Fun fact, there used to be a child's toy that would let you observe this effect. A ring containing some polonium and a viewing window that let you see the alpha particles interacting. They stopped making it for some reason. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kix-lone-ranger-atomic-bomb-ring/
You think so? If you're in Germany, look up http://www.opengeiger.de/ (not an SSL connection, so proceed at your own risk), especially the "Ausflugstipps" http://www.opengeiger.de/GeigerCaching/GeigerCachingMap.html . There may (hopefully) be similar GeigerCaching sites for other countries.
I don't even feel comfortable looking at that video. But it reminds me of the time I walked along some corridors with a strip of plastic in my hand that had a little dot in the middle, which fell out of a scintilation detector I was working on. It turned out to be a "forgotten" source of Americium 241. Not happy.
If it's a high enough energy particle yes. People who go to space will often see random dots of light. Because charged particles are hitting and triggering the optic nerve constantly. It actually took a number of missions before any of them mentioned it during the early space program. No one wanted to bring it up and risk getting pulled off mission for hallucinating. But eventually enough of them talked to each other and realised it wasn't just them seeing it, and reported it.
Yup. Eyes are natural radiation detectors - hello, light - and higher-energy particles can interact with stuff in your eye to generate Cherenkov radiation, or jolt electrons out of orbits and then they emit a photon when jostled out of/back to their orbits. Also, if you notice flashes of light while undergoing radiotherapy, mention that to your oncologist to ensure that the beam is going where it's supposed to.
On a completely unrelated note...I dropped a screwdriver into a canal yesterday while attempting to fix my friends boat.
I'll tell yah this, nothing teaches acceptance better (or faster) than watching something of nominal value fall out of your hands, roll down a windshield, continue to roll another ≈3 meters down the hull of a boat, bounce off the gunnel, and go ::PLoOP:: into the murky abyss...
Stared at the spot like a dog waiting for it to pop back up until I processed and laughed.
Watching anything that was just under your control sink into the abyss is always a humbeling experience. Especially so when it takes its own sweet time getting from your hand to the water.
r/NoStupidQuestions recently had a question about how it felt being exposed to large amount of radiation and the post turned into a cross between r/NoSleep and r/nope on steroids
fun fact, this is effectively what "tv static" is, except a much much smaller amount of radiation, your tv will amplify the signal to try to pick up the station, if there's no actual signal it'll start amplifying the backgroudn radiation of the universe
An old CRT also works as a tornado and lightning detector. Procedure, courtesy of The Straight Dope: Tune to channel 13 and turn the brightness control down tothe point where the image is nearly–not completely–black. Then turn to channel 2. Lightning will register as horizontal streaks on the screen. When the picture becomes bright enough to be seen, or when the screen glows with an even light, there’s a tornado within 20 miles, and it’s time to find Toto and head for the basement.
A TV receiver amplifying what is mostly its own thermal noise is a lot different from a high intensity (alpha?) source triggering the photodiodes in a camera sensor tho
Well, no. TV static is mostly electromagnetic radiation, to the largest extent cosmic microwave background, and not particle radiation. Protons, most intense particle radiation in near-Earth space, are luckily shielded away by Earth's magnetic field. So this really is different.
Well, yes. Nuclear radiation, for example, comes in three types. Alpha radiation is high-energy helium nuclei (positive charge). Beta radiation is high-energy electrons. And gamma radiation is very high-energy photons (electromagnetic radiation, which kinda blur the line between wave and particle, because photons sort of behave as both a wave and a particle).
Beyond that, I think most radiation refers to electromagnetic radiation. But that comes in an extremely wide range of types depending on its frequency. From radio waves (with the lowest frequency) to microwaves to infrared to visible light to ultraviolet to X-rays to gamma rays (with the highest frequency / shortest wavelength). It mostly depends on how it's produced.
