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2004-10-19 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Armenian Arrested With Radioactive Cesium
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Posted by Steve White 2004-10-19 1:32:29 AM|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 But the expert in the UK said the other day there was no such thing and not to worry. He said it was a hoax on the public. This must be more BusHiler propaganda to justify his imperial aims on the world.

/sarcasm
Posted by .com 2004-10-19 2:54:12 AM||   2004-10-19 2:54:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 How quickly does Cesium-137 break down to a non-radioactive substance?
Posted by trailing wife 2004-10-19 2:56:06 AM||   2004-10-19 2:56:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Nasty shit with a half-life of 30 years. The Cesium FAQ.
Posted by .com 2004-10-19 2:59:05 AM||   2004-10-19 2:59:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Crap. At least they caught the guy.
Posted by beer_me 2004-10-19 3:30:45 AM||   2004-10-19 3:30:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Bloody illiterate Americans - 'Caesium' after Julius Caesar.
Posted by Howard UK 2004-10-19 6:48:44 AM||   2004-10-19 6:48:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 found with radioactive cesium-137 in the trunk boot of his car

Hey, maybe just an alternative fuel project. Allan knows the camel dung option was a flop (on a sand dune).
Posted by RN  2004-10-19 7:13:55 AM||   2004-10-19 7:13:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Thanks .com. Nasty, indeed. One wonders how long the driver would have lasted, had he not been caught so quickly.

Yes, but Howard, y'all spell it 'aluminium' with that extra 'i' that almost doubles the time to say the word. How utterly inefficient!
Posted by trailing wife 2004-10-19 7:36:40 AM||   2004-10-19 7:36:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Condominum?
Posted by Howard UK 2004-10-19 7:57:28 AM||   2004-10-19 7:57:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Ignorant Limeys.

Check out the dictionary. Caesium is a variant. I hear the Poms got a lot of variants in their public schools. Makes 'em what the are.
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-10-19 8:20:42 AM||   2004-10-19 8:20:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 "#8 Condominum?"

Tantrium? :-)
Posted by Conanista 2004-10-19 8:28:13 AM||   2004-10-19 8:28:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Condominium? Perhaps Howard has seen one.

La parole de Jacques Chirac il aiment la diarrhée brûlante.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom  2004-10-19 8:34:07 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com]  2004-10-19 8:34:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 SPoD, sounds like phrench. Babelfish said it can translate but the result would be a gibberish.
Posted by Conanista 2004-10-19 8:43:36 AM||   2004-10-19 8:43:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 OED:

caesium
/seezim/ (US cesium)

• noun a soft, silvery, extremely reactive metallic chemical element.

— ORIGIN from Latin caesius ‘greyish-blue’ (because it has characteristic lines in the blue part of the spectrum).

Why does Chirac like burnt shit?
Posted by Howard UK 2004-10-19 8:43:41 AM||   2004-10-19 8:43:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 Well, why it is caesium then when it is actually seezim?
This is really bugging me sometimes... when someone says playdough and actually means Plato.
Posted by Conanista 2004-10-19 8:51:42 AM||   2004-10-19 8:51:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 Caesium ought to be spelt that way, IMO, as it's faithful to the Latin. Aluminum ought to be spelt and pronounced that way (what's wrong with Platinum?) as that's the original spelling. But then, in a perfect world (blogo)sphaere would be spelt with an a, and in the US, I'd like innocent pedophiles (foot-lovers to the rest of us) to be able to get on with their fetish without being mistaken for paedophiles... That 'a' is useful, dammit.
Posted by Bulldog  2004-10-19 9:36:44 AM||   2004-10-19 9:36:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 Obey the dog. Stay close to your latinate roots oh learned ones.
Posted by Howard UK 2004-10-19 9:38:27 AM||   2004-10-19 9:38:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#17 We should fight over our language more often.
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-10-19 9:46:53 AM||   2004-10-19 9:46:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#18 Well I will just use penderasts and let that be that not to be a pendant or anything.

All I know is this isn't radium this gomer was going to paint watch dials with. This is some nasty stuff. If it all came out of gauges someone is going to be very contaminated and may get a bad case of dead.

My brother told me about some kids down in Brazil (might be an urban legend) who some how got into Caesium that had been left some place. They smeared it all over their bodies. A very sad story. It's like these idiots who used to steal mercury swtiches out in the oil fields no idea about contamination. They would bring pounds of the stuff into their homes and play with it.

