“The nest had a radiation level 10 times what is allowed by federal regulations, officials said. The workers sprayed the nest with insect killer, removed it and disposed of it as radioactive waste. No wasps were found, officials said.” Sure, perfectly fine! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ok that explanation makes about as much sense and the explanation of the Epstein prison video. WTF is the whole world punking us right now?
Have they never seen Antman?
How long before the reports of an F35 being snatched out of the sky by a giant wasp?
All good! 👍
UPDATE on the radioactive wasp nests found at the Savannah River Site, a 73-year-old nuclear weapons production facility in Aiken, South Carolina:
OK I have played all four Fallouts and I know exactly how this goes
I know it's a bloat fly, but I only played Fallout 4.
I’ve got 100 bottle caps for anyone who can move one of the populated nests into the Rayburn Building.
They're called "Cazadors," and best if you avoid Bitter Springs for a bit
Before playing New Vegas I read on a message board that the best way to start the game is to head immediately north. That person is evil
Yeah, cut through the quarry!
Tom, when I first saw this story, I immediately thought of you.
It really is a clever way to start! Thing is, you just basically have to sprint nonstop until you're out of range of deathclaws and cazadors, and accept that reloading a couple times is likely. The one time I did it I'd managed to hit L8 on my way to the Honest Hearts start cave. 10/10 start
How the hell do production facilities have so much leftover exposure? I get energy facilities, but seems like the material would be more contained in a weapons producer
Clearly you're unfamiliar with the standard operating procedure of the Atomic Energy Commission (1947-1974), the Energy Research and Development Administration (1974-77), and the Department of Energy (1977-present), which was/is to prioritize production over everything else, incl. safety and health.
This, combined with decades of excessive and counterproductive government secrecy, is why it will take more than 100 years and cost at least $855 billion to $1.1 trillion to "clean up" nuclear weapons production and testing facilities across the United States. bsky.app/profile/atom...
Can't wait to see "Pope Hat Plays..." videos on YouTube.
just say no to cazadors
@darthbluesky.bsky.social we need a ruling... innocent? 🐝
This sounds like a pitch for a 50s science fiction movie. A natural for Bert I Gordon, king of the Giant Insect film!
Do you want superheros? Because this is how you get superheros.
Interesting. So I wonder if this is fiber from contaminated building material or whether the plants in the area are absorbing radionuclides.
Hard to know without further study. But there have been radioactive turtles at the Savannah River Site for decades (according to this 2011 report, "well over" 10,000 had been identified and caught by that time). Some have even wandered outside the facility's boundaries. Also, alligators.
A little more about those radioactive turtles (from the 1991 documentary "Building Bombs"): www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFhE...
10 times federal regs, i actually feel kind of sorry for those wasps, they must have cooked to death in the eggs.
I've seen this movie
You want to know why it's important to have an effective government bureaucracy? Who else is going to develop standards for safe radiation levels in wasp nests?
Gonna go to South Carolina and find an irradiated wasp to sting me. Wasp-Man!
Thought it was suspicious that these guys supposedly came from Japan.
I bet they could narrow it down with some mass spectroscopy.
