KI (potassium iodide) is a salt of stable (not radioactive) iodine that can help block radioactive iodine from being absorbed by the thyroid gland, thus protecting this gland from radiation injury. The thyroid gland is the part of the body that is most sensitive to radioactive iodine.

<:think_globalist:378717098945544192> READ BOOKS PEOPLE

if one nuke is dropped, yes, which I don't think anyone has disputed

emphasis on "one"

how many than?

what is the thresh hold?

to start a nuclear winter? I don't know, read a book?

https://www.nature.com/articles/475037b

it is a myth as far as im concerned

quickly googles one article to support your views, assumes it's myth. Okay.

I can already hear the "so you're saying you're in favor of global nuclear war?"

"debatable" isn't exactly a refutation, either.

It's on Nature, dumbass.

what is wrong with nature

Not you, the other dumbass, dumbass.

"debatable", "dumbass".

yes it is not proven

it is just a theory

and people overestimate the power of neuclear weapons

If anything we know for sure now, with all the climate change debacle, is that scientists know very little about how the climate works.

how so?

and again laughing at people for being prepared with legitament ways to prepare is retarded

Myth: Fallout radiation penetrates everything; there is no escaping its deadly effects.

° Facts: Some gamma radiation from fallout will penetrate the shielding materials of even an excellent shelter and reach its occupants. However, the radiation dose that the occupants of an excellent shelter would receive while inside this shelter can be reduced to a dose smaller than the average American receives during his lifetime from X rays and other radiation exposures normal in America today. The design features of such a shelter include the use of a sufficient thickness of earth or other heavy shielding material. Gamma rays are like X rays, but more penetrating. Figure 1.3 shows how rapidly gamma rays are reduced in number (but not in their ability to penetrate) by layers of packed earth. Each of the layers shown is one halving-thickness of packed earth- about 3.6 inches (9 centimeters).3 A halving- thickness is the thickness of a material which reduces by half the dose of radiation that passes through it.

The actual paths of gamma rays passing through shielding materials are much more complicated, due to scattering, etc., than are the straight-line paths shown in Fig. 1.3. But when averaged out, the effectiveness of a halving-thickness of any material is approximately as shown. The denser a substance, the better it serves for shielding material. Thus, a halving-thickness of concrete is only about 2.4 inches (6.1 cm).

Oh yeah, jokes are retarded.

"if a nuclear winter is started, it won't matter what kind of house you chose to hide inside
what pills you pop"

it litterally does matter

short term, yes, long term, not at all, which was what I was alluding to.

long term it also matters

which is why you take the pills

If the dose rate 1 hour after an explosion is 1000 R/hr, it would take about 2 weeks for the dose rate to be reduced to 1 R/hr solely as a result of radioactive decay. Weathering effects will reduce the dose rate further,' for example, rain can wash fallout particles from plants and houses to lower positions on or closer to the ground. Surrounding objects would reduce the radiation dose from these low-lying particles.

Within two weeks after an attack the occupants of most shelters could safely stop using them, or could work outside the shelters for an increasing number of hours each day. Exceptions would be in areas of extremely heavy fallout such as might occur downwind from important targets attacked with many weapons, especially missile sites and very large cities. To know when to come out safely, occupants either would need a reliable fallout meter to measure the changing radiation dangers, or must receive information based on measurements made nearby with a reliable instrument.

the point I'm trying to make is that if human life is rendered unsustainable, you'll only be prolonging the inevitable. If we go by the assumption that nuclear winter is impossible, then I am happy to agree with you that it does indeed matter.

ok that is fine, the problem i have is that the effects of the weapons have been exagerated and people believe that things are hopeless when there are small steps you can take to protect yourself

I am perfectly happy to assume the medicine does what science has established it does, so you don't have to quote the study on this for my sake. I would probably stock up on it myself, if things turn more dire in the near future.

in global poltics that is

I think that is a perfectly valid way to look at the situation @Deleted User

fair enough

but if you see a mushroom cloud and it is smaller than your thumb...

I honestly have no idea what the strength of currently employed nuclear weapons are, or if they could indeed cause a nuclear winter, or even how many of them would be launched. I just thought the absurdity of the imagery of popping a pill against a shockwave was funny

totally agree that if you're just exposed to radiation, it would be wiser to use than not

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Scott Manley made (and is still ongoing I think) a series on The Science of Nuclear Bombs.

One of the things he points out is, how hard it is to make larger bombs. Basically, if the nuclear fuel gets vaporized and blasted away before it can detonate, it's all wasted.

So smaller nuclear bombs are more efficient.

