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A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945
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Tul Breetai
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#21 - 2012-12-26 12:13:46 UTC
Alara IonStorm wrote:

And?

What does that have to do with setting off the same bomb over and over again which advances nothing but mental pen1s size?

There is a difference between motivation and stupidity, warfare is motivation to build, once it is built jizzing radiation over the countryside... make that all the countrysides is stupidity.


-weapons-related tests
-weapons effects tests
-safety experiments
-nuclear test detection experiments
-non-military applications experiments
-political demonstration
-political intimidation
-training

Research is your friend, my friend.


Bane Necran wrote:
I've mentioned it before, but because of all these 'tests' everyone born since has Strontium-90 in their bones, and it's been linked to the rise in Leukemia. Aside from that, there was also Iodine-131 released, which has been linked to the rise of thyroid cancer. Both those types of cancer were extremely rare before the nuclear age.

Where things really get stupid, is nukes aren't even the kind of world enders you see in movies and on TV. The one dropped on Hiroshima only really damaged everything within a 1 mile radius, and they were wooden buildings. A nuke would have much less effect on a modern concrete and steel city. So there's not even any good reason to have them in the first place. You could use conventional explosives to do the same damage, and not have all the deadly radiation.


The problem with "Strontium-90... linked to the rise in Leukemia" is that it only exists under flawed reasoning based on the fact that Stront90 can, at high enough doses for long enough periods, cause cancer. "Stront90 causes cancer, therefore more Stront90 = more cancer" without any regard to what level of Stront90 causes cancer and at what rate is hardly conclusive. Linking Stront90 to the global rise in leukemia is like linking every bad storm since the '90s to global warming.

And your second paragraph is kind of... missing the point...

There's nothing worse than an EVE player, generally considered to be top of the food chain in the MMO world, that cannot smacktalk with wit and coherency.
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