O'Bill saidQuote: I also recall reading that children were literally playing in the Nuclear dust from an H-Bomb, on the neighboring island where we moved these people (and damn near starved them to death). Many of whom are still alive today... and I believe this substantiates my claim that outside of ground zero; Nukes are not as dangerous as many believe. Does any of this strike you as false?
The kids were playing in the dust on Bikini after resettlement. Then they moved them out about 3 years later after the cesium level was found to be unacceptable and the veggies were loaded with cesium 137 . Even the nearest islands are 50 to 100 nautical miles away , so the radwaste is lessened from the H bomb. It takes usually 7 half lives to get to about .008% of original radioisotope. Now , had that been plutonium or Uranium 235 the half ives would be about 24000 yars for plutonium and 70 MILLION years for Uranium. Ive worked out at the Nevada test site where the Jackass flat and sedn bombs were set off and these grounds are roped off for fear that they are "hot" and toxic. Many radioisotopes have fast half lives and will disappear in a few lifetimes , but others are just as dangerous as weve always thought.
The reason I gave you the"Rush Limbaugh" science shout-out, is because hehas never been one to appreciate science and , even though he could easily "look it up" . He chooses to spout some right wing mantra about everything from radioactivity and toxics to "wetlands " and endangered species.
The Evangelicals have, in the past 2 years , with the Bush clan being out and out millenialists in their outlooks, have rethought their attachment to much of what the Pat Robertson school says about the environment and custody of our planet.
