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Colloids in Russia: Have Plutonium, Will Travel

sciam.com — Among the list of environmental disasters created by Soviet central planning, Mayak must rank high. Commissioned as a plant in southern Russia to manufacture plutonium for bombs in 1948, it soon segued into a long life as a reprocessing center for nuclear material from reactors and decommissioned weapons...

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  • tominabox1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4In Soviet Russia, nukes make you!
    • ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Can someone explain me where this "in soviet russia..." thing comes from?
    • Aleksej, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@ChileanGoD: In Russian, the grammatical case of a word is usually denoted by ending appended to it. So you could put words in reverse order or mix them up in a way that would still be grammatical, though not always of a usual speech style. E.g.: "a computer am using I" (“компьютер использую я”). From the forms of the two latter words, you can see that "использую" is a verb in the form used with "I" and "я" is in nominative case. So, even though the phrase may sound unusual (or it may not, depending on context), you will understand that it doesn't mean "A computer is using me".
    • aadsm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@ChileanGoD

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_reversal
    • megaloid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Don't forget well-documented Russian propensity for eliminating articles. Is amusing habit of Russian people.
    • Aleksej, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@megaloid: Eliminating? There ain't no articles in Russian! :)
  • egotripping, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0I wonder if that's a play on "Have Love, Will Travel."
  • SundayTrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's good that they are discovering this now. Discovering suddenly that plutonium has leeched into the aquafir fifty years from now would be a disaster.
    Those damn colloids always have to ruin the party, why can't radoactive waste just stay put!
    Of course I'll be dead... ;-
  • larrywsm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1See What you get from a workers paradise
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