[Rockhounds] Radioactive boy scout a la Harpers (was p=holes etc)

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

http://www.groupsrv.com/science/about39974.html suggests the story is
based on fact.

Kreigh


Margaret Malm wrote:
> 
> Has anyone checked this tale out on the Urban Legends?
> 
> Margaret
> 
> Thanks, Pete, for the URLs.
> 
> For the rest of us... Read the article.  Right!!!  Not!!!  For
> starters, what's the melting point of barium sulfate?!!! He did not
> do that on the stove top when his mom was out of the house!
> 
> Golf Manor, Michigan is not identified by Google maps.
> 
> It is informative, though not definitive, to do a search on Ken
> Silverstein in Google.
> 
> For this particular article, many scientific details are suspect,
> though I lack the expertise to evaluate them quantitatively.  To me
> this smacks of a clever writer looking for a literary score, which he
> got - I suspect an investigation into his training would reveal
> enough science (or enough friends) to be convincing but not enough to
> be authoritative.  I can well believe that EPA may have come in and
> declared a disaster, but that is a different issue entirely!
> 
> By the way, I have two ~5 lb glass bottles of mercury on my desk
> which I use as bookends for my CDs.  But that's not why I wrote this
> note.  In fact, I'll probably get rid of them pretty soon.
> 
> And I have some swamp land in New Jersey (elevation 14')  that in a
> few hundred years will be prime beach front property - make an offer.
> 
> Pete Richards
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