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[unbibium]

After watching all those talking heads on TV and talk radio wank over what could happen if terrorists get something "big" and smuggle it in over here, it's good to know someone credible has released some realistic survival tips and information on how these weapons work.

If surviving an attack is this easy, then it seems that our own government and media is doing so much of the terrorists' work for them, al Qaeda need not have a single person on American soil for the next few years, except for some plants sent expressly to make some sloppy moves, get caught, and deliver corroborating stories about spectacular attacks, while we continue to spend money on the harassment of airline passengers.

To be safe, some of you can keep an eye on Snopes to see if this guy is for real. But considering he's living in Mesa, Arizona, it wouldn't be out of the question for local people to check up on it ourselves.

Comments

[mezdeathhead.livejournal.com]

well, as long as he's for real, that's a good article.

According to Snopes...

[jecook]

They confirm it as real.

The URL for this page is http://www.snopes.com/rumors/realdeal.htm

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

Perhaps, but I'm not so happy about how they handled it with its rather left-handed confirmation. It seems the message was never that this won't happen to us, but rather that if it does happen to us, our chances of survival are good, provided we survive the first few moments of the attack, and, more importantly, can keep our wits about us.

And I think spreading this message is important because I think the media may be setting everyone up for a big panic.

quantum physics makes my brain hurt?

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

How hard is it to grasp that alpha and beta radiation are atomic particles while gamma radiation is electromagnetic, the same as radio, light, and x-rays? That's why alpha and beta are stopped so easily (they bump into stuff) but gamma penetrates further.

Re: quantum physics makes my brain hurt?

[jecook]

The guy was a military man, not a geek.