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GRINDCORE MEGGIDO posted:Hit me for a Spiderman themed 6 please, 'terra. I mean, if you insist.
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I've tasted plenty of blood and plenty of metal. Yet I've never tasted radiation... the forbidden fruit...
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esperterra posted:I mean, if you insist. Be careful what you wish for 
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Apparently the 'smell' that coins and nails and stuff give off isn't the metal, but a product of sweat and skin oils reacting to the metal and breaking down (https://www.livescience.com/4233-coins-smell.html), maybe the taste is something similar happening to saliva inside your mouth because tiny bullets
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Collapsing Farts posted:I've tasted plenty of blood and plenty of metal. Yet I've never tasted radiation... The banana.
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Wallrod posted:Apparently the 'smell' that coins and nails and stuff give off isn't the metal, but a product of sweat and skin oils reacting to the metal and breaking down (https://www.livescience.com/4233-coins-smell.html), maybe the taste is something similar happening to saliva inside your mouth because tiny bullets So it's something like the pool chlorine piss smell? That's cool. I wonder how many other smells are actually the smell of our bodies reacting with stuff
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font color sea posted:So it's something like the pool chlorine piss smell? That's cool. I wonder how many other smells are actually the smell of our bodies reacting with stuff Since our sense of smell is entirely based on chemical reactions of foreign particles hooking into various receptors, technically all smells are our bodies reacting with stuff.
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Jun 2, 2019 14:24
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There is no way of detecting anything without interacting with it in some way.
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Chew on some aluminum foil if you really want to taste metal. Something I learned this week is that aluminum cans have a flimsy thin layer of plastic on the inside to prevent the tasty beverage from tasting like metal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EagzNomxTYg
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cilantro tastes the same as radiation...
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etalian posted:cilantro tastes the same as radiation... You need to sit by the reactor some more to fix your broken genes.
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clown shoes posted:Chew on some aluminum foil if you really want to taste metal. Yet Coke from a can tastes infinitely better than from any kind of plastic bottle. What?
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TigerXtrm posted:Yet Coke from a can tastes infinitely better than from any kind of plastic bottle. What? They line the plastic bottles with can metal.
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Have you actually done a proper double blind taste test?
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This is a very, very good show. Weirdly it's most entertaining when one of the main cast is onscreen and as such less terrifying, but otherwise it's some loving edge-of-your-seat stuff. Holy moly radiation is scary. I vaguely remember learning about α/ß/Γ radiation back in school and something about the glow in the dark bits in wrist watches used to use (mildly) radioactive paint that was all about alpha radiation and as such too weak to even get through the glass cover of the watch. But I also remember similar paint being used for iron sights on guns and a story about some women who painted them for years and years and died of cancer not only out of exposure but ingestion, since they would lick the tips of the paint brushes to paint the sights more accurately. Hazy memory and all though so feel free to correct me here. I was two years old when Chernobyl went down so I don't remember anything but heard later that, living in Finland, there was quite a boom for iodine tablets and people chomping down on them around that time. Later on me and my friends would crack Chernobyl/mutation jokes a-plenty when I was a kid. Also I knew the director looked familiar to me and was blown away that he's the Stakka Bo guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ooi5aOeQ75w
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Stare-Out posted:I vaguely remember learning about α/ß/Γ radiation back in school and something about the glow in the dark bits in wrist watches used to use (mildly) radioactive paint that was all about alpha radiation and as such too weak to even get through the glass cover of the watch. But I also remember similar paint being used for iron sights on guns and a story about some women who painted them for years and years and died of cancer not only out of exposure but ingestion, since they would lick the tips of the paint brushes to paint the sights more accurately. Hazy memory and all though so feel free to correct me here. Watchfaces (these days) use tritium. Gun sights and watches pre 1950s were lit with radium paint. You're thinking of the Radium Girls
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Yes, thank you!
