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[ewx]

"This [Pu] should not be treated as if you're just handling bananas or something"

It seems vanishingly unlikely that anyone is treating it like bananas!

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[gerald_duck]

In particular, you can stack more than 18kg of bananas without people hearing the outcome from the next continent.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I bet no-one ever used Plutonium as a prop in a sex education class, either.

[gerald_duck]

"Morning class.

"And today we're going to learn the value of honesty in relationships. The first point is that you shouldn't exaggerate your partner's sexual prowess.

"For example, an old cliché is that 'the Earth moved'. This is completely false — the Earth does not move* when you have sex. For comparison, if I press this red button, the earth will move…"

Hmm. Perhaps not.

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*Relative to its normal orbital-rotational frame of reference / any more than usual

[womble2.livejournal.com]

Maybe bananas should be treated more like plutonium, since they are radioactive. Only slightly, I know, but won't somebody think of the children?