Maxprop wrote:
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Scotty wrote:



Did your family have a bomb shelter in the 50s?

Capt SV

"jlrogers±³©" wrote in message
digy.net...




Popular notions are ALWAYS wrong. If you don't know that,

then you've




haven't studied history and you're to young to have

learned it from




experience. Hardly a century goes by without doomsday

predictions becoming




popular notions. I lived through the global cooling

hysteria of the 70's, so




please spare me the ignorant ranting of the true

believers.




Someday the earth may cool to absolute zero or heat to a

million degrees. I




don't know. All anybody "knows" is what they think the

historical record




shows: that the earth gets really cold and the earth gets

really hot.




The rest is the clucking of hens.

--
jlrogers±³©





My Dad was a CD guy...we had a geiger counter..it was cool!


Kewl. I bought one of those CD Geiger counters, a reconditioned and
tested one, almost new in the box, a while back. Loads of fun, but so
far not a lot of radioactivity around to discover. Guess I'll have to
wait until Ahmadinijad does some atmospheric testing.

Max

You can test smoke alarms...


No good for radon, though. Radon emits mostly alpha particles, and the
aluminum shield over the sensing tube stops 'em.

Max

Well, that's no fun....


Ya need the big stuff--the beta particles and gamma rays from nuclear
decay--to register on a CD Geiger counter. Of course by the time you get a
good, solid reading, you've been sufficiently dosed to witness your hair
eventually falling out, cataracts forming in your eyes, and your teeth
departing your gums. Now that's fun.

Max


You mean it turns you into an old person?