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Old 08-28-2022, 06:15 AM
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IMHO…

CBD may very well be beneficial to some folks, but the marketing blitz has been way over played. My wife was a cancer patient and that sh*t didn’t help at all. THC however did help her sleep.

So if you are tempted by the hype keep in mind your doc may have been taken in by the hype too, and the promised results may be highly exaggerated.

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Old 08-28-2022, 05:19 PM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777 View Post
So is plutonium.
Plutonium is MOSTLY manmade.

And the real audience was people who LISTEN to that sort of drivel, and all too many do.
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Old 08-28-2022, 08:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Excargodog View Post
Plutonium is MOSTLY manmade.

And the real audience was people who LISTEN to that sort of drivel, and all too many do.

Also, Plutonium is useless without a bolt of lighting.
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Old 08-28-2022, 10:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Excargodog View Post
Horse$hit is natural.
Brilliant, I’ll steal that one.
Made my morning.
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Old 08-29-2022, 06:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Excargodog View Post
Plutonium is MOSTLY manmade.
It was just another example.

The Pu that we use is manmade. But it does occur in nature as well, it's just a whole lot cheaper to breed it than to try to refine the very low levels found in nature.

There are some very heavy elements which have been created that have exceptionally short half-lives which really don't exist in nature, other than for a little bit of time during extreme events like the big bang. Pu is not one of those.
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Old 08-29-2022, 06:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Excargodog View Post
Plutonium is MOSTLY manmade.

And the real audience was people who LISTEN to that sort of drivel, and all too many do.
Plutonium 238 is ALL man made. Dr. Glenn Seaborg and his student, Art Wahl, were there at the creation of those first atoms.
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Old 08-29-2022, 11:10 AM
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Originally Posted by TransWorld View Post
Plutonium 238 is ALL man made. Dr. Glenn Seaborg and his student, Art Wahl, were there at the creation of those first atoms.
Not quite. Very rare but it happens.

That low on the periodic table, pretty much anything will occur in nature in very specific circumstances... the right geology will result in proximity of heavy elements and neutron bombardment. Statistically it will happen eventually, once a precursor is formed the decay process is on rails and inevitable.

For practical purposes, it's correct that you need to breed Pu-238 to acquire any useful amount of it. You'd have to mine and refine literally mountains of rock to get the slightest trace of the natural stuff (which is of course utterly indistinguishable from man-made).
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Old 08-29-2022, 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777 View Post
Not quite. Very rare but it happens.

That low on the periodic table, pretty much anything will occur in nature in very specific circumstances... the right geology will result in proximity of heavy elements and neutron bombardment. Statistically it will happen eventually, once a precursor is formed the decay process is on rails and inevitable.

For practical purposes, it's correct that you need to breed Pu-238 to acquire any useful amount of it. You'd have to mine and refine literally mountains of rock to get the slightest trace of the natural stuff (which is of course utterly indistinguishable from man-made).
I think what TW was talking about, Pu-238, is pretty much all man made. The Pu-239 which you and I used to be around in no-lone zones was manmade but the isotope did occur naturally from neutron capture in U-238. Pu-238 is a decay product of Neptunium and (at least in comparison with Pu-239) pretty short lived.
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Old 08-29-2022, 07:41 PM
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All of which is cute, but irrelevant.

If you fly and hold a FAA medical, and take or use CBD oil, you're a ****ing idiot.

If you take plutonium, you're a ****ing idiot, too. Don't take either one.

Whether it's natural or not is irrelevant.
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Old 08-29-2022, 07:55 PM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777 View Post
Not quite. Very rare but it happens.

That low on the periodic table, pretty much anything will occur in nature in very specific circumstances... the right geology will result in proximity of heavy elements and neutron bombardment. Statistically it will happen eventually, once a precursor is formed the decay process is on rails and inevitable.

For practical purposes, it's correct that you need to breed Pu-238 to acquire any useful amount of it. You'd have to mine and refine literally mountains of rock to get the slightest trace of the natural stuff (which is of course utterly indistinguishable from man-made).
That is contrary to what Glenn Seaborg told me, face to face. For Pu-238, there is no naturally occurring. I respect you, Rick, but I respected Glenn on this topic, even more.
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