Oldest Weapons-grade Plutonium Found In Dump 552
Urchin writes "Researchers have just identified the first batch of weapons-grade plutonium ever made. The batch was produced as part of the Manhattan Project, but predates Trinity — the first nuclear weapon test — by seven months. It was unearthed in a waste pit at Hanford, Washington, inside a beaten up old safe."
Re:Mystery Pits (Score:5, Funny)
Don't worry, it's only a matter of time before a crew of teenage crime-fighters mutates into existence. Hanford will then be the safest place in the world!
Junior high all over again (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Mystery Pits (Score:3, Funny)
I heard Iran wanted this significant piece of history for the space museum that they plan to launch at us for all Americans to enjoy.
Researchers (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Mystery Pits (Score:4, Funny)
At the cost of hundreds of thousands of civilian Japanese lives.
That's what happens when your Emperor and your military piss off America.
I guess that (Score:5, Funny)
Richard Feynman mustn't have had access to this particular safe.
Re:Mystery Pits (Score:1, Funny)
They should have put the waste in a lead refridgerator. Why, that would stop a nuclear bomb!
Re:Worth a read - interesting article (Score:5, Funny)
The real shame is that Doc Brown never had to get involved with terrorists after all.
Back To The Future (Score:3, Funny)
If you could just find a Delorean in the same junkyard, you'd have one-stop shopping for a time machine.
Re:Mystery Pits (Score:3, Funny)
But perfectly post WWII....
What's your point?
Re:Mystery Pits (Score:5, Funny)
Worst case scenario, you give a half-dozen people lung cancer. Not exactly an effective weapon.
Just make sure you don't detonate it in the smoking area, or you'll never even know if it was effective....
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Re:Mystery Pits (Score:4, Funny)
Ah because the good old US of A is the perfect country where sunshine flows out of the assholes of the general population.
Try reading my post. I said the US makes mistakes and blunders. Apparently reading (and comprehension) is NOT fundamental for you.
Do you even realise that you get taught a biased version of world events?
I don't depend on any one source, or any one nations' sources for my information. They now have this wonderful thing called the "internet" now. You probably know it as that thing Al Gore invented. (Yes, that's sarcasm.)
Actually the EU provides more official foreign development aid than the US.
http://www.results.org/website/article.asp?id=3558 [results.org]
The EU states of France germany and the UK alone beat the US and when you consider how much wealthier the US is those countries are giving twice the percentage of Gross National Income that the US is. Now that's no reason to knock the US, any donation is a help when it comes to these things.
So, you quote some private non-governmental organization with a vested interest in pressuring the richer countries to contribute more and that uses statistics (lies, damn lies, and statistics) to "prove" the US isn't "doing it's fair share". Here's a news flash Bunky...WE DON"T OWE ANYONE A DAMNED THING! We give and in the amount we choose because that is OUR prerogative, not yours or anyone elses.
But but but but...fox news said america is the only country in the world that ever does anything good!!!!!
This is the second time you've mentioned Fox News in this one post. Obsess, much?
On balance I'd call the US a positive force in the world...
I agree. :)
Nice strawman you've built there. I never said that. I don't believe that. I *do* believe that Amnesty International has become politicized and has become a tool of the more left-leaning ideologues in recent times, which is sad. Especially for those to whom they could be devoting those resources that are instead being used to wage political/ideological attacks.
First- Check your fact.
*I* have, but in your case it's apparent that there are none so blind as those that refuse to see.
Second- stop with the fucking persecution complex.
Right. Because everyone knows that the US never gets unfairly-bashed, especially on /. .
By the way, how is that whole Darfur thing working out for you guys? I'm sure you must have it well in hand by now, no? After all, you *are* so much more caring than the "E-vil" USA...right?
It's ok, son...when you gain some age & maturity, you'll be able to separate your emotions from logic and actual history, and be able to think these things through more clearly.
Strat
1.21 Gigawatts (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, it would have made the whole lightning plot completely moot. Then Marty would only have had incest to deal with!
Re:Mystery Pits (Score:2, Funny)
Words like Plutonium tend to attract hawks and repell hippies. If you'd said "Weapons grade Phish" or "Weapons grade Marijuana" you'd get the opposite.
I don't know about you.. (Score:3, Funny)
But I'll take the computing power of Oppenheimer, Fermi, Bohr, Segre, Einstein, Teller, Szilard, Compton, Bethe, Tolman, von Karman, Ulam, Feynman, etc etc over any supercomputer every day of the week ;)
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Some of the math suggested it would ignite the atmosphere and kill everybody
Well at least we wouldn't be dealing with environmentalists now if that were true.
Unearthed... (Score:2, Funny)
"It was unearthed in a waste pit at Hanford, Washington, inside a beaten up old safe." With about fifty caps and a copy of "Guns and Bullets"