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Anonymous 13/12/2009(Sun)09:58:16 No.422819

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Any ideas if there's a study about the death toll of a possible nuclear attack in the continental US? If not, can you give me your rough, educated, estimates?

I'm looking for the maximum possible, and the median.

Anonymous 13/12/2009(Sun)10:52:25 No.422858

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It depends what we're talking about here.

The worst case scenario is a nuclear winter, in which enough particulate gets into the atmosphere to effectively stop photosynthesis. In this case, the death rate will be close to 100%, as basically all plant life dies and whole ecosystems collapse.

Perhaps more realistic, would be the case wherein the economy collapses, but individuals in rural areas still have food that they grow. In this case, a reasonable estimate might be to simply assume that everyone in a city has died (this won't be true, but not everyone in country would die, either, probably work out to about even) about 80% of the US, or about 240 million people in this case.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States

this page:
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/nuclearwar1.html
believes that casualties would be near 100% for the U.S., and approximately 50% worldwide. (though this is a fan page, he has extensive documentation on his site you c

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Anonymous 14/12/2009(Mon)06:28:56 No.423967

>>422858
here

I've been doing more research, and the answer to
>>422819
seems to be that noone actually knows. The doctrine of mutually assured destruction, however, came about when it was realized that it was impossible to destroy only military targets, and that casualties were going to be at least 20-50% of the population.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5285081230635147036&hl=en&emb=1#
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1xnM3bbkCg

These are the two most useful sources.

Stanley Cool Brick!FByqDI9Gn. 26/6/2010(Sat)01:35:52 No.712752

I hope this happens soon. I hate America.

Anonymous 27/6/2010(Sun)09:15:50 No.715824

Write a computer program to brute force the solution?

Should find the optimal area and then you can zone in on the problem.

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Anonymous 23/9/2009(Wed)02:51:04 No.273512

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A 48-year-old woman with a stimulating electrode implanted in her right ventral thalamus started to compulsively self-stimulate when she discovered that it could produce erotic sensations.

This is a report from the early days of deep brain stimulation, way back in 1986, from an article for the medical journal Pain which discussed some unintended side-effects from one patient's DBS treatment for chronic pain.

Soon after insertion of the nVPL electrode, the patient noted that stimulation also produced erotic sensations. This pleasurable response was heightened by continuous stimulation at 75% maximal amplitude, frequently augmented by short bursts at maximal amplitude. Though sexual arousal was prominent, no orgasm occurred with these brief increases in stimulation intensity. Despite several episodes of paroxysmal atrial tachycardia [heart disturbance] and development of adverse behavioural and neurological symptoms during maximal stimulation, compulsive use of the stimulator d

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Anonymous 29/9/2009(Tue)05:16:56 No.283990

>>273518
this may mean that animals (at least rats) prioritize sex and reproduction over survival.

Anonymous 29/9/2009(Tue)10:50:09 No.284227

>>283990
if you look at the other articles you will see that it works with humans too, and it's not about sex, It's about pleasure. All we do is to get pleasure be it immediate or not. If we did the same experiment with you or me our fate would be the same of the little rat, hit the pleasure button until we die.

TurkeyBurgers 10/2/2010(Wed)01:48:59 No.492734

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>>284227

Mindfuck completed. I am now mindfucked.

Anonymous 02/6/2010(Wed)07:37:14 No.666682

great post. thanks

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shlak 16/1/2010(Sat)07:50:45 No.460421

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hello /sci/ what are your thoughts on antimatter and protonium

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Anonymous 11/5/2010(Tue)06:19:29 No.629530

hay guys are gravitons antimatter?

The Promethian Gambit Michael Skywalker 11/5/2010(Tue)09:57:15 No.629706

I believe antimatter will reach a maximum of usefullness in the next 10,000 to 100,000 years as the primary source of a densely high energy battery for use in solar system space, ground facilities and local stellar space.
Once and if we master the ability to utilize our solar system resources more fully and are able to reach and control a few local star systems, humans should be able to develop large scale nuclear fusion energy generating systems that will be able to create antimatter particles. Most of the advanced and difficult technology needed to effectively marshall large scale nuclear fusion generation is directly related to the difficult technological challenges involving the storing, transport use, and safety/waste of antimatter/matter particle use. From the high energy pulse lasers,superconducting high tesla magnetic bottles,high performance sensors and computers all of this tech plus large particle accelerator technology could be used to generate these materials.
Just as the Romans innovated and utilized the technological potential of their "culture" in order to create access to clean and plentiful water for all of their citizens; we have harnessed our civilizations talents and freedoms to facilitate universal access to: gasoline, electricity ,water and natural gas.
I believe in the future people will have access to very high energy fuel cells, chemical and elemental creation and customized personal manufacture. As well, the supplemental solar system culture will demand access to very high energy needs that cannot be efficiently met by specialized chemical creation and nuclear fission exploitation.
However efficiently it is done, large amounts of antimatter will be created to facilitate our burgeoning galactic spiral-arm culture. When a means of producing a viable way to CREATE and/or
DESTROY energy and matter and create an "energy" source that is absence of the burden of material and gravity distorion, only then will antimatter/matter batteries be relegated to history.
Its amazing to me how the discovery of the most
technologies that should affect life seem to constitute a subscript in our culture; from nuclear fission, fusion, genetics, semiconductor,polymer chemistry and particle physics this 20th and 21st century scientific/technological commercial culture has founded a legacy that will be felt for literally tens of millions of years.
respones appreciated...

