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Sunday, July 27, 2025

the first thing that should be taught about radiation in science classes

A banana puts out more ionizing radiation (from a radioactive isotope of potassium) than a cellphone. 




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J. Frank Parnell:
Ever been to Utah? Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense. Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too. When they canceled the project it almost did me in. One day my mind was full to bursting. The next day - nothing. Swept away. But I'll show them. I had a lobotomy in the end.
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Ah, Repo Man is such a great movie.




Oh yeah, irradiating food doesn't make it radioactive. Irradiating metal can make it radioactive. That's why they tell you to remove jewelry when getting an x-ray. 



After the Demon Core accident, the scientists took off all the metal they were wearing to limit radiation exposure.





I had a dream about an alien civilization where nuclear power was used everywhere. They were happy, peaceful, and prosperous. 

Here's something that really happened: a former nuclear weapons engineer eats uranium on camera to prove it's not dangerous. He also swam in nuclear reactor pools.






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