The UNOFFICIAL weekend singles thread.

04-20-07 | RCA2000

[Rca2000]

Seems that no one has "taken the reins" tonight, for the singles thread. I guess I'll have to.

What to talk about....

Anything we want to, really. I guess.

How about this??

Are the gas/travel prices going to affect your travel plans for this summer/spring??

In MY case--I KNOW it will.

Combined with me recently loosing my "secondary" job--I do not have the money to really go anywhere this summer. Nor did I really want to go to MB with my sister and cousin again, (it will be her 14th time there, or so--and would be my 6th time) to mainly be "there for the drive" for both of them.

So--no real travel for me. Things are in a mess anyway here. My mothers job is REALLY becoming a problem for her--an Arab woman is trying to "trump up" some things to get her fired. And I already spoke about loosing my second job. So--things are getting tighter and more tense here.

SO--lets ROLL!!

[LaineyDee]

Good for anything lesst than 50 feet away.

Well... I guess that explains something. I tried to shoot a beaver swimming in our little lake.... and never came close. I know he was more than 50ft away. lol

[Rca2000]

I want to ask you something—since you obviously know your nuclear science.

on an old Mission Impossible episode from the first season—there was an episode called “snowball in hell” where the MI team had to stop a man from selling a vial of Cesium 138 that he had “acquired”, to the highest bidder. On the mission tape—the voice said “Dan, cesium 138 is the key to a low-cost nuclear arsenal” .

Now—I thought that the cesium family was NOT useful for nuclear weapons fuel—rather—it was mainly used in nuclear medicine, irridation, etc—but NOT as fissile/fusion fuel. Am I wrong about this?? Would it really be possible to use cesium 138 as a fuel in a fission weapon, and would it really respond to an implosive shock wave and neutron bombardment in a nuclear primary—thus creating a chain reaction and subsequent nuclear explosion of reasonable yield?

Or—would it be better in a secondary—powered by say, a 10KT primary—to then multiply the yield to say 200KT or more??Or—would it be a good “booster” material, for both plutonium primaries and deuterium/tritium secondaries??

OR—is it NO GOOD AT ALL for ANY of those things—and just a “plot device” in the MI episode” (as I suspect).

[ColdSteelTalon]

I tried to shoot a beaver swimming in our little lake....

Its hard to hit anything with a handgun more than 50 feet away without a scope. :)

[LaineyDee]

I’m a little more proficient with the .380 now.....but not completely comfortable. I just need to try out a few. Our constable here owns a large shop/range.... so I’ll check out a 9MM before I buy again. :)

[Prophet in the wilderness]

I bet that decision didn’t take long ... : )

[LaineyDee]

Its hard to hit anything with a handgun more than 50 feet away without a scope. :)

Well......I didn't have a scope on the .380!!! *chuckle*

[Prophet in the wilderness]

If the kitchen has that ugly daisy multi flower wall paper with green stripes , might as well get new wall paper or get it off the wall... lol

[LaineyDee]

No it didn’t. We just had to wait long enough for the nausea to subside. :)

[ColdSteelTalon]

LOL.

[LaineyDee]

My Dad was military.....we were only allowed “white” walls. Being a man......he really didn’t care what was on the floor.....and would’ve settled for concrete. (easier to clean..ya know) lol

[Prophet in the wilderness]

I know the feeling, it’s kinda depressing to even look at that kind of carpet..... more like hippie delight lounge. lol

[LaineyDee]

We couldn’t live with a tribute to Elvis in our living room. *chuckle*

[Army Air Corps]

They may have meant that it could be used to create a low-cost “dirty” weapon. To my knowledge, Cesium does not lend itself to use in fission weapons.

I recall a nasty incident with Cesium in Brazil. A garbageman noticed an interesting metal cylinder in a shipment of medical waste. He opened it and noticed that it contained a shimmering blue powder. He put some in a bag, placed the bag in his pocket and took the stuff home. A week later, surgeon had to cut away the necrotised tissue from a big hole in his upper thigh. The powder was Cesium from scrapped medical equipment.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Having white walls or trim is ok, as long as it does not look to sterile
A all white room with all white walls, floor, trim, furniture, looks to sterile, got to add some ( the correct colors ) color in the mix.
For example, kitchen cabinets that are white ? add a counter surface with granite stone, or corion, like grays, black, dark green, dark brown, with wood flooring, stainless steel stove, fridge, sink, looks sweeeeeeeeet.

[Army Air Corps]

The worst part of the story involves kids who lived in the man’s neighbourhood. Some teenagers saw the shimmering blue powder and thought that it was glitter. They asked if they could have some to use as body glitter for Carnival. The girls applied it to the faces and visible areas of their body. They died about a week or so later.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

ahhhhhhh yes, the good old velvet top notch classy painting..... everyone gotta have one of those... lol

[LaineyDee]

lol.. :)

[RunningWolf]

The Weekend YouTube Musical Video thread

[Rca2000]

I heard that story somewhere. SAD that they were unaware of the DANGER of the “glowing blue powder”!!

And I figured that Cesium could not be used to produce a nuclear explosive yield. I wanted to hear it from someone “in the know”, though.

SO..they(in MI) were referring to an RDD then?? I GUESS that can be considered a “nuclear weapon” but it is not really , there is no nuclear blast and the fallout is only effective over a relatively small area(unless you get a LOT of radioactive source material and a LOT of explosives to turn it into a cloud and disperse it, right??)

[DollyCali]

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