Small Pet Fish Now Considered Threat To National Security

The difference between mechanical engineers and civil engineers?

Mechanical engineers design weapons.

Civil engineers design targets.

kaplow snipped-for-privacy@encompasserve.org.TRABoD (Bob Kaplow) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@eisner.encompasserve.org:

I wonder what a phone book permit will cost? And will I have to be fingerprinted *again* to get one?

I agree, don't believe everything you read on the Internet! :-)

I thought the story was well written and humorous.

-- Bruce Kirchner TRA L2 #5888 Michigan Team 1 High Power Rocketry Proud Gun Owner!

sometimes we even talk rockets ;)

- iz

Jerry Irv> Does rmr have experts on EVERYTHING?

You can transmute uranium into gold with neutrons (with alot of other stuff, too, but the separation of the fission products is Your problem). Neutrons are the real "Philosopher's Stone".

A chunk of pitchblende or carnotite glued to a piece of beryllium copper might make an interesting cloud chamber experiment - Guaranteed to put science fair organizers on edge.

Brad Hitch

Ah, due process. May she embroil the government in a morass of paperwork and hearings for years over here one measly fish.

Jerry

The story was from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. I've spoken with both the author as well. It's legit.

Zooty

I can't translate ancient Indus Valley writing. Sorry to let you folks down.

Zooty

Thank you. I'm sure she appreciates it.

Zooty

But the mere act of posting it here it becomes FUD.

;)

Joel. phx

Hey, that fish was a pet to which a human being had an emotional attachment.

I hope that some day, the TSA agent will be shown more mercy than he showed the college student. Unfortunately for the TSA agent, not much mercy would be required to meet that standard.

Zooty

But is that only because NOBODY can?

Cool. One common use I've seen is topaz. I'm not sure what type of radiation is used, but they can change them from the typical "smoky" color to the more popular sky blue.

Jerry, as you know, it's not about one measly fish. It's about our rights being illegally stripped away by JBGTs.

Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!

But they will go to war over the principal of their right to take our rights arbitrarily even though the "asset" at issue is a single fish.

That's commitment!

Jerry

Cobalt 60, which is used for industrial Gamma Radiography, decays to Platinum IIRC. I thought I heard about some scare one time about 'radioactive platinum' being used in jewelry. Pure baloney I'm sure.

-- Joe Michel NAR 82797 L1

Actually, it decays to nickel by ejecting an electron (beta ray), converting a neutron to a proton:

I believe heat is also (and more commonly) used to change the colors of gemstones.

Brad Hitch