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Podcast for 8 August 2016

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August 07, 2016, 06:00:01 PM
[mp3]http://media.blubrry.com/bogosity/p/podcast.bogosity.tv/mp3s/BogosityPodcast-2016-08-08.mp3[/mp3]


Co-Hosts: Charles Thomas and Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:
Biggest Bogon Emitter: Salon.com (nominated by Neil Purcell) http://www.salon.com/2016/07/31/the_moral_case_for_hillary_clinton_even_if_you_might_dislike_her_this_isnt_the_year_to_back_a_third_party_candidate/

Idiot Extraordinaire: Jill Stein http://www.patheos.com/blogs/accordingtomatthew/2016/08/jill-stein-thinks-wi-fi-could-be-dangerous-for-our-brains/

This Week's Quote: "Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science." —E.O. Wilson
August 08, 2016, 03:48:25 PM #1
Lethality of guns vs. lethality of guns:  Elliot Rodger shot ten people, and killed three of them, after stabbing three people, and killing all three of them.

The Republican Party actively threw the 2012 Presidential Election.  They went so far as to commit crimes and violate their own internal rules to ensure that the would face Barrack Obama Original with Barrack Obama White.  (Seriously, speeches about Obamacare contained major passages that were IDENTICAL to passages from Romney's speeches on the mess he put in in Massachusetts, which itself is almost identical to Obamacare.)

You can't do a "Silly Things From Salon" segment, it would need to be the entire site.

Three Miles Island did not breach containment, and harmed precisely nobody.  Almost everyone harmed at Chernobyl was doing something stupid, like hovering over the exposed reactor core in an unshielded helicopter and trying to drop boron into it.
August 09, 2016, 05:47:40 PM #2
There was a breach of containment into the coolant. The contaminated coolant never left the auxiliary building, so it never got into the environment, but since the auxiliary building was outside the containment zone it was technically a breach of containment.

And the kicker to me is still the fact that the problem was caused by a human being opening the backup relief valve, which was the one thing the system couldn't correct on its own!
August 11, 2016, 03:23:24 PM #3
ALL the major problems that occurred at Three Mile Island were the result of human errors.  It was human error that caused the reserve coolant to be shut off, because the humans thought the reactor core was still immersed in coolant when it wasn't (and this is the biggest error, since this is the one that led to the irreparable problem of partial core meltdown).

These errors were the result of serious faults in the human-machine interface of the computers controlling the plant.  All the alarms sounded the same, so they eventually just disabled all of them since they couldn't tell them anything useful.  The computer wasn't programed to give pertinent information only in a crisis, and spewed out far to much data for the humans to evaluate when they tried to find out what the computer thought was going on.  Meanwhile, when the computer was allowed to manage the problems without human intervention, it kept everything under control, but couldn't tell the humans that because it wasn't programed to pass information on to them properly.

A LOT was learned about how NOT to design control systems from Three Mile Island, and a lot about how humans should respond (mostly, don't mess with what the computer is doing, especially if you don't know what it's doing, because if it didn't know how to manage a nuclear reactor autonomously the whole thing would have failed almost instantly).
August 11, 2016, 07:06:19 PM #4
And also: if you find a problem, don't just shut off the alarm expecting everything to be okay because there are backups, but FIX THE DAMN PROBLEM as soon as you can (there was a lot of that, too)!
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