A glowing horizon for phones

A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years::A glowing horizon for phones

    • SkyNTP@lemmy.mlEnglish
      212·
      11 months ago

      I mean so is drinking a gallon of bleach. Fortunately, there’s a pretty simple preventative measure for both:

      Don’t do it?

    • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
      132·
      11 months ago

      What gave you the idea that swallowing a small amount of mildly radioactive material is fatal?

      • Transporter Room 3@startrek.websiteEnglish
        143·
        11 months ago

        Man, I figured the joke was obvious but I guess not.

        “tiny amount of radioactive material whose radiation stopped by thin plastics is a literal death sentence” is, I thought, pretty clear hyperbole.

        • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
          10·
          11 months ago

          A lot of people are really irrationally afraid of anything involving radiation. I mistook you for one of them.

          • Transporter Room 3@startrek.websiteEnglish
            3·
            11 months ago

            No worries. Glow it up, let’s get some extreme energy density up in this bitch. I went for nuke in the old days where I enlisted in the military.

            I have a healthy respect for radiation. That’s why I leave handling the good stuff to the professionals.

            I’ve actually got some small isotope samples in a lockbox from an old highschool demonstration lab for Geiger counters. No Geiger counter though yet. I haven’t even opened it since I got it to check the contents were intact.

            • JustinAEnglish
              1·
              11 months ago

              pen-sized-ish Geiger counters/scintillating meters are pretty cheap these days.