@transgrammaractivist@Shadowman311@Terry@weaf Is it delusion ? While I don’t doubt I have some at least, I’m well open to correction and clarification regarding specifics. I’ve neither confirmed nor denied the objective existence of nuclear weapons as described; simply voiced the reasoned doubt that we’re being accurately informed about their nature. Sufficient is my doubt that I can truly say I don’t just simply believe in nukes. I can imagine plenty of possible shell-game / sleight of hand tactics that could explain the available data - but obviously those all exist in the Ocean of the Unknown, only In Potentia.
@KingOfWhiteAmerica@transgrammaractivist@Shadowman311@Terry@weaf Nukes are real. Some of the footage of them was faked, same as the moon landing, probably for propaganda purposes. But they're real. You can functionally treat them like they're fake because nobody will use them due to MAD situations.
@BowsacNoodle@transgrammaractivist@Shadowman311@Terry@weaf Even if they are real, I do not believe I have sufficient, reliable data points to insist upon certainty regarding their nature. I am quite convinced there is a serious, mind-boggling amount of fuckery floating around.
@KingOfWhiteAmerica@transgrammaractivist@Shadowman311@Terry@weaf What info do you think is fake? It was considered in our country's as well as humanity's best interest to gatekeep knowledge of them. We know they exist. The damage caused to Hiroshima and Nagasaki would've required thousands of times the amount of explosive power a run of bombers could've carried.
nukes are real but the destruction is caused by heat and pressure rather than radiation which they claim is the biggest hazard. there was a guy that used to swim in the reactor pool and go around the country eating the metal. lived to his 80s.
@koropokkur@transgrammaractivist@KingOfWhiteAmerica@Shadowman311@Terry@weaf Galen Windsor. He lived to be 82 and he ate radioactive material. The dangers of radiation and radioactive material are hard to understand, because people suck at math and do not think of understanding things in a logarithmic/exponential way. It is better to treat radioactive material as super dangerous and will kill you in minutes than accidentally hurt yourself or die from exposure. The demon core situation illustrates this point pretty well IMO.
radiologists work around the shit on a daily basis. they have rad badges to let them know when they are close to getting a bad dose throughout the day. it's just amazing how much our government has lied about.
@KingOfWhiteAmerica@transgrammaractivist@Shadowman311@Terry@weaf Cold war propaganda is just that. The big word in MAD is the M. If single nuke makes fallout, and it does, a lot of nukes make a lot of fallout. Going back to the exponential thing, extra background radiation isn't great but it's fine until it hits a problem level. Suppose an area is elevated but not immediately life threatening from a nuke hitting it, and remains that way for about 20 years. Two nukes worth doesn't keep it at "slightly dangerous but a bit worse". The scattering effect and winds blowing irradiated particles make it a lot worse to have two or ten vs one in an area even several hundred miles in diameter.
@BowsacNoodle@transgrammaractivist@Shadowman311@Terry@weaf I grew up absolutely convinced that, at any time, the President, or the Soviets, or any among a number of world leaders could have hit the Big Red Button, and wiped out virtually all human life throughout the world - with any potential stragglers dying from ensuing years-long nuclear winter. The MAD Narrative, as we’re all familiar with. This followed logically from the underlying Nuclear Narrative. Which is, itself, contingent upon the Standard Model of Physics - aka the Lambda-CDM / “Big Bang” Cosmology, which was/is the State-of-the-Art attempt at reconciling the observations of General Relativity, with those of Quantum Mechanics. As time has progressed, I, along with many other interested parties, have chafed against the many unfortunate shortcomings of this Model. Nevertheless, generally, Man’s “top physicists” continue to hail its unparalleled usefulness and accuracy like some be-all-end-all accomplishment. That said, I have reason to believe even this Model represents a feint-within-a-feint, rather than a sincere articulation of the nature of space-time, the universe and all within it. Not simply that it is wrong, but that it’s deliberately deceptive - a juggler’s trick, with which our most intelligent minds preoccupy themselves for their entire lives. If this is true of the premises, as I have reason to believe, it is true of all dependencies upon said premises as well - including, of course, the public narrative surrounding nuclear power. It’s not merely wrong, it’s a smokescreen, a Fog-of-War Engine. Given these, I find plenty of room for doubt.
@BowsacNoodle@transgrammaractivist@Shadowman311@Terry@weaf Sure sure; these are all well-reasoned assertions within the framework of the Standard Model. I don’t dispute the statistical validity of these data points; just that it represents an exhaustive description of all relevant factors that pertain to any given situation.
@KingOfWhiteAmerica@transgrammaractivist@Shadowman311@Terry@weaf >Leukaemia was the first cancer to be associated with atomic bomb radiation exposure, with preliminary indications of an excess among the survivors within the first five years after the bombings. An excess of solid cancers became apparent approximately ten years after radiation exposure. With increasing follow-up, excess risks of most cancer types have been observed, the major exceptions being chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, and pancreatic, prostate and uterine cancer. For most solid cancer sites a linear dose response is observed, although in the latest follow-up of the mortality data there is evidence (p = 0.10) for an upward curvature in the dose response for all solid cancers. The only cancer sites which exhibit (upward) curvature in the dose response are leukaemia, and non-melanoma skin and bone cancer. For leukaemia the dose response is very markedly upward curving, indeed largely describable as a pure quadratic dose response, particularly in the low dose (0-2 Sv) range.
@KingOfWhiteAmerica@transgrammaractivist@Shadowman311@Terry@weaf Cncer rates among survivors were about 10% higher. It's not end of the world if a nuke hits near you, but it's far better to not hang around fallout. There's other "fun" examples like the radioactive boy scout.
@Diogenese_Shiplap@KingOfWhiteAmerica@transgrammaractivist@Shadowman311@Terry@weaf Fun fact: melanin is released as a response to radiation in general and does mitigate it partially, not just UV. Wipipo don't season dey skin, and we'd be more vulnerable than our yellow honorary brothers. This is observed in Chernobyl area right now with animals developing darker fur or melaninated pigmentation. Did you know there's a huge naturally occurring sub-critical nuclear reaction in a certain spot on earth? Would you believe it if I said it's Africa. Think about it.
"The only person known to have survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings was Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a Japanese marine engineer who was in Hiroshima for work when the first bomb dropped and then returned home to Nagasaki, where he survived the second blast."