Anyone buying Iodide pills?

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Doggiedog

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I know a bunch of guys that have bought it for about $30 to help in case of nuclear attack.

I got a pdf email today that stated that the terrorist do have a suitcase sized nuclear bomb which sounded pretty freaky.
 
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Mo0o

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cuz when a bomb lands on your house some pills are really gonna save you
 
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Doggiedog

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<cuz when a bomb lands on your house some pills are really gonna save you >

Its not for the explosion, its for radioactive fallout.

No one is being hysterical here. If someone told you 3 months ago that terrorists were going to fly 2 planes into the WTC and one into the Pentagon and start germ warfare in the US, you would have called them hysterical wouldn't you?

Nothing is out of the realm of possiblities now no matter how farfetched it may seem.
 
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Windogg

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I'd welcome radiation.

That means I can take a whiz at 3AM without having to ponder, "Turn on the lights or get the Formula 409 ready?"

Windogg
 
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Wallydraigle

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I don't believe that bin Llama has any nukes, but if he does I doubt he would nuke my house here in the thriving metropolis that Apalacia is.
 
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cerebusPu

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whats funyn is...Id save my thyroid..but nothing else in my body. Id still take a glow in the dark whiz
 
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Jzero

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Radioactive isotopes of Iodide have a fairly long halflife and can be absorbed by your thyroid. While many other by-products of the fallout will have reduced significantly within a couple weeks, if your thyroid is contaminated, you'll be pretty much carrying the fallout around with you, which isn't any too healthy.

Not that I'm going to bother getting iodide pills, but it will save more than your thyroid :)
 
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<< No one is being hysterical here. If someone told you 3 months ago that terrorists were going to fly 2 planes into the WTC and one into the Pentagon and start germ warfare in the US, you would have called them hysterical wouldn't you? >>

100% agree! There are reports coming out almost every day about Al Qaeda trying to get weapon-grade radioactive materials. Here's one of them dated today: http://in.news.yahoo.com/011016/43/16sy1.html

'Al Qaida tried to buy nuclear material from Russian mafia'
By Arun Mohanty, Indo-Asian News Service

Moscow, Oct 16 (IANS) Terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden's group Al Qaida has tried to buy nuclear material through the Russian mafia, reports here said.

Al Qaida had made several attempts to procure nuclear material for military purpose from Russian mafia, Russian news agency Interfax reports.

For this purpose bin Laden had reportedly established contacts with representatives of Russian organised criminal gangs in Germany, Belarus and Russia.

"A German state-run TV company will reveal this in its popular evening programme 'Report,'" Interfax said quoting the news agency EFE.

American and European specialists are trying to trace contacts made by Al Qaida financial director Makhmud Salim in this connection.

Salim has been in a German prison since 1998.

Al Qaida member Jamal Ahmed Fadl had also confirmed that the group was trying to buy nuclear material from the Russian mafia early this year.

Fadl reportedly said he, on bin Laden's behest, had established contact with the representatives of Russian organised crime for procuring nuclear material.

In the chaotic years that followed Soviet collapse, Russian mafia, which has its tentacles in different industrial branches, was reported to have control over many nuclear installations

So, what makes you think they haven't succeeded in getting what they want? Russia is so corrupt that you can buy almost anything out of there.
 
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