tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923933927134569019.post3741862156351722149..comments2023-05-27T11:42:50.514-04:00Comments on Hopefully Interesting: Sometimes you need a new wordAndrew Cloughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16396078934805156025noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923933927134569019.post-58501179263166566402020-01-27T22:19:39.124-05:002020-01-27T22:19:39.124-05:00Thought of this article when I saw this tweet abou...Thought of this article when I saw this tweet about ock size terminology: https://twitter.com/SheriffAlert/status/1221881862244749315Rob Davidoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13475066017336841058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923933927134569019.post-41855897536076365522019-06-10T10:01:12.610-04:002019-06-10T10:01:12.610-04:00Congratulations on making this week's Atomic R...Congratulations on making this week's Atomic Rockets update!Rob Davidoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13475066017336841058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923933927134569019.post-62251236148267184202019-06-08T14:11:50.742-04:002019-06-08T14:11:50.742-04:00I think telling someone a 10,000 pebble weight had...I think telling someone a 10,000 pebble weight had hit their friend doesn't give a good sense of whether they should expect a broken bone or complete squishing and likewise it's hard to grasp the difference between Chernobyl and Castle Bravo just by numbers unless you have the chance to get really familiar with the numbers.<br /><br />But maybe you could say such and such a disaster as 1.8 TMIs, or this other was .8 Ivy Mikes and be pretty much understood.Andrew Cloughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16396078934805156025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923933927134569019.post-9872351015266681912019-06-08T14:08:34.800-04:002019-06-08T14:08:34.800-04:00Go right ahead.Go right ahead.Andrew Cloughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16396078934805156025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923933927134569019.post-36125596394773868492019-06-07T17:04:20.526-04:002019-06-07T17:04:20.526-04:00Maybe we should use TMI as the base unit for mass ...Maybe we should use TMI as the base unit for mass releases of radioactive material. Rate Trinity, Hiroshima, Fukushima, Chernobyl, Ivy Mike and WW3 as number of TMIs.Michael Hutsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03908089710109521421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923933927134569019.post-35177310963336759362019-06-07T11:16:45.526-04:002019-06-07T11:16:45.526-04:00I hope you don't mind, but I pointed Winchell ...I hope you don't mind, but I pointed Winchell Chung at this--it seems up his alley. Of course, a counterpoint is that we can calibrate our expectation of the difference between a pebble and a boulder by regular exposure and use of the terms. If there was a public awareness of the difference between TMI/Fukushima and Chernobyl or worse, it'd probably mean we were having events of at least the lower magnitude occur with some frequency (every few years or more?) and of the higher frequency occurring a decent fraction of that rate, which is probably bad.Rob Davidoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13475066017336841058noreply@blogger.com