and just in time for Fathers’ Day! If your dad is the type of dad to be totally horrified by the preversion embodied by the OhMiBod, this could be right up his alley! So subtle. So useful. Such a statement.
With the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the rise of international terrorism, and the abundance of radiological threats we face, it is prudent to learn about and prepare to deal with nuclear radiation.
Now the paranoid among us will know before anybody else when nuclear radiation reaches a level that will make them puke their guts out for a day or two before they die. What a relief.
The NukAlert is a state-of-the-art personal radiation detector and alarm. Small enough to attach to a key chain, the device operates non-stop, 24/7 and will promptly warn you of the presence of unseen, but acutely dangerous levels of radiation.
Used nationwide by federal, state and local first responders, law enforcement and the Dept. of Defense, the device is the ideal solution for increasing individual security and awareness of radiological threats. It will be very reassuring to know, with confidence, when you and your family are out of the worst danger.
Found in a banner ad at (where else?) the bottom-feeding fundohawk site Wingnut WorldNet Daily, at the bottom of a post where they praise a documentary that states that Darwin’s Theory of Evolution was responsible for Hitler’s genocides, and that PZ Myers shouldn’t be such a meanie what with the pointing and the laughing.
I like the touch of putting it on a keyring.
Presumably, the father you’d buy it for would keep the detector in a pocket next to his testicles—now that’s priority and convenience all rolled up in one.
I notice that the scale on the back measures ‘time to 100R exposure’: unless I’m mistaken, the level at which temporary male sterility is possible.
NUKalert indeed.
Now profiling is coming in big…just-in-time to meet the unholy alliance of Leninism and Islamofascism. In 2003 the head of the Sunni resistance called for an alliance with ‘ socialism’, ( left fascist authoritarian variety) and if recent reports are to be believed ( Cockburn – what could go wrong?) Shia resistance is also getting as cosy as lice with the red fascists.
So while I’ve always expected ( and looked forward to it – Jihad good – Sharia bad) a follow-up attack on the pentagon – the twin towers took two goes to get down remember – I never thought it would be a Leninhead at the helm.
Now I’m sure Reichstag Security will be on this new ‘ Hitler-Stalin’ pact in a flash and so in four or five years we should have profiling for Marxist-Leninist traveller/terrorists.
Look at the bang-up job the right have done protecting us so far. Take Alex Downer…please.
Take Alex Downer…please.
They won’t want him. Mr Fishnets is far too preverted.
You can laugh.
But it never happens…. Until it happens.
Wouldn’t such a device only be useful when it is probably too late?
Sheesh, PBB. Way to be a Downer.
Hope it’s your plane that explodes or flies into a building, not mine.
Har dee har har.
It’s not someting to laugh about.
Unless it’s not you.
What good does it do to be so worried about something outside your control that you can’t take the chance to laugh at absurdities?
As Shaun says, the device is pointless – if a nuclear explosion occurs in your vicinity, this thing won’t help you – it will already be too late.
It says quite a lot about the nature of WND that they are eager to provide addvertising space to those who market such fear-pandering merchandise (this item is just the tip of the iceberg), and that such fear-mongers feel that the WND readership is their target market.
Professor Rat, what on earth does your comment have to do with anything? Do you read or do you just bang your head on the keyboard?
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Another Kim, it seems to me like devices like these are just mechanisms for carrying around a little personalised slice of terror in your pocket. Cross at us for laughing? Why aren’t you?
As for me, I face a very dangerous radiological threat every single day, the potentially fatal effects of which I prevent by staying in the shade where possible, wearing a hat, and applying sunscreen.
Liam, you poor baby!
I takes my chances and you, my sun challenged Irish dear, do as well.
I also will stay off chancy planes. With or without snakes.
Tigtog, you say:
True! But maybe it will give you time to ‘duck and cover’ and kiss your arse goodbye
Who has read “On The Beach”?
A peachy early scenario of Aus after the big one.
Handy for paranoid LP bloggers.
I was thinking more of a film starring Peter Sellers when writing this post, AK.
I’m very disappointed that a certain Colonel hasn’t yet attended this thread, actually. I’m sure his insights on the top-flight technical equipment in question would be illuminating.