He thought he had ordered THX 1138 from Amazon Video.
Then he tried unsuccessfully to cancel it when it didn’t come Free with Prime. This happens to me ALL THE TIME
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The powered stuff can be pyrophoric. You don’t want it to ignite it, either.
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“The man is said to have wanted to take a selfie photograph with the uranium in hand, and post it on Facebook.”
Oh, look at me with my fancy u-rani-um !
No more buttered scones for me, mater, I’m off to play the grand piano!
What’s the matter with you? Good, honest pitchblende not good enough for you, is it?
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Yeah, it’s hard to get much less radioactive than U-238 and still be radioactive. Which is a good thing, since it’s quite abundant in the earth’s crust.
Even hunk of pure U-235, the stuff they make bombs out of, would be totally safe to hold in your hand from a radioactivity standpoint—its half-life is still hundreds of millions of years. Well, I mean, unless the hunk were of a critical mass/geometry, in which case you would be holding a nuclear bomb in your hand. But you would be extremely unlikely to get cancer in the several picoseconds before it went off.
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If you tried to post all the dumb (but benign) things people do, you’d have to stop because the world’s storage capacity would be quickly exhausted.
How is this even a story?
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Halflife house?
[ducks vegetate fusillade]
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Sans two protons and a city in Denmark, but that’s some good…
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You would get a terminal radiation poisoning, if history is any guide. (Fortunately, you’d be reduced to white-hot plasma before you’d suffer any ill effects from that.)
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Hands are fairly radiation resistant, compared to the rest of the body, and alpha emitters are safe to handle if they aren’t inside your body. I can’t think of a good reason for a random person outside a lab to own a powdered alpha emitter, but I can think of some really bad ones.
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Theodore Gray has some better ones, but I don’t know if they can be licensed.
There is a pencil with powdered Uranium in, for some insane reason. It looks too recent to be from the time when people thought it was a good idea to drink radium water.
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So, person buys totally legal thing, there’s a brief overreaction from the police, and nothing comes of it.
Slow news day? 
U-238 is the common form of uranium. (It’s an Alpha source, so it’s pretty harmless unless swallowed) You can buy it on amazon. I don’t really think the fact this guy used meth in the past is terribly relevant either.
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Why add chili p. to your meth when you can add powdered uranium
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The real health problem with DU ammo isn’t radioactivity. If you crewed a tank turret for 3 years, you’d get less radiation than you get from one dental x-ray. The problem is the dust. When DU hits it combusts - the difference between burning and exploding is purely academic. The outer surface ablates as it plows through the target. So the air around the target is filled with a cloud of microscopic particles that can be blown around and breathed in. DU is not seriously radioactive, but it is a heavy metal.
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Here’s a better one:
http://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=873
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'Ta, dolls. Off to go order some uranium. I need to meet some new people and associates.
Well I do now!
Forget blue meth. It’s all about the glowing meth.
(Yes, I know uranium doesn’t actually glow.)
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It’s also inaccurate, since 1"==25.4mm. If you’re going to overlay a scale on a blurry, probably irrelevant photo, the least you can do is get the unit conversion right. It’s not like Wikipedia charges for the number of significant digits in the illustration.
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Unless that is the property that you want if for
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