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40. RE: Climate Modeling
Apr 8 2007, 11:40 AM EDT
""Nuclear Winter" is one answer to whether nuclear war would be more horrible than that waged with conventional explosives. Another question would be whether nuclear war would be more horrible than that waged with biological weapons. D."It is a little advertised fact that the firebombing of Tokyo in one night, just months prior to Hiroshima and Nagasaki being nuked, caused more deaths than Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Here is an excerpt: The Tokyo Fire-Bombing: "The night of March 9, 1945, began typically enough for war-weary Tokyo residents. They went to bed hungry, the distant wailing of air-raid sirens lulling them to sleep. But World War II was about to rouse them violently from their fitful dreams into a waking nightmare. Before the new day dawned, a United States air-raid killed or injured as many as 200,000 people. It obliterated a quarter of all Tokyo's buildings, leaving more than a million people homeless. The Americans dispatched the first wave of more than 300 bombers from Guam, Saipan and the Tinian Islands, 2,500 kilometres south of Tokyo. Each plane dropped 180 oil-gel sticks, less than a metre long, on the tightly knit neighbourhoods of wooden houses. Then two waves of planes emptied their bays of a lethal cargo: napalm. The resulting inferno unleashed hell on earth. 2 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you? |
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41. RE: scientific facts and social policy
Apr 8 2007, 3:31 PM EDT
In one sense you are correct however you may well be stating this wrong ... Scientists were not the people to precipitate the ban on saccharin ... it was the FDA with a bit of support (actually fear) of malpractice attorneys and lawsuits. Scientists generally too much was being made out of the findings scientists at the time assessed the risk was small, the question was one of how people wanted to respond to the larger risk.I am not saying that scientists can never be wrong. That is what is important about the scientific method the ability to be falsifiable (as well as be able to be replicated) ... Do you find this valuable? |
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42. RE: Einsteins Opinion
Apr 8 2007, 3:43 PM EDT
According to the book the Bomb: A Life ... before WW2 advanced atomic research was concentrated in 3 universities worldwide: Cambridge, Copenhagen and Gottingen. Universities in the US were playing around with anachronistic style physics and paid very little attention to the atom ... However by 1933 when the German's started to pass laws in this case the laws for civil service. Eleven physicists who won or would win the Nobel prize lost their positions. 1600 scholars were directly affected ... A government minister asked one of the remaining scientists at Gottingen: "is it true your that your Institute suffered so much from the departure of the Jews ...? 'Suffered?' He replied. 'No, it did not suffere ... it just doesn't exist anymore " (pg. 14). 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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43. RE: scientific method
Apr 14 2007, 1:44 AM EDT
I agree with you regarding the importance of the scientific method. Eventually the method leads us to a better understanding than we had to start.
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44. RE: From a scientist
Aug 27 2007, 3:16 PM EDT
Not all bombs are set off as air bursts. Air and ground bursts are the apples and kumquats. Air burst's nowadays are not set off at 1200-1500ft, they are much higher, anywhere from 3000-8000ft. If their was ever a nuke exchange, our cities would be destroyed by air bursts while C&C such as NORAD and individual silos would be hit with ground burst's. Air burst's throw little debris and radiation back into the air while surface bursts are the exact opposite.
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