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by ScotterC 5046 days ago
I'd happily ingest as much plutonium as you would caffeine.
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Plutonium-239, the kind used in bombs, is not actually that radioactive, and most of it would go through your system pretty quickly.
Are you sure?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium#Flammability, to me, indicates that it may not be a wise idea to drop the stuff in the acid inside your stomach, even if it is only, say, a gram a day.
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to imply daily. As professor Bernard Cohen meant it, as a competition with Ralph Nader, I was a one off meant to show that the equivalent mg dosage of caffeine would kill you much faster then plutonium. A daily ingestion is much different.
How much plutonium would you be willing to inhale?
Why would you agree to that?