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CsCl is also much less active per gram because about half of fission product cesium is stable (on top of longer halflife)

the source getting damaged or corroded somehow is the simplest explanation i can think of now, cesium is likely in form of chloride which is very easily soluble in water

or maybe it was intentional sabotage by competitor, who the fuck knows

The best known Chinese rodenticide, containing about 6–20% TETS, is Dushuqiang, "very strong rat poison". It has been used for mass poisonings in China: in April 2004, there were 74 casualties after eating scallion-flavored pancakes tainted by their vendor's competitor; and in September 2002, 400 people were poisoned and 38 died from contaminated food.[11][12] In 2002, there was one documented case of accidental poisoning in the US.[6]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetramethylenedisulfotetramine

some foods (and other things, like blood and some other medical products) are irradiated in order to sterilize them and make them last longer, 137Cs sources are used for this purpose because this material is easily available but can't be used for other purposes (like radiography)

like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hebrew_Israelites

https://www.reddit.com/r/Prematurecelebration/comments/996qls/a_furry_became_an_intern_for_nasa_and_got/

radio transmissions in russia were money shot for aum, and idk if it was a fluke or deliberate strategy. people had for a long time expectation that radio and tv are authoritative, reliable sources (due to censorship that doubled as fact-checker, and about all of it was state-owned) and in 90s every bit of that broke down because of privatization, and now you could get on the air and say anything, with many taking that at face value, as long as you pay up. at the same time there was major economic crisis and cults prey on the desperate. result?

Following the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, two Russian Duma committees began investigations of the Aum -- the Committee on Religious Matters and the Committee on Security Matters. A report from the Security Committee states that the Aum's followers numbered 35,000, with up to 55,000 laymen visiting the sect's seminars sporadically. This contrasts sharply with the numbers in Japan which are 18,000 and 35,000 respectively. The Security Committee report also states that the Russian sect had 5,500 full-time monks who lived in Aum accommodations, usually housing donated by Aum followers. Russian Aum officials, themselves, claim that over 300 people a day attended services in Moscow. The official Russian Duma investigation into the Aum described the cult as a closed, centralized organization.

https://irp.fas.org/congress/1995_rpt/aum/part06.htm

aum recruited a lot of people, and also failed at some things that would be presumably easier to do safely than what they did

Meanwhile, Aum had also attempted to manufacture 1,000 assault rifles, but only completed one.[37]

otoh they were also straight up delusional about what they could achieve, including toying with the idea of manufacturing nukes, military gas lasers, and getting and launching Proton rocket. (not exactly grounded for a group of people who couldn't make AK-74s)

they were also more media savvy in that they didn't pollute info space with their ideas only using blog posts, they ~~had entire radio station~~ rented time from a major radio station within russia, broadcasting both within freshly former soviet union and into japan from vladivostok (which was much bigger deal in 90s than today)

aum:

Advertising and recruitment activities, dubbed the "Aum Salvation plan", included claims of [...] realizing life goals by improving intelligence and positive thinking, and concentrating on what was important at the expense of leisure.

this is in common with both our very good friends and scientology, but i think happy science is much stupider and more in line with srinivasan's network states, in that it has/is an explicitly far-right political organization built in from day one

dude has a post named "from 0 to 1 clients in 48h" where someone calls him out for already claiming to have 17 customers, so it's reasonable to assume that this guy is full of shit either way

then again, there's plenty of clueless, could be real, because welcome to current year, where everything is fake, satire is dead and reuters puts the onion out of the business

Couple of days ago iirc contract for oil (or gas?) transit expired, and neither Ukraine or russia wanted to extend it. Neither also wanted to go to arbitrage court, and that's why contract was allowed to expire and wasn't broken when hostilities started

that or some kind of bait

that's not academic literature, that's unreviewed preprint