[realroadrage]

I'm surprised Kurt hasn't built one of these in his garage (or has he?).

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Science of it here and here

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[KevinOyler]

You don't need a high powered machine to see your money shrink. Just put it in your sock drawer for a while.

[Trak Ratt]

Yeah but why, shrink a quarter to the size of a nickel and no will take it… they’ll think it’s Canadian

[Vicegrip]

One of the Smithsonian museums had a working display of a pulse magnetic former in the early to mid 70s IIRC. It hada clear face so you could see the workings and 2 buttons. You pushed the first button and a thin aluminum tube dropped from a hopper into a tube that had the former coil ringing it. Push the second button and bang, the tube would get subjected to the magnetic pulse that would form a wasp waist in the middle of the tube which would then fall into a bin for the person to retrieve. Cool stuff. Geek that I am for that kind of stuff I had one of the little formed tubes around for years.

Near this device they had a display talking about the density of stuff. Had an aluminum block, a lead block and a depleted urainum block each about the size of a butter stick. The latter was cased in a thin plastic cover. Each was trapped so you could not wander off with it but you could pick them up to see how heavy they were. The Al block was perhaps a pound the lead around 5 to 8 pounds and the DU was almost not able to be lifted. I wonder if they are still there somewhere?

[Trak Ratt]

Originally Posted by Kurt Mickelwait

Geek that I am.... they had a display... aluminum block, a lead block and a depleted urainum block each about the size of a butter stick.... I wonder if they are still there somewhere?

Didn’t I just read that the DU was stolen by the Soviets and turned into “vitamins” for some of their expatriates?

[wludavid]

From Slate's Explainer column on the polonium poisoning:

In a certain sense, his radiation sickness could have been a sexually transmitted disease as well, since radioactive elements do show up in semen. (Researchers have found traces of depleted uranium in the semen of Gulf War veterans years after their initial exposure.)

[KevinOyler]

Oh sure, infer the guy was gay, now that he can no longer defend himself.

[rs911t]

Originally Posted by KevinOyler

You don't need a high powered machine to see your money shrink. Just put it in your sock drawer for a while.

Our buy a Porsche ...

[rs911t]

Too cool! I want one

Also notice a direct correlation with another high energy event ... the "pucker" effect experienced by drivers of high performance cars at the track.

[BlackTalon]

Originally Posted by david riley

Yeah but why, shrink a quarter to the size of a nickel and no will take it… they’ll think it’s Canadian

Fuch that -- but why not shrink a bunch of nickels to the size of dimes??? Double your investment!