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Outlawing tiny samples of specific elements is so ridiculous. Whats he gunna do with it, nuke a small ant hill with it? Make a neat spectrograph of it?
by AngryData 2y ago
Outlawing tiny samples of specific elements is so ridiculous. Whats he gunna do with it, nuke a small ant hill with it? Make a neat spectrograph of it?
- colechristensen 2y agoThe median lethal dose of Polonium-210 is about 50 nanograms. (1 twenty millionth of a gram) 30 mg of plutonium administered properly is fatal. Much less will give you a significant increased risk for cancer. These things are dangerous in any quantity and no amount of enthusiasm overrides the risk when it comes to writing laws.
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- atomicnumber3 2y ago1lb of hammer administered properly is also fatal and I can buy that at the store. EDIT: this also appears to be 30 nanograms, not mg.
- achierius 2y agoYou can buy bleach at the store, but if you drink a mouthful of it you're probably toast. We don't ban things just because they kill you when you eat them.
- somenameforme 2y agoTo say nothing of the fact that if you accidentally mix a bit with ammonia, which is extremely easy to do because they are both used in cleaning, you just created a deadly chemical weapon that is also a gas. The world would be much better, even if perhaps a bit 'scarier', if people treated each other like adults.
- cyberax 2y agoYou can buy a polonium anti-static brush for photofilm cleaning, with about 1 millicurie (~250 nanograms) of polonium. Absolutely legally: https://amstat.com/products/anti-static-brush-with-ionizing-cartridge-1.html https://amstat.com/products/anti-static-brush-with-ionizing-...