Posted on 04/10/2013 9:41:20 AM PDT by Red Badger
Back in my teenage years (late 60’s early 70’s) I knew a musician who played in a band called ‘Dark Entry’..........
But would being struck by darkning be fatal?
If it’s invisible that explains why its dark.
Is this another scientist in desperate need of a grant?
Grandpappy spilled some dye in the moonshine, just don't report it to the feds...
If you are speaking of legal matters the Nuclear Regulatory Agency says this is safe for occupational exposure.
5 times your age minus 18 REM per year.
So if you are 20 that would be 2 times 5 which would equal 10 REM (Rad Equivalent Man).
Then the NRC defines the Lethal dose (LD) as:
The dose of radiation expected to cause death to 50 percent of an exposed population within 30 days (LD 50/30). Typically, the LD 50/30 is in the range from 400 to 450 rem (4 to 5 sieverts) received over a very short period.
So safe is probably somewhere in between.
Can I just call it lightning?
Another discovery that that has been tossed around the innernuts for a while.
http://tristan.ethereal.net/humor/dark-suckers.html
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For years it has been believed that electric bulbs emitted light. However, recent information from Bell Labs has proven otherwise. Electric bulbs don’t emit light; they suck dark. Thus they now call these bulbs dark suckers. The dark sucker theory, according to a spokesman from the Labs, proves the existence of dark, that dark has mass heavier than that of light, and that dark is faster than light.
Not to mention Black Holes!
Thanks for the Explanation, I was worried if I got hit by dark lighten I would turn into the hulk...
Though I think “White-lightning” is already taken ... :-)
Just another excellent reason not to fly through, over or under a thunderstorm.
Does that mean that if you get old enough you’re immune to radiation?
Hint: look at poster name.......
dark lightning
Maybe we should call it “darkning”.
Well the current theory is that children (those still in their growing years) are more sensitive to the effects of radiation.
The theory is that cells are most sensitive to radiation during cell division. Growing children have more cells in the process of division.
All living humans have cells that divide frequently such as the blood producing cells in the bone marrow. So no the old are still sensitive to radiation but less so than younger people.
Ack!
They know!
Of course not.
It’s Bush’s fault.
Hahaha, totally!
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