Re: How much plutonium does it take
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Date: 08/31/04
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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 08:01:27 GMT
In sci.physics, Eric Gisse
<fsegg@!SPAMuaf.edu>
wrote
on Sat, 28 Aug 2004 17:13:40 -0800
<09b2j0dq05b8aak9lv9epaib1s3j4h5rob@4ax.com>:
> On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 00:00:52 GMT, The Ghost In The Machine
> <ewill@aurigae.athghost7038suus.net> wrote:
>
>>In sci.physics, Eric Gisse
>><fsegg@!SPAMuaf.edu>
>> wrote
>>on Sat, 28 Aug 2004 02:12:51 -0800
>><gim0j0918qqfausc7f9eqsd9ooei8f3dce@4ax.com>:
>>> On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 08:01:31 GMT, The Ghost In The Machine
>>> <ewill@aurigae.athghost7038suus.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>>I suppose one could get some positrons from a suitable
>>>>isotope, though. However, if 1 mole of isotope has
>>>>a half-life of 1 year then it would take a year to
>>>>accumulate 1/2 a mole of positrons. :-)
>>>
>>> An oddly intriguing idea.
>>
>>Indeed, though I for one have no idea how one would store
>>a half mole of positrons... :-)
>
> Yea :/
>
> This is the basic problem: Say you could handle keeping the damn thing
> in one piece [a feat in of itself], how would you keep the clump of
> positive charge from attracting everything?
>
> Everything for a very, very long distance.
>
> Find out what the force (6.022x10^23)/2 positively charges particles
> would exert on another charged particle. Wow.
And then there's the issue of what to do with the other side.
It's still radioactive, for starters -- and is now negatively
charged. If one is not careful there could be a lot of gamma
rays of a certain frequency in one's future.
(Ow.)
-- #191, ewill3@earthlink.net It's still legal to go .sigless.
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