RE: Y2K, The Movie -Reply

["Moroney, Roger W" <Roger.Moroney@mkg.com>]

I guess I can make a distinction between the Terminator's science-fiction
and just plain fiction.

If you haven't had someone ask you "can that really happen?", then you must
not be advertising yourself as a "health physics professional". My neighbors
ask me about radon, my friends ask if a nuclear power plant can blow up and
my family  wonders if I'll glow in the dark when they turn out the lights
(not my wife though, she knows I do :) I take each and every opportunity to
carefully explain, in layman's terms, what the truth is. The problem in
doing so, even in "layman's terms", is overcoming a huge deficit in basic
science knowledge. And that, my fellow professionals, was the point of my
previous email.

Roger Moroney
Health Physicist
Mallinckrodt, Inc.
314.654.7457 voice
314.654.7571 fax
roger.moroney@mkg.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Siebert [mailto:SIEBSR@doe-md.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 8:00 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: RE: Y2K, The Movie -Reply


Wow, did you see that stupid movie "The Terminator"?  Gosh, all that
stuff can't really happen.  And that plutonium/radiation stuff on the
Simpsons?  That darn media just can't make anything factual.

Hello????  Can we focus on the media as it relates to the Nuclear/Health
Physics industry and the news, studies, etc. and not movies and TV
shows that are made PURELY for entertainment?  I personally don't find
most of them entertaining, but I also haven't had anyone come up to me
as a health physics professional and say "hey, can that really happen?"

Scott R. Siebert
Mound Internal Dosimetry
siebsr@doe-md.gov

"Let's keep the main thing the main thing."


>I finally gave up on it after the fetal monitors they were using in a
>hospital in Seattle quit a few seconds after midnight Eastern Time
>because they were MADE on the East Coast! The little disclaimers
>scrolling across the bottom made it even worse.

>The sad thing to me was that no one associated with this movie had
>enough of a basic science background to say "this just isn't remotely
>plausible". Or maybe I'm just not dumb enough to swallow their story
>line. It has to be one of the worst tv shows I've ever seen. No wonder I
>hardly ever watch tv anymore. Clearly, it was made only to exploit Y2K
>fears.


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