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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: RiGS on Fri, 08 April 2011, 07:43:07

Title: South Koreans Wear Masks
Post by: RiGS on Fri, 08 April 2011, 07:43:07

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/04/south-koreans-wear-gas-masks-out-of.html (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/04/south-koreans-wear-gas-masks-out-of.html)

Title: South Koreans Wear Masks
Post by: Fwiffo on Fri, 08 April 2011, 08:49:54

South Koreans are afraid of electric fans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death).

Title: South Koreans Wear Masks
Post by: BucklingSpring on Fri, 08 April 2011, 09:24:48

Quote from: ripster;326689

Actually face masks are recommended when you have radioactive particulate fallout.  

The technical term is hot particle. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Particle)

And this is no duck and cover. Although it sounds like it.
It's much easyier to wash the skin off the fallouts than lungs.
Damages are proportional to the exposure time.

Title: South Koreans Wear Masks
Post by: Fwiffo on Fri, 08 April 2011, 09:53:34

My point is that hysteria is not a substitute for data. Reporting should include actual measurements. How many becquerels are we talking about here? Dramatic headlines like "100 times normal" are meaningless if the normal level is very low.

Title: South Koreans Wear Masks
Post by: JasonBlank on Mon, 11 April 2011, 03:51:36

if this will be effective way to handle such kind of emergencies.........