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I hate this guy sometimes. Yes, asshole, you use ducttape to seal off your doors and windows to keep the chemicals from entering the house. It's not a biological attack, you can usually see the chemicals.

Sorry? Would it be all better if the duct tape was renamed "Chemical Anti-Intrusory Sealant"?

As much as i hate to admit it, MarineGunrock is totally right. Think about any situation involving low pressure gas.

Want to commit suicide? Well, sit in your car in the garage, turn the engine on, but first make the car's interior air-tight using duct tape. You'll die because your body will use up all the breathable air, not because of car fumes. There won't be a single car-created toxin inside at all. Then you could take a deep breath, open the car and exit via the door. There's a reason people put a hose-pipe from the exhaust through the window. You could live off the oxygen in a car even if there was mustard gas outside in your garage.

You could climb inside a human balloon like a crazed german fetishist and live quite comfortably for as long as the oxygen in that balloon held out for you in a room full of nerve gas.

Submarines too, in fact. If you had the tape strong enough and sticky enough, you could TAPE two metal skips together and submerge yourself in safety.

What's this guy saying? The only negative thing about duct tape is that you're sealing yourself in an air tight container with a limited supply of air. But then you can conserve the air by doing things such as sleeping, and make the entire air supply in your house last you for a few days, and by that time maybe it'll be safe enough to go out, or you'll be rescued by people with portable air supplies.

Or, you know, don't make your house air tight, and die in a dissolving pool of your own lungs, bowels and feces.

(I don't find him funny anyway, but i hope people aren't upvoting for this (lack of) observation!)

give him a break...hey, he's a comedian. After all, part of the job of taking political office is for the people to have someone to hate on. hah.

/\ Political comedy only works when you make an astute observation. This seems to be people laughing at something that they think should be funny that they haven't actually connected the relevant dots about.

They say if you're about to be trapped underwater, you should take a deep breath... LOL! THAT'S THE BEST ADVICE? TAKE A DEEP BREATH? WHAT IS THIS 2008?

Oh.. wait a minute, what else are you gonna do? Hmm guess it's not so funny afterall!

"You could live off that oxygen even if there was mustard gas outside in your garage. Then you could take a deep breath, open the car and exit via the door." - Dannym3141

Wrong Fool!
Mustard gas is a strong vesicant (blister-causing agent). Due to its alkylating properties, it is also strongly mutagenic (causing damage to the DNA of exposed cells) and carcinogenic (cancer causing). Those exposed usually suffer no immediate symptoms. Within 4 to 24 hours the exposure develops into deep, itching or burning blisters wherever the mustard contacted the skin; the eyes (if exposed) become sore and the eyelids swollen, possibly leading to conjunctivitis and blindness. According to the Medical Management of Chemical Casualties handbook, there have been experimental cases in humans where the patient has suffered miosis, or pinpointing of pupils, as a result of the cholinomimetic activity of mustard. At very high concentrations, if inhaled, it causes bleeding and blistering within the respiratory system, damaging the mucous membrane and causing pulmonary edema. Blister agent exposure over more than 50% body surface area is usually fatal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustard_gas

i can see people frantically trying to make a car or office or home space air-tight on a moments (air-raid-siren) notice - all the while quickly succumbing to the effects of the gas going "NEED... *choke* MORE... *cough cough* DUCT... TAPE!!! *gasp*wheeze* MORE... DU... ***thud***".

Foreign Policy that relies on duct tape is a bad thing.

Lewis' point about the "duck and cover" campaign of the 50's is what makes this video poignant. You can argue about whether or not the government's recommendations are legitimate, but in the end it's still just a move out of an old play-book to try and assuage the fears of Americans...or perhaps to do just the opposite to keep everyone on the same page. Regarding the duct tape issue, everyone should have plenty of it regardless of any foreseen use for it. Duct tape is an engineer's best friend, there are an infinite number of uses for it, and if worst comes to worst you can conceivably try to help barricade your home if you have enough warning.

To avoid making this into more of a rant;
1) thanks(?) for calling me a fool. the "mustard gas" example was only for when you are inside your car. i'll change the sentence structure to better reflect that.
2) it's not a fruitless piece of advice to assuage your fears, it is feasible, whereas "duck and cover" isn't (i'm vaguely remembering that this is advice for nuclear attacks?)
3) if a jellyfish stings you, you apply urine to the sting. not ideal, but the alternative is taking the pain. duct tape isn't ideal, but the alternative is dying immediately.

I think the greater point here is that the "advice" is more to instill fear than empower citizens. People living in fear are easier to manipulate, as is evidenced by Bush's second term. The truth is that you are far more likely to be killed crossing the street than in a chemical attack, so owning a case of duct tape will not make you measurably safer.

In the fifties and sixties, the public service films were designed to make you feel safer, even if you were not. Now the government is trying to make you feel more danger, even if there is none.

The best thing anybody can do is support the cause of peace, and otherwise go about your regular lives.

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