Anyone else watching Jericho?
I do wish it would hurry up though! every week there is a lot of running about and looking pained then one scene that makes you watch it next time - only to find a lot of running about and looking pained until the last good scene....
Oh and how come that Geiger counter didn't say a word, it should have been intermittently clicking for normal background radiation - it's total silence would have bothered me had I been holding it. I'd have had that sucker in the lab and been testing it WAY before I walked out in the rain I thought was contaminated - which turns out wasn't radioactive anyway (official explanation below):
Apparently.
Oh and while I am bitching (and I clearly am) - when the people by the river were all found dead, how come they were all well enough to think about putting up their tents? this was on day three wasn't it? seems an odd thing to do, "Hey lets all put up our tents before we die - oh and then all go and lay outside....".
I do wish it would hurry up though! every week there is a lot of running about and looking pained then one scene that makes you watch it next time - only to find a lot of running about and looking pained until the last good scene....
Oh and how come that Geiger counter didn't say a word, it should have been intermittently clicking for normal background radiation - it's total silence would have bothered me had I been holding it. I'd have had that sucker in the lab and been testing it WAY before I walked out in the rain I thought was contaminated - which turns out wasn't radioactive anyway (official explanation below):
This issue of contamination has been extensively covered. To be concise any detonation in Denver, that is at least, weather-wise, 48 hours away is providing a radiation surge to Jericho of 10^-7. That means if the detonation produced 1000 rems Jericho is going to be hit with .0001 rems. Since normal background radiation hit you with that much there is little worry. It is known that whole-body radiation dose of more than 1 rem over a short period of time can cause a slight increase in a person's risk of developing some types of cancer years after exposure, but we are huge levels of magnitude below that.
Apparently.
Oh and while I am bitching (and I clearly am) - when the people by the river were all found dead, how come they were all well enough to think about putting up their tents? this was on day three wasn't it? seems an odd thing to do, "Hey lets all put up our tents before we die - oh and then all go and lay outside....".