Well summarized! You can then then have also "natural" radiation that does not typically come from "normal" element decay, which includes positively charged protons (near Earth coming from both the sun and other stars in the Milky Way), neutrinos (mostly from stars, not really interacting with anything), and other fast elementary particles. Plus any high-velocity particles from particle accelerators.
This is one thing that is fast disappearing along with CRT televison sets and analog TV transmissions - there are already a lot of people who have never seen static on their TV, just "no signal" or something similar. Luckily we can still hear it in analog radio receivers.
This becomes a problem during storms because before you could usually hear the meteorologist through the static or maybe see enough of the TV but not hear what was being said. Now you get a black screen. Not great for tornado alley.
From convenience point, this is rational choice. It would be good to "accidentally" expose people to phenomenons like the static, at least when they are young and haven't yet decided their world view (and are able to escape the matrix of convenient truths).
I've had the TV static Screensaver since Windows xp (with option for the sound) and continually move it to every new machine I own. It's pretty fun when you have a multiple monitor setup.
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” For me that line always meant a gray sky, dirty and foggy, you know, like the old TV static effect. But I realized that for a younger generation (the VCR one), the dead channel would be the blue cobalt of an empty screen. I'm wondering if for today generation, that sky would be a deep black of a digital TV.
NotAllowedToArgueUnlessYouPay
Fallout from the secret nuke testing was discovered by Kodak when film kept going bad.
cytherians
"And now for an example of how to ruin the CCD of your phone camera."
𝐻𝑢ℎ. 𝑊ℎ𝑦 𝑠𝑜 𝑏𝑙𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑦 𝑛𝑜𝑤?
TankardHoot
https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1NHRubjhrNzFkMGk2bjIzdnQ4aWpocXo3eG1sd2t5b3FhcndlM2ExZyZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/qqtvGYCjDNwac/200w.webp
Ryyyyyyyan
Fun fact, there used to be a child's toy that would let you observe this effect. A ring containing some polonium and a viewing window that let you see the alpha particles interacting. They stopped making it for some reason. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kix-lone-ranger-atomic-bomb-ring/
brokehackfourlane
i hope that source is sealed mr no gloves
BenderRodriguezz
https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1dzltODNzcWR3ZTQ1Ym51dG1zejk0eXFmYmp5djdiY2JhdTR5N3VjciZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/tqU9tTWnImTJe/200w.webp
MajinHercule
3.6 out of 10. Not great, not terrible.
Tarmaccian
Oh, that’s terrifying.
stercusmoriturussum
You think so? If you're in Germany, look up http://www.opengeiger.de/ (not an SSL connection, so proceed at your own risk), especially the "Ausflugstipps" http://www.opengeiger.de/GeigerCaching/GeigerCachingMap.html . There may (hopefully) be similar GeigerCaching sites for other countries.
trinxter
Particularly nice.
SMarkt
looks like my underwear after wearing them for a week
spittleteets
idk if it was the pitch, combined with the fade to black and white specks of particles, but "Corona" by Minutemen began playing in my head...
"Hi I'm Johnny Neutron, Welcome to Nuclear Jackass"
manixaist
NLOVNI
Raises arms … I believe!
LoganX283
tag7
stop doing that....
vericon151
Rad
orukan
Was expecting the skyrim intro there for a sec!
Targe0
by way of another commentor
tiderfish
Read somewhere they used a smoke detector and a camera ccd to make a random number generator. Basically the seed was one of these points
foxpotate
(Red alert 2 desolator voice) Scintillating
ProfFurryPaws
It will be a silent spring
foxpotate
Ready for meltdown?
meheezen
Find a hotspot
foxpotate
Tagged for extinction!
majortool
Totally thought I was getting rick rolled.
cousteau
Gotta say, I'm kind of disappointed I wasn't.
Targe0
by way of another commentor
HeadJamistan
Me too!
