{"id":33164,"date":"2011-03-27T15:44:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T15:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/nuclear-power-as-the-%e2%80%9cshark-attacks%e2%80%9d-of-energy-gene-expression\/"},"modified":"2011-03-27T15:44:32","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T15:44:32","slug":"nuclear-power-as-the-%e2%80%9cshark-attacks%e2%80%9d-of-energy-gene-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/nuclear-power-as-the-%e2%80%9cshark-attacks%e2%80%9d-of-energy-gene-expression.php","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear power as the \u201cshark attacks\u201d of energy | Gene Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Image Credit: Stefan Kuhn<\/a><\/i><\/p>

I was at a coffee shop recently and a SWPL<\/a> couple (woman had dreads<\/a> to boot!) a number of tables away were reading a newspaper, and the husband expressed worry about the Fukushima disaster<\/a>. The wife responded that “now other people will understand how dangerous nuclear power is,” with a sage nod. They then launched into twenty minutes of loud righteous gibberish about chemicals (I had a hard time making sense of it, despite the fact that I learned a lot about chemicals in the past due to my biochemistry background). Because they’d irritated me I was curious and I tailed them as they left. Naturally they had driven<\/em> to get coffee in a S.U.V. of some sort (albeit, a modestly sized one which looked like it was more outfitted for the outdoors’ activities common in the Pacific Northwest; they’d probably done their cost vs. benefit<\/em> about those chemicals!<\/strong>).<\/p>

In terms of radiation fears, I suspect that if more people just automatically knew the inverse-square law<\/a> in relation to the drop off of its effects we’d be in a whole lot less ...<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Image Credit: Stefan KuhnI was at a coffee shop recently and a SWPL couple (woman had dreads to boot!) a number of tables away were reading a newspaper, and the husband expressed worry about the Fukushima disaster. The wife responded … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}