A VERY inconvenient truth -- BAN DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
a radio station around here did this about 10 years ago.

Even the late night shows have done it, though I don't recall if it was Conan, Jay, or David.

 

[Fritzo]

I remember reading this on Prodigy...one of my first online services back in 1992.

Man...that makes this 15 years old! Time flies...

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: BrownTown
while it has been around forever (way before the internet btw), this demonstration proves just how little thought some people put into causes that they may care even a great deal about. My dad works for a power company, this power company happens to be the largest user of coal in the country. Many people of course hate said power company and think it is evil. Furthermore my dad is a nuclear engineer, another thing that isn't exactly a good way to make friends with enviromentalsits. Now the funny thing of course is that my dad has a master in nuclear engineering and 30 years of experience working at a power company, and yet the enviromantalists all think they understand nuclear power and the power industry far better than the rest of us. I cannot tell you how many times I see just VERY basic facts about how a nuclear plant works, or how a power system works, or even how electricity itself works gotten wrong that it is very hard to trust anything they say when they get so much wrong. For example I went to a speech at my university by leading anti-nuclear advocate Helen Caldicott. She is a leading anti-nuclear voice and nominated for a Nobel peace prize every year for her work. However upon hearing her speech it was rapidly evident that she knew very little about nuclear power but knew a whole LOT about scare tactics. It wasn't jsut little stuff too, it was hugely blatant. All she talked about was how radiations will destroy your TESTICLES (said this 5-10 times), or KILL SMALL CHILDREN (says this with great emphasis). Also, she believes nuclear plants are built by EVIL MEN TO SHOW OFF THEIR PENIS' (she actually said this). And that if women were in charge such things could never happen. She said the fat man bomb used uranium (umm no, it was plutonium dumbo). Also said breeder reactors used pure plutonium (um no try again). Anyways, the worst part is that when she was done she got a standing ovation and the school newspaper had an article about what a courageous person she was. Also it should be pointed out she has a "Dr." in front of her name which apparently makes her a nuclear expert even though her doctorate is in childrens medicine and not anything that could possible help you to know about nuclear reactors.

k, thats my rant of the day.

WTH are you talking about? You went from an old chain letter joke to nuclear radiation safety???

 

[lozina]

I think Benjamin Franklin told this joke to George Washington over a pint of beer at their local pub

 

[ForumMaster]

just shows you how stupid people really are.

 

[torpid]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
WTH are you talking about? You went from an old chain letter joke to nuclear radiation safety???

I can't believe you read beyond the first or second sentence. They should just build a feature into ATOT where any paragraph that big is automatically truncated after the first sentence.