Comments on: Where the wildlife has a half-life

Where the wildlife has a half-life

mr_crash_davis — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 20:33:40 -0800

"The creation of the Nuclear Power Plant at Sellafield (formerly known as Windscale) was a bonus for the local zoo, as large tracts of land were made available and cheap by people moving away or dying."

By: Spacelegoman

Spacelegoman — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:14:36 -0800

WTF

By: anathema

anathema — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:22:56 -0800

Spontaneous reproductive cell division is not unknown around here, but resultant growths very rarely take on the shape of a complete animal, particularly one that bleats.

By: anathema

anathema — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:24:44 -0800

What. The. Fuck. Ducky?

By: wendell

wendell — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:27:05 -0800

Well, at least now Roy's Tiger can have a place where nobody'll bother him... (...but animal-mutations-from-nuke-plants humor was done to death in the first season of "The Simpsons")

By: cedar

cedar — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:35:09 -0800

Be better if the nuke plant caused, like, giant mutated marmosets. Now that'd be a bonus.

By: arse_hat

arse_hat — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 22:02:06 -0800

But Richard Burton did star in a creepy late career movie called Medusa Touch (1978) about Windscale.

By: specialk420

specialk420 — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 22:34:52 -0800

Fortunately for the remaining wildlife in the world - there hasn't been a lot a talk about restocking the zoo in baghdad.

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Wed, 12 Nov 2003 01:39:03 -0800

Other hoax websites by John Hopkin: Britain for Americans, CarpSoft.

By: kev23f

kev23f — Wed, 12 Nov 2003 03:45:50 -0800

Sellafield is honestly no laughing matter for people living on Irelands east coast. The Irish sea is now considered one of the most radioactive bodies of water in the world. The government has mounted a legal challenge against the existence of the plant, and last year 93% of households took part in a postcard campaign against the plant. Some good general info is here, plus any google search will show dozens of decent resources.

By: Ogre Lawless

Ogre Lawless — Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:43:44 -0800

I was trying to figure out how kev23f's post made sense until I did some sleuthing (of not even a Hardy Boy's level) and found that Sellafield is on the left coast of the UK, meaning it'd probably be a problem for people living there as well. Then again, it gives 'em some cheap juice and the finger to the Irish at the same time, so perhaps its worth wolloping around the tumor...

By: quonsar

quonsar — Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:37:33 -0800

one of these days the irish are going to pitch the british right the fuck off their island, into the middle of their radioactive sea, and that will be the final footnote to the british empire. won't happen too soon for me.

By: Lleyam

Lleyam — Wed, 12 Nov 2003 14:47:25 -0800

wtf? why do us Brits want to give the finger to the Irish? and what the fuck is that all about, quonsar? seriously.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:25:04 -0800

Sellafield is an ironic name, considering.

By: inpHilltr8r

inpHilltr8r — Wed, 12 Nov 2003 17:17:43 -0800

I think Q is conveniently forgetting that the British in question are actually Irish as well.

By: shepd

shepd — Wed, 12 Nov 2003 21:32:17 -0800

FUDFilter PS: Why aren't they using the CANDU design yet (Or are they? The one that blew up was a slowpoke reactor, wan't it?)? It's not as if Canada and the UK are enemies, and it's the safest plentiful energy production method known to man.