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Post by Mira on May 6, 2010 15:50:47 GMT -5
How long would that take? My, admittedly atrocious, understanding of radioactive decay (which is the process that I presume that is occuring) is that it takes thousands of years. Such a timeframe wouldn't justify replacing them every second decade. It depends on the element in question, some last for millions of years, some last for seconds. Now, for Pu-239 and U-235, the half-life is 24,000 years and 703,800,000 years, respectively. Has nothing to do with nukes, but bismuth-209 actually has the longest half-life of any naturally occurring isotope (1.9 × 10 19 years). However, for all practical purposes it is considered a stable isotope. What with having a half-life significantly longer than the age of the universe.
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Post by spaniel on May 6, 2010 17:06:15 GMT -5
Can't all of the world leaders just have an actual cock-measuring contest, preferably on live TV?
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Post by MaybeNever on May 6, 2010 17:55:14 GMT -5
It depends on the element in question, some last for millions of years, some last for seconds. Now, for Pu-239 and U-235, the half-life is 24,000 years and 703,800,000 years, respectively. Has nothing to do with nukes, but bismuth-209 actually has the longest half-life of any naturally occurring isotope (1.9 × 10 19 years). However, for all practical purposes it is considered a stable isotope. What with having a half-life significantly longer than the age of the universe. Specifically, about 13.8 billion times the age of the universe, itself about 13.7 billion years. COINCIDENCE?!?!?! Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the issue of nukes being replaced more about heat, oxidation, etc. degrading the various components involved in setting off the reaction, thus preventing criticality, rather than the actual half-life of the uranium or plutonium? Which would essentially reduce them to dirty bombs after a couple of decades. A friend of mine is actually a nuclear weapons maintenance officer in Wyoming. I'll ask him about this stuff next time I see him.
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Post by Ian1732 on May 7, 2010 18:14:28 GMT -5
Can't all of the world leaders just have an actual cock-measuring contest, preferably on live TV? Imagine if we just solved every single conflict with a cock-measuring contest. There would be no war!
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on May 7, 2010 18:36:48 GMT -5
Can't all of the world leaders just have an actual cock-measuring contest, preferably on live TV? Imagine if we just solved every single conflict with a cock-measuring contest. There would be no war! If the stereotypes turned out to be true, Africa would emerge as the new world leader. For female leaders, we can have a wet t-shirt contest.
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Post by djhollow on May 7, 2010 18:53:05 GMT -5
Imagine if we just solved every single conflict with a cock-measuring contest. There would be no war! If the stereotypes turned out to be true, Africa would emerge as the new world leader. For female leaders, we can have a wet t-shirt contest. Theoretically, that would mean looking at some old woman's breasts. *shudders*
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Post by Vene on May 7, 2010 18:55:19 GMT -5
If the stereotypes turned out to be true, Africa would emerge as the new world leader. For female leaders, we can have a wet t-shirt contest. Theoretically, that would mean looking at some old woman's breasts. *shudders* And this is less appealing than some old man's cock how?
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on May 7, 2010 19:09:11 GMT -5
Somehow, I think that the representatives people chose during elections would be very different if that's how world conflicts were managed. Election campaigns would be... interesting.
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Post by The_L on May 7, 2010 20:11:40 GMT -5
Somehow, I think that the representatives people chose during elections would be very different if that's how world conflicts were managed. Election campaigns would be... interesting. I would pay to see the alternate universe in which this the case.
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Post by MaybeNever on May 7, 2010 20:33:29 GMT -5
It occasionally happens in this universe. There was a recent Ukrainian prime minister or something and a Finnish prime minister who were both pretty hot. I wish I could remember their names. And Rosalyn Carter back in the day? Zowee. I wouldn't have minded seeing her in a wet t-shirt competition.
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Post by ironbite on May 8, 2010 3:09:58 GMT -5
Somehow, I think that the representatives people chose during elections would be very different if that's how world conflicts were managed. Election campaigns would be... interesting. I would pay to see the alternate universe in which this the case. You really don't. Ironbite-took a trip through there once...never again.
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Post by HarleyThomas1002 on May 9, 2010 0:49:06 GMT -5
Can't all of the world leaders just have an actual cock-measuring contest, preferably on live TV? Would have ended the cold war. It pretty much was a cock-measuring contest anyways. That could take awhile with Africa being a shitload of countries. Although since the lot of them don't have an actual government that lasts longer than a week before the leader is shot and beheaded by rebels it might not take as long as I think.
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Post by Ian1732 on May 9, 2010 7:51:23 GMT -5
Can't all of the world leaders just have an actual cock-measuring contest, preferably on live TV? Would have ended the cold war. It pretty much was a cock-measuring contest anyways. That could take awhile with Africa being a shitload of countries. Although since the lot of them don't have an actual government that lasts longer than a week before the leader is shot and beheaded by rebels it might not take as long as I think. Well in this universe, people wouldn't be overthrown through murder, they would be overthrown by someone having a bigger penis. Simply the fact would make it mandatory.
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Post by tygerarmy on May 10, 2010 2:40:26 GMT -5
I will walk around with a two foot strap on and declare myself ruler of Earth. And I will have anyone who attempts to usurp me killed.
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Post by malicious_bloke on May 10, 2010 5:48:19 GMT -5
Would have ended the cold war. It pretty much was a cock-measuring contest anyways. That could take awhile with Africa being a shitload of countries. Although since the lot of them don't have an actual government that lasts longer than a week before the leader is shot and beheaded by rebels it might not take as long as I think. Well in this universe, people wouldn't be overthrown through murder, they would be overthrown by someone having a bigger penis. Simply the fact would make it mandatory. Yeah but with african countries indulging in diplomacy by Machete, having a bigger penis might be a fairly short-lived endeavour
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