Bikini Atoll #
Posted Monday 3rd December 2007 14:14 GMT
Is that the answer that connects them all?
Posted Monday 3rd December 2007 13:38 GMT
Is this treatment for nuclear piles, perhaps?
Posted Monday 3rd December 2007 13:52 GMT
Now we know how the radiactive material was introduced into Alexander Litvinenko's body...
Posted Monday 3rd December 2007 14:02 GMT
.. processing takes an additional 4 to 5 days.
I'll have to put back my evil scheme for world domination back a week.
Posted Monday 3rd December 2007 14:02 GMT
Standing around in their underwear suggest the ladies to be more like common ores to me.
I'll get my etc.
Posted Monday 3rd December 2007 14:02 GMT
I followed that link (OK, so its a boring day), and although the "also bought" link now lacks the French knickers, the next item beside the, umm, medical devices is "The Simpsons Movie, (widescreen edition)". Not to mention the "Fresh whole rabbit" and the UFO O2 detector... You have to wonder.
Posted Monday 3rd December 2007 15:04 GMT
Ah, so Doc Brown was right! 22 years into the future, and you can already buy nuclear fuel!
Anyway ... it would still take Marty a week to get his DeLorean running again ...
Posted Monday 3rd December 2007 16:48 GMT
I don't get it? Why does Amazon.com sell a variety of anal douches? I always knew our septic cousins were a little strange...
Posted Monday 3rd December 2007 17:00 GMT
I'm waiting for a science-bod to post reasons on why this is nothing for us to worry about.
Anyone?
Posted Monday 3rd December 2007 17:58 GMT
Uranium 238 is hardly radioactive at all and isn't nearly unstable enough to produce a sustained chain reaction. This is probably what they've got left over after they pull the fissionable U235 out of it. Stock ore comes with about 0.77% U235, you need 3% for most fission reactors, and something like 95% before it is considered weapons grade. As far as I know just about anyone can buy U3O8 (Uranium Oxide) ore for about $30/lb, but that isn't terribly useful unless you've got an impressive enrichment setup in your basement.
Would make for a neat paperweight though...
Posted Monday 3rd December 2007 17:58 GMT
The uranium on offer is U238, which is only an emitter of weak alpha particles. The stuff that goes "Bang!" is U235, which is found in naturally extracted uranium but comprises less than 1% . That's why the Middle East camel jockeys are busy churning out centrifuges.
If the label on the jar is accurate and it contains just U238 then what they are selling is Depleted Uranium, popular in military circles for making very dense penetrators. Which could, I suppose, explain why "People who bought ............
Posted Monday 3rd December 2007 17:58 GMT
The other customer must have been Ahmedinijad.
Posted Monday 3rd December 2007 19:07 GMT
Further down the page is the "Customers who viewed this item also viewed..." section which has something interesting on page 9/9.
SPECIAL ORDER DEPT. 30 MISC.
For $227,272,727.27 ???
I'll take 4 of those......
Posted Monday 3rd December 2007 19:07 GMT
<-- wrong finger, but you get the idea ...
Try searching Amazon for "UFO detector" -- you also get rectal syringes.
It's only the polite thing to do, if you are expecting to get anally probed.
Posted Monday 3rd December 2007 21:58 GMT
Is he a good friend of Ivor Biggun and Hugh Jass by any coincidence?
Posted Monday 3rd December 2007 21:58 GMT
Amazon customers who bought armored land tanks ALSO bought anal douches!
http://www.amazon.com/JL421-Badonkadonk-Land-Cruiser-Tank/dp/B00067F1CE/ref=pd_sbs_misc_title_1
Posted Monday 3rd December 2007 23:48 GMT
http://www.imagesco.com/geiger/radioactive-sources.html
go to the source of all the interesting linking.
not near as humorous as the Amazon links though.
Posted Tuesday 4th December 2007 08:39 GMT
It makes a lovely colour in paint or as a glaze (as does lead), but like lead or any other heavy metal, it is very poisonous.
Posted Tuesday 4th December 2007 09:51 GMT
I see customers also bought Shrek 3 DVD which could explain his(?) colour.