OT: Rolls Royce on track to deliver SMR

Yes it said in the press the other day it will be if the earths magnetic field reverses!...

I thought the issue was more if Earth loses it's magnetic field. Mars with the lack of a magnetic field is though to have contributed to the loss of it's atmosphere. High altitude measurements suggest it is an ongoing process.

Of course Venus lacks a magnetic field, is smaller than earth yet retains an atmosphere many times than that of the earth. It's upper atmosphere is said to be Earth-like.

No apo'strophe's needed in any of that.

The magnetic field keeps the solar wind away from the planet. This wind strips the atmos away, over time.

Venus has/had volcanoes much like the earth, but lacked plate tectonics - not having been biffed into by a Mars-sized object like the Earth means its crust is much thicker. So, no life to occupy the non-oceans which meant no building up of carbonate rocks below the seas. Earth's volcanoes over the aeons are reckoned to have outgassed as much CO2 as on Venus - 90 Bars worth, but on Earth life processes have acted to capture nearly all of it.

The biffing the Earth got also meant that the crust melted entirely, allowing most heavy elements (including the radioactive ones) to sink below the crust. Their radioactive decay is why the core is molten, just as well as that gives us the plate tectonics business.

Agreed, didn't realise I'd put them in.

The Venus landscape renews itself every 100-300 million years where the core accumulates sufficient heat it melts the surface. It is thought that the lack of water in the crust prevent the formation of plates and prevent them from slipping.

Yes, interesting that. Won't be planning a holiday there any time soon :-)

Vega is a lot father from the Sun than 141,600,000.

It sounds more like T i m is from Mars.

farther or even further.

But don't you have to balance this with risk from the deaths that are caused by, not climate warming, nor climate change or climate crisis but from climate catastrophe as I listened to it being described on the radio the other day?

Something it has done many times before, and we're still here.

When comparing overall deaths from all energy sources as we have witnessed so far, yes, but not when just comparing the 'risk' aspect of all the energy generation sources, the ease / ability to clean up any mess and how far reaching any damage might reach.

Like, a collapsing dam could kill many but the damage / loss death will be local and short lasting (as in 'ongoing damage').

We know burning fossil fuels is bad for us and so forward thinking countries are reducing such as fast as possible.

Because 'some people' can't see pollution they don't imagine it's there (unlike the old London smogs and those still occurring in some big cities around the world) and if they could they might consider deeper exactly what we are doing in the very air we (all species) need to survive. And I'm obviously not simply talking about CO2 (that plants need to survive etc).

Re 'climate catastrophe ... with any closed loop system it can only take a tiny nudge inside that system to make it unstable and no longer be self maintaining.

As with Brexit, Anti Vaxers, Carnists and MM global warming / polluting deniers there are always those who really do believe their 'side', irrespective of what their own eyes see happening around them.

But they also prefer not to see, preferring to believe all the conspiracy theories because that's the way the coin happened to fall when they were deciding which side to support or how it best suited their general goals (ie, they have or do work in this industries concerned).

I wonder what drives vegans to not want to support the unnecessary ongoing suffering and death of trillions of animals every year ... oh hang on, I think I've just given the answer away ... ;-(

Oh, so these 260,000 deaths are local and quick, so that doesn't matter then?

The planet sounds far more interesting than Mars, shame it is so inhospitable for probes.

Erm?

Cheers, T i m

Well, you live in a house, with heating, lighting, fridge, freezer, TV, dog, etc etc, when you should be forward thinking about reducing such as fast as possible. But how are you going to repair the damage you have caused in your 60-odd years of consumerist living? You didn't seem to give a flying f*ck when you had your motorcycle tour of Scotland, for example, but having had your fun for all those decades you now become a hypocrite because you don't want anyone else to have any.

'Obviously'? Back to your binary view of the world left brainer?

See, you are still desperately and disingenuously trying to conflate my statement by 1) comparing 'man mage' situations with 'naturally occurring and 2) any subsequent processes that are (or are not) applied / required.

eg (for hard of thinking Goblins), 300+ Welsh farms *weren't* suffering high levels of background radiation contaminating the ground / grass (that was then being eaten by their sheep and then potentially consumed by us) compared with the farmers grazing their sheep in areas that may well have 'untypically' high levels of background radiation that has been known about for a long time. Potentially the same tests (for acquired radiation levels) in all cases, just that the farmers grazing their stocks on Dartmoor were aware of it previously (before deciding to farm there) and the Welsh farmers couldn't possibly have predicted such an event.

Glasgow. But the point is such issues in such locations are a *known*. Don't want to expose yourself to such abnormally high levels, don't live there.

Or what if you were whooshed (by a Vegan), again ... not to mention that you can't possibly even take the spirit of something, that's how left brained you (now) are.

Oh, is that a goblin weakness then as I know most other species don't suffer like that.

And your left brainer constantly missing the points (like I said, the sad thing is you *really* can't help it / yourself).

You obviously like numbers, they mean a lot to you because they are black / white, therefore simple therefore easily comprehended by you.

So, there no increased risk whilst being bombarded with x-rays then? No chance of a cell becoming damaged and mutating? It's all just conspiracy theory stuff and they are wasting space, time and money putting up (and them hiding behind) all the lead shielding (especially if the maximum 'safe' exposure levels are actually way higher)?

Oh the irony. *You* only seem to (stand a chance of understanding) risk when the negative consequences may apply to you (like you being Bexit risk proof etc).

Cheers, T i m

p.s. When they are repairing old / valuable things they try to do so in a way that 1) does no further damage and 2) is reversible (again with no further damage).

It's also why the building planning is far more lax around portable buildings than permanent etc.

Resorting to abuse is the sure sign of a weak argument.

I'm not sure what you are saying, apart from that 300+ Welsh farms

And that Welsh farmers couldn't predict *weren't* suffering high levels of background radiation?

Does that choice extend to children? Abnormally high levels are usually found in mountains, that doesn't make them any more dangerous.

Why is it fanatical vegans, when pushed and shown to have a flawed argument resort to abuse.

The real sadness is you don't recognise your own failings.

Quite 52 is 8% more than 48. I can't help it if politicians promise to recognise and honour the result. Yo do vote in General Elections, don't you? Even if you don't in referendums.

As in my earlier post, the linear relationship between illness and radiation falls over at low levels. Some studies even say low levels are beneficial to life expectancy.

The irony will be lost on most, including me.

T r o l l want us to go back to when ewe didn't have fire and eat raw veg.

And life expectancy was about 25

I hope you don't sleep in the same bed as another adult, because you will receive, and also give to them, a radiation dose from the ~5000 Bq arising from the natural decay of Potassium 40 (K40) that is present in your/their body. A gamma ray is emitted in about one out of every 10 disintegrations of K40, implying that about 500 gamma rays are produced each second. These will be moving in all directions, and some will be attenuated in the body. Gamma rays are really dangerous.

As a vegan, and therefore low in natural B12, try to note that foods rich in potassium (and therefore in K40) include potatoes, kidney beans, sunflower seeds, and nuts. Brazil nuts in particular may also contain significant amounts of radium, which have been measured at up to 444 Bq/kg.

The disintegration of the carbon (C14) in your body is almost as bad as K40, and it doesn't stop there...