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[-] DavidGA@lemmy.world 334 points 3 months ago

The sensor noise would be distributed evenly, and not clustered around the rod like bees.

[-] HKPiax@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago* (last edited 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 73 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The high frequency of the gamma radiation mostly ignores the relatively thin 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 2 points 3 months ago

Because the radiation isn’t significantly affected by the camera optics

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 102 points 3 months ago

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!

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 65 points 3 months ago

12 half lives is 4096x drop in radioactivity.

[-] TunaCowboy@lemmy.world 41 points 3 months ago

That's my favorite brand of suppository!

[-] modifier@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 months ago

I'm walkin' on sunshine, woah-oh!!

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 3 months ago

I'm walkin' ~~on~~ sunshine, woah-oh!!

[-] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 40 points 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!

[-] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 27 points 3 months ago

mmmh good old orphan sources

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 25 points 3 months ago

That's a magic cinnimon stick!

[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 12 points 3 months ago

Cinnamon powder challenge

[-] papalonian@lemmy.world 24 points 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 12 points 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 5 points 3 months ago

Hope OP’s a righty!

[-] bitwaba@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

he won't know if he's cuming or going!

--George Carlin

[-] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 23 points 3 months ago
[-] wabafee@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

More like radiated.

[-] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 months ago

She gotta crack the glow stick first

[-] elephantium@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Do you taste metal?

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

I can see the beta particles mutating your hand

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