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is it really THAT hard to build a gas centrifuge?

OrganizedChaos

OrganizedChaos

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everyday on the news it seems that some country has been working for years to refine uranium. is a gas centrifuge really that complicated. seems to me that a couple of bored engineering students could build a small one in there basement with parts out of the grainger catalog, a lathe, and a good mill. is really that complicated to enrich a chunk of uranium by 5 percent or so?


so is it really that complicated or is a gas centriguge just a really big expresso machine.
 
Originally posted by: OrganizedChaos
everyday on the news it seems that some country has been working for years to refine uranium. is a gas centrifuge really that complicated. seems to me that a couple of bored engineering students could build a small one in there basement with parts out of the grainger catalog, a lathe, and a good mill. is really that complicated to enrich a chunk of uranium by 5 percent or so?


so is it really that complicated or is a gas centriguge just a really big expresso machine.
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Search for the Manhattan project and you'll understand how difficult it really is.
 
A little reading shows that the problem is that the centrifuge must spin VERY fast and therefore requires some fancy materials to construct it from as well as some other components, ie it requires you to do moe than spin it fast to obtain the enriched uranium.
 
Originally posted by: everman
Originally posted by: Klandestine
i have a lathe! let's pool our resources and take over a continent!
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You're going to need a flag though. No flag, no country.
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Britain!
Wot?
What's that behind your back?
It's India, and a number of other countries...
C'mon, now give 'em back.
We need them... for strategic sheep purposes.
 
Originally posted by: 5ayle
Originally posted by: everman
Originally posted by: Klandestine
i have a lathe! let's pool our resources and take over a continent!
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You're going to need a flag though. No flag, no country.
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lol
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Oooh! Ooh! I have a flag from Nation States and South America doesn't have the wherewithal to defend themselves. Who's down?
 
Originally posted by: Orsorum
Originally posted by: everman
Originally posted by: Klandestine
i have a lathe! let's pool our resources and take over a continent!
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You're going to need a flag though. No flag, no country.
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Britain!
Wot?
What's that behind your back?
It's India, and a number of other countries...
C'mon, now give 'em back.
We need them... for strategic sheep purposes.
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Okay...obviously that's a quote. From where? 😕
 
Britain!
Wot?
What's that behind your back?
It's India, and a number of other countries...
C'mon, now give 'em back.
We need them... for strategic sheep purposes.
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HaHa 😀 I love Eddie Izzard. I happen to live in "the city".
 
Originally posted by: Wanescotting
I have um, erm, uh, I have beer (what would an activity like this be without it?)
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Once we take over, you can be the secretary of state.
 
Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: Wanescotting
I have um, erm, uh, I have beer (what would an activity like this be without it?)
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Once we take over, you can be the secretary of state.
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Thank You. Oh, and what shall we name said state? I have no ideas, but I do propose that we form a seperate state.......................the state of stupidity. We would house all idiots in stupidy. Ah, and our capital shall be qityerbitchin'.
 
Originally posted by: Wanescotting
Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: Wanescotting
I have um, erm, uh, I have beer (what would an activity like this be without it?)
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Once we take over, you can be the secretary of state.
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Thank You. Oh, and what shall we name said state? I have no ideas, but I do propose that we form a seperate state.......................the state of stupidity. We would house all idiots in stupidy. Ah, and our capital shall be qityerbitchin'.
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Sounds like a plan. But a name for our country...hmm.

How about

"Awesometoniatopiastan"
 
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