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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)"
All of these samples measure over 40,000 CPM and we'll occasionally have some as high as 300,000 CPM.
This is 2 to 15 times the radiation level as our "High Radiation Level" samples.
Do Not store these samples on your person, and wash your hands after handling them.
Yeah, if I'm touching uranium that they label as being "Super High Radiation Level" I'm thinking I may want more than a "hand-washing".
Mike
> Or what mad scientist can do without his own particle accelerator
... bad.
... MASS HYSTERIA!
If you get more than one, don't cross the streams. It would be
Cats and dogs living together
"Well, you can't find weapons of mass destruction, but now, you can build one with our at-home kit!"
"Do not hold strong opinions about things you do not understand."
Do not taunt happy fun rock. If happy fun rock starts getting hot, turn and walk calmly but quickly towards the nearest bomb shelter...
"This food is problematic."
The government spooks have seen this and will take very cool products of the market in 3....2...1...
I'm surprisingly disappointed given that I had no idea I wanted a piece of pitchblende. But they made it sound so enticing, and then I discover they're out...
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
You can almost certainly get anything United Nuclear carries cheaper at Archie McPhee.
Captian...she can't take much more...she's breaking up!!
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Perhaps it is a good thing that this company was not well known when Dave Hahn was working on his breeder reactor.d scout.html
http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/ra
it is better to light a flame thrower than curse the darkness. -Terry Pratchett Men at Arms
The main part of the site says they take PayPal. I wonder if I can pay for my Uranium that way?
I got like five images into a mirror and you brought it down! Anyway this is what I have...not much at all!
You people need to stop posting stories that originated on memepool as joke material! Have you no journalistic character? Parroting is not news!
Christ!
No, this just means you don't have to goto Niger to get your uranium.
The key to the enjoyment of pop music is to replace any instance of "love" with "C.H.U.D."
Now it's not cool until it's a one-stop-shop for sharks with frickin' lasers!!!
I think I heard the sound of a million ricer jaws dropping.
The military believe that they plan to build a nuclear warhead. George W Bush has asked for the slashdot.org terrorist communication and control center to be destroyed immediately. It is believed that Cmdr Taco is the mastermind of this attack.
More news as we get it...
Sorry Thinkgeek, but I think that I've just found a new place to spend my discretionary income.
Recent conversation between CMDR Taco and Donald Rumsfield.
Rumsfield: Hey CMDR Taco, there's this website we need to take down that sells nuclear supplies. We think that terrorists might be using them to build weapons of mass destruction.
Taco: No problem, i'll have a slashdot story posted immediateley. It should stop the website dead in it's tracks until we can permanently shut them down.
Rumsfield: Excellent, thank you for protecting our country.
Remember that you are unique, just like everybody else.
"A few of these projects will instantly kill if precautions are not followed. Although we have personally conducted every experiment & built every project here, we assume no responsibility for your attempt to do so."
I suppose a refund would be out of the question then.
Does UPS, Fedex or USPS ship Uranium? Bit of a nasty suprise for the delivery guy.
From the suspiciously cool
I gots to get me some of that.
...now there's a database that's going straight to Ashcroft...
Rumsfield: What do you mean these slashdot terrorist have no oil?
CmdrTaco: They don't even have a country.
Rumsfield: Oh well that's just dandy! Now I got two excurisions I need to explain!
CmdrTaco: They have karma...
Rumsfield: "karma"? Is it worth anything?
"Last one in is a rotten goblin!" - Kepp
Do they sell a slashdot-proof server?
No, that goes by the name "United Nookyuler"
I can't help but be reminded of some of the "supply stores" mentioned in "Science Made Stupid" as the places to get various dangerous things. U-235 rods from "Bud's Scientific Supply," anyone?
Footnote on page 25 (might not be in the web version linked above): "A fuller discussion of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle may be found in the Appendix. Then again, it may not."
Karma: Excellent, but still won't get you laid.
