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Again, it's just for a scientist like me who loves data off the curve, it's catnip.
I can't help myself but want to know and understand more about it.
Well, I mean the only way – I mean you could create –
that ratio artificially by purifying each of those isotopes and then pre-mixing them to that ratio.
But why you would blow it up over a beach in Ubatuba, Mexico in the late 1950s and then let it sit in a museum in Argentina for 50 years until Jacques Vallee ended up going and grabbing a piece of it and bringing it to me to measure on an instrument in the engineering department at Stanford.
It would have been very hard.
It would have been very, very hard.
But in the late 1950s, we were still busy trying to isolate and separate uranium isotopes for making more bombs.
What do humans separate isotopes for?
To make bombs or to do health related tagging, which is really only something that came to the fore in the 60s and 70s.
And this predates that by a decade.
But, I mean, again, with any of these things, why, for instance, would one of the supposed pieces that came from that event be magnesium at a level of purity that only Dow Chemical at the time had the ability to create?
A fisherman sees this glowing object that kind of released something which then exploded, and he picked up pieces of it.