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If this had been found by the wrong people, what kind of nefarious uses could it have had?
by wayvey 4y ago
If this had been found by the wrong people, what kind of nefarious uses could it have had?
- defrost 4y agoTrophy in a clubhouse bar, slowly increasing the cancer risk of all the regulars.
- SturgeonsLaw 4y agoAny greater risk of cancer than when bars used to allow smoking?
- ragebol 4y agoRadiation-poison people? There's not enough material, even if it was Uranium or Plutonium to make any sort of bomb IIRC, you need kilos for that not, (micro)grams.
- gambiting 4y agoI think that's probably the biggest risk - you could just plant it somewhere where it wouldn't be found for a while, giving everyone around it major radiation sickness.
- ragebol 4y ago10 X-rays an hour according to Wikipedia [0], which is already updated to the news. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium-137?useskin=vector#January_2023_Western_Australia,_Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium-137?useskin=vector#Jan...
- gambiting 4y agoWikipedia doesn't say that, but it was given as a rate at one meter away. If you were to hold it in your hand or put it in your pocket, you'd give yourself radiation burns pretty much instantly. Imagine sticking this under(or even inside, it doesn't matter with gamma) a politician's desk where they sit for a few hours a day - at the beginning they wouldn't feel much, but after just one day the burns they suffer would be enormous.
- egorfine 4y agoIrradiate someone by putting the capsule in the immediate vicinity in their living space. That's about the evilest use I can imagine for this radiation source.
- akiselev 4y agoI am sad to inform you that you have no future as a supervillain. With a radiation source like this even a dust sized particle, if ingested or inhaled, is enough to cause excruciating death. Anything that turns the capsule into a powder and releases it into the air near a large group of people or into a water source or even a public pool could cause mass fatalities.
- egorfine 4y agoMass fatalities, no. Source: I have worked in Chernobyl. But anyway that's a way better suggestion because you can split one source into a vast multitude of opportunities to slit into someone's pillow. So excruciating death it is.
- sgt 4y agoImagine if some aboriginals found it and tried to make jewellery out of it. Probably not unlikely, seeing that it's a heavy metal object that can be drilled so that you can attach a necklace. The wearer would be in deep trouble.
- defrost 4y agoImagine if some aboriginals had found it because they had university degrees and worked in minesite radiation services. ADDED: (for the curious) Interview with a former Rio Tinto aboriginal minesite operator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWQ-FFgDRYk&t=64s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWQ-FFgDRYk&t=64s Job Oppotunities (BHP): https://www.bhp.com/careers/indigenous-peoples-bhp https://www.bhp.com/careers/indigenous-peoples-bhp
- WantonQuantum 4y agoWhat? Your view of Australia’s indigenous population seems to come from the 1850’s.