[LINK] Surviving a nuclear bomb

[Steven Clark]

On 17/12/10 14:49, Stilgherrian wrote:
> 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? 
our school desks were far too small to provide much cover. [though the
hole for the obsolete ink wells gave rise to a multitude of creative uses.]
>> Raise hands. I wonder if kids today have ever heard the word 
>> 'fall-out' before. 
they have. they just associate it with different thing/s.
>> I think I was probably 6 or 7 when I first heard 
>> it. We didn't have one, but many people had 'fallout shelters'.
i lived for a while in a house that still had a complete wwii air raid
shelter in the backyard. the old earth-over-iron kind.
>>  My grandparents had a room in the basement with a cot and lots of food, just in case.
another house came complete with a priest-hole and at least two secret
passages.
>> 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.
but there are so many other failures to choose from: failure to learn
how to do basic maths without a keypad; failure to desire to read
anything that takes any effort at all to comprehend; failure to grasp
that a light truck (aka 's.u.v') is not a substitute for paying
attention whilst driving; failure to question the effort required to
justify the light truck in light of strongly held belief that others
ought to drive more fuel efficient cars; ad nauseum ...

> That, and Hey Hey It's Saturday.
>
> I'm not sure which is worse
HHIS.

at least a nuclear strike is only likely to awful once; not repeated
every week ...

-- 
Steven