#strontium 90

[shaibonbon]

Strontium 90 my friends

[rastronomicals]

2:32 PM EST December 28, 2024:

Strontium 90 - "New World Blues" From the album Police Academy (August 26, 1997)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

Stewart Copeland, Andy Summers, Gordon Sumner, and former Gong bassist Mike Howlett, (mostly) recorded live in Paris, 1977

[mannytoodope]

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is a singer, songwriter, and actor. He was the principal songwriter, lead singer, and bassist for The Police from 1977 to 1985. He earned the nickname Sting because he wore yellow and black sweaters, Sting. After the Police ended in 1985, Sting started his solo career 1985 using rock, reggae, classical,new-age, and worldbeat elements in his music. Sting has received 16 Grammy Awards as a member of the Police and as a solo artist. During the band’s time together, their sound shifted from postpunk/ new wave to other sounds Sting used in his solo career. I started listening to The Police when I was getting into postpunk music. They were one of my favorites. Then, honestly, I stopped listening to them. I liked their reggae-like sound and aggressive sound that is synonymous with postpunk, and I liked Sting’s. In 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for recording. Sting has received numerous awards for his work in music, as a solo artist, and with the Police. Sting has sold over 100 million records and won many awards as a solo artist. In 2003, he received a star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame. Sting has worked with various artists and appeared and made music for films. Sting is still making music, and the Police put their differences aside for a small reunion and tour. Sting has a successful career and will continue making music for his fans.

[hampter-nicky]

Current mood:

My brother watching "strontium 90 pool" on repeat while blasting sans (the song) from his phone speaker

[elementcattos]

EEK!!!

[starri-cosmikat]

spooky catto for spooky time @elementcattos

[ravings-of-a-mad-scientist]

Boneseekers Comic

(The body sometimes confuses Lead and Strontium-90 for calcium, so this Osteoblast [the cell type that makes bones] takes them and puts them inside the bones.)

Lead doesn't just stick around poisoning your brain, some will get put in your bones and eventually will fall out of your bones years or decades later, then poison your brain.

Strontium-90 is a radioisotope found in nuclear bomb fallout, a ton of it got put into the atmosphere back when testing nuclear bombs was still a thing, so everyone who so much as breathed back then still has some little Strontiumballs in them, continuously irradiating their bones. Fun!

Y’know, with that and all the lead and mercury sitting around inside people’s skeletons and brains thanks to leaded gasoline, paint chips, and tooth fillings, old people sure do have a lot of heavy metals inside them. I wonder if you could make any money selling boomers to chemical supply companies. Hmmm…

[careerofevil]

i'm sososo happy i made a little base of my sona on minecraft cause I CAN DO THIS i can make an wear outfit.i am so hapy. i need to learn to make assets on roblox for realsies there is so much i would love to do.

[eilooxara]

My wife has started saying "strontium" as a stim word and that's got this song stuck in my head a lot lately and I figured y'all might enjoy it

[abitunexpected]

Gotta love that in fo4 they decided that there was a cannon reason nuka quantum gives higher rads than nuka cola and instead of having different bottles more vulnerable to radiation or something like that they instead decided that quantum was made with a radioisotope (strontium-90)

[irawhiti]

while everyone's rightfully talking about oppenheimer and its flaws regarding the erasure of japanese and native american voices regarding nuclear testing and detonations, i'd like to bring up the fact that pacific islanders have also been severely impacted by nuclear testing under the pacific proving grounds, a name given by the US to a number of sites in the pacific that were designated for testing nuclear weapons after the second world war, at least 318 of which were dropped on our ancestral homes and people. i would like if more people talked about this.

important sections are bolded for ease of reading. i would appreciate this being reblogged since it's a bit alarming how few people know about this.

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in 1946, the indigenous peoples of pikinni (the bikini atoll) were forcibly relocated off of their islands so that nuclear tests could be run on the atoll. at least 23 nuclear bombs were detonated on this inhabited island chain, including 20 hydrogen bombs. many pasifika were irreversibly irradiated, all of them were starved during multiple forced relocations, and the island chain is still unsafe to live on despite multiple cleanup attempts. there are several craters visible from space that were left on the atoll from nuclear testing.

the forced relocation was to several different small and previously uninhabited islands over several decades, none of which were able to sustain traditional lifestyles which directly lead to further starvation and loss of culture and identity. there is a reason that pacific islanders choose specific islands to inhabit including access to fresh water, food, shelter, cloth and fibre, climate, etc. and obviously none of these reasons were taken into account during the displacements.

200 pikinni were eventually moved back to the atoll in the 1970s but dangerous levels of strontium-90 were found in drinking water in 1978 and the inhabitants were found to have abnormally high levels of caesium-137 in their bodies.

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i'm going to put the rest of this post under a readmore to improve the chances of this being reblogged by the general public. i would recommend you read the entirety of the post since it really isn't long and goes into detail about, say, entire islands being fully, utterly destroyed. like, wiped off of the map. without exaggeration, entire islands were disintegrated.

