Visiting Tokyo Japan in 2013 - Radiation Concerns
My brother and I are planning to travel to Tokyo Japan in May 2013 for 2 weeks of vacation.
Given the 2011 earthquake in Japan that led to the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Plant, we’ve been doing some research and had a few concerns about the radiation from the fallout. A coworker of mine recently decided to cancel his trip to Japan, so we’ve been concerned even more. I understand that it has been almost 2 years since the incident, and that Fukushima is 160 miles away from Tokyo, but we just wanted to make sure it is safe to visit given that we are not sure what impact has been left behind.
Here are some of our concerns given the research we’ve done on the internet:
1. Cesium and Strontium
A. What is the likelihood of cesium being inahled or ingested. If inhaled or ingested over a 2 week period what are the Long term effects?
B. I’ve read that cesium has a half life of 70 days in the body for adults up to 30 years of age, is this true?
From Japans Consumer Affairs Agency:
The biological half-life for iodine-131 is approximately 11 days in infants, 23 days in five-year-olds and 80 days in adults. For cesium-137, it is approximately 9 days for one-year-olds, 38 days for children up to nine years of age, 70 days for adults up to 30 years of age, and 90 days for adults up to 50 years of age. Therefore, when cesium-137, which has a long physical half-life of 30 years, is taken into the body, the amount remaining in the body is reduced by half in three months (in the case of 50-year-olds).
Source: http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/policy/documents/2011/__icsFiles/afieldf...
C. Does Cesium affect the heart negatively? Do we have reason to be concerned long term if we are only staying for 2 weeks?
D. I notice cesium observations and readings are very common, but I don’t see very much coverage around strontium 90. Is there a reason why the Japanese Government hasn’t given more attention to strontium 90 monitoring in soil, air, and food than cesium monitoring? I’ve read through sites such as wikipedia that strontium can cause lukemia in the long run and would have the most severe effect of all the fallout materials. Is there any reason why the government held off till this year to report these numbers? Please see articles below
Source:
Asahi article on strontium
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201207250060
Fukushima diary
http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=6942
A Fukushima Blog
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/07/now-they-tell-us-ministry-of-educatio...
Ministry of Education, Sports, Science, Technoloy – Japan
Strontium Results (Japansese)
http://radioactivity.mext.go.jp/ja/contents/6000/5808/24/194_Sr_0724.pdf
Strontium Results (Translated In English):
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=...
E. What is the likelihood of strontium being inhaled or ingested? If inhaled or ingested over a 2 week period what are the long term effects? Can you get lukemia from breathing strontium over a 2 week period? Do we have reason to be concerned or paniced?
F. Does strontium stay in the body long run?
G. I’ve also gone to a few other websites to see if there are other concerns around radiation in Tokyo and have attached them below. Are these credible, and should these be reason for concern? The Dr. Chris Busby article especially concerns me, as it implies that maybe indoor areas maybe high with radiation?
1.) Dr. Chris Busby
I watched an online video on You Tube from Dr. Chris Busby. In the video he claims an air condition filter from Tokyo has high levels of radiation. 183,000 BQ Is this credible? Should we be concerned/paniced with hotel rooms and indoor area air quality?
Source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9pk42kdL4k
Article from a Canadian Website:
http://www.straight.com/node/742851
About Chris Busby:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Busby
2.) Video on train
I watched an online video of a passenger taking a train ride to Tokyo Narita Airport and he found high levels of radiation on the train using a radiation meter. Is this credible and should I be concerned?
Source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4QXYyqdP2o
3.) Radiation Defense Project
This website reported high levels of radiation (cesium) in hotspots around tokyo. Is this credible and should I be concerned?
Source:
http://www.radiationdefense.jp/investigation/metropolitan/?lang=en
About Radiation Defense:
http://www.radiationdefense.jp/about_us/?lang=en
H. Given all these concerns, should we be concerned about visiting Tokyo and Japan? Will these concerns above give us long term issues? Are there any other particles from the fall out that we should be concerned about (ie. plutonium)
Thanks for taking the time to answer my email
Radioactive Cesium harms more than kids
Akihito`s health worsened after the March Fukushima Daiichi NPP Explosions. Coincidence is not causation. Still, TEPCO DamnNear killing the Emperor seems like a big deal, even to a Gaijin.
http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_02_19/66418316/
Radio The Voice of Russia Feb 19, 2012 14:28 Moscow Time
Japan`s emperor recovering from cardiac surgery
Japan`s 78-year-old emperor Akihito is recovering from a successful cardiac bypass surgery he underwent at the University of Tokyo Hospital on Saturday. Akihito`s health worsened after the 11 March quake and tsunami, which affected the Fukushima-1 nuclear plant.
