When I finally talked to my mom about the whole "how is everybody related" thing....

[conuly]

She mentioned somebody I couldn't remember ever hearing about. This is apparently because he died. Of cancer. Just like everybody else in the family (except those who had cancer and didn't die). According to mommy, this just started happening after Chernobyl.

If I'm reading this map correctly, Chernobyl is over 1200 miles away from Belgium. This is how far the effects went? Scary, no?

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[eofs.livejournal.com]

We still have over 100 000 radioactive sheep in Wales from Chernobyl.

[conuly]

What, living?

[ladydiana.livejournal.com]

. . .

. . .

er. . .

and, uhm . . .

like, what do you *do* with radioactive sheep?

Do you drink the milk? Eat the meat? Shear them and spin radioactive yarn? . . .

I am *really* confused.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Yes. The article I grabbed was 2003, but at that point there were something like 180 000 sheep which still had restricted movements because of Chernobyl.

[deceptica]

My mother always told me that we were particularly unlucky because usually the wind comes from the Atlantic... but of course on that day it had to come from the East and blew the radioactive clouds right across Austria. Sigh.

[missfahrenheit.livejournal.com]

Man, I was just about to comment on the radioactive sheep!

I've been getting a lot of good use out of my CND icon recently though :)

[ladytalon.livejournal.com]

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, I take it?

It's funny because it makes me think "could not duplicate." We get so used to the acronyms we see more often. ^_^

radioactive sheep

[scottrossi.livejournal.com]

you could still use them for wool. i imagine thats about it. chernobyl was a terrible terrible event. it had and still does have worldwide impact and will for the next 6 centuries at least. you might want to go here for an awesome website:

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm

something like 100,000 people have died due to direct effects of chernobyl, and i haveheard as much as 12 million due to indirect effects. if that stone sarcophagus breaks, it will be bad once again, and i can see thousands more getting sick and dieing once again. chernobyl means wormwood incidentally.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

We still have over 100 000 radioactive sheep in Wales from Chernobyl.

[conuly]

What, living?

[ladydiana.livejournal.com]

. . .

. . .

er. . .

and, uhm . . .

like, what do you *do* with radioactive sheep?

Do you drink the milk? Eat the meat? Shear them and spin radioactive yarn? . . .

I am *really* confused.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Yes. The article I grabbed was 2003, but at that point there were something like 180 000 sheep which still had restricted movements because of Chernobyl.

[deceptica]

My mother always told me that we were particularly unlucky because usually the wind comes from the Atlantic... but of course on that day it had to come from the East and blew the radioactive clouds right across Austria. Sigh.

[missfahrenheit.livejournal.com]

Man, I was just about to comment on the radioactive sheep!

I've been getting a lot of good use out of my CND icon recently though :)

[ladytalon.livejournal.com]

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, I take it?

It's funny because it makes me think "could not duplicate." We get so used to the acronyms we see more often. ^_^

radioactive sheep

[scottrossi.livejournal.com]

you could still use them for wool. i imagine thats about it. chernobyl was a terrible terrible event. it had and still does have worldwide impact and will for the next 6 centuries at least. you might want to go here for an awesome website:

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm

something like 100,000 people have died due to direct effects of chernobyl, and i haveheard as much as 12 million due to indirect effects. if that stone sarcophagus breaks, it will be bad once again, and i can see thousands more getting sick and dieing once again. chernobyl means wormwood incidentally.