Radioactive Wolves.

[MiM]

Being somewhat distanced from the events I sailed over the possibly political aspects as filler. An "error" rate of 2-4% was quite remarkable, much higher had been expected.

Did you maybe mean to say "much higher than had been expected"? I have heard both, several times . Most genetic defects lead to spontaneous abortion, so they would not not be seen in this kind of statistics. Neither are they too detrimental. For humans it takes a little longer for a woman to get pregnant, for wolves maybe a few less cubs in a litter.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Being somewhat distanced from the events I sailed over the possibly political aspects as filler. An "error" rate of 2-4% was quite remarkable, much higher had been expected.

Did you maybe mean to say "much higher than had been expected"? I have heard both, several times . Most genetic defects lead to spontaneous abortion, so they would not not be seen in this kind of statistics. Neither are they too detrimental. For humans it takes a little longer for a woman to get pregnant, for wolves maybe a few less cubs in a litter.

Should have been "much lower".

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The Wolf That Changed America.

In 1893, a bounty hunter named Ernest Thompson Seton journeyed to the untamed canyons of New Mexico on a mission to kill a dangerous outlaw. Feared by ranchers throughout the region, the outlaw wasn’t a pistol-packing cowboy or train-robbing bandit. The outlaw was a wolf. Lobo, as locals simply called him, was the legendary leader of a band of cattle-killing wolves that had been terrorizing cattle ranchers and their livestock. It was up to Seton to exterminate this “super-wolf.” The ensuing battle of wits between wolf and man would spark a real-life wilderness drama, the outcome of which would leave a lasting effect on a new and growing movement in America: wilderness preservation. Buy the DVD. This film premiered November 23, 2008.

[Ronja]

The Wolf That Changed America.

In 1893, a bounty hunter named Ernest Thompson Seton journeyed to the untamed canyons of New Mexico on a mission to kill a dangerous outlaw. Feared by ranchers throughout the region, the outlaw wasn’t a pistol-packing cowboy or train-robbing bandit. The outlaw was a wolf. Lobo, as locals simply called him, was the legendary leader of a band of cattle-killing wolves that had been terrorizing cattle ranchers and their livestock. It was up to Seton to exterminate this “super-wolf.” The ensuing battle of wits between wolf and man would spark a real-life wilderness drama, the outcome of which would leave a lasting effect on a new and growing movement in America: wilderness preservation. Buy the DVD. This film premiered November 23, 2008.

I read this quote aloud to the whole family and I really want to see that film. I loved Seton's animal stories as a teenager, especially "Animal Heroes". Thanks!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The Wolf That Changed America.

In 1893, a bounty hunter named Ernest Thompson Seton journeyed to the untamed canyons of New Mexico on a mission to kill a dangerous outlaw. Feared by ranchers throughout the region, the outlaw wasn’t a pistol-packing cowboy or train-robbing bandit. The outlaw was a wolf. Lobo, as locals simply called him, was the legendary leader of a band of cattle-killing wolves that had been terrorizing cattle ranchers and their livestock. It was up to Seton to exterminate this “super-wolf.” The ensuing battle of wits between wolf and man would spark a real-life wilderness drama, the outcome of which would leave a lasting effect on a new and growing movement in America: wilderness preservation. Buy the DVD. This film premiered November 23, 2008.

I read this quote aloud to the whole family and I really want to see that film. I loved Seton's animal stories as a teenager, especially "Animal Heroes". Thanks!

You can get his books from Project Gutenberg. I just downloaded "Animals I Have Known." It has the Currumpaw story in it.

[Ronja]

You can get his books from Project Gutenberg. I just downloaded "Animals I Have Known." It has the Currumpaw story in it.

Also found this http://www.fullbooks.com/Animal-Heroes.html

I started to read the first story "The Slum Cat" aloud to the kids tonight, and they would not let me stop before the end of chapter five.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

You can get his books from Project Gutenberg. I just downloaded "Animals I Have Known." It has the Currumpaw story in it.

Also found this http://www.fullbooks.com/Animal-Heroes.html

I started to read the first story "The Slum Cat" aloud to the kids tonight, and they would not let me stop before the end of chapter five.

You are Ratz Mommy of the Day.

[Ronja]

It is just when the kids happen to like what I do.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

It is just when the kids happen to like what I do.

[Warren Dew]

The video is stunning to someone of my generation who grew up with the "radioactive wasteland" meme. Of course this was just a tiny bubble of trouble compared to the nuclear war I waited for most of my life.

Just shows how mistaken that meme was.

It was the reality that scared me. Enough nuclear weapons to remove life from the planet 32 times?

Whenever I dug into alleged "realities" like that, they turned out to be based on data that analyzed only human life, not all life, and often assumed that all humans lived in cities.

It's like global warming: sure, it might wipe out human civilization, but the chickens will be happy to evolve back into dinosaurs.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The video is stunning to someone of my generation who grew up with the "radioactive wasteland" meme. Of course this was just a tiny bubble of trouble compared to the nuclear war I waited for most of my life.

Just shows how mistaken that meme was.

It was the reality that scared me. Enough nuclear weapons to remove life from the planet 32 times?

Whenever I dug into alleged "realities" like that, they turned out to be based on data that analyzed only human life, not all life, and often assumed that all humans lived in cities.

It's like global warming: sure, it might wipe out human civilization, but the chickens will be happy to evolve back into dinosaurs.

Look at residual background radiation levels projected from a mass deployment of nuclear weapons. (If that sounds like the title of a research paper...)

[Warren Dew]

Look at residual background radiation levels projected from a mass deployment of nuclear weapons. (If that sounds like the title of a research paper...)

Not that high, actually - lower than in the Chernobyl area where that wolf video was taken.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Look at residual background radiation levels projected from a mass deployment of nuclear weapons. (If that sounds like the title of a research paper...)

Not that high, actually - lower than in the Chernobyl area where that wolf video was taken.

Your numbers are from....

[Warren Dew]

Your numbers are from....

... nuclear engineering work I did a long, long time ago. The specifics might have been classified - I don't remember at this point.

However, the gist is quite simple and is unclassified. Nuclear weapons have a few kilograms of nuclear fuel. Nuclear powerplants have tonnes of it. A nuclear powerplant like Chernobyl going up in smoke releases as much radiation and fallout as many, many bombs, because it contains as much nuclear material as many, many bombs.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Your numbers are from....

... nuclear engineering work I did a long, long time ago. The specifics might have been classified - I don't remember at this point.

However, the gist is quite simple and is unclassified. Nuclear weapons have a few kilograms of nuclear fuel. Nuclear powerplants have tonnes of it. A nuclear powerplant like Chernobyl going up in smoke releases as much radiation and fallout as many, many bombs, because it contains as much nuclear material as many, many bombs.

Ah, and the fallout?