TehAmelie: i had a dream tonight where i did the crab dance sitting in front of a mirror for like ten minutes. no idea why, maybe i was just bored
TehAmelie: in the dream
e_bloc:

neisan2112: I'm ready for some radiation
TehAmelie: let's mutate into crab
e_bloc: thats good because the radiation is mandatory
TehAmelie: well, some cancerfication may occur
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ProcyonFlynn: Oooh. First time seing the +10 year badges. They are cool
BraveOthello:
"is that a lot of ticking for one of those?" 
TehAmelie: they're less than an hour old :3
meddlingmage_: oh, this is sure to tick someone off
ProcyonFlynn: Oh good, I feel less concerned about my observation skills
TehAmelie watched 115 consecutive streams and sparked a watch streak!
something cesium?
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Juliamon: These stars are more interesting
flatluigi: i'm not a star poster yet
Nigouki: nyukyular. it's pronounced nyukyular
TehAmelie: hmm i thought C-115 was one of the interesting ones, but apparently it just sort of exists. briefly.
ButButTheJesus: woooo atomic time with alex
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TehAmelie: ahoy!
SnackPak_:

mrshazboto: Can't wait to have a RADical time
ButButTheJesus: is that a bomb
e_bloc: its not not a bomb
DigitalSeahorse:

Despoiler98: Alex.....is that a suitcase nuke?
ButButTheJesus: a snuke
Strebenherz: My guess is many relevant tools and possible geiger counters
Driosenth: Oh, tonight is a nitrile glove occasion
DigitalSeahorse: gooody goody gumdrops!
Driosenth: 2
CranstonSnord: I have 2
DigitalSeahorse: 5!
Vinewood_OG: "Mine's in the shop."
azureHaights: "How many Geigers is too many, asking for a friend"
e_bloc: one and a spare
DeM0nFiRe:

Despoiler98: FIVE PS5s! and geiger counters!
ProcyonFlynn: 3 per residence, and 1 for your bob
TehAmelie: we've got a Geiger Georg here
DigitalSeahorse: some of these are fragile parts
aerolend: At least one is probably useful, yes. Never know when a random thing is randomly radioactive.
GhostValv: practical tools and ... less practical tools
MacbethSeemsSus: Joined the stream to "these devices will detect the samples later"
mrshazboto:
I wish I had more time to watch live - this is so bussing cool 
Despoiler98: it goes beep
e_bloc: cut to paul in a complete anti-radiation suit
DigitalSeahorse: Is this first one what you carry to thrift stores, Alex?
aerolend: @e_bloc Who would be next to him in their pro-radiation suit?
TehAmelie: i wish we could have perfected the Giger counter before it's too late. now, if they get it working, we'll never know
ProcyonFlynn: It sucks up the magic particles and gets excited! /wrong
DigitalSeahorse:

Despoiler98:

tdapenguin:
@ProcyonFlynn 
Mushbie: low pressure gas, with a high voltage field across it
TheMerricat: "A Geiger counter detects ionizing radiation (alpha, beta, gamma) by using a high-voltage, gas-filled Geiger-Müller tube. When radiation enters the tube, it ionizes gas atoms, creating electrons and positive ions. These electrons create an "avalanche" of charge towards a central wire, producing a measurable electric pulse that is converted into a click, flash, or count reading."
public_key_reveal_party: @ProcyonFlynn wrong did get a good laugh out of me, well done
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RealGamerCow: I'd love to see how bonkers a geiger counter would go if I brought it into my extremely radon filled basement
Mushbie: I have one of that exact tube
DigitalSeahorse: Soviet Surplus
DigitalSeahorse: from Ukraine
MacbethSeemsSus: I wonder why the soviets would have a surplus of geiger oh right.....
e_bloc: its like fantasy costco but in the fallout universe
Mushbie: is it an STS-5(CTC-5) tube?
aerolend: @MacbethSeemsSus Yes, cause they never needed any.
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Mushbie: or perhaps an SBM-20?
Driosenth: Are the clicks fake?
DigitalSeahorse: hehehehehhe
MacbethSeemsSus: Question, wouldn't it be digital an issue around radiation?
aerolend: I would guess, with a bit of tinkering, it could.
aerolend: The amount of tinkering might vary.
Mushbie: @MacbethSeemsSus if it's that radioactive, it wont be a problem for you for very long
DigitalSeahorse: I'm sure someone could get it to play doom with some tinkering, but it's more useful as is
DrakoniteDev: I need a geiger counter
flatluigi: same
gibbousm: everything wants to reach stability
fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn: the jjokes write themselves
aerolend: Mood, really.
mrshazboto: I feel that
Nigouki: just like me fr fr
Eklinaar: just like me
e_bloc: am i radioactive
azureHaights: How we know this isnt DB: askwho hasn't responded with a gif 30 seconds ago
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Vinewood_OG: 😮💨
e_bloc: and unstable!
MacbethSeemsSus: *deploys banana*
tdapenguin:
@azureHaights 
ghyllnox:
Cloud chambers 
Driosenth: Is it an "orphan source"
ArdCollider: how we know it's not DB: *wedge* got it 30 seconds ago
tdapenguin: @wedge_x cloud chambers are so cool!
TheMerricat: So I think the question is are the clicks like the motor noises of an electric car and being simulated on a digital counter or are they actually being generated via the pulse also.
Driosenth: "relative"ly
letfireraindown: Yes I too do not want to exist often
DoodlestheGreat: They;re unstable, but haven't got the ability to use methods like cutting or turning goth to cope with it.
aerolend: We need traffic lights that they would obey.
wedge_x:
I wish I was closer, I'd've brought my Trinitite 
e_bloc: like a tuning fork
CaptainSpam: Bananas LIE.
flatluigi: quote ian on that
ButButTheJesus: mmm pancakes
SnackPak_: that case is gorgeous
RealGamerCow: radioactive pancakes
gibbousm: I personally use a Ludlum Model 3 for work.
azureHaights: Bananas are untrustworthy, giving a different meaning to "ah yes. The RADIATION would kill you."
Sorator13: It's just nice to know how much radiation is around
DoodlestheGreat: There's one with a waffle probe, but it (like waffles) is considered inferior. :tf:
RealGamerCow: dats a good sound
Driosenth: Spicy Rocks
Juliamon: pop pop
Sorator13: @DoodlestheGreat lies and slander; waffles are the superior breakfast carb
ghyllnox: patapatapatapata
e_bloc: uranium fever
DigitalSeahorse:

DigitalSeahorse:

Dromos_GHG: BNC! Yay!
flatluigi: for connecting british seamen
aerolend: USBNC
azureHaights: *bip*
Driosenth: mica disc
DrakoniteDev: it is coax, so two connections. signal, and shield/ground
mrshazboto: "Am I dead" - things you don't want to be asking yourself when working with radioactive material
azureHaights: Forbidden hockey
RealGamerCow: but why mica?
e_bloc: not to be confused with the Maryland Institute College of Art
tdapenguin: @RealGamerCow i don;t know but i assume because it can be gotten to a very thin while very consistent thickness
MacbethSeemsSus: Do not raw dog your radioactive materials
e_bloc: do not raw dog anything you see on this particular program
AugmentingPath: @e_bloc Do they admit alpha particles?
Dromos_GHG: Beta? What about VHS?
Despoiler98: @mrshazboto usually if you have to ask that question while working with radioactive materials the answer is SOON
e_bloc: @AugmentingPath I'm pretty sure its mostly beta particles
AugmentingPath: make sense
AugmentingPath: s
Sorator13: @e_bloc what about the omega particles?
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Sorator13: or the sigma particles?
ArtDecoSunburn: @e_bloc I've definitely met some radioactive students from there shopping at that art supply store next to the campus in Baltimore.
mrshazboto: @Despoiler98 Other times the answer is "in 30 to 40 years"
DoodlestheGreat: It's wide and flat and goes well with butter and maple syrup.
TehAmelie: come to think, you could easily do a little business sweeping people's homes or businesses for radiation. not everyone has a Geiger counter but almost everyone would pay for a checkup
e_bloc: @ArtDecoSunburn I generally assumed they were doing something with chemicals, just generally not those
RealGamerCow: I'm trying to remember what I have that takes a 6v battery like that.
ArtDecoSunburn: @AugmentingPath If you can draw this pirate on the back of a matchbook . . .
kingandcommoner: Old school DRM
MacbethSeemsSus: *Insert XKCD standards comic*
Kiloscot: fun fact: you would have to eat >4 million bananas at once to die from radiation poisoning
Manae: They wanted standardized batteries, but everyone was fighting to be the standard
Driosenth: Civil Defense Decal!
MWGNZ: @Kiloscot i feel like you'd die of too many bananas before radiation was a problem
AugmentingPath: This really has a Fallout design aesthetic. Or probably Fallout has a this-thing design aesthetic
flatluigi: oh boy
MacbethSeemsSus:

SnackPak_: neat
ghyllnox: \o/ ?
mrshazboto: HUH
DigitalSeahorse:

niccus: bonus spice
Sorator13: Neat! Radiation measuring machine comes with free radiation!
aerolend: Is that safe?
mrshazboto: Company health plan about to come in handy?
TehAmelie: cause of death: banan
ArtDecoSunburn: @Kiloscot Poor Carmen Miranda.
Despoiler98: just free unshielded check source
Sorator13: oooooh, fancy
CrossXhunteR: set it to wumbo
Despoiler98: ooooooo dats fancy
ArtDecoSunburn: @AugmentingPath You'd really love the documentary "The Atomic Cafe" if you like that look.
ButButTheJesus: are alpha/beta particles dangerous, or only gamma?
Sorator13: probably unrelated, but when you unshielded the sensor, twitch decided to downgrade me to 180p
AugmentingPath: @ArtDecoSunburn Ooh, I might just have to check that out! thanks for the rec
SnackPak_: thats the good shit
CrossXhunteR: now you can build your own
mrshazboto: @Sorator13 Oh noooo that happened to you too?
Sorator13: @mrshazboto I mean, I can manually set it higher. Just thought the timing was funny.
ArtDecoSunburn: @AugmentingPath You can find some excerpts on the Conelrad site online. They produce the "Atomic Platters" albums of Cold War era music.
DigitalSeahorse:

