The musical version.
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The real reason Doc wanted to jump 30 years into the future was to get past the statute of limitations.
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“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a hose is a good guy with a hose.”
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Now I know less than nothing about a hoax I knew nothing about before… help?!
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I know people have posted it on BB before, but this rather neat little Charlie Stross story seems relevant:
http://www.tor.com/2012/07/20/a-tall-tail/
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So . . . why aren’t the geniuses at the CIA selling this stuff to them hand over fist for oil? We’ll get their oil and they’ll all be mad as hatters.
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So, presumably they’re buying a lot of cinnabar right now.
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Somebody’s been reading
(PS, *A Tall Tall is superb…Stross is at the top of his game here)
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That’s how it works. It attracts a critical mass of pedants to the detonation site, driving off everybody with a healthier sense of priorities.
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There’s also a game… Shadow Ops: Red Mercury
Is not amused:
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Why are we obsessed with Black Gold?
To prevent the weapons-grade material from falling into the wrong hands
during what he called ‘‘the American occupation’’ of the former Soviet
Union, he said, Russians safeguarding the stock late in the Cold War
cached tiny reservoirs of red mercury in sewing machines and radios
bound for export, which were then scattered throughout the Arab world.
(Another version of the same tale says that red mercury is hidden in old
television sets.)
Come to think of it, this is a teensy bit reminscent of the old tale of The Radioactive Boy Scout, in which a young lad used a vial of radium paint from an old clock, some old thorium lantern mantles, and a supply of americium from old smoke detectors and made – well, a big mess that was expensive to clean up. But not a bomb.
Kind of raises the question of whether the Arabic term for “sewing machine” could easily be misheard as referring to one of those other things.
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When the Red Mercury sales taper off the follow-up hoax product is ready…
Trailer + random metal junk + welder = a few million in the pocket. Plans available from Wikipedia. Would make a great Kickstarter.
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http://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/red-mercury-lithium-6-russian-weaponsmiths-say/
Lithium-6 has two nuclear weapons uses: as a reactor target for production of tritium, and in the form of lithium-6 deuteride as a thermonuclear weapon material. The most common production process uses large amounts of mercury as chemical agents. The code name originated because mercuric impurities contaminate the lithium- 6 during production, giving it a red color
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Why do we capitalize Coca Cola?
I know some of you don’t but that is just being disrespectful.
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Thats a good point. There were two Deloria in 1855.
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Well, it worked for that feller and his magic mine detectors. For a bit, anyway.
I’m sure they can find a suitable nasty use once they figure it out.
