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Stealing is wrong – it can give you radiation poisoning

October 16th, 2008 | 3 Comments | Posted in cool science

Yep, Somali pirates that hijacked an Iranian ship got more than they bargained for.  Instead of a cargo of weapons they found a cargo of highly radioactive soil.

Why would Iran be shipping radioactive dirt through the Suez Canal?  Well, here’s one theory that makes a lot of sense:

[Russian sources claim she] was an enormous floating dirty bomb, intended to detonate after exiting the Suez Canal at the eastern end of the Mediterranean and in proximity to the coastal cities of Israel. The entire cargo of radioactive sand, obtained by Iran from China (the latter buys desperately needed oil from the former) and sealed in containers which, when the charges on the ship are set off after the crew took to the boats, will be blasted high into the air where prevailing winds will push the highly dangerous and radioactive cloud ashore.

Given the large number of deaths from the questing Somali pirates, it should be obvious that when the contents of the ship’s locked cargo containers finally descended onto the land, the death toll would be enormous. This ship was nothing more nor less than the long-anticipated Iranian attack on Israel.

And this is the country that Obama said that he would meet without any pre-conditions, oh – except for the ones the Iranian’s want.

God help us if that idiot wins, because he will sure screw us over.

Hat tip: Dr. Sanity

The end is nigh!!

September 10th, 2008 | 4 Comments | Posted in cool science

In honor of the firing up of the Large Hadron Collider today I give you a musical tribute.

Of course, I have no doubt that everything will turn out fine even though there are some who are claiming that the experiment could create a black hole which will suck the earth to it’s doom, but it was too good an opportunity to pass up.

 

 

Navy launches Independence

May 4th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in cool science, Support the Troops

It looks like something out of Star Wars, the original one, not the crappy Episodes I-III, but it’s the Navy’s newest littoral combat ship (LCS)  LCS2 Independence.

Go over to Instapinch and take a look

So very cool

April 24th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in cool science, Support the Troops

I really would love to have one of these

The Gryphon attack glider, designed to penetrate combat zones at 135 miles per hour, could revolutionize the art of parachuting. It has got to be at the top of James Bond’s Christmas list this year.

I love this.