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The Cold War's Legacy of Mutation

Posted by michael on from the third-eye-blind dept.

fm6 writes: "Not surprising, but still pretty sobering: Russian communities downwind from cold-war-era surface testing sites are experiencing 50% increase in mutation rates. I'm reminded of Terry Tempest William's term: Virtual Uninhabitants."

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  1. Coming soon to a mailbox near you.. by hkon · · Score: 2, Funny

    I imagine the spam "Now you can get a 50% increased chance of having the super powers you always wanted!!!". Coming to you from the same people who brought you "Want to be a SPY!?" and "Spank me HARD, make me wet"
    (titles taken from actual spam-messages I've gotten during the last couple of months)

  2. I stand corrected! by fm6 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Right, it was just a comic book with lots of fancy spin offs and tie ins. Obviously a comic book is far superior to a movie as a touch point for life and death issues like this one! After all, a comic book is literature!