L. Marcus Posted June 9, 2015 Report Share Posted June 9, 2015 Would you fit in a death metal band? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 9, 2015 Report Share Posted June 9, 2015 Caesium-137 would be good too, and then have lots of deep blue lights at every concert. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 9, 2015 Report Share Posted June 9, 2015 Would you fit in a death metal band? True. He might not be old enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 9, 2015 Report Share Posted June 9, 2015 Can he handle an instrument? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted June 9, 2015 Report Share Posted June 9, 2015 I played tuba for almost a decade. I've also got experience with string bass, electric bass, trombone, and euphonium. I sing bass/baritone. I can't read treble clef. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted June 9, 2015 Report Share Posted June 9, 2015 Caesium-137 would be good too, and then have lots of deep blue lights at every concert. I also considered Cobalt-60. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 9, 2015 Report Share Posted June 9, 2015 Technetium-121 is a techno band name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 9, 2015 Report Share Posted June 9, 2015 I played tuba for almost a decade. I've also got experience with string bass, electric bass, trombone, and euphonium. I sing bass/baritone. I can't read treble clef. I do a mean "air vocals"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 9, 2015 Report Share Posted June 9, 2015 I played tuba for almost a decade. I've also got experience with string bass, electric bass, trombone, and euphonium. I sing bass/baritone. I can't read treble clef. So you'd be like this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 9, 2015 Report Share Posted June 9, 2015 Technetium-121 is a techno band name.Hmm, that'd be a short-lived r-process nucleus. Would probably end up as antimony-121 after a string of beta-decays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 9, 2015 Report Share Posted June 9, 2015 Crap. I think I meant Tc95. I mixed it up with I121 -- thyreoidea has been much on my mind lately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted June 9, 2015 Report Share Posted June 9, 2015 Truly you guys have dizzying intellects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 9, 2015 Report Share Posted June 9, 2015 I certainly feel that way right now -- I hate having a cold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 Since the final exam I'm giving in a bit more than 2 hours includes questions on very simple nuclear phenomena and radioactive decay (specifically the cesium-137 in the Goiania accident) that stuff was front-loaded in my mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 There are no accidents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 In this particular case, multiple acts of aggravated flagrant stupidity, by individuals at multiple levels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 I'd say that the most of the culpable stupidity laid with the original thieves - ignorance isn't necessarily the same as stupidity, even if it's hard to tell apart for outside observers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 Well, the unit was in an abandoned site. which had been through an ownership dispute. A court prohibited the previous owners from going into the site and removing the radiation unit. The new owners did not provide adequate security to the site, nor care that there was a very hot radiation source there. So, IMO, they did all but put a big "STEEL OUR STUFF" sign on it, and the court failed to recognize the drastic public safety hazard their order permitted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 Didn't they make this into a CSI episode? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 Dunno. Never watched CSI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 No great loss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 One of my proudest moments was when I caught a mistake on CSI. They were looking at an IR spec and saying "This confirms the presence of acetone at the crime scene" and I blurted out, "No it doesn't! There's no carbonyl peak at 1700!" My roommates looked at me funny. Old Man and L. Marcus 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 I remember the agony I had when I saw the original Star Wars when it came out and they used parsecs as a unit of time. That really, really hurt. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 Yah ... Thank goodness that's been retconned into something slightly not-worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 Retcons don't count. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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