I hope everyone is doing well and looking forward to a great weekend, maybe an informal BBQ with $12 hotdogs. I don’t know about you but my Klondike bars are now $5.39, give me a break! Hopefully the Federal Reserve won’t get trigger happy, and if oil prices recede, inflation should be getting back to a normal 2%.

We haven’t had a shoot the shit in a while, so I thought I’d do one this week. There’s so much crap going on and  I’m concerned you may be thinking of seeing a therapist. I know that I’m being hard on therapists but folks just look at the results.

Just look at this squirl, if there was ever a reason to consider an abortion this is it. The Pro Choice Movement may use him in a fundraising poster, I digress.

Any way, remember that a therapist is a jackass who majored in psychology so they could understand themselves, not something I made up! A department head at a California College shared an interesting statistic saying “ Sal, 60% of the students majoring in psychology do so to understand themselves.” Who but a therapist would suggest that your like of cunnilingus is due to a short penis ideation,” so, rather than paying $150, or more, per hour, use your money to put on a good shoot the shit. With COVID almost behind us, it’s now safe to bring a group of friends or colleagues together to enjoy a good shoot the shit.

A shoot the shit, is a social interaction during which any subject can be discussed, participants don’t need to know anything about the subject, they’re free to make any comment without supporting it with facts, they are free to use uncensored profanity, insult anyone they wish or change the subject.

So, let’s shoot the shit

Let’s examine what the issues of nuclear attack are:

1. Note that there are a variety of nuclear weapon types in the world’s nuclear arsenal and each will have different effects depending on type, detonation methods and explosive yields. There are also consideration given to the blast type, usually air detonation high above the target, or a ground strike the later being more devastating.
2. Below is a comparison of an air blast over Central Park with 3 explosive yields of 100 -Kiloton, 1-Megaton and 10-Megatons.

Source: The MIT Press Reader

Destructive radii of 100-kiloton, 1-megaton, and 10-megaton weapons superimposed on a map of the New York City area. The destructive radius is defined as the distance within which blast overpressure exceeds 5 pounds per square inch, and it measures 2 miles, 4.4 miles, and 9.4 miles for the weapon yields shown. These values assume air-burst explosions at optimum altitudes over Central Park. (U.S. Office of Technology Assessment, The Effects of Nuclear War)

Within a 6-km (3.7-mile) radius of a 1-megaton bomb, blast waves would produce 180 metric tons of force on the walls of all two-story buildings, and wind speeds of 255 km/h (158 mph). In a 1-km (0.6-mile) radius, the peak pressure is four times that amount, and wind speeds can reach 756 km/h (470 mph).

The radiation components near the blast are gamma particles and neutrons away. Both gamma particles and neutrons are high velocity particles. Like your X-Ray technician, unless your walls are lead lined you can expect to be one of the estimated 50% casualties and I won’t even consider the thermal pulse. Neutrons are only a hazard close to and during the initial blast (within a few miles of ground zero). Neutrons are particles and are very penetrating. Your next concern is alpha particles, these are slow particles and can be stopped by clothing; the problem with alpha particles is that they get on food, surfaces and the air you breath causing radiation poisoning if ingested via respiratory track or alimentary track. The decontamination effort is prolonged and massive because the contaminants can be spread by atmospheric winds.

The information provided in this NPA is nice and will protect you from fallout to some extent, but circa 2022 hypersonic delivery systems make it virtually impossible to evacuate or even warn of an eminent strike.

New York City PSA

As inept as this PSA is, it could be designed to panic New Yorkers into fleeing to Texas, Tennessee and Florida in an effort to turn the States blue prior to the fall elections.