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Duck and Cover Redux
« on: January 05, 2011, 01:56:28 PM »
http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/112576/

Instapundit writes about how the BHO administration is responding, civil defense-wise, to potential nukes set off by terrorists in roughly the same way the folks did in the 1950s.  And it is a good thing, too.

Lots of links to follow, foremost being the article in question.

A response by an emailer:
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    "That video makes me proud to be an American. Seriously. I had never actually watched it before. It was made by people who were not cynics or pussies. They had just finished destroying Japan and Germany by aerial bombing. They knew it could happen to us. They acted like grownups about it. Getting under cover to avoid burns, flying glass and debris, was good advice then and it is good advice now. Thanks for posting."

Yeah, you watch those 1950 civil-defense films and you realize the pipe-smoking dad stockpiling supplies in the basement is probably a World War II vet who just a few years before had most likely either dropped bombs or had them dropped on him (or both). Kind of puts a different color on it.

If y'all don't mind, I'll be off picking up some Gorilla Tape and 6-mil bisqueen.  Especially since my town has already been the target of a muslim bomb plot.
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Re: Duck and Cover Redux
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2011, 02:00:49 PM »
someone in your town was burning korans? we all know that's the only reason a good Muslim would try to attack someone/place don't we? =|
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Re: Duck and Cover Redux
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2011, 02:34:37 PM »
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someone in your town was burning korans? we all know that's the only reason a good Muslim would try to attack someone/place don't we?


Or making cartoons about Muslims, let's not forget about that heinous crime!
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Re: Duck and Cover Redux
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2011, 02:53:35 PM »
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It is much more powerful to seek Truth for one's self.  Seeing and hearing that others seem to have found it can be a motivation.  With me, I was drawn because of much error and bad judgment on my part. Confronting one's own errors and bad judgment is a very life altering situation.  Confronting the errors and bad judgment of others is usually hypocrisy.


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Re: Duck and Cover Redux
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2011, 03:37:25 PM »
Yeah, folks make fun of "Duck and Cover" as quaint, stupid, or simply a 1950's panacea in the face of nuclear war.

OTOH, it's pretty dumb to be stumbling around in the aftermath blind from flash, with glass stuck in your face, when you were a few miles away, and hitting the dirt and covering your face would have left you relatively uninjured.
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Re: Duck and Cover Redux
« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2011, 04:20:29 AM »
Does that mean I can dust off my WWII vintage Civil Defense warden steel helmet?
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Re: Duck and Cover Redux
« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2011, 08:25:34 AM »
Just makes ya wonder what they have intel on..... [tinfoil]
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Re: Duck and Cover Redux
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2011, 08:59:11 AM »
Quote from: AJ Dual on January 05, 2011, 03:37:25 PM
Yeah, folks make fun of "Duck and Cover" as quaint, stupid, or simply a 1950's panacea in the face of nuclear war.



People who have no fraggin' idea what you're talking about, mostly.

Basic, expedient shelter can increase your chances of survival exponentially - unless you get sheer bad luck and the bomb drops so near your house you get fried by the total destruction radius.

Basic knowledge of what the hell to do and the presence of mind to do it saves far more lives in disasters than yards of armored concrete and tons of stockpiled oatmeal.
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Re: Duck and Cover Redux
« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2011, 10:35:18 AM »
Does anyone have a handy link to the South Park Duck and Cover method for use in the event a volcano is erupting?
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Re: Duck and Cover Redux
« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2011, 10:46:46 AM »
I still remember the duck and cover drills. (How could I forget?)  The comments on the realistic orientation of us old folks may explain why so many of us olde pharts are pretty conservative, and don't usually go along with a lot of the vapid nonsense that goes on today-adays.  Yes, I was alive throughout WWII and of course, the postwar world.

Those CDV-715 detectors have some nifty circuitry in them, if you're interested in that sort of thing.

http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/science/victoreen/cdv-715-a1-schematic.jpg

Germanium transistor oscillator (Q1) to convert the 1.5 volt D-cell battery voltage for the plate and ion chamber voltages through T1, "peanut tube" electrometer (a 6617? - I forget), really high-precision glass-encapsulated high-value resistors, and a 50 microamp full scale D'Arsonval meter.

What's not to like?  If you're into that sort of stuff.

And the die-cast case with the handle is great, but I still haven't figured out what to use it for.  Maybe a "fox hunt" direction finder...?

(No, I'm not the seller on that ad posted by cassandra and sara's daddy.  I got one about ten years ago and immediately dissected it.)

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Re: Duck and Cover Redux
« Reply #10 on: January 06, 2011, 10:59:50 AM »
Quote from: JamisJockey on January 06, 2011, 08:25:34 AM
Just makes ya wonder what they have intel on..... [tinfoil]

Yes.
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