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hotrodny
What if a child identifies as a radioactive isotope?
Pendr
GrenithTheSkald
I hand these out in the children's cancer ward. No need to thank me.
MutatedHorse
Sorry...is there a rising problem of kids playing with radiation? The fuck?
maas2908
I'll bathe in gamma rays if I fucking want to!
KaJuN
Dubai Health Authority? More like Duh-bai Health Authority, right?
SpartaWolf117
problem is there is no 'staying away' from radiation. just existing is being irradiated by background radiation
squillis
Congrats, you're aware
5knotcans
We have radiation at home.
nemateleotris
Radon, natures own free radiation source
iBoulderDash
I used to have books on what to do in the event I ever caught on fire and how to react if I ever found myself in a pit of quicksand. Turns out, they vastly over estimated just how frequently such events would happen to me in life.
brazzy42
They happen at most once for pretty much everyone.
imreallyjusthereforthecats
I rate this post 3.6
STGxDante
When radiation comes up to talk to you. You tell them no way hosay
homoerection
1PooNGooN3
Avoid children. Children are radioactive.
CaptainMustache
ClessAurion
This can't be real, unlike the very idiotic german government closing down all nuclear power to switch to coal instead lol
RoutemasterFlash
That was a truly idiot decision.
ClessAurion
Its insane they did at all. If you tell me that "hey, we are going to cover all that with renewables!" Then sure, go for it... but stopping nuclear to go for... coal? For crying out loud...
Sulexar
Good fucking luck with that. Hint: you're radioactive.
SankariSuomi
Remember, radiation cannot harm you without your legal consent.
FuzzyX
Consent was default through your ongoing existence in a Universe with the weak nuclear force. “I’m going to decay” and sheds a particle we term radiation.
NearHereThere
This campaign is not great ... but not terrible.
magitek
ISeeAlmostEverything
Message brought to you by Big Oil. Dubai being a turd as usual.
mystichead
Ah yes Dubai government...bunch of totally not nepotistic, completely incompetent and corrupt people
SarcasticComment
The fuck is going on in Dubai besides the usual poop stuff?
BipedalHumanoidWithSlightlyDifferentNoseRidge
What ISN'T going on would be easier...
ArcUlfr
Might be a problem with orphan sources. Keeping track of every x-ray machine after it's retired from use, and every source used for industrial imaging, is not done properly in some parts of the world.
SeriousHustler
Then these kids grow up worried about finding a piece of plutonium some day laying on the street, only to find out it doesn’t really happen. It feel like this happened to my generation and quicksand, we used to be legit worried about quicksand, I’m 27 now and haven’t seen quicksand IRL ONCE
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petrolhead1987
Yep, orphan radiation sources are a huge problem and can have devastating effects on communities, especially in underdeveloped countries that don't adhere to WANO or IAEA regulations.
Raxiel
At least they don't have to worry about finding any graphite on the roof, because it isn't there.
thundercactus
Weird that we worried about quicksand, but the real danger is flash flooding in a desert.
SeriousHustler
Wait what? Seriously?
LordAurion
It's kinda the opposite of what you might think, but yeah. Ground with little to no moisture is actually really bad at "sucking up" rain water, it becomes almost hydrophobic, especially if it's very fine granules like sand. Look up videos of what happens when you dip a spoon of hot chocolate powder into water, and then take it back out, it's the same concept.
ColonelCasual
I've actually encountered quicksand! It wasn't that deep, but I did lose my shoe.
Kakeukh
That's totally rad!
RoutemasterFlash
It made me curie-ous to learn more.
qtRaven
May be difficult...
*nsfw
SAFireStorm
This is what I love about Rule34: *NO* EXCEPTIONS!
japh
jesusisherelookbusy
Not great, not terrible.
malachitedragon
Now for Double Jeopardy: was this drawn before or after the Chernobyl HBO show
qtRaven
After. Original Poet I found: /gallery/Q9ADSls
PostalHeathen
But radiation is invisible. Shouldn't that program also include teaching them to operate a geiger counter?
boondoggle2025
We don't have any geigers round these parts, never have!
DoseOfScience
When you see the spots of particles impacting your rods and cones, it's too late.
Markuspsyches
"Mine is in the shop"
Bsw0920
Oh very nice one sir, hold on I gotcha....uh....