One of the tricks is to wrap the fissile material into some very heavy metal. By sheer inertia, it keeps the nuclear material confined for "longer" so more of it can undergo fission.

when the last megaton bombs are dismantled, nuclear winter will probably be impossible

don't know what the sizes of the ones in Pakistan and North Korea are, but I don't think it's megaton+ since they've spent a relatively long time developing something as simple as what they have

unorganic chemistry professor I had at university called the NK scientists retarded, because of how long it took them to figure out how to make a basic nuke, lol

I think it was mostly the enrichment of uranium they had trouble with

He's probably a retard.

I still don't think NK developed shit, it was all supplied by Russia.

And it's not just the enrichment, making it go boom is also hard.

See the already mentioned series by Scott Manley.

He goes through all the known details about the early nuclear devices, then how they evolved.

There's even some bullshit on how to create a specific shape with explosive charges, using explosives of different detonation speeds, so all the shockwaves hit the nuclear material at the same time with a spherical shape.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWWjbnAVFKA

Even on this first video, he talks about how some neutrons are just "too fast" to create a chain reaction.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-42851554

`The 29-year-old said her "rights are being taken away" and darts accounts for 60% of her income.`

Checkmate Feminists

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-42853612

#shithole

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/27/opinion/sunday/surgery-germany-vicodin.html

`I brought up the subject of painkillers with my gynecologist weeks before my surgery. She said that I would be given ibuprofen. “Is that it?” I asked. “That’s what I take if I have a headache. The removal of an organ certainly deserves more.”

“That’s all you will need,” she said, with the body confidence that comes from a lifetime of skiing in crisp, Alpine air.`

`I didn’t mention that I use ibuprofen like candy. Why else do they come in such jumbo sizes at American warehouse stores?`

well, gee, what an excellent argument

that's all she has to say on the subject - american warehouse stores sell them in tubs, so therefore they are not problematic

http://sz-magazin.sueddeutsche.de/texte/anzeigen/46820/Three-months-in-hell

unfortunately, there's no real content in it except "poor me, I was not ready for this"

`Videos of beheadings are the most feared among content moderators. I have seen indeed quite a lot of them. The content is of course very graphic. But for me the abundance of blood prevents empathy, the death is fast. I struggled not to feel sick. In the period of the Muslim Aid Feast, I had to handle a lot of content of cattle slaughtering. I was disturbed as I realize that they affected me not much differently than human beheadings. Perhaps even a bit more as the agony of the animals lasts longer.`

`ISIS was not the only source of beheading videos. A lot of content was originating from the war against drug cartels in Latin America, Myanmar and even from the southern borderlands of my own country. The ISIS videos were though more sophisticated: the mise en scene and background music were almost making the content unreal when I couldn't discern the last facial expression of the victims.`

Sounds like the Google employees that were used to tag images for the search engine. Had to be cycled out yearly and be given access to a psychologist

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/nyregion/at-yale-class-on-happiness-draws-huge-crowd-laurie-santos.html

`“In reality, a lot of us are anxious, stressed, unhappy, numb,” said Alannah Maynez, 19, a freshman taking the course. “The fact that a class like this has such large interest speaks to how tired students are of numbing their emotions — both positive and negative — so they can focus on their work, the next step, the next accomplishment.”`

`Charlotte Emerson, 18, a freshman in the course, said she worries some students will take advantage of the lack of accountability that comes with a lecture of this size. For example, Dr. Santos is not monitoring whether students complete weekly “rewirement” assignments, like performing acts of kindness and forming new social connections, Ms. Emerson said.`

PERFORMING ACTS OF KINDNESS IS HOMEWORK

`What distinguishes Dr. Santos’s course from the one at Harvard in 2006, she said, is that it also focuses on behavioral change.`

also known as: every cults dream

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-42833644

`They reveal the intimate minutiae of a loving SS family, and a man who led a contradictory double life. He travelled to all the concentration camps, doing the financial books and running an SS commercial enterprise producing furniture and war supplies - all made by slave labour.

But in the evening he came home, tended the garden and helped raise four children. `

yes, well, that's not actually a contradiction you imbecile

necessarily, of course

but people with kids cannot do evil things REEEE

it's like that quote
[9:29 PM] DanConway: We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us. -Golda Meir

it's a beautiful quote, but not because it's meaningful - its beaty comes from the naive perception of reality inherent in Golda

because muslims do love their children, but they also _believe_ in allah, and his glory bestowed upon their children in their sacrifice

this kind of belief is almost impossible to comprehend for me

but it is _100% impossible_ for that bbc cuck to comprehend

at least link a better article on the subject if you absolutely must link that shit https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/27/technology/social-media-bots.html

https://twitter.com/AGSchneiderman/status/957289783490957312

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/27/16940426/eric-schneiderman-fake-accounts-twitter-times

that flamthrower sucks

yes I know, I posted a video in <#372507611284766722> earlier

it's more like a creme brulee torch

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I think you're missing part of the video ID

usually they are 11 characters, that one is 10