But I'm no huge fan of oistet/snails either... Aside from garlic butter bread

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Coligny wrote:Gotta love how the cat immediately goes back to check on the kid then goes to the front of the car to verify the threat is not coming back from the other side...
Make you wonder if he's former military...
In February, a 55-gallon drum of radioactive waste burst open inside America's only nuclear dump, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico.
Now investigators believe the cause may have been a pet store purchase gone bad.
"It was the wrong kitty litter," says James Conca, a geochemist in Richland, Wash., who has spent decades in the nuclear waste business.
It turns out there's more to cat litter than you think. It can soak up urine, but it's just as good at absorbing radioactive material.
"It actually works well both in the home litter box as well as the radiochemistry laboratory," says Conca, who is not directly involved in the current investigation.
Cat litter has been used for years to dispose of nuclear waste. Dump it into a drum of sludge and it will stabilize volatile radioactive chemicals. The litter prevents it from reacting with the environment.
And this is what contractors at Los Alamos National Laboratory were doing as they packed Cold War-era waste for shipment to the dump. But at some point, they decided to make a switch, from clay to organic.
"Now that might sound nice, you're trying to be green and all that, but the organic kitty litters are organic," says Conca. Organic litter is made of plant material, which is full of chemical compounds that can react with the nuclear waste.
"They actually are just fuel, and so they're the wrong thing to add," he says. Investigators now believe the litter and waste caused the drum to slowly heat up "sort of like a slow burn charcoal briquette instead of an actual bomb."
After it arrived at the dump, it burst.
Yokohammer wrote:Of course we (well, at least Coligny and I) already knew this, but just for the record ...
Cat People Are Smarter Than Dog People, New Study Shows
wagyl wrote:Sorry, not cat related, not worth its own thread, and I suppose this will be the least threadjacking place to put it: In order to release a bee which got in my bonnet, I went to check just how visible personal galleries here were to the outside world. In answer to that question, images are blocked to those not logged in, but the search engine crawlers do index file names. But then, the search engines also showed an impostor, someone who was posting in Japan Today with Coligny's user name and avatar, but writing in normal English:
http://jt-w1.japantoday.com/member/view/Coligny
That impostor seems to have abandoned Japan Today suddenly in 2008.
The impostor does share an obsession with a certain AV performer, which is how this search result appeared.
Maybe we should feel honoured that Coligny here gives us more credit than Japan Today readers, that we will be able to understand the more interesting and unique forms of expression.
wagyl wrote:Of all those, Japan Today is probably most embarrassing, but you are no longer commenting there so you know that yourself.
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