Terrifying

[chequita guevara]

Frankly, war is bad for the environment, regardless. It's just that some effects are more long lasting. Chemicals from explosive ordinance are particularly nasty.

Problem is, most people don't know this. It's not so much a Darwin issue of playing with spent rounds, farming fields where DU was used, children plaing in bombed out vehicals, etc., as it is an issue of not having the information to know not to do such things.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by MikeH
How do you avoid a war zone when the war zone is the streets of the city you live on?

Stay in the building?

[Q Classic]

Problem is, most people don't know this. It's not so much a Darwin issue of playing with spent rounds, farming fields where DU was used, children plaing in bombed out vehicals, etc., as it is an issue of not having the information to know not to do such things.

i have no problem with them putting up warning signs. if they do do that though, then i will feel even less sorry for people who get exposed to DU by ignoring those warnings.

what i really don't get is this: it's burned out, it looks damaged, and it's got a foul smell from burning flesh and metal and gas and what not. why would you want to go near it? bad smells usually mean bad things...

[chequita guevara]

Children do lots of dumb things. That's why they need adults to look after them.

[Q Classic]

children are overrated.

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


Stay in the building?

For the rest of your life?

[Chemical Ollie]

Iraq is now enjoying the FREEDOM (TM) to inhale toxic dust.

[Q Classic]

well, they also have the freedom to not breathe/breed.

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
well, they also have the freedom to not breathe/breed.

Yes, quite a few earned that freedom too.

[Q Classic]

Yes, quite a few earned that freedom too.

i'm hoping that most humans in general, be they in america, europe, asia, africa, or antarctica, learn that by excersizing those freedoms, true liberty will come about.

as far as those in australia... i haven't decided.

[Provost Harrison]

Well if DU is principally U-238 then it won't be particularly radioactive - it has a half-life of 4.5 billion years. But this radioactivity could cause a far greater threat if ingested - as well as it's toxicity as mentioned previously...

[Q Classic]

Well if DU is principally U-238 then it won't be particularly radioactive - it has a half-life of 4.5 billion years. But this radioactivity could cause a far greater threat if ingested - as well as it's toxicity as mentioned previously...

that's part of what the problem is. because it does aerosol upon impact and leaves a fine dust, it's very easy for people to be exposed to it.

since it doesn't leave the body easily, either...

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Well if DU is principally U-238 then it won't be particularly radioactive - it has a half-life of 4.5 billion years.

U-235 is 0.7 billion years, and considering the isotopic ratios in nature are about 99 (238) to 1 (235) anyway it hardly makes a difference.

[Provost Harrison]

I thought 235 had a far shorter half-life than that...just checked - 700 million. And they both appear to be alpha-emitters...

[Q Classic]

nope, u-235 is 700 million yrs.