(TASS)
Regicide & Deicide
The Emperor of Japan is (reportedly) a direct descendant of Amaterasu-ōmikami, "the great august kami who shines in the heaven." Regicide compounded by Deicide SOUNDS like a serious offense, by my reckoning.
Warnings and Personal Responsibility
Sound the Alarm, on your watch!
On this singular point, world religions and armies appear to agree.
http://bibledatabase.net/html/kjv/ezekiel_33.html
Ezekiel33:1-6 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
Buddha Ain’t happy neither
The winds of Fukushima
According to The International Network of Engaged Buddhists (INEB), children and young people are still being exposed to dangerous levels of radioactivity that continue to linger in the atmosphere and affect the safety of food. “Many children have already developed abnormalities in their thyroid glands,” they said.
The Network has been monitoring the effects of the Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Incident since the March 11, 2011 disaster. Ten priests from around the world, including Thailand, the US, Japan and India, recently toured Fukushima prefecture, including the cities of Sukagawa and Nihonmatsu and the high-radiation areas of Ita-te village and Minamisoma.
Michinori Sasaki, the vice-principal of Doho kindergarten and priest of Shingyoji Temple in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima, said, “the children have health problems that they didn’t have before, including thyroid diseases. Almost every night parents come to our temple crying about the children’s health problems and their future.” Sasaki worries about his own four children as well. “My wife and I want to leave this city because my children are sick and have diseases, but I can’t throw away my temple.”
http://www.majiroxnews.com/2012/12/03/the-winds-of-fukushima/
TOKYO (majirox news) 12/03/2012By Catherine Makino and Naoyuki Ogi
If BRAWM won't tell you about NPPs and child leukemia...
...maybe these folks will:
http://www.radiation.org/press/releases.html
Professor Farnsworth
Why don't you visit Japan
Why don't you visit Japan when you are extremely old, say 80 and the doctors have told you you have 6 months to live. That way you have nothing to lose from radiation exposure so your visit to Japan can be carefree as far as radiation exposure is concerned. In fact you can easily make several trips to the reactors for an up close experience and not have to worry about the consequences.
Another ZERO risk fanatic
In the spirit of the above, which is the feeble search for a life with ZERO risk ( "nothing to lose" ), let's take it to the logical conclusion:
You don't want to die in the crash of an airliner, so you have to wait until you are 80 years old before you fly again in an airliner. That way you won't have lost much if the airliner crashes.
You don't want to die in the crash of an automobile. So don't take any trips by car until you are 80 years old. You can't even go to the grocery store since most accidents happen within 25 miles of home.
Don't take any cruises because you might die when the ship sinks. Wait until you are 80 years old before you ever set foot on a cruise ship.
If you live in California, find somewhere else to live because California has earthquakes and you could die in an earthquake. You can come back to California when you are 80 years old and don't have much to lose...
Sure you can cower and avoid all risks until you are 80 years old; but what fun is that? Why not live life accepting the minimal risks of air travel and the like and quit attempting to live with ZERO risk.
You'll be happier, and the ZERO risk life is a fantasy, a "fools errand" for people who think like little children.
Science Fiction - MYTH & 24/7/365 Lies
Hormesis is Science Fiction
The MYTH of Nuclear Safety has caused public health nightmares in Japan and Ukraine.
The Nuclear Power Industry directly sponsors 24/7/365 Junk Science and Lies.
Nuclear Power Industry Lessons
If the Nuclear Power Industry makes ANY statement whatsoever ...
We have learned, from experience, that the statement is FALSE, in every frame of reference.
Great Life Lessons
Bank On It!
100% chance you will uptake radioactive Cesium
Question 1
There is a 100% chance you will uptake radioactive Cesium, Strontium and other radionuclides from the Fukushima Daiichi Explosions.
The health effects are dose dependant. Your dosage will be random.
Have Fun : )
How many angels can dance vs child leukemia rates...
Sorry to interrupt your sock puppet show, but I am looking for accurate data on recent child leukemia rates. Web has studies from U.S., France and Germany that show an increase in child leukemia rates near NPPs. Other sites claim child leukemia rates are on the rise, and I am now getting telephone solicitations for this, but I have not been able to find anything that would allow me to assess the impact of oh, let's say, Fukushima, upon child leukemia rates. Can BRAWM be of any assistance?
