Wallets Found in Heating Ducts
 

Just an interesting article about the base I live near:
[url=http://www.latimes.com/news/local/state/la-me-wallets29may29,0,4553397,full.story?coll=la-news-state:44f86]Camp Roberts[/url:44f86]

[quote:44f86]CAMP ROBERTS, Calif. — Crews demolishing old military barracks on this sprawling base near Paso Robles stumbled on a surprising find: wallets.

Tumbling out of heating ducts suspended from the ceilings, the wallets were stuffed with remarkably well-preserved personal belongings dating from World War II and the Korean War.

Love letters. Religious medals. Base passes. High school identification cards. Driver's licenses. Dog tags. Snapshots. Tips for surviving an atomic blast.[/quote:44f86]

Re: Wallets Found in Heating Ducts
 

[quote="Jin-Roh":b8851]Just an interesting article about the base I live near:
[url=http://www.latimes.com/news/local/state/la-me-wallets29may29,0,4553397,full.story?coll=la-news-state:b8851]Camp Roberts[/url:b8851]

[quote:b8851] Tips for surviving an atomic blast.[/quote:b8851][/quote:b8851]
kiss your ass good bye cause you wont. My moms unlce just died because he was one of the troops told to watch an A-bomb go off. He had like a dozen cancers develope in a few years.

Your uncle developed cancer some 50 years after he was exposed. My Dad had cancer a couple of times and was never exposed. My Gradma had cancer half a dozen times and was never exposed or smoked.

He said a dozen types of cancer.

Are you honestly trying to argue that exposure to Nuclear activity/radiation isn't necessarily bad for you? Because that is fucking retarded.

sweet find, wonder if the stuff will be published...

published, I hope it is returned. That would be cool to give the wallets back to their owners after all these years.

yeah, or their families, as many might have passed on...

i like how you bolded returned...

but the stuff should be properly documented as artifacts first and released in journal form at the least...

it's from like 60 years ago, not 2,000. What are we gonna learn that we don't already know?

What type of nude pics they kept in their wallets 60 years ago.

lol

Nudes? Shit man, it was all about slightly lifting the dresses: they went crazy for this stuff! biggrin:

Kinda stuff middle easterners jerk off to these days, ooh look an ankle *splooge* eek:

maybe some personal histories of soldiers, or some other small tidbit of info... people are interested in the historic value of many things, not just ancient...

also, whats left to learn from a 2000 year old wallet(or equivilent), not much... hence my roman coin collection...

No he said "like a dozen cancers developed in a few years" which is nowhere near as precise as a couple of times (stomach and brain) or half a dozen ( 6 times, and I'm not going to list them).

Have you ever heard of chemotherapy. That is when they expose you to radiation to kill the cancer. So sometimes exposure to radiation is considered "good" for you, by the medical establishment.

I wasn't trying to argue any point, except maybe that we don't know what causes cancer. Claiming that some exposure 50 years ago caused the cancer isn't scientific at all, but just a guess.

Wonder if they sytole some money from it and just reported theother shit in it...but still cool find.

Now THAT my friends was fuckin' funny !!

What if everyone else at the same bomb site started to suffer from the same forms of cancer around the same time periods? Wouldn't it be safe to conclude that the exposure is to blame?

ha, chemotherapy isnt that good for you. that shit makes you wish you were dead.

That's what has been happening....

Chuck Norris once had 7 types of cancer, but once he flexed, they all cured themselves.

John. get a grip. A freekin atomic blast is an insanely large quantity of alpha, beta, gamma, neutron rays blasting thru ur entire body. Chemo doesnt actually involve any radiation. [url:ece4d]http://health.howstuffworks.com/cancer8.htm[/url:ece4d]
But many cancer patients also use radiation.
[url:ece4d]http://health.howstuffworks.com/cancer7.htm[/url:ece4d]
This radiation is a directed and controlled beam of radiation, not a wild blast of rays and particles.

Chuck Norris's tears cure cancer, too bad he never cries.

[quote="Scorched Earth":50610]

John. get a grip. A freekin atomic blast is an insanely large quantity of alpha, beta, gamma, neutron rays blasting thru ur entire body. Chemo doesnt actually involve any radiation. [url:50610]http://health.howstuffworks.com/cancer8.htm[/url:50610]
But many cancer patients also use radiation.
[url:50610]http://health.howstuffworks.com/cancer7.htm[/url:50610]
This radiation is a directed and controlled beam of radiation, not a wild blast of rays and particles.[/quote:50610]

Ah, what if. That's using your brain. Fact is some got sick right away, some got sick later, and some lived many years with hardly any effect at all. Other people, with no exposure at all, also get the same types of cancers as the last group. At least Scorched Earth has an argument, although it doesn't explain why some get cancer years later and some without exposure get the same types of cancers at the same age. I didn't say exposure was a good thing, I said you don't know what causes cancer.

[quote=Johnj][quote="Scorched Earth":705b1]

John. get a grip. A freekin atomic blast is an insanely large quantity of alpha, beta, gamma, neutron rays blasting thru ur entire body. Chemo doesnt actually involve any radiation. [url:705b1]http://health.howstuffworks.com/cancer8.htm[/url:705b1]
But many cancer patients also use radiation.
[url:705b1]http://health.howstuffworks.com/cancer7.htm[/url:705b1]
This radiation is a directed and controlled beam of radiation, not a wild blast of rays and particles.[/quote:705b1]

Ah, what if. That's using your brain. Fact is some got sick right away, some got sick later, and some lived many years with hardly any effect at all. Other people, with no exposure at all, also get the same types of cancers as the last group. At least Scorched Earth has an argument, although it doesn't explain why some get cancer years later and some without exposure get the same types of cancers at the same age. I didn't say exposure was a good thing, I said you don't know what causes cancer.[/quote:705b1]
Radiation is a huge cause of cancer. You cannot deny that. Chernobyl, A-bombs, and all the little animals they did tests on. If the soldiers didnt get cancer from the a-bombs then why is the government saying they did and paying the familes a very decent amount of money after the soldiers die? The soldiers actually got paid for having cancer. Yes he got it from the bomb, why did it take a while to develope? who knows, not I, I dont study cancer. And to elaborate, He had several different types of cancer that were cured but came back. that happend until he finally got a brain tumor and died.