03-04-2003, 06:46 AM
Ahh, of course, light is a lot faster than most everything else.
Guess I was stuck in thinking in the context of the "half mile" radius mentioned in the article.
The article also mentioned something about living a "very, very long time" if one survives the initial shockwaves and radiation blast of an atomic explosion. From what I learned in school back in Japan, the people of Hiroshima who were fairly close to ground zero below where Little Boy detonated, but lived, certainly didn't live very long after, or at least not develop a life-threatening condition. The Little Boy was a 15kiloton bomb, and if my memory serves me correctly, the area affected by radiation was a few kilometer in radius at least.
Is my memory playing tricks on me again, or is our retired army officer simply clueless?
Guess I was stuck in thinking in the context of the "half mile" radius mentioned in the article.
The article also mentioned something about living a "very, very long time" if one survives the initial shockwaves and radiation blast of an atomic explosion. From what I learned in school back in Japan, the people of Hiroshima who were fairly close to ground zero below where Little Boy detonated, but lived, certainly didn't live very long after, or at least not develop a life-threatening condition. The Little Boy was a 15kiloton bomb, and if my memory serves me correctly, the area affected by radiation was a few kilometer in radius at least.
Is my memory playing tricks on me again, or is our retired army officer simply clueless?