Only the criminally insane would knowingly try to illicitly trade in this radiologic material. Pump them for all the info yuou can get out of them then take them out to a ditch in back a shoot them. You will be doing them a favor because when they get ill they are going to be in a really bad and hopeless way.

And Howard it's just not any feces...
C'est juste aucun résidu. C'est diarrhée brûlante.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom  2004-10-19 10:00:38 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com]  2004-10-19 10:00:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#19 Malheuresement je ne comprends pas ton efforts avec la langue francaise. Pardon.
Posted by Howard UK 2004-10-19 10:05:00 AM||   2004-10-19 10:05:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#20 Bulldog> I think that "podophile" is actually the correct word for the foot-fetishists. Modern Greek "podi" for foot, from the ancient "pous" gen. "podos". -- no Epsilon anywhere that I'm aware of. Compare with "tripod".

Haven't a clue how words like "biped" came about though.
Posted by Aris Katsaris  2004-10-19 10:52:44 AM||   2004-10-19 10:52:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#21 "penderasts"? Is that someone who likes to hang out? Or one who likes hanging low?
Posted by trailing wife 2004-10-19 10:55:53 AM||   2004-10-19 10:55:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#22 It's from the Latin pedis, meaning foot. Like pedal, from the Latin pedalis - 'of the foot' (Latin 'foot' = pes or pedis). The Greek 'pod' strictly means 'foot' when used in English, but is also commonly used to denote 'leg' rather than 'foot', eg in 'bipod', 'tripod', compared with 'biped' or 'triped'. It's the myriad linguistic inheritances that makes English so versatile, so comprehensive, and so nuanced, you see. Heh.
Posted by Bulldog  2004-10-19 11:05:27 AM||   2004-10-19 11:05:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#23 tw - give SPoD a break! Obviously a typo, adding that n. He meant to write paederast, I'm sure...
Posted by Bulldog  2004-10-19 11:08:25 AM||   2004-10-19 11:08:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#24 Yes I meant paederast. Paedophile is more correct.
One people seperated by a common language at birth LOL and Yes I am spelling chalenged frequently. I try to use a dictionary.

Howard I have quit playing with the Bablefish my wife told me to knock it off. She teaches french and has warned me off repeatedly. J'ai perdu mon français. I only had one semester of conversational french years ago. We never speak it at home. I am learning (american) Spanish and am doing poorly at it right now.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom  2004-10-19 11:20:25 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com]  2004-10-19 11:20:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#25 My brother told me about some kids down in Brazil (might be an urban legend) who some how got into Caesium that had been left some place.

No legend: Accidental Leakage of Cesium-137 in Goiania, Brazil.

A scary story. But I find myself more boggled at the notion of "an abandoned cancer clinic". Makes Brazil sound post-apocalyptic.
Posted by Angie Schultz 2004-10-19 11:40:30 AM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com]  2004-10-19 11:40:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#26 I only had one semester of conversational french years ago. We never speak it at home.

Well, at least we know you're not John Kerry under that pseudonym...
Posted by Pappy 2004-10-19 11:51:00 AM||   2004-10-19 11:51:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#27 #18 Sock Puppet

No urban legend. The capsule was takenstolen , from a building where it had been left, as scrap and when it was broken open in a scrap yard the kids who were there noticed that it glowed and proceeded to paint themselves with it.
They died horribly.
Posted by Cynic 2004-10-19 12:22:19 PM||   2004-10-19 12:22:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#28 I was told one time of a guy who picked up a slug of Cobalt 60 that had fallen out of a radiography truck (the cable holding it inside the block of lead in which it was carried broke), and stuck it in his back pocket. He lost his gonads, penis, and one buttock. My source told me he saw the medical photos, and they were quite gruesome.
Posted by Ptah  2004-10-19 1:40:35 PM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]  2004-10-19 1:40:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#29 Cesium-137 (Cs-137):

Half-life: 30.17 years (!!) - radioactive as hell

Mode of decay: Beta and gamma radiation
Chemical properties: Liquid at room temperature, but readily bonds with chlorides to form a powder.
External exposure to large amounts of Cs-137 can cause burns, acute radiation sickness, and even death. Exposure to Cs-137 can increase the risk for cancer because of exposure to high-energy gamma radiation. Internal exposure to Cs-137, through ingestion or inhalation, allows the radioactive material to be distributed in the soft tissues, especially muscle tissue, exposing these tissues to the beta particles and gamma radiation and increasing cancer risk.
Posted by mojo  2004-10-19 1:50:09 PM||   2004-10-19 1:50:09 PM|| Front Page Top

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