Greetings agent whisperer
RoutemasterFlash
In Dubai, by far the most likely kind of radiation that's going to harm kids (or anyone) is sunlight, which is generally visible to humans.
applesforjuice
Believe it or not, many children don't even have access to Geiger counters these days. Operation training is pretty useless without the tools. Plus you just click the button it's not a complicated piece of equipment
thundercactus
Once you start tasting metal all the time and throwing up constantly, you should go back in time 5 days to stop playing with the shiny blue magic powder your dad found hidden in a lead container that was very difficult to break into.
ImNotActuallyEvilAfterAll
Always solid advice.
Flraven
Wasn't sure why they gave us a Geiger counter. Then it clicked.
WilliamWeird
But we can notice the effects it has to its surroundings!
For instance, if your organs get a sunburn, it's probably too late!
xeilua
"Has this ever happened to you?"
TakuanSoho
"See that ? if your mouse pad is made of blood instead of mouse pad, you're gonna have a bad time."
Zreen
kid just opened the ark of the covenant
powerlurker5001
Yo. What the hell is that from?
paynoattentiontousernames
Indiana Jones, the early years
Seritas
Trailer for a game called Strafe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef_41JpwqdE
kingfluffy1
no, they just get surgery to see that part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
IllegalDuckling
That'd be such a cool feature for eye prosthetics. Probably scary, too
BbSnakes
The image gently campaign is a radiation awareness campaign for healthcare employees when considering radiological exams for children.
uniqueflowsnake
We even had preset values set for CT:s with "image_gently" in their name for imaging kids in places I've worked at.
edalton454
CT has no business being used outside of ER. MRI gives far more information without ionizing radiation.
astrangehop
Today's children are full of metal joints and swallowed ball bearings
uniqueflowsnake
if there was infinite time and money, sure.
edalton454
Quick and dirty verses quality information. The costs are similar and it's YOUR healthcare on the line. Choose wisely. BTW, equivocal CT reports lead to an MRI or other gold standard test anyway so now you have been dosed with significant radiation.
noxseth
Everything has radiation. There is base level radiation on the Earth (and it's increasing, atomic bomb tests + Hiroshima/Nagasaki + Chernobyl + Fukushima didn't help).
It's present in most substances. I hope the course teaches some useful concepts, but I wouldn't even know where to begin. A good place to start would be to stop giving CTs like they're candy, focus on MRI and sonograms where possible and, especially, stop dentists from requiring X-Rays for basic shit.
JustTryingToLiveLife
How many times are you getting your teeth xrayed at the dentist, at most youd ever get would be once a year, and even then, its not a necessity if your teeth are perfect, youd only really ever do it to update your dental records, also if you need to get xrayed at the doctors youd only ever do it if its absolutely nessessary like you broke a bone or something and the radiation is very minimal, the real issues are consistant prolonged exposure, which means youd need to be exposed to higher levels
JustTryingToLiveLife
Of radiation for a considerable amount of time and your definitely not getting it from a hospital or dentist, they literally have regulations in place so that they dont perform a certain amount of x rays on a patient in a certain period of time
noxseth
Once a YEAR? Dentists here prescribe a lot of those panoramic X-rays, about twice a year for perfectly healthy pacients, but a lot more if you actually need fillings. That really adds up.
The radiation is not minimal for an X-ray. It's 0.1-0.4mSv, and can add up quickly.
Also chest X-rays are quite common here, because they're free so doctors literally prescribe them like candy, for the simplest cough. And nobody cares about how many you already had. I worked in a hospital.
RoutemasterFlash
I bet all nuclear radiation from all sources put together causes a far smaller number of cancers than sunlight does.
noxseth
Debateable. All cancers are caused by radiation that causes mutation, but the sun is a high source of radiation. It's difficult to minimise your exposure to background radiation, anyway. That's why I said it's a tricky subject.
Lowland
Dude, you really never read a single paper on radiation did you ?
noxseth
I actually have an MRes in biomedical imaging technologies. Why do you ask? Did I say something you disagree with?
Lowland
I dont believe that a yearly dental X-ray is something to worry to much about. In fact if it helps people to maintain a better dental hygiene, it is benificial to peoples general health
noxseth
Well you can have your beliefs, but these are pure facts. Any kind of irradiating influence on your vertebrae is bad for you. Look at this article:
The average dose for intraoral radiography ranges from less than 1 to around 20 mSv (...). The effective dose reported in panoramic radiography ranges from 4 to 30 mSv [18,19]. According to the previous studies, cancer risk in human population could not be demonstrated at doses below 10 mSv.