Targe0
by way of another commentor
stronomer
I don't even feel comfortable looking at that video. But it reminds me of the time I walked along some corridors with a strip of plastic in my hand that had a little dot in the middle, which fell out of a scintilation detector I was working on. It turned out to be a "forgotten" source of Americium 241. Not happy.
stronomer
But then again that was just alpha decay and the top level of my hand's skin would just have stopped the alpha particle. So no harm done.
LeifHietala
Fun fact: this also works on your naked eyes.
cousteau
THANKS! I was precisely wondering this exact thing.
DYLANLEE79
Really?
Targe0
If it's a high enough energy particle yes.
People who go to space will often see random dots of light.
Because charged particles are hitting and triggering the optic nerve constantly.
It actually took a number of missions before any of them mentioned it during the early space program. No one wanted to bring it up and risk getting pulled off mission for hallucinating. But eventually enough of them talked to each other and realised it wasn't just them seeing it, and reported it.
LeifHietala
Yup. Eyes are natural radiation detectors - hello, light - and higher-energy particles can interact with stuff in your eye to generate Cherenkov radiation, or jolt electrons out of orbits and then they emit a photon when jostled out of/back to their orbits. Also, if you notice flashes of light while undergoing radiotherapy, mention that to your oncologist to ensure that the beam is going where it's supposed to.
GoodGuyGonzo
Goronhead
Who would win: one spicy metal orb vs. a household tool
SubTrout
(This kills the scientist)
AdmiralJohn
spittleteets
Ah, the ol' Dragon Tickler.
spittleteets
On a completely unrelated note...I dropped a screwdriver into a canal yesterday while attempting to fix my friends boat.
I'll tell yah this, nothing teaches acceptance better (or faster) than watching something of nominal value fall out of your hands, roll down a windshield, continue to roll another ≈3 meters down the hull of a boat, bounce off the gunnel, and go ::PLoOP:: into the murky abyss...
Stared at the spot like a dog waiting for it to pop back up until I processed and laughed.
kickahippie
Watching anything that was just under your control sink into the abyss is always a humbeling experience. Especially so when it takes its own sweet time getting from your hand to the water.
spittleteets
YES! ...the distance and slow motion feeling only adds to the humbling
ThailandExpress
N0TFR13ND
This kills screws
GoodGuyGonzo
stabbermcshooty
That’s more of a pry bar
kickahippie
Thats actually a chisel
Kreia
r/NoStupidQuestions recently had a question about how it felt being exposed to large amount of radiation and the post turned into a cross between r/NoSleep and r/nope on steroids
Elkku
https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/1u19ems/what_does_it_actually_feel_like_getting_doused/
Vixess
Mother of God
AdmiralJohn
The scary thing is in the early days of radiation research it was posited that radiation poisoning was a pleasant way to die.
Hexidimentional
fun fact, this is effectively what "tv static" is, except a much much smaller amount of radiation, your tv will amplify the signal to try to pick up the station, if there's no actual signal it'll start amplifying the backgroudn radiation of the universe
cousteau
I think it's a different kind of noise though. That is white noise, whereas this is more like impulse noise (if I'm not mistaken).
jondru
An old CRT also works as a tornado and lightning detector. Procedure, courtesy of The Straight Dope: Tune to channel 13 and turn the brightness control down tothe point where the image is nearly–not completely–black. Then turn to channel 2. Lightning will register as horizontal streaks on the screen. When the picture becomes bright enough to be seen, or when the screen glows with an even light, there’s a tornado within 20 miles, and it’s time to find Toto and head for the basement.
ilikehornets
A TV receiver amplifying what is mostly its own thermal noise is a lot different from a high intensity (alpha?) source triggering the photodiodes in a camera sensor tho
cousteau
Now I wonder if these are alpha particles, beta, gamma, or white blood cells.
stronomer
Well, no. TV static is mostly electromagnetic radiation, to the largest extent cosmic microwave background, and not particle radiation. Protons, most intense particle radiation in near-Earth space, are luckily shielded away by Earth's magnetic field. So this really is different.
