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| Austria-Google. Is this a good place to hide from a nuclear blast? |
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| Google+. Probably not as good as place to go to in case of nuclear blast. |
January 18, 2014
My thought too:
Cited:
'Current U.S. Government advice is to 'shelter in place' but you're probably better off making a run for it A mathematical model of nuclear fallout suggests that sheltering in place is not always the best survival strategy If you can reach higher quality shelter in less than 30 minutes after a nuclear blast, then go for it If you’ve got nothing, you definitely need to seek shelter immediately'
Cited:
'Run! A mathematical model of nuclear fallout suggests that sheltering in place (the first option above) is not always the best survival strategy. If you can reach higher quality shelter in less than 30 minutes (the second option), you should go for it. And if you've got nothing, you definitely need to seek shelter immediately (third option)'
Cited:
''If your current shelter is poor and higher quality shelter is less than 5 minutes away, the model suggests that you should run there as soon as you can,' Science online reported. 'If you have poor shelter but higher quality shelter is available farther away, you should get to that high-quality shelter no later than 30 minutes after detonation. Depending on the size of the city, if everyone follows this advice, it could save between 10,000 and 100,000 lives.''
Cited:
'Not everyone is on board with Dillon’s run-like-the-wind strategy, however. 'I disagree with the conclusions,' says Lawrence Wein, an operations research scientist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. 'He fails to account for several important issues that are vitally important for policy recommendations.''
Then of course there is the 'zombies' concern....
News.com.au
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| News.com.au |
January 18, 2014
Cited:
'IN THE past, most nuclear emergency guides have suggested that we should just get to any shelter as soon as possible. But a new mathematical report suggests we're better off sprinting to a better shelter as long as its less than 30 minutes away. Michael Dillon, a scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, created a mathematical model of nuclear fallout survival for some family members who were curious what would happen in the even of a nuclear fallout. "I realised that I really didn't have a great answer," Dillon said to Science online. The official US government advice is to "take shelter in the nearest and most protective building". For most people in the states, that would be the basement, but here in Australia most people don't have one.'
I would think that Australia, like Canada would have many wilderness areas to head to, including some with higher elevations.
Few basements in Australia? Not much of a surprise with the snakes, spiders and crocodiles.
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What about Cats, Russ? Higher ground, shelter where they are?
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Nuclear warheads are not cheap to create. And any nuclear first strike will turn the aggressor into a pariah state. So despite the threats, I doubt we will see a nuclear attack from the U.S. or Israel or Iran. North Korea, maybe, as they are already a pariah and the new leader seems as crazy as any of his predecessors.
ReplyDeleteFor this part of the world (west coast of Canada), the biggest risk in my opinion would be power blackouts, which could be disruptive enough if they are extended in duration. Or an earthquake.
Yep. I thought so. That is why I answered, "Watch CSPAN?"
ReplyDeleteI think what is ridiculous, is how the Government would say, run as fast as you can to a better location as long as it is withing 30 minutes of where you are.
Not really sure there is any other place thirty minutes from where I am that is going to make too much of a difference.
Here 30 minutes north could make a difference.
ReplyDeleteJust head 15-20 minutes north of here and for the most part is thousands of miles of wilderness to North Pole and Russia.
Similar with Australia, perhaps the Himalayas and Alps, but I am not sure about nuclear fallout at higher elevations.
In the US, Western Europe, Japan and some parts of Asia with high density populations I deduce 30 minutes is listed as limit of travel, because for example, in Manchester once past a 30 minute drive one risks being too close to Liverpool or Leeds.
ReplyDeleteHowever, in places such as Canada, Australia, some parts of Asia, South America and Africa there are likely in many cases very rural areas within 30 minutes of a major metropolitan area and past.
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ReplyDelete'Even if individuals are not close enough to the nuclear blast to be affected by the direct impacts, they may be affected by radioactive fallout. Any nuclear blast results in some fallout. Blasts that occur near the earth’s surface create much greater amounts of fallout than blasts that occur at higher altitudes. This is because the tremendous heat produced from a nuclear blast causes an up-draft of air that forms the familiar mushroom cloud. When a blast occurs near the earth’s surface, millions of vaporized dirt particles also are drawn into the cloud. As the heat diminishes, radioactive materials that have vaporized condense on the particles and fall back to Earth. The phenomenon is called radioactive fallout. This fallout material decays over a long period of time, and is the main source of residual nuclear radiation.'
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Appears being in the Alps good idea.
Thanks, Jeff.
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* SEVENTH PLACE *
Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The store owners were understandably surprised by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son
Start scratching!
* SIXTH PLACE *
Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles , California won $74,000 plus medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.
Scratch some more...
* FIFTH PLACE *
ReplyDeleteTerrence Dickson, of Bristol , Pennsylvania , who was leaving a house he had just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get the garage door to open. Worse, he couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut. Forced to sit for eight, count 'em, EIGHT days and survive on a case of Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the homeowner's insurance company claiming undue mental Anguish. Amazingly, the jury said the insurance company must pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish. We should all have this kind of anguish Keep scratching. There are more...
Double hand scratching after this one..
* FOURTH PLACE *
Jerry Williams, of Little Rock, Arkansas, garnered 4th Place in the Stella's when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical expenses after being bitten on the butt by his next door neighbor's beagle - even though the beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. Williams did not get as much as he asked for because the jury believed the beagle might have been provoked at the time of the butt bite because Williams had climbed over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog with a pellet gun.
Pick a new spot to scratch, you're getting a bald spot..
* THIRD PLACE *
Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania because a jury ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after she slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone. The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.
Only two more so ease up on the scratching...
*SECOND PLACE*
Kara Walton, of Claymont , Delaware sued the owner of a night club in a nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor, knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge, the jury said the night club had to pay her $12,000....oh, yeah, plus dental expenses. Go figure.
Ok. Here we go!!
* FIRST PLACE *
This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was: Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City , Oklahoma , who purchased new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, from an OU football game, having driven on to the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually leave the driver's seat while the cruise control was set. The Oklahoma jury awarded her, are you sitting down?
$1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home.
If you think the USA court system is out of control, be sure to pass this one on.
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Likely.
My Uncle Einar when I was a kid used to tell me about the East Indian in Surrey that set his motorhome to cruise control and went to make himself a drink. He was still in a body cast...
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Twice now she asks me where my Mom's 'pads' are. I stated I buy them at the store for Mom and give them to Mom.
Unstated by me, I should not be expected to find them for you.
I am only living here working homecare because I work presently at corporate security and as of yet do not have full-time work via my PhD. Working on that issue still. I was a student 19 years working very difficult degrees, especially the last two.
This worker half the visits, half the time, raises her voice 'Hello' sort of like the Peanuts teacher from way back in the 1980s, as if I am supposed to stick around.
That annoys me.
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There was a Scottish painter named Smokey MacGregor who was very
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