Hay is well known for its radiation blocking properties
It might be dumbed down; but assuming you don't have concrete block or lead shielding, getting a couple of feet of soil between you and the blast is about the best way to reduce exposure to the initial radiation.
Then if you consider that soil is primarily decayed plant material... Hay isn't exactly a nonsensical material to line the walls of a barn with.
Soil is dense, hay is dry grass in bales. I'm pretty sure that would do nothing to help.
Shielding: The term 'biological shield' refers to a mass of absorbing material placed around a reactor, or other radioactive source, to reduce the radiation to a level safe for humans.[1] The effectiveness of a material as a biological shield is related to its cross-section for scattering and absorption, and to a first approximation is proportional to the total mass of material per unit area interposed along the line of sight between the radiation source and the region to be protected. Hence, shielding strength or "thickness" is conventionally measured in units of g/cm2. The radiation that manages to get through falls exponentially with the thickness of the shield. In x-ray facilities, the plaster on the rooms with the x-ray generator contains barium sulfate and the operators stay behind a leaded glass screen and wear lead aprons. Almost any material can act as a shield from gamma or x-rays if used in sufficient amounts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_protection
Including materials such as water and wood--which are listed under the section "Shielding Design."
Notice how it says its determined by g/cm, hay is pretty much the lightest material possible and would be useless for shielding. Sure anything can be used, if you had a mile of hay it might help but I doubt a few bales will do anything. Remember this is the same people that sad hiding under a desk can protect from nukes.
Ok well next time a nuke goes off go stand in an outhouse and let me know how well you are protected.Or how about we should be thinking about how to prevent a nuclear attack than worrying about what to do if one happends?
Humanity could use a good culling.
Feel free to volunteer.
But to use nukes, you must be afraid. Very afraid. Insanely afraid. Like a cornered rat.
Next 20 years we will have more human population than we can currently support plus massive crop failures world wide due to climate changes. See how brutal the world gets when you have only have enough food for 10% of the population, the wars over remaining resources should wipe most of us out.
So nuke every life form on the planet into extinction? Great fucking solution roachor, I am sure the reamining survivors of the human race would be smart enough and pyshically fit to survive when they are retarded and deformed from the radiation to appreciate that the earth went to nuclear war over the way society acts and food.
You know the reality of it is that if a nuclear war were to happen there wouldn't be any survivors and the human race wouldn't live in a 2238 fantasy land. Those who would survive would die from radiation and their offsprings would be deformed, and the normal ones would be too retarded to think about survival. We wouldn't have funny 2 headed cows, blue suits and plasma rifle wars if this happened. Have some fucking hope for humanity.
Nukes aren't that effective, the lack of human activity would heal the planet far more than nuclear winter would harm it. Hell it might even cancel out global warming. Just look at how much the ozone repaired itself when all the flights were grounded on 9/11, that was just one day.
Ok well next time a nuke goes off go stand in an outhouse and let me know how well you are protected.
Doesn't emp only fuck up magnetic fields?
EMP is an electromagnetic field that can fry electronics its a type of radiation that gets emitted after a nuclear blast.
Yes I know that, I've just never heard of emp causing harm to biological entities.