A North Pole-based terrorist organization is also suspect. The suspect is described as bearded and known to favour red clothing.
Posted on 11/24/2006 7:04:42 AM PST by edpc
How about Amazon.com?
http://www.amazon.com/Static-Master-1c200-Static-Master-Brush/dp/B0000AE67S
"Staticmaster Brushes have a strip of polonium that neutralizes static electricity as the camel's hair brush removes dust from the negatives."
One might not do the trick but you can buy as many as you want.
Russia lol
So you think the Ruskies might have infiltrated a London hospital?
James Bond eat your heart out.
LOL!
I think anything is possible.
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American treats all of its war on terror suspects in clean well kept camps with the Red Cross on-site to monitor. The whole Muslim world riots and European leaders condemn us for the actions of a small group of idiots who put under ware on the comb-ants heads.
Syria assassinates two Christan Leaders in Lebanon and Russia kills off all political enemies including reporters and the media ignores it."
Yup ... the world is turned upside down.
Yes. The 210Po is an alpha emitter. Beryllium absorbs the alpha particles and emits neutrons. The neutrons initiate the Plutonium or Uranium fission. The alphas don't have much penetrating power, so small distances or lightweight shielding will suffice, and the Beryllium is inert until bombarded with alphas. If you bang the Be and Po together you get a shotgun blast of neutrons.
"Therefore: Polonium 210 is probably nothing that is that available (or is it possibly used for other purposes?)."
210Po can be ordered in small quantities over the Internet and occurs in various non-nuclear-weapons applications.
And precisely WHAT does that word *Bolshevik* mean, or to what is antonymous?
Polonium is a highly radioactive and toxic element and is dangerous to handle. Even in milligram or microgram amounts, handling polonium-210 is very dangerous and requires special equipment used with strict procedures. Direct damage occurs from energy absorption into tissues from alpha particles.
Add this to your database:
Polonium has 25 known isotopes, all of which are radioactive. They have atomic masses that range from 194 u to 218 u. 210Po is the most widely available. ... Polonium-210 is an alpha emitter that has a half-life of 138.376 days. ... .
Polonium dissolves readily in dilute acids, but is only slightly soluble in alkalis. It is closely related chemically to bismuth and tellurium. ... .
Toxicity
Polonium is a highly radioactive and toxic element and is very difficult to handle. Even in milligram or microgram amounts, handling 210Po is extremely dangerous, requiring specialized equipment and strict handling procedures. Alpha particles emitted by polonium will damage organic tissue easily if polonium is ingested, inhaled, or absorbed (though they do not penetrate the epidermis and hence are not hazardous if the polonium is outside the body).
The fatal dose (LD50, the dose that leads to 50% risk of death) for acute radiation exposure is generally about 4 Sv [21]. One Bq of 210Po (i.e., an amount that produces one decay per second) causes a radiation dose of 0.51 µSv if ingested, and 2.5 µSv if inhaled [22]. Since 210Po radiates 166 TBq per gram[22], a fatal 4-Sv dose can be caused by ingesting 8 MBq (200 microcurie), about 50 nanograms (ng), or inhaling 1.6 MBq (40 microcurie), about 10 ng. One gram of 210Po could thus in theory poison 100 million people. In addition to the acute effects, short-term radiation exposure carries a long-term risk of death from cancer of approximately 8% per Sv [23].
In rats a dose of 1.45 MBq/kg (8.7 ng/kg) of 210Po tends to cause death in about 30 days[24]. By this measure, 210Po is 400,000 times more toxic than hydrogen cyanide.
The maximum allowable body burden for ingested polonium is only 1,100 Bq (0.03 microcurie), which is equivalent to a particle weighing only 6.8 picograms. The maximum permissible concentration for airborne soluble polonium compounds is about 7,500 Bq/m3 (2 × 10-11 µCi/cm3). The biological half-life of polonium in humans is 30 to 50 days.
Notably, the death in 2006 of Alexander Litvinenko has been announced as probably due to 210Po poisoning.
One additional detail:
...the person who gets my award for best investigative blogging is Noah Shachtman at DefenseTech. He is the one that found the absolute gem.
The radioactive material that killed a former Russian spy in Britain can be bought on the Internet for $69.
Polonium-210, which experts say is many times more deadly than cyanide, can be bought legally through United Nuclear Scientific Supplies, a mail-order company that sells through the Web, based in Sandia Park, N.M. Chemcial companies sell the Polonium-210 legally for industrial use, such as removing static electricity from machinery. United Nuclear claims that it’s “currently the only legal Alpha source available without a license.”
The type of Polonium-210 sold emits alpha radiation, which can’t penetrate the skin, but is deadly if swallowed, depending on the amount ingested. The Polonium available on United Nuclear’s site can be purchased without a license because the level of radioactivity, 0.1 microcurie, does not pose a danger, a spokesman for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said.