astronomygeek7
So, besides the EMS, there’s different “kinds” of radiation? As in waves vs particles? I’m genuinely curious.
cousteau
Well, yes. Nuclear radiation, for example, comes in three types. Alpha radiation is high-energy helium nuclei (positive charge). Beta radiation is high-energy electrons. And gamma radiation is very high-energy photons (electromagnetic radiation, which kinda blur the line between wave and particle, because photons sort of behave as both a wave and a particle).
cousteau
Beyond that, I think most radiation refers to electromagnetic radiation. But that comes in an extremely wide range of types depending on its frequency. From radio waves (with the lowest frequency) to microwaves to infrared to visible light to ultraviolet to X-rays to gamma rays (with the highest frequency / shortest wavelength). It mostly depends on how it's produced.
stronomer
Well summarized! You can then then have also "natural" radiation that does not typically come from "normal" element decay, which includes positively charged protons (near Earth coming from both the sun and other stars in the Milky Way), neutrinos (mostly from stars, not really interacting with anything), and other fast elementary particles. Plus any high-velocity particles from particle accelerators.
socketcommunicator
This is one thing that is fast disappearing along with CRT televison sets and analog TV transmissions - there are already a lot of people who have never seen static on their TV, just "no signal" or something similar. Luckily we can still hear it in analog radio receivers.
Isthe4thtimethecharm
This becomes a problem during storms because before you could usually hear the meteorologist through the static or maybe see enough of the TV but not hear what was being said. Now you get a black screen. Not great for tornado alley.
Hexidimentional
most modern televisions capablel of recieving a coaxial signal still /do/ the static, they're just programmed not to dispaly it
socketcommunicator
From convenience point, this is rational choice. It would be good to "accidentally" expose people to phenomenons like the static, at least when they are young and haven't yet decided their world view (and are able to escape the matrix of convenient truths).
CerisCinderwolf
I've had the TV static Screensaver since Windows xp (with option for the sound) and continually move it to every new machine I own. It's pretty fun when you have a multiple monitor setup.
cytherians
Yeah, a display of static noise is now like black & white for Gen Z.
imguronefive
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” For me that line always meant a gray sky, dirty and foggy, you know, like the old TV static effect. But I realized that for a younger generation (the VCR one), the dead channel would be the blue cobalt of an empty screen. I'm wondering if for today generation, that sky would be a deep black of a digital TV.
From: https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/3qv5gh/first_line_of_neuromancer_could_be_interpreted_in/
InitHello
For the generation of today, I fear it would just be wall to wall ads.
grimmfayte
I've been on the internet too long, I expected it to cut to that damn cart.
DiabloGrandeArts
Bro, me too!
kyro
I DM'd a D&D campaign and started it all with the party waking up in that cart. One player was so angry he stood up and left of the room.
Targe0
The correct response when they come back is have them attacked by a mud crab.
DarthFutuza
"I've fought mud crabs more fearsome than you!" *dies*
stonqledisponible2000
Targe0
I was exspecting a rickrole, or dickbutt.
TheDildoOfConsequences
It's like that, except you wake up inside the Demon Core.
MoonMoon89
I expected Rick Astley.
manixaist
I'm bored so here ya go
YippeeKayakOB
DeamgonDork
You're doing the internet well friend
Level21Magikarp
Nice.
Skullwriter
jayman0123
I've got a handful of these for those that like punishment /gallery/beating-dead-horse-joke-G0wlast
Lordenki40
I was waiting for the Rick roll
SomeGuyWhoSaysStuff
So was I
edasm
Dickbutt.
manixaist
Insomnia's a real bitch so have this one too
manixaist
Sadly 3 layers down is more attention span than 99% of imgurians have. That just makes it special for the peeps who engage
cousteau
ADHD works in mysterious ways though.
nothingunused
OK, now make Rick be the guy in the cart....just kidding, hope you get some sleep.
manixaist
Thank you, I did manage to sleep a bit and I feel better, glad to see people enjoyed the edits