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[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

Fucking why? Say why? The article was useless.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

The why doesn't seem to be public. Speculation is a military test, perhaps some radar test.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

radar doesn't make things radioactive

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Microwave is an electromagnetic radiation, as in this big ass space radar https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/space-fence.html

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Non ionizing radiation means it doesn't produce free radicals through destruction of chemical bonds. Any type of radiation that interacts with a material and has a high enough ERP will heat that thing up. Cell phone spectrum is non ionizing but the high powered towers can still cook the brain inside a skull.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It didn't say that it would make anything radioactive, it said there was a radiation hazard. Radar is in fact radiation, it's just non-ionizing which means that unless you're dealing with massive power levels it's generally safe to be around. If they're warning of an extreme radiation hazard it's either not radar, or they're pumping a ridiculous amount of power into it.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

No one said anything about radioactive though.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Navy, Air force or something is probably playing with the new Space Fence that is on Kwajalein (or any of the shit ton of radars they have over there).

2.69MW radiated power in the microwave band could be enough to make any PAX aboard an aircraft into a way too hot pocket of meat.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Goddamnit, now I'm hungry and I'm out of hot pockets.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Says to contact base to deconflict with radiation hazard. Which would suggest it isn't nuclear radiation as that would just be contamination that isn't under control and able to be deconflicted with. Probably a powerful radar or electromagnetic weapon.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

https://www.ll.mit.edu/about/facilities/reagan-test-site

Bunches of prototype radar and probably a sneaky x band pointed at nk & China.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

This is a garbage website/source, but adds some more context:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/decades-old-nuclear-coffin-on-pacific-island-cracks-under-climate-stress/ar-AA1mOoN9

Apparently a big concrete dome where loads of radioactive shit from old tests has cracked due to weather/climate related wear and tear.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

The radiation warning is near a different atoll, so hard to say if the above is related or not, but it’s kinda blowing my mind how limited reporting is on the subject. It feels like it’s being suppressed in English language media.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

The US doesn't want to draw attention to the absolute fuckfest that their nuclear testing wrought on the world.

The Soviets too, but at least the Soviets bombed bumfuck nowhere in Siberia.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah that’s certainly what it seems like.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

IIRC there was a giant rouge wave there recently and it flooded a US military base

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

rouge wave

Red tide!

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

IIRC there was a giant rouge wave there recently and it flooded a US military base

Just how much lipstick ended up there? Jeez!

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