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Offline Flaser

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Re: One of those 1950's crazy predictions may yet come true
Old news.
Great idea.

....and terrorist have way better sources of either radioactive material for dirty bombs; or true fissionables for a nuke.

The later is unlikely given, that it's pretty hard to put together a viable atomic bomb. (Viable in my book means, you, as a terrorist organization can effectively deploy it. There go all the easy to make 0,5 ton pure uranium bombs - which are "easy" to make if you can afford the astronomical cost of refining weapons grade uranium (90% U235). Plutonium bombs are very difficult to make as there are a million things that could go wrong with the implosion device).

This thing would be likely guarded, and the self-regulating; self-contained nature means, you can easily keep it under a very heavy security by denying access to anyone. Things like a 150 ton concrete lid that you can only lift with a special vehicle come to my mind.

You're UN inspectors? Sure, where is you goddamn monster crane to take off the lid? (I wonder how you'd talk yourself out of this one).

Actually all the movie-plot threats and the hype surrounding terrorism is just that - security theater. Read up on it and despair.

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Re: One of those 1950's crazy predictions may yet come true
No steal it.

In USA there was a reported case of a uranium theft.
Know how the thief accomplished that? He walked in, toke a bit and walked away.
There were no guards, no fences, no security cameras.
Although this is commercial grade Uranium (40% U-235, for power plants and such), you can refine this pretty easily in a homemade laboratory and very strong acids.
Although it's still pretty hard to make a bomb out of it, you can easily figure how (relatively) easy it is to get the materials for it.
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Offline Colonol Dekker

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Re: One of those 1950's crazy predictions may yet come true
If Doc brown can get it, anyone can....... :nod:
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Re: One of those 1950's crazy predictions may yet come true
garbage is the uranium of the future....let's hope!

We'll have a clean world..clean of garbage, and probably clean of humanity too!
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Re: One of those 1950's crazy predictions may yet come true
If Doc brown can get it, anyone can....... :nod:

But he got it from the Libyans :p
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Offline WMCoolmon

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Re: One of those 1950's crazy predictions may yet come true
"Toshiba expects to install the first reactor in Japan"

good luck selling that.

:lol:

And you guys beat me to the BTTF reference, but all I have to say is:



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Offline Kosh

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Re: One of those 1950's crazy predictions may yet come true
BTTF?
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline WMCoolmon

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-C

 

Offline Kosh

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Re: One of those 1950's crazy predictions may yet come true
Oh right, that.
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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