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  1. So I did this regarding a question from Ricko to Stoff about how he feels about socks: Upon Core existing in the bottom right corner for 10 more minutes, this happened: I love you guys.
  2. Accurate comic is accurate. Naked rock fights to the death are like a rite of initiation.
  3. Apollox: Most of the potassium would be eliminated through urine since the kidneys kick it out, so you would need to collect that to concentrate all the used potassium. Be sure to mix your urine with plenty of carbon bearing matter like dead leaves and let it sit for a while so that the urine can be broken down into beneficial ammonia, and to dilute it so that you don't poison your new, more radioactive banana trees that can soak it up. The upper limit here is in how much more potassium the trees will take in from your used urine after you try to kill yourself with those bananas. If you try hard, you will reduce the mass of bananas required to kill by radiation by millions.
  4. Swiftsure: http://www.uptodate.com/contents/chapter-12a-distribution-of-potassium-between-the-cells-and-ecf 98% of potassium is located within cells in the human body, ensuring near perfect distribution of the radioactive isotope due to its chemical properties being identical to stable potassium with very little of it floating around in the extra-cellular fluid. This also somewhat amplifies the radiation damage as the ECF can provide almost no shielding from the beta (major factor) and gamma radiation that results, nor the high energy ionization near matter-antimatter annihilation gammas due to positron emission.
  5. That would be a hell of a headline! "Lego based theory of a voxel universe debunks classical physics." Einstein would turn in his grave.
  6. Chaos: Thank you! Supraluminal: Iron is pretty much the most stable element from a fission vs fusion standpoint. Would the star then become a massive sphere of iron? Mjolnir: I have no idea how to type an umlaut anymore. Also you likely killed a southeast Asian country via starvation with your excessive banana consumption. Rotorax: I'm doing it as hard as I can. Archangel: No. Mother Goose: Just balance it out with table salt so that they stay in the right ratio. This can't possibly go wrong. I will look into other things that need not be discussed for further analysis! Kriger from Archer is my hero.
  7. So we were talking about bananas on the Asylum channel of the teamspeak, and then I whipped out my nuclear background and this happened: When a person eats a banana, they incur a specific amount of radiation damage due to the radioactive fraction of the potassium present in the banana. Of the potassium in that banana, about 0.0117% of it is potassium-40, which unstable on a nuclear level. This radioactive potassium will deliver approximately 0.1 uSv (microsieverts) of damaging radiation exposure to the victim that consumed the banana. The potassium-40 decays with a half life of about 1.25 billion years, which, to save you the math, means that with 1g of potassium-40, 31 atoms per second will decay, undergoing beta decay. Potassium-40 is interesting in that it undergoes all 3 possible types of beta decay! Very few isotopes can do this. 89.28% of the time, it decays into calcium-40 and emits an electron with 1.33 MeV (mega-electron volts) an an antineutrino. 10.72% of the time, it decays to argon-40 by electron capture, and emits a 1.460 MeV gamma ray and a neutrino. About 0.001% of the time, it will decay to argon-40 via emitting a positron and a neutrino. 0.1uSv is delivered by a single banana through its radioactive potassium, but how much is dangerous? Well, if you absorb about 400 mSv (millisieverts), and it happens fast enough, you might turn red and feel sick. To actually have a chance of dying at all, you need to absorb about 2Sv (2000 mSv or 2000000 uSv). In this case many would get significantly ill but recover. Since we want a guaranteed kill here, we will need at least 8Sv, or 8000000 uSv, which is enough to ensure you'll die in the next week or two of aplastic anemia in a best case scenario. 8Sv is going to take about 80 million standard, 150g bananas worth of potassium to deliver through ingestion. Also, you'd have to do this in about a day to ensure that you don't heal from the damage fast enough to avoid death. I would also like to note that, aside from the recruitment process, this is my first post to these forums. Next week, if I can get a hold of an astrophysicist to help me out, we'll explore the necessary mass of bananas required to collapse under its own weight sufficiently that it ignites a nuclear chain reaction and gives birth to a star.
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