Well, as long as they don’t eat it or snort it, they should generally be fine, as well.
I mean, this guy (and several others) were injected with Pu-238. He lived another 20 years or so and died of heart disease. None of the people injected with plutonium in this nutso experiment died of it.
Eating it would not be much of a problem. Plutonium is absorbed into the body very poorly from the digestive system. The idea that plutonium is an extremely dangerous toxin is a myth, largely perpetrated by Ralph Nader. Dr. Bernard Cohen once famously challenged Nader by offering to eat a certain amount of plutonium if Nader would eat an equivalent mass of caffeine. Nader wisely declined, as caffeine is far more poisonous than plutonium.
Unfuckingbelievable! Interesting read. Curiously, he never knew he had been injected.
Yeah, breathing it is much more dangerous than eating it. It’s generally pretty safe to have around unless it’s powdered and floating in the air.
I can buy that, if you eat it, it relatively quickly just passes through. But I’d have thought that an injection would be lethal in fairly short order.
Yes, very interesting. I was also slightly surprised to see that he appears to have been a white guy.
Sadly, so true.
To clarify, it’s sad to be surprised that it’s a white guy as we know that has not historically been the case.
This part has been in the O’Reilly catalog for at least 13 years.
If it will charge to 121 GW instead of 1.21 GW, it is better. Capacitors store charge, they do not require a level of charge to operate. It stores Coulombs, not power measured in Watts.
reminds me of this:
(that is a completely legit finish mil.surplus et al website (and a great one at that!)
Here is another example of how a product they actually sold:
I must have spent dozens of hours on their website over the past 5-10 years … always entertaining!