Driosenth: Gotta wear your Dosi
Despoiler98: oh the dosimeter, to find out just how dead you are
ArtDecoSunburn: If your badge turns black, you're in trouble at the lab.
RealGamerCow: that almost looks like a brix meter
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Bruceski: I got to tour a decomissioned reactor in Scouts and we all were given dosimeters for the tour. "If this registers anything, something is very wrong."
AugmentingPath: @ArtDecoSunburn ooh, neat
Kiloscot: @ButButTheJesus they all can be dangerous, but alpha has the most energy followed by beta then gamma so smaller amounts of them are more dangerous - but alpha and beta are stopped by paper and thin metal respectively so they aren’t dangerous unless you ingest them e.g. breathing dust containing radioactive particles. on the other hand gamma is only stopped by material such as lead so it can be dangerous without ingesting if there’s enough radioactive material
DigitalSeahorse: they got strict on how to use a ladder correctly for safety
DigitalSeahorse: 3 points of contact at all times
Driosenth:
You do not
around with high radiation sources, cause they will certainly
with you.
ghyllnox: I've heard that working in a nuclear power plant means you're exposed to *less* radiation than otherwise
ButButTheJesus: @Kiloscot ah thankee
Sorator13: obligatory "yeah, swimming in the coolant pool would kill you, because of all the security guards who would think you were trying to do something Very Bad by jumping into said pool"
ArtDecoSunburn: @Kiloscot One reason why in the 1930s some experts expected atomic weapons wouldn't be bombs, but airplane-dispersed canisters of powder.
Kiloscot: @ArtDecoSunburn well that’s horrifying I did not know that
MacbethSeemsSus: Do you have a screwdriver for holding apart your beryllium sphere?
RealLegitStreamer: In my experience dosimeter badges don’t change color. You wear them for three months, hand them off to health and safety, and they give you a report with how bad it was.
flatluigi: roentgents
mrshazboto: @ArtDecoSunburn That's a manmade nightmare I wasn't aware of....thanks!
DigitalSeahorse:

Twilight_Spark: I see verts I climb the verts, that's just who I am.
serramarkov: Some of the cooling coils run under Lake Anna in Virginia- there's a warm side and a cool side of the lake, and you can swim in either side and can feel the very distinct temperature difference.
DoodlestheGreat:
Ron Gins, founder of Popiel. 
Toxxick: 3.6 Civets, not terrible not great
Nigouki: nothing that makes a blue flash?
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Vinewood_OG: Do not drink sievert coffee
kodalith: Aren't Seivers the family on Growing Pains?
ArtDecoSunburn: @Kiloscot There's a classic pre-World War II science fiction story where the League of Nations enforces radioactive weapon nonproliferation by grounding all airplanes by force.
MacbethSeemsSus: @Vinewood_OG Or Radithor
azureHaights: Ah yes, my favorite James Bond pseudonym. Sir Röntgen-Smythe
Driosenth: @RealLegitStreamer That is how the Dosi system work today, yes. I think modern Dosi badges have an atomic-chromatic element in them, but only change color in extreme radiation.
Sorator13: oh, that's very cute
AugmentingPath: @Vinewood_OG suddenly I'm envisioning a terrible health influencer explaining that a little bit of radiation every morning makes you more adaptable to your environment
Kiloscot: if you learn one thing today: don’t eat radioactive sources 👍
ArtDecoSunburn: @serramarkov Hangout with the multi-eyed fish on your way to Richmond.
Sorator13: @AugmentingPath well, that is what the bananas are for
rosesmcgee: The past wasn't entirely unpleasant
Toxxick: I wish the laptops I repaired every day were a fraction of this repair friently
ghyllnox: o/
ButButTheJesus: me me me
AugmentingPath: @Sorator13 of course!
RealGamerCow: are you saying planned obselecence is bad?
Strebenherz: what
Despoiler98: URAAAAAANIUM FEVER
meddlingmage_: Elton Britt rocks!
RealGamerCow: Fun fact, none of them are made up
MacbethSeemsSus: @AugmentingPath Oh boy, you should look up the Radium fad of the 1920s
ArtDecoSunburn: Song above link.
Vinewood_OG: "Ass jerky don't make itself, Vaultie!"
Despoiler98: that one is an earwig song
jvetting83: Radium Girls
azureHaights: Dose ra-tem-e-ter
AugmentingPath:
@MacbethSeemsSus 
DigitalSeahorse: it was an actual fever, everyone wanted uranium and radon in everything
e_bloc: its great. and awful. but great
ArtDecoSunburn: Not just government promotion. It was a huge commercial fever.
Sorator13: yeah, that is very nice
DigitalSeahorse: "SCOUT"
Commodore_Perry_GG: there was even an I Love Lucy episode where she thought she found a uranium load
ButButTheJesus: art!
7gorobei: scooty puff junior vibes
azureHaights: Is it a uranium Scout because it's "fulla radiation"?
meddlingmage_: red scout in the base
UnknownFriday: Made in Vancouver.
DigitalSeahorse: pretty
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niccus: someone should model a filter/synth on this box
DigitalSeahorse:

DigitalSeahorse:

ButButTheJesus:

DigitalSeahorse:

DoodlestheGreat: Dose-i-dose.
GhassanPL: This is a very ASMRy stream, is nice
Despoiler98:

ContingentCat: Me too Paul
Sorator13:

meddlingmage_:

SaxPython:

ButButTheJesus: TOOB
mrshazboto:

DigitalSeahorse: there was uranium mining in Ontario
TheMerricat: We were afraid that our sources of uranium weren't in the US so the government created a 'fake' gold rush for uranium by paying over inflated prices for it. It did not go very well very few people ever actually made any money out of it and those that did died early for obvious reasons.
Xenguin47: Ooh! I'm only 37 minutes late
UnknownFriday: Ooh, with what looks like 1/4" audio out. Hook that thing up to an amp and let the entire neighborhood know you're looking for yellowcake.
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Strebenherz: what
ghyllnox:
What 
ArtDecoSunburn: A lot of great "Perry Mason" episodes from the 1950s involve uranium hunting in California (resulting in murder).
CrossXhunteR: alex touching it is freaking me out for some reason. i feel like it should somehow be a charged element
azureHaights: Stave it off?
Mattmitchell45: Dose Cells
Kiloscot: @DigitalSeahorse lots of uranium mining in Saskatchewan too
DigitalSeahorse: neato!
Strebenherz: gdi Ian xD
DigitalSeahorse: I do!
ghyllnox: THUNK
DigitalSeahorse: I remember family asking for unleaded option
DigitalSeahorse: in the 80s
aerolend:
@TheMerricat

Sorator13:

Twilight_Spark: HAH
Vinewood_OG:

Despoiler98: WHAT
Strebenherz: what the utter hell
7gorobei: super wide 9volt connector
ContingentCat: Wow
ghyllnox: ???
Xenguin47: bbattery
aerolend: That is where the meme comes from.
ButButTheJesus: SIX SEEEEEEVEN
Eklinaar: he said the number!
niccus: (point five)
MWGNZ: totally normal V numbers
MacbethSeemsSus: Were Edison and Tesla still fighting over standards?
DigitalSeahorse: AAAA
ArtDecoSunburn: @TheMerricat In part because of the convoluted processes the US took to acquire uranium during World War II. Had to secretly acquire a warehouse full of it from the Belgian Congo under the noses of the Axis.
Despoiler98: ALEX
ghyllnox:

Despoiler98: ALEX NO
ButButTheJesus: SURE
flatluigi: alex.
mrshazboto: NOOOO
DigitalSeahorse: WOW
korvys: 9V have... 6? I think
ghyllnox: Whyyyyyyy
Sorator13: Oh good, experimenting with radiation (kinda)
Jillexie: Oh dear
wedge_x: bless
MacbethSeemsSus: I hate this
niccus: well, at least it's not car batteries
WiJohn: So, new moonbase soon?
foopoiuyt: I guess it's time for the next moonbase?
mrshazboto: Safety squints everyone
Xenguin47: Alex is a trained Internet Comedian. Do NOT try this at home.
MWGNZ: so nice of the batteries to also work as lego
aerolend: Do this only in a properly licensed and certified building.
ButButTheJesus: FUCK IT WE BALL
ArtDecoSunburn: @MacbethSeemsSus Don't erase George Westinghouse!
ultin00b: Oh
ultin00b: Oh my
Driosenth: Back in the day a single devices may have different batteries because voltage dividers/multipliers were not very reliable.
InnerBeard: TECHNICALLY AAs and AAAs are not "batteries" since they are since power cells. Not meant as correction, just trivia
Manae: The last time I did this with 9V batteries I did not have enough resistance and nearly melted one
Jillexie: The use of alligator clips here is giving me hives.
InnerBeard: single*
Mai_Andra: It *has* been awhile since something was set on fire on this program...
ContingentCat:

