Bookmark and Share

March 2009

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31        

DU - Depleted Uranium

« Open Letter: Why Nuclear Power is Unsafe & Not Clean by Scott Leyland, Green Party of Canada | Main | NUCLEAR FREE ZONE: DNA and Mitochondrial Time Bombs: Uranium, Mercury and Diabetes/Depleted Uranium and Mercury toxicity: What to Do? »

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d83451faf769e200d83545424053ef

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Bob Nichols Answers An Email Question: "Where did you get the idea that the [uranium] weapons are highly radioactive? Uranium is bearly [barely] radioactive. ":

Comments

john mccarthy

Ever heard of the game called "Liar's Dice"

It's played daily in the Officer's Club bars around the country and the world where Colonel's and lesser officer's gather for Happy Hour to wash away the dregs of military life with a few beers after a hard days work at prepping the newly recruited for the sand boxes of Afghanistan and Iraq (and maybe soon in Iran).

Six dice in a cloth cup are shaken and slammed or rolled easily onto the bar. The first "liar" stealthfully views his dice in the cup and then claims he has an amount of dice of a certain value, and anticipating the amounts in each of the other "liars" cups.

Three to seven other "liars", each having a cup of six dice, take their turn by increasing the number of dice bearing a given value, such as "twenty aces (ones), if there are seven "liars" playing. That's a safe bet (lie) especially if "liar" number one has at least four aces (ones showing only to the "liar".) The "game" continues until one of the "liars" calls the bluffs!. Then all the dice are shown and if the number of aces (ones) exceeds the "lie" then the caller owes all other "liars" one dollar. If the caller counts less than the last "liar" offers, that "liar" owes everyone else a dollar.

Simple, eh?

Of course it could be fives or sixes as the "lie" progresses.

Same game can be played with dollar bills.

Now all we need is some enterprising soul to take a few dice and dollar bills and "contaminate" them with DU dust from a target in Afganistan or Iraq and provide the Colonel's in the above article with the opportunity to play "liars" with the objects they are telling the troops is absolutely not harmful to them.

Of course, the "liars" would be made aware of the DU presence on the dice or dollars. That would give the Colonel's their "military option" of opting out of the "game", an option the poor bastards in the field of war do not have.

That would set the record straight!

"Liars" anyone?

Rhotel1

What exactly are Bob Nichols' credentials to make this reply? He has no scientific degree or training and he basically bullies anyone who disagrees with him. The correct answer can be obtained from any Chemistry or Physics professor, so why not go there instead of to Nichols who is a total phony.

Verify your Comment

Previewing your Comment

This is only a preview. Your comment has not yet been posted.

Working...
Your comment could not be posted. Error type:
Your comment has been posted. Post another comment

The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. Please try again.

As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.

Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.

Working...

Post a comment