Have your cake and eat it too.

/feartilizer

How else would we grow Tommaco?

it BETTER be - i didn't pay all that money for some non-radioactive crap.

Okay, before I open the article to read it, I predict that someone has found out that uranium has a strong affinity for phosphates and is working that angle into a career...

Oh, and it goes on to the anti-fluoridation people.

Welcome to crazy town people.

If it is, I better have a talk with the farmer next door.

wildcardjack: Okay, before I open the article to read it, I predict that someone has found out that uranium has a strong affinity for phosphates and is working that angle into a career...

Correct, sir.

I know what the article is referring to without having to read it because I was having a discussion about the radioactive isotopes in some fertilizers..in 1993. So maybe we'll forgive them for noticing about 15 years too farkin' late.

/or not

The active ingredient in Pepto-Bismol is Bismuth, the first radioactive element on the periodic table. EVERYBODY PANIC!

How else am I supposed to grow an army of giant killer vegetables?

From Article: Now hear this: I'm coming at this from the garden angle. I do not have the expertise to pronounce on safety with respect to radiation dosages. But I am a qualified, experienced worrywart.

Yup, that about sums it up. Glad to see the media's investigative reporting is still up to par.

Article was vague. Were they refering to polonium 210 in apatite based fertilizers? No idea why they kept mentioning uranuim (unless it is better for the scare factor).

/old and busted
//still used because it is cheap

eqtworld: /my ferts are not radioactive



nor are mine.

old news anyway

Why do I get the thought of some asshat in Montana trying to build a dirty bomb with fertilizer? Also does this mean Timothey McVey used a Radiological Weapon against the US Government?

eqtworld: /my ferts are not radioactive

Sorry. I read that as "my farts are not radioactive." Then I thought, "well, good for you."

IKillBugs you beat me to it...it's sunday, i'm slow

I'll just go with the old standby:

Somewhere Michael J. Fox is shaking his head...

George Rogers, who received his Ph.D. in botanybeing a whackjob from the University of Michigan

But I am a qualified, experienced worrywart.

Indeed.

My smoke alarms are radioactive. Should I be afraid of them?

Hard for me to garden at night without the soft green glow of my tomatoes.

must be hung over. I read that as your garden fertilizing a radioactive lizard

The tritium sight on my H&K are Radioactive? Does that make it a WMD?

eqtworld: i like where this thread is going ;)

ha ha, well i'm not into that kind of farming (see profile), although i always said if i were to get into it i could retire in a few years.

Radiation is everywhere. There's 100x more unwarranted fear about it than there is real danger in the world.

Bananas are radioactive. The potassium throws off a reading so bad that you can't eat them leading up to a personal radiation reading.

Sometimes I wonder if all this radiation hype wasn't just a campaign to keep nuclear energy unpopular. If people weren't so afraid of it, more people would promote nuclear power and energy wouldn't remain in the hands of the few.

Flashbulb: Sometimes I wonder if all this radiation hype wasn't just a campaign to keep nuclear energy unpopular. If people weren't so afraid of it, more people would promote nuclear power and energy wouldn't remain in the hands of the few.

You're probably right.

What is no-salt and nusalt made of, exactly?

There is so much nuculer shiat in fertilizer, it will turn us all into mutants sooner or later. You are lucky if your kids aren't born with two heads, or a third arm growing out of their back.

No, but my ass is

etymxris: What is no-salt and nusalt made of, exactly?

Potassium Chloride. Simple matter of changing a rung on the periodic table to get a similar taste.

Flashbulb:
Sometimes I wonder if all this radiation hype wasn't just a campaign to keep nuclear energy unpopular.

DING DING DING WE HAVE A WINNER

etymxris: What is no-salt and nusalt made of, exactly?

I think it's potassium chloride...it is a salt, just not common table salt.

Why isn't this guy more worried about spreading artificial fertilizers all over his property and contaminating the water supply?

etymxris: What is no-salt and nusalt made of, exactly?

Nastium Chloride. It tastes bad, no matter what.

