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Snort! Probably time to start popping some corn. Speaking of which, how many cups of popcorn. . .

Somewhere, there should be a convenient food conversion chart for this.

Heh, I love it

Most K40 is excreted renally …
Try a similiar activity of I131 and it would be a different story …

Talking of dose …. someone (who will remain anon) here once said:

“Hell, where I live, average annual dose is between 400 and 650 milliseiverts.
According to the IAEA, I should have been dead decades ago…..”

Yeah, and I’m a ‘green glow in the dark’ Paddy Days Leper!

Here’s a video I saw once- and had to find again after the flame-stream media went into ZOMyGAWD-we’re-going-to-have-three-eared-kidzz-who-kan’t-read mode.

It kind of puts those four (maybe) welting reactors into perspective.

http://blip.tv/play/AeaDFAI
Or maybe we should cue Dr. Strangelove?

With the proper breeding techniques … Mein President!

Kurt, excuse me, but surely your own government has your best interests at heart? Your prevailing notion should be one of nostalgia that your world governments have safety tested 2500 warheads each with a nominal amount of Pu of around 10 kgs in the atompsheric and underground testing periods.

Such a sacrifice for the future of the human race is needed meind fiend?

You crack me up!

Yeah, banana dose was kind of an inside joke when we were studying nuclear physics. I was doing that just prior to Gulf War I when everyone was pretty excited about Saddam’s WMD for the first time. That was fun. Lent a real sense of urgency to the thing.

Dose effects are strongly non-linear, mind, both in total exposure and dose rate. The 20 mSv/hour they’re quoting for inside the Jap nuke plant itself is not good, but you’d probably run out your department’s overtime budget for the week before it had any real effects. The tens of sieverts an hour they were quoting for the close vicinity of Chernobyl immediately after the containment structure failed is more like the sort of event that should have Gloria Vanderbilt Jr. ruffling his botoxed brow while digesting a crash course in rad hazards. Rule of thumb for prompt doses: up to 200 mSv, and you might feel at the top-end like you have the flu, and you might get leukaemia one day, but you’ll make it in the near term. A sievert or so will make you plenty sick. You might well die in Khartoum. Kyoto? Not, although no-one will insure you against cancer ever again. Three Sv? Now you’re in real trouble. You might make it with good medical care and a dose of luck. That’s the LD50, really. 6 Sv? Walking ghost syndrome. Dead but you don’t know it. 10 Sv+? Prompt incapacitation, CNS derangement, GI tract melts, nasty but not as nasty as 6 Sv ‘cos it’s over quicker. 80 Sv? What the putative ‘neutron bomb’ was meant to do to forward-echelon T-80 crews if they broke through the Fulda Gap. Ever seen what a good blast of Raid does to a cockroach? Yep.

In the words of the Marinus van der Lubbe International Firebombing Society: “The only way outta here is straight up!”

Something for Oceania:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeHTziiFVx0

Is America the Evil Empire?

I just got a flash from The Simpsons: Homer the Vigilante

Kent Brockman and Talking Head:
KB: Professor, without knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say it’s time for our viewers to flee in terror from an imminent attack by a radiation-maddened Godzilla?

TH: Mmm, yes I would, Kent.

Supermoon at the max over the English coast at this very moment. Sucker is HUGE. And yellow.

“…as each male would be required to do prodigious, um, service in this area, the females would have to be of an extremely… stimulating nature…”

OMFG! Where did you find that?!

Those were the days – where they filmed Oxford Debates. Oh how it has been turned to custard with the likes of slopehead Al Gore’s Stoner Speech ..
Anyone got a vid of that?

In January I swallowed 119 millicuries of I 131–for the third time in less than 4 years…wonder how many bananas that is?!

Speaking of bananas, I’ve got some downstairs. Think I’ll go eat one.

If you’re a banana on SL, Stoatie, do you go by the screen name of “Mrs. Peel”?

[Gawd, I’m amazed no one thought of that one already! 🙂 ]

Off topic, but something you might want to look in to Stoaty:
99 Designs.

Bananas. Yes. There’s this:

http://bentobjects.blogspot.com/2010/05/bananas-at-bedtime.html

(I’m putting in this line of text in the hope that it will distract Akismet, which hates when I post links)

yep stoaty, gotta love the off-color moon….

That bent objects dude is genius, Can’t hark. I’ve seen his stuff before, but not is site.

And I’m not really a red in tooth and claw capitalist, Mitchell. I can see all the other designers beating me up and stealing my lunch money.

There’s a reason I was a salariman all those years.

I hope you write the heck out of this new war we’ve got ourselves in over the weekend. Is a war more moral because the French started it?

The French never finish a war, do they?

Well, the French have never won anything that they have started.

That said, neither has the USA come to think of it.

It is just a new massive cluster phuck in the sand.
Dead Arabs, Operation In Libya (OIL) is already underway with amphib groups ready to land to oust BP and rewrite oil contracts for American companies …. ironic I hear you say? Why yes. Just waiting for the DUst to settle.

More to do with who is selling Libyan OIL to whom, where, and at what price.

Watch Libyan Government money in various bank accounts in the US, UK and EU mysteriously ‘evapourate’ overnight … if it hasn’t already.

Oceania: Well, the French have never won anything that they have started.

Aside from World War I, the Italian War of Liberation (1859: Napoleon III beat up Austria, allowing the Italians to unify their country. He collected a pourboire (tip) by annexing Upper Savoy and Nice.), and the conquest of Algeria…

That said, neither has the USA come to think of it.

Aside from the Barbary Pirates War, the Mexican War, and the Spanish-American War. But that’s because we don’t often start wars.

I hope that you are not saying that the French started World War I?