[OSM-talk] radioactivity

Aun Johnsen (via Webmail) skippern at gimnechiske.org
Sun Aug 9 00:28:36 BST 2009


On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 00:42:37 +0200 (CEST), Stefan de Konink
<stefan at konink.de> wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Aug 2009, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> 
>> Forgive my scientific ignorance, but are actual measurements even static
>> enough - I mean, if I measure radiation X at a certain place, is there
>> reason to believe that it will (in the absence of catastrophic events)
>> be more or less unchanged one month in the future?
> 
> It depends on the decay time. I just wanted to reply we would require
some
> sort of temporal database to actually facilitate this.
> 
> So to answer your point. If there is an actual measurement of lets say N
> amount of becquerels, you can be pretty sure it is more fixed then your
> typical roads. And if it is dangerous all depends on the type of
> radiation it emits :)
> 
> So if we take normal uranium it will only be alpha radiation,
> unless you eat, breath in dust etc. it is not harmful. (So you know
> exactly the reason why you shouldn't eat mushrooms in East-Europe)
> 
> To equip your GPS device (the satelite already has a detector ;) with a
> Geigercounter will probably give nice information, usefulness within OSM
> -> 0. Just fork it into a thing like the altitude maps. ORM ;)
> 
> 
> Stefan
> 
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Exactly my point.
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Aun Johnsen
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