ScienceAndCake wrote:
The error you've made in believing that diagram could be used to construct a nuclear reactor is of roughly equivalent magnitude to the error you've made in believing google can give you the knowledge of a medical doctor.
All the necessary information to build a nuclear reactor is actually online.
David Hahn was an Eagle Scout who had a merit badge in atomic energy; as everyone should know, that is ample education to build and maintain a nuclear breeder reactor in one’s backyard. So in 1994, that is what he proceeded to do. And it wasn't too hard. Radioactive elements are all around us.
Take, for example, a household smoke detector. More than 80% of the standard smoke detectors in the US contain an amount of americium-241, a radioactive element with a half life of 432 years. It is the americium-241 that allows the contraption to work. Air flows into an ionization chamber that is pretty much two sheets charged of metal—one positive, one negative—and a little pathway for radiation to enter. The alpha radiation from the americium-241 interacts with the normal oxygen and nitrogen in the air by knocking an electron off the molecule. The results were, of course, a positive ion of the original atom of gas is attracted to the negatively charged plate, and an electron is drawn to the positively charged plate. The smoke detector detects the plates interacting with these particles. Smoke, however, will absorb the ions before they reach the plates, and will set off the alarms.
But don’t be alarmed by it, americium-241 only puts out alpha radiation; the millimeters of plastic casing is ample shielding.
Another common radioactive element is tritium. The same isotope of hydrogen that is used to “boost” nuclear weapons is commonly found in such mundane items as clocks, watches, and telescoping devices. Thorium-232 can be found in gas lanterns. Specifically the small cloth pouch over the flame is coated with a compound containing the radioactive element.
David learned about the tiny amount of americium-241 found in smoke detectors. So he contacted smoke detector companies, and claimed that he needed a large number of them for a school project. One company sold him about a hundred broken detectors for a dollar apiece. But his merit badge did not tell him where the americium was located, so he wrote to an electronics firm in Illinois. Someone there wrote back to say she’d “be happy to help out with ‘your report’.”
Thanks to her help, David extracted the material. He put the americium inside a hollow block of lead with a small hole pricked in one side so that alpha rays would stream out. In front of the block he placed a sheet of aluminum: its atoms absorb alpha rays and kick out neutrons. Thus Mr Hahn was in possession on a working neutron gun...
Read more:
http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html-- Fri Aug 23, 2013 2:36 am --
And if you read the package on the psych drugs it sais:
"mechanism of action unknown" despite the fact they call them SSRIs and popular misinformation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIjOZq_AUeEThat's what doctors know about psych drugs.
-- Fri Aug 23, 2013 2:38 am --
While posing as “authorities” on the mind and mental health, psychiatry has no scientific basis for any of its treatments or methods.
I survived psychiatry.