“Junior please walk 30cm to the left and do this task that would have been easier for me to do than ask you to do it”
It works better if you put it in your mouth first.
Submitted 2 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
modus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s just one of those things you can do yourself, but you want the kid to feel valuable too.
Besides, if you’re getting radiation poisoning, you want that little shit to go down with you.
5too@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s faster, cleaner, and far more efficient for me to clean my kids’ rooms.
That also means they’ll never do it on their own.
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
She uses her child as a radiation shield.
MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Junior ought to be able to do his work
AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Pretty sure that kid’s arm would hang down to his ankle if he straightened it. Must be all those atomic wafers.
RedFrank24@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
That’s not his arm.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
“Kilowat”
Might have questioned the reliability of that source even back then already…
dmention7@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Yes, the kilo-wat. For when a simple “wat” doesn’t accurately capture the absurdity of the situation.
For example, asking junior to put an atomic wafer in the power box, when you are standing right fucking next to it.
SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 2 weeks ago
She can't do it, her eyes fell off because of the radiations.
bstix@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
I guess renewables are still cheaper.
At least personally and anecdotally, because it doesn’t happen often, but it has happened more than once, that I have purchased electricity at negative prices due to overflow from renewables
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
no radioactive waste to deal with either.
and with solar, most of the hardware can be recycled now into new units; with a 20 year lifespan, that’s going to pull thousands of kilowatts out of the sky, that’ll do just fine.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
My main thing with solar is I wish they’d put panels over existing parking lots or large buildings. This is a thing that is already done in some places, this is a solved engineering problem, but in my area anywhere a solar farm has sprung up it’s been a field that previously either grew crops or was undeveloped woods. And I know the reason someone’s going to come back with: To install solar awnings over an existing Wal Mart parking lot, you need to tear up the asphalt to install power lines, build the actual structure, permitting is probably more expensive, and you have to have some or all of the parking lot down for awhile during construction restricting the use of the store. Meanwhile, clear cut 10 acres of forest and you get lumber to sell to a paper mill.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I don’t understand why waste was such a jug anti-nuclear talking point. The raw material was mined. Just put the waste back in the same hole.
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Thorium reactors can use their own waste as fuel.
TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I feel like “Atomic Wafer” should be a band name
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Or as new slang for a tab of LSD
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
why do i feel like Radioactive Buttplug is both already a band and an approved medical device
mactrl@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
tell me you dont understand how nuclear-powered energy without telling me you dont understand nuclear-powered energy
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Beta-voltaic batteries are fairly safe, work for 50 years, no recharging.
Almos tuseless at like 0.1 milliwats.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
It’s easy: just boil some water
danc4498@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Could you imagine a world where we first used atomic power for good and not evil?
Emi@ani.social 2 weeks ago
I don’t know history of uranium very much but wasn’t it first used to paint ceramics and later radium for glowing watches? Uranium bombs were made later probably after it was used to generate power. But I wonder what our world would look like if there was not as much scare of nuclear power. Perhaps bit like fallouts world? We still have some time left to 23rd October 2077 thankfully.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The first man made reactor (there’s an extinct naturally occurring one) was created as part of the Manhattan project to create the first bombs. So we really did speed run the tech tree for bomb on that one. The first nuclear power plant was in 1951.
BillyClark@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
First use: glowing paint
Second use: cancerBlue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
if there was not as much scare of nuclear power.
I was pro nuclear until solar became cheaper than nuclear but I think if there was less scare about nuclear, there would have been more Chernobyls. That happened because of thinking it’s completely safe.
Railing5132@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The watches were radium, not uranium.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not really. It’s not economical and never has been. Civilian use of nuclear energy has only ever been a cover for nuclear arms development.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
people down voting you haven’t considered the cost of dealing with the waste. Consider how long and expensive Hanford Washington is and how much damage it’s done to the environment around it. Then there’s Fukushima Japan. The damage will be dealt with for a 1000 years. And the reactors that don’t break still have so many spent rods and other waste that can’t just be thrown away. The best idea was to store it in the bottom of old mines but nobody wants it shipped over their backyard to get it there. It’s a dead end.
drolex@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
That world, that wonderful utopic world… we could weaponize it!
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So was the popular conception back then that power was somehow magically transferred directly from uranium to the power grid?
Forester@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Miniature breeder reactor
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 weeks ago
The weapons grade stuff is U-235, right? Do conventional nuclear reactors enrich U-238 to U-235?
grue@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What grid? It looks like the “power box” on the wall is generating power for that house all by itself, no transmission necessary.
Considering that the smallest operating nuclear reactor ever made was this big…
…and that critical mass is a thing, I can only assume the “power box” was some kind of RTG.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Wouldn’t all but the largest RTGs struggle to power more than a few incandescent light bulbs, though? Their output is usually from a few dozen to a few hundred watts, looking at the table on wikipedia.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Looking at the illustration, it’s hard to figure out year it was drawn. The artist is creating a ‘future house.’ Also, it’s not clear if this is an educational comic, or one for entertainment.
99% of the people today ahve some idea of what ‘gamma rays’ are, but we all accept that they can turn a normal man into The Hulk.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
It’s like those watch batteries, but it’s uranium and powers the house.
stsquad@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
It was worse than that. Our understanding of radiation took awhile. While Uranium glass is probably safe I wouldn’t go using it regularly. A lot of women (“radium girls”) suffered from cancers induced by licking their brushes when painting luminescing instruments. This comic looks like 50s era when post the bomb sci-fi was full of “atomics” as the stuff of the future.
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The radiation explains why his arms are long enough that he could scratch his shins standing up
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Future rock climbing world champion
fartographer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
*Licks powerbox*
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
$ 0.001
The Jetsons/strangelove era pricing for nuclear energy was based on fuel costs only, and certainly scale was needed rather than this absurd wafer system. The fuel costs were based on no one using any yet, and maybe children yearning for the cancer.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I don’t think fiscal cost is the best or only way to measure success or necessarily improvement of society’s energy generation.
GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Title… “that’s what she said!”
aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Imagine using something dangerous to generate power or heat for a home. Something that if it leaks into your home could suffocate you overnight or explode, or that in normal use can give children respiratory issues or cause cancer. Thank goodness we’re too smart to use something like that unlike the absolute imbeciles in this comic
lengau@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Imagine if we had to move it around in such large quantities that there were thousands of kilometres of unwatched pipelines just out there, potentially leaking.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Actually leaking, not potentially.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And imagine people fight pointless wars over resources instead of using the renewables that are available for free.
NotBillMurray@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not only that, but mining for it produces massive quantities of dangerous runoff and radioactive waste. Good thing coal doesn’t do that!
Johanno@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Coal is probably more radioactive than you think and the waste gets unfiltered into the air. Poisoning the whole world
CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I have absolutely no idea how to find reference to this at this point because every search I do results in absolute bullshit that’s not related (like apparently the most liquid currency is the diarrhea coin… a problem that didn’t exist a few years ago..), but I recall trading about a practice from like the medieval era or something where special coins were made that contained heavy metals, and when consumed, would induce diarrhea. They would be retrieved, washed, and reused, and even passed down in families.
Today we know how bad of an idea something like that is, but then, like with radiation, it was all ghosts in the blood causing problems. Shitting blood was normalized.
Aqarius@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not a coin m, and not medieval. The search term is “antimony pill”.
JATtho@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You forgot the /s at the end.