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Right. It's easiest for me to evaluate how the US responded, because I witnessed it close-up. The federal response was horrible. Statewide responses were mixed, but their success was also limited by the poor federal response. But this is hardly a proxy for the worldwide response. Taiwan, South Korea, and New Zealand, among others, have done things pretty well.

Americium isn't a fission fragment, so the identification as a fission fragment rocket is misleading. The issue, I would think, is how much Am-242 you can make, and at what cost, considering that you need a conventional rector and multiple neutron absorptions to get you there.

Who is "we"? There are a number of countries who have weathered this pretty well.

! Moderator Note Someday, I hope, you will do your due diligence before you post, and include the necessary citations in your thread-opener. But as they say: the battle does not always go to the strong nor the race to the swift, but that's the way to bet.

You’d need a significant half-life for that to work.

Books generally aren’t formally peer-reviewed.

Why do they need to have a use?

It’s based on the shell model of nuclear structure A filled shell of neutrons or protons is a low-energy state, and isotopes tend to be stable against decay (especially beta decay), and you tend to have more stable isotopes with filled shells. (the atomic analogue is noble gases) So e.g. Sn, with 50 protons, has 10 stable isotopes. Pb, which has 82 protons, has 4 stable isotopes. 126 is also a magic number (Pb-208 is doubly magic). It’s thought that having 126 protons might at least have a longer half-life than nearby isotopes.

What does the hand at the bottom of an avatar mean? I only see it on newer members. Is that the connection?

I hope you aren’t waiting on a response here if you think you’ve been poisoned. Putting ‘poison hotline Canada’ in google gives lots of results

! Moderator Note This is a hijack - you aren’t furthering the discussion of the OP, you are steering this to your idea. If there was substance to this, you could post it in speculations. That’s the only place for discussion of non-mainstream ideas

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! Moderator Note Posting links and some babble is not a substitute for a scientific discussion

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The claim was about a paradox in nature, not in philosophy. So, no actual example, then?

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What exactly, then, is the paradox? It sounds like you’re describing interference. Can you use actual 21st century physics terminology?

How is that a paradox? You expect a certain behavior based on assumption(s). If the system doesn't behave as expected it's not because theres a paradox, it's because your assumptions about the system behavior are wrong.

Regarding McConnell saying senators are free to vote their conscience in the Impeachment It's quite scary to me that there is an implication that they need his permission to do so. It's also a tacit admission that many might vote because of the implications to their political future, rather than to uphold their oaths of office.

! Moderator Note You’ve been here long enough that you should know it doesn’t work this way. Even it were a five-minute video, rather than 1.5 hours. Make your point in the post, not with a link.

Nothing to forgive. Asking questions is a good thing.

They mean that IR is easy to reflect, not that light reflects it But this process does not involve atoms absorbing heat. Thermodynamically, the laser is doing work. A room temperature item will emit IR out near 10 microns, in a broad continuum. A Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. Which is not what we have in laser slowing.

Light doesn’t reflect light, and for some atoms the transition is in the visible (like the Na you keep bringing up), and this isn’t a thermal effect of the atoms, so heat dissipation isn’t in play. As I said, I’ve used multiple topologies of lasers. But I daresay you haven’t picked up the process.