tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post8533993850957011297..comments2024-03-18T16:39:23.054-04:00Comments on Chemjobber: Weekend longreads: red mercuryChemjobberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15932113680515602275noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-27371675697892795372015-11-24T12:07:02.650-05:002015-11-24T12:07:02.650-05:00The Chechens were supposedly scammed for money to ...The Chechens were supposedly scammed for money to buy the garden-variety mercury, for some reason or another (http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2002/10/31/and_while_were_on_the_subject_mercury), so this doesn't seem implausible.<br /><br />I imagine who gets scammed by this depends on how much of your calling is based on exploiting anger. If you want to get powerful and rich, and have other ways to do it, this stuff probably won't appeal to you, but if you can't see any way to get what makes you happy and have decided that revolution and chaos are the best way to get it, or to make others not have it, then appeals like this might work. There's just too many stupid people to assume that any one system has a monopoly on them.<br /><br />Anon 11:07: see the second link in the post for a long list of shows using "red mercury" as a tool.Hapnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-78083600138135708512015-11-23T16:20:49.265-05:002015-11-23T16:20:49.265-05:00Someone ought to flood the Daesh market with red-c...Someone ought to flood the Daesh market with red-coloured flame retardant, not only to siphon their funds but to make their weaponry potentially useless!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-44330325445456615662015-11-23T16:05:34.791-05:002015-11-23T16:05:34.791-05:00I remember reading about a fundamentalist Islamic ...I remember reading about a fundamentalist Islamic outfit which was (thankfully) scammed for a few hundred thousand dollars by fake yellow cake a few years ago.Wavefunctionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14993805391653267639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-58563289018902392142015-11-23T15:41:49.615-05:002015-11-23T15:41:49.615-05:00Abu Omar's previous occupation was probably ru...Abu Omar's previous occupation was probably running a meth lab in Cleveland... :-)Oldnukehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04791120442174416990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-16322868659927944112015-11-23T12:50:35.571-05:002015-11-23T12:50:35.571-05:00This post reminded me of "The Sleeper" e...This post reminded me of "The Sleeper" episode of the BBC spy show "Spooks" known as "MI-5" here in the US. The episode is about convincing and baiting terrorist into thinking a professor has developed red mercury and is willing to sell it to repair his financial situation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-13632664414125953262015-11-23T11:07:06.443-05:002015-11-23T11:07:06.443-05:00Wasn't this a JJ Abrams trope from Alias and t...Wasn't this a JJ Abrams trope from Alias and the Star Trek reboot?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-53180361341752977882015-11-23T08:45:53.211-05:002015-11-23T08:45:53.211-05:00NMH - Replace Islam with Christian and you could s...NMH - Replace Islam with Christian and you could say the same thing about a large number of US politicians and candidates for POTUS.Auntie Markovnikovnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-6345665878553778662015-11-23T07:24:11.291-05:002015-11-23T07:24:11.291-05:00Indeed. I recently worked with a VERY devout Sunni...Indeed. I recently worked with a VERY devout Sunni (from Mosul). One of the smartest guys I ever met but when there was a conflict between science and Islam, Islam for him was always correct, and that particular science was wrong. He actually believed in spirits.<br /><br />Scary that some of these people have the ability to develop nuclear weapons.<br /><br />He will be definitely one of the "five guys I will meet in heaven.", along with my post-doc advisor that chased grad students.NMHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-32538884735510575422015-11-22T23:49:15.860-05:002015-11-22T23:49:15.860-05:00I see them running, being chased by a yellow cloud...I see them running, being chased by a yellow cloud, and yelling excitedly Allahu Akhbar.<br /><br />By the way, have you noticed how their fervent islamism goes hand in hand with total scientific ignorance? It should not be too hard to scam them with a chemical trick milkshakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08188961610554710616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-50822061626805474212015-11-22T23:36:18.790-05:002015-11-22T23:36:18.790-05:00‘‘Everything interacted with everything" is m...‘‘Everything interacted with everything" is my favorite line. Chemjobberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15932113680515602275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-38407087485600147182015-11-22T23:30:35.697-05:002015-11-22T23:30:35.697-05:00I believe that at some point there was an experime...I believe that at some point there was an experimental substance Hg(II)-antimonate (Hg2Sb2O7) that had some potential military application in Soviet Union: Supposedly, this heavy metal salt, if intermixed with mercury metal and irradiated in a reactor, in the crystalline form it was capable of storing a surprisingly large quantity of thermal energy in the form of metastable lattice dislocations (Wigner energy). It was considered as a potential replacement of a conventional explosive in nuclear warheads in Soviet union, which in theory could make smaller nukes, but these designs did not go far and they never got weaponized because Soviet union fell apart and nuclear testing moratorium. The substance was very expensive to make, and on its own it wasn't all that useful to a potential terrorist - unless that terrorist had already means to construct a highly sophisticated modern thermonuclear warhead and was trying to design even a better onemilkshakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08188961610554710616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-18000238731291943472015-11-22T23:03:00.853-05:002015-11-22T23:03:00.853-05:00Is it true that the explosion at Texas Tech occurr...Is it true that the explosion at Texas Tech occurred during the synthesis of 20 nL of red mercury?<br /><br />How do the side effects of green mercury compare to those of Viagra and Cialis?qvxbnoreply@blogger.com