What does that explain about lizard people or eating ass?

Okay, heard of that one before. But even knowing that, I still don’t get what it has to do with CERN, nor eating ass.

Dumping halve a ton of sugar in a truck is technically doable, but a bit harder than a bottle of cola.

So it will even set faster and really take at least 0.5 % to reduce the strength in any significant way.

Couple of bags (>= 2kg) or 2 liters of cola (200 g) to a truck load? Not only is there a magnitude difference, I also doubt that 2 kg will do that. Normal amounts are up to 0.1 %, say you need 0.5 % to make it significantly weaker. 10 cubic yards, 7.5 m³ of concrete, are about 18’000 kg. 0.5 % of that are 90 kg.

Every adult born after 1948 that I’ve met has been selfish to the core.

… What…? Are you a bot?

I don’t get it :(

Last time this happened to me, more or less, I was trying to find the original source of some commonly (in the field) understood thing. After digging deeper and deeper I came out at Einstein or some similar physicist from the early 19 hundredths. That was wild and unexpected, as it was decades earlier than what I expected. The experiments they did to get us here is amazing.

“far” less, like 1.999 or something.

Someone selling drugs has a lot of responsibility. I am sure some of them were really cool and did some work to prevent harm. But sellers usually care a lot about money. Someone getting decades surely did not just sell a little bit?

Crazy how pro-drug use people here are. As if many people aren’t dumb and not just take whatever drug they see. As if they make informed decisions and make sure they also don’t harm others. Many people suck and we need to deal with that in a reasonable way, even if it means that we to limit what everyone is allowed to do. Maybe sometime like a divers licence for certain drugs? With checks to make sure they are not destroying their live with it after losing control.

This is about as much drug use as these soldering pictures where they hold the iron at the hot tip.

Yes, but selling drugs is not cool, even when there are legal institutions that are allowed to do it. You can also get amphetamines and opioids as real medication.

Selling it? How is that wild?

And other people arachnophobia, etc. etc. This is not NSFW.

Same with humans. Even for some with real papers, they just wrote down some birth year when issuing them.

I am sorry, what? They dropped that charges against him. Okay. HE WAS FUCKING SHOT?! How about actually putting THOSE behind bars? This is REALLY not the good news you make it out to be. The fuck do they care?

By your logic, every CRT is extremely radioactive? And instead of actually finally looking it up, you really double down.

1. Cs-137 decays by β⁻ emission to Ba-137m, which then emits a 662 keV gamma. source
2. Material activation requires practically always neutrons. source
3. Theoretically, very high-energy gamma rays can knock neurons/protons out of nuclei and thus also cause activation. Energies need are around 10 MeV for most materials, far higher than 0.7 MeV. source

Now quote a source or accept how utterly wrong you were and quite frankly, fuck off with confidently spreading FUD you made up with fake authority while talking down on others.

Cesium-137 (or should I also call it CS 137 like the expert?) activating Iron? How is that supposed to happen?

So much bullshit talking about how dumb I am, talking about your superb qualifications, and then you fuck up like that. Well deserved, really.

Let me just make sure this gold nugget stays out of your reach, user “givesomefucks”:

Because I gave a couple years of my life to the most stressful school in America so the US government could spend well over six figures teaching me about nuclear energy and radiation damage…

You could just read a textbook or even Wikipedia and have you’re questions answered tho.

But to answer you main question:

Something with a 30 year half life will make the steel itself radioactive overtime. If it is in low enough quantities and deep enough to initially read safe, that’s even worse cause it’s hard to find, but a decade from now not only will it still have most of the CS 137 in it, it will have made the steel itself radioactive. And by that point will likely read as radioactive, but who tests a decade old piece of metal to see if it’s now radioactive?

Like, just because you don’t understand why this is a big deal, doesn’t make it ok

What sort of extra special gate keeping is this supposed to be?