Friday, October 19, 2007
Here comes the Super Roach
No, not the kind you find in your ashtray, but the real thing, La Cucaracha. Ostensibly the team from Mythbusters, including the very tasty Kari Byron and her goofy sidekicks Grant Imahara and Tory Belleci, will be trying to prove or disprove the myth that steamflies can withstand an atomic blast.
The crew is using an irradiator in the basement of Hanford's 318 Building just north of Richland. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory usually uses it to calibrate dosimeters and test for radiation damage on equipment such as video cameras and fiber optic cables...Survival my foot, it sounds like they are trying to develop a lead character for the next Men In Black sequel. Anybody want to bet the lose track of a bunch of the 100K rad group just as they are starting to grow larger?
...Fifty will get no radiation so they can be used as a control group. Another 50 will be exposed to 1,000 rad of radiation, the exposure that's lethal to humans.
It gets worse from there for the bugs. The next 50 will be exposed to 10,000 rad and the final to 100,000 rad.
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