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Highlights include Chernobyl trips, a trip to "Soviet Ground Zero", and a how-to for DIY uranium chemistry.
Awesome! I've been following bionerd23's youtube channel for a while and really enjoy the videos she's done. Glad to see more folks being introduced to her too!
Is she exposing herself to more radiation than is safe?
Is there a very high likelihood she's going to make herself sick? I watched this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kg4vVYKc90 and she seems to be pretty callous with that hot particle.
Awesome! I've been following bionerd23's youtube channel for a while and really enjoy the videos she's done. Glad to see more folks being introduced to her too!
Genuine question from someone that doesn't understand. Is she exposing herself to more radiation than is safe? Is there a very high likelihood she's going to make herself sick? I watched this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kg4vVYKc90 and she seems to be pretty callous with that hot particle.
well, if its over 100 mSv/h, then acute radiation sickness begins after ~2 hours (noticable reduced blood cell count from 200 mSv acute dose onward, though you'd only FEEL sick after another 3 or 4 hours). but yeah, as the inverse square law applies, there's nothing to fear with this particle. and yep, the spectrum was done by a HPGe, as usual. :)
Awesome! I've been following bionerd23's youtube channel for a while and really enjoy the videos she's done. Glad to see more folks being introduced to her too!
Genuine question from someone that doesn't understand. Is she exposing herself to more radiation than is safe? Is there a very high likelihood she's going to make herself sick? I watched this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kg4vVYKc90 and she seems to be pretty callous with that hot particle.
As long we're talking about atomic fruits again, I'll leave this here in case anyone missed it... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9408350 Atomic Gardens: Breeding Plants with Gamma Radiation (pruned.blogspot.com) 51 points by thret 1 day ago | 6 comments
Someone should combine that with the upcoming marijuana legalization and make their fortune selling irradiated seeds that might create a completely new high.
I stumbled upon it randomly on Netflix, thought it was terrible yet ended up watching the entire thing anyway. Turns out it was an intentionally bad movie - a parody of a 50s horror film - but I had difficulty separating the intentional 50s cheese from the unintentionally-cheesy 80s context. A very strange experience.
This lady reminds me of Tarkovsky's Stalker: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(1979_film) There was a very interesting documentary on PBS a month or two back about the 'Radioactive Wolves' of Chernobyl. Bottom line: they don't seem any more or less healthy than other wolf populations in the region, but do well because nobody hunts them.
or the game s.t.a.l.k.e.r
The background and some terminology of the game ("The Zone", "Stalker") are borrowed from the popular science fiction novella Roadside Picnic by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky and the 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky film Stalker that was loosely based on it, as well as Stalker, the film's subsequent novelization by the original authors.
Reminds me so much of the "kid of speed"'s quests through Chernobyl on her motorcycle. She takes lots of pictures and explains the historical relevance of different landmarks in that land stuck in time. http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter1.html
Reminds me so much of the "kid of speed"'s quests through Chernobyl on her motorcycle. She takes lots of pictures and explains the historical relevance of different landmarks in that land stuck in time. http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter1.html
Top Gear (UK) was driving to Chernobyl in one of their recent specials. Some of the camera crew waited outside the zone, for personal reasons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goiânia_accident#Ivo_and_his_da...