Posts by tony2heads 1344 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Apr 2010
Number 2) - inconvenience is the big one for me.
I remember having to give a presentation once with a Windows system and it insisted on a huge update while I was doing the intro.
After that I used a Mac or Linux box. Do the bloody updates when I say so, without umpteen reboots
perhaps a customer who didn't like it
See Albert Stevens who survived for 20 years after being injected with Plutonium in his 50s
"That begs the question, could humans have continued to live there without any problems?"
Probably if you are already an adult and not planning to have children around. The uptake of the radionuclei depends on growth rate, so if you are no longer growing it probably is not a big deal. Also if you stick to fruit and veg, and stay away from the top end of the food chain (where they get concentrated) you should also be fairly safe.
I remember a discussion with a nuclear engineer who said that dosage rates should depend on the individual.
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