Professor Farnsworth
National Cancer Institute
How about a legitimate scientific study from the scientists at the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health:
No Excess Mortality Risk Found in Counties with Nuclear Facilities
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/nuclear-facilities
Accidents at Nuclear Power Plants and Cancer Risk
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/nuclear-power-accidents
Pitimouse Chaff
Chaff in the wind.
Spurious results, probably from a poorly crafted study. Wind direction, velocity, surface water and topography (slope/dip) as well as ground water flow vectors have more to do with radionuclide dispersal than county lines, which are for the most part, political boundaries, rather than substantive boundaries.
Nearly as pitiful (pitimouse sic) as the 'Yellow-Mouse' hormesis hogwash.
A dying, discredited nuclear power industry ... grasping @ straws, like a drowning man.
Pitimouse (sic) Chaff
If you want opinions then why
If you want opinions then why don't you provide links to those studies.
"and I am now getting telephone solicitations for this"
Really? Someone is cold calling you and trying to sell you childhood leukemia? Fascinating.
Diemos
Reasonable questions deserve reasonable answers...
I found three older studies posted which showed increased child leukemia rates near NPPs - they were from the U.S., France and Germany. I was not questioning these studies, although a "Coulter" might - that would be up to them. I was pointing out that I have NOT been able to find ANY recent, accurate data on child leukemia rates ANYWHERE on the web. All I could find was the vague statement that "child leukemia rates are on the rise" and yes, someone cold-called my home seeking a donation to fight child leukemia - I did not speak to them myself or I would have pressed them for specifics. I suspect that specifics DO exist already but are not being made readily available - this is where I hoped the resources of BRAWM might be called upon, perhaps nothing more than a phone call, email, or link, and would be of interest to EVERYONE who visits this forum.
Regards,
Professor Farnsworth
Resources
Farns,
Why not call your local 1st National Bank, they have 'resources' as well.
Neither BRAWM, nor the local bank have any particular REASON, in their NORMAL work to keep TABS on the one (1) particular NEOPLASM that happened to flitter across your pointy-little-head.
Why not rectal cancer? You are kind-of anal retentive. Why not occular cancer, you can't see straight? Why not brain cancer? ... Well you get the picture. WTF is SO special about Childhood Leukemia over the other ~ 1,000,000 neoplasms that are ALSO PROVEN to statistically increase because of RadioGenesis?
It is now irrefutable, IMHO, that ALL Neoplasms are increased in incidence level by Man Made Radioactive Isotopes as well as ALL XRays and other medical usages. Most of the medical usages are NET beneficial for the individual patient.
The Airport XRay I received (AGAIN) this week did not (IMHO) have any such benefit. As I am not a young, middle-eastern, male, Moslem; there is NO statistically valid reason for that X-RAY cancer exposure.
Just because some phone soliciter, with a GED called you for money; does not mean they are up on the latest RadioGenesis research.
Pull your head out, Farns.
So much for reasonableness...
... and back to the 'Twenty-Five Rules of Disinformation" workshop, I see. Is there a particular incantation that might invoke Diemos, I wonder?
Professor Farnsworth
Reasonableness
Farns,
Do you go to the shoe store to buy beer? Do you go to the beer store to buy shoes?
Do you ask the 7-11 Clerk about your outboard motor problems? Do you consult a Realtor about your Blood Sugar Level?
BRAWM is NOT your little oyster or your 'step-&-fetch-it'.
They DO NOT OWE YOU an answer, to every sillyarse question you can dream up. WE, the other bloggers do not owe you an answer to every sillyarse question you can dream up. Perhaps your Mom and kindergarten teacher failed to tell you or you failed to hear them tell you this important little message. The WORLD does not OWE you an answer.
Repeat,
Farns, pull your head out!
Call my name and I am there.
Call my name and I am there.
Calling Diemos...calling Diemos...
Diemos,
1. Do you happen to have a link to any site which might have current, accurate data on child leukemia rates?
2. How much Cs137 would have to be in a sample of salt substitute for it to be visible in a flame test?
Thanks and kind regards,
Professor Farnsworth
Imprint
Oh OH, Farns has Imprinted on you now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OynlzqtxmY
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/flight-school/the-man-who-walked...
http://www.thegoosesmother.com/id6.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprinting_(psychology)
On the plus side, BRAWM may have escaped the Farnsworth Imprint Imperitive.
