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N. Koreans Let American Scientist Hold Lump of Plutonium
Livescience.com ^
| 2/22/2010
| Phillip F. Schewe
Posted on 03/19/2010 12:20:56 AM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
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One lump of Plutonium.The most toxic substance in the universe.
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posted on
03/19/2010 12:27:18 AM PDT
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
("I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution."-Dr.Wernher Von Braun)
To: sonofstrangelove
Thats looks like a turd.
Meanwhile, isnt it known as Prutorium “Element: Pr” in North Korea?
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posted on
03/19/2010 12:31:04 AM PDT
by
ketelone
To: sonofstrangelove
Dr. Hecker assures us the plutonium was completely harmless.
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posted on
03/19/2010 12:31:47 AM PDT
by
TigersEye
(It's the Marxism, stupid! ... And they call themselves Progressives.)
To: ketelone
That’s Prutonium in China.
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posted on
03/19/2010 12:32:06 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: ketelone
Its chemical symbol is still Pu-element 94 on the Periodic Table.If you have of that rock you can level a city with it.
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posted on
03/19/2010 12:34:06 AM PDT
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
("I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution."-Dr.Wernher Von Braun)
To: TigersEye
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posted on
03/19/2010 12:34:45 AM PDT
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
("I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution."-Dr.Wernher Von Braun)
To: sonofstrangelove
I believe that toxicity would only be achieved if it were turned into a microfine powder and divided among humans to inhale, eventually killing all by lung cancer.
In solution or as a coarse powder, its toxicity to man is about the same as caffeine.
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posted on
03/19/2010 12:35:05 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: HiTech RedNeck
I still would not pick up that rock up.
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posted on
03/19/2010 12:36:03 AM PDT
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
("I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution."-Dr.Wernher Von Braun)
To: sonofstrangelove
Emitting alpha particles in its decay (some of its daughter products also emit betas, but there are no gammas in its decay chain), it would be harmless to hold it in a glass jar like the scientist did.
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posted on
03/19/2010 12:39:37 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: HiTech RedNeck
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posted on
03/19/2010 12:40:47 AM PDT
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
("I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution."-Dr.Wernher Von Braun)
To: sonofstrangelove
And he was right. He has always looked like that. ;^)
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posted on
03/19/2010 12:42:07 AM PDT
by
TigersEye
(It's the Marxism, stupid! ... And they call themselves Progressives.)
To: sonofstrangelove
Jimmy Carter: Nobel Prize, 2002, for giving the nuclear bomb to North Korea.
AlGore, Nobel Prize, 2007, for lying to the world about anthropogenic global warming.
Barack Hussein Obama, Nobel Prize, 2009, for not being George W. Bush.
Poor John F’ing Kerry must feel left out. Maybe the Nobel committee can give him the half of the 1973 Prize refused by Le Duc Tho.
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posted on
03/19/2010 1:01:29 AM PDT
by
bIlluminati
(Don't just hope for change, work for change in 2010.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Your first sentence is true. Kinda like anthrax.....you have to make it very fine and disperse it. Plutonium is heavy so most particles will fall on the ground
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posted on
03/19/2010 1:07:01 AM PDT
by
dennisw
(It all comes 'round again --Fairport)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Erriment ninety fo-wa, Prutorium! :D
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posted on
03/19/2010 2:08:48 AM PDT
by
ketelone
To: HiTech RedNeck
Dr. Bernard Cohen, health physicist at University of Pittsburgh, has offered to ingest an amount of Plutonium equal in mass to the amount of caffeine that Ralph Nader would ingest.
Nader has famously pronounced that one pound of plutonium released into the environment would end life on earth. (Soviets tried this experiment in 1986 at Chernobyl. If life on earth has ended, hiding this fact is the KGB’s most successful disinformation effort ever.)
Nader's pronouncement was based on research which showed that one pound of plutonium as an aspirate contains two million lethal doses, for humans. The population of the earth at that time was around two billion people, so he borrowed a “b” from the type font and made two million into two billion and with typical left wing solipsism generalized “human life” into “life” and changed “could if applied as an aspirate into the lungs of each individual result in the deaths of most to them” to “would end life”.
It would, of course, be unfair to call Nader an alarmist.
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posted on
03/19/2010 2:36:18 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(The naked casuistry of the high priests of Warmism would make a Jesuit blush.)
To: sonofstrangelove
This is a fine opportunity to raise the subject of the late Harry K. Daghlian, Jr., who worked on the Manhattan Project and who accidentally irradiated himself in late August 1945, while conducting an experiment at Los Alamos.
What happened was a criticality accident that occurred when he accidentally dropped a small tungsten carbide brick onto a 14 lb plutonium bomb core. The particular core, intended for use as the THIRD atomic bomb had Japan not surrendered was called the "Demon core", which claimed the life of fellow scientist Louis Slotin in a similar accident.
The so-called Demon core was ultimately used during the Crossroads series of atomic tests in the Pacific, specifically the 'ABLE' test.
Those little Norks haven't got a clue of what they are truly tampering with. In a perfect world they would blow themselves up, along with the Dear Leader.
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posted on
03/19/2010 2:37:13 AM PDT
by
mkjessup
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
It would, of course, be unfair to call Nader an alarmist. Grossly unfair.
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posted on
03/19/2010 2:45:15 AM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 420 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: mkjessup
[nully free associating]
Plutonium, Pluto, god of the underworld, demon core, demon pass, democrat...
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posted on
03/19/2010 2:48:30 AM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 420 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: sonofstrangelove
"One lump of Plutonium.The most toxic substance in the universe." At least according to the anti-nuke left. Of course, anyone who knows any amount of real science knows that that is malarkey.
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