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Stakka Bo's (Johan Renck) best song is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGNK-cOtxSs
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Back when I was a kid and had to go through cancer treatment there was a test they used to run to look for metastases. They’d inject me with a radioactive gallium isotope and then slowly run a detector over me to scan my whole body. During the injection process I remember a tray with a valve that let you switch between a small tube with the radioactive sign on it and a syringe full of saline. They’d switch the valve between the gallium to the saline to flush it in. As soon as it hit my veins within seconds I could taste metal.
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Kraftwerk posted:Back when I was a kid and had to go through cancer treatment there was a test they used to run to look for metastases. They’d inject me with a radioactive gallium isotope and then slowly run a detector over me to scan my whole body. This is insanely cool and also just loving insane. I don't think I wrapped my head around quite how wild it is that we use nuclear energy and radiation for so much stuff.
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Xanderkish posted:This is insanely cool and also just loving insane. I don't think I wrapped my head around quite how wild it is that we use nuclear energy and radiation for so much stuff. I think it was around 1920/1930 that it was at its peak, with a huge range of products sold on the open market that were radioactive (often dangerously so) with the idea that it was beneficial to health. The Revigator is possibly one of the most famous - a water urn used to decant water for drinking that was lined with radium.
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CainFortea posted:Have you actually done a proper double blind taste test? No, but that is an interesting thing to try at some point.
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GazChap posted:Radioquackery was a big thing in the early part of the 20th Century. I'd argue that Radithor is more infamous, since that was the water Eben Byers drank before the radiation killed him.
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GazChap posted:Radioquackery was a big thing in the early part of the 20th Century.  Don't forget the radium baths! Bobbin Threadbare posted:I'd argue that Radithor is more infamous, since that was the water Eben Byers drank before the radiation killed him. The guy who sold him the radium water later went on to sell radioactive paperweights. I can't find any adverts for those, so I have no idea why one would want one. CainFortea fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Jun 2, 2019 |
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Jun 2, 2019 21:41
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Even up to the 50's/60's, my parents will talk sometimes about how some shoe stores had x-ray scopes that let you check how well your child's shoes fit.
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Reminds me of people going wild for X-Rays in The Knick. I'm sure there's some truth to people overusing it for kicks and wound up loving themselves up as a result. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XTS7XOUT80
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Bakanogami posted:Even up to the 50's/60's, my parents will talk sometimes about how some shoe stores had x-ray scopes that let you check how well your child's shoes fit. fun fact! many of those shoe salesmen loving died of diseases stemming from too much radiation
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Al Bundy No!
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Just watching the first episode. I'm sure glad that superiors dismissing first hand accounts in a blasé fashion always was and always will be a thing.
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Bakanogami posted:Even up to the 50's/60's, my parents will talk sometimes about how some shoe stores had x-ray scopes that let you check how well your child's shoes fit. What the everliving gently caress  I'm always amazed by all the bizarre ways that leaded gasoline used to affect society.
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Opferwurst posted:What the everliving gently caress "Used to"
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Opferwurst posted:What the everliving gently caress But at least the leaded gasoline was protecting us from radiation!
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GazChap posted:Radioquackery was a big thing in the early part of the 20th Century. I've actually got a bunch of 30's to 60's era Vaseline glass. Everything from plates and glasses to a "radar range" casserole dish. When people come over I let them use the blue/purple lasers I have to shine the glass and watch it glow
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Combat Pretzel posted:Just watching the first episode. I'm sure glad that superiors dismissing first hand accounts in a blasé fashion always was and always will be a thing.
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Combat Pretzel posted:And it keeps going on and on into the second episode. Oh god this makes me so mad. Haha, best get some boxing gloves cause there's more to come
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This is a good joke and I hope we can steal it:  SeXReX posted:based on the podcast it sounds like he's just leaving the sarcophagus out of the story because it isn't all that compelling. next episode looks like it'll be Law and Order, Radioactive Victims Unit
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