Posted on 03/18/2011 2:30:55 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Iodide? Iodide? Oh, crap. I thought it was potassium cyanide.
Note to self: don't use the office water cooler for awhile.
That is Outstanding, with a capital “O”. It may have been written 20 years ago, but it’s never been more relevant than it is today. Thank you so much for sharing it. Are you Dr. Cohen?
Only works if you also eat the label off of the bottle.
Nope, but I’ve long admired his work.
See no eye protection, now she has green eyes.
After reading this chapter and his CV, I can certainly see why. Too bad the news media doesn’t use someone like that as a go-to expert rather than anti-nuke freaks with agendas best accomplished by fomenting panic.
Radium Dial? You’re kidding. I’m a 76 year old watchmaker, and as a kid apprentice we really used radium dials and renewed the radium in watch hands. I think I still have some in my bench somewhere.
Every now and then, when I re-do hands with MODERN luminous compound I, without thinking about it, tell my customer that I put new RADIUM into his watch hands. I’ve seen people turn pale, pull off their watch, threaten to sue, and one nut ran to the hospital ER, demanding treatment for radiation poisoning.
Some people will just magnify anything they hear, no thinking, no logic, no rationale, just instant panic.
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