ghyllnox: Safety third!
DoodlestheGreat: You need all that power to heat the elements in those vacuum tubes.
meddlingmage_: 67!?
ultin00b: UM
MacbethSeemsSus: OH NO
Despoiler98: HOLY CRAP
ButButTheJesus: I AM DYING
Despoiler98: OH NOOOOO
neisan2112: Oh my god
meddlingmage_:
he siad it
tdapenguin: @Driosenth thanks
ContingentCat: Bigger than before
Despoiler98: HEATHER get the highlight reel ready!
MacbethSeemsSus: Remember, battery safety is to not.
Twilight_Spark: Did you know that Underwriter Labs has their own paramilitary police force and it is coming for YOU?
mrshazboto: I'm safety squinting from the comfort of my home
neisan2112:
Fuck it we ball 
RealGamerCow: Can you throw a multimeter on those contraptions?
ArtDecoSunburn: The historian James R. Allison has a great look on the legacy of uranium mining on Cheyenne tribal lands in the 1970s.
ButButTheJesus: 1 800 DUNT
Eklinaar: Ooh I wonder how many you have to chain together to get a space heater!
arcaedethefae: so uhhh, how safe is this?
aerolend: Is a fire extinguisher, with contents that work properly on whatever chemistry this is, on standby?
ArtDecoSunburn: @DoodlestheGreat They are terribly heat inefficient
Xenguin47: I mean, we're all being freaked out about this.... but this is also just what larger battery packs are on the inside.
DigitalSeahorse: a lot of big batteries are just a bunch of smol ones bound together
mrshazboto: SURELY any fire that results from this can be easily put out
tdapenguin: "puff up the voltage" sounds ominous
MacbethSeemsSus: @aerolend Probably sand?
mrshazboto: Also - extinguisher on hand?
7gorobei: boost(up) buck(down) converters
Xenguin47: It's just freakier to see all the guts out in the open
DoodlestheGreat: Pump up the voltage, Pump up the voltage, Pump up the voltage, DANCE DANCE DANCE
e_bloc: you know its safe because they waited for half of lrr to go to las vegas before they streamed this
ultin00b: I fired Nixie Tubes off of 6 AA batteries, stepping from 12v->170v and haven't burnt anything yet???
MacbethSeemsSus: @e_bloc G in his hotel room: HE'S DOING WHAT
tdapenguin:
@e_bloc 
ArtDecoSunburn: @e_bloc The irony given how close Vegas was to Nevada nuclear testing for decades.
DigitalSeahorse: xD
Eklinaar: I can almost hear Graham running back to the studio now
CrossXhunteR: at a hotel in town? interesting guy.
Xenguin47: He's being a dad!
Jillexie: I practice safe battery
Despoiler98: ITS ALIVE
ghyllnox: patapata!
ultin00b: That's geiger counter noises!
flatluigi: don't gasp like that when you're on my second monitor
wolphiron: Lol I successfully distracted my ex from his other ex by showing him this stream 😂
DigitalSeahorse: I hear clicks!
mrshazboto: IT WORKS
letsbelgo: its alive
ButButTheJesus: IT LIVES
ContingentCat: Gotten
meddlingmage_: im a GOD
Jillexie: It's alive!!!!!
e_bloc: cut to Alex drugging Graham an hour and a half ago
CrossXhunteR: these battery contraptions are something
ButButTheJesus: GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY
aerolend: It might be not sparking, but my browser froze in that moment.
neisan2112: OH MY GOD LOLOL
GhassanPL: It's them spicy popcorns
jessicaengle: chirpy
mrshazboto: How WARM are those battery bundles rn
korvys: Is that... a good noise?
niccus: well now you need a cooler scar than graham's
ContingentCat: It's ALIVEEEE
DigitalSeahorse:
it's alive!
adept_nekomancer: Geigers: Counted.
ghyllnox: \o/
wolphiron: Do the yellow one! We have the yellow one at home
tdapenguin: @korvys it's okay b/c the keychain standard is a small amount
jessicaengle:

jvetting83: Not just decorative.
Xenguin47: Gotta let the radiation in!
DigitalSeahorse: chat is pleased too
ButButTheJesus: you scienced!
DigitalSeahorse: sweet!
Xenguin47: We have Mad Science'd!
flatluigi: i didn't think you could chuff your bits on twitch
ArtDecoSunburn: @DigitalSeahorse There's no half-life to radiation-sensing makerspace humor.
Jillexie: Tip of the hat to this.
DigitalSeahorse:
for science! 
mrshazboto: Didn't doubt it for a moment (thank goodness it worked)
foopoiuyt: It worked and nothing burned down!
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DrakoniteDev: tubes need a fairly high voltage across them
SajuukSjet: isn't it more the capacitors, rather then the vacuum tubes
RealGamerCow: the capacitors on CRTs were nasty
aerolend:

Jillexie: The vacuum tubes will be fine.
ButButTheJesus: the snuke!
CrossXhunteR: i thought that was your luggage
Despoiler98: look at that carry case
DigitalSeahorse: Alex brought a nuclear bomb?
GhostValv: sheesh
Despoiler98: thats sweet
GhassanPL:
Throwing my vote for TTSF to be weekly 
ArtDecoSunburn: Remember when the US government lab at Oak Ridge used to give out irradiated dimes to tourists as souvenirs?
Xenguin47: With how old it is? It's definitely real leather
DigitalSeahorse: snazzy bag!
tdapenguin: @ArtDecoSunburn when was that!
korvys: Alex, I need pictures of that
GhostValv:
bonafides 
DigitalSeahorse: *whistles*
SymphonySolstice: evening all, just seeing the fresh sub badges!
ArtDecoSunburn: Within my lifetime. When I was a kid in the 1980s.
Despoiler98: OH SHIT
tdapenguin: @ArtDecoSunburn also, depends on the type and amount of irradiation before it becomes a bad idea
Juliamon: Unpack With Care!
oneupthextraman: next road quest to that address
ghyllnox:

DigitalSeahorse: "LIFETIME Warranty"
tdapenguin: @ArtDecoSunburn neat!
flatluigi: alex please take photos of these for posterity
ghyllnox: "Warranty: None"
DrakoniteDev: even worse, if you let a CRT sit, unplugged, it can build up a phantom charge again over time, so even pulling a CRT out of storage is potentially deadly
Cptasparagus: Fisher (assuming its THE Fisher) is like the biggest science supply company in the world now. We buy loads of stuff from them in my lab.
ArtDecoSunburn: @tdapenguin Still, these were coins lots of people slipped in pants pockets near sensitive equipment.
DigitalSeahorse: "Do Not Use Incorrect Batteries"
UnknownFriday: My brother's an electronics guy. I sent him a pic of the five 9v batteries and he immediately responded "Someone needed a B battery substitute, huh?"
DigitalSeahorse: gasp!
RealGamerCow: yup that's mimiograph
RealGamerCow: dat purp
DigitalSeahorse:

ContingentCat: Wow
tdapenguin: @ArtDecoSunburn point! i had definitely not considered that ....
jessicaengle: Case candy
DigitalSeahorse:
so coooool! 
GhassanPL:
Definitely very ASMR 
ArtDecoSunburn: @RealGamerCow The unspoken hero of midcentury offices. Got to love the purple ink.
BraveOthello: Yo, real talk? This shit is cool as hell
Eklinaar: oh I've seen those before
Despoiler98: Soviet way is more economical
Nigouki: DP
aerolend: DP-5A
Despoiler98: that looks like an OG Star Trek tricorder
tdapenguin: @Despoiler98 i think we're seeing some of the prop inspiration
ArtDecoSunburn: "In Soviet Union, Geiger counts you!"
DigitalSeahorse:

Nigouki: oh that is some sweet bakelite
DigitalSeahorse:

DigitalSeahorse: hehe
ContingentCat: That case is so cool
Sorator13: love me some electronic schmung
DigitalSeahorse: nope
ghyllnox: eeeeeee
RealGamerCow: yup
Sorator13: oh yeah, very faintly
letsbelgo: eeeeee
ArtDecoSunburn: @Nigouki I miss how the 20th century wet from classy plastic substances to tacky plastic substances. We need more bakelite.
DigitalSeahorse: oh a tiny eeeeeeeeeeee
Despoiler98: CHUNKY dial
Despoiler98: you could beat someone to death with that probe
flatluigi: is it good when your equipment screams
ghyllnox: pip....pippip
Eklinaar: Why don't we get knobs and dials like that any more. Touchscreens suck.
letsbelgo: lil tickys
mrshazboto: Ah, spicy asmr
RealGamerCow: oh mama
DigitalSeahorse: eeeeeeeeeee
JKBalch: So when does Paul reveal he hid an orphan source somewhere in the Moonbase and they need to find it.
DigitalSeahorse: popcorn!
ButButTheJesus: even more clicky
ghyllnox: kkkkkkkkkkkkk
ArtDecoSunburn: @Eklinaar Why I still rock a Blackberry phone.
ContingentCat: Ooooo
Sorator13: @JKBalch On this edition of askmaster...
DigitalSeahorse: very cool!
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Despoiler98: YOOOOOO
DigitalSeahorse: it's a lit display!
Driosenth: Does it have that radium glow?
Strebenherz: ooh
ghyllnox: OOooooh
Sorator13: sweeeeeeet
Despoiler98: its got that RADIUM
ghyllnox:

DigitalSeahorse: is that radium?
Driosenth: phosphorous
JKBalch: So cool. is it lit with Radium?
MacbethSeemsSus: That makes sense, if you really need to test in the dark
ContingentCat: Wow
ArtDecoSunburn: @Sorator13 With special guest, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission!
jessicaengle: glow in the dark anything is so cool
e_bloc: just a little radium, for fun
goombalax: when your radiation detector is also radioactive
DigitalSeahorse: print off a translation?
Mai_Andra: I miss when the world was cool...
ArtDecoSunburn: @goombalax It's radioactive turtles all the way down.
gnyrinn: Beautiful lum
ghyllnox:

ButButTheJesus: m'nards!
aerolend: The word used for dishes is as in plates, not as in food, btw.
Sorator13: "would you like to measure my radioactive underwear?"
CrossXhunteR: nice stick
DigitalSeahorse: keep your distance!
JKBalch: Worst boom mike ever
DigitalSeahorse: heheheheheh
omdorastrix: Sorry I'm late - how many atoms has Alex shown and told about?
Xenguin47: Oh, so that's why Ian doesn't have any hairt
adept_nekomancer: Ian confirmed not radioactive
AugmentingPath: doing man-on-the-street interviews but only accepting answers in the form of gamma particles
ContingentCat: Radioactive boom
Mai_Andra: There's a "boom in shot" gag in this somewhere...
DigitalSeahorse: yeah, they probably did just that for the HBO documentary
DigitalSeahorse: of Chernobyl
omdorastrix: The coloured chicklet packs?
e_bloc: it protects you from radioactivity, and also other people
ContingentCat: That's one way to get prop accuracy
MacbethSeemsSus: We require more greebles!
Nigouki: it's the Han in Carbonite side panels that are a dashboard
ProcyonFlynn: Don't know about the cockpit. But I know the carbonite block for sure.
DigitalSeahorse: woo
aerolend: And DP stands for "Дозиметр полевой" -- Field Dosimeter (Yoda wording order).
Nigouki: there's a Replica Prop Forum thread about tracking down the exact dashboard
meddlingmage_: thats wild
tdapenguin: @aerolend thanks for this info
gnyrinn: On that note: Many courtrooms were closed in Britain ca 10 years ago. Several of them were bougt by TV production companies for co0urtroom drama sets.
Anubis169: OH BABY!!
omdorastrix: A volvo IIRC
ghyllnox: Ooooohhh
e_bloc: what is old is new again
meddlingmage_: theyre so neat!
ghyllnox: The cable management!
ContingentCat: Woah
Xenguin47: Ohhhhh
Despoiler98: WHOA
Strebenherz: holy sh*t
Sorator13: that is a certain kind of gorgeous
GhostValv:

meddlingmage_: holy beams
Anubis169: Cable managed out the aaaahhhhsss
Despoiler98: look at that CABLE MANAGEMENT
Vinewood_OG: Craftsmanship
Mattmitchell45: What a sandwich!
ghyllnox: Beautiful
Anubis169:

e_bloc: gorgeous
aerolend:

DigitalSeahorse:
so pretty

jessicaengle: Ooooooooo
e_bloc: they dont make them like that anymore
DigitalSeahorse:

RealGamerCow: love those wire colors
Eklinaar: This is art.
SajuukSjet: harkens back, the twin cable management, to telephone exchanges, iirc
Anubis169: it's like they designed it to be serviced
jessicaengle:

ButButTheJesus: why do i want to lick it
jessicaengle: @Anubis169 Imagine that, what a concept
kodalith: Some real Arc Raiders vibes
Anubis169: please do not lick the device
space_turbulence: late to the chat but the radiation measurement for underwear reminds me of survivor stories from Kyiv/Pripyat, of people who were near the fallout or even just outdoors taking off their clothes and sealing them in bags before going into their homes, to protect their families from radioactive particulates
Sorator13: @ButButTheJesus please do not eat the delicious radiation detector
DigitalSeahorse:
@ButButTheJesus 
ghyllnox: It blew up a leeeetle bit
Xenguin47: The things they cared about, they did amazing.
ghyllnox: But so did the west's
e_bloc: also blowing up was sometimes the point!
RangerAlpha7: soviet consumer-grade stuff was complete junk because they spent all their efforts on other things, but the stuff they cared about was pretty nice
aerolend: There's a nuance of all sorts of what it cost people.
RealGamerCow: No EMP damage
Despoiler98: yeah cause tubes dont care about EMPs
Strebenherz: oh damn
DigitalSeahorse: clever
ContingentCat: Dang
Anubis169: yooo!!
DigitalSeahorse:

Anubis169: ooo it's been verified
ContingentCat: Niiiice
Mattmitchell45: And now non-asbesto faux-bakelite is the obsession of the airsoft community
aerolend: Not just command economy. A lot of stuff made in Soviet Union was created in engineering prisons.
ghyllnox: Dang
DigitalSeahorse: awesome
Despoiler98: is that 1971?
Despoiler98: sure looked like it
Anubis169: ^
JKBalch: Well damn, that is really cool. Thank you Alex for showing us this.
aerolend: @Despoiler98 2271
Anubis169:

DigitalSeahorse:

Welbog: This is amazing
ButButTheJesus: lewd
aerolend: Millenium Falcon schematics.
Anubis169: ooo circuit diagram
Dog_of_Myth: Now this is the good stuff.
Eklinaar:

letsbelgo: My capacitor cant take any more
ContingentCat: Ooo
e_bloc: hot on so many levels
ghyllnox: Yess gooood
aerolend: Possibly by making them yourself.
Anubis169: doesn't make sense to have vendor lock-in, ya need the thing repairable in the field
DigitalSeahorse:

Anubis169: is that...
brainbosh: Ah, the cheese
DigitalSeahorse: ah I know what this is
aerolend: Medkit.
ButButTheJesus: OHHHH
Thefluffiestguineapig: NOOOO
Anubis169: antidote box!!
DigitalSeahorse: iodine1
Despoiler98: I doubt that
CrossXhunteR: morphine?
ghyllnox: afaq?
ButButTheJesus: yes i do recognize from metro
DoodlestheGreat: Stalkter players, too.
Thefluffiestguineapig: This still has that???????
aerolend: Allegedly.
jessicaengle: There's pizza in that tiny box?
RealGamerCow: everything(*)
DigitalSeahorse: containers for iodine tablets
DoodlestheGreat: OH! And Tarkov! The cheese slice!
aerolend: That one says "instructions".
Sorator13: yeah, I know this from watching folks play Tarkov
Sorator13: though I wouldn't have known it was for chemical/etc. threats and not, yknow, bullets
meddlingmage_: FREE morphine !?
Strebenherz: Jesus
Anubis169: battlefield applicator
ghyllnox: IFAK! That's the one
ButButTheJesus: yeesh
Cptasparagus: Iodine only helps if you get in in you ahead of time
DigitalSeahorse: I have actual iodine tabs cause I'm near a nuclear plant
Anubis169: (single use only)
e_bloc: not anymore
ghyllnox:

Despoiler98: VERY scheduled
Olveron:
oi
aerolend: So, useful ones.
jessicaengle: So scheduled
e_bloc: don't share needles, even if you are about to die of radiation poisoning
Anubis169: the morphine got used a LOT
DigitalSeahorse: if you live within 50km of a nuclear plant they may send you iodine for free if you ask for it
RangerAlpha7:
all the morphine was used 
Despoiler98: probably a lot of it got used at Chernobyl
DigitalSeahorse: ahead of a disaster I mean
aerolend: @e_bloc But what about camaraderie?
aerolend: Or sold.
DigitalSeahorse: it's only for prevention
space_turbulence:
so far! 
aerolend: For profit.
DigitalSeahorse: eep
DigitalSeahorse: yikes
ButButTheJesus:

ghyllnox: There've been accidents
ButButTheJesus:

Eklinaar: I grew up next to a nuclear plant, they just mailed iodine tablets to everyone who lived within a certain radius.
MacbethSeemsSus: It took me a while to realize the reason we had a planetarium in my elementary school is they repurposed the old bomb shelter.
AugmentingPath: How dare you use this off-label for disaster relief?! This is my Nuclear Morphine
RealGamerCow: Silly Alex, we'll be safe if we get under a desk
Strebenherz: yeah like learning about nuclear history has been both unsettling as hell and calming
aerolend: We're living the sequel/continuation.
e_bloc: I mean they were able to come up with an entire only connect question about times we almost all got nuked
RangerAlpha7: "We forgot where we put nuclear material every month for 40 years because cold war"
Strebenherz: calming because holy shit we made it past so much
Anubis169: !break
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flatluigi: wh
Thefluffiestguineapig: That was AMAZING
Anubis169:
time to go return a coffee 
JKBalch: So next is the hide and seek portion
Driosenth: We live in the dimmest timeline
e_bloc: the dumbest timeline. . . so far.
spo8n: who wants to swap legs with me?
Cptasparagus: theres a broken arrow about 30 miles from me so maybe I should get a cheesebox lol
UnknownFriday: Don't forget to celebrate Stanislav Petrov day.
neisan2112: Donate?
letsbelgo: who wants a right leg. Lots of muslce
letsbelgo: looking to trade
ButButTheJesus: @DigitalSeahorse HAHA
MacbethSeemsSus: I'm only looking for working joints as a heads up
DigitalSeahorse:
ads
KeytarCat: For the sake of every other me, I hope this is the dumbest timeline
ButButTheJesus: @Cptasparagus really? if someone knows where it is, is it still broken?
Thefluffiestguineapig: @KeytarCat Same friend, also hi friend!!
KeytarCat: Hihii!
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aerolend:
"There are roughly six nuclear weapons that have been lost and never recovered." 
DigitalSeahorse: mmmm
Thefluffiestguineapig: I've recently been watching a channel called World Bird Sanctuary where they have 3 Great Horned Owlets with a foster Dad named Archimedes (Archie for short) and one Barred Owlet with the best foster mom named Sayyida
Thefluffiestguineapig: It is so adorable I can't handle it
tdapenguin:
@Thefluffiestguineapig hmu with an owl fact! 
tdapenguin: (hi friend!)
KeytarCat: My dad worked with a former navy seal and he had a story about airdropping into White Sands, infiltrating a device storage and just sitting on it with a stopwatch, waiting for security to show up
aerolend: @tdapenguin Fact: owls exist.
tdapenguin: @KeytarCat wow
omdorastrix: When baby owls get wet do they become moist owlets?
tdapenguin: @aerolend fact: owls are adorable!
Thefluffiestguineapig: Hi friend! Did I already tell you that owls have twice the cervical vertebrae of almost every other animal? Most of them have 7 (including giraffes) and owls have 14
Cptasparagus: @ButButTheJesus yeah theres (part of) a nuke in the ground in Goldsboro NC. They lost two in a crash adn couldn't fully recover one of them.
DigitalSeahorse:

