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The Radioactive Boy Scout
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| KEN SILVERSTEIN
Posted on 12/29/2005 1:45:14 PM PST by Wonder Warthog
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To: Ditto
Yep. Before I graduated to matches and the BB gun, I used the spool and rubber band.
And I won't tell you about the cork gun and what else we did with the gunpowder we picked from those toy caps.
To: Ditto
Except that sometimes the barrel would come off and go downrange with the cork still in it.
To: Age of Reason
And no, we didn't hold it.
We put it in a vise.
To: Wonder Warthog
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posted on
12/30/2005 6:31:09 PM PST
by
Cyber Liberty
(© 2005, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
To: maxwell
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posted on
12/30/2005 6:32:51 PM PST
by
Cyber Liberty
(© 2005, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
To: Wonder Warthog
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posted on
12/30/2005 6:50:56 PM PST
by
knews_hound
(Now with two handed typing !)
To: Cyber Liberty
After the moon-suited workers dismantled the shed, they loaded the remains into 39 sealed barrels that were trucked to the Great Salt Lake Desert. There, the remains of David's experiments were entombed with other radioactive debris. Daggone. That must've cost a bundle...
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posted on
01/02/2006 8:54:13 AM PST
by
maxwell
(Well I'm sure I'd feel much worse if I weren't under such heavy sedation...)
To: maxwell
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posted on
01/02/2006 10:14:45 AM PST
by
Cyber Liberty
(© 2006, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
To: Wonder Warthog
69
posted on
08/04/2007 5:16:15 AM PDT
by
sodpoodle
( Despair - man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption)
To: freebilly
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posted on
08/04/2007 5:16:53 AM PDT
by
sodpoodle
( Despair - man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption)
To: kingu; PGalt
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posted on
08/04/2007 5:17:42 AM PDT
by
sodpoodle
( Despair - man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption)
To: SandRat
FYI; not sure if you want to ping your Scouting List
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posted on
08/06/2007 11:38:23 AM PDT
by
fgoodwin
(Fundamentalist, right-wing nut and proud father of a Star Scout!)
To: fgoodwin
Not on this one. This kid has lost it, mentally.
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posted on
08/06/2007 4:00:20 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: Wonder Warthog; Travis McGee; Lurker
The mantle in gas lanterns, the small cloth pouch over the flame, is coated with a compound containing thorium-232. When bombarded with neutrons it produces uranium-233, which is fissionable. David bought thousands of lantern mantles from surplus stores and blowtorched them into a pile of ash. To isolate the thorium from the ash, he purchased $1000 worth of lithium batteries and cut them in half with wire cutters. He placed the lithium and thorium ash together in a ball of aluminum foil and heated the ball with a Bunsen burner. This purified the thorium to at least 9000 times the level found in nature, and up to 170 times the level that requires NRC licensing. But David's americium gun wasn't strong enough to transform thorium into uranium.
Okay happy campers.
Anyone remember the jihadistan types wandering around buying up tracphones and separating the batteries? Lithium-ion batteries?
FBI Investigates Cell Phone Purchase ($60,000 worth of prepaid cell phones)
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posted on
08/07/2007 2:03:31 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
To: Smokin' Joe
I think they were for resale, or possibly for use by terror cells, but it’s about the last way anybody would go about putting together a nuke.
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posted on
08/07/2007 6:34:38 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
To: Wonder Warthog
The guy has a lot of intelligence.
Little wisdom, and a shorter life: But a lot of intelligence.
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posted on
08/07/2007 6:42:00 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(JOIN THE NRA: https://membership.nrahq.org/forms/signup.asp)
To: Travis McGee
it’s about the last way anybody would go about putting together a nuke. One could make a lot of trouble with this stuff and be way short of making an actual fission weapon.
Just a thought.
L
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posted on
08/07/2007 6:50:13 AM PDT
by
Lurker
(Comparing moderate islam to extremist islam is like comparing small pox to ebola.)
To: SandRat
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posted on
08/07/2007 7:39:29 AM PDT
by
fgoodwin
(Fundamentalist, right-wing nut and proud father of a Star Scout!)
To: Travis McGee
...but it’s about the last way anybody would go about putting together a nuke. True enough, but they don't need a bomb, just a 'hot' mess to scatter around--and this had been in the news.
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posted on
08/07/2007 9:06:43 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
To: fgoodwin
It now looks like he’s going to trial for his little stunt.
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posted on
08/07/2007 4:17:43 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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