No, the atmosphere would shield you from the gamma rays. However, a side effect of that would be the generation of massive amounts of ozone-destroying chemicals in the upper atmosphere. The subsequent lack of ozone and massive UV exposure would be the real risk, especially because almost all of our food grows in sunlight.
It makes things worse. Meddling with our precious bodily fluids is known to be one of the greatest risks for starting a nuclear war.
name and shame man
You are aware that Python will let you arbitrarily indent code within parentheses like that to your heart's content? And that, contrary what the GP said, Python does indeed support multi-line strings?
My main point is that I'm not going to concern myself with anything that's as unlikely as me dying of an accident by the end of today.
The odds of getting killed or permanently disabled in a motor vehicle accident from driving just a couple of miles to get one of these tickets is higher than the odds of winning as well. So, no thanks. I'll pass.
I've never found a still valid lottery ticket on the ground.
It kind of sucks reaching at Rush Limbaugh, but he has declared there is no journalism in the media any more. It is all media narrative reports from media narrative reporters.
Well, he would know, since he pretty much invented replacing journalism with BS.
This whole topic is really putting the cart before the horse.
Nobody has yet demonstrated viable D-T fusion. He3 fusion is orders of magnitude harder than that.
It will be many decades before this could possibly be an issue.
And if that redistribution did not happen, those drivers would be out of jobs among other things.
That's the economic system that was used in the USSR.
The taxes collected are a redistribution of wealth from automobile drivers to truckers because trucks cause FAR MORE than four times the damage.
This is about the fourth time I've had to spell this out for you. Instead of reflexively reaching for your keyboard, start at the top of the previous paragraph and READ. IT. AGAIN. until it sinks in. If that's even possible for you.
You're also high if you think that the total tax and borrowed money spent on roads in this country is anywhere near covered by fuel taxes and fees.
Tiny little compact places full of small people in tiny apartments got fiber optic sooner than the gigantic US with lots of space between places that would be hooked up, and competing options for TV and data.
But somehow they were still behind in Manhattan
Only four times as many fees so they can base their whole living off of socialist government entitlements is a joke.
And it's an established fact that trucks cause orders of magnitude as much damage as cars. Not four times. Face it, you're just wrong.
Math: Can you even understand it?
Truck axle weight limit: 20,000 lb per axle.
Prius axle weight: 1600 lb per axle
Road damage is proportional to (20,000 / 1,600) ^ 4, or 24,400:1.
So the truck should pay $8,000,000 per year if the prius pays $328. Obviously, the Prius is getting overcharged and the truck undercharged.
Your entire elaborate argument is based on a false premise.
As I said, the road damage is exponential with the weight. It is proportional to the axle weight to the fourth power.
Fuel economy is roughly linear with weight, or even less than linear (big rigs get much better MPG per ton than smaller vehicles). Therefore, fuel taxes don't begin to recover the extra costs of heavier vehicles.
Who has made the stupidest argument you've ever heard now? You might look in the mirror.
We will have solar energy as soon as the utility companies solve one technical problem -- how to run a sunbeam through a meter.
