Talk:3131: Cesium

I think that's called a recipe for disaster. NOTE: I am also 104.225.172.143. 138.43.101.123 14:36, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

No, I am 104.225.172.143! 82.13.184.33 15:09, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

I'm 104.225.172.143, and so's my wife! 92.23.2.228 20:42, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

U also chose this guy's wife.

My best recipe comes with a Notice to Mariners Hcs (talk) 14:45, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

I added a transcript. Hopefully it's okay. 104.225.172.143 14:54, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

A gram of gold runs on the order of ~$100 USD as of writing; a gram of cs-137 looks to be in the millions~billions range. --158.91.163.9 14:55, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

Nope. It's 99 dollars. 191.57.16.100 20:40, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

I think you're quoting the price for Caesium metal in general, which is probably almost entirely Caesium 133; Caesium 137 is a synthetic isotope which could easily be a million times more expensive than the natural stuff, gram for gram. 80.41.70.128 22:37, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

Caesium contamination usually is caused by nuclear accidents (or atmospheric nuclear weapon tests) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium-137#Environmental_contamination. It is unlikely that someone acquired pure Cs-137 and then "accidentally" contaminated the shrimp with that. --134.102.219.31 15:31, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

Bothering the NSA shouldn't be hard, just write some of their secrets on a cake (with frosting is optional) and post it online. 212.101.26.209 14:57, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

I feel like the writing on the cake is not part of its recipe. I think a more fitting way to get their attention would be "accidentally" poisoning the president with your cooking. --128.31.34.92 22:09, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

What would IMO do, revoke your math license? 216.73.162.10 15:22, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

They have numerous penalties at their disposal. 82.13.184.33 15:27, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

I imagined the reason the IMO would get involved would be because the recipe created some interesting mathematical problem that could be used for the next competition. For example, something like this video, where a grocery order taken too literally creates a seemingly harmless Diophantine equation whose smallest positive solutions are on the order of 10^80. 137.25.230.78 15:56, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

A cook on Air Force 1 "accidentally" contaminates Trump's fast food with cesium. The assassination attempt fails and US retaliates by invading Canada/Panama/Greenland (roll 1d3). IMO bans the US team, like they banned Russia in 2022. Thus a single cooking "accident" can get the attention of IAEA, IATA, IMO, and NSA. --128.31.34.92 22:21, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

Maybe The IATA could get involved if your ruined recipe caused food poisoning on a commercial airliner that then resulted in an in-air emergency (whole flight deck passed out).

Or if you create a column of dense toxic fumes that spreads over a wide area (on the level of a volcano eruption). On the other hand, I wonder what could bring the attention of the IMO when Terryology seemingly couldn't.--94.73.52.245 18:56, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

The criticality accident in 1999 at the Tokaimura nuclear facility seems like a good example of messing up a recipe in a way that draws considerable attention. Tokaimura nuclear accidents 2600:387:4:803:0:0:0:1B 19:11, 20 August 2025 (UTC)