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[–] [email protected] 95 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Bonus: the photo was taken with a film camera and the graininess is from all the radiation.

[–] [email protected] 89 points 6 days ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

Very cool. Feels like it should be a level in Half Life.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

It's kind of crazy how the electron beam looks like a special effect from a 1980's sci-fi movie.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Aside from the film grain, I'm pretty impressed that the camera seemed to survive that and that the footage from it could be extracted like nothing of this nature had ever happened to the device.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Well, it WAS impressively shielded as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Does non beta-radiation have the same effect? (Especially gamma rays which don't even have an electric charge)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I don't know. If the gamma rays are absorbed and converted to electrons in the photo-sensor, it could also cause noise I suppose ?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Super cool. Working on some ebeam sterilization stuff through contractors. Cool to see the nuts and bolts.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

why the dogfuck did they not illuminate the hallway the camera goes through

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

because only product being irradiated goes there. no human should be in that area. plus with the lights off you see the ionized air. that would probably be washed out with another light source.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Why would they? Humans aren't supposed to be there

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

for the same reason they sent a camera into it... to assist with visualization 🤨

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

But you can see the radiation beam perfectly easily without illumination so what's the actual problem

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

the lighting should be consistent throughout the experiment so that the effect of the radiation cannot be confused with change in light levels. goodness, why would someone need that explained to them? you must not be the inquisitive type.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Noise: digital

Grain: film

[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Absolutely love the detail of having the picture all fucked up from the radiation.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

thank you. I'm so used to people resposting ancient pixelated memes that I completely missed it.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 60 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Dudes over here tryna create Stalker anomalies.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

There were weird spots on the trail I had never seen. Everywhere the trees completely touched and covered the ground there was a tiny fog bank. Kept thinking, "Go ahead Stalker. Try walking through it."

Nothing happened. :(

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Should have thrown a bolt in there first, just to be safe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

As a member of the Mercs and a friend of Freedom, I diagnose you with alcoholism. Lay off the vodka rookie, you dont need to drink the entire stock Sidorovich gave you even if he said it was a gift.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago

Groundwater poisoning any% speedrun w/ cheats

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Last time this was posted I went down a rabbit hole of reading about the Nuclear Boy Scout David Hahn

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

Mister Americium himself?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 days ago

Forbidden hot tub.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Cherenkov radiation glows blue not green. So he’s safe.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Edit: to be clear, do not do this. This is bad advice. Get your soil tested before you start a garden.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Can engine oil not be repurposed for other things? Like burning it? Or is that stupid

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

i have a backyard pile of cardboard boxes, tree branches, pulled up weeds covered with an agricultural tarp. every few months after the high natural pH of the local biome it all melts and become inhabited by worms and bugs, then i use it to make a new fun mound to my yard cosplaying as an iron age hill fort.

better than paying to give it to the waste management who do the same thing and then sell it to the city.

edit: two feet by seven feet big. away from the house near a green space.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Twinsies! I use empty pallets for weight!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I hope they fall in one night.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

IRL Joker origin story in the making

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

Modern problems require modern middens.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Amateur, you need to pulverize the smoke detectors first or the americium just stays inside them!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Hey guys I found the next superfund site!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Just aqua teen things

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's just the formula for mountain dew.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

OK, but I will just add some H2SO4, D2O, and NaNO3 just for better taste.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Relax guys, it's just the new Mt Dew flavor, Radical Radium.