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as i just mentioned, ānewetak (the eniwetok atoll) was bombed so violently that an entire island, āllokļap, was permanently and completely destroyed. an entire island. it's just GONE. the world's first hydrogen bomb was tested on this island. the crater is visibly larger than any of the islands next to it, more than a mile in diameter and roughly fifteen storeys deep. the hydrogen bomb released roughly 700 times the energy released during the bombing of hiroshima. this would, of course, be later outdone by other hydrogen bombs dropped on the pacific, reaching over 1000 times the energy released.

one attempt to clean up the waste on ānewetak was the construction of a large ~380ft dome, colloquially known as the tomb, on runit island. the island has been essentially turned into a nuclear waste dump where several other islands of ānewetak have moved irradiated soil to and, due to climate change, rising seawater is beginning to seep into the dome, causing nuclear waste to leak out. along with this, if a large typhoon were to hit the dome, there would be a catastrophic failure followed by a leak of nuclear waste into the surrounding land, drinking water, and ocean. the tomb was built haphazardly and quickly to cut costs.

hey, though, there's a plus side! the water in the lagoon and the soil surrounding the tomb is far more radioactive than the currently contained radioactive waste. a typhoon wouldn't cause (much) worse irradiation than the locals and ocean already currently experience, anyway! it's already gone to shit! and who cares, right, the only ""concern"" is that it will just further poison the drinking water of the locals with radioactive materials. this can just be handwaved off as a nonissue, i guess. /s

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at least 36 bombs were detonated in the general vicinity of kiritimati (christmas island) and johnson atoll. while johnson atoll has seemingly never been inhabited by polynesians, kiritimati was used intermittently by polynesians (and later on, micronesians) for several hundred years. many islands in the pacific were inhabited seasonally and likewise many pacific islanders should be classified as nomadic but it has always been convenient for the goal of white supremacy and imperalism to claim that semi-inhabited areas are completely uninhabited, claimable pieces of terra nullius.

regardless of the current lack of inhabitants on these islands, the nuclear detonations have caused widespread ecological damage to otherwise delicate island ecosystems and have further spread nuclear fallout across the entirety of the pacific ocean.

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while the marshall islands, micronesia, and the surrounding areas of melanesia and polynesia were (and still are) by far the worst affected by these atrocities, the entirety of the pacific has been irradiated to some extent due to ocean/wind currents freely spreading nuclear fallout through the water and air. all in all, at least 318 nuclear bombs were detonated across the pacific. i say "at least" because these are just the events that have been declassified and frankly? i wouldn't be shocked to find out they didn't stop there.

please don't leave the atomic destruction of the pacific out of this conversation. we've been displaced, irradiated, murdered, poisoned, and otherwise mass exterminated by nuclear testing on purpose and we are still suffering because of it. many of us have radiation poisoning, many of us have no safe ancestral home anymore. i cannot fucking state this enough, ISLANDS WERE DISINTEGRATED INTO NONEXISTENCE.

look, this isn't blaming people for not talking about us or knowing the extent of these issues, but it's... insidiously ironic that i haven't seen a single post that even mentions pacific islanders in a conversation about indigenous voices/voices of colour being ignored when it comes to nuclear tests and the devastation they've caused.

[seat-safety-switch]

"If I got shot by a dog," my partner began, "would you avenge my death?"

We both knew the answer. Dogs are the perfect creature, entirely blameless for any perceived offence. To hold one of nature's ideal beings responsible using our corrupt series of flawed laws would be a moral crime in its own right. If anything, we would be the oppressors.

"No," I barked towards the Caprice's dashboard.

Working in Animal Control had become significantly more difficult after those scientists figured out how to give dogs the power of speech. Suddenly, they were no longer our beloved companions. It turns out, all these years, dogs had just been going along with it because they didn't really understand how the law worked, and didn't seem to want legal personhood. Then they did. Things went downhill from there. You ever tried to deny a gang of vicious Dachshunds the fruits of their labours?

It's not what I signed up for, is all. What I wanted to do was help doggies and kitties get back to their loving homes. Turns out that makes me a bad guy. And that's exactly what I looked like that fateful night that I responded to a break-in at the old atomic laboratory.

"Bad dog! Drop that Strontium-90!" I yelled at a Schnauzer, my shaking hands holding a can of mace.

Suddenly, I was blinded by lights. Studio lights. It was a sting, set up by the local TV news to capture anti-canine brutality. I lost my job, and my attorney made me do a bunch of speeches to the kids at the newly-mixed high schools, explaining why what I did was a hate crime.

All I can say is that it's a good thing cats weren't interested. They knew they were at the top of the social pecking order already. Sorry, force of habit. I know magpies are trying to get the vote.

[rastronomicals]

11:07 AM EST February 19, 2024:

Strontium 90 - "Visions Of The Night" From the album Police Academy (August 26, 1997)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

Stewart Copeland, Andy Summers, Gordon Sumner, and former Gong bassist Mike Howlett, (mostly) recorded live in Paris, 1977

[careerofevil]

blaar

HORRIFIC HOUSING PLEASE,,,

[nazrigar]

Kaijune 2024: With the premiere of House of the Dragon season 2, I had a fun lil' thought exercise: How would I transplant an Asoiaf Dragon into Fallout? So here's the result: The Quantum Rad-Dragon.

It's essentially a giant, irradiated blue dragon that breathes blue fire and has spit that ignites anything it touches... and it's all thanks to being hopped on way too much Nuka Cola Quantum.

You see it was but a humble (genetically tampered) Komodo Dragon from a zoo (actually a genetic research testing facility). One day a clueless zoo goer accidentally dropped some Nuka Cola, and the dragon had one little sip...

When the war began and ended, it was already mutating from the radiation, but also had an all-consuming addiction to Nuka Cola... and one day it found the motherload: a truck full of Nuka Cola Quantum. The strontium 90 laced drink mutated the komodo even further, and it became the flying monstrosity you see here!

[elementcattos]

PEOPLE ARE DRAWINGMY CAT DESIGN I AM GOING TO EXPLODE /POSSSSS AAAAAAAA

I'm glad they are!!!!! I love it too!!!!