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Radioactive Boar On the Rise In Germany
Germans who go out in the woods today are sure of a big surprise, radioactive boars. A portion of the wild boar population in Germany was irradiated after the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown, and the boars are thriving. In the last two years government payments to compensate hunters for radioactive boar have quadrupled. From the article: "According to the Environment Ministry in Berlin, almost €425,000 ($555,000) was paid out to hunters in 2009 in compensation for wild boar meat that was too contaminated by radiation to be sold for consumption. That total is more than four times higher than compensation payments made in 2007." I think the Germans are overlooking just how much money there is to be made from regenerating bacon.
when you get bit by a radioactive boar?
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We are just there for the beer, really.
No question marks in this one
1) Kill Boar
2) Irradiate it
3) Sell to German government
4) PROFIT!!!!111!!!
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Just stock up on Rad-X before venturing into the wastel... I mean forest.
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I was expecting Giant mutant boars rampaging through cities and destroying buildings and then ultimately being stopped by a Giant Robot (or a Giant Lizard).
Germany could market these as "Self-Cooking Boar!"
Too lazy to cook? No fuel for your stove? No problem - just shoot, wrap in foil, and a few hours later...DINNER!
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Ahh, reminds me of my Magic: The Gathering days... cast "Wild Growth" on the "Dusterwaldkeiler" and goodbye to enemy "Serra Angel"s. Muhaha
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I'm having trouble understanding how the Cherynobl meltdown has anything to do with wild boar populations in southern Germany. The article specifically mentions Bavaria, a region a thousand miles (and several countries) away. I admit I'm just an ignorant American, but surely this doesn't make any sense?
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"Chernobyl Area Survey Finds Lasting Problems For Wildlife"?
Hunters also have to pay a fee to dispose of the boar carcass. So some let the animal go to a neighboring territory where the animals can be shot to be eaten.
The ones that are edible are the size of Rhinos.
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I, for one, welcome our new radioactive boar overlords
"You don't have to be a nuclear physicist to realize that it's only a matter of time before one of these deer reaches critical mass, and some unsuspecting sportsperson takes a shot at it, and BLAM, all that's left of the immediate forest is a large crater and a mushroom cloud containing billions of tiny glowing sports molecules. We can only hope, as caring humans, that such a tragedy never occurs; or, if it does, that it will be available on rental videocassette." --Dave Barry
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Watch them, catch them unawares,
And see them picnic on their holiday.
See them gaily dance about.
They love to play and shout.
And never have any cares.
At six o'clock their mommies and daddies
Will take them home to bed
Because they're tired little teddy bears.
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At least the Yao Guai and Deathclaw populations remain at normal levels.
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So now we have wild animals that can be classfied as radioactive waste?
Put it in the freezer for 50,000 years!
Is anyone working on breeding an animal that concentrates human-made radioactive pollution, a biological wild skimmer?
I, for one, welcome our new radioactive grass-eating overlords
"According to the Environment Ministry in Berlin, almost 425,000 ($555,000) was paid out to hunters in 2009 in compensation for wild boar meat that was too contaminated by radiation to be sold for consumption...."
I'm sure that if we had a system of government payments for radioactive wild boar meat in the U.S.A. that there would be plenty of claims and payments here too. Any government program designed to hand out money attracts fraud in great numbers, why assume that this isn't happening here?
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
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and the boars are thriving
Pigs and People are pretty close, genetically speaking. They do medical testing on them, right?
Maybe eating these pigs would yield some unforeseen benefits.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
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thinking Bebop & Rocksteady from TMNT? Halfway there, just need a radioactive Rhino....
"Radioactive Boar" would be an awesome name for a heavy metal band...
The boars are not radioactive. Only elements that emit radiation are radioactive. The boars are contaminated.
If there are mutant boar running around that ruminate (i.e. chew their cud), you'd have the beginnings of a kosher pork industry.
We'll give their descendants jobs in Duke Nukem Forever. We'll just give them a gun and a badge.
Government money is probably relatively easy to get by filling in some form sheet, with no negotiations about the market value of the specific boar required. Thus, hunting in areas where irradiated board are to be found may be quite profitable compared to hunting normal ones. Hunters should be quite used to filling lots of forms due to the legal restrictions imposed on weapons.
Probably, there's some required testing for each piece of meat acquired by hunting. However, quite likely, this is somewhat expensive, and might often be dropped. Where there's no prosecutor, there's no judge either. Testing may be getting cheaper, considering that all sorts of technical toys get cheaper, and now it simply may be conducted more often.
Thresholds for contamination are pretty low. Basically even every human corpse would have to be disposed of as nuclear waste just by the normal levels of radiation it is emitting. This isn't usually done though. Therefore it's pretty safe to assume that also in boars illegal-for-consumption levels are reached quite easily, considering that they feast on stuff that tends to accumulated radioactive (mainly toxic) materials.
welcome our pre-cooked bacony overlords.
To hunt boars in America it takes cunning, patience, stealth, patience, an uncanny knowledge of the boars' habitat, a good aim, and more patience.
In Germany all you need to hunt boars is a Geiger counter and a good aim.
Radioactivity fall out on earth,and is literally the radioactive long life element are absorbed by the tree and mushrooms, which are eaten by the boar, where the radioactive long life element cumulate. The radioactive cloud went over germany more than once.
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In our science class, we had to dissect pig fetuses. What happens now?
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We just have to get one of those pigs to bite a spider http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiderham
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So I'm guessing it's best to hunt these boar at night ...
IMHO nuclear power requires a kind of long-term thinking that is utterly alien to modern politicians and industry managers.
Case in point: Back in the 1980s there was a political decision to develop an old salt mine (Gorleben) into a long term storage for highly radioactive waste. But today it seems that the major reasons for that decision were
A) Gorleben was close to the Border to East Germany
B) The people there would be grateful for any jobs and would keep voting for the conservative parties forever
Geology seems not to have influenced the decision very much, which is a pity as a similar testing facility (Schacht Asse) developed great problems.
Only a few decades later, those criteria seem irrelevant today, and yet the stuff will be dangerous for thousands of years.
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Am I the only one thinking this is like Princess Mononoke?
Sure renewable is great.. but the problem is that the third world isn't going to want to foot that bill as they rise in affluence. Heck it's tough to sell Americans on it. And renewable cant respond to increases in load, a coal plant can increase the feed rate of fuel. Solar, wind, tide cant change mother nature, Geothermal can operate below peak which is similar to a normal plant.
My take is that nuclear energy is pretty safe, very clean, and can provide a good amount of power for a good amount of time. Of the dangers in life, nuclear power is a low end issue, with a high end benefit. All sorts of other dangers overshadow it compared to benefit we gain from exposing ourselves to that degree of danger. And as far as I can tell, renewables aren't enough to provide the level of power that we need to replace our fossil fuel usage.
I'll take a small chance of nuclear danger over a certainty of noxious exhausts.
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So. With a critical mass of those boars, two results; The possibility of being boared to death, and the first genuine flying (thoroughly roasted) pigs.
So when do we see the mutant 5 tone boars or boars with two heads or six legs????
FragHARD or don't frag at all
I don't think merely being exposed to radiation would make the boars radioactive. If that were the case, we'd all be radioactive since we're exposed to it every day. Now, if the boars ingested radioactive material, I could understand.
so, when you go hunting at nite, it would be easy to find them in the dark, just follow the glowing lights