This sounds like something that was made up for a fallout game.
Of course, so does “bombarding myself with xrays and moving around to entertain the audience looking at my bones” and “including uranium in paint to make watch dials glow”
Jazz hands
Submitted 6 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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SARGE@startrek.website 6 months ago
SattaRIP@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
They did it with uranium too? I knew about radium, but not that.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Uranium wasn’t used for watch dials, but Uranium Orange is a colour of cermic glaze. It was pretty popular in America from the 1930’s to around 1942, when the government needed all the uranium for some big secret project. After the 60’s it was made with depleted uranium, instead of natural ore, until someone realized this still wasn’t a great idea.
davidgro@lemmy.world 6 months ago
58008@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I believed this was real until I searched for it 😂 To be fair to my own credulity, Plutonium Jazz would not be the most insane thing people did with radioactive materials back then. The “medicines” alone make Plutonium Jazz sound pretty tame.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
But Geiger counters aren’t rhythmic at all, radioactive decay is, pretty famously, random.
lemonmelon@lemmy.world 6 months ago
True, much like memes are pretty famously fabricated.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 6 months ago
… Jazz.
/S
theilleists@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Rhythmic? No, not really. More exciting if the musician could somehow anticipate this fundamentally unpredictable event? Absolutely.
eran_morad@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Follows a Poisson distribution. I guess one could call that random.
Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Well, its random, like… by definition.
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
The third sentence makes it clear it’s fake
- Geiger counters aren’t rhythmic, they’re random
- How would the audience know the beat matches the counter?
- Random music doesn’t sound good, the audience would be more excited for good music
Disappointed in the people who believed this.
i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Well… This is jazz… I’m skeptic as well, but what if it was some sort of experimental modern jazz where the musicians would try to predict the next click?
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
You can’t predict the next click, that’s what random means. This would never have gotten far enough to appear in front of an audience. They would have tried it at rehearsal and realised it was impossible.
philipp_@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
And even if it worked, you wouldn’t need a radiation source more dangerous than a banana to make a geiger counter go click enough to play along.
karika@lemmy.world 6 months ago
brown567@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
If there were hazardous levels of radiation, the clicks would be a squeal, you wouldn’t be able to match a rhythm to it
toddestan@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Right. If you were to attempt something like this, you’d be better off with something like a chunk of granite than plutonium.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Since “Geiger” is German for “violinist”, you can replicate it with a guy who counts how many violinists are present
rain_worl@lemmy.world 6 months ago
147282793856…
[jazz plays]Malgas@beehaw.org 6 months ago
“3.6 violinists. Not great, not terrible.”
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 6 months ago
Sounds like a Cowboy Bebop episode involving smuggled fissile material.
Grayox@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Live performances at Chernobl when?!
hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl 6 months ago
I believed it. Sadly it’s not real: knowyourmeme.com/memes/plutonium-jazz
paddirn@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It seems believable given the story of the “Radium Girls”, workers who painted radioactive paint on watch dials to make them glow. They’d lick the tips of the brushes when they got too frayed… which eventually led to cancer.
www.cnn.com/2017/12/19/style/…/index.html#:~:text….
hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl 6 months ago
Whoa. Eating radioactive material isn’t great at all.
From a different time, too: An X-Ray shoe fitter
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 6 months ago
To be fair, the factory management knew that it was dangerous but didn’t tell the workers and encouraged them to lick the brush.
Arbiter@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Sadly??
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Phew.
I came to the comments for this hope.