[ RadSafe ] Jack/Jacque, Custo /Cousteau. frm:Re: Reasoning the Unreasonablesfrm:Chernobyl's Reduced Impact

Wed Sep 14 20:25:32 CDT 2005

Cousteau invented scuba; has the patent :-)

Regards, Jim Muckerheide
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
> Behalf Of Emil
> Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 6:53 PM
> To: radsafe at radlab.nl
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Jack/Jacque,Custo /Cousteau. frm:Re: Reasoning the
> Unreasonablesfrm:Chernobyl's Reduced Impact
> 
> John,
> 
> I knew this name with the different spelling like Jack Custo as in
> French spelling it would sounded as Jacque Cousteau.
> I think, he died recently, last year or year before, he was/is the
> famous French underwater diver/naturalist. Back when I was a kid in
> the old country, I watched few documentary movies about his under
> water record dives, they were pretty interesting. He holds some world
> records in underwater diving and also he used the bell for the dives,
> I do not remember if he ever used the scuba equipment or not.
> I never heard of his philosophical convictions.
> 
> Emil.
> 
> > Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 14:26:48 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: John Jacobus <crispy_bird at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Re: Reasoning the Unreasonables
> > 	(frm:Chernobyl's	Reduced Impact)
> > To: radsafe at radlab.nl
> > Message-ID: <20050914212648.19046.qmail at web54313.mail.yahoo.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> >
> > Howard,
> > What Jacque Cousteau philosopy are you talking about?
> >
> > --- howard long <hflong at pacbell.net> wrote:
> >
> > > If HPs choose to protect, rather than follow the
> > > Jacques Cousteau philosophy
> > > that mother earth should have c 300,000 people done
> > > away with daily
> > > (like Emil's spider lady?), then HPs should
> > > publicize to neighbors their preparedness
> > > to monitor radiation levels in any emergency (as at
> > > www.Nukalert.com or www.Berkeleynucleonics.com ).
> > >
> > > Howard Long
> > >
> > > Emil <kerrembaev at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > howard long wrote:
> > >
> > > > Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:05:37 -0700 (PDT)
> > > > From: howard long
> > > > Subject: Re: AW: AW: [ RadSafe ] Chernobyl's
> > > Reduced Impact
> > >
> > > > John and all,
> > > > Will LNT fears (cancer risk with <10rem) increase
> > > panic?
> > > > With a dirty bomb in DC, could it cause stampede,
> > > as fear did in
> > > > Baghdad?
> > > > Can education and Nukalerts prevent disaster
> > > > by reassurance of no harm unless exposed to that
> > > level for >X hours
> > > > or days?
> > > >
> > > > "Fear itself, is our greatest fear" (or something
> > > like that from FD
> > > > Roosevelt)
> > > >
> > > > Howard Long
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Howard,
> > >
> > > I don't think some of them want to be "educated".
> > > It would be even in some people, other than
> > > terrorists, best interest
> > > to have bigger impact from the panic.
> > >
> > > I will explain what I do mean.
> > >
> > > The same logic would apply to prevent spent fuel
> > > save storage
> > > resolution.
> > >
> > > Let me tell share a recent personal encounter with
> > > someone who would
> > > value a hypothetical statistical environmental
> > > concern over the
> > > immediate risk to the persons/public health.
> > >
> > > I was renting house, this Summer was very good for
> > > the spiders, a lot
> > > of them, a lot...
> > > I expressed my concerns to the house owner, lovely,
> > > lovely lady who
> > > would never kill a spider and she started educating
> > > me about
> > > harmlessness of the MOST spiders....
> > >
> > > To make story short.
> > >
> > > She refused to spray anything in and around the
> > > house with anything
> > > INORGANIC.... I moved out and during the process I
> > > was bitten by
> > > "hobo"-"the northwestern" spider, I was lucky, it
> > > was not the "brown
> > > recluse".
> > >
> > > Cost me a lot of money, antibiotics and
> > > inconveniences to pull thru
> > > that accident :-)
> > > Just do not want to deal with that person anymore.
> > > I probably could have sued her butt for the damages,
> > > pain and
> > > sufferings, but I just got up and move on........on
> > > the other side of
> > > the Bay :-)
> > >
> > > So what is the point?
> > >
> > > The point is, some people have some kind of glasses
> > > on their eyes,
> > > they way they look on this world, thru those
> > > glasses, they do not see
> > > the real and immediate threat from things like
> > > spiders or spent fuel.
> > > They are more concern with, sort of saving this
> > > world as a WHOLE and
> > > at ONCE.
> > > I, on the other hand, see my mission not that big, I
> > > do not think, I
> > > have that bigger responsibility, I am just trying to
> > > get along and
> > > not get bitten by a spider or get burned by a chunk
> > > of spent fuel..
> > > Okay?
> > >
> > >
> > > So long, Emil.
> > >
> >
> > +++++++++++++++++++
> > "Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea and
> > never shrinks back to its original proportion." -- Oliver Wendell
> > Holmes, Jr.
> >
> > -- John
> > John Jacobus, MS
> > Certified Health Physicist
> > e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com
> >
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