http://www.politedissent.com/archives/878 a blog of medicine, comics, television, science and other fun stuff Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:50:22 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.politedissent.com/archives/878/comment-page-1#comment-851366 Bob Thu, 20 May 2010 00:32:40 +0000 http://politedissent.com/archives/878#comment-851366 10 kg of uranium may be the same mass as a full-term pregnancy. Volumetrically, it's much less noticeable: its high density means it would only take up about half a liter of space... more than one normal-sized soft drink can, but considerably less than two of them (and you wouldn't want all the uranium in one lump until you're ready for it to go off anyway). 10 kg of uranium may be the same mass as a full-term pregnancy. Volumetrically, it’s much less noticeable: its high density means it would only take up about half a liter of space… more than one normal-sized soft drink can, but considerably less than two of them (and you wouldn’t want all the uranium in one lump until you’re ready for it to go off anyway).

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