Does "duck and cover" apply here?

I think I may have a prejudice against atheists. I always just assume they lack imagination.
(ducks and covers)

I live about 4 miles from three-mile island. Each year, we get a pamphlet on what to do if the thing goes boom. The general advice is:
•Take your freaking potassium iodide pill ASAP, or spread a good bit of iodine on your arm or a bit of skin. This saturates your thyroid with normal (as opposed to RADIOACTIVE) iodine.
•If you were outside, get inside and take a long shower to wash off the radioactive soot you might have on your skin. ...oh and don't breath the crap if you don't have to. Filters = good.
•If you are downwind and you catch on quick, get the hell out of dodge.
•If you are downwind and you don't catch on quick, the roads will be packed and you should just hide in your basement under tons of crap to prevent the radioactive particals from outside from reaching you. If you have a sufficiently large pile of crap in your basement, you'll be fine (this is hilariously true in fact).
•If you are now "safely" in your basement, under a huge pile of crap, breathing filtered air, and you wait there for a few days, listen to the radio and it will tell you either what to do or when it is "safe" to get the hell out of dodge.
•When it is safe to get the hell out of dodge, go to your car, dust it off, turn off the vents, and get the hell out of dodge. Head upwind of the plant and when you are, open your windows and taste the sweet sweet air of not-cancer.

...ok, so those last few bits of advice were written by me... not the pamphlet, which is by far not as interesting or useful.

The best irony is that "duck and cover" is freaking good advice! Radiation sickness is often avoidable or at least minor. A huge sheet of broken glass flying at your face... is well... less minor, unless you don't mind having a shortage of skin and all that.

Tags changed from "atomic bomb, duck and cover" to "atomic bomb, duck and cover , 50's" by gold star member swampgirl.

Duck and cover film.scary and true.
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http://www.videosift.com/video/Pale-Blue-Dot

It is interesting video in that it is OBVIOUSLY ancient and very telling comparing what we know now to what the media was saying as fact back then.

I think it is very educational. Obviously, I don't think anyone is trying to debate to cause of AIDS. It's amazing to look back and realize how little the media actually knows.

This is no different than those duck and cover gov't films.
(I do question some of old_spiders comments here.. and maybe he is trying to stir debate..)

But, jebus. Let the video sit in the queue MORE than 8 mins. You can downvote after a few days or after it has like 4 votes. That's my policy and it doesn't hurt anyone, incovienece you, or make enemies.

The ball is a bomb!!! Duck and cover!

No seriously though, that's the sorta footage we should see some of. I'm sure our policies over there suck, but the men and women are human, seemd like we can forget that sometimes with all the wargy images of explosions etc....

I remember watching this film in 1st grade. Of course, when the film was MADE, atomic weapons did not have the destructive potential they do now. Also, it was meant as a psychological tool to help people avoid panic should the worst happen. Sometimes it may have been useful to duck and cover. Other times, it was to keep children from seeing the end approaching as a nuclear fireball consumed them.

In the military, we were taught to lie down with the top of our heads facing the expolsion and to hold onto our helmets. This was not meant to save us: it was so that our "dogtags" could be found later and we could be confirmed killed, not simply Missing In Action.

I wonder what films are being shown in school now?