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One thing I never understood about gamma radiation is that if it only gets stopped by thick lead, why would it have such a bad effect on humans? Surely most of it would just pass straight through?

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xihpete A neutrino walks straight through a bar, with v>c., Tue 10 Jun 2008, 12:24, archived)

yeah it'd pass through but it would rape and pillage your cells as it went through.

twould be like an internal norman invasion.

(fuckchutney is wanking in your hair, nnngh nnngggh NNNGGGHGHGH, Tue 10 Jun 2008, 12:26, archived)

I was wondering how I could reanact the invasion of England by the Vikings.

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xihpete A neutrino walks straight through a bar, with v>c., Tue 10 Jun 2008, 12:30, archived)

the usual way.

put cards up in the phoneboxes of Oslo and Copenhagen offering British SexyTimes and beer at under a fiver a pint.

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evilstevie misses the Orange Place of late, Tue 10 Jun 2008, 12:59, archived)

Enough of it can get absorbed by you to do serious damage.

But it's a tiny amount. 50 joules/kg can kill you. that's roughly the energy produced by a bulb every second per kg of your body, so not much at all.
The dose is so localised it does a shit load of damage when it hits the wrong spot.

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my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Tue 10 Jun 2008, 12:27, archived)

Yay! Learning!

This is good, as I have a physics exam tomorrow.

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xihpete A neutrino walks straight through a bar, with v>c., Tue 10 Jun 2008, 12:31, archived)

Hurray!

I won't go into any more detail, because I'll probably put you off it for life.

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my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Tue 10 Jun 2008, 12:32, archived)

I've taken it for A-levels

So I've probably put myself off.
Along with three other kinds of maths
maths, further maths and economics D:

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xihpete A neutrino walks straight through a bar, with v>c., Tue 10 Jun 2008, 12:35, archived)

Gah.

I did physics maths chemistry and philosophy.
That much maths would have made me angry.

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my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Tue 10 Jun 2008, 12:36, archived)

My maths teacher told me that in all the years I was at high school she never thought she really taught me anything.
She did, but I just learn rather fast and tend not to forget.
I just have a great mind for maths. I can do what I put my mind to at other subjects but I have to work really hard. It questions like those in English which annoy me, it's all in my head I just can't get it onto paper and have it make sense.
And now I really am off.
Bai!

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xihpete A neutrino walks straight through a bar, with v>c., Tue 10 Jun 2008, 12:41, archived)

physics, maths, further maths, history

were my a levels. not a bad combination.

from hereon, except when you get lectured by fuckwits with about five brain cells to knock together, physics is just applied maths. "pure maths" from a level is applied maths too. "applied maths" from a level is a mixture of worthlessness and physics.

so if you at all liked maths at a level i wouldn't immediately discount physics.

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boris the spider, Tue 10 Jun 2008, 12:49, archived)

I haven't

I know im gonna carry on with maths and further maths (I have to, as my 6th form is doing all the maths in one year, then all the further maths the next)
I'm gonna choose which I carry on with physics or economics depending which I'm doing best in.
I chose physics cause I'm getting good grades in it in GCSE

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xihpete A neutrino walks straight through a bar, with v>c., Tue 10 Jun 2008, 15:03, archived)

It's what it does to you AS it passes through

that's the problem.

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chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Tue 10 Jun 2008, 12:28, archived)

BLITZKRIEG TIEM

YAAAAAY

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xihpete A neutrino walks straight through a bar, with v>c., Tue 10 Jun 2008, 12:33, archived)