Badically they are finding it everywhere all over London!

Anyone else slightly worried?

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On CNN (yeah the yanks prolly got it wrong) they said it's only dangerous if you eat lots of it. So skip on the pollonium burgers and don't lick the sidewalks and it'll be alright. Heck, they made it sounds as if you could build your entire house of that stuff and don't get sick unless you take a bite

These are also the people that said he died because he got sprayed with a mist of Thalium!

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Polonium candy! And other goodies for the amateur nuclear physicist/assassin.

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http://www.futt.org/

My son who reads New Scientist states firmly that Polonium decays giving alpha radiation which is Helium nuclei which can be stopped by a paper bag, let alone skin.

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Well, I bought some from there and have spread it round the houses of people I dont like

A quick call to MI6 now....

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I love the source! Just the way you said "My son who reads New Scientist" made it sound very affirmative....

And its true, only Alpha

So A) how did he die, and B) why are police chasing it around London. Surely someone must have told them this

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there can be a lot of wisdom in kid's words!!!!

(and a lot of utter retarded crap too)

heh it aint dangerous - not like a lump of uranium or something - if i recall we used something very similar in a science experiment in A level physics

and they are chasing it to see if it leads them to his killer (assuming he was murdered)

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What, they are expecting to find a bloke sitting on a Polonium computer chair laughing maniacally?

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Yeah polonium is often used in calibration sources and stuff like that, would think most schools have some.

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http://www.futt.org/

Well, it appears from my well-informed source that the fact it is so easily stopped means that a whole lot of alpha particles get stopped by the cell contents of the body, which leads to massive disruption of stuff like genetic material, failure of all sorts of systems and the growth of cancers all over the place.
Hence not a nice way to die.

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CNN called it "instant cancer". Sounds almost like a product name. Just add water

tis the secret ingredient of ozle pills y'know

and there's always here - apparently their trade has increased lately!

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