"I don't believe it!"

whatshisname: Why isn't this guy more worried about spreading artificial fertilizers all over his property and contaminating the water supply?

This, oh, this. But he's already stretching his ties with OMG FLUORIDE IN OUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS dot org, by diverting scarce panic resources away from fluoridation and toward natural trace radioactivity.

Coming soon: thebananaconspiracy.org. OPEN YOUR EYES, people!

My waste can be used as starship fuel!

eqtworld:

/what happened to overgrowdotcom?

the guy who owned it decided he didn't want to own it anymore, so he just deleted the website then stopped paying the bill for the server.

very interesting reads on that one, too bad nothing can match its greatness :(

Must be a Democrat.

globalwarmingpraiser: The tritium sight on my H&K are Radioactive? Does that make it a WMD?

How big a mag have you got?

eqtworld: Xxplosiv:

I would have sent him $5 a month....
well, that was the official story, for all anyone knows he could have been visited by some dea agents and asked to remove his site,to which he complied, unwilling serve time for whatever advertising seed banks gets ya.

That site was amazing, I wonder if it exists in torrent form, I would love to have it to read.

the only thing I've seen since its been down was most of the faq section which was recovered through google cache, and maybe one site had some pictures to go with it.

Kar98: globalwarmingpraiser: The tritium sight on my H&K are Radioactive? Does that make it a WMD?

How big a mag have you got?

It is a compact so 7 in clip. But it is loaded with 225 Gr Federal Hydrashoks in .45 acp.

Flashbulb: Sometimes I wonder if all this radiation hype wasn't just a campaign to keep nuclear energy unpopular. If people weren't so afraid of it, more people would promote nuclear power and energy wouldn't remain in the hands of the few.

There are some stories that came out of Los Alamos that the radiation fear was intended to keep people in other countries from playing with the stuff.

And to people saying there fertilizer isn't radioactive... get a giger counter and show me your stable isotopes. 1/5 off all potassium is radioactive for a start. That includes the stuff in your fertilizer, bananas, vitamins, steak and potatoes.

Author is a Doctor of Hortaculture. An expert in this peculiar, silicon based pizza topping looking lifeform that uses powerful acids to dig through and consume rock.

So, It now becomes all so clear,They finally found out whats wrong with people in FLA.

whammer: Author is a Doctor of Hortaculture. An expert in this peculiar, silicon based pizza topping looking lifeform that uses powerful acids to dig through and consume rock.

It took a second, but I got it.
/geek mode off

This entire article pisses me off on many levels. First, it's clear that the editor let a poorly, or not, researched article get published. Second, the paper advertises that their author has a Ph.D. in botany, and from a decent school at that. This guy should have the science training to easily figure out if his concern has any merit. Furthermore, the Ph.D. implies that even if he lacks that training, he should be able to research it and teach it to himself. And to round things off, though this overlaps with the lack of research, there isn't a single farking number available letting me know if the fertilizer is even radioactive or not. Put a damned Geiger counter next to it already, and take a farking measurement! It took me all of 2 minutes to learn how to turn on a Geiger counter, take a quick background reading, and start measuring samples in my radioactive chemistry course.

jfarkinB: Coming soon: thebananaconspiracy.org. OPEN YOUR EYES, people!

Are you taking the piss? It's hard to tell.

Remember when you went to read a column on gardening and they would actually give you useful hints?

Now some overeducated yankee cocksucker who has impressed some bean counting editor with his education gets to annoy everyone with some gloom and doom nonsense. Meanwhile the people whom actually know a thing or too about gardening in Florida are not passing on their knowledge.

And at the end of it, he gives no alternatives. Use dried manures instead of nitrate of soda, jackass. Now go back to bragging about your phd to your community college students and STFU.

Your body is radioactive and should qualify as radioactive waste, as well.

Worried?

i hope they dont have kids that go to public schools with bricks and all. They most likly contain uranium and/or thorium in them! the horror!

You can grow tomacco with radioactive fertilizer.

DON.MAC: 1/5 off all potassium is radioactive for a start.

40-K is 0.0117% abundant, not 20%.