31 Jan
1993
31 Jan
'93
4:12 a.m.
Yes, you can get Thorium from lamp nets. A simpler way is to get it from welding rods. They are 40% thorium. More than one unsespecting lab technician has welded together an ultrasensitive detector with them, only to find it not working for some reason <grin> -- Vercotti: I was terrified of him. Everyone was terrified of Doug. I've seen grown men pull their own heads off rather than see Doug. Even Dinsdale was frightened of Doug. Interviewer: What did he do? Vercotti: He used sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and satire. -- Monty Python, Episode 14 PGP 2.1 Key by finger