ArabiaTerra Posted August 14, 2008 Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 It should be pointed out at this point that atomic bomb triggers contain no radioactive material, just high explosive. A LOT of high explosive, but no radiation risk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArabiaTerra Posted August 14, 2008 Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 Also, they weren't really worried about setting the whole atmosphere alight during the trinity test. Enrico Fermi made a bet with a colleague during the countdown to the first test, that it would happen. A bet he would not have lived to collect if he had won. Just a little nuclear humour perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos Posted August 14, 2008 Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 The account that I read said that the risk of setting the atmosphere on fire had been raised by some scientists, and while nobody on the Manhattan project thought that kind of chain reaction would happen, they had not been able to prove it 100%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abraxas Posted August 24, 2008 Report Share Posted August 24, 2008 When I first glanced at this thread title, I wondered how male tumescence could bring about the end of days. My bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trooter Posted September 7, 2008 Report Share Posted September 7, 2008 Just found a bit on BBC website about this. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7543089.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted September 7, 2008 Report Share Posted September 7, 2008 I hear it's only 4 days tae go till de switch dis thing on ! , just been reading up on it , quite shocking the scale and cost of this experiment . I dont know what to think really . a hell of a lot of cash being spent on things that are may be better left alone , no doubt some of my tax bucks have ended up spent on it as weel . Im half in a mind ta climb tae da tap o ronas hill we a carry oot , a big bag of magic mushrooms and a tub of axle grease , just in case they tear a hole in the space time continiume !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ertieiddabanks Posted September 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2008 Im half in a mind ta climb tae da tap o ronas hill we a carry oot , a big bag of magic mushrooms and a tub of axle grease , just in case they tear a hole in the space time continiume !!! I'll see dee up dere, I'll bring a sheep just in case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fjool Posted September 8, 2008 Report Share Posted September 8, 2008 Although the mushrooms might make it difficult to tell whether there was a hole in the spacetime-continuum or not.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxFusion Posted September 8, 2008 Report Share Posted September 8, 2008 axel grease n sheep, Da mind boggles!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted September 8, 2008 Report Share Posted September 8, 2008 The axle grease is smeared over the body to protect the skin from the cosmic rays as we jump through to the next dimension , good on you ertie for thinkin up bringin thew sheep along as we may need to eat it at somepoint , dont know what kind of food will be available over / in / outside / inside & between here and there ? . I will bring some bannocks and a tub of lurpack as weel ! Shame on you dirty minded fools jumpin to conclusions like that ! Sheep with axle grease !! Nah a grain o warmed up lurpack is much better !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ertieiddabanks Posted September 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2008 If da axle grease doesna work we might end up melted together inta some kind o buttery mutant mansheepbannock driven tae terrorise da residents o Northmavine until wir hunted doon an burnt at da stake( along wi da scientists who unwittingly created wis). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamnSaxon Posted September 8, 2008 Report Share Posted September 8, 2008 Best suggestion was the one made on the Armando Iannucci show on Friday.All the locals should dress up as zombies, so when the scientists come back up to the surface after switching on ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ertieiddabanks Posted September 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 It has begun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fjool Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 Currently listening to Radio 4's "Big Bang Day"; live interviews, etc. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/bigbang/ 0900am (BST) FROM Andrew Caspari, Radio 4 commissioning editor, in central control room We are half way round. Leading scientist Steve Myers says we may get a collision sometime today but no one knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 I am taking the day of , my big tub of axle grease is ready , Ertie o da banks is procuring a healthy yew , and im awa tae tescos fur lurpack , bannocks n twa bottles o whisky . See you on the other side ........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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