Re: Relay tx post DSO - why only 3 muxes?


"Jerry" <mapson.scarts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Andy Champ wrote:
Jerry wrote:
Andy Champ wrote:

I remember Chernobyl. The govt kept saying no risk, no risk...

Then I spent a day mending my car out in the rain. I came in soaked
to the skin only to find a govt spokesman on the news saying
something like "There's definitely no risk now because the rain has
washed it all down". AFAIK it's had no effect on me. What symptoms
do your friends show?


Fortunately none - ATM - and both have become parents, with healthy
kids, but they were in an area were farmers had their sheep
contaminated so they were monitored actively for a few years and now
it's just on their medical records just in case, time will tell...

That doesn't make them (or me! a very powerful argument against nuclear
power. As a result of the worst incident ever someone thought they
might get ill, but they haven't...


You seem to forget about all those who *have* died, or are still
living with the life threatening affects of exposure to the fall
out?... As it is, nothing has been attributed to the exposure, that's
not to say that nothing will.

After this length of time it's highly unlikely that any one else will
suddenly die of exposure to chernobyl fall-out. With the exception of some
areas near where the thing went bang - the rest of the "fall out" has now
decayed to levels where it blends in quite nicely with our tolerances as
human beings. Most of the heavier elements will have been absorbed into the
ground and while still radioactive they are out of the immediate way of most
human and animal life...

I'm not saying people haven't died - particularly in the Ukraine, however
the biggest risk has now passed and if you developed cancer tomorrow (and
god I wish you don't) would you blame Chernobyl, traffic fumes, radon gas,
exposure to tobacco smoke, sheep dip, genetics, old age....?

We are all exposed to far more carcinogens on a daily basis than we are to
the legacy of nuclear fall out.


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