But United Nuclear has a story. I’ll just let Noah say it.
United Nuclear is run by Bob Lazar, who, some 20 years ago, claimed to have worked on alien spaceships on a secret military base in Nevada… That’d be Area 51. ... .
See post #251, above.
A North Pole-based terrorist organization is also suspect. The suspect is described as bearded and known to favour red clothing.
Trick question. Remember the Gore-Bush debates?
Maximalist Al Gore
Posted: October 17, 2000
As we prepare to watch tonight's debate between the leading presidential candidates, last week's engagement might seem like old hat.
The debate has been analyzed by every head who can talk. Polls have been conducted. The talking heads have analyzed those as well. The op-eds have been written. Maybe I'm a little late to the party.
But I wanted to address something Al Gore said in last Tuesday's debate that was overlooked by all the other pontificating windbags.
"But look, Jim," Gore said as if he were having a dialogue with moderator Jim Lehrer, "the world is changing so rapidly, the way I see it, the world's getting much closer together. Like it or not, we are now -- the United States is now the natural leader of the world. All these other countries are looking to us."
Gore was explaining why the United States should not concern itself too much with how and why it commits military forces around the world.
"Now just because we cannot be involved everywhere, and shouldn't be, doesn't mean that we should shy away from going in anywhere."
This one bears repeating in my estimation.
"Now just because we cannot be involved everywhere, and shouldn't be, doesn't mean that we should shy away from going in anywhere."
Gore believes the U.S. should not shy away from sending troops anywhere, anytime. That's the man who is dangerously close to becoming president.
I think at the very moment those words came out of Gore's mouth, he realized he had said something that betrayed his actual opinions about the deployment of U.S. troops and the neo-imperialist approach of the Clinton-Gore era.
Notice where Gore went from there: "Now both of us are kind of, I guess, stating the other's position in a -- (laughs) -- in a maximalist, extreme way, but I think there is a difference here."
Gore was uneasy. He tried to make light of what he was saying. What caught my attention at the time I heard it was the word "maximalist." I hadn't heard that word in a long time. But I didn't know why. It seemed out of place. It seemed like a slip of the tongue.
Had Gore committed a Dan Quayle-style malapropism? No, actually, it was something much more interesting.
Here's the Websters Third International Dictionary entry for "maximalistic": "From maximaliste, fr. *maximal* + *iste* [-st]; intended as translation of Russian (bol'shevik) Bolshevik:
One that believes in or advocates immediate and direct action to secure the whole of a program or set of goals; specifically, a socialist advocating the immediate seizure of power by revolutionary means as opposed to gradual achievement of limited aims [as by the process of parliamentary democracy]."
There you have it. I knew I had heard that word before, but not for some time. It must have been 20 or 30 years ago when I was studying communism. It's not a word in my vocabulary. And I doubt it's a word in the vocabulary of most Americans. But it is, interestingly, in the vocabulary of Al Gore.
That's right, Al Gore, who, from birth was in the hip pocket of oil-baron Armand Hammer, friend to Lenin, friend to Stalin, friend to every Russian tyrant who succeeded them. The same Hammer who funneled hard cash to the Communist Party USA. You might call him Maximalist Armand Hammer.
Al Gore was groomed to be president from boyhood by his father, a senator who was totally compromised by his relations with Hammer and the money he took from him, as well as Hammer himself, who took a personal interest in Al Gore Jr. when he became a congressman. Hammer, meanwhile, was Moscow's pipeline to the capitalist funds it always needed to keep the illusion of socialism alive.
I think the Manchurian Candidate goofed. I've heard of a Freudian slip, but, until now, I've never witnessed a Marxian slip.
I'll be watching tonight's debate with renewed interest. You know, I don't have a dog in this race. But this is getting fascinating. What will Gore say next? Das vidonya?
So, the radioactive properties of polonium are completely irrelavant in this case.
Ummm, no. See #251, above.
Polonium is a highly radioactive and toxic element and is very difficult to handle. Even in milligram or microgram amounts, handling 210Po is extremely dangerous, requiring specialized equipment and strict handling procedures. ... .
...One gram of 210Po could thus in theory poison 100 million people. In addition to the acute effects, short-term radiation exposure carries a long-term risk of death from cancer of approximately 8% per Sv.
In rats a dose of 1.45 MBq/kg (8.7 ng/kg) of 210Po tends to cause death in about 30 days[24]. By this measure, 210Po is 400,000 times more toxic than hydrogen cyanide.
Yeah, the Bolsheviks believed in taking power immediately and instituting their vision of a "workers paradise", a la, the twisted vision of Marx and Engels as interpreted by the Bolshevik leaders Lenin and Trotsky. They violently seized power from their less radical "brethren", the Mensheviks who were allied with Kerensky in a provisional government, who had taken power after the deposing of the Czar.
Yes, I didn't realize how much activity Po-210 has. With only ~140 day half-life, this stuff is bad news.
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