ah yes, the backyard "usually has a really bad sense of PPE usage" scientist; whacking that one bad plant with a knife & using an angle grinder to cut it up into fine dust and spread it across the...
ah yes, the backyard "usually has a really bad sense of PPE usage" scientist; whacking that one bad plant with a knife & using an angle grinder to cut it up into fine dust and spread it across the garden, now that is a great idea.
This reminds me of an incident that happened with Cody’s Lab: One of his videos showed refining uranium ore to metal (part of a series on obtaining the metal elements). It got taken down;...
This reminds me of an incident that happened with Cody’s Lab: One of his videos showed refining uranium ore to metal (part of a series on obtaining the metal elements). It got taken down; apparently he had a “talking to” with various government agencies. Tons of people were complaining, conspirasizing, saying the government was being anti-science or too secretive (natural uranium ore to metal is very much open literature). I was curious (both naturally and as a nuke worker), so I watched a reupload someone else posted. He started off processing the ore in a ball mill underneath a ShopVac jury-rigged to act as a “hood” in his garage.
Some things you just don’t cheap out on. Our low activity basin samples are handled in the hood. At bare minimum, he should’ve had a proper fume hood, probably a glovebox. Uranium isn’t the worst thing to be working with, but ultimately it is still a toxic heavy metal, and the daughters can be quite nasty. The government was absolutely right to stop him.
I'd wager he made sure it wasn't a toxic plant before he did that. According to the Wikipedia article it isn't a poisonous plant like oleander or nightshade the only toxin is in the needles in the...
I'd wager he made sure it wasn't a toxic plant before he did that.
According to the Wikipedia article it isn't a poisonous plant like oleander or nightshade the only toxin is in the needles in the leaf, like nettles which can be made into tea or salad. I don't think anybody's eating gimpie gimpie, though, and should I ever hopefully find myself in the Australian bush, I'll be looking for it like I do poison oak.
ah yes, the backyard "usually has a really bad sense of PPE usage" scientist; whacking that one bad plant with a knife & using an angle grinder to cut it up into fine dust and spread it across the garden, now that is a great idea.
This reminds me of an incident that happened with Cody’s Lab: One of his videos showed refining uranium ore to metal (part of a series on obtaining the metal elements). It got taken down; apparently he had a “talking to” with various government agencies. Tons of people were complaining, conspirasizing, saying the government was being anti-science or too secretive (natural uranium ore to metal is very much open literature). I was curious (both naturally and as a nuke worker), so I watched a reupload someone else posted. He started off processing the ore in a ball mill underneath a ShopVac jury-rigged to act as a “hood” in his garage.
Some things you just don’t cheap out on. Our low activity basin samples are handled in the hood. At bare minimum, he should’ve had a proper fume hood, probably a glovebox. Uranium isn’t the worst thing to be working with, but ultimately it is still a toxic heavy metal, and the daughters can be quite nasty. The government was absolutely right to stop him.
I'd wager he made sure it wasn't a toxic plant before he did that.
According to the Wikipedia article it isn't a poisonous plant like oleander or nightshade the only toxin is in the needles in the leaf, like nettles which can be made into tea or salad. I don't think anybody's eating gimpie gimpie, though, and should I ever hopefully find myself in the Australian bush, I'll be looking for it like I do poison oak.
I know these guys have to make money somehow, but that was a little too much "Keeps".