LMAO no worries - I'm barely around until late October too (for now!)
cendawanita
joined 2 years ago
Good luck!!
Caaaaan
Meetup time!!! 😂
Genuinely never thought to have an opinion about this, but this shop is def making me curious!
I didn't pay that much attention because a lot of it felt political (in both valid - Japan has been known to not be transparent about its post-fukushima data - and invalid - China framing it as an anti-Japan issue in its media - ways) but fwiw: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/25/fukushima-daiichi-nuclear-power-plant-china-wastewater-release:
"Scientists have pointed out that China’s own nuclear power plants release wastewater with higher levels of tritium than that found in Fukushima’s discharge, and that the levels are all within boundaries not considered to be harmful to human health."
So liddat la.... Though I've been to Tohoku region post-tsunami and ate the foods all, so I'll check in with y'all la in a couple more decades kot....
Specifically on technical innovation, a quote:
TBH if anything I don't want to see this be captured by private sector/the rich. Unless they want to do like that submersible lah... 😌
ETA: lol I guess selalu kena justify: https://spinoff.nasa.gov/
In general expenditure for space exploration (or big ticket stuff) is usually a red herring in conversations about poverty eradication. In part because there's the 1:1 fallacy in administration (tau tau a significant part is state authorities and their taxation revenue) but also in terms of dividends down the line. For sure you can critique the priorities on a matter of principle but it's not like USA was evenly and uniformly rich during their space race years (racial segregation pun was still ongoing apatah lagi how native Americans were actively experiencing cultural genocide).
What is interesting is the long-term impact to their ICT and technical R&D industries. Like it or not, one of their demographical time bomb was having a highly educated middle class and coming with no real pathway to a career outside the service sector and/or migration. Will this be enough of a pull factor? NASA is still operating in Florida because equatorial advantage despite the politics being so shit; many expats would still continue to work in China if they weren't being discouraged to do so. Speaking of China, having manufacturing hubs like Shenzen arguably contributed to improved economic conditions and India has an even younger and dynamic population who may take all the science and engineering they're learning formally and informally and do something. The fact that a lot of space-oriented tech has come back to earth such as it is, and entered civilian life in good ways can't be overstated (titanium and lighter metals = better designed tools and prosthesis for the old and the disabled; better water filtration; carbon dioxide filtration), so imagine what can happen if much of this can be done on a global south economic budget.
In any case, if I want to be genuinely concerned I would think about the fueling needs of such a sector and the fact that both India and Pakistan are nuclear-owning countries 😌 but I remain always hopeful whenever any genie is out of the bottle when it comes to common folk having the access to improve themselves and change the overall condition.
got free coffee so crisis averted for another day
Kodok bin Black Mamba al-Biawak
that's why "of what" is a big (grammatical) deal. The usual construction is "of god" (or their many variants) and the ustaz/ahs so particular always lecture lol because konon melayu dah salah. (Anyway the usual construction is Saifuddin or Saifullah if properlah)
ETA: Abdul is also a landmine since it's servant/slave/subject of.... So Abdul Shams would be seen as idolatrous (Shams is the sun)
Biawak bin Ramli
Bukan saya lol