this and I think it is terrible for
all.
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direct connection with photography...
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Antonio,
The chances of dying a violent death in the USA is about 10 percent. They are so many parameters in our lives that we can control: do we drive after drinking, do we make sure that everyone has a safey belt, do you give your kids peanut butter and celery, (the former, especially from health food stores, where no fungicide is used, has high levels of aflatoxin, at least any peanuts grown on this planet) while celery is like nitrogen mustard, a good agent for cross linking DNA and causing mutations too.
People accept rides from strangers, go skiing, climb mountains, all fun and controlled by the will of the person taking the risk. what's really upsetting about the Japanese electric company and we must say the Japanese Government now to and so all of Japan, is that they are pissing into everyone else's swimming pool and we have no say in the matter.
The Turner news report is written without clear risk assessments. So they talk about cumulative effects of radiation. Well that's true, but a lot of radiation damage is repaired. Of all the punishments we get by living on this wonderful blue marble, hurtling through cosmic space, is exposure to radiation from so many natural sources. It's even in common elements like potassium and so if you go to a movie theater and sit in the center surrounded by closely packed bodies, you are being radiated by everyone around you. All iron, except pre nuclear test veteran ships and the like, are radioactive. The good thing is that we can repair much radiation damage. All day long, enzymes cut out mismatched or damaged bases in DNA, get the correct complementary purine or pyrimidine base pairs and then zip it up like news. Errors may be made, for sure, but a lot of it will not be in any sequences that make any difference to our function. But, over time, as with eating celery, smoking or living in a city with traffic, we do accumulate debt in out chromosomes. Cross linked DNa might not get repaired right. Some epigenetic changes might occur with alteration in expressions of genes we need to function properly and maintain our
milieu interior.
We have a pretty good idea of the hazards and risks of radiation from particles and radiation from waves of electromagnetic radiation with all ranges of energetic rays . What one needs to know is the type of hazard and the risk of exposure. What are we actually are going to get, by what route and in what time frame and to what part of the body. This article does not, as far as I could notice in quick perusal, deal with these practical elements. If we knew, then the risk could be calculated in no time at all. I have no doubt that there are already piles of accurate assessments made by so many agencies and academic institutions. These are what we need, not the a report which is superficial and designed to frighten us.
While the nuclear energy authorities, cronies of the power company, should be shot, (if we hadn't already gotten past such punishments) but at the very least, they should be open to inspection and verification just as if they were the Syrian regime making nerve gases for warfare against civilians! We need Japan to have to declare how they are going to stop the leaks and how they will make things safe.
Still, I'm not worried about danger to us from this disaster, rather it's like abortion, a horrible consequence of poor planning and social policies, but part of the modern world. We may not like it, but it wont destroy our society.
Asher