[LINK] Surviving a nuclear bomb

[Rachel Polanskis]

On 17/12/2010, at 5:06 PM, "Tom Koltai" <tomk at unwired.com.au> wrote:

> 
> A cheerful ending to the week.
> 
> I wonder what the Pandora server would make of us, ostensibly reasonably
> well educated and concerned that financial or political pressures will
> force someone to push the button.
> 
> I'm leaving out country names because it's the weekend before christmas
> and we should be cheerful and joyous.
> 
> On the other hand, for the sake of safety... apparently rain is the
> baddie. After an incident, don't go out in the rain... In fact it's a
> good idea to stay inside until after it rains. If you must open a
> window, remember, fallout doesn't go around corners, it falls and is
> wind blown.
> 
> As for living with radiation, anyone that has swum in the various
> swimming holes (downstream from Rum Jungle) in the Northern Territory
> will know that a little 500 rem radiation never killed anyone... 

What about every time we have one of those mega dust storms?

How much indigenous anthrax and irradiated dust particles from the tests
in the 40's & 50's comes to the cities, each time it blows in?  

I had an old mentor who helped me a lot 
when I lived in the outback who was one of the original
rum jungle uranium prospectors.   He had a few stories to tell about then.
It sounded like a very hard way to make a fortune and not very safe, either.


rachel 

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>> On 17/12/2010, at 3:11 PM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>>> I guess 'duck and cover' was right all along. Who else was taught in
>>> the 50s and 60s to jump under your school desk if the big one hit? 
>>> Raise hands. I wonder if kids today have ever heard the word 
>>> 'fall-out' before. I think I was probably 6 or 7 when I first heard 
>>> it. We didn't have one, but many people had 'fallout shelters'. My 
>>> grandparents had a room in the basement with a cot and lots 
>> of food, 
>>> just in case.
>>> 
>>> How times have changed.
>> 
>> I consider it a singular failure of modern Australian society 
>> that most people I speak to have no idea what to do in case 
>> of a nuclear strike.
>> 
>> That, and Hey Hey It's Saturday.
>> 
>> I'm not sure which is worse.
>> 
>> Stil
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