Topic: Scientific Irresponsibility...

[Sarek]

i refuse to adhere to the term "acceptable risks".  i never will.

Every action we take involves risk, just getting out of bed in the morning could be fatal.  Life is about determining whether the risk is acceptable or not.

[FRA.E.Kehakoul_XC]

Interesting! I had no idea about U-234.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-234

The Wiki article makes no mention of the switching equipment. Do you have a reference link for that somewhere Kehak?

I'm pretty sure Little Boy's U-235 came from Oak Ridge.

Yes 762 i do , that information comes from a German documnetary about that topic, there are however no  English sources for it on the net as far as i can say.
I saw it in a Der Spiegel or Sueddeutsche TV docu over here..,i was able to locate two german Links to those docus, which doesnt help much.. i will dig further  though.
You hard about those  A bomb tests in Germany?
There are still people alive today who winessed the Flash,and can tell about a secret storage vault/ facility for the warheads which are  not yet found as the NAzis blew up the entrances and the whole is deep in the earth..there is also  a book out about that topic.
They were intended to be used  either with the railguns(Fleissiges Lieschen),which were bombed to hell before they were finished in france ,or with the  infamous America rocket.
Those railguns were of the same type sadam tryed to build in one  Mountains with the old ww2 plans he somehow aquired.,they were not exactly railguns in the sense we use it today.
Nontheless they would have been able to perma barrage England with artillery from the continent with those cannons.I heard Churchill sh*t his pants in fear over them.

[Just plain old Punisher]

i think that the purpose off my post has been dilluted.  i was trying to convey that these little intellectual snobs just thumbed their collective noses at the basics of safety in science.   now i know risks are in exploration but they are not and will never be a purposeful part of discovery or invention.

i refuse to adhere to the term "acceptable risks".  i never will.

for FRA:  War by it's sole reason is horrible and a stain upon the tapestry that is human history.  To try to find anything noble in it is a fools venture.  I believe also if it is a crime in society then the law applies doubly so in war.  Rape is the death penalty but the enemy gets wiped out to the last man, woman and especially children.  No prisoners mean no prisoner abuses.  Take nothing from the enemy except that which will help you to win.  War should be so horrible that nations should fall down and beg GOD for a way, any way other than war.

You must live a very boring life. If you never risk anything, you never gain anything.