Posted: 2/17/2005 10:39:15 AM EDT
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Sitting here watching the great 80’s flick on a home made nuclear boom boom and I was curios. Would it be safe for some one to make one they way he did with out suffering form any radiation sickness? Or are there more safe guards that Hollywood left out? The chick is hot by the way. |
| Making a homemade implosion weapon would be a little tough, timing has to be exact. The biggest danger would come from heavy metal poisoning and other nasty metals that make up these "toys" and if a criticality event happened one would be toast. Also the danger of a spurious signal setting the device off too would be a bit unpleasant. |
The red head from Sex in the City? Plutonium will combust if it is small enough. That shit "should " have ignited when he had it in flake form. The rock flats (s?) nuclear weapons plant near Denver, CO had several plutonium fires in the 1950 - 1960s... luckly nothing "really bad" ever happened. Poof |
I think you missed the part about it being inside your body. Outside your body, plutonium is pretty harmless. The hardest part about a DIY "toy" would be getting the material. If you have that, the rest would be tedious and difficult, but not impossible. |
I suspect you would have a boating accident if you tried to do it in this day and age. |
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