Thefluffiestguineapig: Isn't there one potentially lost in Louisinana?
ButButTheJesus: @Cptasparagus fun!
aerolend:
@tdapenguin 
tdapenguin: @Thefluffiestguineapig i do wonder how they evolved to have 14.....
Thefluffiestguineapig: @tdapenguin Not being able to move their eyes
Thefluffiestguineapig: So they needed to compensate somehow
KeytarCat: I know why owls needed the adaptation, but I couldn't tell you how it happened
tdapenguin: @Thefluffiestguineapig yeah, but like, via what mechanism... is geneically having more bones an accident that is common? i would't think so
aerolend: @Thefluffiestguineapig Has any piece of media done owls that can?
ButButTheJesus: @Thefluffiestguineapig I learn so much here
Thefluffiestguineapig: @tdapenguin It is incredibly uncommon as IIRC not even other bird species have more spinal vertebrae in their segments
Thefluffiestguineapig: Being able to move your eyes in their sockets is a much more normally settled on adaptation
Thefluffiestguineapig: Alex has so many cool things and cool knowledge!!!!
GhassanPL: The gei-gears
aerolend: Metal bears.
ButButTheJesus: is this the new Hot Ones
Sorator13: @ButButTheJesus please do not eat the delicious radioactivity
Despoiler98: @ButButTheJesus so hot it'll melt your DNA
aerolend:
@ButButTheJesus 
MacbethSeemsSus: check source one two one two
Cptasparagus: should maybe write it on the label when you find out
Sorator13: Yes, Ian, smoke detectors!
gualdhar: Alex, this is a very important question. Are any of these orphan sources?
ButButTheJesus: sweet pig
offbeatwitch: there's various uses for pigs
e_bloc: some pig
Driosenth: Then a boy scout got a bit too smart for his (and his neighborhood) own good
tdapenguin: 'pig' sometimes just mean 'small thing that holds stuff' (e.g., 'salt pig' = salt cellar = small salt bowl)
Sorator13: oh I remember seeing that one before
ButButTheJesus: flying is spicy
tdapenguin: that's a great pig!
Xenguin47: Yeah, but also not gonna hurt to keep it in a pig instead of under your pillow
Sorator13: @Xenguin47 why not both?
KeytarCat: @tdapenguin ALL THE! PIGGIES! 🎵
space_turbulence: makes a hell of a prop though I bet
MWGNZ: i'd rather have an overspecced pig than an underspecced one
omdorastrix: (Joke) I feel like Alex qualifies as a good parent...
e_bloc: its given that Alex is on a list. but how many lists is Alex on
Anubis169: Alex: Way way back in Roman times, they did lead work in ancient Britain and made ingots (pigs). These things look the same and got the same name.
wedge_x: Cesium?
MacbethSeemsSus: Yeah, don't look up the Goiânia accident incident....
korvys: Cesium
letsbelgo: cesium
flatluigi: why contain it? 's cool
SajuukSjet: wasn't Caesium the one in that South American disaster? the medical device that spread across a city?
Strebenherz: yes!
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tdapenguin: @SajuukSjet never trust anything that makes the air glow blue
omdorastrix: Iodine-125? (according to natural resources canada)
offbeatwitch: we had a minor orphan source event at EMFcamp 2 years ago, someone brought some ionization chambers to the swap shop
e_bloc: it happens
MTigress: rather recently there was the radioactive walmart shrimp incident
ButButTheJesus: click. clickclick.
offbeatwitch: had to get the local Radiation Safety Furry to relocate them
jvetting83: Mini reactors
RealGamerCow: RTGs!
Despoiler98: yep and manned them with nuclear batteries
CrossXhunteR: you just got to want it more
Anubis169: Light the beacons of gondor?
rosesmcgee: I worked with a guy whose job was to find Soviet orphaned sources from those stations
flatluigi: the adam savidan effect
Cptasparagus: the Seabats effect
Anubis169: very small
DigitalSeahorse: like lightning but smol
omdorastrix: Biolite has a product like that
e_bloc:
238
RealGamerCow: you need such a small amount of electricity to run a radio receiver
ButButTheJesus: @DigitalSeahorse ohhh is that why lightning happen?
SajuukSjet: oh, that's the name of the city, the Goiânia accident
DigitalSeahorse: I think so
Anubis169:

Sorator13: It's honestly really smart, except for how it causes Problems
GhostValv:

DigitalSeahorse: something about air pressures differing
Anubis169: no ya make 'em
Despoiler98: isnt that whats running the Voyager 1 and 2?
Thefluffiestguineapig: Oh no
Anubis169: you do NOT make them
omdorastrix: ^^ camping stove/TEG
ContingentCat: Oh no
Cptasparagus: can we TTSF a centrifuge
SajuukSjet: despoiler98: yep
MacbethSeemsSus: "Don't dig up the nuclear reactor Mark" -the martian
Strebenherz: also it will absolutely kill you
LoadingReadyRun: @Anubis169 lead ballast for ships were apparently cast in a shape with a central "sow" and lead "pigs" attached to them. Then the separate lump of lead kept being called pigs
DigitalSeahorse: it makes you warm
Genie_M: Xkcd power orb
e_bloc: magic explains it better than I ever could
Morrigan9: or keep a Mark Watney warm
DigitalSeahorse:
VERY warm 
mercano82: The Voyager spacecraft were in the news last week. NASA had to turn off another system because of the decreasing power from their RTGs.
RealGamerCow: "There's no one there, that's the whole reason we're putting them there!
Vinewood_OG:
@Morrigan9 
Sorator13: It gets a lot worse, unfortunately.
DigitalSeahorse: there's a story about some "hikers" stealing one of those not knowing how dangerous they were
e_bloc: it can get worse?
Anubis169: LoadingReadyRun: Huh... well today I learned something new. The older ingots cast in (i think) spain were cylindrical like this. The ones cast in ancient britain were troughed.
Dog_of_Myth: @e_bloc Yes
definenull: how is this story getting worse and worse
e_bloc: oh thats worse
mercano82: “And then it got worse” is practically the motto of Russia
MacbethSeemsSus: "MiGs! Get your freshly cut MiGs here!"
Strebenherz: OH GOD
aerolend: "Lia radiological accident", 2001
DigitalSeahorse: storytelling!
ghyllnox: Aren't there some still missing?
Thefluffiestguineapig: AAAAUUUUUUUUUUUGH
ContingentCat: Oh nooo
Thefluffiestguineapig: I have fear
Anubis169: yup
e_bloc: the good news is its not there, so as long as you stay there you are safe
CrossXhunteR: as a steel detailer, i did know that they x-ray welds
SajuukSjet: oooh, welds, not wells
flatluigi: oh no
Despoiler98: ooooh nooooo
tdapenguin: "oh no, it's so much dumber than you think it is"
DigitalSeahorse: uhoh
Strebenherz: WHAT
Anubis169: ARE YOU SERIOUS!?!?
DigitalSeahorse: like a colonoscopy
DigitalSeahorse: xD
letsbelgo: I love radioactive crankin
e_bloc: this all sounds really hot
MTigress:
the most recent orphan source incident was last year. in august some imported frozen shrimp headed to walmart stores flagged for cesium. ultimately it ended up tracked to a scrapyard next to the seafood processing plant in Indonesia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_radioactive_shrimp_recall
MacbethSeemsSus: If anyone wants a good description of radiation poisoning, check out the XKCD What If: How long would you survive with no DNA
ButButTheJesus:

MTigress: *most recent -known-
tdapenguin: @MTigress oooops
ghyllnox: @MTigress Oh was *that* what that was
RealGamerCow: Didn't someone make a pendant out of an orphan source?
MTigress: yepyep
RealGamerCow: wait that was star trek
Vinewood_OG: Crime Alley?
DigitalSeahorse:
weird stuff!

tdapenguin: @RealGamerCow ... i have questions
ButButTheJesus: i have fear!
KeytarCat: @RealGamerCow that line is getting thinner every year
DigitalSeahorse: it can be super lethal
Anubis169: anything for a click...
Eklinaar: in the remote Soviet radio station. straight up crankin it. and by it, haha, well. let's justr say. my gamma ray hose.
aerolend: @Anubis169 Geiger counter can give you many.
ghyllnox: 100 grains of sand is minorly uncomfortable in your undies
RealGamerCow: @Eklinaar lol
Anubis169: Thorium is fun
CrossXhunteR: as a steel detailer, i don't know
ghyllnox:
@aerolend 
Thefluffiestguineapig: Depends on the kind/coarsity of sand
DigitalSeahorse: thoriated of course my spell check has no clue
Sorator13:
and bananas! 
Anubis169:
Potassium-40 
DigitalSeahorse: I'm living in a basement
aerolend: And the body scanners.
Anubis169:

definenull: cup!
SajuukSjet:
Aberdeen in Scotland, a Granite city 
CrossXhunteR: fine china
Vinewood_OG: The forbidden shot glass
Despoiler98: cause its PRETTY
DigitalSeahorse:
petty cup! 
Anubis169: it's pretty
aerolend: Cause it was cool.
letsbelgo: look cool
KeytarCat: Cup!
Dog_of_Myth: Looked cool
Genie_M: Pretty
KeytarCat: !store
CrossXhunteR: would you have preferred an asbestos glass?
Eklinaar: Doing weird stuff in the 20s, you say
aerolend: And some people knew it was dangerous, but denied it. As is tradition.
e_bloc: everyone asks why uranium glass and not how is uranium glas
SymphonySolstice: oooo
Dog_of_Myth: oooo pretty
Sorator13: right, it's a very cool green under UV
Despoiler98: pretty
DigitalSeahorse: woooooo
Anubis169: oh that's gorgeous
ButButTheJesus: oooo
tdapenguin: @e_bloc how is: neat!
Sorator13: and that's definitely where the radiation = green comes from, yeah
Mollylele: oooo la la
MacbethSeemsSus: *fallout music intensifies*
gnyrinn: Why Uranium-Glass? Because it's cool, that's why.
DigitalSeahorse: ionizing air
e_bloc: damned if thats not pretty
Xenguin47: Yup
Xenguin47: Breaking the speed of light in water, I believe.
jvetting83: Uranium and plutonium are very dull looking
SajuukSjet: the bonds of oxygen being broken, iirc, nothings breaking the speed of light
ApplicativeJones: neutrons exceeding the speed of light in the material.. water or air. not the speed of light in a vacuum
Anubis169: are they expensive?
SajuukSjet: or that, something along those lines (re: applicativejones )
CrossXhunteR: science
Anubis169: oh boy
Sorator13: "powder" you say? Yeah, keep that sealed D:
DigitalSeahorse: uranium glass prices vary depending on the thrift store you get it from, or estate sale
ButButTheJesus: powder go brrrrrrr
MacbethSeemsSus: We're going up the vindaloo scale
letsbelgo: it wants to get out, its angry
ghyllnox:
It will never be opened, because tape is impossible to remove 
brainbosh: I've found uranium glass for anywhere from 50 cents to hundreds of dollars
Anubis169: don't get it on ya
ShaneLeeAtk: Apparently, thoriated welding rods are easier and better. They are right 2%
DigitalSeahorse: don't swallow or breathe it
aerolend: To a point.
Voidhawk42: Do not lick this science
DigitalSeahorse: so don't break these containers
Anubis169: 'cause it doesn't stop being radioactive all the time it's in ya
CrossXhunteR: need super kidneys
Genie_M: Drop and run
Sorator13: For longer than you'll live, yeah
Anubis169: LOL
MacbethSeemsSus: Again?
ArdCollider: "again"
wedge_x: lol
DigitalSeahorse: xD
Anubis169: YES!!!
ButButTheJesus: WAY TOO DANK
KeytarCat: alpha radiation will bounce off of skin, whichever side it hits
DigitalSeahorse:

