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This has always reinforced my belief in the Law of Unintended Consequences.

Gen Leslie Groves, in charge of the atomic program that led to the Hiroshima Bomb, stood near this spot shortly after WWII and proclaimed that nuclear energy was completely safe. He died soon thereafter from leukemia accepted as largely based on nuclear fallout issues.

In WWII, my father-in-law steered the first Navy ship to enter Nagasaki harbor after that bomb was dropped. The scientists on board all wore the 1945 equivalent of Haz-mat suits. The Navy swabbies all wore T-shirts, dungarees and sailor hats. He didn't track this scientifically, but a disproportionate number of his Navy enlisted buddies died at an unnaturally early age from leukemia and the like. Thankfully, he didn't.
 
tlewis95 said:
Hah. Also a picture a friend of mine posted on Facebook a day ago that I expertly have photo shopped.

- Insert something about aviation being a small world here -

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Box hauler said:
I also ran across this on Facebook too. I understand what he was going for here and all but one has to realize how dumb they look hanging out of the window with a selfie stick on the ramp lol
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haters gonna hate!
 
Box hauler said:
I also ran across this on Facebook too. I understand what he was going for here and all but one has to realize how dumb they look hanging out of the window with a selfie stick on the ramp lol
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But what's the point of being a pilot if everyone on social media doesn't know about it?
#millenial
 
FloridaLarry said:
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This has always reinforced my belief in the Law of Unintended Consequences.

Gen Leslie Groves, in charge of the atomic program that led to the Hiroshima Bomb, stood near this spot shortly after WWII and proclaimed that nuclear energy was completely safe. He died soon thereafter from leukemia accepted as largely based on nuclear fallout issues.

In WWII, my father-in-law steered the first Navy ship to enter Nagasaki harbor after that bomb was dropped. The scientists on board all wore the 1945 equivalent of Haz-mat suits. The Navy swabbies all wore T-shirts, dungarees and sailor hats. He didn't track this scientifically, but a disproportionate number of his Navy enlisted buddies died at an unnaturally early age from leukemia and the like. Thankfully, he didn't.
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Wiki says he died in 1970..... "Groves suffered a heart attack caused by chronic calcification of the aortic valve on 13 July 1970. He was rushed to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where he died that night. A funeral service was held in the chapel at Fort Myer, Virginia, after which Groves was interred in Arlington National Cemetery next to his brother Allen, who had died of pneumonia in 1916.[55] Groves is memorialized as the namesake of Leslie Groves Park along the Columbia River, near the Hanford Site in Richland.[56]"
 
Box hauler said:
I also ran across this on Facebook too. I understand what he was going for here and all but one has to realize how dumb they look hanging out of the window with a selfie stick on the ramp lol
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Anyone married, well, their spouses do something very similar with way "less cool" backdrops.

Dining at a Longhorn Steakhouse in the middle of rural, toothless, imbred Central Florida, look back and wonder "what the deuce is selfie-worthy?"
 
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