[extropy-chat] Nuclear batteries for hand-helds

[Mike Lorrey]

I wouldn't even do that. I'd just call them recharging modules and
leave it at that. 

--- Emlyn <emlynoregan at gmail.com> wrote:

> A good start would be to call them anything but Nuclear Batteries.
> Maybe Neutron emission batteries? Hmm... After all, smoke detectors
> aren't called Nuclear Smoke Detectors. Imagine the outcry if they
> were
> called that!
> 
> -- 
> Emlyn
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> 
> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:40:58 -0700 (PDT), Adrian Tymes
> <wingcat at pacbell.net> wrote:
> > I say again:
> > 
> > But try selling that to the luddite public who would
> > want to ban this.
> > 
> > --- Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > For the same reason that terrorists don't try to do
> > 
> > 
> > > the same thing with
> > > smoke detectors or tritium exit signs, both products
> > > which are widely
> > > used and are found in most people's homes and
> > > workplaces....
> > >
> > > --- Adrian Tymes <wingcat at pacbell.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Ah, but even if these are easily shielded, how to
> > > > prevent people from cracking open the batteries,
> > > > removing the radioactive bits, and concentrating
> > > them
> > > > into the warhead of a dirty nuclear bomb?
> > > >
> > > > The members of this list know how ridiculous the
> > > > chances of that are, and how minimal the threat
> > > would
> > > > be.  But try selling that to the luddite public
> > > who
> > > > would want to ban this.
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Mike Lorrey
Chairman, Free Town Land Development
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                         -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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