ghyllnox: OH THIS
GhassanPL: Atomic Mushroom Express
MTigress: hell yeah
Despoiler98: OH YEAH THAT THING
e_bloc: the best kind, but shortly
DigitalSeahorse: got a pic of this one?
DigitalSeahorse: I remember the box
ButButTheJesus: OH BOY
DigitalSeahorse: ^
DigitalSeahorse: woo
DigitalSeahorse: ottentight
NevermorePainting: SPICY
Anubis169: the lid is ontootight
letsbelgo: we meeting jesus with this one
SymphonySolstice: big spice
Strebenherz: lawn darts eat your ?$#!'in heart out, this takes first place of "most dangerous"
DigitalSeahorse: we ottentight these bottle lids
CrossXhunteR: you could make sick D20s out of those
Anubis169: yeah rock dust
Mattmitchell45: From the Inventor of the Erector Set!
CrossXhunteR: weird cheese
SnackPak_: neat
definenull: ooh alien weed
Dog_of_Myth: Spicy
Sorator13: rave weed
ButButTheJesus: WAY TOO DANK
Voidhawk42: Real Haunted Nugs
GhostValv:

letsbelgo: oh hell yeah
ghyllnox: It's DONT week
Anubis169: not for smoking
ContingentCat: Wow
ghyllnox: *weed
MacbethSeemsSus: One hell of a high
e_bloc: dank
SymphonySolstice: slonk your shit silly style
ContingentCat: The no kund
Vinewood_OG:
@SymphonySolstice

aerolend: The kind of weed that gets you high enough to get to heaven.
tdapenguin: @MacbethSeemsSus and one heckova fall afterwards. .. about 6ft down
DigitalSeahorse:
irradiate your lungs! 
Thefluffiestguineapig: Oh dear
Voidhawk42: For Children!
DigitalSeahorse: "For Children!"
Anubis169: How long is the half life of U235 again?
mercano82: these are not tubes of honor
RealGamerCow: @DigitalSeahorse every time I get a beer from my basement fridge!
ContingentCat: Definitely exciting yes
ErynTzun: I have Uranium Fever stuck in my head now
Xenguin47: I wondered what that thing up there was
Anubis169: 🤩
SnackPak_: theyre so happy
DigitalSeahorse: hehehhehe
ghyllnox: Heyyy nice
tdapenguin: @Anubis169 704 million years acc to wikipedia
MacbethSeemsSus: Wikipedia: "Radioluminescence occurs when an incoming particle of ionizing radiation collides with an atom or molecule, exciting an orbital electron to a higher energy level. The particle usually comes from the radioactive decay of an atom of a radioisotope, an isotope of an element which is radioactive. The electron then returns to its ground energy level by emitting the extra energy as a photon of light."
Anubis169: wat
Sorator13: !
DigitalSeahorse:

SymphonySolstice: contained for your pleasure
Thefluffiestguineapig: THAT'S SO COOL
Despoiler98: WHAT
MWGNZ:

ghyllnox: Checked - into a tube into the pig
Strebenherz: oh jesus
Nigouki: it gets in yer BONES
Anubis169:

NevermorePainting: AAA
Despoiler98: thats real BAD
Thefluffiestguineapig: Also OH NO
Mattmitchell45: Alfred Carlton Gilbert was an American inventor, athlete, magician, toy maker and businessman. As the founder of A. C. Gilbert Company, Gilbert was known for inventing the Erector Set and American Flyer Trains"
DigitalSeahorse:
SO RAD!

aerolend: Check on how your source is doing today.
niccus: might have hotted itself out
tdapenguin: oooooh
niccus: hmm 29-year half-life
aerolend: Cool.
letsbelgo: 300$~
A_Dub888: Hi friends, how radioactive are we? and what about Paul?
aerolend: Adopted?
LoadingReadyRun: check your sources. If you're cold, your source is not necessarily cold
DigitalSeahorse:

A_Dub888: @LoadingReadyRun is it single?
Anubis169: didn't they get harvested by The Nuclear Boyscout?
tdapenguin: @A_Dub888 we are less radioactive than the folks flying to vegas, but we are learning horrifying & interesting information
DigitalSeahorse: spicy detectors
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MacbethSeemsSus: "Strontium-90 is a bone seeker". I hate that sentence
Dog_of_Myth: Oh boy
IanAllenBird: dang
DigitalSeahorse: a lot of them!
Anubis169:
sounds like a dot matrix 
ghyllnox: yeeeEEEEEE
GhostValv:
spicy 
DigitalSeahorse: eeeeeeeeeeeee
definenull: spicyyy
NevermorePainting:

ButButTheJesus: YOW
DigitalSeahorse: don't eat those
Vinewood_OG: The actual Last Dab
SymphonySolstice: rolling marbles across the table sound
mercano82: It’s hot, but it’s way on the wrong side of the crazy-hot line
tdapenguin: @MacbethSeemsSus yeah, because Sr will get incorporated into the Ca spots in bone
DigitalSeahorse: danger sammich
e_bloc: hot orphans in your area
gnyrinn: How many bananas is that?
GhassanPL: Spicier than Clinically Insane Clyde's Colon Corrosion
offbeatwitch: the churt
Xenguin47: We're a church!
Anubis169: to reduce the amount of lead into gold for a ring would take so much more energy and time
IanAllenBird: lol
letsbelgo: Praise Adam!
SymphonySolstice: the chatch
MacbethSeemsSus: Don't lick the brushes
aerolend: Some ways to turn lead into gold are easier and involve lead ammo.
RealGamerCow: oh that is *aesthetic*
Cptasparagus: are we tax-exempt now
Anubis169: oh those are lovely <333333
Anubis169: yeye
DigitalSeahorse:
they POP

SymphonySolstice: phosphoric glowy
ghyllnox: Ohhhh
DigitalSeahorse:

ghyllnox:
Yeah I bet 
DigitalSeahorse: don't break it
ErynTzun: Do Not Break Glass
Genie_M: Rsdium girls 🫤
ghyllnox: Don't lick 'em?
Anubis169: don't let the cat knock it off the shelf
GhostValv: from the loom right?
Strebenherz: oh no
GhostValv: is it spelled lum?
SymphonySolstice: hm! bad
A_Dub888: how many is a lot?
e_bloc: thats how doc died in back to the future
DigitalSeahorse: does Alex have "a lot"?
MacbethSeemsSus: It's (sadly) the same reason a lot of asbestos is still in buildings. It's safer/cheaper not to move it.
Anubis169: until lead (normally)
Sorator13: when does uranium decay into banana, though?
Voidhawk42: Each nucleaus is a pile of protons and neutrons. And in radioactive ones, that pile isn't very tightly held together. So the pile keeps having bits fly off
DigitalSeahorse: Sorator13 when you bury it near a banana tree
e_bloc: elemental ladder is a 3rd level spell
Anubis169: and the lump doesn't do it uniformly
Dragonlord_Panda: and everyone wait for Half life 3
MWGNZ: who up doping they silicon?
Anubis169: isn't that how they used to sterilise petri dishes? they'd seal them and put them near a gamma source and they'd be guaranteed 100% sterile
iris_of_ether: Doped silicon is absolutely needed for chips
Anubis169: ^
ButButTheJesus: mmm spicy chips
definenull: exciting or "exciting"?
Dog_of_Myth: yes
Voidhawk42: You put the boring rock inside the magic rocks, and some of the magic goes into the boring ones and makes them WIERD magic
A_Dub888: are they exciting because of the electrons?
SymphonySolstice: cool rock!
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tdapenguin: @Anubis169 the better quality bird seed is also irradiated so that the seeds that fall out of the feeder won't sprout on the ground
Mai_Andra: Ian with dating advice...
e_bloc: oh i was born there
DigitalSeahorse:
Alex is the hottest item on the show today.

