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

Wed Sep 14 21:51:51 CDT 2005

At least, I did remember the water:-)

--- "Muckerheide, James" <jimm at WPI.EDU> wrote:

> Cousteau invented scuba; has the patent :-)
> 
> Regards, Jim Muckerheide
> ========================
> 
> 
> > -----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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