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Who are you going to listen to??
"katy" wrote in message ... Maxprop wrote: "katy" wrote in message ... Scotty wrote: Did your family have a bomb shelter in the 50s? Capt SV "jlrogers±³©" wrote in message y.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 |
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Who are you going to listen to??
Maxprop wrote:
"katy" wrote in message ... Maxprop wrote: "katy" wrote in message ... Scotty wrote: Did your family have a bomb shelter in the 50s? Capt SV "jlrogers±³©" wrote in message gy.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.... |
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Who are you going to listen to??
"katy" wrote in message ... Maxprop wrote: "katy" wrote in message ... Maxprop wrote: "katy" wrote in message ... Scotty wrote: Did your family have a bomb shelter in the 50s? Capt SV "jlrogers±³©" wrote in message igy.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 |
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Who are you going to listen to??
Maxprop wrote:
"katy" wrote in message ... Maxprop wrote: "katy" wrote in message ... Maxprop wrote: "katy" wrote in message ... 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? |
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Who are you going to listen to??
"katy" wrote in message ... Maxprop wrote: "katy" wrote in message ... Maxprop wrote: 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? In about a week. Max |
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