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- SquigglyP, on 11/30/2007, -0/+57Your need for a Polonium detecting pen is directly proportional to your knowledge of Russian military secrets.
- spammishking, on 11/30/2007, -0/+48You might be a nerd if...
you bring a Polonium detector to a bar - baylorbear, on 11/30/2007, -2/+49Marco... polonium!
- drgold, on 11/30/2007, -2/+34List of people who might have had a use for this:
1) Litvinenko
2) ...
Still cool, nonetheless. - andrewcsayer, on 11/30/2007, -0/+31Yeah - all my dates want to spike my drinks with polonium. You can never be to careful these days.
- afdlips, on 11/30/2007, -1/+28Sounds like something you'd see in SkyMall.
- flamingmb, on 11/30/2007, -0/+27ex russian spies are.
- Daveecee, on 11/30/2007, -1/+25Can somebody please tell me why I should be looking for Polonium in my drinks? Is this common or something??
- Kragnerac, on 11/30/2007, -1/+21A portion of the credit can be attributed to the poisoning of Fmr. Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Litvinenko. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko_ ...
- EBoombastic, on 11/30/2007, -3/+23Is that a Polonium detector in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
- inactive, on 11/30/2007, -1/+17or if you know what Polonium is.
- oneoverzero, on 11/30/2007, -1/+14because apha particles are cooler than daterape.
- SquigglyP, on 11/30/2007, -0/+12if you don't die, it worked.
- IntoTheWired, on 11/30/2007, -3/+15Kinda a threadjack, but why not make a GHB detecting pen? I could actually see more than a handful of people benefiting from THAT product.
- inactive, on 11/30/2007, -0/+12Polonium: The 24718th most likely way to die.
- gnick, on 11/30/2007, -0/+11OK... Polonium is certainly one of the nastiest little buggers around (please toss me some Uranium, Plutonium, or unstable HE before making play with it.) But, it basically takes a hostile nuclear power to obtain sufficient quantities and use it aggressively. Who the hell is scared of this stuff?
- nnagflar, on 11/30/2007, -2/+12*edit*
You're definitely a huge nerd if...
you bring a polonium detector to a bar. - innocentsinner, on 11/30/2007, -0/+9Give this man a prize!
- inactive, on 11/30/2007, -2/+11Thank god I dont live in russia, if I did, I'd need one.
- Androne, on 11/30/2007, -0/+9You eat plenty of radio active things every day and if you spend enough time in a basement you will get a dose from some Radon gas. Also Po210 is the one you have to be worried about and it has a natural abundance of nill. It decays to lead which is poisonous which is part of the reason why its so potent. Handling something as dangerous like polonium requires a great deal of knowledge about radio active materials and any average person trying to poison you with it will most likely end up killing himself as well.
- inactive, on 11/30/2007, -0/+9I agree. I'm constantly worried that I'm not getting enough GHB in my diet.
- Daveecee, on 11/30/2007, -1/+9*edit*
I am definitely a digg-whore. - tinkertoy, on 11/30/2007, -1/+9Jesus, if you're that worried about polonium in your drink, it's time to switch bars. Or get new friends who DON'T think it's funny to spike your drinks with radioactive substances.
- Error601, on 11/30/2007, -0/+6If you're a target for assassination, you might want to consider making your own drinks.
- kageki, on 11/30/2007, -0/+6Polonium is apparently present in our food, water and tobacco. It's in a lot more stuff then you think.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonium
http://www.webspawner.com/users/radioactivefood/in ...
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/po-qa.html
http://www.acsa.net/HealthAlert/israelawsuit.html - Hindu_Wardrobe, on 11/30/2007, -1/+7Mmmmm, Polonium
- TheKrillr, on 11/30/2007, -0/+6Instead you would trust one built by someone else, where it may have been tampered with so it DOESNT work?
- grimward, on 11/30/2007, -0/+6Ehehe, nice.. now where's my personal shield and complementary crysknife? ;)
- inactive, on 11/30/2007, -0/+6Yea, it protects you from necrophiliacs
- KSpark, on 11/30/2007, -0/+5If I important enough to justify carrying around a Polonium tester, I sure as hell wouldn't trust one I made myself.
- charlietuna, on 11/30/2007, -0/+5A must for the fashionable ex KGB Colonel on the go.
- TheKrillr, on 11/30/2007, -0/+5Even small amounts of polonium can kill you. It gets into your system and is NOT expelled, spilling countless curies of radiation into your body.
- inactive, on 11/30/2007, -0/+5"if you spend enough time in a basement you will get a dose from some Radon gas"
I live in a basement. Mind filling me in and potentially saving my life? - inactive, on 11/30/2007, -0/+5Obtaining even small amounts of polonium require you to have a breeder reactor, cyclotron, or large mining operation. It would be a lot easier to just shoot someone.
- ultraelite, on 11/30/2007, -0/+4yeah, russian roofies
- Murdats, on 11/30/2007, -0/+4it has a money back garentee
- LiquidLeopard, on 11/30/2007, -0/+4how do you know it works....?
- techweenie1, on 11/30/2007, -1/+5is there a discount for Ex Russian Spies living in Britain?
- jamief00, on 11/30/2007, -1/+5Polonium, the 24718th way to die.
#24717 - being eaten by kittens
#24719 - being knocked in front of a bus by a rampaging horde of blood thirsty kittens - Ryosen, on 11/30/2007, -0/+4A little late for that now, isn't it?
- rz8472, on 11/30/2007, -0/+4Somewhere up in heaven, Alexander Litvinenko is smiling. Or really pissed that he was only a year or two away from getting one.
- newprohibition, on 11/30/2007, -0/+4From Wiki: "Watras set off the radiation alarms on his way into work for two weeks straight while authorities searched for the source of the contamination. They were shocked to find that the source was astonishingly high levels of radon, around 100,000 Bq/m³ (2,700 pCi/L), in his house's basement and it was not related to the nuclear plant. The risks associated with living in his house were estimated to be equivalent to smoking 135 packs of cigarettes every day. Following this event, which was highly publicized, national radon safety standards were set, and radon detection and ventilation became a standard homeowner concern.
Radon is the second most frequent cause of lung cancer, after cigarette smoking, and radon-induced lung cancer is thought to be the 6th leading cause of cancer death overall.[2][3]" - PlagueMonkey, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3OK- a lethal dose of Polonium is like $10 million. If the price on you head is so high that someone is willing to pay $10 million just for the *means* to kill you, you can be damn sure that your Roofie pen is not going to get you home safely.
- brent218, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3also is there anything LED's cant do?
- cfuse, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3Anyone who actually has a need for this is more likely to need a way to keep the high velocity lead out of their skull. Why get fancy?
- JordanAustin, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3I believe the flaw in the design is that you are trusting it to do something only if it detects it. So is the drink clean? "Either that or my batteries or dead, I can't tell."
I could be wrong if that's not how it's designed, that's just the 1st thing that came to my mind on the description here on digg. - androothebear, on 11/30/2007, -4/+7why was this invented and why is it on Digg's front page?
- mz00m, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3Sadly, the 24717th most likely way to die is from a malfunctioning pen-sized polonium detector.
- Hobbes24, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3no. as a mater of fact, polonium is very difficult to render form ore, and unless you are a very important person who is a target for killing, you dont' need to worry about this, ever.
- RedStarRizing, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3as soon as we russians have a good thing going someone has to go and mess it up
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