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LANL Warning About Radioactive Trees
coryboehne writes "KOB-TV in Albuquerque is reporting that Los Alamos National Labs is warning personnel who are cutting trees in a canyon east of Los Alamos that some trees in the area might be radioactive.
The canyon, known as Bayo Canyon, was formerly known as Technical Area 10, and was used for weapons testing from the 1940s until 1961. A full summary of Environmental Direct Penetrating Radation in the Los Alamos area is available from the LANL Meteorology & Air Quality Group"
/me puts on tinfoil pants
Radioactive tests were only done for the good of humanity. No harm can come from them. Hagve they not learned to duck and cover?
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Do said trees have radioactive squirrels?
So are these considered to be weapons? I mean chop the thing down then drop them out of a plane, or strap an engine on it and you have a wooden missle.
"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door." - Emily Dickinson
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The first signs that alerted KOB-TV to this phenomenon was when reporters were strolling through then canyon, the trees were giving them strange looks...
What makes a man want to be a mouse? (Python's Flying Circus)
Child: But Dad, I'm afraid of the dark.
Father: Oh, you don't have anything to worry about.
Child: How come, Daddy?
Father: Well you see son, our house was built with radioactive trees, so the entire house is like a big night light.
Child: Is that why my hamster got cancer?
Father: No more questions, time for sleep.
No, think of it as a self-illuminating christmass tree !!
think of the money on electricity you'd save !
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Aren't those more commonly known as "arrows?"
If you didn't get it, read this script.
Gee...they used to just spray the trees with a noxious spray....I guess that didn't keep the tree theves away.
-ted
It's not too hard to tell the difference between normal and radioactive trees. The radioactive ones talk and throw their apples at you. The others don't.
*DrugCheese rants*
I was looking for radioactive spiders, and all I got was this bunch of trees...
C|N>K
But...
When combined with the power of ATOMIC energy, man and ant become...
Someone you trust is one of us.
Just wait until the Entmoot gets finished and they ...
oh. the book isn't real is it?
:wq
This is why treehuggers are typically bald!
Today, on sale now! Get your very own Christmas tree that doesn't need lights! Watch your tree glow a festive green at night and feel the warmth of it as you sing the carolling favourite, "Walking in a Nuclear Wasteland"
.sig: It's what's for dinner.
Bill : "Hey Jack, does that tree look funny to you?"
;-)
Jack : "What do you mean Bill?"
Bill : "That tree has 72 branches."
Jack : "So?"
Bill : "That one only has 71."
Jack : "Wow. Think the radiation did it?"
Ah who cares. Maybe it'll turn out to mean more paper for the rest of us!
Blessed be he who reads this post, Cursed be he who tells my boss.
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Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
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Learn from the past ... these trees can only hurt us!!
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
several men, wearing bunny suits and wielding chainsaws were hard at work felling the trees
That describes most of my dreams since I was ten. Weird.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
a honking great radioactive sharpened *tree* hurtling toward you as an *arrow* you go right ahead.
I will duck.
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
Doubt that would work in the places that really matter, though - Asian deforesters probably don't care.
Did your Dad ever go on these trips before you were born? Cause if he did, it may explain a thing or two about your life ;-)
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Run for your lives!
This is where the trees grow legs and start a bloody crusade to rid the soil of human meddling, right?
If I remember correctly, some scientists will develop an airborne spray to stop them.
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Smokey the Bear says, "Only you can..."
... someone call an ambulance? Now?
Oh geez, he's puking, and his hair is falling out
[raises hand]
What the heck is an "extream hazord"?
If you meant extreme hazard, the answer is no: I live upwind of Los Alamos.
Surely not. The Atomic Tree (TM) is a safe and cost effective replacement for smelly and dangerous Wood Fires (TM). Forest fires would be phased out gradually as more and more Nuclear Forests are commissioned.
...and he grinned, like a fox eating shit out of a wire brush.
Back in Jr. High and Highschool I always used to have track meets with the LAMS (Los Alamos Middle School) and every single year they would win. This trend continued in Highschool as well. I faintly remember them always giving the trees big hugs before hand. I just thought that it was some sort of tradition or maybe they were just lonely. But I guess it all makes sence now.
"The two most abundant elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity." -Harlan Ellison