The problem with131I is that it gets incorporated in your thyroid gland, and as you write, it is very hot and can do a lot of damage in a shorte time. The problem with 90Sr is that it chemically behaves like calcium, and is accumulated in your teeth and bones, and also contaminates milk. Although it's not as hot as 131I, 90Sr can stay in your body for a very long time, and do damage over time. The problem with 137Cs is that it is chemically very soluble, and can make its way into all cells of the body via various ion channels and transporters, and it spreads easily in the environment where it remains quite hot during the time of a human life-span.

Hey, that's great. In fourty years I'll be dead.

to buy son.com . It hosts some kind of search engine. Looks like it's been parked.

".. we can only hope the core of Betelgeuse undergoes catastrophic failure in our lifetime."

I have mixed feelings about this. Although it would be quite spectacular and interesting to witness the demise of Betelgeuse, Orion, one of the most beautiful constellations, would be destroyed. That would be extremely sad.

Apparently, Palin didn't think it was necessary to know more. The death list is gone from her web site.

... and I'm at the end of my lifecycle.

Ah. Forget about it. TL;DR

It sounds like the Boost project might be something for you:

http://www.boost.org/

The weight of the ashes of an average male is around 3 kg.

That's much too much material for a single vinyl record. So either they throw away most of the ashes, or it's a scam altogether.

That is simply not correct. It is very, very easy to produce a non-blog website with Joomla. Wordpress is a blog system, and Drupal needs lots of work to not be one.

Microsoft is going the way of SCO. When their business started to crumble, they stopped innovating and started suing. Certain death of the company is at the end of that route.

Who's talking about blame?

DRM is more like forcing women to wear a chastity belt, but everyone who has paid you for a key can rape them...

Wow. You can glean information from the Internets. I didn't realize that.

I agree. The school could have spun it around and used this to promote science teaching. There's a great deal of interesting science in the SETI project, (although I don't believe they will ever find an signals from distant civilizations.) "Our school is searching for E.T.!" The kids would have loved that.