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
... they're selling this stuff online and I get my nailclippers confiscated before boarding my plane. What a world we live in ...
Hello, I'd like to place an order for 30,000 tons of your uranium ore. I'll also need some good centrifuges.
Does this mean that the coming dupe is just Taco's way of emulating Shock and Awe?
Original c.1950's Orange Fiesta Ware. Mantles from a Coleman lantern. The detection element from a smoke alarm. Old (c. 1900-1920) ceramic dental work. Rose tinted sunglasses from the 1950's.
All of those items are radioactive. In fact, the Orange Fiesta Wear is about 25,000-50,000 cpm of beta radiation.
Beta radiation cannot penetrate through your clothes. Alpha radiation cannot penetrate through the dead skin cells covering most of your body (but avoid getting it near your eyes). Gamma's will go through you no matter what, but unless they are in high doses they do little damage. As for neutrons, you should never have a reason to encounter a neutron source...but if you do, you are likely screwed.
NNPS - Class 9204!!
I can hear Darwin's theory of natural selection beckoning me to resign from the gene pool as I salivate and fantasize over my jet engine driven bicycle spewing lightning bolts as I complete my newspaper route with unprecedented speed and precision.... Can you feel it calling you as well?
-- Good judgement comes with experience. -- Experience comes with bad judgement.
I think the original company is gone, and someone else has adopted their name.
The original company used to also own property in Uncasville, Connecticut. That property was later bought for the construction of the Mohegan Sun Indian Casino. I have been told the main gaming floor sits directly above where radioactive materials used to be stored in an underground bunker. Don't know it that's accurate.
World Heath Org has a little fact sheet about DU (close enough to uranium ore for a /. posting I think. After DU is refined to contain almost nothing but uranium and these rocks are mostly rocks with a little uranium.)
Some highlights
Of the uranium that is absorbed into the blood, approximately 70% will be filtered by the kidney and excreted in the urine within 24 hours; this amount increases to 90% within a few days.
In a number of studies on uranium miners, an increased risk of lung cancer was demonstrated, but this has been attributed to exposure from radon decay products. Lung tissue damage is possible leading to a risk of lung cancer that increases with increasing radiation dose. However, because DU is only weakly radioactive, very large amounts of dust (on the order of grams) would have to be inhaled for the additional risk of lung cancer to be detectable in an exposed group. Risks for other radiation-induced cancers, including leukaemia, are considered to be very much lower than for lung cancer.
Due to its high density, about twice that of lead, the main civilian uses of DU include counterweights in aircraft, radiation shields in medical radiation therapy machines and containers for the transport of radioactive materials. The military uses DU for defensive armour plate.
Erythema (superficial inflammation of the skin) or other effects on the skin are unlikely to occur even if DU is held against the skin for long periods (weeks).
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Way to go, nothing like kicking a cool website off the web.
SealBeater
-- Its survival of the fittest...and we got the fucking guns!!!
But if you want to read a really good (and factual) article about a boy scout who built a breeder reactor in his back yard out of radioactive paint and old smoke detectors check out the Harper's magazine story here.
It's a long article but a great read.
Just throw up some page on the web that says it sells unrefined uranium ore as a novelty or bulk amounts of chemicals used in making a conventional bomb or chemical weapon - no questions asked - and see who it is who's interested in buying these things.
If it we me, I'd create a site called ScienceSalvage.com. Sell a bunch of legit science junk, but then occasionally throw in that you just found a lot of powdered cyanide or an old cesium powered radiation treatment machine and see who's willing to shell out a fair chunk of change for something like that. If they eventually order you can just say sorry we already had another buyer and hadn't bothered to update the site. The next day white vans appear infront of the would be buyer's house.
I like the idea of the 2 million volt Telsa coil. Imagine the ionic wind that one could create using such high voltages. It could make for a very high thrust lifter (see http://jnaudin.free.fr/lifters/main.htm )
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.