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Reactor is blown up in Russia. August 8, 2019

Aug 12, 2019 1:27PM PDT

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Hi Bob.
Aug 12, 2019 1:32PM PDT

Good to see ya back.
Dafydd.

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Season 2.
Aug 12, 2019 1:50PM PDT

And yes, I did have a chat with Lee this AM. Fallout? Not much as I use unique passwords per site. Also the PC scans found cookies and nothing more.

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If a non-Mod can butt in.
Aug 12, 2019 3:39PM PDT

Does this have anything to do with the flashlight fiasco this AM?

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No and later yes.
Aug 12, 2019 3:53PM PDT

Top post is just me making a post. Dafydd's reply and on, yes.

PM me if you need more details. I'll see if my profile is set to allow that next.

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Thanks, but none of my business.
Aug 12, 2019 4:40PM PDT

Internet security a problem everywhere, right?
The Big Question. "Proffitt" held the record for posts. Does rproffitt2 have to start over??? Your fans wanna know!!!

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"I'll be back."
Aug 12, 2019 4:45PM PDT

This is my backup account until some investigations are done.

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PS. What little I read about the posts.
Aug 12, 2019 4:06PM PDT

Did you just make a bad pun?

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(NT) Not to my conscious knowledge.
Aug 12, 2019 4:41PM PDT
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I'm going with
Aug 12, 2019 4:46PM PDT

Unintentional to lucky guess or your mind was having a fun time.

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If it was insulting, no.
Aug 12, 2019 6:44PM PDT

I save those for ....
ANTICIPATED YOUR REPLY, PRUNER. DON'T TRY THAT AGAIN.

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Chernobyl wasn't in Russia
Aug 12, 2019 4:35PM PDT

Still isn't. Ukraine.
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Moving on, that disaster had lots of collateral damage, yet it could have been much worse. So any spooks arranging that would be at risk of causing that level of ...

Yeah, could be.

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Which is why...
Aug 12, 2019 4:56PM PDT

you should never buy underwear from there. Why? Chernobyl fallout. Devil
Dafydd.

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This also created a call for wine outside of Russia
Aug 12, 2019 5:43PM PDT
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North Wales.
Aug 12, 2019 5:48PM PDT
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Sorry to hear that, Dafydd.
Aug 12, 2019 6:53PM PDT

I believe sheep are genetically susceptible. Anyway, you may know about the Nevada (above ground!) Cold War testing that killed sheep and humans downwind of the sites. Downwind from there is all of the US east of Nevada. Sad
The scale of lying and harm was over that of Chernobyl. Decades worth in a "free" country. I read a book about it and recommended it to local libraries around the 70th anniversary of the US Trinity test. They bought it. I'll post the title later.
Bad government. Not easy reading, for the sensitive.

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... and don't forget your iodine.
Aug 12, 2019 6:54PM PDT

If you can find any in the shops.

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Chernobyl Season 2 is on the way.
Aug 13, 2019 9:13PM PDT
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Latest from Hollywood.
Aug 14, 2019 1:48AM PDT

Eight of the top ten grossers right now are remakes or franchises.

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Radioactive traces (iodine?) detected in Norway.
Aug 17, 2019 1:32AM PDT
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/17/europe/russia-nuclear-summer-skyfall-intl/index.html


EDIT: Byline for this photo added:
"In this photo taken on Monday, Aug. 5, 2019, a family watches explosions at a military ammunition depot near the city of Achinsk in eastern Siberia's Krasnoyarsk region, in Achinsk, Russia. Russian officials say powerful explosions at a military depot in Siberia left 12 people injured and one missing and forced over 16,500 people to leave their homes. (AP Photo/Dmitry Dub)"

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Useful link. Thank you.
Aug 17, 2019 5:20AM PDT

The "musroom cloud" in one pic isn't nuclear in nature. It can be caused by intense, shaped charges as might be expected at a munitions dump incident.
I knew a Navy ordnance guy who picked up extra change staging them for films.

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Picture was from article but did not write about its source.
Aug 17, 2019 8:37AM PDT

The article did not give picture source or detail.

You are right that the cloud shape and how it's made.

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it is still not clear
Oct 1, 2019 12:38PM PDT

this situation is quite awkward.

Link removed by moderator.

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Whether nuclear or ammo dump:
Oct 1, 2019 6:42PM PDT

"awkward" isn't the half of it.

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"There is no graphite."?
Aug 28, 2019 9:21AM PDT
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A reminder that the major effects of a nuclear weapon
Oct 1, 2019 6:33PM PDT

are still blast related. Every picture you've seen of Hiroshima buildings is the result of blast and, secondarily, heat. Could be done by conventional weapons, but not by one- not even a modern blockbuster- coming 'suddenly, out of a clear sky'. (Japanese victims.)
Fat Man was intended to yield the famous '20 kilotons of dynamite' but fell short! The air burst triggering was nearly perfect.

Imagine what we would do to each other if we weren't highly evolved.

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Short SciFi Story.
Oct 1, 2019 6:53PM PDT

Zebal, how was your trip to Earth?

It appears they have developed orbital nuclear platforms.

Do they appear to be a threat?

No, for some reason they have pointed the weapons at themselves.

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Good one.
Oct 1, 2019 7:01PM PDT

(But, is "LOL" appropriate here?)