that would suck if you forgot and grabbed the wrong coke out the fridge the next morning:

"Q3: Describe the plot exposition leading to the demise of protagonist's father.
A: Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Caramel Color, Phosphoric Acid, Natural Flavors, Caffeine, Potassium Benzoate, Citric Acid."

MAJOR upvote for the Trivia.

"Ah crap... the pyramids?

Yeah you got it, that's right! Great job!"

"...Potassium?"

I was laughing almost the entire time, these guys are comedic geniuses!

We performed the thermite reaction in high-school science class. Just a flower pot full of iron oxide and aluminum dust. We put a small divot in the top which we filled with potassium permanganate and triggered the reaction by pouring a bit of glycerin onto the permanganate. Quite a fireworks display!

I live about 4 miles from three-mile island. Each year, we get a pamphlet on what to do if the thing goes boom. The general advice is:
•Take your freaking potassium iodide pill ASAP, or spread a good bit of iodine on your arm or a bit of skin. This saturates your thyroid with normal (as opposed to RADIOACTIVE) iodine.
•If you were outside, get inside and take a long shower to wash off the radioactive soot you might have on your skin. ...oh and don't breath the crap if you don't have to. Filters = good.
•If you are downwind and you catch on quick, get the hell out of dodge.
•If you are downwind and you don't catch on quick, the roads will be packed and you should just hide in your basement under tons of crap to prevent the radioactive particals from outside from reaching you. If you have a sufficiently large pile of crap in your basement, you'll be fine (this is hilariously true in fact).
•If you are now "safely" in your basement, under a huge pile of crap, breathing filtered air, and you wait there for a few days, listen to the radio and it will tell you either what to do or when it is "safe" to get the hell out of dodge.
•When it is safe to get the hell out of dodge, go to your car, dust it off, turn off the vents, and get the hell out of dodge. Head upwind of the plant and when you are, open your windows and taste the sweet sweet air of not-cancer.

...ok, so those last few bits of advice were written by me... not the pamphlet, which is by far not as interesting or useful.

The best irony is that "duck and cover" is freaking good advice! Radiation sickness is often avoidable or at least minor. A huge sheet of broken glass flying at your face... is well... less minor, unless you don't mind having a shortage of skin and all that.

Just a 1/1 mix of Hydrogen Peroxide & Liquid Soap will get out Red Wine stains. So I guess adding the Potassium Iodide would get out Pink Champaign stains???

this is close to the recipe for skunk odor removal, minus the potassium lodide:

# 1 quart 3 percent hydrogen peroxide
# 1/4 cup baking soda (sodium bicarbonate)
# 1 teaspoon liquid soap or dish detergent

this is THE way to remove skunk odor, it's the chemical neutralizer to the thiols in the skunks spray.

It may be possible to overdose on THC, but it'll probably never happen. It's also possible to overdose on bananas, and die of potassium poisoning. You would have to basically go on a banana eating marathon for the entire day, and even then your body might not be physically capable of holding all that in.

sadly looris, this product is neither. it is merely a homeopathic placebo consisting of nearly all wax and potassium dichromate diluted to 1 PPM. you'd have better results buying a gluestick in the art supply asile.

That's not at all what I'm arguing persephone. The current situation with DU contamination in Iraq is serious to say the least. All I'm refuting is the idea that the entire area has been rendered uninhabitable for geologic timescales as Moret suggests simply because the half life of U238 is very long. What is being neglected is that uranium and thorium and radioactive potassium are found absolutely everywhere on the planet in dust form (some places more than others) and the uranium used to make these things was mined from rocks. I am saying that instead of taking 4 billion years or whatever to become a safe area again and only considering the half life of uranium is incorrect in that it does not factor into the problem the dispersal of the uranium dust in the area. That dust, especially since Iraq is no stranger to annual huge wind storms is going to be dispersed on vastly shorter timescales than 4 billion years. I'd guess that as long as you get rid of the contaminated tanks etc. themselves (bury them), that background levels of U in the region would return within 50-100 years simply due to this dispersal effect. Yes, that is still quite a while(!) and obviously the situation remains very serious right now, I certainly would not want to be living there, but to say the whole place is just condemned forever is certainly grossly inaccurate. Bottom line is that, like land mines, we should not be using wapons that make a place dangerous for anywhere near even these periods of time.

Kazakhstahn is number one exporter of potassium
Other central Asian countries have inferior potassium

That's genius! LOL

It's just coincedence really. Potassium is a better show.

"This experiment shows the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide catalyzed by potassium iodide. The reaction is done in a tall graduated cylinder so that the foamy product shoots out very quickly in a tall cylindrical shape; hence, the name elephant toothpaste." - Link

"bananas and their high potassium content for the humor."

What is that supposed to mean? Are you calling me a monkey?

">>> Ah ha ha ha. "Internet nobody." Unlike, say...YOU?"

I never claimed to be a somebody on the internet. I was just using your verb that you threw at Carolla.

I just found your comment funny is all. Did you actually read her dribble laden book?

"quantumushroom: internet nobody that leaves incendiary and often racist comments while being a troll on videosift"

>>> Ah ha ha ha. "Internet nobody." Unlike, say...YOU?

>>> the only "gift" carolla gives is his absence when his hack show ends.

>>> "Incendiary." Thank you, but the credit really belongs to bananas and their high potassium content for the humor.