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Anonymous commented at 2014-09-30 21:14:06 » #1610606
Well, to be exact that wasn't radiation sickness, but uranium poisoning. The type of radiation from uranium decay is generally pretty harmless. Though some of it's byproducts decay in a more dangerous mode, it's still pretty hard to get an acute dose. But that doesn't really matter, because uranium burns on contact with air and is highly toxic.
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Well, to be exact that wasn't radiation sickness, but uranium poisoning. The type of radiation from uranium decay is generally pretty harmless. Though some of it's byproducts decay in a more dangerous mode, it's still pretty hard to get an acute dose. But that doesn't really matter, because uranium burns on contact with air and is highly toxic.
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Anonymous commented at 2014-10-09 06:41:09 » #1614854
Reminds me of the Vietnam war, due to the chemical type warfare and whatnot. If memory serves, there have been reported cases of both the VC (Viet Cong) and NVA (North Vietnamese Army) using half caste children as human bombs during the war. This was due to unsuspecting soldiers being unprepared for a small child to blow them to bits.
Just sayin'.
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Reminds me of the Vietnam war, due to the chemical type warfare and whatnot. If memory serves, there have been reported cases of both the VC (Viet Cong) and NVA (North Vietnamese Army) using half caste children as human bombs during the war. This was due to unsuspecting soldiers being unprepared for a small child to blow them to bits.
Just sayin'.
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Gunnerkrigg commented at 2023-07-02 15:24:19 » #2814911
Well this certainly makes me feel very different things than what booru pics usually do.
And yes, I have heard in documentaries that VC soldiers would give children grenades or bombs and send them out to kill Americans. That whole war was a shitshow disaster and for all our efforts we didn't even win.
Also, as for depleted uranium I don't know much about the chemical toxicity of uranium compounds but if used in war I could definitely see DU causing radiation poisoning under some circumstances. Left alone it's relatively harmless because it decays through alpha emission and alpha radiation is the least harmful kind of radiation. It has so little penetrating power that a sheet of paper or just about a foot of air would stop it. It's really only dangerous if it gets inside your body.
BUUUUUT it's entirely possible that DU munitions could shatter and vaporize on impact and people could breathe in the vapors or fine particles, then they're pretty fucked. Even moreso because the human body is pretty bad at eliminating heavy metals.
Oh another fun fact is that some large airplanes require lead weights in their wings for reasons I can't quite remember. Maybe balance. Sometimes though they need even more weight in what limited space is available so they'll manage to get their hands on DU weights instead which is even denser. Think the weights might be called ballast.
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God I'm such a fucking nerd.
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Well this certainly makes me feel very different things than what booru pics usually do.
And yes, I have heard in documentaries that VC soldiers would give children grenades or bombs and send them out to kill Americans. That whole war was a shitshow disaster and for all our efforts we didn't even win.
Also, as for depleted uranium I don't know much about the chemical toxicity of uranium compounds but if used in war I could definitely see DU causing radiation poisoning under some circumstances. Left alone it's relatively harmless because it decays through alpha emission and alpha radiation is the least harmful kind of radiation. It has so little penetrating power that a sheet of paper or just about a foot of air would stop it. It's really only dangerous if it gets inside your body.
BUUUUUT it's entirely possible that DU munitions could shatter and vaporize on impact and people could breathe in the vapors or fine particles, then they're pretty fucked. Even moreso because the human body is pretty bad at eliminating heavy metals.
Oh another fun fact is that some large airplanes require lead weights in their wings for reasons I can't quite remember. Maybe balance. Sometimes though they need even more weight in what limited space is available so they'll manage to get their hands on DU weights instead which is even denser. Think the weights might be called ballast.
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God I'm such a fucking nerd.
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