Tim May said:
Newbies should at least master what's been covered in Wired and Out
of Control and The Village Voice. All of the articles are online.
Don't forget Snopes, too.
-Tim
Tim May wrote...
You fucking cretin, _you_ are the one who cited the article and then
wrote:
I always get a distinct pleasure out of getting posters to go postal. This
is close and I'm laughing my ass off!
(Even better is to knock a poster out of his nym into a new one. Tim? How
about
On Tuesday, April 1, 2003, at 10:30 AM, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
Here's a story about a kid who basically made a duct-tape and tin foil
reactor. Or almost. If it's a hoax, its a pretty good one.
http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html
-TD
Inspiring... :)
This was widely reported, in a
This was widely reported, in a major magazine article (Atlantic
Monthly, if I remember correctly) several years ago. It was also
debunked.
Yes, it was an old story. But a nice one... :)
Debunked? How?
A reactor made with bits of smoke detectors (Am-241) and other cruft
is _not_ a reactor.
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 15:16, Tim May wrote:
This Tyler Durden nym claims to be a high school physics teacher,
IIRC, and also claims to have once worked in industry. The high
school part I find plausible, the industry part also plausible (given
some of the folks I had to work with).
And
On Tuesday, April 1, 2003, at 04:52 PM, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
He desperately needs to get up to speed.
Speed makes you paranoid in a while.
(...or would it be get up on speed? English propositions are a
minefield.)
The idiom comes from this form: get up to (achieve) a speed of 100
km/hour,
On Tuesday, April 1, 2003, at 01:29 PM, Tyler Durden wrote:
Poo Poo. I'd say it was a hoax, but there's not much to hoax. I don't
think the article ever says the kid created a reactor. He just brought
together a largish amount of radioactive material and made a mess.
You fucking cretin, _you_
of years (a cave of SONET and DWDM). There's lots of stuff that's
new to me and amusing, so if you don't like it you can hit the delete button
(or kick me out of your Anarchy again).
-TD
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Subject: Re: Duct-tape and tin foil nukular reactor?
Date
Here's a story about a kid who basically made a duct-tape and tin foil
reactor. Or almost. If it's a hoax, its a pretty good one.
http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html
-TD
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