Liquid Plutonium?
That can't be right.
shareThe plutonium was solid metal flakes, stored in the green liquid
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By keeping the solid metal flakes of plutonium suspended in a gel, you prevent them from accidentally reaching criticality.
I joined the Navy to see the world, only to discover the world is 2/3 water!
And of course any Advanced Placement High School student from the sticks would immediately recognize the flakes in the medium as plutonium.
if it was any good they'd have made an American version by now - Hank Hill
He deduced that it was plutonium from the simple observation that nearly everyone in the lab that was handling the stuff was wearing a radiation/clean suit. That, and all the 5-leaf clovers.
He didn't know what kind of plutonium, but he figured it was highly radioactive and very likely fissible.
Do you get the sense that the writers of this movie only took a physics course to fulfill a general education requirement for a liberal arts pretend degree?
sharethebunnysultkiller - not to go in to the letters and accommodations that I'm affiliated with, but to write how a liberal arts degree is a pretend degree actually says something about a lack of understanding and intelligence in an understanding what "intelligence" is. Not only is this implication that a liberal arts degree is a pretend degree untrue, it undermines the reason we established universities in the first place.
For clear and astute individuals it goes without saying that there are an in-numerous amount of people who are quite intelligent with a liberal arts degree.
I know it's an old post but if you have any real insights into why you posted this aside from just making a flippant comment I'd just love to hear it. They covered as much as they needed to for the plot to work without turning into a documentary. If you're really this snarky about this little film I can only imagine how much of a hoot you must be about stuff that really is an egregious insult to science like Armageddon.
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