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One possibility plucked straight from a thriller: a nuke or dirty bomb is somewhere in the area and they are scanning for it.
by partisan 9y ago
One possibility plucked straight from a thriller: a nuke or dirty bomb is somewhere in the area and they are scanning for it.
- nl 9y ago"scanning for it"
- angstrom 9y agoCue head explosion...
- partisan 9y agoThe lack of sense of humor here is stunning. Other comments here are deep in conspiracy-land. Forgive me for contributing a differing, humorous viewpoint.
- yodon 9y agoYou might want to read up on Poe's law[0] before spending too much more time constructing clever ironic posts for threads like this. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
- cr4ig_ 9y agoActually, the government (NNSA, https://nnsa.energy.gov/ https://nnsa.energy.gov/) trains for that on a pretty regular basis. They scan cities for known sources of radiation (hospitals, certain types of industries, natural sources) and map it all out. They'll also go back and conduct drills using those maps to see if they can locate planted radiation sources. A real-life thriller...