Ticia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I repeat - there's nothing
> > particularly special about dying in a nuclear explosion.
>
>True, if at the center of the attack you'd die right way. Dead is dead.
>
>But what about the perifery? The thousands of people and the entire
>ecosystem that die slow deaths due to radiation fallout, cancer, and
>gruesomely mutated unviable offspring, *decades* after the fact?
Tangentially, how many of the WTC survivors and rescuers are going to get
some serious repiratory problems and/or cancer c/o the asbestos scattered
far and wide?
(Aside: Asbestos isn't a creeping horror as it's often portrayed. If you
have it in your house or school the best way to cope is to leave it in place
and paint over it with a nice coat of latex paint. Removing it is going to
put a lot of particulates in the air. Professional removers need to take
precautions because their exposure over time is high enough that the odds
add up - just as roofers wear safety gear while the rest of us don't, and as
nurses leave the room during an x-ray session. My wife and I had to deal
with asbestos when removing a popcorn ceiling in this house; it also turns
out that west-coast-mined fibres are less likely to get lodged in the lungs
than east-coast-mined fibres due to the size of the crystals.)
That said, the WTC produced a *lot* of particulates...
Joshua
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