favourite radioactive isotope

[notathing]

discuss.

[cavehamster]

Plutonium is overdone these days, I think.  Radon is kinda neat, as you never notice it until it is too late.

Personally, i've been digging technetium or fermium lately.  They have great isotopes.

Although, the Albuquerque Isotopes put on a good game.

[notathing]

I like Carbon 14, personally.  it's a classic choice.

[cavehamster]

I like Carbon 14, personally.  it's a classic choice.

True, but everyone is dating C-14.  She's such a slut.

Try some Iodine 131 sometime, that'll get ya glowing for just long enough to be exciting, what with its 8 day half life and all.

[notathing]

I like Carbon 14, personally.  it's a classic choice.

True, but everyone is dating C-14.  She's such a slut.

that's why I like her.  she puts out.

[Jasper]

Polonium 210

Shit is wicked deadly.  If an animal secreted it for poison ... it would die.

[AFK]

Selenium 74

Because it sounds sexy or like something that would cause you intestinal discomfort for days. 

[Rumckle]

Wonderflonium

[MMIX]

I'm a bit of a retro enthusiast so I guess Cobalt60 would be on my favourites list, but I do have a soft spot for I131, it goes down real smooth, ya'know . . .

[Requia ☣]

Hydrogen 2, for that classic mad science doomsday device.

[LMNO]

Potassium-40, because it's fun to freak out people who eat banannas and drink milk.

[-Kel-]

Pu-242, because its half-life of 374,000 years

and philo digs it

[East Coast Hustle]

Polonium 210

Shit is wicked deadly.  If an animal secreted it for poison ... it would die.

this, because it's the only one mentioned that's actually been USED in a successful assassination.

[Doktor Howl]

MY ASS.

[Cain]

Polonium 210

Shit is wicked deadly.  If an animal secreted it for poison ... it would die.

this, because it's the only one mentioned that's actually been USED in a successful assassination.

Rumour has it the Romanian Securitatea had radiological weapons they used in assassinations, called "Radu".  It was intended to cause cancer in the target and make the death look natural.

It is, of course, only an uncomfirmed rumour, but several Romanians dissidents working at Radio Free Europe did come down with cancer.  There is no mention what isotope was used in Radu, unfortunately, but the KGB were the ones who apparently developed it.