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Re: Thanks Obama

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In article <nfb3fj$hap$1@dont-email.me>,
 Dean Worrell <Xworrelldk@XameritechX.net> wrote:

> On 4/21/2016 11:34 AM, Peter Flass wrote:
> > 3899jk <3899jk@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> "Peter Flass" <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> >> news:1367209542.482440737.837290.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-septemb
> >> er.org...
> >>> <mausg@mail.com> wrote:
> >>>> On 2016-04-14, Alan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca> wrote:
> >>>>> On 2016-01-20 5:40 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Maybe the F-35 is an upgrade of the A-10, which fired slugs made of
> >>>>>> depleted uranium.  It's the mass that counts...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It is not just the high mass of the U-238 slugs,
> >>>>> they ignite and burn when they hist things like tanks.
> >>>>
> >>>> AFAIK, it is forbidden to fire depleted uranium in the US.
> >>>> Special ranges are used.
> >>>
> >>> Uranium metal is poisonous (AFAIK).
> >>
> >> No more than lead.
> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium#Human_exposure
> >>
> >>> I'm not sure how much radioactivity it has.
> >>
> >> Its only weakly radioactive
> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium
> >
> > I thought there were some complaints the our use of depleted Uranium shells
> > had littered Iraq with hazardous substances.  Of course, some people will
> > complain about anything.
> 
> Well, just like lead you don't want to inhale or ingest U238.  Its 
> radioactivity is really a non-issue.  With a halflife of 4.5E9 years if 
> U238 were any less radioactive it wouldn't be radioactive at all.
> 
> Now U does decay down to some bad things like radon and its daughters. 
> So there is that.

U238 is a piker compared to Bismuth with a half life of 4.6*10^19 years. 
So U238 could be a *lot* less radioactive and still be radioactive.

So Pepto-Bismol is radioactive, but nobody cares. Bananas, for example, 
are much more radioactive, because they contain potassium a necessary
element for human life.
radioactive.

-- 
 To terrify children with the image of hell,
 to consider women an inferior creation is that good for the world?  
  Christopher Hitchens

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Re: Thanks Obama Alan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca> - 2016-04-14 17:39 -0400
  Re: Thanks Obama Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2016-04-14 20:29 -0400
    Re: Thanks Obama Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-04-14 18:55 -0700
    Re: Thanks Obama Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-04-15 09:23 -0400
    Re: Thanks Obama Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2016-04-17 10:53 -0400
  Re: Thanks Obama mausg@mail.com - 2016-04-15 16:34 +0000
    Re: Thanks Obama Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-04-15 15:24 -0400
      Re: Thanks Obama "3899jk" <3899jk@gmail.com> - 2016-04-21 20:30 +1000
        Re: Thanks Obama Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-04-21 12:34 -0400
          Re: Thanks Obama Dean Worrell <Xworrelldk@XameritechX.net> - 2016-04-21 12:46 -0500
            Re: Thanks Obama Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2016-04-22 11:13 -0400
          Re: Thanks Obama Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-04-21 13:59 -0500

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