The Daedalus Colossus Michael Skywalker 11/5/2010(Tue)11:33:15 No.629901

Firstly whats known: anti-matter does not mean anti mass or anti-energy it refers to particles with opposite charge to normal particles. An anti-proton is a particle made up with three normal quarks connected by normal gluons to make up a particle with opposite electrical charge. Similiarly an anti-electron is a type of particle(lepton) with a positive charge.
Conventional cosmology contends that the background radiation, and galactic expansion which indicates a big bang that created our section of the cosmos would have yielded near equal amounts of particles and anti-particles
that would destroy each other, with that small fraction that left constituting our universe. This means what we naively perceive as real and significant is absurdly false, if this theorey is true. We already can observe that 75 percent of the mass/energy of the observable universe is dark energy; whats left of that 25 percent is 23 percent dark matter; of the galaxies dust and intergalactic medium thats left only 4.6 percent constitutes ordinary mass/energy. Our solar system represents only one part of 100 billion solar systems in a cosmos containing 100 billion or more galaxies; each galaxy separated by a factor of a million compared to the separtion of solar systems10 to 100 light years ;where a light year(6 trillion miles) constitutes a factor of 5 to the 15th of a person;and the size of an atomic system at 10 to the minus 10 metres constitutes a factor of 10 to the 10th from a person to an atom; where the factor of size of an atomic nucleus to an atomic nucleus is 10 to the 5. Ignoring the scale of interaction between quarks and gluons in the atomic nucleus (which is significant), The scale from atomic nucleus to human; 10 to minus 15 to 1 and from human to the observable universe is 1 to 2.4 to the exponent 28 yielding a factor of 2.28 to the exponent 42 with regard to an atomic nucleus and the observable universe.
The point is if you estimate that the normal matter that constitutes the universe makes up only one trillionth or quadrillionth of the original mix of particles that was destroyed then that factor of insignificance( or Cosmological significance) becomes like 2.28 * 10^55 or 60. When combined with the dark/matter energy balance it becomes a maximum of 2.28 *10^63
This number is so preposterous that just as copernicus couldnt believe that the suns and planets circled the earth in a complex ptolemic clockworks around the earth, I believe that this number only represents our current level of ignorance. The significance of dark/matter and energy and the origin of matter will eventually be truly know.

TomCatFort 20/5/2010(Thu)12:25:16 No.643170

>>629901
Antiproton is made of antiquarks.

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Anonymous 31/3/2010(Wed)04:49:43 No.567530

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read this /sci/borgs

OCEANIC EX ABYSOSSUS Michael Skywalker 12/5/2010(Wed)12:06:41 No.629914

My name is not aNONYMOUS or knowable. It is Michael Skywalker,i am a virtual light in the darkness, i yield a sword made true by the fiery death of ignorance and quenched by the liquid of clarity. Neither poet nor geometer nor alchemist i am a sophist knelt at the feet of socrates, plato and those that came after.
Understand this enemies of truth: the message IS the medium. Although the cultural balance will shift depending on the temptations of distraction brought about by technological and demographic change, the central aspects of human nature that have ensured our survival and civilized progress continue.
I argue that imagination, community and the respect of the individual as well as invention as the child of necessity are driving forces that act even in this time of seeming somnalesence. Whether its those caught up in tv-land, or text-ville or the playgrounds of the internet the human culture wave is responding to the electronic mediums that demand consolidation, research and re-interpretation of existing knowledge and experiences. Until the tides of introspections recede,our imaginative force will not be harnessed to create, innovate and discover the original breakthroughs in cultural expression, scientific and mathematical discovery that have put men on the moon, shakespearian plays on the printed page, olympic marathoners in the stadia and spiritual inspiration that could be absorbed and translated as a message of GOD