[ "Aplastic anemia is a rare condition in which your body doesn't produce enough blood cells because of damage to the hematopoietic stem cells in your bone marrow. Marie Curie never really acknowledged the danger she was in, but I think she would have hated all the medical quackery with radium. Her daughter, Irène, died of leukemia ten years after accidentally being exposed to polonium when a sealed capsule on her laboratory bench exploded. It sounds like a superhero's origin story but she just got cancer. They were both kind of old when they died; sixty-six and fifty-eight, respectively. They had enough time to make sure the next generation could carry on their work and that makes me think of Grandpa, even though he was a lot older when he died. Sometimes I would hand him tools or parts or uranium while he tinkered with Jadebot—" ]
i do my best ;) depleted uranium is only a real hazard if you ingest it anyway
[ Jade really likes talking about nuclear physics. She just does most of it in her head so she doesn't annoy people. ]
the concept of a nuclear winter is kind of tricky! for one thing the name is a misnomer the global climatic cooling is thought to occur after a loooooot of firestorms, which are not unique to nuclear devices wildfires cause them all the time, and can produce minor "nuclear winters" confined to the hemisphere they burned in the cooling is caused by soot lifted into the atmosphere blocking some of the suns light time and a little rainfall removes the aerosols very efficiently! lots of theoretical models ignore rainout in favor of more apocalyptic conditions its also been like a hundred years since the bombing happened, right? and the buildings are made of metal? there was not much fuel for a firestorm, i think a nuclear winter would have ended by now!! well.... assuming the rest of the worlds nuclear weapons were not launched :\ the hypothesis is that about 100 firestorms would be enough to cause dramatic climate change ideally in the summer when there is intense sunlight but it is unclear how long it would take for the aerosols to be removed i guess a century would be...... relatively back to normal?? there is no known threshold where the stratosphere is permanently altered
anyway, house and ecks had a few and gave them to us! combined with the ones we found that is like..... 8? they seem to resemble some of the current residents one looks like brian! which is.... a little disconcerting but hopefully the spiders are just really into arts and crafts >_>
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i do my best ;)
depleted uranium is only a real hazard if you ingest it anyway
[ Jade really likes talking about nuclear physics. She just does most of it in her head so she doesn't annoy people. ]
the concept of a nuclear winter is kind of tricky!
for one thing the name is a misnomer
the global climatic cooling is thought to occur after a loooooot of firestorms, which are not unique to nuclear devices
wildfires cause them all the time, and can produce minor "nuclear winters" confined to the hemisphere they burned in
the cooling is caused by soot lifted into the atmosphere blocking some of the suns light
time and a little rainfall removes the aerosols very efficiently!
lots of theoretical models ignore rainout in favor of more apocalyptic conditions
its also been like a hundred years since the bombing happened, right? and the buildings are made of metal?
there was not much fuel for a firestorm, i think
a nuclear winter would have ended by now!!
well.... assuming the rest of the worlds nuclear weapons were not launched :\
the hypothesis is that about 100 firestorms would be enough to cause dramatic climate change
ideally in the summer when there is intense sunlight
but it is unclear how long it would take for the aerosols to be removed
i guess a century would be...... relatively back to normal??
there is no known threshold where the stratosphere is permanently altered
anyway, house and ecks had a few and gave them to us!
combined with the ones we found that is like..... 8?
they seem to resemble some of the current residents
one looks like brian! which is.... a little disconcerting
but hopefully the spiders are just really into arts and crafts >_>