A glowing horizon for phones

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  • 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.