Back in the day, some college freshman Coeds exhibited this trait, to the entertainment & delight of upperclassmen.
Jealousy...
... I know it when I see it. I also know how to spell "imperative". Back to remedial English class for you!
Professor Farnsworth
Repeat
Answered Elsewhere, TITLE 'Internet Spelling Police'
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/forum/218/visiting-tokyo-japan-2013-radiatio...
TTFN
Not BRAWM Function
Farnsworth,
BRAWM is a PHYSICS group, not Radiogenic neoplasm specialists. For the most part, BRAWM personnel will have watched the safety films and studied dosage techniques. Some may have participated, as physisists/engineers in studies. A few members might be expert in the field, but that is almost coincidental.
Each individual form of cancer is quite rare. Doubling the rate or 10X the rate, and they are individually still small numbers. Cumulatively they add up; particularly because medical and safety advances are allowing more people to live long enough for cancers and leukemias to form.
In an paradox fashion, seatbelts, airbags, childhood vaccines and motorcycle helmets ... cause cancer, from their BENEFICIAL effects of causing people to LIVE longer.
Radiogenic neoplasms are a more sinister matter altogether. Trot those questions over to the epidemiologists and oncology experts. Simply ignore the paid-shills and Trolls, and you shall have your answers. The SUBJECT is fair game, but it is NOT, for the most part, physics.
Quit asking Santa Claus about Valentines Day.
Bill Duff
And what, pray tell, IS BRAWM's function?
If you peruse this thread, you will notice that the first response to the OP was, paraphrasing, "enjoy your vacation in Tokyo and don't worry about the radiation", and included the usual ad hominems toward those with a different view. For simplicity, we can refer to pro-nukers as 'Coulters" and anti-nukers as "Busbys". "Busbys" believe all radiation is dangerous. "Coulters" believe any radiation that doesn't kill you outright is harmless and may be beneficial. In my dogged pursuit of the truth, I frequently visit this forum, but most of the posts tend to devolve into flame wars between the Coulters and the Busbys. If you are at all interested in rising above this noise, you might acknowledge that publication of accurate, current data about child leukemia rates would be more useful than endless wars between the Coulters and the Busbys, and need not require radiogenic neoplasm expertise to interpret - any more than meteorological forensic expertise would be required to understand how many people were killed by lightning last year, and where.
Professor Farnsworth
Nice use of the fallacy of
Nice use of the fallacy of the excluded middle.
But perhaps between denial and hysteria there's room for a reasoned, fact based response to the dangers associated with radiation.
Yes, radiation is dangerous.
Yes, a large amount in a short time will kill you.
Yes, a small amount over a large time will increase your rate of cancer.
Yes, we are continually bathed in natural background radiation so there is a level of artificial radiation that is negligible and can be ignored.
How we should respond to any particular situation depends on the situation.
Diemos
P.S. Did you ever get your salt substitute analyzed?
More reasonableness...
Actually, I share your view, fwiw. I was mainly observing that Coulters and Busbys frequently feud here, and for all I know, some of the feuds might even be staged by sock puppets just to "divide and neutralize" (mere speculation). Also, I was not the one with salt substitute, although I made some posts on that topic. I might have signed them 'Noglow'. While rationality prevails, might I have your input on the possibility that salt substitute, if it is commercially derived from sea kelp, might be measurably contaminated with Cs137? In the absence of sophisticated test equipment, could this even be observed with a simple flame test?
Regards,
Professor Farnsworth
A flame test can't
A flame test can't distinguish different isotopes of Cs so you're liable to see the common stable ones if there's enough there to see anything at all.
There's 0.06 grams of K-40 in a kg of salt substitute which is 426 nCi or 15,700 Bq/kg.
In order to see your 5x reading with a geiger counter it would need to be contaminated with 60,000 Bq/kg of Cs-137. Measurements for kelp aren't anywhere near that by several orders of magnitude.
Much, much more likely to be incompetent experimenters than actual contamination.
Diemos
Calling Diemos...calling Diemos...
Cs137 would look the same as stable Cs in a flame test, no?
When you say "measurements for kelp aren't anywhere near that", does this apply equally to all kelp, whether harvested pre- or post-Fukushima, and from anywhere?
What would be a better harbinger of radionuclide contamination in the ocean than sea kelp, or salt substitute derived therefrom?
