Friday, April 3, 2009

the worst interview guest ever?

just a therapeutic posting to overcome my disbelief. and so you can see which tv shows i really follow. ;)

  1. U isn't the only naturally occuring element that decays. by far. everything heavier than lead does. (the first one discovered, actually by Marie Curie, was radium.)
  2. "the periodic table goes higher but this is where it ends." huh? how about "the higher ones are man-made"?
  3. an atomic nucleus consists of protons and neutrons (not electrons)
  4. neutrons were shot at atoms not "to see what would happen" but to study their internal structure and to produce heavier elements
  5. "they" were Enrico Fermi, Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner?
  6. all it takes to make things happen in only 10 years is money. how about politicians spend it more wisely?
  7. you can't just pick up these centrifuges from your local diy store, and it takes tons of uranium to get one pound of enriched product
  8. throwing the stuff at someone isn't so far off - contamination from depleted uranium ammunition is a big problem in war-torn countries.
so many issues and missed chances in one eight minute interview.
his book? i'll stick to wikipedia.

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