Surviving a nuclear attack.

[bannination]

It's long, but it could save your life.

[Dryer Vent]

[bannination]

Yeah.... the government's instructions on keeping a biological threat out of your home by using duct tape reminded me of their past incompetence on nuclear attacks.

I guess it's not really about the instructions is it? It's about keeping stupid people from panicking, or keeping them busy.

[rstrong]

A few years ago Turkey had an earthquake that collapsed several schools in an area where the schools were the only big cement structures around. The classrooms had desks like the ones shown above, and the kids were trained to hide under them.

Lesson learned: Many kids were crushed under their desks when the desk legs collapsed under the weight of the cement floor above. Kids who hid *between* the desks were far more likely to survive.

[rstrong]

Worst Response To A Crisis, 1985:
From a readers' Q and A column in TV GUIDE: "If we get involved in a nuclear war, would the electromagnetic pulses from exploding bombs damage my videotapes?"

[rstrong]

"We've got bad news and worse news. First the bad news: A UNC-CH poll showed that as many as one in five Southerners believes 'The South would be a lot better off if it had won the War Between the States. Now the worse news: A private survey found that South Carolina has more nuclear warheads than any other state."
- Lew Powell

[JTA]

I grew up near a nuclear plant. There were signs in a few locations that warned residents to tune in to station XXXX if sirens sounded for more than three minutes, I guess for evacuation instructions.

After 9-11 everyone was freaking out thinking a hijacker might try to crash a plane into it since it's in a highly populated region.

[homerfobe]

Seems as though the basic instructions have been ignored. Earthquake damages are quite different from projected nuclear damage.
Stick your head between your knees and kiss your a s s goodby.

[homerfobe]

Seems as though the basic instructions have been ignored. Earthquake damages are quite different from projected nuclear damage.

Seems as though you ignored basic comprehension. rstrong was clearly referring to earthquakes which, as a matter of fact, are not that dissimilar from nuclear blast damage.

Stick your head between your knees and kiss your a s s goodby.

Is that what you learned in the Navy, or is it just something else you're confused about? I've been taught quite different in disaster response.

Not that I'm making any extrapolations, but it's noteworthy that the only two military lifers we've had in this forum are as immature and foolish as homerfobe and "Reality".

That's a joke older than you are stupid, but it's noteworthy that you are more gullible and idiotic than you're been given credit for, and that's scraping the bottom.

[Wneglia]

Life After Chernobyl

[homerfobe]

I know the joke, dummy, but you're the one that confused nuclear blast damage with thermal and radiation damage and you're the one that posted the joke as truth in this discussion. Excuuuse me if I can't always tell the difference between when you're an idiot and just pretending to be one, the former is so, so common.

There's no excuuuse for you. You're so gullible, you can't discern truth from reality.

You're the idiot here, and you don't even have to pretend.

[Dryer Vent]

The only two survivors of a nuclear war:

Cockroaches AND

[Wneglia]

Life After Chernobyl

Yes, the animals that survive the radiation and can reproduce are doing well. That just shows that habitat loss and human depredation are even more limiting. It doesn't say anything about how the animals are being affected, how humans would be, or how the animal success would compare to a control population without humans and the radiation.

C'mon, you know how to set up legit radiation-related experiments, and which ones lend themselves to no conclusion at all.

Radio-Adaptation
Hormesis and evolution in action?

[homerfobe]

hee hee. I've been put on ignore! Something about heat in the kitchen and stuff comes to mind.

[Boatrocker]

Unless it the most limited of exchanges, I don't want to survive a nuclear attack. I''d rather be right smack in the bullseye at ground zero.

[rstrong]

"The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the water, because it had been made bitter."
- Revelation 8:10-11

The Ukrainian word for Wormwood is Chernobyl.

[neoplacebo]

Well, then we have quite a bit more excitement to anticipate.