Uranium ore, you can buy it at [del]$25.00[/del] $24.95.
Same question goes for the more potent stuff, at $150.00
Interested mostly in effect of radiation. Half-life probably not an issue as a purchasing decision. No doubt other effects will be suggested.
Are you a man or woman?
You’d be able to wear a T-Shirt saying HOT with a downward pointing arrow and not run afoul of truth-in-labeling laws.
♩ Super penis, Super penis, does whatever a Super penis does… ♩
Uranus will fall off.
This link gives some interesting info.
According to that site, at 500CPM you’ll receive the US average annual exposure in 42 days. At 10,000CPM (the good stuff) you’ll reach that level in 2 days.
After 86 days, or 4 days with the more active ore, you’ll gain a 1 in 10,000 chance of cancer.
The other stat is “Days for earliest onset of radiation sickness”, which is 5,187 for the 500CPM sample and 259CPM for the 10,000CPM.
So, you’ll give yourself a slightly increased chance of cancer, eventually. And if you keep the high radiation stuff nearby for long enough, it might make you ill.
Uranium decays through alpha emission, which means that intact skin will protect you completely, although mucous membranes are very susceptible. It decays into thorium though, which decays through beta emission and can easily pass through skin to damage living tissue.
Considering all the mucous membranes in that area, I’d find a different pocket to keep your ore in, unless penile cancer is your thing.
And you’d probably be to really mess with the radiologist the next time you go in for a CT scan.
5,187 and 259 Days, if that wasn’t clear.
Your pants will fall down.
You’d become the punchline of a very old joke.
The ore goes in the front of your underpants.
The various isotopes of uranium present in the ore all exhibitalpha decay. Bad if taken internally (where it can directly irradiate living tissue), but alpha radiation impinging on the outer surface of your body is stopped by the outermost layer of dead ski cells.
Edit: ninja’d by…everybody. shoulda refreshed before I replied… :smack:
As indicated by the website I think you would have created a scientific instrument.
Any erections you get lasting longer than 4.5 billion years, you should go see a doctor.
You may have torn underpants or a hernia - you realize those are lead containers - right ?
Your username would take on a whole new meaning?
[Randy Marsh]It’s only a little cancer, Stan.
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If you are male - lightsabre
If female - the ability to, in complete darkness, see where you’re peeing. No more falling in should the seat be left up.
All the ladies would whisper to one another: “That Leo Bloom, he’s a real hottie in bed!”
(Senegoid rushes out to invest his life savings in uranium futures.)
But the children will all resemble Godzilla.