a no brainer and likely done in 36h if there had not been a catastrophic put your head into the sand no nothing happened in the end it will not be so bad ... stupid attitude.
With swift reaction the rest of the world had saved the plants from disaster (if not the cooling pipes are/where broken themselves)
Can't be so hard to bring a couple of ships to anchor and power the cooling or bring in trucks or really parachute down emergency equipment.
IMHO the plant manager and the managers of the company should be shot at a wall for not disclosing the severity of the situation in time.

Comment Re:already done (Score -1, Troll) 133

Natural radioactivity is mainly something that hits you from the 'outside' there is a rock or even the bricks of your house that emits something ... it hits your skin.
The exception of course is Radon, a gas produced by decay and radioactive itself. So houses build of particular bricks emit Radon, you inhale it, so it is inside of you. But also Radon easy escapes from the building, it is not building up a concentration.

Here we are talking about stuff that is getting inside of your body, and there it will kill you.

Your body is full of potassium-40, carbon-14, thorium, uranium and their decay products. If you're so scared of radioactivity that you must demand Cs-137 to decay to one-millionth of the current concentrations before you feel safe, then go commit suicide. There is no place in the solar system that will satisfy your demands. You, sir, are a lunatic.

The lunatic is you, as you have no clue.
First of all a healthy person has no Uranium or Thorium in his body.
Second, you are again mixing up external radiation by natural sources with radioactive elements incorporated into the body, you simply have no clue how to distinguish one from the other. So you don't qualify for this discussion.

Beyond me is why you claim such nonsense: This means that it will be dispersed in the environment at a much greater rate than it will be concentrated in humans. In fact, it is not even detectable around Fukushima Daiichi.
Sorry, you are an idiot and troll, should delete the rest of my post, as that claim of yours nails it.
The current evacuation zone is something like 40km around the plant. The actual contaminated area is a stripe going for 300km north east from the plant covering Osaka, Tokyo etc.
The fallout is measurable every where in north Japan. You are simply a complete idiot, good day moron!

Comment Re:Duh (Score 1) 160

Perhaps we are 'crosstalking' each other or the article, which I only skimmed uses a different terminology.

Muscle memory as we athletes call it, is a a very special memory close to the muscles involved, it is not in the brain.

Signal speed from the brain to a muscle is close to 1/10th of a second ... that would never work.

but it's in the brain. Most likely in optimized synaptic networks in or around the motor control area, but the specific location and mechanism hasn't been nailed down.
Perhaps you mean something different with the term 'muscle memory' then?
Muscle memory is close to the muscles, it is hard wired into the nervous system attached to those muscles. Easy to test with an amputated limb and a simple 'correct' modulated electric impulse.
The brain area we both are talking about is known since decades. Your 'has not been nailed' down point is wrong.
It is an area in the brain that resembles a walnut sized are in the brain that looks on a positron emitting tomography like an embryo. It physically resembles the human body (embryo posture) in shape.
If you practice certain activities like playing guitar or piano the corresponding area in that region grows. BUT: that is not muscle memory ... that is the brain part of a skill.

Sorry: I studied this or I'm studying this since 30 years ... unfortunately I lack the proper english terms, I guess you can google for your self for references. After all, hence my complained about said article: all this is well known since ages ...

Comment Re:Cancer Hope (Score 1) 71

Well, our GP might be a moron, who knows?
But mixing affect with effect is a common typo. On most keyboards the letters are close together.
Also it is possible he is not a native english speaker (very likely when he says: the cancer is arrested) for those it is common to mix up words, which sound or are spelled similar.

Comment Re:Chemisty (Score 1) 71

It is not only handling/manufacturing of Titan that is difficult.
Deposited worthwhile of exploiting are RARE. Yes, in total our planet is rich on Titanium ... it is the 9th abundant element on earth ...
Reusing shavings from milling is certainly 10 if not 100 times more easy than refining Titanium from raw 'ores'.

Comment Re:Should Hate be left alone? (Score 1) 512

In some way it masks a 'terrible problem' however the fact that we know about the huge amount of deletions makes it visible as well.

The problem behind the problem is: the laws go both ways. If the moderators of the publishers would not delete defaming posts, the publishers would be liable for publishing racist or hate speech, hence they easily would get sued.

Comment Re:maybe (Score 4, Insightful) 512

That mandate is false and debunked since two weeks already, it never existed.
Hint: genital mutilation is not an islamic thing but an africans natural religions/tribal thing.
I don't know many 'arabs' got killed in this YEAR in Syria, but I know the death toll in Palestine was over 1000 in the last two weeks, perhaps you can enlighten us how that will scale for the rest of the year?

Comment Re:expert skill-based integration (Score 1) 160

Well, you can still be creative :)
The founder of Aikido once said figuratively: "in the moment of contact with your attacker, you create a new technique." A unique - once for your lifetime - technique.

From the fact that for an outsider such techniques look similar in the sense that you can group them into categories of similar techniques come the principles, the names for those categories, the names for those techniques.

Sounds that you are really good in martial arts, I wonder where the urge for street fights come from? :)

Comment Re:Duh (Score 1) 160

Yes, there is no mentioning of special neurones. Hence the article is misleading at best, because there ARE special brain areas with special interconnected neurons responsible for the 'unconciesnous control' of the interaction with the ball. Hence I suggested THOSE brain activity researchers should have cross checked with other researchers. The special developed brain regions for extraordinary motoric control are known since at least 20 years!

Regarding muscle memory, that is 'memory' behind or starting at the spine. It is ingrained into the nerves connecting the limbs with the spine. It is half an effect based on increased intra musculaer coordination of the muscle fibres themselves and half a kind of compression algorithm on the signal traveling along the nerves.

Both is trained especially good if you practice in slow motion. Ofc. as mentioned in other posts you need a high count of repetition (and regular practicing, both effects degrade if not practiced, the first one much faster than the second one)

While your second paragraph makes some sense it simplifies to much. Most important: muscle memory as I pointed out above is 'stored' - more precicely: hardwired - in the neurons/nerves directly attached to the muscles. Not in the brain.
Patterns for complex movements and sending the 'correct triggers' those are stored/hardwired in a special brain region.
If you don't practice, the brain is the fastest to lose that hardwiring.

Slashdot Top Deals

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. -- Ambrose Bierce

Working...