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"Everyone involved in making, popularising or broadcasting that program should be shot." Hmmh... And you want cruel punishments for the coffee-tea-caffeine-thing sayers too? You should run for president or something. (Although that can be quite hard in the UK)

Sugar water + KNO3 for plant watering? I can only wonder how spoiled your chili plants are.

That bleach thing was about KClO3, I think. Even though this seems to be the KNO3 thread. Weird.

You could put the 45g batch on a remote controlled plane and annoy people.

"i am still trying to figure out where i can set of the rest with out causing suspicion" I recommend someone's rooftop.

"there is an easier method buy it 500g for £7.00" [nitpicking]OR you could buy 500g for £5.90 at Labpak Chemicals![/nitpicking] Anyway, making stuff is more fun than buying stuff. Unless it's the "make one mistake and die" type of making process.

"it`s a long winded method, but it does work, I`ve done the same myself in the past, until I found an easier way :)" Perhaps you would like to share the easier method?

Come on now, don't discriminate good ol' californium. Cf-252 is used to inspect airline luggage for hidden explosives or detect moisture content in soil, for example. Just because a nucleus has an approx. 3% chance of undergoing spontaneous fission, doesn't make it less special than the other ones.

"The average person will swallow 8 spiders per year" I heard an estimate of 8 spiders accidentally swallowed during entire lifetime per person. Could be true, I just find estimating this sort of things a bit unreliable. "Water in a pan, sink, or toilet rotates anti-clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere" What if your exactly in the between? No rotation then, just *slurp*?

Hmm? I'm not sure of Tc's all uses, but one is corrosion resistance. With technetium being radioactive and all that, it's used more in places where the radioactive doesn't concern humans too much (like a weather balloon or something like that). Technetium-99m on the other hand is probably the most famous or at least most used radioactive isotope in medical research. And talking about uses of elements, it's always good to remember that just about every element straight from hydrogen to californium has a use of some sort.

"woah woah. how do you oxidize hypochlorites to chlorates using chlorides?????" What? I didn't say anything about USING chlorides. I just said it can decompose into NaCl if heated too much, which is unwanted. Edit: Or did you mean the bleach-NaCl -> NaClO3? I think I'm tired.

Tellurium is a totally different element. Technetium was called masurium, then named technetium (teknetos = Greek word for "artificial", since technetium was the first man-made element).

"you could buy expensive chemicals" That's exactly what I'm talking about.

I'd imagine heating the chlorate a bit (not too much, or it will decompose in to potassium chloride) would make it perchlorate. About 200 C / 400 F, perhaps?

"If you were even able to get ahold of technctium is it legal to own? Does anyone have any links on the legalities of owning certain elements?" In some cases the requiring a license part is defined by the amount of disintegrations per second. If you had a technetium radiation test source, with a couple of hundred disintegrations per second, I don't think anyone would take it away from you. "Many alpha decays don't emit gammas because the daughter is left in the ground state. Alpha decay is 'ground state selective'" Oh. Does this happen with other sorts of decays too?

Hmm, a rather interesting topic. Wasn't there a thread where someone explained how lightspeed can have anything at all to do with for example, the energy that's in a 30g muffin? If not, how? :F

Brilliant! At last I can cut those weeds that are messing up my clouds.

"WHAT ABOUT ENERGY????????????????????????????" Well SORRY! No need to get so hyper about it. And when we consider that mass can be converted to energy, it's not that big of a deal.

I'd have plenty of things to do if I were over 18 and lived in US.

I'm coming to London in early 2005 (at least I'm pretty sure I will). What sort of weather you usually have there in January?

"A bit matrix but there you go." I know kung fu. And quantum mechanics. Yeah, I heard about the memory enhancing too. It would also be cool if you had a modification allowing your brain to process data more efficiently, allowing you to do complex calculations in seconds.

I thought gravity is only defined by mass, not motion or any other factor.

This rocket designing has started to seem veeery interesting to me. Perhaps a KNO3/sucrose rocket at first... Soon, I think I'll take my chances buying the smallest bag of KNO3 at our local gardening store has, and see if they go "OMG TERRORIST!" And I'll probably try the BP ejection charge too. A dash off-topic: Hey YT, you're the grandmaster gardener here. What's the "code" of pure KNO3? You know, the one that tells the phosphorous values and so on.

(I thought it's appropriate to post this in the neuroscience section. If a moderator feels it should be somewhere else, please move the thread ) I saw a short document-type interview with Kevin Warwick (the "cyborg" guy, Google for the name if you don't know about him), and started to think about that sort of cyborg-stuff. In the near future, do you think the average Joe has the possibility to get even simple microchip and other implants plugged into his nerves and brain, being then able to detect things like infra-red, uv-light, ultrasound and who knows what, that can't normally be detected with the regular human senses? Comments?

That is true, but unnecessary (for example aluminum) shrapnels breaking your rocket casing are usually rather unwanted.