Some 15 years ago I wanted to contribute/fix bugs and asked the author if the sources are available. He answered yes, for $10000. Screw that guy, I wrote my own image viewer )
Second to this. There are a story I read about a very successful diplomat who was so hard on itself that one day he fainted from the stress, because he thought he wasn't good enough. As he found the hard way that this cannot continue, he decided to fake it, if he cannot make it, and que sera. Very surprisingly to him, noone noticed and he was no less successfull afterwards.
Thorium is not much radioactive indeed, but radon it emits is. That's why f.ex. building houses on a granit (that is generally thorium rich) without proper ventilation underneath can result in serious health issues.
There's loads of cities built on and with granite, and long before any awareness of Radon came about, without undue health effects. Scotland particularly - Aberdeen is even nicknamed the Granite City. Modern levels of draught exclusion can make for a little more of a problem of course.
You can map a specific radon level to probability of getting lung cancer. At high levels, it's equivalent to smoking cigarettes, and for smokers, it increases your cancer risk 7-8x.
At the levels where it is recommended that you remediate your home, your likelihood of dying from lung cancer is equivalent to dying in a car accident. That's potentially 50 people a year when you look at a population of 200,000 people.
In 1988 I've been standing for quite a long time on my balcony, awing at 5 huge lighting objects dancing in the sky. Never believed in UFOs, but - in front of my own eyes, and in the middle of a big city! Then my mother came and said it must be preparations of light show for tomorrow's concert over the stadium. Oh well...
That's what I'm getting as an opening screen: "The application Pacifica (process com.pacificalabs.pacifica) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
Would you be able to send an email to info (at) thinkpacifica (dot) com from the email address you created the account with. If you could let us know which device you're on, we'll check it out as soon as we can. Thanks and sorry for the trouble.
There is an interesting read about lutein and macular degeneration [1] .. might be quackery, but I've started to include kale in my ration. If it does nothing, well it's not unhealthy. But if it helps though it wouldn't be wise to ignore it.
