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This'll make the East Coast and Mid West contingents yawn, but as a West Coast native living on the East Coast cicadas fascinate me. They're amazing and I enjoy giving my family and friends on the West Coast a proper case of the heebie-jeebies by sending them cicada pictures during the summer.

For the benefit of our West Coast members, here's a flying shrimp sitting on my driver's side wing mirror. Just imagine these things hitting your windshield at 75mph.
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After graduating from high school my daughter worked at a Los Alamos National Labs research facility doing full body exposure scans on people, mostly employees of LANL, but to get a better control group it was available to the general public. My scan showed slightly elevated levels of cesium exposure from my first job in the oilfield. But we had several French family members visiting and a couple of them were willing to get locked into this steel chamber for the 20 minutes required. The scientists were excited to have them tested because it was just a few years after Chernobyl and levels of exposure were uncharted in France. Fortunately neither f them turned up with any significant exposure. That was when I learned that mushroom foragers and people who ate a lot of wild game were particularly exposed to radioactive particles that had settled in the ground. Carlsbad was the site of an underground nuclear test in the 60s(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gnome_(nuclear_test)) so there was a lot of interest at LANL about the exposure levels of the locals. I don't know if any data was ever released by LANL, but I do know that in the small school my wife worked at, 10 miles from the site, there was an abnormally high rate of breast cancer among the school staff who grew up in the area.
 
There's arguments raging about low dose exposure effects of radiation that would make LODO brewing discussions look decidedly civil. Some believe in hormesis which means low doses are beneficial. What is clear though, that like a lot of things, the stress induced by worrying about such things is very real.
RDWHA golden chantarelle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis#
 
Is that IRL or a sim? 🤔

Also...anyone there know what the latest situation is with Fanatec vis a vis their financial cratering and the Corsair acquisition that seems to have gone limbo?

Cheers!
 
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