Is Red Mercury the Ultimate Weapon for Terrorists?

[nsaspook]

Identifying such cheats was easy, the smugglers said, because real red mercury is attracted to gold but repelled by garlic. Wise buyers bring gold and garlic to test the product before cash changes hands. ‘‘You put a drop on a plate and you approach it with garlic, and that drop is going to move away,’’ a third smuggler, Abu Zaid explained. ‘‘But if you put red mercury on a plate and move a piece of gold under the plate, the red mercury is going to move with it.’
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If red mercury seemed a perfect fit for the particular nature of this brutal, shadowy war — an apocalyptic weapon for a terrorist group driven in part by the belief that we are approaching the return of the Mahdi, the final defeat of infidels and the end of the world — it was not making itself easy to get.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/magazine/the-doomsday-scam.html

A terrorist and his money are soon separated.

 

[Borg]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/magazine/the-doomsday-scam.html

A terrorist and his money are soon separated.

I hope that the governments can keep unobtainium out of their hands also.

 

[nsaspook]

I hope that the governments can keep unobtainium out of their hands also.

With that, the 5th element and a sewing machine they would be unstoppable.

 

[rootone]

Unobtanium is tricky stuff because it has negative half-life.