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He won't. He needs all his piss for the compost pile to make black powder.
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that ivy guy posted:"Pollution was so heavy at the mouth of the wastewater canal, a figure of 2 kg of mercury per ton of sediment was measured: a level that would be economically viable to mine. Indeed, Chisso did later set up a subsidiary to reclaim and sell the mercury recovered from the sludge.[17]" If I could write up a proposal for a 2000g/t Hg mine with limited beneficiation required, on or near the surface, my bosses would draft a press release and crack out the champagne. Memento has a new favorite as of 02:38 on Aug 2, 2017 |
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that ivy guy posted:"Pollution was so heavy at the mouth of the wastewater canal, a figure of 2 kg of mercury per ton of sediment was measured: a level that would be economically viable to mine. Indeed, Chisso did later set up a subsidiary to reclaim and sell the mercury recovered from the sludge.[17]" 
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that ivy guy posted:"Pollution was so heavy at the mouth of the wastewater canal, a figure of 2 kg of mercury per ton of sediment was measured: a level that would be economically viable to mine. Indeed, Chisso did later set up a subsidiary to reclaim and sell the mercury recovered from the sludge.[17]" Memento posted:If I could write up a proposal for a 2000g/t Mg mine with limited beneficiation required, on or near the surface, my bosses would draft a press release and crack out the champagne. That's great, but what about mercury? 
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GWBBQ posted:For reference, 1 ton of sand is two thirds of a cubic meter. Yeah I spotted that one myself well after the fact. Anyway, it's fine, it's just a little HCl 'Little boom explosions' heard as hydrochloric acid tanker erupts in flames on Pacific Motorway Mostly disappointed out of this in discovering that the Logan Hyperdome isn't some manner of two-man-enter-one-man-leave blood pit, and in fact is a regular suburban shopping centre.
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Memento posted:Mostly disappointed out of this in discovering that the Logan Hyperdome isn't some manner of two-man-enter-one-man-leave blood pit, and in fact is a regular suburban shopping centre. Black Friday is still a thing.
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A mall shouldn't be allowed to have a name that cool.
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That's how things are named these days. If I had to guess before knowing, I'd say the Logan Hyperdome was a shopping centre on the south Irish coast with 10 shops, a Burger King and a 3 screen cinema
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The Kingston Mall in Kingston, MA was renamed to the incredibly goofy-sounding "Kingston Collection". I guess technically it is a collection of stores.
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Memento posted:Mostly disappointed out of this in discovering that the Logan Hyperdome isn't some manner of two-man-enter-one-man-leave blood pit
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Yawgmoth posted:Every person to enter has to dress like their favorite version of Wolverine. "Wolverine goes to thunderdome, results are predictably bloody" doesn't make for good cinema
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Memento posted:Mostly disappointed out of this in discovering that the Logan Hyperdome isn't some manner of two-man-enter-one-man-leave blood pit, and in fact is a regular suburban shopping centre. If you knew the Logan area, you'd appreciate how close to the mark you actually are. If someone told me they had a bare-knuckle fist fighting ring there sponsored by a company that sold premixed rum and cola, I'd believe it.
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Yawgmoth posted:Every person to enter has to dress like their favorite version of Wolverine. What if your favorite version is Laura Kinney?
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German woman mistakes WW2 white phosphorus for amberquote:A German woman narrowly escaped injury after picking up an object she believed to be amber but which then spontaneously combusted.
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I've heard that this is happens with sulfur mustard, as it is very chemically stable. When barrels or munitions disposed of at sea finally corrode through, it gels and leaks out into little lumps that look like pieces of amber. I've never read a story that started with someone picking up what looks like a piece of amber washed ashore that ended happily.
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Syd Midnight posted:I've heard that this is happens with sulfur mustard, as it is very chemically stable. When barrels or munitions disposed of at sea finally corrode through, it gels and leaks out into little lumps that look like pieces of amber. I've never read a story that started with someone picking up what looks like a piece of amber washed ashore that ended happily. Still happens around the New England coast, too: http://archive.boston.com/news/science/articles/2010/06/09/weapons_are_common_catch_fishermen_say/
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Aug 6, 2017 17:07
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Didn't the military lose a nuclear bomb in the Carolina region?
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Randaconda posted:Didn't the military lose a nuclear bomb in the Carolina region? Two!
