raika11182

What is the biggest hurdle you've encountered when arguing for increased scientific funding? (i.e., in schools, in the public, etc)

EDIT - I also wanted to say that your last AMA truly blew my mind away with ideas I hadn't considered before... such as that a photon of light does not experience the passage of time since, by it's nature, it's traveling at light speed.

I was in Japan during the meltdown of Fukushima Dai-ichi. It becomes really hard not to look at every little thing that goes wrong being the result of radiation exposure - but we know that increased radiation is not usually all that deadly or sickening. MANY PROBLEMS ARE POSSIBLE, that's for sure, but there's no point dwelling on the possibility when in all likelihood everything is fine.

I mean, Chernobyl was certainly worse in its reality than Fukushima (despite both being rated the same, I think it's a limitation of the rating system), so I don't want to minimize what you went through, either. I still have potassium iodide tablet in my nightstand that we kept during the meltdown... weird little souvenir I can't seem to get rid of.

That was damn near impossible to read without wishing death to a lot of people.

I have a friend who's a garbage man that once had a pair of panties thrown at him from a very flirtatious woman on his route. Hang in there. It can happen to you, too.

Precisely what I do. I move a lot (military), but to prevent the whole conversation about transferring my service, I tell them I'm moving to Japan. That was an honest answer... Once.

Edit - I a word.