er, didn’t anyone tell her the devastating cancer doesn’t occur overnight.
Nor did they tell her about the scientist at the Manhattan project who touched plutonium for some reason to save others in the room and he died a horrific death.
IS this Darwinism at work?
Massive doses of radiation will kill you- the scientist who touched it to save others was a hero and yes died horribly because of it.
But massive doses of anything will kill you- even water
There are even some studied that suggest mild doses or radiation are beneficial. I have even read about ‘radiation tourism’ where people go into old mines to get a dose of radiation on-purpose.
This article shows an example of a report who knows nothing about the topic, and if it is not also YOUR area of expertise it can sound like she knows what she is talking about. There is a name for this phenomenon, something about a ‘bias’ toward thinking people on the news are educated in everything.
But a catfish gene mutation would not grow it into giant catfish, it would just kill it. It was already genetically designed to be able to grow that big- a 6 foot catfish is NOT freakish. It is the equivalent of a very talk 6 foot human, nothing freakish about that (I hope not, I am 6’4)
Genetic mutations take generations to be seen. Big catfish are just big catfish.
It’s probably a low risk situation now.
They were "tickling the tail of the dragon", bringing two slightly sub critical masses close together to calibrate the reaction rate.
The top piece slipped and landed on IN CONTACT WITH the bottom piece.
This produced a spike of radiation so intense there was a brilliant flash of blue Čerenkov radiation.
In effect it became a nuclear reactor at full power, with no shielding, the scientist grabbed the top piece and removed it, stopping the reaction in its tracks.
Too late for him, he was effectively touching part of a neutron bomb and had received a lethal dose of radiation.
But he did save the people in the rest of the building...
“they tell her about the scientist at the Manhattan project who touched plutonium for some reason to save others in the room and he died a horrific death.”
Who was that?
Plutonium is very chemically toxic, in addition to being radioactive. Plutonium has a very long half-life, which is why the chemical toxicity is far more dangerous.
Louis Alexander Slotin (1 December 1910 – 30 May 1946)