From the 30-year half-life and the current technology used, we can be pretty certain that it is a Cs137 source. They also stipulate that the source emits radiation comparable to 10 X-rays. This for a person at 1 m from the source for an hour. This is an indication for the activity of the source which is called Air KERMA rate (which is the current SI unit for apparent activity). 1 X-ray foto is roughly 0.001 mSv (milliSievert) so we have an Air Kerma Rate of 0.01mSv/hr. Comparing this to the amount of radiation received over a year just by walking on this earth (2.4mSv/yr) it is pretty low. The only issue could be to have it near you for a long length of time and very close (1/r^2 -law: i.e. the deposited radiation decreases with the distance following an inverse square law). So no picking up and putting in your pocket. The energy of the gamma rays is relatively high (careful the energy of the gamma-ray does not relate to the dose delivered). This is very reminiscent of the Kramatorsk incident where a comparable lost source was incorporated in the walls of a building. http://www.ntc.kiev.ua/downloa...
Yes IAAMP (I Am A Medical Physicist)
No wonder they are happy:
"I cut down trees, I wear high heels
Suspenders and a bra
I wish I were a girlie
Just like my dear papa"
Did they bring back movemail. The latest upgrade messed up the complete system. Now at Th68 not upgrading.
It's all parallel now on massive GPU's?
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Of course the Belgians with their cunning engineered all of this in a backroom of a belgian cafe drinking Stella (out of the correct glasses!) , eating chips with Mayonnaise and beating their wives.
It goes even further!!
Conspiracy theorists will get all excited.
The head of the lab in the link is Marc Van Ranst
From Wikipedia:
Marc Van Ranst is a Belgian virologist and epidemiologist at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Rega Institute for Medical Research. On 1 May 2007 he was appointed as Interministerial comissionar by the Belgian federal government to prepare Belgium for an influenza pandemic. (sic)
He now is invited regularly on the Belgian television to prepare the population as he is the government advisor.
Reminds me of the question on StackOverflow: Why is it that a radio-active compound always decays with the proper half life attributed to it?
appear.in
and I quote:
"Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. "
Hm Firefox/Android ?
The article clearly stipulates what radiation and device was used.
It is a standard Trubeam linac (Varian, Palo Alto) with Cone beam CT. Which is currently the most installed linac in American RT centers. So not extremely expensive and part of the standard machinery. So no bragg peaks in sight. I would think twice of doing this with a proton machine. (BTW I am a medical physicist and do this for a living for the last 28 years.). So a single treatment which depending on the country is between $5,000 to $25,000 . This using the equipment already available in most centers. So this is indeed SBRT, fortunately the pin point accuracy and planning has changed in the years so we are much better. BTW I never considered our patients to be guinae pigs.
Bananas are rich in K-40 isotopes an alpha emitter
1 banana = 0.1 microSievert
5000 bananas = 0.5 mSv
Limit for non-background contributions per year 1mSv (0.3 mSv in the UK, but they are special ).
Was that not something introduces about 20 years ago by Silicon Graphics? Or am I getting old
http://manx.classiccmp.org/mir...
Never heard of the Chromatic scale? Schoenberg, Berg and others did.
All these scales do not divide the tones evenly in the frequency spectrum. They have to leave some out. Interestingly enough nor does the twelve note system, which does an even distribution in a logarithmic scale (base 12). At first hearing twelve tone music goes nowhere and slightly grates on you. After a while you start seeing (hearing) the purpose, but it is an acquired taste (no easy listening here). For an interesting read: The rest is noise, Alex Ross. That's minus the math
"These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vastly hyperintelligent pandimensional beings."
Do YOU feel manipulated?
Signed: A male (smelly) scientist
From dmesg
[ 421.406145] netcat: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
[ 421.406149] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
[ 421.416664] [netcat]: netcat - Cycles Per Instruction - Kernel Module Edition - 2014
[ 421.416668] [netcat]: netcat is Brandon Lucia, Andrew Olmstead, and David Balatero
[ 421.416670] [netcat]: On the web at http://netcat.co/
[ 421.416671] [netcat]: 'ogg123 -
So yes
And on the seventh day, He exited from append mode.
