Friday, November 11, 2016

Brief Notes on Self Organizing, the Election, and Fukushima Daiichi


I have so much I want to post and so little time right now.

Let me first pass on a link suggested by John:

Jerome Roos. 'The Days of Innocence Are Over': Self-Organization in a Time of Monsters  http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/The-Days-of-Innocence-Are-Over-Self-Organization-in-a-Time-of-Monsters-20140906-0025.html

Next, I am going to quickly note that my students' analyses of political memes accurately predicted election results, although their studies were based on selective sampling, rather than representative sampling. I will try and post more on this later.

Third, I want to quickly note that Fukushima emissions look strange on TEPCO cam 1. I cannot figure out whether there is something on the lens in that area of whether there are strange and very visible emissions from the area around unit 3



The Futaba cam view of the plant is extremely dark. There is no visibility at all.

The TBS cam is down right now.

TEPCO cam 1 is pixilated but not extraordinarily so.

Thoughts?




8 comments:

  1. I would really like to know how many of the very disturbed persons (due to the election results) are taking psychiatric medications. Personally after a great deal of study and research I think the drugs are extremely dangerous -- Mad in America
    https://www.madinamerica.com/ is an excellent site to explore this matter. If I could not vote for either of the main candidates then Jill Stein would have been an obvious choice. Given the last four president this nation has had I have trouble seeing Trump as such a dangerous choice. The last four presidents have been corrupt beyond what this nation has usually had. Wars and more wars and terrible economic, social and environmental policies. So clearly people are reacting to the media fantasy and not to anything real. The socially constructed reality has displaced reality. Evidently WWIII seemed less threatening than whatever got pasted on Hillary's rival.

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  2. Horse and Elibi have also noted what appear to be more emissions via cam4. http://caferadlab.com/thread-1549-page-3.html

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  3. think its a combination of both..and maybe on purpose. How easy is it to explain..its just fog on the lens..to the public. But from long time cam watching, there are emissions rising daily. Now with the removal of the Reactor 1 cover, lots more emissions. JEC

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    1. Looking today, 11/12, its active emissions. Yes, some 'fog' might be there..but the weather is not causing the lens issues. Its more emissions. There was a 6.2 yesterday too..45 miles deep..but still..

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  4. From CAM4, it looks like the Common Fuel Pool is steaming on the south side, as we view it. Note the structure, the hatchwork, is now all steam. Not good.

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  5. It looks like steam. I cannot say. I kind of think the fuel in the commons pool burned up.

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    Study pinpoints protein that detects damage from radiation
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    Small intestine tissue from mouse after high-dose X-ray radiation. Green fluorescence shows dying epithelial cells.

    High doses of radiation from cancer treatment can cause severe damage to cells and tissues, resulting in injury to bone marrow and the gastrointestinal tract. The consequences can be fatal. Yet researchers do not fully understand how exposure to radiation triggers this damage at the molecular level.

    Led by Yale professor of immunobiology Richard Flavell, an international team of researchers studied the radiation response using animal models. They identified a novel mechanism of radiation-induced tissue injury involving a protein called AIM2, which can sense double-strand DNA damage and mediate a special form of cell death known as pyroptosis.

    They observed that in animals lacking AIM2, both the gastrointestinal tract and bone marrow were protected from radiation. While the role of AIM2 as a sensor that detects infectious threats to the body was known, this study is the first to describe the protein’s function in the detection of radiation damage to the chromosomes in the nucleus, said the researchers.

    When a cell receives a high dose of radiation, the DNA is broken into pieces, which can be joined together again. However this aberrant rejoining of chromosomal fragments can lead to chromosomal abnormalities and cancer. Flavell and his team believe that when this chromosomal damage is inflicted, the AIM2 pathway is activated in order to kill the cell to avoid the deleterious consequences of these chromosomal translocations, such as those commonly seen in cancer cells.

    For this reason, the cells that accumulate this chromosomal damage are dangerous to the person or animal and are therefore killed by this AIM2 pathway. This pathway is beneficial to the person or animal under normal circumstances because it eliminates dangerous cells, but when a high dose of radiation is given the pathway is detrimental because it leads to bone marrow and digestive tract injury.

    These findings suggest that a drug that blocks or inhibits the AIM2 pathway could potentially limit the deleterious side effect of chemotherapy or radiotherapy on cancer patients, said the researchers.

    Read the full paper in Science.

    http://news.yale.edu/2016/11/10/study-pinpoints-protein-detects-damage-radiation

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    1. Thank you very much for the link! Looks very interesting.

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  6. I love the webcam viewers. They are the great hope of this civilization. You are the greatest bodhisattvas of the human race for now. It is not an overstatement. Many people so oblivious. What Dr gofman , Busby Majia, arclight, Janet Sherman et al started you give value to and bring hope. You all do it by keeping the light going with your observations and as watchers.

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