vxbush 9/4/2023 6:04:34 AM

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Looks like we might have an answer about who has been buying all the land around Travis AFB. Can you say planned community?

I feel pretty confident that this will end poorly. 

vxbush 9/4/2023 6:12:48 AM

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vxbush 9/4/2023 6:20:09 AM

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Scientists finally know why Germany’s wild boar are surprisingly radioactive

And it's not the result of Chernobyl.

vxbush 9/4/2023 6:22:36 AM

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JCM 9/4/2023 8:38:00 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 1:

Don't buy it in the least.

A planned community next to a AFB?

What comes with an AFB?

The Sound of Freedom.

The type who like the idea of a living in a "green city"... loathe the noise.

JCM 9/4/2023 8:40:11 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 3:

No concrete levels provided in the article. Which means the levels, 88% above the limit again undefined, are so low as to be insignificant.

Kosh's Shadow 9/4/2023 8:41:55 AM

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In #4 vxbush said: In the picture above, I can figure out each profession except the second one from the right. Hipster?

Salesman, more likely. "This Impala only driven to church on Sundays by a little old lady" [Little old lady worshipped at the racetrack and raced the car there]

JCM 9/4/2023 8:43:43 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 4:

Round glasses.... woke professor.

Occasional Reader 9/4/2023 10:43:22 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 3:

Radioactive Boar meets Sharknado!

Kosh's Shadow 9/4/2023 11:48:39 AM

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Didn't some Japanese official eat fish from the area where they released radioactive water? I hope they are working on a Japanese monster movie based on that!

But a radioactive super-politician whose superpower is giving long speeches would be quite boaring.

buzzsawmonkey 9/4/2023 12:21:16 PM

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In #10 Kosh's Shadow said: Didn't some Japanese official eat fish from the area where they released radioactive water?

The whole panic about "radioactive water release" from Fukushima was complete and utter nonsense.

JCM 9/4/2023 12:33:29 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 11:

Let's give the radioactive boars the "radioactive" water!

About the boars.... the only fact that article gives is the German limit is 600 Bq/Kg of radioactivity, that is a measure of the number of decay events.

Background radiation in the food supply from all sources? 400-600 Bq/Kq. In other words the limit cited in the article is upper limit of natural decay events.

Kosh's Shadow 9/4/2023 12:38:15 PM

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Reply to JCM in 12:

Radiation hormesis. Even NIH has to admit that low doses of radiation might be beneficial

LDIR may promote hormesis. Radiation-induced homeostasis, often termed hormesis, is a theoretical concept that suggests that exposure to LDIR stimulates beneficial pathways. Several reports indicate that the hormetic process boosts cell survival and growth, improves immune functions, and enhances cytogenetic protection [8,9]. Most population-based epidemiological studies do not show a threshold for cancer incidence; however, at LDIR doses below 100 mGy, there is uncertainty as to whether significant increases in cancer incidence occur in humans. Intriguingly, accumulating experimental evidence indicates that the linear no-threshold (LNT) hypothesis cannot be supported by the biological findings following LDIR exposure, demonstrating that LDIR exposure rather reduces the risk of spontaneous cancer [10,11,12]. Even though the phenomenon is not universal, multiple cellular and molecular data support the notion that LDIR-mediated adaptive responses induce hormesis and cell proliferation in normal cells, but not in cancer cells [13,14,15]. 

JCM 9/4/2023 2:14:35 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 14:

Easing to make a boogie man out of something you can't see and is hard to understand.

Kosh's Shadow 9/4/2023 5:15:26 PM

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In #15 JCM said: Easing to make a boogie man out of something you can't see

Harvey, the Killer Rabbit!