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Originally posted by smooth
My favorite was the commentats this morning regarding the nuclear exercise:
Interviewer: Some people think they should go to the hospital emergency room if they are exposed to a dirty bomb.
Guest: Not true, all they need to do is go home, take their clothes off, and take a nice shower with some Ivory soap.
Guess they should just wait on their couch until they die, too--no nead to contaminate the hospital staff if you've been exposed to radiation, right?!
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They would be exposed to radioactive particles, which can usually be washed off. The hospital can help you by offering you a shower, but not much else... So it's good advice.
A dirty bomb is not nearly as dangerous as people think. A few square miles might become too "dangerous" (because of long-term effects!) to walk around in for a couple of years (mostly because it's too friggin' expensive to remove all the dust). The dead toll would be quite limited, and would only be visible years after the fact, because of (slightly) increased cancer rates in the general area.
There... happy now?