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It's the Despair Quotient! Carpal Tunnel
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"Lab experience"
Funny, I never took chemistry in high school. (I did actually have a radiation biology class, though.) A lot of my science was self-taught. Still aced the ACT and was offered honors classes when I started college. Loved all my chemistry classes. A radiation biology class? You mean, like "weapons effects" ? My Dad's specialty. So you know that getting too big a dose in too short a time period tends to do bad things to your bladder and kidneys, yes?
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Radiation Biology was a lab class where we used radioactive tracers that were commonly used in biology. We studied radioactive decay, safety, waste handling, types of commonly used tracers, scintillation, and such.
Our final big experiment had us feeding a rat a little P32, euthanizing it, freezing it solid, and then cutting it in half length-wise so we could put it on some film plates. After a day in the freezer, you develop that film, and you can see where all the phosphorous goes. (Mostly to the teeth, which are always growing.)
No weapons stuff. All things we would use as lab techs in our future careers. And after I got tired of asking "Do you want fries with that?" I got a job as a Lab Helper I, at the UCSD medical center research facility. Much cooler stuff than McDonald's, but no free lunch.
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But nuclear power should be used to produce electricity no? I think it is a fine and dandy source of electrical power (also to produce hydrogen) yet there are forces that don’t like it. I think if humanity does not embrace nuclear power as a source of electricity they (we) are doomed. Of course there is always the alternative of halving our population by half.
That might help.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
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Vote 2022!
Life is like a PB&J sandwich. The older you get, the moldery and crustier you get.
Now, get off my grass!
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Why is confusion a thing but confission isn’t? I’m confuddled…
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
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Why is confusion a thing but confission isn’t? I’m confuddled… Consider yourself defuddled! TAT
There's nothing wrong with thinking
Except that it's lonesome work
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It's the Despair Quotient! Carpal Tunnel
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It's the Despair Quotient! Carpal Tunnel
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But nuclear power should be used to produce electricity no? I think it is a fine and dandy source of electrical power (also to produce hydrogen) yet there are forces that don’t like it. I think if humanity does not embrace nuclear power as a source of electricity they (we) are doomed. Of course there is always the alternative of halving our population by half.
That might help. Thorium. It isn't your grandpa's nuclear power. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/j7Z5AvN.jpg)
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