One of my favourite bits (and a fine example of Randall's sublime humour), comes right at the end: But just to be sure, I got in touch with a friend of mine wh

One of my favourite bits (and a fine example of Randall's sublime humour), comes right at the end: But just to be sure, I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research reactor, and asked him what he thought would happen to you if you tried to swim in their radiation containment pool. “In our reactor?” He thought about it for a moment. “You’d die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds.”