Comments by "SeanBZA" (@SeanBZA) on "Today I Found Out"
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My father left a Lancaster sans parachute, as it, along with the plane, were well ablaze. He woke up in an Austrian hospital 6 weeks later, after being found, apparently dead, in a snow bank under a pine tree. Morgue doctor listened, found a heartbeat, so he got a hospital bed. Back burnt all over, broken neck, broken jaw, broken collarbones, broken ribs, broken arms and broken legs, but he recovered well.
He found out from the nurses that, once well, he was to be transferred to a concentration camp, Auschwitz, so decided, with a little help from the nurses, to escape, along with another British POW in the hospital as well. Borrowed an Adler staff car, and they went for the Swiss border a few kilometres away.
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Could be that, but a lot more likely to be environmental factors as well, that added to the dosage, plus exposure to chemicals, that inhibited the cell repair mechanisms, that were the cause. Live at high altitude, increased radiation from space, live by rocks emitting large amounts of Radon, increased risk. Live by large industrial processes, that dumped fine particulate matter in the air (coal, steel, oil refining, open cast mining amongst others) and water, or live down wind of large industrial plants, that emit waste gas and fine particles, some of which are radioactive isotopes, that are either natural or man made.
Safest place to work is in the actual radioactive product industry, where they actively track down and monitor all sources of radiation. Had that, where the trigger was the road crew coming in, and triggering a monitoring well, as they had used a freshly crushed batch of granite, which had more than a little Uranium and Radon in it. The wash water, that they used to clean the dust off the gravel in the batching yard, before coating with bitumen, was a little above background level when they dumped it in a storm water drain, that was using the soak away the plant used.
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That is why your typical X ray facility and dental office has a room that is lined floors, walls, roof and doors with lead sheet, to attenuate this. Also the windows into it are made with lead glass, which does the same, and the doors are lead lined inside.
thing is, the actual clothing they use on you is not lead, but depleted Uranium in a large amount of cases, as it is a better absorber, and thus a lighter mass for the same protection. Coated wire woven into a cloth, 2 layers, so few gaps, and more flexible as well. Does need special handling for recycling though, which is why you typically hand in the old when you buy the new.
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Funny thing is here, not in the Netherlands, there is a very strong tradition of smoking the happy plant, and it is almost legal, or at least there is a lot of turning a blind eye to having it for medicinal purposes, and a very strong movement to have it declared as not illegal. Seeing as it is very common to find it growing wild, there is a lot of it around, and it does form a significant part of some rural areas for income in an otherwise poor place by growing it.
Was getting a delivery last week, and the driver and loaders, from upcountry, were sniffing the air and commenting they like this city, as they could smell the happy plant, from people just walking past randomly smoking it.
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Funny enough when you go to the optometrist there are a few who have a CT scanner in the office, which is tabletop size, and which is able, after around 20 minutes of imaging through your pupil and the front of your eye, build up a remarkably well detailed image of the structure inside your eye.
Includes the retina, all the blood vessels, the cornea and the lenses themselves, along with the pupil, and also the different layers inside the vitreous humour as well. Amongst it's abilities it can also be used to make a contactless measuring for a custom contact lens, as well as determine your optical script to a very high accuracy, as it knows all of the optical paths involved, and can calculate the required correction as well, even if it involves the lenses themselves not actually having simple curvatures on them.
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I can guess a lot of the odd writing came from recycled cloth bags that once contained staples, brought as relief supplies to the war ravaged country. You used to get things like flour, rice and other non perishables in either canvas or hessian bags, which were often repurposed as clothing, as there was no cheap readily available cloth. Only in the last 50 years or so did plastic packaging make the cloth obsolete, but you still get some industries that pack stuff in hessian bags, as the plastic ones react with the product, or are going to contaminate it.
Thing in mind is bran for horses, which still comes in a hessian bag, as the horses can eat it as well without harm. They were great bags when empty, just wash them a few times with softener to get them a little less hairy.
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To be fair, all beer has, at some point, been urinated out. There is a definitely finite amount of water on the planet, and, as nobody as yet is making beer from cometary ice water, all water on the planet has, at some time or the other in the past, definitely been part of a stream of urine.
Even if you were to take glacier water you will find the same, just that it was more likely to last have been urinated out, in a 21 second stream, quite some time ago, by some long extinct creature.
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