ghyllnox: What
Anubis169: oooOOOooo
Anubis169: das purdy
SymphonySolstice: neat
MacbethSeemsSus: Ohh did this come from a test site?
DigitalSeahorse:

dagoth__ur_: ur going to get super powers
tdapenguin: also purple and orange
ContingentCat: WOW
GhostValv: D:
Sorator13: oooooh
ButButTheJesus: HWAT
DigitalSeahorse: STEACYITE
emilevitt:
ooo 
SymphonySolstice: !!
Dog_of_Myth: oooo
IanAllenBird: cool!
MWGNZ: cool uncle
ghyllnox: 1982
DeM0nFiRe: wowee
Strebenherz: daaaang
Anubis169: well if you discover something, you get to name it
emilevitt:
rock looks very edible 
Genie_M: Mineral naming conventions are fun
ghyllnox: named after Harold Robert Steacy (1923–2012)
Thefluffiestguineapig: That's cool
JKBalch: neat!
Vinewood_OG: Talk about a glowing lineage
ContingentCat: Cool
dagoth__ur_: how many banannas of radioactivity?
DigitalSeahorse: a little rad for a treat
DigitalSeahorse: Harold Robert Steacy
letsbelgo: Steacyite is a complex silicate mineral containing thorium and uranium
Dragonlord_Panda: that cool haven't your family name
MWGNZ: lime and stone
tdapenguin: limestone = CaCO3
Voidhawk42: Mostly calcium I think
letsbelgo: formula Kvariable(Ca,Na)2(Th,U)Si8O20
definenull: calcium?
gsyhiap: Calcium carbonate I think
tdapenguin: @letsbelgo thanks!
Anubis169:
that's why it dissolves 
Juliamon: steacyite in matrix
tdapenguin: matrix just means "a bunch of other stuff"
Anubis169:

ContingentCat: It's all the matrix bro
MacbethSeemsSus: err merr gerrd nite
ButButTheJesus: m'gurnite
Vinewood_OG: "And Quartz"
Thefluffiestguineapig: Thank you Paul
DigitalSeahorse: reermerrgerrnrrt
Thefluffiestguineapig: Or Ian for doing what my brain supplied
Cptasparagus: ive learned most of these by playing modded factorio
MacbethSeemsSus: Now that we know the chemical composition of the Steacys, we can find their weak point!
Anubis169: YO!!
Despoiler98: YOOOOOO
ghyllnox: !!!
terribleplan: Noice
DigitalSeahorse: Trinitite!
Despoiler98: Actual TRINITE
aerolend: Trinidad?
ContingentCat: Oooo
ButButTheJesus: what's that
MacbethSeemsSus: trinity test site!
Thefluffiestguineapig: THAT'S SO COOL
Cptasparagus: not three places?
Olveron: i was thinking of going to the trinity test site this fall.
definenull:

Despoiler98: @aerolend only from Trinity
Genie_M: A coworker bought one of those
GhostValv: sheesh
Olveron: can only visit it twice a year
DeM0nFiRe: Wow
DigitalSeahorse: Trinitite is one of the few words with 3 i in it
SymphonySolstice: interesting
aerolend: That is how glass is made.
e_bloc: @DigitalSeahorse this is the trivia i crave
ContingentCat: Cool
chaos5896: Jesus, THAT'S what happened to Mandalore
mercano82: it’s got some iron mixed in, too, from the test tower
Anubis169:
it's a historical artifact 
Olveron: april and october
e_bloc: it belongs in a museum
tdapenguin: current website says once
Olveron: Trinity test site is an active bombing range.
ContingentCat: Cutbacks I guess
KeytarCat: My family did a Big Science trip through the southwest US desert and it was a hell of a trip
DigitalSeahorse: pop
DigitalSeahorse:

e_bloc: for 18 months I worked for the only company enriching uranium in the US. it was not as cool as it sounded
Anubis169: yyyyyup
omdorastrix: According to Wikipedia: Trinitite no longer contains sufficient radiation to be harmful unless swallowed.[2] It still contains the radionuclides 241Am, 137Cs and 152Eu owing to the Trinity test using a plutonium bomb.
MacbethSeemsSus: "we probably won't ignite the atmosphere" -manhattan project
Xenguin47: @MacbethSeemsSus ....we hope
aerolend: @omdorastrix So, no dogs allowed on the tour, I'm guessing.
letsbelgo: m'radiation
Thefluffiestguineapig: @MacbethSeemsSus Ideally
tdapenguin: @Thefluffiestguineapig hold my beer, i've got an idea
omdorastrix: How we gonna do that? Use a screwdriver?
MungoDude: @tdapenguin checked it out on the Wayback Machine, it used to be twice a year, but in 2024 it said "Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Trinity Site Open House in April is canceled." so yeah, once a year now
MacbethSeemsSus: @omdorastrix And your finger, obviously
MacbethSeemsSus: Fermi
Nigouki: Fermi
DoodlestheGreat: Fermi?
Lord_Durin: Fermi
omdorastrix: Feyman
Anubis169:
Fermi 
Despoiler98: Fermi
tdapenguin: @MungoDude thanks
gsyhiap: December 2 1942
DigitalSeahorse: eep
MacbethSeemsSus: "On 2 December 1942, the first human-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was initiated in CP-1 during an experiment led by Enrico Fermi."
one_last_time_: That's not real
terribleplan: Safety Control Rod Axe Man
terribleplan: allegedly
Anubis169:

Anubis169: 👀
Bruceski: It's not real? I grew up around ancient reactor techs (not the first generation, but definitely the second) and it was taken as given.
ghyllnox: !!!
tdapenguin: !!!!!!!!!!!!!
CrossXhunteR: you can do that on twitter?
avi_miller: 👀
avi_miller: Yooo
MacbethSeemsSus: WHAT
Despoiler98: WHAT
ContingentCat: Oooooo
SnackPak_: that is wild
SymphonySolstice: Oooooo
Despoiler98: HOW IN THE WORLD
DeM0nFiRe: Wow
Xenguin47: Holy shit
tidehollowcat: That is so cool
emilevitt: woah
GhostValv: holy crap
ButButTheJesus: FAAAAAAAAACK
Strebenherz: WHAT
Thefluffiestguineapig: 0.o
jvetting83: Wow.
Despoiler98: how much did that COST?!?!?!?
definenull:

tdapenguin: @Bruceski he didn't say it for certain
space_turbulence: holy dang
e_bloc: that is pretty fucking cool
Nigouki: deliberately very little boron!
ghyllnox:

aerolend:
Cut graphite into pieces... 
DigitalSeahorse:

Anubis169:
Thank you gsyhiap 
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Toxxick: Alex is gonna show up next year with one half of the Demon Care
Anubis169:
Deuterium 
Gekyouryuu: Dueterium, right?
Gekyouryuu: oh, Deuterium, misspelled it
tdapenguin: @Gekyouryuu DHO
e_bloc: I do not suggest drinking heavy water from a stone
Gekyouryuu: I learned the name from Stargate SG-1
MacbethSeemsSus: This is well covered in Oppenheimer if people haven't seen it
letsbelgo: Id love to do nuclear science in a castle
Manae: hanging cubes of uranium
definenull: that sounds.... elaborate
Anubis169: LOL
tdapenguin: what's the spelling for the castle?
aerolend: "Haigerloch research reactor, which was constructed in a beer cellar beneath the palace church"
Despoiler98: holy god I just looked up a picture of the reproduction
Despoiler98: thats horrifying
Gekyouryuu: sounds more like the first (and last) mobile for the baby of a mad scientist
DigitalSeahorse: thank goodness
definenull: uh oh
DigitalSeahorse: eep
IanAllenBird: oh!
Strebenherz: OH NO
TheAinMAP:

ContingentCat: Oh no
e_bloc: "found"
RealGamerCow: The spiciest rock candy
Strebenherz: @Xenguin47 FREAKING HELL
niccus: oh the angry version of those ice/ocean neutrino detectors
DigitalSeahorse: thank god
chaos5896: It looks like lovely art
MacbethSeemsSus: When the Allies got Niels Bohr out he was able to let the Manhattan Project know they were on the wrong path
ghyllnox: So his bigotry was his undoing
AugmentingPath: @Anubis169 huh this photo looks a little fuzzy in the background. It's probably fine, tho
ButButTheJesus: I'm reminded of those gas orb things from The Rock
DaniellNaruta: looks like something from a bond film or Adam West Batman
aerolend: Fancy kebab.
SquareDotCube: Radio(ation) Flyer
chaos5896: Was that the Demon Core, Alex?
DeM0nFiRe: radioactive flyer
ArdCollider: used to use a Radio Flyer to drag my Performa 575 into my dorm room every move-in.
ApplicativeJones: Hanford is relatively close!
Gadora: Hanford is a nightmare.
chaos5896: ^With the screwdriver ?
DigitalSeahorse: how dust proof is a cigar box?
Anubis169: Apologies for the link length
iris_of_ether: Oh yeah Hanford is still fucked
rosesmcgee: They're vitrifying waste now
SymphonySolstice: hm!
DigitalSeahorse: uhoh
ContingentCat: Oh no
Dog_of_Myth: little oppise
saintguard: Sounds about right for Hanford
AugmentingPath: @Anubis169 Both of these men are named Igor
aerolend: Check your safes for radiation.
Mattmitchell45: The Hanford Site occupies 586 square miles (1,518 km2) – roughly equivalent to half the total area of Rhode Island
e_bloc: now they just enrich uranium in ohio and kentucky
aerolend:
@AugmentingPath 
Despoiler98: tasty tasty Uranium flavors
letsbelgo: Just like factorio!
SymphonySolstice: ok sure
CrossXhunteR: there are so many of those
ghyllnox: Hmmmmm
Gekyouryuu:

DigitalSeahorse: uh
GhostValv:

Strebenherz: WHAT?!
Thefluffiestguineapig: Agghhhhhhh
MacbethSeemsSus: one ah ah ah! two ah ah ah ah!
DigitalSeahorse:

CrossXhunteR: imma clean up this beach of sand, with tweezers
Thefluffiestguineapig: OH NO
KeytarCat: Oh yeah, I've read the Phantom Tollbooth
Anubis169: ffs...
DigitalSeahorse:

e_bloc: oh no
Dandinstorm12: ohai chat
aerolend: I wonder if that was part of what inspired Severance.
Anubis169:
hihi Dand 
Strebenherz:
50 so wait, that one joke on the simpsons about mr burns and atom smashing one atom at a time, THAT WAS BASED ON SOMETHING REAL?
e_bloc: good news, you're all fired
Thefluffiestguineapig: @Strebenherz Oh I hate that
Anubis169: Yeah that
Anubis169: Strebenherz: You bet it was
space_turbulence: I live not too far from Hanford, actually. I wonder if it's a place you can go anywhere near these days...
Anubis169: Simpson?
Strebenherz: @Thefluffiestguineapig like the one where mr burns flashbacks to him being a kid, and it just being people literally smashing hammers, someone gets arrested for "stealing atoms" AND YOU'RE TELLING ME, in REAL LIFE, they had people extracting sh*t AN ATOM AT A TIME?!
Dandinstorm12: Alex "Dudes with long tongs" Steacy
BrightstormRising: It really was the Simpsons.
Thefluffiestguineapig: Nuclear History: makes many Simpsons jokes look like common sense
ghyllnox:

