Posted on 05/18/2004 9:23:50 AM PDT by Living Free in NH
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At least they weren't exposed enough to be doing the chicken. That would suck.
"Sarin is extremely toxic-one hundred milligrams, roughly one drop, can kill the average person in a few minutes time. People who do not receive a lethal dose and do not receive immediate medical attention can suffer permanent neurological damage."
http://www.fas.org/biosecurity/sarin.html">http://www.fas.org/biosecurity/sarin.html
And according to FAS, the technique that Iraq had produced sarin in a relatively very pure form.
Or it could simply be no one was around it when it went off and therefore no casualties.
Is there a shelf life to Sarin and is it stored in the shells?
Great response to Galt and I thought you'd like to know, his FR account has been banned or suspended.
He is a long time disruptor to these threads and it has harmed FR because lurkers seeking to learn information about the subjects at hand give up in frustration and leave.
Galt's accounts has been banned or suspended thankfully.
Bingo. And now he's gone. Let's hope permanently.
Enough lethal doses, in this one warhead, to whipe out 6.5 Million people.
Storage in the binary form of which Iraq has/had stored their stocks and as the way the shell was designed to keep the precursers separate until the shell was fired, FAS stated that this method could preserve the sarin for extensive periods of time.
I tried to go back and see if they, FAS, gave an exact count in years but the server to their site is down this morning. When it comes back online I will post a link to their quote on the time of storage.
Could be that they have some REALLY BIG bugs...
Since I'm not gay, nothing. But thanks for the object lesson yesterday on the propaganda technique of moving the goal posts. First you post a thread to gloat that Rummy was saying that the shell might not have contained sarin. Then, when the substance was found to be the binary components of sarin, you pooh-poohed the significance of that, and when that became untenable you then moved the goal posts so far as to say that only nukes counted as WMDs - but you'd been gloating for months that we hadn't found chemical weapons. Pure dishonesty.
So for your final posts here, you lowered yourself to an entirely new level of mendacity. And then are probably screaming somewhere about how FR is unwilling to tolerate other points of view. Well, we've always said that we'll tolerate honest liberals interested in fair debate. You failed both the honesty and the fairness test.
The precise "laboratory" answer to your question is in this post.
The "proper military use" answer is probably more on the order of five potential thousand deaths, if it were set off in an enclosed environment after proper firing.
Not only is the world "mad" at this point,our media is allowing the far leftwingnuts to "move the bar" once again.
Lets see....they claim Bush lied about WMD's, even though every government on earth agreed with the assessment. They ignore John Kerry's statements concerning this from a year ago, they ignore the Clinton Administrations REPEATED statements that Iraq was an "ongoing threat" with WMD's.
Now that we have in fact an found artillery shell with SARIN...."its only one" is making the rounds, ignoring the Mustard Gas weapons found....and some are actually saying, and posting on other boards, Sarin IS NOT A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION.
I can only surmise it will take Hollywood, or San Francisco being wiped out, or at least hit so hard tens of thousands are killed before the likes of the leftwingnuts will open their eyes to whats happening.
And then, of course, it will all be the President's fault....at this point my disgust for the left has reached an all time high...and thats really saying something.
Inhaled plutonium particles can cause lung cancer, leukemia, liver cancer and bone cancer. Dr. Helen Caldicot, founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, says that plutonium "is so toxic that less than one-millionth of a gram, an invisible particle, is a carcinogenic dose. One pound, uniformly distributed, could hypothetically induce lung cancer in every person on Earth." Dr John Gofman, former member of the Manhattan Project, says "The number of cancer doses is so high as to make calculations extraneous."...
In the event of re-entry, how much plutonium will be released in inhalable form and how many deaths would be caused are debatable. The most conservative range is between 120 and 200,000 cancer fatalities.
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What's worse, you've just scattered a vaporized nuclear reactor core in the earth's atmosphere. Thousands, if not millions, of earthlings will eventually die as a result of exposure to radiation.
What's even more irritating is that this last leftist didn't even know the difference between an RTG and a nuclear reactor.
They probably didn't. These two solders, and many others might have been toast if it weren't sarin. Apparently bianery shells to don't mix properly when set off by an externaly booster.
You clearly have outdone yourself today, JGault.
I think you ought to check yourself into the funny farm.
"Liberalism is a mental disorder" - perhaps you have it and just didn't realize you are a closet liberal all along... maybe you're along the lines of some type of schizo-liberalism disease who has one view of isolationism and another when it comes to social assistance. I dunno - I'm not a psychiatrist.
You clearly are not an "American Conservative" as you have so often trumpeted to me. I still don't know what you are, but you aren't that.
I truly believe you ought to have a psychiatrist check into your situation.
Who is John Galt?
According to all he has written to me in the past, he proclaims himself to be "an American Conservative" and all the rest of us (with one exception - don't recall that nic) are liberal sheeple, but we don't realize it.
As I said to him yet again in my post above, JGault is clearly not a conservative - but I still don't know what he is.
It was OLD, so it doesn't count because it was a leftover from the Iran-Iraq war.
It wasn't Saddam's, it was his family's.
LOL --- Hey, I LIKE that
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