Radiation in the USA?!
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The only reason people are as afraid of radiation as they are is that the vast majority of people are ignorant and illiterate morons.
Yes, Chernobyl laid waste to a lot of land, but the damage was pretty much limited to the immediate surroundings, the rest of Europe got some radioactive particles but nothing that would really endanger people's health. And in the end, in the words of one Ukrainian scientist, Chernobyl became the cleanest region of the whole country as it only had radiation but no humans to wreck the environment with everything else they do every day.
Any radioactive cloud coming from Fukushima will have to travel 1/3 of the globe to reach California, it will have been diluted to essentially nothing by that time.
On average, everyone gets 3 mSv of radiation every year just from the background radiation that's present in everything. But there are places in the world where the radiation background is several times that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsar,_Mazandaran#Radioactivity
And yet people have lived there for thousands of years and there aren't any obvious ill effects on their health
So stop with the "The government is out to get us" thinking, the only reason people think that is that majority of people are brainless morons who neither understand what's going on around them and how the world works nor they understand that the government mostly consists of the same kind of brainless morons as themselves...
I'm just completely sick of seeing this every time something happens (or doesn't happen)
The only reason people are as afraid of radiation as they are is that the vast majority of people are ignorant and illiterate morons.
Yes, Chernobyl laid waste to a lot of land, but the damage was pretty much limited to the immediate surroundings, the rest of Europe got some radioactive particles but nothing that would really endanger people's health. And in the end, in the words of one Ukrainian scientist, Chernobyl became the cleanest region of the whole country as it only had radiation but no humans to wreck the environment with everything else they do every day.
Any radioactive cloud coming from Fukushima will have to travel 1/3 of the globe to reach California, it will have been diluted to essentially nothing by that time.
On average, everyone gets 3 mSv of radiation every year just from the background radiation that's present in everything. But there are places in the world where the radiation background is several times that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsar,_Mazandaran#Radioactivity
And yet people have lived there for thousands of years and there aren't any obvious ill effects on their health
So stop with the "The government is out to get us" thinking, the only reason people think that is that majority of people are brainless morons who neither understand what's going on around them and how the world works nor they understand that the government mostly consists of the same kind of brainless morons as themselves...
I'm just completely sick of seeing this every time something happens (or doesn't happen)
thank god for the media, striking fear into the public through mis-information as usual....
the radiation that may come our way will be so little you might as well break your leg, go to the dr. and get a few x-rays if you want to get some radiation exposure...were exposed to more radiation daily then whats going to travel through air...all these idiots running out buying potassium iodine pills because they're fucking idiots...the salt is new to me though....anyways if anyone has a baby within the next 2 years...let us know if has 11 toes or web feet...or looks like something from "these hills have eyes" however if your a habitual sand user please keep it to yourself
one more thing....everybody worried about radiation when we could have some crazy shit happening with the moon tomorrow
the radiation that may come our way will be so little you might as well break your leg, go to the dr. and get a few x-rays if you want to get some radiation exposure...were exposed to more radiation daily then whats going to travel through air...all these idiots running out buying potassium iodine pills because they're fucking idiots...the salt is new to me though....anyways if anyone has a baby within the next 2 years...let us know if has 11 toes or web feet...or looks like something from "these hills have eyes" however if your a habitual sand user please keep it to yourself
one more thing....everybody worried about radiation when we could have some crazy shit happening with the moon tomorrow
