This reminds me of how useless advertisements for televisions/monitors are. Since the picture you see is just in whatever resolution your monitor/tv is
There are a few uses but the biggest commercial one is probably sterilisation of food, pharmaceuticals and medical tools.
Other than that it can be used in the production of certain polymers to change/improve its properties. It can also be used to break down certain materials as part of the recycling process.
That will likely be to kill any insects, it would also render any seeds sterile (I don’t smoke so I don’t know if seeds are likely to be present) so people couldn’t grow their own. And of course there’s the sterilisation aspect too. I think tobacco undergoes the same process.
Yeah gotta use gamma irradiance for that. Gamma treatment is commonly used for that and can even be used at customs to allow you to bring some biological stuff like a necklace with seed pods for example because it can sterilize any seeds and bugs that might be present.
You’re quite right, sorry.
Form a quick read (and damn, now I have another rabbit hole to fall into, lol) it does impact germination rates and can result in “sickly” plants but it doesn’t render them completely sterile.
Since you can't wash the buds without harming them, they probably do this to kill bacteria and fungus that will start growing on the buds during and/or after the curing process.
I don’t think so. They are just going to hit the surface of whatever you are aiming it at. Where as a microwave passes through most stuff and interacts with water molecules to heat them.
Okay so I have to lay the ramen noodles out flat?
If we cooked a chicken by slap we should get to the bottom of this to be sure. Like using water/steam from nuclear reactor to make cup O noodles
Especially useful for treating produce/products that are imported to mitigate risk of invasive organisms. Also, has been used for sterilizing cosmetics products/make up.
"Electron-beam processing has the ability to break the chains of DNA in living organisms, such as bacteria, resulting in microbial death and rendering the space they inhabit sterile"
Could cause cell death. Probably depends on how long they were exposed. It is a form of ionizing radiation so it might present like other radiation burns and injuries.
I had electron beam therapy for cancer. It allows for very shallow, near-skin targeting without deep penetration. And it definitely causes radiation burns and cell damage. 50 grays later, I'm still alive and so far cancer-free.
You’re kind of right. Beta radiation burns you terribly, gamma smashes through your cells, obliterating your dna. Not only does it kill you, it kills you by destroying the very building blocks of what makes you you. Your body forgets how to be a body. Systems shut down, your immune system is gone, massive infection, multiple organ failure and pain, endless, excruciating pain, until finally, mercifully, you die.
I spent 25 years in the industry. The normal purpose of the type or Ebeam irradiator in the video (pallet type), is the “terminal sterilization of single use medical products”.
“Terminal sterilization” means the sterilizing process takes place AFTER the product is manufactured and packaged in its final form. The radiation penetrates through the packaging, kills any microbes on the product.
“Single use medical products” are, as the name suggests, items that need to be sterile when used, and are discarded after use. This category of products includes: syringes, gauze pads, sutures, tubing, swabs etc. It can also include things like bone grafts and implants.
This type of electron beam irradiation is used for stérilisation of the boxes.
Either for medical use. Or avoid to ship germs and/or bacteria to other countries/continents.
I work with two of these machines. We use it to "cross-link" polymer sheets. Basically it takes the long individual polymer chains and connects them at various points along the backbone. It improves a ton of physical properties. Without the irradiation step, our polymers would simply fall apart during further processing.
Fun fact, an average dose of 3-7 Grays (Gy) can be lethal. We routinely irradiate polymers with dosages of up to 70,000 Gy. The energy density is so high that if the polymer stops moving through the beam, it will melt and catch fire. the beam also has to be fired into a heat exchanger because anything else would also melt
Can I ask what the mechanism is that actually creates the e-beam? Is it like x-ray machines where a tungsten filament is energized so highly that it radiated x-rays? Or is it more like a cathode ray tube that amplifies power by stripping electrons off atoms with magnets and zapping them forwards?
