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- bps04a, on 08/31/2008, -1/+54Dugg for being very well written and informative.
"Contrary to popular belief, previously bombed geographies are not transformed into lifeless, poisoned landscapes for the next 50,000 years."
but that's not what they said in the movies! You lied to me again, Hollywood! - IZZ0, on 08/31/2008, -0/+44"Marine biologists diving at Bikini have returned with glowing reports."
I'm not surprised. - studdenfadden, on 08/31/2008, -1/+42It really is amazing how nature can bounce back even from thermonuclear weapons.
- lonewolfe, on 08/31/2008, -0/+30S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Christmas Island?
- CatsAreGods, on 08/31/2008, -0/+28Dugg for "glowing reports".
- inactive, on 08/31/2008, -3/+30That's life.
- borez, on 08/31/2008, -1/+21Well it's good to know WWIII would have eventually been good for nature. Also goes to show just how disposable we are a species.
You know...We talk about how much we're are causing damage to this planet with climate change and CO2 and ozone ( although we haven't heard about that particular doom scenario for a while ) etc. etc. etc. But at the end of the day this planet wouldn't care less about our departure and would probably be glad to see us go.
...Kinda like when a scab falls off your leg. - Stevethegreat, on 08/31/2008, -5/+21Nature can and would, it's us that will go away in the case of thermonuclear war and after a while nobody would even know that we ever existed, a blink of the evolutionary eye, another failed experiment of nature....
- spect3r, on 08/31/2008, -3/+19Of course this time around they are ravenous, brain eating, 6 inch claw bearing seagulls with a knack for swarming their unsuspecting prey with a cloud of venomous, radioactive bird fart.
- Aroundtheworls, on 08/31/2008, -1/+14Wildlife in Chernobyl is apparently thriving now, despite high levels of radiation still leaking from the power plant.
Great read of a motorcycle trip through the 'off-limits' zone: http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html - goldliop, on 08/31/2008, -0/+9"But that's not to say everything is peachy with former nuke test sites. Radioactive fallout, and the dizzyingly complex study of it, depends on factors such as microclimates, local geography, wind, altitude of detonation, size of the bomb and environmental conditions on the ground like soils, rock type and vegetation. There are places in the Pacific you don't want to go and probably can't -- that's why they're off limits. The same is true for parts of the Nevada Test Site and other detonation locations."
Oh fine print thrown towards the end. - notadiggtard, on 08/31/2008, -2/+11Amazing how many people hate their own species....
- Stevethegreat, on 08/31/2008, -0/+8Look a whole ***** meteorite made dinosaurs go extinct, yet the fauna and the mammals went on unhindered. Even if the planet change forever there will always remain strands of life that would develop immunity to the nuclear winter and life in one form or another WILL continue (heck there are microbes living INTO volcanoes, talk about hardcore bacteria), 'till the sun explodes that is....
- theodenking, on 08/31/2008, -0/+8They've completely ruined Fallout 3 for me.
- Fallout911, on 08/31/2008, -1/+8This proves that human colonization is WORSE than a ***** nuke.
- q2killa, on 08/31/2008, -0/+7Everyone seems to miss the part about how the radioactive fallout was all blown away by the winds and how it disperses easily when it's in water. If we had a full scale nuclear war, and tons radioactive fallout was pretty much everywhere, the picture might not be so rosy for life on the planet.
- beholder67, on 08/31/2008, -1/+8http://www.worldwithoutus.com/
There are many similar areas described in this book! Highly recommended! - ToddieM, on 08/31/2008, -0/+6I am encouraged to know that once a bomb detonates, that the surrounding land is not a wasteland
- fluxion, on 08/31/2008, -0/+6i think NASA scientists are a bit more enthusiastic about finding life elsewhere than most
- CountBrass, on 08/31/2008, -0/+6My Dad was in the Royal Engineers and was stationed on Christmas Island during the US (not UK) bomb tests there. We've got a whole load of photos of him wearing not much more than a pair of sunglasses and swimming trunks with a mushroom cloud in the background.
- protodon, on 08/31/2008, -2/+7People give life a lot less credit then it deserves. NASA scientists are on the top of that list.It is natural, unstoppable and exists in more places than we know.
- GreenAlien, on 08/31/2008, -0/+5Well it certainly didnt affect the red crabs on the island! The average calculator probably doesnt have enough digits to work out the total baby grabs migrating over the island. That's 100 million adult crabs travelling one direction, then EACH female spawning 100 thousand baby crabs, then all that red sea of mayhem travelling back over the island.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o2J2fI59so - inactive, on 08/31/2008, -2/+7That's what people don't understand about sustainable living and "going green". It's not for the environment or the Earth, the Earth will be fine...It's for our species.
- iFrikkenR, on 08/31/2008, -0/+5I think everyone's missing what's actually going on here. The reason life flourishes is because there are no people there. People fear the radioactivity. People fear the lingering effects. More to the point, people know what happened there. So they move away and stay away. Nature is bouncing back from PEOPLE forcing them off the island, not nuclear weapons
When there aren't people there building houses, building roads, farming the land etc, it leaves nothing but an empty canvas for nature to paint its picture - pdizz, on 08/31/2008, -0/+5It's amazing what can happen when people stop messing with a place for a long period of time. The Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea has a thriving ecology with new species being found all the time.
