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Would you go near a plane that's an electronic signal away from blowing itself up?

Even if mechanical, warplanes get combat damage, and having a system like that could make a difference between survivable and sure death.


Maybe bring some strong jamming equipment to prevent the electronic signal from being received?

The signal can originate on the plane itself due to a software glitch, stray currents in the grounding skin or whatever. If anything, jammers tend to interfere with the carrier's electronics itself.

12345679 (oh no, we forgot the 8!) - let's multiply by 8 = 98765432.

Can you imagine a post on HN where someone says "when Bose announced QuiteComfort Ultra Earbuds 2nd Gen I was so excited!".

Apple has a serious reality distortion field about it. For normal products this would have been a return. See recent "Apple allows icon opacity adjustment".


While 195k sounds preposterous, should those surviving treatment pay for the labor of trying to save the dying?

It is kinda funny, but cost and benefit analysis is not foreign even to Mossad. Mossad would prefer quite a few people's data stolen, but they are not going to carry out a black abroad for most of them.

The penalty is called "Electron".

Unlike radiation, there's no safe asbestos exposure, if you're really unlucky a single strand can screw you up. On the other hand, of all people having worked at asbestos facilities with early 20th century approach to PPE only 20% developed mesothelioma and 10% died from it.

Thinking before swinging your drill will get most people safe enough not to worry about it.


I don't really buy the comparison. If you're really unlucky, you can get cancer from a "safe dose" of radiation.

Low exposures of both things are statistically less likely to hurt you than large doses. We pick a line to call "safe", but completely safety in either case is not guaranteed.


There is a natural level of radioactivity which the body is used to compensate. Small additional doses of radioactivity can therefor be neglected. This is not true for stuff like abestos.

There are actually naturally occurring asbestos fibers in the air, caused by weathering of asbestos-containing rocks.

There is even the "hormesis hypothesis" which posits that low levels above background might be beneficial for human health.

Doesn't help that the puzzles become increasingly tricky and you can't just solve them as you sip your coffee anymore (although some apparently can).

Hair can't hold that much water compared to any ingested amount. Whether contaminated or activated, internal irradiation from that much will be pretty bad.

Water itself is activated by neutrons, even if slightly.

How? Neutrons slamming into water would break it apart, turn it into hydrogen and oxygen, and possibly activate the hydrogen into deuterium or tritium. But once it's hydrogen (or an isotope of it) it'll turn gaseous and be filtered off.

In order to become gaseous they need to combine with another atom of the same kind torn free, which is about as likely as combining with a free atom of another kind, form an HO radical and stay liquid.

Tritiated water is a reality of reactor pools.


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