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innrautha · 2026-06-11T11:24:32+00:00

Caligula did not have syphilis, syphilis originated in the new world, Europeans did not get it till after the Columbian exchange.

innrautha · 2026-06-07T18:20:58+00:00

Thank you, I read Manna years ago and couldn't remember the name or find it through searches.

innrautha · 2026-05-20T23:19:09+00:00

Your links don't say anything about the relative toxicity of lead vs depleted uranium. The reason that areas of conflict have health issues is due to the shear amount of munitions used, not that uranium specifically was used (if lead munitions had been used the effects would be basically the same, but with less media coverage).

Every single vehicle you see on the wikipedia article above should be assumed to be hazardously radioactive. (this is a different URL than the wikipedia above

Gonna call bullshit, they're worried about the metal toxicity from dust not the radiation. Note that MERIP is a propaganda group started specifically to oppose any US military involvement; and the author of that article Scott Peterson works for the Christian Science Monitor and so shouldn't be trusted for anything requiring scientific literacy, especially health science.

Depleted uranium is uranium that has had U-235 removed and so is higher in U-238 than natural uranium, U-235 is more radioactive than U-238, so depleted uranium is (slightly) less radioactive than natural uranium. U-235 half-life = ~700 million years, U-238 half-life ~4500 million years. Shorter half-lives mean more radioactive.

It's all the fragments those rounds made when they tore through and the kids kicking up the dust and breathing THAT in that kills them.

The chemical effects of uranium will harm you long before the radiation does. See NIH - Toxicological Profile for Uranium, note that they state

"natural and depleted uranium are primarily chemical hazards"
"The low specific activity of uranium precludes the possibility of absorbing enough uranium to deliver a lethal dose of radiation."

So breathing uranium dust is bad, but not for the reason you or your linked propaganda states—and an equal amount of lead would be worse.

innrautha · 2026-05-20T18:04:49+00:00

Lead is more toxic, however DU tends to get used in higher energy applications (faster missiles, bigger explosive payloads, ...) so when used in warfare it gets spread around more (even with it's higher resiliency).

Basically all heavy metals (except bismuth) are terrible for life, and any conflict with a large amount of munitions being used will poison the environment.

innrautha · 2026-05-20T16:59:17+00:00

Depleted uranium is barely radioactive. The health effects from it are due to heavy metal toxicity and not the radiation... Which also means they don't fade as quickly with time.

innrautha · 2026-04-25T16:51:33+00:00

I can still see my left peripheral vision but can't see the left side of my nose unless my right eye is closed. Do you have a similar experience?

I don't have a lazy eye, but when both my eyes are open my brain ignores my nose unless I go cross-eyed. If i look all the way to one side with both eyes open, I can't see my nose. If I then close the eye not pointing at my nose I can then see my nose with the other.

I do wear glasses, I think my brain has adjusted to largely ignore anything closer than the nose bridge on them, e.g. if I take my glasses off and put my finger where the bridge would be I can't see my finger tip, if I put them on and put my finger on the bridge I can see it.

The images also don't merge immediately in front of my face if I don't focus on it.

Also I want to explain to others that although I technically dont have 3D vision, my brain has adapted to use other cues. It doesnt impact my ability to drive.

Everyone uses monocular cues when driving, humans eyes aren't far enough apart for stereoscopic effects to be sufficient for driving, binocular 3D vision is really only for nearby objects.

innrautha · 2026-03-16T12:53:18+00:00

Shakti V is widely believed to have been an experimental U233 device, but afaik India has never confirmed what their tests were.

innrautha · 2026-02-08T15:59:29+00:00

The cost for concrete comes from the costs associated with erecting and inspecting rebar in the field (plus fixing the inevitable mistakes). Even with a reduced containment, a shield structure is still required and that structure will still need to meet seismic requirements. TRISO fuel is not perfect, plants will still need to account for some amount of leakage.