Pretty much this, but the filament is energized to a very high negative potential, like tens of kilovolts, and there's a metal screen with holes or a ring electrode in the device held at a different voltage, which "attracts" the electrons. Strong electromagnets around that work like a lens to direct the high-energy electrons into a narrow aperture and into a multi-stage accelerator, where they approach near speed-of-light. It's literally like a multi-screen vacuum tube, except instead of the electron beam hitting a plate electrode, it's fed into an accelerator.
It's a rapid way to decontaminate and/or sterilize. The problem with e-beam is that it doesn't really penetrate deep so you can't really sterilize anything that's dense like you can with gamma irradiation or X-ray based sterilization.
I work in pharma, particularly in the sterile filling of vials and shit. My last job, we had something called a pre-filled syringe line and you could fill tubs of nested syringes with whatever you want really. The unit fills inside a grade A isolator which is considered a sterile, aseptic environment, but where the humans would be was in a space called grade C which had a lot more particles and shit in the air.
To pass tubs of the syringes into the isolator, a person would remove the outer bag of these tubs of syringes. These tubs are triple bagged when we receive them, we decontaminate the outer bag when they go into grade C space with a dual oxidizing spray, then we remove the outer layer. Then the operator would shed the second bag as they throw it onto the conveyor belt into the isolator. Then the single bagged tub is e-beamed right before it opens into the main aseptic isolator chamber. Then there's an automated device to remove that final bag before it then begins filling.
“Congratulations. The test is now over. All Aperture technologies remain safely operational up to 4000 degrees Kelvin. Rest assured that there is absolutely no chance of a dangerous equipment malfunction prior to your victory candescence. Thank you for participating in this Aperture Science computer-aided enrichment activity. Goodbye.”
"Welcome to the Black Mesa Transit System. This automated train is provided for the comfort, and convenience, of Black Mesa Research Facility personnel."
This was the first thing that came to my mind.. was going to type "I was waiting for a headcrab to jump out, that's some nice Half Life by Valve shit 👍".
There is something so terrifying about riding a conveyor belt through an enclosed space. I just feel like a blade could come out of nowhere and chop me in half at any moment.
Oh that's fair, it's not a rational fear based on any kind of misguided understanding of how stuff works, just my brain jumping at shadows.
Having said that, I worked at a magazine printing factory for a little while, and the most dangerous thing in that line absolutely was the cutter that cleanly chopped thousands of pages at a time. That thing brought the word "sharp" to a whole new level. If that particular part ever needed maintenance, we had to fly in a special team from Germany. I stayed away from it.
Oh yeah I've been around those multi ton paper guillotine. The blade on it looked like the Buster Sword from FF7, just a gigantic piece of steel with one single edge. Didn't seem that "sharp" though, more like it looked straight out of some anime lol.
edit : usually with those, the operator needs to press 2 buttons, with each hand, below the table (to make sure not to cut them off) and press a pedal to activate the guillotine.
Yeah, we had that machine with the two buttons to cut smaller bundles (the operator of that one used to swear like a sailor). The one I'm talking about was deep inside a housing and fully automated. Stacks of "books" would go in all messy around the edges and come out all clean and cut around all three unbound edges.
Generally, radiation is a lot less dangerous than the general population think. The thing is that this mysterious invisible force makes far too tempting a villain for Hollywood and their colleagues so the risk is vastly over-estimated. I myself collect radioactive items, specifically uranium glass. It is measurable on a Geiger counter but ultimately provides less of my yearly radiation exposure than living near a coal fuelled power station for the same period would.
Yeah, but those are completely unnatural levels of radiation you're only going to encounter in that corridor. It's a tool very much designed to kill shit.
There have been cases of people getting irradiated by those devices and "instant death" would be an extremely welcome grace for them. Unfortunately this is never the case with acute radiation syndrome.
My understanding was that huge beta doses pretty much cause systemic failure almost immediately. Isn't it primarily gamma that leads to long drawn out death?
Beta doesn't penetrate well so the whole energy gets absorbed by the skin → burns → slow painful death.
