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I personally am amazed that any parent would buy this sort of thing for their kids. . . "no honey, the package says it's non toxic if Johnny swallows it". Nowadays the worry would be that terrorists would steal the ore and maybe make bombs. . . ah, how times have changed. RSido 21:55, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
The amount of radioactivity in the potassium in a 90kg person is higher than that which the lab had. Uranium 238 is only dangerous if in finely powdered form and inhaled. You can safely swallow a pellet of uranium 238-bearing ore; it just passes through. Ore is not processed. Oh what the hell. It is radiation and radiation is bad. Grant McKenna 02:46, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Here's a photo of this toy http://smishno.com/images/articles/20080314031914996_1.jpg 77.121.218.137 ( talk) 07:55, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
"1951 Gilbert Toys catalog"
The list of parts that the kit includes appears to be copied from here:
http://www.americanmemorabilia.com/Auction_Item.asp?Auction_ID=31568
Where they state that they throw in the 1951 catalogue as an extra bonus. I don't think the original kit included the catalogue. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Moeburn ( talk • contribs) 03:09, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
It seems like Google Answers isn't a good citation. Can someone please check that out? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.4.23.6 ( talk) 14:52, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
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I'm surprised there is no section speaking as to how much radiation it put out over time and what effects it could have had on a child that kept it in their room for several years. Remarks throughout the article that it was "bad" really don't speak much to bad it was. StarHOG ( Talk) 14:17, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
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I personally am amazed that any parent would buy this sort of thing for their kids. . . "no honey, the package says it's non toxic if Johnny swallows it". Nowadays the worry would be that terrorists would steal the ore and maybe make bombs. . . ah, how times have changed. RSido 21:55, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
The amount of radioactivity in the potassium in a 90kg person is higher than that which the lab had. Uranium 238 is only dangerous if in finely powdered form and inhaled. You can safely swallow a pellet of uranium 238-bearing ore; it just passes through. Ore is not processed. Oh what the hell. It is radiation and radiation is bad. Grant McKenna 02:46, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Here's a photo of this toy http://smishno.com/images/articles/20080314031914996_1.jpg 77.121.218.137 ( talk) 07:55, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
"1951 Gilbert Toys catalog"
The list of parts that the kit includes appears to be copied from here:
http://www.americanmemorabilia.com/Auction_Item.asp?Auction_ID=31568
Where they state that they throw in the 1951 catalogue as an extra bonus. I don't think the original kit included the catalogue. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Moeburn ( talk • contribs) 03:09, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
It seems like Google Answers isn't a good citation. Can someone please check that out? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.4.23.6 ( talk) 14:52, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
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I'm surprised there is no section speaking as to how much radiation it put out over time and what effects it could have had on a child that kept it in their room for several years. Remarks throughout the article that it was "bad" really don't speak much to bad it was. StarHOG ( Talk) 14:17, 7 March 2019 (UTC)