Fallout Calculator

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I seem to be becoming obsessed with this:

http://www.fas.org/main/content.jsp?formAction=297&contentId=409

It's a Fallout Calculator for different nuclear blasts in various cities around the world. I dunno why, but it just fascinates me for some odd reason. Maybe its a powertrip.

And this one if you're in the USofA

http://www.fas.org/main/content.jsp?formAction=297&contentId=367

This is interesting and fun. Too bad they don't have a tornado mode. It could be a bad sci-fi channel movie of the week.

"Tests of nuclear bombs conducted in the 1950s and 1960s have had an unexpected benefit for forensic scientists.

A permanent record of the fallout from above-ground tests is embedded in tooth enamel and allows scientists to estimate the age of a person at the time of death more precisely.

Professor Jonas Frisén, of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and team report their findings today in the journal Nature.

The researchers say their method has already been used to help identify people who died in last year's Indian Ocean tsunami..."

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1460856.htm

Cool ridgerider, let's let off a few more to celebrate.




(Nobody take that literally by the way. I know that's a very hard ask too.)