I didn't mean to criticize the bit that much. On its own merits, as part of a daily 22-minute news comedy show where often material is in short supply, this bit stands on its own merits. It's funny, and about news.

By, "very poor quality," I meant that for a VideoSift top 15 video, this was very poor quality. The frustration I was venting is that people who vote for videos on their relative merits (i.e. merits relative to the context, in this case, VideoSift) would not vote this up, whereas people who indiscriminately vote for anything that's a Stewart/Colbert clip will obviously vote for this.

(What really stings is that it's one vote ahead of my "14-year-old girl "shreds" classsical guitar" video! Grrr.)

Inspired to post this by http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/28/hud.hoax/index.html?section=cnn_latest

Title is a pretty thorough summary of what this is about - yeah 1 hour, 22 minutes long. Hence "feature" length tag.

LOL, swampgirl, it's definitely tongue-in-cheek - he's reporting for "This Hour has 22 Minutes", which is our "Daily Show".

Hence also the fake name of Anthony St. George.

From the popular "Talking to Americans" skit series on This Hour Has 22 Minutes

chill out guy, you posted it only 22 minutes ago, just be patient

Well, the Interweb is a grand thing, and here's a little tidbit about Francium, turns out my memory was mostly correct...

"Francium occurs as a result of α disintegration of actinium. Francium is found in uranium minerals, and can be made artificially by bombarding thorium with protons. It is the most unstable of the first 101 elements. The longest lived isotope, 223Fr, a daughter of 227Ac, has a half-life of 22 minutes. This is the only isotope of francium occurring in nature, BUT AT MOST THERE IS ONLY 20-30 G OF THE ELEMENT PRESENT IN THE EARTH'S CRUST AT ANY ONE MOMENT (my emphasis). No weighable quantity of the element has been prepared or isolated".

So, in other words the biggest reason they can't have any Francium to blow up (real good), is that there is not enough Francium on the entire Earth to experiment with in the first place.

Actually, we only assume that there was 2 grams of Caesium because they had previously used 2 grams of Rubidium- the amount of Caesium is not mentioned. As for Francium, it is an artificially created element, with a half-life of 22 minutes (if memory serves). That said, however, I'm sure it would be fun!