(Other than this, perhaps):
http://enenews.com/feds-rapidly-spreading-disease-hawaii-coral-before-ne...
Professor Farnsworth
We expect the world's coral
We expect the world's coral reef to die during this century due to ocean warming and acidification.
If you're really concerned about the world's coral reefs then you should start building nukes and decommissioning the coal fired plants.
Aside from that you've got to stop seeing nuclear boogie-men in every shadow.
Germany, Switzerland, Japan
Interesting,
Suddenly Germany, Switzerland, Japan and other nations are UNCONCERNED about the 'Global Warming' Bogeyman-Story. They have 'cooled' to the warming warnings.
USA citizens remained steadily and increasingly HOSTILE to the THEORY of global warming. Global Warming received a Frosty rejection from the USA, before Fukushima.
Not a selling point for MOX fueled nuclear power plants in the USA.
WE?
We, are you pregnant or is there a mouse in your pocket.
I expect a significant round of global cooling by the end of this century.
The geologic record shows short (500 yr) temperature rises followed by LOONNNG ice ages.
Earth is due for the latter, NOT the former.
Still might kill the coral, by cold water; but I doubt it.
WE?
Not to derail the thread, but...
...since we are already shunted onto a siding, do the "global cooling" advocates propose a mechanism that accounts for Earth's heating/cooling cycles? If not, may I suggest a candidate - COMETS. And since they have been observed to break apart from tidal forces before impact (like Shoemaker-Levy 9 approaching Jupiter), one might not necessarily constitute an ELE event, but then again...
Professor Farnsworth
Solely SOLAR
Solely, Exclusively, Conclusively, Exhaustively ... Solar
The Solar contribution drives the vapor, oceanic, atmospheric and land temps. Everything else is trivial.
No Anthropogenic contribution whatsoever
The Data Didding has been of Epic Proportions and included NASA & East Anglia
My fellow Earth creature, you overlooked something...
... DINOSAUR FARTS! Scientists are now positing that methane from brontosaurus flatulence was responsible for global warming 150 million years ago. You think I'm kidding, don't you? See http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/17953792
Professor Fartsworth
Methane is Inter Galactic
Methane CH4 is present on an intergalactic basis. When biogenesis is the source, it is HIGHLY likely that plant decay, and microscopics (such as yeast), produce the overwhelming majority.
Termite Flatulence probably adds, at least, two or three Orders of magnitude, more CH4 than cows, dinosaurs and/or hominids.
FartAway, except in mixed company
Trivial Contributions
ERROR!!! ERROR!!! ERROR!!
The above poster stated:
No Anthropogenic contribution whatsoever
This is WRONG. If you use solar, you actually increase the amount of "thermal pollution".
Of course, the solar proponents say that any place you put a solar farm, the sunlight was already falling on that area of land, so there is no thermal pollution.
This is a rather short-sighted view, and ignores the relevant physics. When sunlight falls on an area, the majority of the energy is actually re-radiated back out. The amount that goes into warming the land and environment is determined by the "albedo".
However, when you build a solar farm, what color do you make the solar panel collectors. You make them a dark color. So you are changing the albedo. If you flew over your desert solar farm, the land would be "darker", or "blacker" owing to the presence of your solar panels.
So the solar panels take in energy that normally would have been re-radiated back out to space. If the solar panels were 100% efficient, and all that energy went into making electricity, then you wouldn't be adding thermal pollution to the environment. However, solar panels are not 100% efficient, they are typically 20% to 30% efficient. Therefore, the bulk of the additional energy the solar panels do not allow to be re-radiated shows up as heat in the solar panels that is dumped to the local environment.
So solar panels do thermally pollute the environment around them.
Trivial Climate Impact
The anthropomorphic impact on global temperatures is trivial. Solar output and the transmission parameters across the 93M miles strictly DICTATE terrestial climate.
Should we choose to 95% cover a federally owned state such as Nevada with solar voltaic and/or solar thermal collectors, the global climate effects would be nil.
A jillion collectors are constructed 3 meters above the ground. The ground is shaded and cooler. The collectors are hot and elevated in temperature and altitude. Their heat will more readily convect and transmit to space than decend to the earth below. The lizards, birds and plants will relocate their niche, the turtles are scrude. Evaporation of rainwater will virtually halt. Local cloud and rain patterns and times will shift.
The micro-environment is profoundly altered. The climate laughs at our puny efforts.
The poster said NONE, not trivial
The pro-solar poster above said NONE in terms of impacts.
