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Old 03-11-2009, 04:16 PM   #42 (permalink)
jamesqf
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After you finish checking the arithmetic on the 9 year energy payback fallacy, you could try looking into this one. The basic problem is the popular myth - created by comic books and '50s monster movies, and adopted by the watermelons* for their own purposes - that radioactive material is some sort of infinitely deadly stuff, like kryptonite. This bears about as much relationship to reality as does Superman or Godzilla.

*Watermelons: green on the outside, red on the inside.
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