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Old 03-13-2011, 09:15 AM   #1
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Radiation Fallout Warning Issued For US 3/13/2011

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Old 03-13-2011, 09:26 AM   #2
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I'm curious... Was the map published by an official agency? What is the recommended course of action now that we have this information?
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Old 03-13-2011, 09:42 AM   #3
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I think it's just a warning.
Some more info here.
West Coast USA Danger IF Japan Nuclear Reactor Meltdown - Modern Survival Blog – surviving uncertain times
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Old 03-13-2011, 10:17 AM   #4
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I'm curious... Was the map published by an official agency? What is the recommended course of action now that we have this information?
Just don't eat the snow... like in the fifties...remember?
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Old 03-13-2011, 10:38 AM   #5
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It's a Hoax!

This image has been refuted as a hoax.

Fake image of nuclear meltdown risk going around the Internet - TheWeatherSpace.com

I looked up Australian Radiation Services and it's not even a government agency. It's a private testing lab. They don't have anything about this on their website.

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Old 03-13-2011, 12:06 PM   #6
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agreed with Matt, just google hoax Australian Radiation Services
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Old 03-13-2011, 03:51 PM   #7
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Total idiocy. Fallout from the Castle Bravo nuclear test (largest and dirtiest US nuclear weapons test ever, done on the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific) fell from 3000 RAD at 100 miles from ground zero to 100 RAD at 300 miles, a 97% drop. This is not to say that 100 RAD is good for you, but it does show that radiation levels fall steeply as you get further from their source.

So when some idiot puts out a map showing a radiation plume blowing off 3000 RADs extending half way across the Pacific then falling to just 750 RADs (a 25% reduction) by the time they've circled 1/3rd of the way around the planet, they're just outright lying, pulling data out of their backside. Throw in that the graphic comes from a survivalist website, and you have conspiracy-theory nutcases doing their best to scare people.
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I bought this sticker as a joke and got a few laughs about it. But now I'm not sure I should leave it on. Or maybe I should try to find a "Sorry, We're Full" sticker?
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Hi: Terry G...Maybe your additional sticker should read "Wipe your feet"!!!
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I just received an email from Dr Joseph Young, managing director at ARS. He confirmed it is a hoax.

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I bought this sticker as a joke and got a few laughs about it. But now I'm not sure I should leave it on. Or maybe I should try to find a "Sorry, We're Full" sticker?
Is that a radioactive sticker? If so one day you'll run into a hard a*s dot cop and that sticker may get you a ticket, well really a fine of about a grand that's what it can cost a truck driver for improper placards on his trailer, that includes leaving a placard on an empty trailer. I think you should lose the sticker.
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I bought this sticker as a joke and got a few laughs about it. But now I'm not sure I should leave it on. Or maybe I should try to find a "Sorry, We're Full" sticker?
Put up a shower tent outside the door with a sign: "Decontaminate in shower before entering shelter"
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Is that a radioactive sticker? If so one day you'll run into a hard a*s dot cop and that sticker may get you a ticket, well really a fine of about a grand that's what it can cost a truck driver for improper placards on his trailer, that includes leaving a placard on an empty trailer. I think you should lose the sticker.

It's a fallout shelter sign (right), not a radioactive material placard (left)

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All eggs are fallout shelters for husbands. If the DW blows her stack, DH can sleep and weather the fallout in the trailer.
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Look at the bright side (pun intended). When you glow in the dark it will reduce the need to drain your trailer battery for lighting.
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It's a fallout shelter sign (right), not a radioactive material placard (left)

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Oh, It was late and I don't see as well as I used to, sorry.
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Oh, It was late and I don't see as well as I used to, sorry.

Sure, just don't that mistake when it REALLY matters

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And some people would rather have a Nuke in their back yard instead of a wind turbine, those people scare me.
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And some people would rather have a Nuke in their back yard instead of a wind turbine, those people scare me.
Ha, a friend of mine went on a wind farm tour yesterday, as she's been approached by a wind company to host a turbine on her farm and they trundled interested landowners around to check out existing installations and have a chance to ask questions.

She was informed by skeptical neighbors, also on the tour, that the turbines microwave cattle from the inside out (which seems a plus to me, as I like my steak done evenly), cause chickens to stop laying eggs, cause mysterious horse deaths, and I think there might also have been something about the turbines selling cocaine and pornography to the children.
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Ha, a friend of mine went on a wind farm tour yesterday, as she's been approached by a wind company to host a turbine on her farm and they trundled interested landowners around to check out existing installations and have a chance to ask questions.

She was informed by skeptical neighbors, also on the tour, that the turbines microwave cattle from the inside out (which seems a plus to me, as I like my steak done evenly), cause chickens to stop laying eggs, cause mysterious horse deaths, and I think there might also have been something about the turbines selling cocaine and pornography to the children.
But what they didn't say was that if something goes wrong it wont incinerate everything within 100 miles, right?
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