Half life is the time it takes 1/2 the atoms of a sample to decay and lose its mojo. 

The half life of uranium-235 is 713,000,000 years.  That’s 713 MILLION years.

The half life of uranium-238 is 4,500,000,000 years.  That’s 4.5 BILLION years.

Only six percent of the fuel rods at the plant’s Unit 3 were a mixture of plutonium-239 and uranium-235 when first put into operation. The fuel in other reactors is only uranium, but even there, plutonium is created during the fission process.

When the pellets of uranium dioxide inside the thin fuel rods are split to create energy in the reactor, they release neutrons that, in turn, create highly radioactive plutonium-239. This is the same type of plutonium used to make nuclear weapons.

If plutonium did get out, it wouldn’t disappear quickly. Plutonium-239 has a half-life of 25,000 years, meaning it takes that long to lose half of its radioactive potency. Uranium-235 has a half-life of 700 million years. And cesium, which tends to go airborne much more easily, has a half-life of 30 years. read more…

No matter how you cook it, this shit is going to be around for a while.  Whether it be falling into the ocean or carried away on the wind, it WILL get into the food chain. 

The Japanese govnerment is telling people that are within 12 miles of the exploding nuclear plants to stay in their houses???  If that were me, I’d get the hell out of Dodge.  The radiation doesn’t penetrate any material IS ABSORBED BY THE MATERIAL.  read more…

Ok, so I just saw on the 5:00 news tonight that on a scale of 7, Japan has updated the nuclear gravity (seriousness) from a 4 to a 5.

California HAS detected radiation fallout today, but “it’s so diluted”.  LMMFAO  Yea, but unless those fuel rods are cooled down soon, IT’S GOING TO KEEP COMING, YOU ASSHOLES!

BUT IT’S SOOOO DILUTED!!!!

UPDATE MARCH 19, 2011

BUT IT POSES NO IMMEDIATE HEALTH RISK

“Though radioactive iodine has a short half-life of about 8 days and decays naturally within a matter of weeks, there is a short-term risk to human health if radioactive iodine in food is absorbed into the human body,” the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement.

Earlier Japanese officials said radiation levels in spinach and milk from farms the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex exceeded government safety limits.

The food was taken from farms as far as 65 miles from the stricken plants, suggesting a wide area of nuclear contamination.

The tainted milk was found 20 miles from the plant, a local official said.

The spinach was collected from six farms between 60 miles and 75 miles to the south of the reactors.

Tests on the milk done Wednesday detected small amounts of iodine 131 and cesium 137, the latter being a longer lasting element and can cause more types of cancer.

While the radiation levels exceeded the limits allowed by the government, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano insisted the products “pose no immediate health risk.” Read more here…

1. How do I make a old car door close like a new car door?
2. If you buy an old beat up car can you just take it to lets say jiffy lube and they’ll fix it?
3. What is the probability of a tornado hitting a junk yard and creating a new car?
4. How would you describe the sound of an old beefy car at idle speed?
5. Why would a 12 year old car be in an auction?
6. Does a new paint job on a 17 year old car look silly?
7. Is it healthy to put old car oil in my hair?
8. Did you know when you donate your car, the gov’t legally takes over your computer, for it’s own purposes?
9. Is it possible to plop the body of an old car say, from the 1940s onto a 2010 Camaro frame + drivetrain?
10. How old were you when you wrecked your first car?

Gotta love #10, like it’s a right of passage or something?  LMAO!

If you can answer any of these questions, please leave a comment.  Feel free to run with it.  =)

They must have been spinning the tires because they straight up ripped the Rainbird popup sprinkler right off the riser and buried it into the ground like a corpse, all snug like a brat in a bun.  Mmmm, Oktoberfest is coming soon. 

So I went inside to get my camera to document it.  While taking the pictures I found ANOTHER sprinkler in the same shape, hit by the same mofo tire.  What the fuck are the odds of that happening to two sprinkler heads in the dark?

I’d post the pictures, but my computer’s actin’ an ass again and won’t download them from my camera.  Don’t EVER upgrade a Windows operating system.  Your computer will never be the same.  I know, I know, Cooking Asshole thinks I need a Mac.  I need another computer like he needs another frying pan.

Usually when one house gets hit, others do too.  I’ve been walking in the morning while it’s still cool and haven’t seen anyone else with tracks.  Most people have giant rocks in their lawns to prevent that from happening.  They just happened to find some cosmic worm hole across my yard, but how in the hell would they know that in the dark unless the vortex was shooting sparks out its ass like some beacon whispering “Enter Here”.  Fuckers.  Get the shovel.

#1  Walmart Pedestrians

Now this really isn’t Walmart’s fault, just the mentality of some of the people that shop there.  The store closest to me is bad for stooopid people and since the expansion of the light rail line into the hood, it’s gotten worse.  Ok, so let’s call it light rail’s fault.

I always drive slowly through the parking lot because of so many stooopid people shuffling around.  Today I stopped right in front of the store to let a lady into the crosswalk.  She was nice about it, too.  She waited to see if I would stop and then thanked me for doing so.  Then I slowly proceeded to drive across the remainder of the white hash-marked pedestrian area, when out of the clear blue sky some bitch presents herself around a blind corner and steps right smack into the hash marks WITHOUT LOOKING FOR CARS.

Now keep in mind, I’m driving S L O W L Y, but I had to abruptly slam on the brakes because I was already damn near on top of her by the time she stepped out from around the corner of the building.  Then she looks at me and mouths PEDESTRIAN CROSSWALK.  I could have shot the skank right then and there.  I wanted to shake the living daylights out of her.

What the fuck is it about people?  It was drilled into our brains as little kids by our parents and teachers, LOOK BOTH WAYS BEFORE YOU STEP INTO TRAFFIC.  Some people think those white lines will somehow physically protect them.  While peds do have the right of way, they also have a legal responsibility to look out for their own safety.  If a cop had been there to see that, SHE would have been ticketed, not me.

That kind of condescending shit makes my blood boil.  Next time she might not be so lucky and she’ll get hit by someone who didn’t have time to stop.  I can just she her big doe eyes now.  She’ll get the shovel, eventually.

#2  BBQ Assembly 101

I like the Uniflame BBQ grills Walmart has.  My old one that I’ve had for six years fell apart.  I HATE putting grills together, but this one was the worse.  When I took the parts out of the box I thought it was going to be a no-brainer because all the bolts, washers and wing nuts where neatly labeled in one little part kit.  Still, it took me 2-1/2 hours because the instructions were HORRIBLE.  Turns out that it really didn’t matter that the parts were labeled because who ever wrote the damn instructions didn’t have the parts right there in front of them to refer to when they were writing. 

The manual called for parts that were not in the kit.  It also referred to parts by letter that were lettered differently in the part kit.  I had to keep reading ahead to make sure I wasn’t using parts for something else I’d need later.  I had to dig into my own stash of bolts to find something that would work for the missing pieces.  Plus, I had parts left over. 

Where’s the quality control on this shit?  Oh wait, there isn’t any BECAUSE IT’S MADE IN FUCKING CHINA!

And this really frosted my ass – after I finished, I was out back with my trusty Stanley utility knife chopping up the box to put it into the recycle container when suddenly I saw in tiny print on the side of the box Free Assembly Available. 

Get the shovel.  China, Uniflame, and the pedestrian are going under.