My esteemed colleague is referring to one of the more obscure half
fractional elements, Catmium-48.5 (Ct-48.5), not to be confused with
Cadmium-48.  Catmium is an integral part of feline DNA, imputing
significant characteristics to felines.  Catmium allows felines to totally
ignore anything, especially their “owners”, at will.  Dogs have no Ct in
their DNA so do not share this affliction.  Due to the nuclear events in
the locations Dave mentions, there have been excess concentrations of Ct in
felines in that area.  The Chernobyl Lumi-Cat glows in the dark and you
cannot come within 500 meters of one without radiation poisoning.  The
Alamagordo Hairless Desert Cat has no hair, extra long claws and is MEAN.
Think of it as a nuclear powered Tasmanian Devil.  The Enewetak Coconut Cat
has a hairy but very tough outer shell.  The Thule B52 Devil Cat is the
worst of the bunch.  Pure white in color, gives off no thermal signature,
but can claw a B52 to shreds in under 3 minutes.  Imagine it as a pure
white Hulk, but in cat form.  These mutant cats, provided you can capture
them, are used as radiation sources in niche radiological analytical
methods, most of them classified.



Catmium was first isolated by Dr. Fritz Oppenheimer, 3rd cousin of Robert
Oppenheimer, in a remote location (still classified) as part of the
Manhattan project.  Dr. Oppenheimer had a mild allergy to cats and when
exposed to a sample of the refined Catmium broke out in world record levels
of hives and essentially scratched himself to death. Tragic.



So, Dave, what do I win this week.

*Douglas Pauls *| Principal Materials and Process Engr | Advanced
Operations Engineering

