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The Epic Quest to Immortality

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We all know how Superman got his powers from Kryptonite or how "cosmic energy" transformed the Fantastic 4 into superheroes... Little be known to our contender here that in REAL life, nuclear material is hazardous... especially when you got 14kg of it : radon "batteries", contaminated soil and equipment components, you name it. Amongst the possible side effects are a myriad of cancers, external and internal tissue damage, and so on.

Maybe the worst part in this story is that our superzero, a 35 year-old lecturer at the Moscow University, has contaminated his OWN FRIEND deliberately in order to render him, well... immortal. In addition to all the material he got exposed to, we can mention a lovely trip to Chernobyl for the now well-assumed goal to get as contaminated as possible.

"In Soviet Russia, immortality kills you!"

Submitted on 03/25/2013

Submitted by: Jérémy R.
Reference: Russia Today (http://rt.com/news/russian-man-radiation-immortal-828/). March 25th, 2013

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Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: Honorable Mention
It sounds like the exposed friend was a willing participant who even visited Chernobyl to try to absorb even more radiation. That's a winner in my book! Thanks, Jérémy.


Candi said:
Definitely Keep: Honorable Mention
Someone's been watching way too many movies and not reading enough tropes or Science. Thanks, Jeremy!


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