Posts by teslar_lu

€1bn handout from the EU targets ambient nagware and robot pets

Sure...

.. those are pretty flimsy proposals. But they ain't getting the money yet. There are three more contenders (and only 2 will get the cash):

- Improving (in the "revolutionise" sense) medicine and healthcare (ITFoM)

- Harnessing the potential of graphene and its industrial applications before the US and/or Asia leave Europe sitting in the dust.... again (Graphene)

- development of massive super computing efforts which may facilitate the understanding of the human brain (HBP).

So out of the six projects, this article doesn't mention those that might actually have some merit with a single word. Bit biased, are we?

Fukushima scaremongers becoming increasingly desperate

If you keep going on about facts, you gotta get them straight...

The limit for radition workers is 50 milliSievert, not 500. A YEARLY dose of 100 milliSievert is linked to increased cancer risks, the effect is stronger if the radition is absorbed in a shorter time frame. So yeah, these workers are probably screwed.

xkcd.com/radiation for a little chart.