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Iodide: WAS: Big Full Moon and Perigee Spring Tides
From: Peter Hakel
Date: 2011 Mar 19, 11:56 -0700
From: Lu Abel <luabel@ymail.com>
To: NavList@fer3.com
Sent: Sat, March 19, 2011 8:20:50 AM
Subject: [NavList] Re: Big Full Moon and Perigee Spring Tides
From: Apache Runner <apacherunner@gmail.com>
To: NavList@fer3.com
Sent: Sat, March 19, 2011 6:57:01 AM
Subject: [NavList] Re: Big Full Moon and Perigee Spring Tides
From: Peter Hakel
Date: 2011 Mar 19, 11:56 -0700
I lived in nearby (Czecho)Slovakia when Chernobyl happened. People refused to drink milk for a while based on worries about leukemia and such; but I don't recall anything more dramatic than that. But then, it could have been our communist government trying to keep things quiet - after all, Soviet technology could NOT possibly cause a problem, right?
I recently read a National Geographic article from the 1980s about then current state of the Soviet space program. It was amazing - you guys in the West had more publicly available information about that than we did - and we were officially their allies. For us, it was always: "The Soyuz such-and-such was launched at this Moscow time, with these cosmonauts on board. They successfully fulfilled their mission and returned as planned." End of story…
Peter Hakel
I recently read a National Geographic article from the 1980s about then current state of the Soviet space program. It was amazing - you guys in the West had more publicly available information about that than we did - and we were officially their allies. For us, it was always: "The Soyuz such-and-such was launched at this Moscow time, with these cosmonauts on board. They successfully fulfilled their mission and returned as planned." End of story…
Peter Hakel
From: Lu Abel <luabel@ymail.com>
To: NavList@fer3.com
Sent: Sat, March 19, 2011 8:20:50 AM
Subject: [NavList] Re: Big Full Moon and Perigee Spring Tides
Ah, yes, sale of Potassium Iodide pills was splashed all over the SF bay area news. Interestingly, the places featured as "sold out" of PI pills were all "natural medicine" pharmacies in Berkeley. TV news footage showed very new price stickers on the shelves holding PI pills.
Rationality? Who needs that?!
Rationality? Who needs that?!
From: Apache Runner <apacherunner@gmail.com>
To: NavList@fer3.com
Sent: Sat, March 19, 2011 6:57:01 AM
Subject: [NavList] Re: Big Full Moon and Perigee Spring Tides
Regarding the west coast panic, my cousin who lives in San Francisco e-mailed me, asking about potassium iodide tablets. I resisted the urge to reply "R U NUTS?", and instead composed a thoughtful message with all the reasons why the Daiichi problem cannot affect the US West Coast.
