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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHe doesn't feel comfortable standing in Fukushima, radiation-contaminated snow.
And he is not in Japan, he is in St Louis, here in the MidWest USA.
Dec 14th 2013:
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)5X
(3,972 posts)Can tell that just by the frequency of the clicks, regardless of the numbers on the digital counters.
tkmorris
(11,138 posts)I do try to keep an open mind on such things but a quick perusal leads me to believe the man is part loon/part savvy conspiracy theorist who has learned how to make a name for himself.
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Now I get it. Just keep telling people the things they are observing are n ot really happening.
Have an entire branch of journalism relate to being "hypnotic journalism." Did you catch that one segment of Rachel Maddow where she went ballistic in explaining how terrorists are all Nine Eleven Conspiracists, and anyone who thinks like that is also?
So I will remember to not keep pulling the curtain back. But the fact remains that for an entire summer recently, I would witness a plane going across the far bank of the hills of Clearlake the City, California, at an altitude of about 4,690 feet, and then a short moment later was at 15,000 feet, and then very soon after that, it was drifting down over the shoulder of Mt Konocti at around 4,800 feet.
The whole operation would repeat with another plane some 45 minutes later. This is a nine mile span of space! Please name me one single commercial passenger carrying aircraft that can do that? Or name a military program that would allow that to happen over civilian population.
knitter4democracy
(14,350 posts)My science teacher in high school showed that to us, long before Fukushima, and my dad worked in a lab that dealt with radiation issues. Those numbers are pretty much normal.
eqfan592
(5,963 posts)Came as part of an old Civil Defense kit that included it, a larger radiation detector, and a personal radiation exposure measuring system.
But yeah, calling these "high levels" of radiation is laughable at best.
Snarkoleptic
(6,002 posts)It seems a bit spotty as reporting stations don't regularly post, but it's interesting nonetheless.
Logical
(22,457 posts)truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Looks like many of the source test sites are from California, and the reports that the radiaiton is 114% (and higher) than normal background readings is not of much comfort to us in claifornia.
ProdigalJunkMail
(12,017 posts)because that radiation would be there whether there was snow or not... complete bunk.
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