[GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Why We Should Not Worry About The Latest "WMDs in Iraq" Stories

[Spencer Graves]

Hi, Gerry et al.:



       One was marked 766 cpm (counts per minute), which per my 
computations corresponds to roughly 30 micrograms, which is advertised 
at $40 or very roughly $1 per microgram = $1 million per gram = $1 
billion per kilogram.


       "As little as 15 lb (7 kg) of uranium-235 can be used to make an 
atomic bomb" (Wikipedia, Uranium).  Natural uranium ore is 0.71 percent 
U-235.  Thus, you'd need 140 pounds of natural uranium ore to get one 
pound of U-235 or roughly a ton of ore to get 15 pounds of U-235.  If 
you bought it from Amazon, you'd need $1 trillion.  You can probably get 
it much cheaper elsewhere.


       As I said before, however, the bigger problem is biological 
toxicity.  Wikipedia says that inhalation is a better problem than 
eating it.  There are trace amounts of all kinds of toxic things in the 
food we eat.  This probably includes uranium.  Fortunately, the amounts 
are usually so small, the health effects are usually negligible.  I 
doubt if 30 micrograms is enough to do you much harm, but I'm not going 
to perform that experiment.


       Spencer


On 7/10/2014 11:51 AM, Gerry Gras wrote:
>
> What about this?
> http://www.amazon.com/naturally-contains-Uraninite-radiation-detector/dp/B00CQ9LLR4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1405017912&sr=8-1&keywords=uranium 
>
> or
> http://www.amazon.com/Images-SI-Uranium-Ore/dp/B000796XXM/ref=pd_sbs_indust_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=0Z7KS0ES6P9Z995EEZGE 
>  .
>
> But I don't consider these to be very dangerous.  You would
> need a lot of these and some expensive equipment and some
> months to get weapons grade uranium.
>
> Gerry
>
>
> John Thielking wrote:
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: *John Thielking* <peacemovies at gmail.com
>> <mailto:peacemovies at gmail.com>>
>> Date: Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 9:37 AM
>> Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Why We Should Not Worry About The Latest "WMDs
>> in Iraq" Stories
>> To: eden <edenw at gal3.com <mailto:edenw at gal3.com>>
>>
>>
>> Could you please repost this to the entire list? My computer is messing
>> up and won't let me reply all. Anyway, I double checked my Facebook wall
>> where I know I had saved the link to the Uranium available on Amazon.com
>> (and the whole rabbit too) but now the entire posting has gone missing.
>> Oh well. Uranium ore USED TO BE available on Amazon.com.
>>
>> John Thielking
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 9:20 AM, eden <edenw at gal3.com
>> <mailto:edenw at gal3.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 14-07-10 08:18, John Thielking wrote:
>>>     The following text would not post to the article on rt.com
>>>     <http://rt.com> that talked about the uranium being stolen in Iraq
>>>     because the software thought it contained "offensive language". So
>>>     here it is uncensored:
>>>
>>>     Considering that you can buy research grade uranium ore on
>>>     Amazon.com, I wouldn't worry about this story. Since when did RT
>>>     start jumping on the "there are WMDs in Iraq" bandwagon? I thought
>>>     that path was proven to be bogus in 2003. The chemical weapons in
>>>     Iraq story is also sourced from Reuters, probably USA planted
>>>     propaganda used to justify bombing Iraq yet again. Fool me once,
>>>     ok, but fool me twice? Come on RT, get it together.
>>
>>          I agree with your conclusion, but i tried to find uranium on
>>     Amazon and failed. Are you referring to something that i'm not 
>> aware of?
>>
>>     --
>>     eden
>>
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