- gregnorc, on 08/31/2008, -0/+4Christmas Island, with their TLD of .cx
I've only seen a couple .cx sites, but the wildlife didn't seem very healthy. - positron, on 08/31/2008, -0/+4"I'm simply saying that life, uh... finds a way."
- chrissku, on 08/31/2008, -1/+4Those birds are with the feds. They're watching us.
- kd1s, on 08/31/2008, -0/+3About the only thing that won't bounce back from thermonuclear weapons is we humans.
- Drecoll, on 08/31/2008, -0/+3Every thing I have read on here by the article and the diggers indicates it was a "surprise" that the the wildlife was doing so good. In nature the only way creatures evolve is through genetic mutations, all a nuclear bomb would do is clear out the current living creatures and cause rapid evolution for all the organisms that survived and slowly more would migrate in. I dont understand why forever people have been saying nuclear fallout and such is terrible for the enviornment, ONLY because it is bad for humans. I agree I wouldnt want to live on this island, but all we are doing is helping nature by speeding it up. Sure maybe the first gerneration of animals get cancer, but if all animals are doing is surviving and staying the same until one NATURALLY mutates to cause a new gene type in the population, then all we are doing is making it happen faster and to more people, the mutated animals that form unfavorable phenotypes die, and the ones with favorable survive just like has been happening in nature forever. Nuclear weapons are only bad for humans, both their detonation and their leftovers.
- restlessmouse, on 08/31/2008, -3/+6Cool! Let's nuke more places!
- CATSCEO2, on 08/31/2008, -2/+5I'm tellin' you why,
Thromonuclear bombs are coming to town! - notadiggtard, on 08/31/2008, -1/+4France still tests above ground.But the US is the evil Earth raper.Go figure.
- DeadBabySoup, on 08/31/2008, -1/+4Good to see nature bounces back...I like how countries like the UK, France, and the US need to go blow up someone else's land for the sake of nuclear testing.
- ChayD, on 08/31/2008, -0/+3FTA: "Marine biologists diving at Bikini have returned with glowing reports. "
Surely that should be that they came back, glowing. - gasoline, on 08/31/2008, -1/+4Your reply reminded me this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c - borez, on 08/31/2008, -0/+2Gotta rest your soul George, we miss you.
- sirwally, on 08/31/2008, -0/+21°52'27.49"N
157°11'53.03"W - Napiertt, on 09/01/2008, -0/+2I ofter wish I could go back in time, say 5000 years, before man had made a significant impact on the oceans etc, and sail and scuba dive. The reefs, forests etc, must have been fantastic! Time travel tourism is definitely the wave of the future! :)
- hiPpymIck, on 08/31/2008, -0/+2..maybe its a reference another evil the West exports..
old bad habits..
smoking isnt that cool in the West nowadays
but in a recent BBC program they showed ..
kids in developing countries can buy cheap affordable single cigarettes
tobacco companies regularly sponsor very popular free concerts
they hand out big cash lottery prizes (..if you buy some cigarettes)
once theyre hooked...well - itll be too late then - lornefs, on 08/31/2008, -0/+2There was never a nuclear explosion at Chernobyl. It was a rupture in the cooling unit that caused an explosion that then carried the cloud of radioactivity everywhere.
- BossKey, on 08/31/2008, -1/+3It's what the short-sighted right doesn't understand. We humans need a healthy environment far more than the environment needs us. "Save the earth" and "Save the environment" are really about "Save the humans."
If you screw the environment, contaminate the water and air and food chain, it's US who will lose. Earth will simply go on without us. - SnottsdaleAz, on 08/31/2008, -0/+2How about the men and women on the boats? Like a previous poster said, his dad was wearing nothing more than a pair of sunglasses.
My father was there on one of boats, USS Page County, and he said that the radiation detectors were supposed to change colors and when they just turned right to black the military said they were defective.
Now labeled an atomic veteran - they determined his cancer was from his exposure to that radiation.
The land might recover but the people don't.
One person left alive on that island that witnessed that event?
But hey, we have pretty vegetation. Seriously? - AgmLauncher, on 08/31/2008, -0/+2See, our approach about conservation has been wrong all along. All we needed to do to get the rain forests to regrow is to nuke them!
- inactive, on 08/31/2008, -0/+2Maybe that nuke ***** is what happened to the goatse man's ass.
- Elliuotatar, on 09/01/2008, -0/+1I never really knew where Bikini Atoll and Christmas Island were, so I just looked them up... and how nice is it the the US decided to detonate their nukes halfway across the planet next to australia and indonesia? I wonder what those countries had to say about that at the time?
- codesuidae, on 09/01/2008, -0/+1Oh, come on guys, you can't digg down a Nightmare Before Christmas reference that even includes 'white things in the air', just like you'd expect the islanders to describe the fallout they were seeing!
- Napiertt, on 09/01/2008, -0/+1We may be just one of many species to go extinct in the event of an all out nuclear war, but the roaches and others will survive.
- JoelBakan01, on 09/01/2008, -0/+1No, it's propaganda, we don't have to be afraid of thermal nuclear war now. The world will be all green and lovely after with birds even - everybody likes birds!
- VitriolAndAngst, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1I believe that the ionizing radiation at low levels, is good for MOST wildlife, actually. Smaller organisms and parasites, cannot easily repair the damage -- and the reduction of these damaging life forms for other animals, more that makes up for the damage to their proteins and DNA.
However, with longer-lived animals, like humans, you'd probably be more likely to get cancer in your 40's. This isn't an issue for deer, but most people want to live past 60. -
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