Absurdism corner

[FBnil]

True heroes. Those hospital images: Not for the squemish.
Reminds me of the women that collect bombs from the vietnam war to sell for metal scraps... also dangerous.
Living so far from a city, this is the only way they can make money... and they clean up little by little. It was in TopGear. They went somewhere in Laos, I think, and where the roadsigns went red for bombs, they were really like less than one meter from the roadside.

I wanted to post a clip of this movie, where a time cop goes to the past, but his gun was out of power, so he wanted to buy uranium batteries, but they sold him cadmium batteries. The gun ray went downwards.

 

[Binky]

 

[Klumpen]

Recovering broken Nuclear Batteries

What the hell?
I know that an individual human life isn't worth much in communism, but why aren't they wearing protective suits and why are these things lying around there in the first place?

 

[FBnil]

For the French: Rats! Oupypo is taken already!

Explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouxpo

an individual human life isn't worth much in communism

My employer made me keep on working while they removed asbestos... I will only know in a decade or so if that affected my health. When I was a child, I ate a fluor tablet every day... it was good for the teeth they said..
While the winds of Chernobyl crossed Europe, depositing a thin layer of radioactive stuff.. we still ate our vegetables and played outside... Cleanup? nah... here and there, but not the whole territory... just like in Japan...

anyway... these russians made sure other people that passed near this location now have less to worry about. A bit of radioactivity isn't dangerous. Cells know that they are damaged and go into apoptosis. HOWEVER, if a radioactive particle clings on to you, for example, breathing it in, and it sticks in your lung... THAT is very bad.
Now, of course, like you pointed out, they should have... but it happens...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/07/chinese-workers-sickness-hexane-apple-iphone

 

[thatgui]

@thatgui I have suffered a traumatic experience from watching that... It is too painful.

It was tough to watch

I wonder if they do custom paintjobs, I want a Hello Kitty one as a birth gift for my nice (or is that too much gender cliche ?):
http://www.crickett.com/

 

[Klumpen]

 

[ElPoco]

From the same Fox News that brought you the "no go zones" in Paris and "Birmingham is all Muslim"

 

[matzesu]

Back to this russian Nuklear Batterie Video:
What exaktly is this Nuklear Batterie for??
Whas it from a Crashed Satelite?? Or where dit they came frome??
I also think the Journy to the point where the Batterie was, was also pretty dangourus as they just stand on the load deck of this truck..

 

[rygD]

Back to this russian Nuklear Batterie Video:
What exaktly is this Nuklear Batterie for??
Whas it from a Crashed Satelite?? Or where dit they came frome??

I wondered that, too.

I wanted to comment on this, and since it fits the discussion, here it is: I sleep next to a radioactive clock. I know people that have radioactive watches (and sometimes other random things). Even some of the things I eat are radioactive. Why worry about a short amount of time playing with things you find in the snow?

 

[lukey]

Back to this russian Nuklear Batterie Video:
What exaktly is this Nuklear Batterie for??
Whas it from a Crashed Satelite?? Or where dit they came frome??
I also think the Journy to the point where the Batterie was, was also pretty dangourus as they just stand on the load deck of this truck..

RTGs(Radioisotope thermoelectric generator, the most common type Nuclear batteries) where used by the Sowjet Union for Weather Stations and Lighthouses. Scrap thieves, often not knowing what they are doing, remove the Shielding and other Parts. Here's an Article and here something not completely RTG related. Somehow i can't find any Picture of an fully Intact RTG :/

 

[rygD]

I wonder what other sorts of cool old things can be found just sitting around in Russia. Maybe I should take a trip.

Couldn't these battery thingies be used to make dirty bombs? Maybe they should go try to round those things up instead of just leaving them sitting around in old buildings, or wherever, unattended.

 

[matzesu]

Why not use a RTG as Powersource for the Pyra??

 

[lukey]

Why not use a RTG as Powersource for the Pyra??

It would add even more heat (2200W of heat in case of the Strongest RTG with only 80W Electrical Power, it also weights 2,5Tons )

 

[Klumpen]

I wonder what other sorts of cool old things can be found just sitting around in Russia. Maybe I should take a trip.

Couldn't these battery thingies be used to make dirty bombs? Maybe they should go try to round those things up instead of just leaving them sitting around in old buildings, or wherever, unattended.

 

[Fzero]

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/mummy-found-wearing-adidas-boots-1405843997458486.html

 

[rygD]

The people trying to dismiss this as evidence of time travel need to watch more movies and tv shows. Have them contact me and I can provide a list of suggested viewing. After that we will see what they say.

 

[lukey]

I am on the Kill List. This is what it feels like to be hunted by drones

 

[levi]

Absurdism is a very serious business these days

 

[lukey]

Sorry. I don't want to start a new Thread.
Edit: It's absurd anyways

 

[elw3]