Thought Experiment: USA NUKED JAPAN

It is soo hard for our ignorant fellows to comprehend.

[Side note on ignorance: ignorance is lack of knowledge or not knowing. knowledge is opinion that which is your own or that with which you concur. that which cannot be opinion cannot be knowledge. Information i.e. USA nuked Japan in 1945 can be opinion but requires telling, so it can be information, something of which some can be informed of] taken from Marc Rose.

So i am making this post, so that it will help them dudes understand, and help make their point clearer to explain how am i lying. It is awkward singing into a debating group where tons of fellows accuse you of telling lies and suck at explaining their case. i am making this post out of my time, so not spamming, copy pasting stuff and trolling is appreciated. Just as a reminder, a few folks may find the topic of this post "THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: USA NUKED JAPAN" misleading, however it goes beyond as you will notice later and i have left the conclusion for the debating folks.

I have tried to assess the USA act of deciding to "nuke Japan to save its own population" over a thought experiment.

Case:

Trolley coming with high speed 

Consider you are working in a mine and there is a trolley coming from track A, there are 10 workers working on track A further on.

You are standing on the platform, where there is a control box. If you pull the lever the train will divert to track B. between the 10 workers and the train, at the movement there is a junction from which stems the track B, where 5 peoples are working.

The control box is within your reach, so you can make a decision. what would that be?

Following are different configuration of the events that can happen due to the decision made.

i) do nothing: 10 people will die.

ii) pull the lever: 5 people will die.

For i) people can argue that "no doing" is not an action, so cannot be held responsible for it. As no action has been done. While one can also say that the importance is to the decision. The decision i.e. letting a difference of 5 people die.

For ii) people can argue that by pulling the lever they have saved 5 lives, which otherwise be destroyed.

The argument in ii) give rise to the philosophy of “consequential moral principle” which dictates that the nature of action is defined by the consequence of the action i.e. if the consequence is good; the action is moral or good. If the consequence is bad; the action is bad or immoral.

Which further give rise to the knowledge of consequence being good or bad? For example in the given case  

for i) what if those 10 people who get killed because no action has been done were a great invertors, remarkable scientist or honest statesmen ?
for ii) what if those 10 people who are saved were serial killer, drug trafficker or terrorists?

Conclusion:

I am leaving the conclusion bit for the fellow readers as I promised earlier.  The decision is yours, what was the right thing for Americans to do on 6^th and 9^th August 1945?

Was the decision to nuke Japan so that America becomes a threat and destruction of many sovereign nations moral/right?

OR

Would the decision to let Japan destroy America be a moral/right decision?

NDT_ Dye Panetrant Testing

Introduction

This blog demonstrate us the Non Destructive testing which is done in many industries where the test piece is costly or cannot be afforded to be thrown away. NDT test involves use of a dye penetrate over a test material, which by the explained procedure exposes the surface cracks.

Objective

To test the specimen for any surface cracks from a production line using dye penetrate Non Destructive test.

Apparatus

• ·         Cleaning solvent
• ·         Dye penetrant
• ·         Developer
• ·         Material= mild steel

Safety Procedure

·         We have to make sure the ventilation is sufficient, as we are dealing with toxic chemical, ideally we have to wear safety masks but the chemical used in workshop were no damaging so  while performing the experiment in workshop we can only consider the ventilation.

·         The chemicals are reactive; they can also react with the skin and damage it, so we have to wear gloves so that our skin is protected.

·         While mishandling there is a reasonable chance that we can drop or spill some amount of the chemical and they can easily penetrate our normal clothing , so ideally one must be wearing boiler suit in order to avoid the risk, but in the workshop we have very less toxic chemicals so it we were not exposed to the risk and so we neglected it.

Procedure

Clean the specimen; make sure it is nice and clean. Heat the material so that it will expand and prevail the faults and apply the dye penetrant, allow it to soak in to the cracks or faults, allow it suitable time to cool. As soon as the suitable time is elapsed, clean the material using the cleaning solvent, apply it on top of the specimen, the applied dye will make a solution with it, clean it using a rag and make sure there is no contamination left on the surface [make sure that the dye penetrant which is seeped into the cracks are not removed].  Then we apply the developer, and wait to cool down, which will allow the material to contract, and the time for developer to react with the dye. After the suitable time is elapsed the cracks will become visible.

Result

As the suitable time is elapsed for the material to contract and the developer to react the cracks or fault on the surface of the material is visible. We know the exact location of the cracks/faults on our work piece, which were 3 circles.

Conclusion

Dye Pernetrant NDT is a cost effective test, which is used by small industry for quality purposes, this allows us to demonstrate the non visible faults on the surface of material which may result in drop of efficiency in the finished product, so either the specimen is resent to the production line, if it is fix able, or scraped, if not fixable.

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