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United Nuclear
goombah99 writes "Hey Mr. Science, need a rocket pack for your bicycle? Look no further than United Nuclear scientific supply where under their dangerous products category you can purchase your own radioactive uranium ore, as well as a two million volt generator if you need one. Or what mad scientist can do without his own particle accelerator (which they advertise can mutate DNA in seed, explore the atom, or simply transmute elements)"
Is this sort of thing a really good idea?
You people need to stop posting stories that originated on memepool as joke material! Have you no journalistic character? Parroting is not news!
Christ!
...now there's a database that's going straight to Ashcroft...
uh huh. Sure. Go Ahead. Try searching for 'uranium'. Try searching for 'ore.' How about 'tesla'?
You have any credible evidence that they do? All I've heard from is "Mother Jones" and Greenpeace types combined with studies that make the cell-phone/cancer research look rock-solid.
Are they the ones that say you can hide from an H-Bomb by crouching under your school desk?
Nobody ever said that was a good idea, but it was the only option in a freaking classroom, eh? Besides, I bet it wasn't the poor guy running this web site, regardless.
YOU trust them.
And YOU adjust your tinfoil hat. The world isn't a conspiracy. Who is "them," in this context, anyway?
-Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat
DU is almost pure U-238 which is less radioactive than the U-235 used to make bombs, but I suspect some of the health risks of uranium are chemical instead of radiological. Uranium is a heavy metal like lead or mercury. Breathing in uranium dust or drinking contaminated water can't be good.
Yes it is. The radiation from DU bombs from the first invasion of Iraq, more than a decade ago, has caused massive problems for the people of Iraq. They had no equipment to clean it up (because of the sanctions) and the cancer rate in Iraq rose 70% after Desert Storm.
The problem with DU is that it vapourizes on impact and the dust goes off into the environment. It goes off and gets into everything. And the effects of DU on the people it hits are pretty atrocious; they call them "crispy critters" (a pretty terrible euphimism if you ask me).
Now the US has gone and dumped a whole lot more DU on the country. And all those reports saying DU has 'no harmful effects' were admittedly done by the US military.
This is left as an exercise for the reader.