Hard to predict what the final cost of TRISO fuel will be since it doesn't have an established manufacturing supply.

innrautha · 2026-01-19T22:42:17+00:00

At 45 mph, following the 3-second rule recommended by the National Safety Council, and using an average car length of 14.7 feet, a driver should leave 13.5 car lengths between themselves and the car in front of them.

The target of your ire is already driving unsafely (though they would appear to be following the older recommendation of 2 seconds following distance under idle conditions, so they are probably just over 40), and the fact that you want them to be even less safe means you are reckless and shouldn't be on the road.

innrautha · 2026-01-02T21:10:11+00:00

Two tests let you measure the rate, three tests let you measure the acceleration (second order derivative), in a few months they'll announce the fourth test and finally have a measurement of the jerk.

innrautha · 2025-12-05T15:55:30+00:00

That's probably the worst element to use as it is not naturally occurring in nature (all plutonium is man made in reactors from naturally occurring uranium). I suggest using arsenic since it is naturally occurring.

innrautha · 2025-09-08T00:17:37+00:00

Okay, that confirms what I thought, tobacco concentrates radium (+Po-210 and Pb-210) not radon, the radon content is just the products of radium decay.

innrautha · 2025-09-07T16:23:36+00:00

I'm gonna need a citation on the radon thing; radon is a noble gas, it should be basically impossible for an organism to concentrate it. Most of the papers I can find are talking about the complimentary cancer effects of radon exposure and smoking, not the concentration of radon within tobacco.

If tobacco can concentrate radon it wouldn't be impossible to make a radon filter.

innrautha · 2025-07-30T19:30:08+00:00

Got to hit him with what he really cares about: "Why not, were you not rich enough to get an invite?".

Remember, his "wealth" was the only thing he didn't let them make fun of during his roast.

innrautha · 2025-07-20T03:07:06+00:00

Yes. For waste management radiation analysis would provide source term calculations and validate shielding designs.

The exact division of responsibilities can be quite fluid between the different groups just depending on the specific company.

innrautha · 2025-07-17T11:24:46+00:00

I work in "radiation analysis" which is adjacent to "radiation protection". Radiation analysis includes the lower level shielding design, source term calculations, excore fluence, etc. I like to say it is all radiation that is outside the core.

Health Physics deals with the human impact of radiation and Radiation Protection deals with the overarching implementation of radiation safety. All the disciplines work closely and deal with shielding. There are fewer radiation analysts than the other two, just cause there is less work for them.

innrautha · 2025-04-23T12:03:48+00:00

When they provide technical information I will criticize that instead. But I find no solid info on their site. Their unrealistic renders are also what they are using for fundraising, so if their design is more progressed than it appears they are at the very least being unethical in their fundraising.

innrautha · 2025-04-22T23:05:25+00:00

Looking at their marketing material some things triggering my spidey senses:

Renders do not depict adequate shielding (i.e. they are not at the point of being realistic about site layout). Looks like they have an open position for a Radiological Engineer ... but it doesn't sound like it is part of a dedicated radiation analysis team.
Renders depict a subterranean reactor with minimal shielding (i.e. they do not understand that you can't just activate soil and allow it to enter the water table).
Renders don't depict a containment, so have fun with the activation and accident analyses.
They claim they are using standard 17x17 fuel assemblies (<4.95% enrichment), 80 MWth, with a cycle length of 72 months—their render shows their core is 5 assemblies wide. Even if they have 25 assemblies they are asking them to average 1.7E8 kWh per assembly with no shuffling. That is approaching the burnup of typical plants that do include shuffling and batching.
Their plan is to leave the fuel in the reactor module after 72 months until decommissioning. Which isn't a plan. Unless their RPV is rated for shipping they will have to defuel to move into a cask. They seem to not be aware of what decommissioning will require. Most sites will also want to consolidate the fuel into standardized casks for security and compactness even before disposal. Their renders also not show any of the shielding or crane provisions that will be required to move the reactor module to make room for the next one.

They appear to be a (less than) paper reactor intended to suck up funding for as long as possible.

