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One thing that's always missing from those who oppose nuclear energy is a sense of perspective. The damage that was done to the planet? PJ very correctly mentions the environmental benefits compared to using fossil fuels, but you dismiss that on grounds of human mistakes when working with...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaT7thTxyq8

Quantify. How many particles? Mode of decay? Decay speed? The energy of the radiation? Biological half-life of the particle? You are exposed to radiation every second of your life. You have in you atoms of every common radioactive element, including plutonium from nuclear tests. Like I said...

Uh.. based on what, exactly? There's estimated to be at least 4 billion tons of uranium in the ocean, with a back-of-the-napkin calculation activity of 5 * 10e20 Bq (or 100,000 times as much as what was released by Fukushima and this radiation will persist for billions of years). What exactly do...

Why does this mean it's "the same level as Chernobyl"? I mean it's technically correct, but what it implies is highly misleading. Err.. no. The only thing released in any significant amount with a long half-life (30 years) was Cs-137 with an estimated total activity of 6.1 PBq (and this new...

Eh, that's a bit dramatic don't you think? If radiation levels were that high, they would be suffering from radiation sickness by now. But I suppose "workers expect to die... within 60 years or so after a 5% increased cancer risk" makes for a less interesting headline...

I'm not sure why anyone in the US would settle for having only one arm when in the US you have the right to bear arms.

I always liked whalepenis.org but it's offline now :( An archived version: http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20090121041809/http://whalepenis.org/

Slow walkers. **** y'all.

Soooo... that car that I posted? It now looks like this: I had right of way.. I've only driven it 134 km. FFFUUUU..

Yes :) Fiat Punto Evo btw.

Technically not a purchase, but what the hell, I'm happy:

I'm a niche hipster, so I use the Zune player. It's pretty and works well. I could never use iTunes for music playing, I just need it to sync with my iPhone, but that's it. Mostly because it doesn't add your music to its library automatically, nor remove it when you delete or move files...

But you should. That's just simple logic. You cannot possibly argue with that. But you shouldn't. That's just simple logic. You cannot possibly argue with that. But you should. That's just simple logic. You cannot possibly argue with that. If I truly believed in God and heaven and all that...

I never understand this line of thought. First of all, life is meaningless unless the meaning has been declared higher up and handed down to you? So the meaning of your life is really someone else's meaning (namely: God's)? How meaningful is your life then, really? But I assume you believe in...

GOD I LOVE STEVEN WILSON http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdHisKZrGF8 What can't that man do? He's like some wonderful mix between John Lennon, Roger Waters, Thom Yorke and Trent Reznor.

I don't see why that's necessarily bad. Just an artistic choice. And I like it, I think it's beautiful. I loved Trine but never finished it, got stuck on something and kinda ragequit.

Eh, any major changes withstanding, exposure to what probably amounts to less radiation than you receive when the dentist x-rays your jaw or that of a flight from the US to Europe, for about 200 people during a disaster which has killed at least 10,000 people doesn't sound like anything that...

YOU DARE TO ARGUE WITH THIS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP1-oquwoL8

Funny this topic should come up. Because today I ended up at a Wikipedia article about the last female hanging in the UK (1955 I believe) and she was dropped from a height of 8 ft 6 in. Appropriate for Women's Day: