Oh, but there was no fallout in Jericho (the town, I mean). Except for sometimes when they acted like there was, even though they'd stressed that there wasn't.
Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!
Xander ,'Lessons'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Strega - Mar 07, 2007 8:41:02 am PST #4494 of 10001
Allyson - Mar 07, 2007 8:41:48 am PST #4495 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
There's, like, no weather?
Polter-Cow - Mar 07, 2007 8:44:50 am PST #4496 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
And I obviously support Dale and Skylar taking over the town.
Is that the dude and the chick?
There's, like, no weather?
It rained one time and brought all that radiation RIGHT DOWN ON JERICHO t /Hawkins
They hid in a cave or something, and they were safe. The end!
Allyson - Mar 07, 2007 8:46:37 am PST #4497 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Maybe they're actually in Dark City.
Ginger - Mar 07, 2007 8:54:55 am PST #4498 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The Day After was frequently very wrong too. Television producers have some deep aversion to actually reading about nuclear stuff and prefer to base their stories on vague memories of '50s SF movies with giant bugs. Most fallout will decay within about a week. Not within the arbitrary three days on Jericho, though. What difference would it have made to the plot to wait a week before coming out of the salt mines? None. After that, there are some elements that will be around roughly forever, but the problem for most people is going to increased risk of cancer, not the immediate Britney Spears look.
I'll shut up now.
Strega - Mar 07, 2007 8:56:37 am PST #4499 of 10001
But then afterwards they went out with geiger counters and everything was fine! And Stanley was out in the rain and he was fine, even when that so-called doctor told him to DRINK IODINE which I am still so angry about.
But anyway. They hid in the cave in case there was fallout, but there actually wasn't any.
Ginger - Mar 07, 2007 9:04:16 am PST #4500 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
If you had potassium iodide, you'd take it to help prevent thyroid cancer, because one of the long-lived elements is radioactive iodine. I'm not sure how, or if, you could translate the amounts in commercial iodine into a useful dose.
Allyson - Mar 07, 2007 9:07:55 am PST #4501 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Whatever, Ginger. Don't expect Steve Guttenberg to help you when the time comes.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 07, 2007 9:11:58 am PST #4502 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Whatever, Ginger. Don't expect Steve Guttenberg to help you when the time comes.
Well of course he won't; he got blown up in a plane over Neptune.
Ginger - Mar 07, 2007 9:15:20 am PST #4503 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I need to just turn off the television whenever the world nuclear is mentioned. I spent 15+ years in the nuclear industry, and all these shows make me want to leap up on a soapbox and annoy everyone.
I really will stop ranting now.