I can provide links. It's what we were taught as well.
Lowland
First I agree that we need to minimize radiation exposure. That said I think a lot of people a get scared and will deny dental x-rays and other medical examinations where radiography is involved, when reading things like "increased cancer risk" and such. All medical treathment is a consideration between caus and effect. I happen to live in a country where healthcare is universal, in other words, unnessecary examination is minimized.
AHartMurmur
This backfire just like DARE programs because it'll make the kids want to try radiation
GadenKerensky
Just show them what happened to Ouchi and they won't.
FuzzyX
They most need to learn about radiation over time. Since we have background radiation then there is no avoiding radiation then escape Earth into Space then it only gets much worse.
flavivsaetivs
This is a good thing because at least they're teaching their kids about Radiation.
The amount of stupidity (and misinformation, and faked images) I've had to deal with from local morons fearmongering about Catawba Nuclear Station in the last 24 hours alone has been ridiculous.
Shaodyn
You know, in retrospect, it's weird how we were told to avoid drugs, and also told exactly what the most common drugs are and what effects they have.
LookNoHands119
At first, I laughed and thought, "no one would ever actually think that way; that's a pretty funny joke", but then I remembered the Tide Pod challenge and then I realized it wasn't a joke at all...
DoctahGhostly
Seriously. In fourth grade I’d never heard of nor wanted to try wine coolers but it sure as frick made me want to try them.
pseudokojo
Mmm uranium yellow cake
Gayforbae
I already wanna buttchug some nuka cola quantum...
RabbitGravy
****ing try and stop me!
xmaneds
"everybody's doing it !"
Legrooveth
ALL the cool kids you say?
gummyloaf
How the fuck else am I supposed to get super powers? Being born into it? Generational wealth to buy them? I don’t got a lot of options here other than going to hug the elephant foot
sumthinsumthinsumthin
Have you considered genetic experiments offered by shadowy organizations?
thatiswhyyoushoulddoityourself
I heard these people don’t treat us folks right. Should I be worried?
sumthinsumthinsumthin
You'll be fine.
JustAnotherRandomCommenter
i mean sure, who hasn't? but it aint that easy for people that arn't born into that world!
sumthinsumthinsumthin
sumthinsumthinsumthin
Banana for scale:
Danmaku1337
TakuanSoho
ProphetofEntropy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
WellWellWellLookWhoItIs
mrputter
HandoB4Javert
Kakhtus
Well that's unsettling thank you very much.
servingmytimeinusersub
This may be one of the most underrated comments of all time.
sumthinsumthinsumthin
Hurch
I think you'd have to eat something like 10 pounds of bananas a day in order to cause a health risk from the radiation they give off. It's really not your biggest health concern. I drive WAY too fast to worry about banana radiation.
kahooki
1 banana contains about 0.1µS.
Lethal dose would be around 1S give or take.
That's about 10,000,000 bananas in a short period of time.
A LOT of problems before the radiation makes a dent.
Beldie
and that discounts the water (and other material) in those bananas that is going to be absorbing or blocking all that radiation. The only way banana radiation could hurt you is if you actively distilled the potassium out, then used a centrifuge to isolate the radioactive isotopes from the stable ones.
zerovanity59
Potassium is a nutrient that the body regulates, unless you are ODing on it (which is hard to do as, again, the body regulates it), you are not getting much additional radiation from bananas. If you are deficit, your radiation dose will increase, but health will increase.
sumthinsumthinsumthin
Seems eating uranium would be more efficient.
GenesisMachines
The dose at which Uranium is lethal to 50% of people is one whole gram. It kills as it is a heavy metal. For some reason, we have a higher tolerance for eating uranium than other animals and can easily pee it out of our systems.
HandoB4Javert
10 lifetimes worth of calories in a milligram
ArcUlfr
No, it wouldn't. Uranium isn't particularly radioactive unless it goes critical; you'd die of heavy metal poisoning many times over before the radiation would have any noticeable effect on you. Try Cesium-137, Strontium-90, or various isotopes of Iodine.
thundercactus
It's kind of mind blowing that [before being used in a fission core] U-235 fuel pellets can be safely handled with little more than nitrile gloves
sumthinsumthinsumthin
Thanks for the tip!
ArcUlfr
Watch some of Kyle Hill's videos. Underneath the entertainment aspects, there is a lot of solid information. For example, he has videos on orphan source incidents in Brazil and the former Soviet Union that are pretty scary.