Angles, Radiation Protection and Nuclear Power Plants in a few Centuries?

["Franz Schoenhofer" <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>]

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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----

Von: Raymond A. Hoover <rayhoover@HOTMAIL.COM>

An: rstrickert@signaturescience.com <rstrickert@signaturescience.com>;

radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Datum: Montag, 07. Jänner 2002 19:48

Betreff: RE: speed of light





>And here I thought that the "Angles" had all disappeared after succesfully

>invading England about 1300 years ago.  Well I guess it is good to know

that

>they are still alive and dancing no matter what their density on the dance

>floor. :-)

>





According to my knowledge (I am not only interested in radiation protection,

but also in history....) the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes invaded

England about 450. It seems that they were quite successful there, so that

the Danes (where the Angles and the Jutes actually had come from!) and

Norvegians invaded England in the 9th century. Let me skip some centuries -

in 1066 the battle (or maybe the "slaughter") at Hastings occurred. The

Anglosaxons were more or less enslaved (see the great theater play by

Anouilh "Beckett", which also resulted in a really great film. I confess

that I once was very interested in literature as well....).



I think that Angles might not have disappeared since, rather mixed with

other populations.



Since I assume that you erred by just a few centuries I got the idea to

answer your e-mail and I desperately try not to be off topic: Sometimes I

wonder, what will be the view a few decades ahead or a few centuries ahead

of our time? What will be the view on our "problems" with nuclear energy,

with radiation protection? I am quite sure that the Danes and the Normans

(the Norman tribes and not the Norman Cohens......) have a different opinion

on Englands history than the nowadays English (or as most of us Europeans

still call them - Anglo-Saxons). Will we still have after thirty or fourty

years the battle on nuclear power? What will be the limits for the yearly

effective dose for members of the public? Will it be in the microSv- range

or will we have a compulsary "not less than 1Sv per day"?



I do not think that this is ridiculous nonsense and off topic. Science and

history have really much in common. Some great man (it was a long time ago

and therefore it cannot have been a woman...) said, that the history of a

science is science. Has anybody ever tried to recall what has been "state of

the art" twenty, thirty, fourty, fifty......eighty... or hundred years ago?

I know, that several papers and books have been published on single items,

but I wonder, whether anybody ever has tried to figure out all the

connections and interactions, which the "nuclear age" brought in relation to

politics, economics, philosophy, art etc.



If somebody knows an answer to my question - please contact me. But I dare

say, that other RADSAFErs might be interested as well.



Best regards,



Franz









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