Okay, I feel better...

[seawasp]

... about my stumblings with respect to Hideous Radiation Problems in space travel. I have just read that in the TV series "Jericho", apparently radioactive fallout carried down by rain becomes harmless once it's in puddles on the ground.

This goes beyond merely insulting one's intelligence and all the way to assaulting one's intelligence, violating it, and leaving it sobbing and broken on the ground.

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[k-kinnison.livejournal.com]

welcome to 'the internets'

I still love the one about Shale oil and how it hypes it up like the Governement is purposely stockpiling it for WWIII

[ravynstoneabbey]

I have just read that in the TV series "Jericho", apparently radioactive fallout carried down by rain becomes harmless once it's in puddles on the ground.

Good lord.

This goes beyond merely insulting one's intelligence and all the way to assaulting one's intelligence, violating it, and leaving it sobbing and broken on the ground.
*snort*

[corvidophile.livejournal.com]

hubby and i were talking about that this morn hehe..... maybe it wasn't nuclear bombs, but atomic? so no radiation, just a big boom? after all the guy in the rain didn't get sick so it wasn't a fallout rain...

oh wait. did they find radiation before?

i just want to see the map and which cities got it hehe

[cordova829.livejournal.com]

I tried watching that show last night, and had to turn it off due to 1) stupidity, and 2) really stupid.

Oh wait, did that one. *snort* I think they are trying to make a cheap knock off of 'Lost'

[baronger.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

I keep watching Jericho hoping that it will get better. It has a great premise and so much can be done with it. Heck, it could be a take off of Eric's 163X's novels, in premise.

I think they are really trying to play the mystery thing out too much. Just tell us what is happening in the rest of the world and get on with the town coping with it.


Hopefully so far it is just the show trying to find its feet.

[sinanju.livejournal.com]

Heh. Jericho is almost bad enough to be "so bad it's good" watching.

But only almost. The mind-numbing stupidity of both the writing and the characters is simply too much to bear.

Um....

[seawasp]

... nuclear = atomic. Same thing.

There are two types of nuclear or atomic bombs. One is a fission-based device (such as those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki), the other is a fusion-based device (Hydrogen or H-bomb). However, even the fusion-based ones use a fission-based device to START the big boom.

All of them produce some level of fallout. Generally the bigger the boom, the more fallout, though specific design can increase or decrease this. What would be likely to toast Denver or any other decent-sized city would be about 20 megatons (a thousand times the power of Hiroshima).

And even if they HADN'T actually detected radiation, they did EXPECT radioactive fallout, and would not have acted as though the rain being over made things safe.

Unless of course someone made some comments on that, which would at least save THAT level of stupidity for a later show. (I.e., if they came out, pointed some Geiger counters at the ground, and someone said, "Man... that's strange... it's perfectly safe! The ground should be hot for YEARS..." that would make it a mystery as to how you could nuke Denver without some fallout...)

Even with that, of course, the idea of STAYING in Jericho when a presumed radioactive cloud of fallout is headed your way is idiotic. American towns don't have anything in them that would allow you to remain there safely. For a civilian the only way to protect you from radioactive fallout is to follow the Miyagi Defense: not be there.

Re: Um....

[corvidophile.livejournal.com]

makes me wonder what with all the pins that were being pushed into the map, that with that much fallout then, if there'd be ANYTHING left anywhere (safe to live on, etc.)

i still enjoy the show though. but i watch shows for pure enjoyment or kicks and try not to analyze them too much. its like suspending reality when watching CSI and the little things like DNA tests that take mere hours on the show, wouldn't happen in real life.

Re: Um....

[seawasp]

CSI is comparatively hard SF, actually. For dramatic purposes they do indeed drastically compress time, but that's excusable. Sometimes they leap beyond the bounds of SF into fantasy, true -- most noticeably when they "enhance" a photograph taken from a security camera or something and end up reading license plate numbers from a blur that was about three pixels across in the original. No, really, you can't do that. No, not even with handwavy computer stuff.