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Radiation Absorbing Mineral Found In the Arctic

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the the-power-of-suck dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A mineral has recently been found that exhibits the astounding property of being able to remove radiation from water-based solutions. 'After coming into contact with the mineral, radioactive water becomes completely safe. Had this mineral been available to physicists after the Chernobyl or Three Mile Island disasters, the consequences might have been very different, as both accidents resulted in contamination from radioactive water.' Also, the article notes that although only grams of the material have been found, tons of it are needed; they are confident they could artificially reproduce it."

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  1. fart! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fart fart fart! I love farting!

    1. Re:fart! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Farting is the best entertainment value there is.

      * It makes a funny sound,
      * You stink out your friends. Hilarity ensues!
      * The feeling of relief afterwards leaves a great sense of satisfaction.

      All for the price of a 99 cent taco, which is offset by the fact that you had to eat lunch anyway. I defy anone come up with a greater entertainment value.

  2. Your sig is misleading. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "No weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men. -- Ronald Reagan"

    MarsDefenseMinister, Ronald Reagan did not write that. His script writer Peggy Noonan wrote that, and he merely learned his lines and spoke them like the actor that he was.

    1. Re:Your sig is misleading. by dbrutus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      A great deal of Reagan speeches, done for GE radio and written in his own hand, have been found and published to general acclaim. Like his policies or not, the idea that Reagan just delivered somebody else's lines is just flat out not true. The man had a good brain and used it.

    2. Re:Your sig is misleading. by Darby · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      he man had a good brain and used it.

      Given the fact that he was one of the worst presidents we've ever had by any metric you'd care to name, and that he was a drooling vegetable while his administration was committing various acts of treason, including major funding, arming, and training of terrorists (you know, the ones we're now at "war" with) as well as cocaine dealing, you might want to replace that with a sane statement.

    3. Re:Your sig is misleading. by jc42 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      [Reagan] was one of the worst presidents we've ever had by any metric ...

      Yes, but he played national doddering grandfather so well; how could anyone not love him?

      One of my all-time favorite cartoons was just after the 1988 election, showing a smiling Ronald Reagan walking in the door and shouting out "Nancy! I got the part!!!"

      --
      Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
    4. Re:Your sig is misleading. by shadowbearer · · Score: 0, Offtopic


        Um. 1980 :)

      SB

      --
      It's old. The more humans I meet, the more I like my cats. At least they are honest.
  3. Re:You're not wrong, you're an idiot! by ScrappyLaptop · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    ""your dead already""

    It's "you're", as in "you are", not "your" as in "Your head is up your"...oh, nevermind, this is Slashdot after all.

    Hey! New law: The longer the thread on /., the more likely someone will offer up some obnoxious comment correcting a prior posting followed by, "this is Slashdot, after all"