Nuclear Power - the obvious, scientist's case

One scientist has tweeted – “evidence can often be uncomfortable – it’s also known, colloquially, as life.”

On the basis of evidence then, I’d like to discuss people saying nuclear power is the cleanest and safest energy form – err, hello?? Am I missing something?

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-03/swimming-hot-side?page=all

Chernobyl? Fukushima? Around 4000 radiation-related deaths? And it hasn’t even been around that long. How many deaths have you heard of as a result of wind farms?!

Is this like Titanic being the ‘unsinkable’* ship? Or some stubborn scientists poo-poohing  any negative assertions about discoveries because they can’t see the truth (/wood) for their life’s work (/trees)? #historyrepeating

Scientists are currently operating in a Microsoft manner - working confined by the initial limitations of their method, still in awe that some things are possible at all, and not being user-friendly. Society needs Mac scientists, ones that ARE user-friendly, who know what questions people actually have and who can give understandable answers within the wider framework of life.

*re: debates that 'unsinkable' is a misquote - the fact that there were insufficient lifeboats proves, more than any quote, that this was the general opinion. 

I'll see you in our dreams

When younger I couldn’t stop dreaming; I lost myself in stories, curiosities, ambitions. But I thought, DOING is living. To live your dreams you need to DO things rather than think and write about them.

However then (and I had little access to technology as a teen) all this gaming/virtual reality/internet/media obsession came along, so now it is possible, even admired, to live in your dreams. The mental life is becoming some people’s whole reality. And I’m now slightly jealous that I haven’t gone down that path. Constant mental stimulation is appealing, rather than hiking to places, and laboriously making things by hand. 

“I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”

― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

By imaging oxygen uptake patterns in the brain when thinking particular thoughts,  researchers can associate particular brain areas with particular ideas. Thus looking at these patterns when asleep means we can in a crude way read someone’s dreams. As the mind is acknowledged to be a product of matter, our access to it is becoming greater than ever.

So as well as being a major focus of life, dreams are now tangible themselves.