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Police arrest Swedish man who tried to split atom in his kitchen.

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  • #32
    Magic Beans
    Closed Accounts Posts: 329 ✭✭Magic Beans


    Or maybe he wasn't trying to split the atom at all, maybe he bought it in IKEA and was trying to put it together.


  • #33
    SuperInfinity
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,449 ✭✭✭SuperInfinity


    You people disgust me. This isn't funny at all.

    Why laugh at something so dangerous? There's something mentally wrong with people who laugh at this.


  • #34
    Emiko
    Closed Accounts Posts: 449 ✭✭Emiko


    SuperInfinity wrote: »
    You people disgust me. This isn't funny at all.

    Why laugh at something so dangerous? There's something mentally wrong with people who laugh at this.

    No need to be so Bohr'ing.


  • #35
    niemad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 63 ✭✭niemad


    It's so surreal that it is funny, thats why people are laughing :P


  • #36
    Fremen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭Fremen


    skelliser wrote: »
    besides the health and safety aspects i dont see what wrong this guy did! all the tools and components can be gotten easily enough.

    People can't go around splitting atoms willy-nilly. There are only so many atoms out there, and if people go around splitting them whenever they feel like it, pretty soon we'll run out. And where will we be then? Answer me that!


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  • #37
    Fremen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭Fremen


    SuperInfinity wrote: »
    You people disgust me. This isn't funny at all.

    Why laugh at something so dangerous? There's something mentally wrong with people who laugh at this.

    Easy there, don't have a meltdown.


  • #38
    senorwipesalot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭senorwipesalot


    Hachet chop


  • #39
    SuperInfinity
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,449 ✭✭✭SuperInfinity


    niemad wrote: »
    It's so surreal that it is funny, thats why people are laughing :P

    Well answered, but that's the whole problem. People seem to be disconnected from reality.

    They call it "progress" when science allows us to do things more easily, even if allows people to blow everyone up more easily. Nobody wants the ability to blow up a city or the entire world in someone's kitchen, but hard as it may be to believe it could become a reality.


  • #40
    Emiko
    Closed Accounts Posts: 449 ✭✭Emiko


    SuperInfinity wrote: »
    Nobody wants the ability to blow up a city or the entire world in someone's kitchen.

    He was probably just trying to rustle up some fission chips.


  • #41
    PseudoFamous
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭PseudoFamous


    A friend of mine found a Tritrium vial on a Chinese website that sells incredibly cheap crap, which is marketed as a Glowing Keychain.. Semi worrying how easily someone could get that.


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  • #42
    Jam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 269 ✭✭Jam


    SuperInfinity wrote: »
    Well answered, but that's the whole problem. People seem to be disconnected from reality.

    They call it "progress" when science allows us to do things more easily, even if allows people to blow everyone up more easily. Nobody wants the ability to blow up a city or the entire world in someone's kitchen, but hard as it may be to believe it could become a reality.

    People also seem to be disconnected from facts. The bombs dropped on Japan, for example, contained 65kg of enriched Uranium each. This is not feasible without a centrifuge and a lot of government attention.
    PseudoFamous wrote:
    A friend of mine found a Tritrium vial on a Chinese website that sells incredibly cheap crap, which is marketed as a Glowing Keychain.. Semi worrying how easily someone could get that.

    Tritium is H3, unless you're planning to revolutionize science and the world by solving nuclear fusion, the best you could do is mildly poison your neighbours and that's only if they inhale it.


  • #43
    PseudoFamous
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭PseudoFamous


    Jam wrote: »
    Tritium is H3, unless you're planning to revolutionize science and the world by solving nuclear fusion, the best you could do is mildly poison your neighbours and that's only if they inhale it.

    Hey, I'm no rocket surgeon, I don't know much about it other than the fact that it's radioactive.


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