Fire drill? What a bunch of wussies. Back in the fifties, they just told us to get under our desks. I have since learned that a school desk is of marginal protection during a thermonuclear event.
The luminous stuff isn’t exactly pure. If he used it straight, it’ll fizzle. If he did a good job of extracting the fissionible material, he doesn’t have enough to reach critical mass. No Kaboom.
If we cut Breathed some slack on that score, it is about big enough for a tactical warhead, what people call a suitcase bomb.
Should make a good souce of radiation poisoning, however.
Hello-o-o…watch hands glow because of radium which is not fissionable. And as a small nit, a thermonuclear device is a fusion device and depends on isotopes of hydrogen…tritium and deuterium, not uranium or plutonium which are used in fission devices. Cutting Breathed some slack, the device could be nuclear but not thermonuclear.
Kirokithikis almost 14 years ago
I think I’d be calling the fire drill from outside, let everyone else catch up :P
kreole almost 14 years ago
That means he got ahold of 4,850 watches at 2 hands per watch….or did he mean the hands on 9,700 watches?
thirdguy almost 14 years ago
I think he means it the way he said it.
Sandfan almost 14 years ago
Fire drill? What a bunch of wussies. Back in the fifties, they just told us to get under our desks. I have since learned that a school desk is of marginal protection during a thermonuclear event.
jmgarberson almost 14 years ago
It doesn’t matter how far you are from the blast…as long as you can say, “What was that?” :)
kittenpah almost 14 years ago
The luminous stuff isn’t exactly pure. If he used it straight, it’ll fizzle. If he did a good job of extracting the fissionible material, he doesn’t have enough to reach critical mass. No Kaboom.
If we cut Breathed some slack on that score, it is about big enough for a tactical warhead, what people call a suitcase bomb.
Should make a good souce of radiation poisoning, however.
QuietGuy almost 14 years ago
Google: radioactive boy scout
He collected radioactive material the same way for a merit badge.
chinook2 almost 14 years ago
@ Quiet guy: Haha I heard about that
laojim almost 14 years ago
I saw something about girls painting radium on watch dials just the other day. They were glowing blue. I can’t recall what the video was….hmmmm…
brad20001 almost 14 years ago
Hello-o-o…watch hands glow because of radium which is not fissionable. And as a small nit, a thermonuclear device is a fusion device and depends on isotopes of hydrogen…tritium and deuterium, not uranium or plutonium which are used in fission devices. Cutting Breathed some slack, the device could be nuclear but not thermonuclear.
SaunaBeach almost 14 years ago
Those musta been nuclear watches.
ses1066 almost 14 years ago
None-the-less everybody should gather around for that warm fissile glow on a cold winter’s day!
I have to say though, this guy in the last panel reminds me of the late Barbara Woodhouse with the only change being “fire drill” for ‘walkies’!
Sherlock Watson almost 14 years ago
I look at that teacher, and I expect him to start singing “She Blinded Me with Science.”
tsandl almost 14 years ago
I made mine with the americium out of 8.6 billion old smoke detectors.
rumplesnitz almost 14 years ago
Oliver, you’re not only an intelligent and wise man, but a snappy dresser and I’ve always wished I could be more like you…