Radioactive Gift Ideas
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 7:58 am
These sound both cool and dangerous ... which just makes them even cooler.
See the site for links to the products themselves.
See the site for links to the products themselves.
--AlanFor those who fondly remember Mr. Wizard's World, consider a set of uranium-doped radioactive marbles from United Nuclear this Christmas. Or, rather than coal in someone's stocking (and I can't believe this) the site will ship them some supertoxic Polonium 210, or a more generic Cobalt-57 wafer. How this doesn't require some sort of FBI background check is beyond me; for god's sake, don't go buying this stuff on a whim. (Unfortunately, the more whimsical radioactive plates and saucers are sold out.)
And if that isn't enough, there's the 600,000-volt Van de Graaf electrostatic generator, a tuning fork set, meteorites, and a forthcoming cloud chamber kit for your at-home supercollider.
Do we need to reiterate that these are seriously serious tools? The site is full of fun warnings, such as "do not drink sodium acetate"or this little gem on the superpowerful neodymium magnets page:
"A small child recently lost his hand when his father left two # 31 supermagnets unattended. The child picked one up and when he approached the other magnet on a nearby table, it became airborne and obliterated his small hand."