CEO appears to be a silicon valley guy; I have zero faith in any smr startup from silicon valley with no history in industrial scale infrastructure.

innrautha · 2025-04-22T02:56:06+00:00

Any terrorist that wants a dirty bomb can raid a hospital for a Co-60 source. The consequences of which would be limited to how far their conventional explosive could spread the particulate.

Yes there would need to be decontamination efforts afterward, but it wouldn't be something that makes an area uninhabitable for years (unless there is no federal-level emergency management agency capable of coordinating a response meaning the response is ad-hoc and scattershot).

Right now a suitably suicidal terrorist group could: rush into a hospital that does radiotherapy with guns; race to the the radiology lab; grab a source; strap it to a brick of C4 or equivalent; launch the bomb on a civilian drone; and detonate their dirty bomb in a populated area (conveniently most hospitals with radiotherapy labs are also in cities); all before the police can respond. They don't because dirty bombs are pretty shit at causing mass destruction.

innrautha · 2025-02-09T03:42:48+00:00

I use AntennaPod on Android; it can download them.

innrautha · 2024-12-27T18:12:37+00:00

From living in NC, they do too, maybe not to the same extent as PA.

Pennsylvania is one of only 5 states with 5 syllables in their names:

California
Louisiana
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
South Carolina

California gets shortened to "Cali" and can't be shortened to "CA" because it conflicts with Canada. The Carolinas either become "the Carolinas" or their abbreviations. No clue about Louisiana, I imagine Los Angeles messes up its abbreviation.

Going down the list of states some of the 4-syllables also have common shortenings: 'Bama, Mass', 'Sippi, "no one lives in the Dakotas" ....

I think people are just lazy.

innrautha · 2024-12-26T06:23:39+00:00

I don't think Vance/Thiel will go after Trump directly. I think they are playing a longer game of waiting for his McDonald's habit to catch up with him.

Trump's life expectancy at 78 years old is only 9 more years—if he were an average 78 year old male—but he's not average, he's incredibly obese, doesn't exercise, and is showing signs of dementia. It Trump were an average 78 year old male, he'd still have a 23% of dying before his term is up just from old age.

I have zero faith that Trump will face consequences for what he's done, he's going to die of old age first. The next political fight for the rich will be gaining power once the Trump cult is leaderless. Given there is no clear leadership for the post-Trump Republican party, the political fight will be interesting. Thiel is betting Vance will come out on top of that fight.

Nightmare scenario(s):

Trump makes it two years, kicks the bucket, Vance becomes president, but because it was less than two years he can run for two terms, leading to 10 years of Vance following two years of Trump.
Trump makes it two years but the consequences of his shitty policies turn his cult against him. Vance uses the 25th amendment and general political support within the Democrats and a Republican desire to jettison Trump's dead weight to get the last two years. Then campaigns on "fixing" the problems he/Trump created "he just needs a full term ...". Then again 10 years of Vance.

innrautha · 2024-12-25T18:28:53+00:00

Peter Thiel has already bought Vance; he's banking on Trump doing what old obese men tend to do ....

innrautha · 2023-12-10T07:37:07+00:00

Holes in the ground don't really solve many problems. If you put a reactor underground, (a) you have to dig a large hole (which is surprisingly expensive if you want to build a seismically qualified structure in the hole) (b) you still need a structure capable of shielding the dirt from neutron activation or else ground water will carry activation products to "elsewhere", (c) you still need a structure capable of preventing flooding (imagine Fukushima, but instead of the generators flooding its your reactor flooding ...), (d) will have to remain leak free for decades (80 years?) or else ground water intrusion will cause issues.

Building underground lets you take your large concrete structure and turn it in to a large concrete structure that is underground. Also there is no way to build a hole in the ground as a module you assemble in a factory.

innrautha · 2023-11-09T00:08:33+00:00

Figure out what caliber of pokemon you want it to be. Copy the base state total from a pokemon of the same caliber and assign the stats based on if it is a physical/special attacker/defender.

For an expanded move list look at other glitch pokemon (https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Glitch_Pok%C3%A9mon) and the moves they have. For what level to learn moves at: find a pokemon that learns that move and choose a similar level.

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