people who live in low-lying areas. and if you re traveling on an airplane set to be going from new york to tokyo, you ll get 20 times the average background level during that flight. for example, on a beach in brazil, the natural background radiation there is way above permitted levels in terms of what the public can be exposed to. and that s what s coming out of the soil that s on the beach. you re asking why he does this? [ speaking in foreign language ] he has body pains. and this helps? it helps. and what s really striking is that there s no correlation between levels of background radioactivity which vary by such enormous amounts and high levels
going to cost if we go that far and continue our obsession with nuclear power. ifr waste streams lose their radioactivity to background level in about 800 years. light water reactor in nearly 10,000. i share with my colleagues some of the public opinion on this. the washington post the oregonian give up nuclear breeder dream. the san francisco chronicle saying no. the ifr program was shut down. the project went down the black hole of government politics.
just really difficult, but we re back in the waiting game, i m afraid. you know, we had the anticipation of what you described, but the question came in then the question that actually went back crafted by both the defense and prosecution, we thought maybe during that dinner break that the jurors would then more define the question and send it back into the courtroom so we all gathered outside courtroom 5d at around 8:15 only to have a deputy come out and say, no, the judge is not opening up the courtroom, instead you go back down to the first floor in what is the waiting area and that s where we are. so we ve gone from high anticipation back to the general sort of background level of waiting. and i think like many people, you know, there may be about two dozen, three dozen of us inside the courthouse. we know there are many more outside the courthouse and of course across this country, there people waiting to find out what this jury is going to either decide or come back with on a que
the base chemical in pot, in trayvon martin s system. it doesn t mean he smoked that day. i love this issue. it finds its analogy in dui law. marijuana is a unique substance. when you test positive for thc, it s unlike other drugs in that it doesn t necessarily men mean you re intoxicated at that point if time. if you have alcohol in your system, you re intoxicated and shouldn t be driving. i still think this evidence should come in because it goes to a state of mind at the time this happened. that being said, i do see the prosecution s position on this particular point. and dr. kobilinsky, the level of thc is very, very low. that s true. in fact, in a regular smoker of cab cannabis, you would expect a background level of 1.5.
when you test positive for thc, it s unlike other drugs in that it doesn t necessarily mean you re intoxicated at that point if time. if you have alcohol in your system, you re intoxicated and shouldn t be driving. i still think this evidence should come in because it goes to a state of mind at the time this happened. that being said, i do see the prosecution s position on this particular point. and dr. kobilinsky, the level of thc is very, very low. that s true. in fact, in a regular smoker of cannabis, you would expect a background level of 1.5. if you do not have a regular smoker, it could indicate somebody smoked earlier in the day, perhaps six to eight hours earlier and that level would come down due to metabolism of the thc, you d end up with 1.5.