The Cobalt-60 in that cinnamon stick has a half-life of about 5 years. It says it was made in 1963 so with the drop in radioactivity you’ve probably got a few months left to live!
Anyone else feel like their blood is kind of vibrating?
Submitted 3 months ago by setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
12 half lives is 4096x drop in radioactivity.
Laborer3652@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Which is why they have a few months to live, and not a few minutes.
Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 3 months ago
When doing my NIH traineeship, in the new lab, it came to be my turn to do the monthly radiation inventory. When going down the list, while checking the radio labeled nucleotides and labeled reagents in the freezer etc, I came across an entry for 600 Curies of Co 60! Freaking out I immediately went to the PI and told him about this. He laughed and said someone had to be responsible for the campus radiation source and since our lab used it a lot to make feeder cells, we were the lucky custodians of said source. I did get quite the fright though!
TunaCowboy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s my favorite brand of suppository!
modifier@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I’m walkin’ on sunshine, woah-oh!!
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
I’m walkin’
onsunshine, woah-oh!!
Lemjukes@lemm.ee 3 months ago
mmmh good old orphan sources
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
That’s a magic cinnimon stick!
Natanael@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
Cinnamon powder challenge
YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 3 months ago
Cursed
wabafee@lemmy.world 3 months ago
More like radiated.
papalonian@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I thought that said “drop and rub” like “you’re probably gonna die the horrific death of radiation poisoning you should just expedite it”
kmartburrito@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I interpreted it more as “you’re probably gonna die the horrific death of radiation poisoning, you should rub one out for the last time before you go”
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Hope OP’s a righty!
bitwaba@lemmy.world 3 months ago
he won’t know if he’s cuming or going!
–George Carlin
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
She gotta crack the glow stick first
elephantium@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Do you taste metal?
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I can see the beta particles mutating your hand
DavidGA@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The sensor noise would be distributed evenly, and not clustered around the rod like bees.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Image
wookiee@lemmy.world 3 months ago
😂
HKPiax@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Why not, isn’t most of the radiation coming from the rod itself? I’d expect a vertical, high-intensity cloud over the rod, which gets less intense the further it goes to the left and to the right of it.
Natanael@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
The high frequency of the gamma radiation mostly ignores the lens material, you have to be very very close for the geometry of the sensor and source and their alignment to significantly impact the noise in the image
aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Because the radiation isn’t significantly affected by the camera optics