http://www.idahostatesman.com/2014/10/1 ... .html?rh=1
One of the comments on this version of the article:
"Sounds like dirty bomb making to me. Small amount of radiation, but they haven't put it into anything they could use YET. Did they really say they are NOT going to file any charges? Yeah, just let anyone have radioactive materials laying around. That has to be legal and part of the 2nd Amendment, right?"
Oh boy
This is not the kind of news we need.
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Re: This is not the kind of news we need.
We just don't know the facts and never will. He may not have broken any serious laws!!!
A dirty bomb would demand a lot of material on hand. If it was obvious he was just diddling with a few powders out of ignorance and had little actual material there.
If he was young, had no serious police record, and no bizarre web presence then there would be little to gain by crushing a youthful indiscretion with life altering prosecution. We don't have all the facts we really don't have any real facts.
Stupid yes, but beyond that we are in the dark and will be kept that way, I am sure. The one big fact that we have is that the neighbors freaked and the press had their day or two of news cycle, which is what was expected all along.
Based on the article, even the NRC said there was no real radiation threat to residents. Sounds like the guy was more of an e-bay entrepeneur than a terrorist. If he had sacks of powdered ore, (hundreds of pounds), then that is another matter. We were told a few jars. Gallon jars? Quart jars? Pint jars? 2 oz. chemical jars? No real data.
Much ado about nothing beyond a foolish person trying to make a buck the wrong way, or an experimenter that just went a bit far beyond normal limits.
Richard Hull
A dirty bomb would demand a lot of material on hand. If it was obvious he was just diddling with a few powders out of ignorance and had little actual material there.
If he was young, had no serious police record, and no bizarre web presence then there would be little to gain by crushing a youthful indiscretion with life altering prosecution. We don't have all the facts we really don't have any real facts.
Stupid yes, but beyond that we are in the dark and will be kept that way, I am sure. The one big fact that we have is that the neighbors freaked and the press had their day or two of news cycle, which is what was expected all along.
Based on the article, even the NRC said there was no real radiation threat to residents. Sounds like the guy was more of an e-bay entrepeneur than a terrorist. If he had sacks of powdered ore, (hundreds of pounds), then that is another matter. We were told a few jars. Gallon jars? Quart jars? Pint jars? 2 oz. chemical jars? No real data.
Much ado about nothing beyond a foolish person trying to make a buck the wrong way, or an experimenter that just went a bit far beyond normal limits.
Richard Hull
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Fusion is the energy of the future....and it always will be
The more complex the idea put forward by the poor amateur, the more likely it will never see embodiment
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Re: This is not the kind of news we need.
It's hard for me to see this as a "fusor" story, even if there is some (unverified?) evidence of a fusor-like apparatus nearly concealed in the TeeVee coverage.
The reporting is disappointing... all the focus on the mother and her toddlers... nothing really about the perpetrator or his methodology or his intent.
Absent any further information about what was really going on in that apartment, it's hard not to conclude that this is some kind of kook playing with glowing substances...
But, there's a fear factor, so it's "news."
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The reporting is disappointing... all the focus on the mother and her toddlers... nothing really about the perpetrator or his methodology or his intent.
Absent any further information about what was really going on in that apartment, it's hard not to conclude that this is some kind of kook playing with glowing substances...
But, there's a fear factor, so it's "news."
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Author of The Boy Who Invented Television: 2023 Edition – https://amz.run/6ag1
"Fusion is not 20 years in the future; it is 60 years in the past and we missed it."