*COLLINS AEROSPACE*

400 Collins Road NE, MS 108-101, Cedar Rapids, IA  52498  USA

*Tel:* +1 319 295 2109 | *Mobile: *+1 319 431 3773

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On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 10:13 AM David Hillman <
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> The Question:
>
> This is one of the few radioactive elements we intentionally bring into our
> households. This element is closely tied to the Manhattan project. Traces
> of this element can be found today at Chernobyl, the Enewetak atoll,
> Alamogordo and near the Thule Air base in Greenland. This element has found
> commercial use for indirect analysis of materials in radiography and X-ray
> fluorescence spectroscopy.  What element is being described?
>
>
> The winner of the quiz will get the services of Clumpy & Kloumpios for the
> week.
>
> So far Clumpy and Kloumpios have done the following:
>
> Past Quiz winners/tasks:
> Week 1 Ravinder Ajmani, Western Digital
> Week 1 Ron Feyereisen, SigmaTron Intl.
> Week 2 Louis Hart, Compunetics
> Week 3 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger Ltd.
> Week 3 John Burke
> Week 4 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics
> Week 5 No Winner - no correct responses!
> Week 6 Bhanu Sood, NASA
> Week 7 Keith Calhoun, Sopark Corp
> Week 7 Ian Fox, Rolls Royce
> Week 8 Leland Woodall
> Week 8 David Bealer, SMT
> Week 9 Tom Carroll, Boeing
> Week 10 Louis Hart, Compunetics
> Week 11 Tom Carroll, Boeing
> Week 11 Scott Decker, UTAS
> Week 12 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
> Week 13 No Quiz,
> Week 14 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
> Week 15 Bhanu Sood, NASA
> Week 16 John Maxwell
> Week 17 Leland Woodall
> Week 18 Leland Woodall
> Week 19 Tom Carroll, Boeing
> Week 20 Robert Kondner
> Week 21 Tom Brendlinger, ClearMotion Inc.
> Week 22 Carl Van Wormer, Cipher Engineering LCC
> Week 23 Juliano Ribeiro, DATACOM
> Week 24 Gerry Gagnon, FLIR Commercial Systems
> Week 25 Graham Collins, Sunsel Systems
> Week 26 Joyce Koo, IPC International
> Week 26 Todd MacFadden, Bose
> Week 27 Bhanu Sood, NASA
> Week 28 Leland Woodall
> Week 29 Mordechai Kirshenbaum
> Week 30 Leland Woodall
> Week 31 Leland Woodall
> Week 32 Steve Gregory
> Week 33 Leland Woodall
> Week 34 Jerry Dengler, Pergamon Corp
> Week 35 Frank Kimmey, VeriFone Inc
> Week 36 Graham Collins, Sunsel Systems
> Week 37 Richard "Dean" Stadem
> Week 38 Leland Woodall
> Week 38 Tom Carroll
> Week 39 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
> Week 40 Leland Woodall
> Week 41 Tom Carroll
> Week 42 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
> Week 43 Joyce Koo
> Week 44 Russell Kido, Practical Components
> Week 45 Leland Woodall
> Week 45 Frank Kimmey, VeriFone Inc
> Week 46 Ian Fox, Rolls-Royce Control Systems
> Week 47 Fred Cox, Bluering Stencils
> Week 48 Tom Carroll, Boeing
> Week 49 Todd MacFadden, Bose
> Week 49 Leland Woodall
> Week 50 Russell Kido, Practical Components
> Week 51 Ravinder Ajmani, Western Digital
> Week 52 Leland Woodall
> Week 53 Scott Decker, UTAS
> Week 54 Leland Woodall
> Week 55 Tom Carroll, Boeing
> Week 56 Mordechai Kirshenbaum
> Week 57 Steve Herring, Pennatronics Corp
> Week 58 Leland Woodall
> Week 59 Drew Meyer, Benchmark
> Week 60 Leland Woodall
> Week 61 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
> Week 62 Leland Woodall!
> Week 63 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
> Week 63 Tom Carroll, Boeing
> Week 63 Tom Granat
> Week 64 George Wenger
> Week 65  Frank Kimmey, VeriFone Inc.
> Week 66  Jerry Dengler, Pergamon Corp
> Week 66  Leland Woodall
> Week 67  Eray Canli,  ANDAR Electromechanical Systems
> Week 68  James Head
> Week 69  Mordechai Kirshenbaum
> Week 70 Doug Pauls, Rockwell Collins
> Week 71  Eray Canli,  ANDAR Electromechanical Systems
> Week 72  Russell Kido, Practical Components
> Week 73 Denny Friz
> Week 74 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics
> Week 74 Leland Woodall
> Week 75 Mordechai Kirshenbaum
> Week 76 Tom Carroll, Boeing
> Week 76 Eray Canli,  ANDAR Electromechanical Systems
> Week 77 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics
> Week 78 David Bealer, WatchFire Signs
> Week 79 Torsten Hagge, Kristronics
> Week 80 Russell Kido, Practical Components
>
> Week 83 Russell Kido, Practical Components
>
> Week 84 Tom Granat
>
> Week 85 Leland Woodall
>
> Week 85 Ron Feyereisen, SigmaTron Intl.
>
> Week 86 Ron Feyereisen, SigmaTron Intl.
>
> Week 87 Steven Herring, Pennatronics Corp
>
>
> Week 88 Leland Woodall
>
> - The guys arrived just in time to assist me with the completing my monthly
> reports.  Those are now done, so I'm sending them off to the coast.  Maybe
> they can catch and bring me back some fish before they fly off to their
> next adventure.
>
>
> Week 89 Tom Carroll, Boeing
>
> - In an effort to squash the conspiracy theories out there, I will be
> willing to split the services of Clumpy & Kloumpios for the week. I will
> take them for the first part of the week so they can help me review the
> quality management system of a distributor. I would like to use them to get
> into the small back rooms and find out what really happens. Then on Tuesday
> I will send them to Leland for the remainder of the week.
>
>
> Week 90 ????
>
> -assisted with ????
>
>
> I hope everyone has a awesome week!
> Dave Hillman
> Collins Aerospace
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