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Here's a good doco that talks about many such incidents, narrated by Adam West of all people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpFSefIsZkc
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Randaconda posted:Holy poo poo. I mean, they found one of them! (They know the location of the other, it's buried in a field somewhere, but when they dig down to it, they hit groundwater and it's really hard to extract it.) The Air Force bought the land where the bomb is and put a fence around it. Occasionally, they go and test the soil and water to make sure it's not leaking any radioactive material. There's another one lost somewhere off the coast of Georgia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Tybee_Island_mid-air_collision
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CellBlock posted:I mean, they found one of them! (They know the location of the other, it's buried in a field somewhere, but when they dig down to it, they hit groundwater and it's really hard to extract it.) Yeah, I don't think there are any that "lost", meaning "Well we looked between the cushions. We also looked in the freezer, because hey, if you don't check you'll never know". More like "we *know* where they are, but they are either physically inaccessible, too expensive to recover, or a mix of both".
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I mean my dad put his glasses in the freezer once. You never know.
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CellBlock posted:I mean, they found one of them! (They know the location of the other, it's buried in a field somewhere, but when they dig down to it, they hit groundwater and it's really hard to extract it.) Surprised they don't just do that thing they do with Northern diamond mines where they do a ring of piles around it and freeze the ground water and dig it up.
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If there's enough water, they might be worried that the ice expansion cracking the shell/internals? Or damage to it getting the equipment in place?
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From an end of life cycle point of view, you can only really dream of burying nuclear material. To extract something from the ground or ocean to just stick it in a warehouse to watch it is kind of backwards so in situ monitoring is what they are going to go for if it's at all allowed and can be spun by saying the extraction is more dangerous than anything they'd gain by locking it up in hot storage for a century.
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If anyone is interested in the terminology of nuclear weapon incidents, here is a relevant Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_nuclear_incident_terminology It has a list of Broken Arrow incidents, including the ones discussed here, as well as some code words you never want to hear, like Empty Quiver.
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Yet not as scary as the quiver full movement.
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Cichlidae posted:some code words you never want to hear, like Empty Quiver. Which is the technical term for the events in that Slater/Travolta movie.
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Cichlidae posted:If anyone is interested in the terminology of nuclear weapon incidents, here is a relevant Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_nuclear_incident_terminology Or Nucflash. That would be unpleasant.
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Hearing NucFlash would be positively chilling. And then it would hit you.
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I wonder how many nuclear weapons Russia/USSR lost in similar ways? Probably a few, but they seem less forthcoming about the incidents.
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I think the main culprit for nukes leaving the hands of the USSR was them being stationed in places like Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus when the Union dissolved.
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Computer viking posted:I wonder how many nuclear weapons Russia/USSR lost in similar ways? Probably a few, but they seem less forthcoming about the incidents. They lost at least two of their nuclear generators for their lighthouses. Obviously that's not weapons-grade, but it'd still be useful if someone wanted to contaminate a wide area.
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The lighthouse generators are Strontium-90 RTGs. You could make an extremely primitive dirty bomb with it, but it would probably be more annoying to clean up than lethal.
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The main cause of deaths from a jury-rigged radiological weapon wouldn't be cancer, it'd be the panic.
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Probably a lot since it's Russia.
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Memento posted:I think the main culprit for nukes leaving the hands of the USSR was them being stationed in places like Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus when the Union dissolved. And nobody's used them, and probably also hasn't maintained them, so they're past their use by dates (Russian nukes have a shelf life of 12-15 years). If somebody isn't periodically replacing the explosive charges the bomb might as well be a radioactive paperweight.
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Cichlidae posted:If anyone is interested in the terminology of nuclear weapon incidents, here is a relevant Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_nuclear_incident_terminology Wikipedia, who is never wrong posted:Pinnacle Man, that just sounds like a Trump tweet.
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In response to the US PGS initiative Russia went all-in on nuclear ICBM development in 2009 and have started building the RS-28 Sarmat super-heavy ICBM platform which can deliver 10-24 MIRVs with a maximum yield of 50Mt based on throw-weight. It's approximately 1-2 years from being fielded at which point it will be the most powerful weapon ever constructed. Because of this focus I'd assume that Russia is extremely conscious of where it's warheads and physics packages are, collapse of former Soviet bloc countries not withstanding. Then again given the number of RVs the Sarmat can lift it is capable of being an extremely dangerous weapon even with low yields as it can deploy a massive array of penaids to overwhelm most complexes, including Aegis BMD.
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