Jan Panteltje wrote:
Thomas Lahn stated
Jan Panteltje wrote:
Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote
Jan Panteltje wrote:
Maybe you are thinking that the modern weapons like nuclear will kill everything
and everybody.
This is likely not the case,
Sorry, but you have no clue what you are talking about.

You better study the subject yourself.

I *am* studying astrophysics at a university, thank you very much.

experiments with radiation have shown that new mutations can happen

Your cells cannot mutate if you are dead. Simple logic.

You will be dead only with a close enough hit.

Shut up and calculate. Calculate the heat and the pressure wave of a
thermonuclear explosion of Hiroshima dimensions.

That said, there are nuclear weapons that are designed to destroy only
organic tissue, in order to keep the infrastructure intact: neutron bombs.

The body has repair mechanisms for damaged DNA.

Those are only effective if the body can get rid entirely of harmful
radioactive material *within* it.

The main danger of radiation poisoning is not exposure to electromagnetic
radiation from the outside (you can shield yourself from that or avoid the
area), but radioactive gas and dust particles in the air that you inhale, in
the water that you drink (cf. acid rain) and food that you eat; then you die
slowly from them (or you die because you cannot eat or drink anything
without the risk of poisoning yourself; take your pick).

Not only because organic cells are continuously damaged by radiation from
inside the body, but also because this damaging includes the blood cells
(hemocytes), a third (in type) which are a vital part of the immune system
(leukocytes; see below). And you cannot survive without a functioning
immune system (cf. AIDS). Indeed, radiation poisoning (e.g. by Sr-90
emissions) can also cause leukemia, abnormal high numbers of white blood
cells (leukocytes).

So on the one hand your immune system is partially disabled, and you become
an easy target for pathogens (a common cold can kill you then); on the other
hand the part of your immune system that is still working can turn against
you (auto-immune diseases); and third, with less red blood cells
(erythrocytes) transport of oxygen to the cells that desperately need it is
even more reduced (they are damaged, too).

Which is why radiation suits not only have a patch that indicates exposure,
but are *airtight* and include an air *filter*.

You should actually read about (or watch recent documentaries about)
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those people are still suffering from it, more than
50 years later.

The survivors of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Chernobyl, F*ckupshima, exist.

First of all, apples and oranges.

Atomic bombs (*thermo**nuclear* *weapons*) were dropped at Hiroshima and
Nagasaki in 1945. Such a weapon is based on an *uncontrolled* chain reaction.

Chernobyl was a complete nuclear *reactor* *disaster* in which the reactor
there *exploded* due to improper testing.

_Fukushima_ (not funny) was an almost nuclear reactor catastrophe (rated
“serious incident”) due to an earthquake which caused a tsunami. Some
reactors had been shut down before the earthquake, most of the running ones
shut down automatically, but not all; so there have been explosions within
the reactors, but it was not so that whole reactors exploded.

In a nuclear reactor, *controlled* chain reactions happens instead. The
main problem with those events was and is that the/sime reactors got
critical or over-critical and now radiation gets out, even if only through
the cracks.

Second, yes, there are survivors, but what a way to survive…

Some may have grown pointed ears, but most did not.

Not funny, too.

--
PointedEars, shaking his head

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