[–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Well it was from an old chemistry set, I would be impressed if it had 95% purity and god knows what the other 5% are.

Also it depends a little bit on how big the vial was, a small HPLC vial may only have contained 100mg, the buttplug style vial they often use to showcase ores/salts may contain like 1kg of it. And also if it was properly sealed or just plugged.

Last factor would be time, a Prof swallowing 10mg once a year has contact with this stuff for 60 days, but lets say she got it from her brother when he was age 15 that would mean semi-close contact 8 hours a day for 80 years. Also the Prof hopefully didnt swallow more of it as uranium apart from being radioactive is also toxix although it takes like 8g to kill one, given the density thats not a too big pill to swallow.

Finally its still only a chance, every bit of radioactivity that hits you could be the one causing cancer.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    The country that had the first nuclear reactor connected to the grid was the USSR with Obninsk. The scientist first discovering nuclear fission were the chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann and physicists Lise Meitner and Otto Robert Frisch (all german and austrian).

    The first manned spaceflight was Vostok 1 with Yuri Gagarin (USSR).

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    This was not advice for your average gamer, getting another fan for their PC build. It is more for the "I have this weird shape and geometry where I need to attach a fan with such weird geometries that their is no commercial viable alternative" crew.

    Also a solvent chamber is just a jar ideally with lid but even thats optional.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Great idea centralizing the drop of stops and doing that every 200m or so in a grid, especially at places of interest. Now you could make the self driving cars a little bigger so they carry more people. You could even connect several cars. At that point you can basically add a safety driver back in, with 20 ride sharers its still 95% self driving (compare that to Waymos that have uncertified safety drivers remoting from the Phillipines for 20% of the time). Run them on a predictable, frequent schedule, so you dont need an app to call them.

    Finally make them drive in a separate lane, on iron tracks and make them draw their energy from an overhead wire for maximum efficiency.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Given the craftsmanship on display here, I bet 10 money that they used the most simple way: hammering a nail slightly larger than the screw through the spoon (which is not that hard, especially if it's silver).

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