Thought For The Day

Radiation Can Kill You, It’s Like Eating A TV Set*

December 27, 2021

Back in 1952, a young Navy Lt. and nuclear expert, named Jimmy Carter – yes, that Jimmy Carter – was lowered into a melting nuclear reactor in Ottawa, Canada to help avoid a major nuclear disaster.

According Carter’s memoir, “The reactor core was below ground level and surrounded by intense radioactivity. Even with protective clothing, each of us would absorb the maximum permissible dose with just ninety seconds of exposure, so we had to make optimum use of this limited time. The limit on radiation absorption in the early 1950s was approximately one thousand times higher than it is sixty years later.”

Apparently, as is often the case with dangerous exposure to radiation, Carter became a kind of super hero. That is how he eventually got elected president, though was then treated like shit by the country he tried to help.

I’d like to see Turmp try lowering himself into a nuclear reactor. Seriously. He has a very good brain, and his doctor said he could live to be 200 years old. Jimmy Carter is now 97 years old. Turmp could live another 100 years if bathes himself in radiation, and it would fully immunize him from any viruses – fake or real. Or, maybe his artificial coloring will neutralize the radiation. Who knows? What the hell has he got to lose? Can we start a GoFundMe campaign to hire the giant crane needed to support his weight? I’m sure he would do it for a few bucks.

*Albert Brooks

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