Is enriched uranium harmless?

[Boojatta]

[bbinacan]

1. Oops, I clicked on the top answer

by accident.

[Boojatta]

2. Miscellaneous commentary

who murdered Hitoshi Igarashi, the book's Japanese translator, and wounded the Italian translator and Norwegian publisher, and burned to death 37 Turkish intellectuals in a 1993 hotel attack in an attempt to kill Aziz Nesin, the Turkish translator. No, the blood is on Rushdie's hands, because he wrote a work of fiction.

Source:
A comment about Salman Rushdie

[Boojatta]

3. Kick

[SidDithers]

4. How enriched, and how is it used?...nt

Sid

[Political Heretic]

5. I don't know.

[TexasObserver]

6. another absurd post and another absurd poll

Were you talking about Israel? The US? The UK? France? China? India?

[ConsAreLiars]

7. You left out one obvious option.

"OP is so blinded by fear and hate that s/he has gone off the deep end and ended up on the dark side."

[Boojatta]

8. The poll question is about enriched uranium.

If a DU member self-attacks (i.e. is both the source and target of one and the same direct attack), then DU members will have no basis for guessing what provoked the attack or for guessing why the attack was posted on DU.

[Overseas]

19. This sounds like the right option. /eom

[SidDithers]

9. Is water harmless?...nt

Sid

[Boojatta]

14. Do you mean compared to religion, compared to enriched uranium, ...

or compared to something else?

For thousands of years people have been exposed to water in rain, puddles, rivers, lakes, oceans, etc. Enriched uranium is a relatively new toy for human beings.

[SidDithers]

15. People have been drowning for thousands of years...

or have been crushed by ice, or burned by steam.

Sid

[Boojatta]

16. Perhaps tobacco companies should lobby for legislation

to put Surgeon General warnings on bottled water. "At high temperatures, the substance in this container can transform into steam and cause serious harm to people, young and old."

[SidDithers]

17. So, you're suggesting it's not harmless...

when proper precautions are taken, and it's handled properly?

Interesting.

Sid

[Boojatta]

20. WHEN do you know whether or not a precaution is or was proper?

A piece of software could be designed to provide only one possible error message: "proper precautions were not taken", but just before it displayed the message, it could erase all the files on your C: drive.

[Pavulon]

10. Worry about the depleted stuff.

not the stuff that can be used in a simple nuclear weapon. So simple the design was never tested before it was used to kill 140,000 people, give or take.

[immoderate]

11. Are stupid polls harmless?

I think so.


--IMM

[slackmaster]

12. Yes, it's both chemically toxic and a radiological hazard

Is this supposed to be some kind of trick question?

[Occam Bandage]

13. No, it's quite dangerous, especially as it may be used in weapons programs.

Occam Bandage does not in this statement endorse or reject any particular or general policy position.

[Boojatta]

18. Dangerous? I think you'd better support that claim. Link?

[Occam Bandage]

21. ...

:eyes:

[Boojatta]

22. So far there are four votes for "Yes ..."

One more and there'd be a level of support that's enough to put a thread on the Greatest Page.

Edited to add: also, the "No" vote count is artificially inflated because I voted "No." It is unthinkable that under any circumstances the author of a thread could recommend it.