Thankfully, another reason not to urinate in the sleeping platform
Posted by TFG on 22nd February 2007
They did tests with conventional explosives and non-radioactive dust mimicking common radioactive materials, and found that most of the dust did not travel long distances. This means that relatively few people will be hurt by a dirty bomb, and that a relatively small area will be affected.
Pardon me for being the That Stupid Guy, but this is not news. Maybe to real scientists it is, but not to me, or anybody else with a lick of common sense, or who might have, say, hypothetically, sometime in the past, blown shit up for no real reason except to blow shit up — or been around someone who blew some shit up. No, the real fun part is this – remember, it’s from Scientists! at Science! Now!, a division of Science! Magazine:
The article doesn’t make it clear how small the distance was, but apparently it was smaller than many previous estimates.
There you go. Quit wetting the bed over dirty bombs. If it happens, it’ll probably happen a few houses down, or a few blocks over, or a few kilometers away. Maybe degrees of latitude, or astronomical units. Whatev. Just quit wetting the bed. You know what would be fun to go with this? One of those statistics roll-ups that show you’re more likely to win the lottery than to be hit by a dirty bomb or any other kind of terroristic acts, so quit wetting the bed, you big puss.
This mainly reminds me of an old Aggie joke: upon learning that most accidents happen close to home, the Aggie moved. It took me a couple of hours to figure that one out.
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