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Date:         Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:09:24 -0500
Reply-To:     John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
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From:         John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Subject:      Re: It's Friday- West coast radiation readings
Comments: To: Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <AANLkTi=e+J12qLfsRq6uq-+UeYQYwrx3oy5Nh2NkBUyo@mail.gmail.com>
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I've got a good buddy who is a former atomic submariner and now retired atomic guy from the Power company here. He has worked with all the nuclear plants in Alabama. I had a medical procedure involving injection of a radio active isotope into the blood stream to enable the medical types to give my eart a ver good going over,including a clar look at my cardiac blood vessels. I dromped by is place on the way home, talke a bit and he pulled out a geiger counter. Man - did I make that thing sing!!!! I dropped by next day and what readioacctivty I had was way reducec and in a couple more days pretty much gone. It's a spooky thing though, knowing what a "real" exposure of a different radio active material could do to you.

I've noticed that in all the news over the last week, not one of the talking heads or specialist, nor special reporters have mentioned the fact that exposure to some radiation types (gamma primarily) is like getting shot with a load of buckshot. Your body on a molecular level winds up looking like swiss cheese. The breaking of the bonds of so much of what holds us together is what results in the body breaking down and our parts begining to fail, first making us nauseated, then vomiting, followed by a whole bunch of other particularly nasty events. Not a pleasant thing. Fortunately, bad as it is, this isn't what is happening in Japan for the moment.

John

> John Rodgers > Clayartist and Moldmaker > 88'GL VW Bus Driver > Chelsea, AL > Http://www.moldhaus.com RE: Radiation Detectors > Keep in mind that the radiation detectors in use today ain't quite the old > Geiger counters that granddad used in '46 prospecting in Utah expecting to > get rich. An example of the sensitivity of today instruments made the news > here in Seattle a few moths ago. At the Colman ferry terminal on the > Seattle water front they suddenly went into lock down. All kinds of > uniformed types poured out on to the apron where cars were waiting to get > onto the ferry. Eventually someone was heard to say "Here it is" as they > surrounded one car. They then started to question the man driving. One of > the first questions they asked was "Have you had any medical procedures > today?" and he responded yes, he'd had a study done that required the > injection of radioactive tracer material. They said "Thank you, that > explains it" and everything went back to normal. > So when the news reports just part of the news, such as "Increased radiation > levels detected 100 miles away" but don't bother (or are to ignorant to or > just prefer to spout scary stuff) to report the amount of such increases or > the significance of such increased readings we get the kind of craziness we > are seeing today. > >


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