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[-] pachrist@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

It's totally fine, the ring is probably also made of lead.

[-] tauisgod@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

More lead than at first; polonium-210 decays to lead. With a half life of 138 days, and 1947 being over 28,000 days ago, most of the original material is gone.

[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago
[-] AllToRuleThemOne@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

Thats literally what they are still doing: getting rid of the nuclear waste by passing it to the younger generations.

[-] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago

If this is really what MAGA was about, I'd get on board.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 79 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Apparently it flopped because it didn't explode like the chemistry kits did, so kids thought it was boring.

[-] Bwaz@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Hey, as a kid I spent a LOT of time trying to make something explode with chemistry sets. Very disapointing.

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

There are no claims, even not from child which ingest it. Only statistical issues.

[-] Revanee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 1 day ago
[-] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 50 points 1 day ago

They no longer include quality toys like these in foods :(

[-] OmgItBurns@discuss.online 14 points 1 day ago

Anyone else think this looks like a retro-futuristic adult toy with an extra buzzy feature?

[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Come here baby, I’m going to nuke your pussy

[-] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 6 points 14 hours ago

Get this cockring for glow-in-the-dark balls!

[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago
[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago
[-] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 5 points 18 hours ago

Alpha is the weakest, usually stopping on the skin or other thin layer. Gamma goes right through a person. In college, we were warned more about beta emission because beta could enter the body by couldn't leave in the same way that gamma could.

[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

the hollowpoint particle.

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 points 16 hours ago

Alpha is generally considered the most dangurous, so saying it is the weakest is kinda doing an injustice. The penetration is the weakest, the radiation is the most harmful.

[-] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

That reminds me of the myth related to the daddy long-legs, that it has the most potent venom of any spider but can't break your skin.

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 day ago

At least it wasn't in the cereal like with some of the therapeutic waters available in that time

[-] crankyrebel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago

Don't worry, high-fructose corn syrup and unnatural dyes came a bit later for the cereal. It is like they want us dead.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 day ago

FOR EXTERNAL USE ONLY

[-] IWW4@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago

TIL Kix was around in 1947.

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

Modern breakfast cereals are largely product of post WWII “innovation”. Most of them still exist in some form. One of my favorite example is Sugar Smacks which were introduced in the early 50s and were over 50% sugar.

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 5 points 1 day ago

Rebrand it the Trump Ring and sell it to MAGA for $300.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Ok Kix, why did a cowboy have an atom bomb toy? What was the tie-in? Did Tonto help Oppenheimer? Was this just a way to sell a few tons of used polonium?

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

The just post WWII times were a weird hybrid of nostalgia for the old west “cowboys and Indians” stories and the space/atomic age becoming en vogue. Toys like this that tried to appeal to both are the result.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 4 points 12 hours ago

Fallout aesthetics

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Also you can just think of it as Albuquerque themed

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