One Xray every hour for the rest of your LIFE!

[Brutuskend]

I just got done reading a article in the local paper, among other things it said that if you get a piece of shrapnel in you from a depleted uranium round it's like having one xray ever hour for LIFE!

More on this weapon Here

We have used TONS of this stuff in the middle east so far...

 

[kogase]

Like I care if the terrorists have cancer...

 

[djheater]

I understand that a properly shaped tinfoil hat will redirect the radiation out of your body and create a mind control dispersion field...

 

[altonb1]

The problem with the Iraqi's, etc getting cancer, is SOMEHOW the US will get stuck paying for it. :| :thumbsdown:

 

[ManyBeers]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
I just got done reading a article in the local paper, among other things it said that if you get a piece of shrapnel in you from a depleted uranium round it's like having one xray ever hour for LIFE!

More on this weapon Here

We have used TONS of this stuff in the middle east so far...

Depleted uranium :Missile

 

[Lonyo]

Every?

 

[Czar]

no forgetting that it shatters into small dust particles on impact, goes into the air, the soil, the water supplies, the food supplies

 

[Specop 007]

Originally posted by: Czar
no forgetting that it shatters into small dust particles on impact, goes into the air, the soil, the water supplies, the food supplies

Did you know unicorn horns are actually made of DU?

I mean hell, if we're gonna make stuff up lets go all out right?

 

[Brutuskend]

Originally posted by: Czar
no forgetting that it shatters into small dust particles on impact, goes into the air, the soil, the water supplies, the food supplies

Exactly, so MANY of our guys are coming home with this stuff on their systems. This has also been linked to birth deformity.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
I just got done reading a article in the local paper, among other things it said that if you get a piece of shrapnel in you from a depleted uranium round it's like having one xray ever hour for LIFE!

More on this weapon Here

We have used TONS of this stuff in the middle east so far...

No. That is misinformation.

For one, depleted uranium is, well, depleted, meaning it's hardly radioactive at all.
Second of all, uranium radiation is alpha particles, which are much different than X-rays. Alpha particles are stopped by skin and even a piece of paper, while X-rays go right through you.

 

[AdamSnow]

Originally posted by: Specop 007

Originally posted by: Czar
no forgetting that it shatters into small dust particles on impact, goes into the air, the soil, the water supplies, the food supplies

Did you know unicorn horns are actually made of DU?

I mean hell, if we're gonna make stuff up lets go all out right?

:laugh:

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

No. That is misinformation.

For one, depleted uranium is, well, depleted, meaning it's hardly radioactive at all.
Second of all, uranium radiation is alpha particles, which are much different than X-rays. Alpha particles are stopped by skin and even a piece of paper, while X-rays go right through you.

Alphas are VERY destructive to human tissue. Of course they are stopped by a sheet of paper or just a few inches of air. Just how do they cause damage? Dust from apha emitters when inhaled, that's how. Search for "Radium Girls" on Google for an interesting read of how Radium - a very powerful alpha emitter (also rather strong in Gamma) caused a lot of grief for those folks 70 years ago.

 

[desteffy]

the use of DU is a CRIME

It is still highly radioactive!

 

[BigJ]

I normally sprinkle DU flakes over my Cheerios in the morning.

 

[SlitheryDee]

After doing a bit of searching it seems like DU is effective in munitions not because of its radioactivity, but because of its other physical properties. It's a high density metal, so it slices through armor. It doesn't necessarily "burn" through stuff it like the linked article suggests. Most of the sources I see indicate that it's only slightly radioactive and while I certainly wouldn't want a piece of ANYTHING radioactive in my body, it's also important not to blow things out of proportion.

 

[imported_Pablo]

Doesn't lead block radiation? If so, perhaps the best idea if you are shot with depleted uranium bullets, is to take a handful of lead pellets with water quickly thereafter. Stop the damage before it starts.

Problem solved.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: desteffy
the use of DU is a CRIME

It is still highly radioactive!

False. It is *NOT* highly radioactive. Educate yourself.

 

[Accipiter22]

Originally posted by: djheater
I understand that a properly shaped tinfoil hat will redirect the radiation out of your body and create a mind control dispersion field...

hahahhaha

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
After doing a bit of searching it seems like DU is effective in munitions not because of its radioactivity, but because of its other physical properties. It's a high density metal, so it slices through armor. It doesn't necessarily "burn" through stuff it like the linked article suggests. Most of the sources I see indicate that it's only slightly radioactive and while I certainly wouldn't want a piece of ANYTHING radioactive in my body, it's also important not to blow things out of proportion.

It's pyrophoric, meaning it spontaneously combusts - generally when it fragments, IIRC.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: kogase
Like I care if the terrorists have cancer...

no wonder they are pissed.... they really respect your opion and are really hurt by your indifference

 

[Proletariat]

Well it looks like there are gonna be a lot of cancerous Muslims...

 

[SlitheryDee]

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
After doing a bit of searching it seems like DU is effective in munitions not because of its radioactivity, but because of its other physical properties. It's a high density metal, so it slices through armor. It doesn't necessarily "burn" through stuff it like the linked article suggests. Most of the sources I see indicate that it's only slightly radioactive and while I certainly wouldn't want a piece of ANYTHING radioactive in my body, it's also important not to blow things out of proportion.

It's pyrophoric, meaning it spontaneously combusts - generally when it fragments, IIRC.

Yup, continued searching has brought be to the same conclusion. from wikipedia...

Depleted uranium differs from natural uranium only in its isotopic composition, not in its chemistry. As such, its chemical hazards are those which would be expected from natural uranium in the same form. The metal is pyrophoric when finely divided: in a massive form, it will slowly corrode under the influence of air and water producing uranium(V) and uranium(VI) salts.

So perhaps DU munitions do "burn" through the things they strike. Am I interpreting the passage correctly in assuming that is a result of its chemical properties and has nothing to do with radioactivity?

 

[drinkmorejava]

Has it occured to anyway that generally when you're hit with a DU round you are going to lose your whole torso/chest cavity/arm, there's not going to be much left for the rnd to embed itself in.

 

[myusername]

Originally posted by: drinkmorejava
Has it occured to anyway that generally when you're hit with a DU round you are going to lose your whole torso/chest cavity/arm, there's not going to be much left for the rnd to embed itself in.

The concern is vaporized uranium being inhaled and making its way into the food and water. Even when radioactivity is not a concern (and it is), Uranium is a toxic heavy metal.

Anyone who is suggesting depleted uranium is harmless or that the skyrocketing cancer rates and birth defects among civilian Iraqis is a non-issue must have felt the same about the lead paint chips they freely ingested as a child.

 

[skyking]

DU rounds are self-sharpening, due to the crystalline structure of the metal itself. As it penetrates armor, shards of the U238 are stripping off the round and flying off in all directions. Those fragments are going to be quite hot, thus the description of "burning a hole through the armor." The guy in the article was likely hit by some of these small shards.
Unfotunately, tungsten does not 'self-sharpen", or it would be used instead of U238.