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  No, they’re thinking of Albatross Tubs.
context: The Australian Defence Force has been asked to verify the recovered capsule by checking its serial number.
  
  You want to read it? The number is small and I've forgotten my glasses. >
  
  I did wonder if they just stopped the search after finding the first radioactive object of the right size. >
  
  They would have been able to identify the specific nuclide (Cesium-137) with the right equipment, and knowing the dimensions and radioactivity would either be confident it's the same one or there's pattern of identical capsules being lost on the same stretch of road. >
  
  Given the length of road in question I wouldn't rule it out until I saw the serial number. >
  
  Not radioactive, but I read about an incident where someone didn’t set the latches on a rocket pod properly, and between the pad and the target range (training exercise for helicopter gunship crews) 3 rockets went AWOL. Army did a “hands across America” sweep looking for them. Of the 3 rockets lost, >!6 were found. From serial numbers, it was determined that all 3 of the rockets lost on that mission were recovered. Probably didn’t go very well for the other people (traceable to mission by the serial numbers) who lost rockets but didn’t report them.!< >
  
  The same thing happened after Shuttle Columbia disintegrated. NASA asked people who found debris to send it in, no questions asked. They ended up getting back doubles of stuff of which the shuttle only had one. Turns out people were using the amnesty to return pieces of Challenger and clear their conciouses. >
  
  How the hell was there that much debris from Challenger ending up in private hands? It fell into the ocean >
  
  It happened in Florida. There’s lots of boats here. Shit, lbs of drugs wash up on shore here a few times a year. Pirates life for me! >
  
  
  Pirates life for me!
  
  Yep there's the Gasparilla Pirate Festival in Tampa, Florida >
  
  Gasparilla Pirate Festival 
  
  The Gasparilla Pirate Festival (often simply referred to as "Gasparilla") is a large parade and a host of related community events held in Tampa, Florida almost every year since 1904. The centerpiece of the festivities is the Parade of Pirates (often referred to as the Gasparilla Parade), which is a friendly invasion by the mythical pirate José Gaspar (also known as Gasparilla), who is a popular figure in Florida folklore despite the fact that he did not exist. The parade is organized by Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla (YMKG), a local organization modeled after the "krewes" of Mardi Gras in New Orleans who play the parts of Gaspar and his crew.
  
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  Please put it in a box next time. A yellow one with glow-in-the-dark strips. And maybe put the box in a bigger one that can be strapped down? >
  
  And put that box in a bigger box, and mail it to yourselves! >
  
  And then SMASH IT WITH A HAMMER! 
  ^^^^^^^^^then ^^^^^^^^^die ^^^^^^^^^of ^^^^^^^^^radiation ^^^^^^^^^poisoning >
  
  Why do we even have that hammer? >
  
  SILENCE! SOMEBODY BRING THE HAMMER! >
  
  
  The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, this morning joined those disappointed to learn the maximum penalty for mishandling radioactive material in such a manner was $1,000.
  
  lol. Oh you lost some highly dangerous radioactive material? Here, company that makes 7.3 million dollars an hour, have a $1000 fine. >
  
  I feel like this may be one of those situations where the fine is purposely low to encourage companies to not try and cover up their fuckups. >
  
  That is true. Never thought of it that way before. >
  
  Yeah, in capitalist countries where private citizens run huge portions of the economy for their own interests the people are basically held hostage by the previously mentioned powerful private citizens. >
  
  Regulatory Capture is a threat to modernist economic theories, the solution is a strong democracy and independent media that can respond to power corruption with the removal of mandates.
  When democracy is weak, wealth or strength make right, and the capture remains unchallenged. >
  
  "Regulatory capture" is a fancy way of nudging away the inherent undemocratic outcome of capitalism. 
  And if the media is for profit it can never be independent, sadly. And even under capitalism state media obeys national interests, which are in the hands of private individuals. 
  And funded orgs like NGOs rarely have independent interests as they obey whoever does the funding and unless it's the people it's some rich guy getting a tax break or a think tank or partisan state funding, and even bipartisan funding is subject to the national interests of capitalists. >
  