Clearly, as detailed above, there is a non-zero impact due to thermal pollution.
The poster didn't claim that the thermal pollution was significant in altering climate; the claim was only that the amount isn't a hard ZERO.
The amount of heat dumped by the solar panels is trivial because it is a low multiple of the rather trivial amount of energy that solar power gives us.
Engineering ZERO
ZERO, on an Engineering Blog, is an Engineering Approximation.
Zero, trivial, null, nil, insignificant
Zero, zilch, nada
Some CAREFUL measurements on parallel planets, after an Eon or 3, MIGHT possibly measure a climate change of +/- 0.0001 degree. But, even then, the final cause of the trivial change would be related to Solar output/transmission/distance, NOT to the stinking trivial solar collectors. CoIncidence is NOT causation.
But the gawdamn turtles would be scrude; which would be a BAD thing.
Pitimouse, you guys are grasping at straws. Pitimouse!
Synonyms
Engineering ZERO
Fine. I didn't mean to open
Fine. I didn't mean to open that can of worms. But acidification is a function of CO2 concentration and that effect is certain.
Diemos
Lots of carbonate & chlorophyl
Lots of carbonate rock - Huge Buffer
Atmospheric CO2 is Trivial to beneficial and interwoven with green plant mass. Another ACTIVE 'buffering' mechanism.
CO2 is the fizzy in my soft drink. CO2 Delta is just another Nuc Reactor/MOX sales pitch.
No real science is involved. Just HYPE. Other nations have hopped on board the Kyoto Treaty strictly to Damage USA and EU economies.
The technical issues are trivial.
Farns 'Imprints' on Diemos
Farns has Imprinted on Diemos now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OynlzqtxmY
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/flight-school/the-man-who-walked...
http://www.thegoosesmother.com/id6.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprinting_(psychology)
On the plus side, BRAWM may have escaped the Farnsworth Imprint Imperitive.
Back in the day, some college freshman Coeds exhibited this trait, to the entertainment & delight of upperclassmen.
No worries. The great thing
No worries.
The great thing about the internet is that I can just stop responding when farnsworth gets tiresome.
Redundancy...
... do you know it when you commit it? See http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/forum/218/visiting-tokyo-japan-2013-radiatio...
And repeat after me: i-m-p-e-r-a-t-i-v-e.
Professor Farnsworth
Internet Spelling Police
Farns,
We have a candidate for the Internet Spelling Police. You can also correct text messages. UR#1
When it matters, to me, I have a spell checker, and I glance over the rest.
Blogging is typing without looking.
TTFN
Beck & Call
Farnsworth,
Oooooopsie Daisy,
Our MISTAKE. Obviously the Entire BRAWM Team was dropped onto God's Green Earth, to be at your personal beck & call.
We shall immediately dispatch 1/4 to medical school, and a similar number to epidemiology education. Meanwhile the remainder will slavishly conduct any experiment and research any question that pops into your mind.
Let's also have Knoxville and Los Alamos drop what they are doing to get your PERSONAL answer on Childhood Leukemia. That will be MUCH easier than reading for yourself or going to a forum dedicated to that field.
Soooooo Sorrrrry
Or you could do a little work and report your accumulated references, data and conclusions for the benefit of all.
Just a couple of thoughts on the subject.
If actually READING my post was not too much effort...
... you would have noticed that all I said was "you might acknowledge that publication of accurate, current data about child leukemia rates would be more useful than endless wars between the Coulters and the Busbys". Acknowledging this might have taken less time and brain drain than your attempt at sarcasm. Of course, the ramifications of actually advocating a useful measure of the danger posed by Fukushima might be hazardous to BRAWM's health (sarcasm).
Professor Farnsworth
Congratulations!
Farns,
Perhaps this 'attempt at sarcasm' will be more to your liking.
Same Anon
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/forum/218/leukemias-among-chornobyl-cleanup-...
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/forum/218/leukemias-among-chornobyl-cleanup-...
Congratulations!
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2012-11-30 15:10.
Kudos to Team Pro-Nuke, for effectively killing this news story.
Gone … unless you know precisely where to look.
Even the earlier scant news coverage has vanished, from the world press.
It did not happen.
Another job well done.
Wait, wait - I've got this one!
It couldn't have been the radiation that did it, it was just that the ones that died had faulty DNA repair mechanisms! Score one for the Scientologists, er, "Scientists" - it's clear!
Professor Farnsworth