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Can I Put it in my Ass? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Here's some interesting ones that I don't think anyone's asked yet so far

The two CIA ones? Only elements with an unenriched isotope that can reach critical mass (and don't instantly disappear). You'd need only a few dildos to make a nuclear bomb. The anal probe and CIA disappearing is literal.

Borat is in this diagram

Starting with Potassium the Alkalis become basically explosive to water and get progressively more reactive. If you haven't covered it yet this is because their valence shells get weaker the heavier you go.

Hydrogen and Helium so far basically cannot exist in solid form at STP in any appreciable amount.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

IMO, I'd count plutonium in the anal probe category. Enriched or not, it's gonna raise tons of red flags.

Buying that much uranium would probably just get your house raided by the FBI. If you told them what you were planning on doing with it, they might find it funny enough not to indict you but they probably wouldn't let you keep it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

You goin to Guantanamo but almost certainly alive. If you knew how to make quantities of Curium and Calorfinium though.. yeah you're dead or not coming out of a cardboard box.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

calcium, strontium and barium are also pretty reactive with water, and at any rate beyond hydrogen the other product (metal hydroxide) is corrosive