  Independent media does exist, it’s just niche to the point of irrelevancy as the media that serves capitalism has the resources to drown it out.
  Charities and NGOs wouldn’t need to exist in socialism as they are external agents with the aim to pay the social and environmental cost failed to be met by agents within the system, because the regulations set are inadequate. I am all for regulation to the point of unprofitablility because if it’s that socially or environmentally destructive compared to the value of the outcome, humanity shouldn’t be doing it. >
  
  Seriously? That's damn amazing!! >
  
  All of this reminded me of the poor soviet bastards that found a RTG (Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator) which they subsequently used to stay warm by handling it and lying next to it while they slept. 
  Wiki for the Lia Radiological Accident >
  
  The idea that the plutonium is having an appreciable impact on ice melting seems pretty suspect. The 4 pounds of plutonium that were lost only produced around 900W of thermal energy which seems pretty small compared to the amount of sunlight hitting the mountain (~1000 W/sq m) or the effects of global warming (higher altitudes experience greater rates of warming).
  I think the much bigger concern is contamination of the Ganges river, which is fed by runoff from the mountain and provides water to over 400 million people.
  edit: corrected solar energy amount >
  
  Folks get some bizarre ideas about these things. Sure, if the plutonium caught on fire it could melt some ice, but that stuff just isn't that hot. I wouldn't even be worried about it poisoning the water. >
  
  People tend to talk out of their ass, have poor comprehension of large numbers, and not have very good knowledge or understanding of basic thermodynamics. Just putting it into watts for the sake of easy comparison, as /u/NotSuitableForWoona did, is huge ask from the general public. >
  
  Yeah.  People see something has an increase and assume it's a significant increase.  Which isn't always the case. >
  
  i use the same source almost daily in my line of work. Ceasium-137 is gamma ray source we use for density determination in the formation in oil and gas wells.
  The source capsule is small, but during transportation it is screwed in a ~30x30x30 cm lead container (this things weighs 80kgs), with a lock on it, and then that lead container is also placed in a bigger ~100x100x100 cm transportation box which has 2 locks on it. 
  So the question is, how the hell did it fall off the truck transporting it? >
  
  It was left inside the piece of equipment that uses it said piece of equipment gel over and broke open after three bolts sheeted off apparently. >
  
  
  sheeted
  
  Sheared + yeeted? >
  
  Rio Tinto is 'happy' to pay for the cost of the search if asked to.  $1000 maximum fine.  The government better ask them to pay for costs. >
  
  Yeah, he posted it on reddit yesterday... duh! >
  
  Like 4 times 😒 >
  
  Some guy on r/Pics. It was a joke, of course, but hilarious. I'll see if I can find the post again.
  Edit:  There. >
  
  When I saw this post I legitimately thought it was OP of that post creating a fake news article as part of his shitposting. Kind of disappointed it isn't. >
  
  I was hoping for a multi day tie-in to make my morning >
  
  Now, the question is will anybody be punished for this absolute cockup? >
  
  $1000 max fine >
  
  That'll put a dent in Rio's finances for sure. >
  
  It was a contractor to Rio, so not even their fine to pay. >
  
  Rio seems to be handling this PR disaster nicely, they seem to have taken ownership of the problem including reimbursement of costs.
  
  "But certainly, I do want to state Rio Tinto have been exceptional in terms of how they have reached out to us and offered all levels of support, so I'm very grateful for that offer from Simon Trott." (Dawson)
  "I would be happy to reimburse the cost of the search, of course that ultimately is a matter for the state government," he (Trott) said.
  "There will be a full investigation, we'll fully cooperate with the investigation, if as part of that there's a request from government, we would be happy to reimburse the cost of the search." >
  
  If only there was a bird-named company that sells ruggedized, sealed plastic containers in which a capsule inside a sealed lead pig could be placed. I think Pelican Case would be a great idea for a business! >
  
  Is it Twitter? >
  
  Pelican cases