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

  • lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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    10 months ago

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

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      10 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.

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        10 months ago

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

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          10 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.

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            10 months ago

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