[LAU] OT: metal, money, changes, bleg

[Patrick Shirkey]

On 04/04/2011 04:49 PM, jwm.art.net at gmail.com wrote:
> Hey patrick why don't you have a go yourself like this boy scout did ;-D
> http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html
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Is that the kid from New York?

Knowing how to make WMD's and actually doing it are completely different 
things. One requires insight and understanding of advanced nuclear 
physics and the other requires a callous disregard for humanity. Not 
everyone can make the leap. I personally couldn't bring myself to do it 
which is why I am not a part of the Military apparatus.

A far better use of my time and much more appealing to me from a end 
user perspective would be to create enough energy to enable 
teleportation to be possible.

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> From: Patrick Shirkey<pshirkey at boosthardware.com>
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> Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:42:48
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> Subject: Re: [LAU] OT: metal, money, changes, bleg
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> On 04/04/2011 04:14 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
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>> Patrick Shirkey wrote:
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>>> So just to make sure I am correct here... All nuclear weapons require an
>>> assisted explosion?
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>> Yes, you need both high heat and high pressure to force the fissile
>> material into the required chain reaction.
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> So, just having enough Pu-239 in one location is definitely,
> categorically not going to be able to cause a nuclear explosion? Not
> even a little one that might cause a rapid escalation?
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>>> It's categorically impossible for Plutonium-239 to
>>> become critical without assistance from an explosion of some other fuel
>>> or high energy source?
>>>
>>> You don't have super heated Pu-239 actively being created in a semi
>>> critical chain reaction. If it gets unstable there is not enough neutron
>>> flux to make baby go boom.
>>>
>>>        
>> As explained here:
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>>       https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Criticality_accident
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> Gotta love wikipedia.  Instant truth just add complement set ;-)
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>> there have been a number of criticality accidents, but they always
>> create so much heat that the fissile material expands and the conditions
>> cease to be critical.
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>>      
> So far so good, nuclear physics being of course entirely understood and
> modelled and no gaps exist is current knowledge of the fundamental
> processes involved :-)
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-- 
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd.