it's here.

[Captain Ledd]

The good news is that the Cesium 137 is readily absorbed by ocean water. It'll still be radioactive for the next 60 years, but within a few years it will be diluted so much that a day in the sun is no worse.

Remember, sun burn is radiation burn. I don't think any of that stuff is radioactive enough to give you problems.

3 Mile Island in Pennsylvania melted down. A study of cows milk from local farms a few years later revealed the milk was radioactive! OH NO! But wait, nearly everything is radioactive to some extent, and once compared to other foods, the cows milk was found to be less radioactive than a common banana. Yes, banana's are radioactive, one of the more radioactive foods actually. Supposedly you'll set off radiation detectors at airports if you carry one through.

Edit: Actually there's a movement for the "banana standard" of radiation. Basically to put to degree of scale of just how much / how dangerous an amount of radiation is so us common, low-browed folk can understand it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose

 

[Mark_88]

too late.


maybe it'll make some of it grow back

Hmmmm...lets go get nuked to see if it does stimulate hair growth...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose

Hmmmmm...there has been quite a bit of CYA tactics dispensed by those who wish to make us think that man-made radiation is harmless...it isn't...background radiation exposure is extremely low compared to, say, an x-ray...and x-rays are ionizing radiation...the kind that destroys genes and causes mutations...

I doubt that all the skin cancer we see today is caused by solar radiation...I would say more but...well, I'm not concerned...some day the truth will be told...probably once all nuclear weapons and reactors have been long gone...and about 300 years from now...when nobody alive can make a claim against them or charge them with crimes against humanity...

Maybe

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

The good news is that the Cesium 137 is readily absorbed by ocean water. It'll still be radioactive for the next 60 years, but within a few years it will be diluted so much that a day in the sun is no worse.

Remember, sun burn is radiation burn. I don't think any of that stuff is radioactive enough to give you problems.

3 Mile Island in Pennsylvania melted down. A study of cows milk from local farms a few years later revealed the milk was radioactive! OH NO! But wait, nearly everything is radioactive to some extent, and once compared to other foods, the cows milk was found to be less radioactive than a common banana. Yes, banana's are radioactive, one of the more radioactive foods actually. Supposedly you'll set off radiation detectors at airports if you carry one through.

One of my regular customers had to close down his milking operation because he was too close to a nuclear power plant. It is over by the Missouri river and south a little ways, probably an hour or better away. Somehow the fallout would get blown up and then come back down in a swath over his farm. It would accumulate over the years and then the grass would transfer it to the cattle which transfered it to the milk. His counts were right at the line and they kept hassling him about it. It is something that is monitored.

Radiaton isn't much of a laughing matter though, most of the people that died in Japan after the nuclear bombings was by leukemia caused by the radiation. In recent years a lot of progress has been made but there still isn't much in the way for a cure for it.

I don't think the power plant went hot until after the waves had blown everything out though... so it probably isn't a big deal.

 

[gwaii]

I don't think the power plant went hot until after the waves had blown everything out though... so it probably isn't a big deal.

this was my thought.i'm not too worried about it.

 

[--weezl--]

subscribed for gwaii's return with his list of treasures

 

[master hec0]

came here to post this. is this you gwaii? or do ya know this guy?


I think you could get that Harley with all your equipment!
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ccc_1335772866

 

[--weezl--]

I was going to post the CBC article about that!

Gwaii is Tom, it's not him, that guys name Was Peter something


Sent from somewhere naughty!

 

[master hec0]

an update to this story now. the owner was found and is still alive.
The bike was in this truck box in his back yard Harley Davidson is looking at sending it back to him.

 

[--weezl--]

Oh, the CBC story had all that in it, I'll post it when I get home


Sent from somewhere naughty!

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

an update to this story now. the owner was found and is still alive.
The bike was in this truck box in his back yard Harley Davidson is looking at sending it back to him.

Why bother? The thing has to be completly trashed after a year at sea loose in an open truck box...

 

[gwaii]

Why bother? The thing has to be completly trashed after a year at sea loose in an open truck box...

they'll most likely put together a new bike and toss the tag from the old one on it.good p.r. for harley,and the owner gets a bike back.
everyone wins

and ya,i've been too busy to go beachcombing lately,but i'll have to make some time for it soon.
boats are almost in the water.

 

[getrdone52]

they'll most likely put together a new bike and toss the tag from the old one on it.good p.r. for harley,and the owner gets a bike back.
everyone wins

and ya,i've been too busy to go beachcombing lately,but i'll have to make some time for it soon.
boats are almost in the water.

Your back! Have you found anything cool at the beach?

 

[gwaii]

Your back! Have you found anything cool at the beach?

nope.


check response abovetime to tell work to go away,and get the dogs out for a good relaxing day


that,or go fishing

 

[--weezl--]

I would say it would be worth it for Harley, for the pr, for the owner because it would be an awesome story...

I doubt that Harley will just replace it and change the numbers... I wouldn't... Too significant of a story to pull some bullshit like that


Sent from somewhere naughty!

 

[gwaii]

I doubt that Harley will just replace it and change the numbers... I wouldn't... Too significant of a story to pull some bullshit like that

ya,but if you saw the bike,there's not too much that's salvageable on it.i don't think they'll have much of a choice.