t 10:21 PM 10/24/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote:
This is idiotic. You're claiming that the definition of "terrorist" is
dependent not on the act, but on why the act was committed. So if I was to go out tomorrow and spread 2000 curies of Ci into the local subway system "As payback for Ruby Ridge", this would not be an act of terrorism?
Just for correctness' sake, there is no element named "Ci", its an abbrev for Curies, ie the activity of a gram of Ra. Perhaps you meant Cs-137. Halliburton loses mCi of Am-241 etc monthly.
At 09:19 PM 10/28/2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Perhaps you meant Cs-137. Halliburton loses mCi of Am-241 etc monthly.
MilliCuries? That's a bit surprising, though losing microCuries of it would be more likely. An average home smoke detector has 1-5 microcuries, and industrial detectors go up to 15, according to one or two articles on the web which may be outdated. So you're saying they lose hundreds to thousands of smoke detectors a month? ---- Bill Stewart bill.stewart@pobox.com
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