RealGamerCow: same, twin
TheAinMAP:

Juliamon: "I am suffering incarnate, and I'm about to make it the universe's problem"
ButButTheJesus: @Juliamon love that
ApplicativeJones: oh, like Incubus. Pardon me, while I burn....
MacbethSeemsSus: It's important to season your core before detonating.
niccus: lathe of hell
Anubis169:
spindly death shavings 
Voidhawk42: Worst chemical award still probably goes to FOOF
Toxxick: Plutonium Tailings is a great band name
DigitalSeahorse: I remember an image of a bottle of uranium tailings
BrightstormRising: My new least favorite two words are now "plutonium tailings"
Dandinstorm12: Paul "Do the Manhatten Project" Saunders
6 raiders from RavenHillbrookInc have joined!
RealGamerCow: "we're going to do some stuff, you okay with that?"
gsyhiap: A vague suggestion, translated through many layers of command
DoctorHutch: The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes rules
Anubis169: 'ello Raven Raiders!
space_turbulence: iirc Roosevelt at least said "hey, look into this y'all"
RavenHillbrookInc: HI. how much lead shielding we got?
MacbethSeemsSus: Off that didn't work
Dandinstorm12: not enough
DoctorHutch: Its very long, but very good
DigitalSeahorse:

MacbethSeemsSus: Yeah Heisenberg wasn't a nazi, but was "conscripted"
saintguard: Since Hanford was talked about, highly recommend Plutopia by Kate Brown. I read it for a Cold War History class in uni and it was extremely informative (and horrifying).
kingandcommoner: tht's how we landed on the moon
CrossXhunteR: this has been a great podcast
jvetting83: Please.
Dog_of_Myth: This was very cool
shendaras:

e_bloc: it has been fantasticv
DigitalSeahorse: the big thing?
Juliamon: The Big Thing
GhostValv:
big thing 
Thefluffiestguineapig: I love Alex and Ian talk about things
Despoiler98: THE BIG THING
Bruceski: Basically Heisenberg would have said what he said whether he was sabotaging it or just messed up.
Anubis169: that happens a lot with nuclear kit
AugmentingPath: Does the big thing involve the phrase "unless my demands are met"?
dagoth__ur_: hide your stash from superman
Anubis169: excuse me!?!??
GhostValv: huh...
SymphonySolstice: oh,
Thefluffiestguineapig: WHAT
MacbethSeemsSus:

DigitalSeahorse: mice eye uninite?
Juliamon: oh that's H O T
saintguard: oh daaaaang
DigitalSeahorse: holy moly
dagoth__ur_: sounds dangerous
ContingentCat: Wow
Vinewood_OG: Then what happened?
ghyllnox: Oooooo
Despoiler98: ITS A CRATE
Thefluffiestguineapig: Yeah, their papers are still in lead lined locked down storage
MacbethSeemsSus: That's bigger than expected
GhostValv: neat
saintguard: *huh*
JKBalch: Huh, neat
dagoth__ur_: yea they used to do that pipes
DigitalSeahorse: wowee
DigitalSeahorse:
a dull roar?
dagoth__ur_: should you be touching your face with the golves?
DoctorHutch: Stochastic just works that way
ApplicativeJones: exponentials happen a lot in real life
iris_of_ether: Power laws probably
saintguard: That's (half-)life!
gsyhiap: Exponents be like that
omdorastrix: statistics? Billions of billions of things interacting
niccus: nothing is solid when really small
DoctorHutch: Had to pick a log base, 2 works nice
Voidhawk42: Physicist here: it;s because everything is chance based. Probability of interactions, rather than certainties
ButButTheJesus: OH
AugmentingPath:
with high probability, 
ButButTheJesus: mmhm
Anubis169: that's a slightly faster tick
letsbelgo: take the top off!
letsbelgo: lets hear them all
MacbethSeemsSus: a half-life of 50 years, means in 50 years you still have half as much radioactive material.
dagoth__ur_: just use gold
aerolend: Also toxic.
DigitalSeahorse: I bet he doesn't sleep near that lead box
MacbethSeemsSus: Also no touch lead
Anubis169: thing is ya have to actually deplete it properly
omdorastrix: 99.???%
Voidhawk42: Most of everything is nothing
e_bloc: look if you want dense and cheap, I'm your man
Anubis169: Ballast?
DigitalSeahorse: dials?
wedge_x: counterweight
Anubis169: eyy!
wedge_x: yeah
ButButTheJesus: atoms are mostly empty
Anubis169: it's really freakin' heavy
ghyllnox: Talk to Cam about how much 'empty' space is in physical stuff
DigitalSeahorse: oh
omdorastrix: The thing about Atoms is... They make up EVERYTHING
Despoiler98: label is just DONT
Despoiler98: DONT
Voidhawk42: But that's just illusion really, we're all waves, particles are just brief moments
Anubis169: a bit like those counterweight things inside tyres
otakon17: DO NOT
ButButTheJesus: 1 800 DUNT
DigitalSeahorse: "DONT"
dagoth__ur_:
everything in air crafts are labeled like that 
AugmentingPath: huh, balance is off. Just add some weightium on the right side, hey?
omdorastrix: Uranium is STILL a heavy metal
Voidhawk42: "Cut this and you will die, and it will hurt the whole time"
GhostValv:

terribleplan: IIRC the use of DU was being phased out for that purpose
MacbethSeemsSus: If you want to look up something fun, check out the Davy Crocket RPG! It was definitely not a bad idea.
aerolend: Looking forward to learning about how some plane crashes were not cleaned up properly.
Despoiler98: Kinetic energy is a BITCH
DoctorHutch: I use a "poppy" colored fiesaware mug at work just to make my nuclear engineer coworkers sweat
wedge_x: "sabot!"
Anubis169: lol
Dog_of_Myth:

Anubis169: You hit it in the face until it can't hit back
Bearudite: the davey crockett looked like a football
DigitalSeahorse:

ButButTheJesus:
100 THANK YOU ALEX I LOVE THIS STUFF
Anubis169: !alex
omdorastrix: @DoctorHutch Does the mug get occasionally flagged up during inspections?
Juliamon: bsky links are hard to say out loud
DigitalSeahorse: check out Alex's rad comics too!
CrossXhunteR: google him
IanAllenBird: o7
Anubis169: !patreon
space_turbulence: Thank you Alex!
NotCainNorAbel:
500
offbeatwitch: should get your handle set to @alexsteacy.com
Anubis169: !youtube
Anubis169: !store
KeytarCat: @Juliamon "Find me at busky (3D)!"
e_bloc: please do not mail anything radioactive
Juliamon: It's OK, he's clean
DigitalSeahorse: hehehehhehe
Vinewood_OG: Ahoy hoy!
ghyllnox:

Anubis169: lol
DigitalSeahorse:

omdorastrix: Sick beat
Strebenherz:
200
terribleplan: Kyon-kun, denwa!
Anubis169:
Thank yoooooou 
Bruceski: @MacbethSeemsSus I've had trouble figuring out how bad an idea it was (other than "very"), because easily available sources will talk about "effective range" without defining whether that's "kills you immediately" or "kills you in a month."
DigitalSeahorse:

KeytarCat: This was great, thanks!
Anubis169: !schedule
ghyllnox:

ButButTheJesus: that spoopd me
aerolend: Stream cuts off to an increasing crackle.
Dog_of_Myth:

Xenguin47: The fighty thems!
aerolend: Take care.
MacbethSeemsSus: @Bruceski My military history professor went into detail how they'd "practice" a run. Basically over pump the jeep tires and hope you can escape the blast radius.
CrossXhunteR: ooh, pauper
CrossXhunteR: commons only, i believe
ArdCollider: *ian*
CrossXhunteR: uncommons in pauper edh
DigitalSeahorse:
pauper
Mai_Andra: common rider
shendaras:

CrossXhunteR: you might not think it, but pauper is a format for sickos
Juliamon: The last title was totally a lie
DigitalSeahorse:

Gekyouryuu: N-o-t-e note... as opposed to what other spelling, paul?
LaconicLad: noat
letsbelgo: Ive been playing it. Its ok!
IanAllenBird: stray gods?
omdorastrix: SOOO GOOD!
CrossXhunteR: i am unsure of a stray gods connection, but i like some of the songs they previewed in people of note
Juliamon: ChatGPT's favourite creature, the goblin
letsbelgo: goblin mode
DeM0nFiRe: @Juliamon I thought that was "The Unknown"
Xenguin47: Fighting evil by moonlight... selling their loot by daylight... never running from a real fight... It is the one called Send Codes!
ButButTheJesus: only the most decadent tree sap... I'M. BLIND.
TheAinMAP:

DigitalSeahorse:

SymphonySolstice: dabits
IanAllenBird: o7
KWardJenx: Thanks so much for the stream gents. Always a novel experience.
Dog_of_Myth:

Thefluffiestguineapig: Thank you so much for the stream!
TheAinMAP:

Nigouki: Thanks for the stream!
TheAinMAP: Thank you for streaming.
ghyllnox: o/
DeM0nFiRe:
o/ 
ButButTheJesus: THAMKS
wedge_x: o7
Anubis169:
Thankies!
wedge_x: great stream
ghyllnox: Thanks for the rad stream o/
letfireraindown:

Juliamon:
That pop? Just a vacuum tube. 
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