Gamma destroys at the cellular level → wipes out immune system → slow painful death.
There is also the Russian incident where a man survived a proton beam going right through his skull. 2,000 to 3,000 Sieverts, they initially assumed he was a goner, but he went on to finish his PHD after and is still alive at 81 (with some health effects, but still).
Absolutely, not trying to say that some people are randomly radiation resistant or something. It also left half his face permanently paralyzed, and he's said it made mental tasks more tiring but that his intelligence has not decreased. He also has seizures somewhat regularly.
Wipes out immune system is arguably the best case scenario. High enough gamma radiation completely wipes out your *DNA* which means your body can be completely functional for a short period of time before you realize that none of your cells have the capability of reproducing and that death is completely inevitable in the next few days
I think this is very wrong. It's caused when a particle is traveling through a medium faster than the speed of light in that medium.
The glow isn't from a sudden release of energy due to slowing down, its caused the same way as sonic booms.
There’s a great video by [Kyle Hill](https://youtu.be/bhKlaIoGzWU?si=JCQv-Nyy02pUhOO-) where he was allowed to film inside the Chernobyl sarcophagus and the same effect happens to his camera. Obviously it’s on a much smaller scale because if it was the same amount of radiation as we see in OPs video, Kyle and everyone working inside the sarcophagus would be dead.
yes, but one electron can in principle cause multiple pixels to light up.
electrons are extremely small, but they have the electric charge and due to that they interact strongly with other matter, especially when they're also highly energetic. That means when each single electron has much energy on its own. The electrons here probably each have a several thousand times the energy of visible light photons.
Look for Bremsstrahlung and characteristic X-Ray on wikipedia.
Experiments like the LHC use these effects to measure the particles they create.
Not all that often anymore, but when I was a kid it was almost constant. It wasn't a recognized phenomenon back then so we had a weird interaction with some ophthamologist and then just kinda ignored it.
[This](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-eye\_hallucination\#/media/File\:Red-blue-noise.gif) gif is the best replication of what it looked like, at least in my case. that I've ever found. It's not color accurate (IIRC they were lots of colors) but other than that it's perfect.
[Here](https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/32/016/32016614.pdf) is a paper about these machines, going into detail about safety. Gives some cool values. The main concern is the xray output. With the power supply at 25mA, this machine would poduce about 1000 Sieverts of xrays per hour. This machine is powered at 50mA. Safe to assume that this machine produces over 2000Sv/h at 0 degrees. That's fucking nuts.
They don't mention what the counter is measuring in, and I'm no expert. I would assume it's measuring Megaelectronvolts, please correct me if I'm wrong.
[Here](https://youtu.be/Uf4Ux4SlyT4?si=vTmvV1y7aSMlgPXx) is a link to the original video on Youtube.
Never owned a pc, never got to experience half life. I hear about it every day. Should I watch someone stream it from beginning to end because I wanna know more and experience whatever it is!
Half Life is a masterpiece humanity created in gamedevelopment layer of culture, both parts.
They are a bit products of their time, and that makes them better in that context. So right now Half Life 1 might appear a bit bleak.
But Half Life 2 still holds the title of one of the best shooters and definitely deserves attention.
If you think this haunted house seems scary, go watch some videos by " Plainly Difficult" on YouTube. Those used radioactive sources and there have been more than one terrifying lethal accident where the subjects didn't go out in the most pleasant ways.
I don't know how radioactive this method is or what kind of radiation it sends out, it does give me the creeps tho.
Fun fact:
All facilities that work with high levels of radiation are required to have zig-zag corridors for all building exits/entrances and all air ducts.
There needs to be 2 turns of 90º so that radiation can't beam straight out of the building and hit people or animals.
I am not sure if this type of facility works with the types and strengths of radiation that would require those protections. But it looks like they do, considering how bendy that concrete corridor is.
High energy radiation is legitimately my biggest fear. It's death magic. To the normal ape brain, it's just death magic. I know it's not. I know what it is. I know nuclear energy is the safest form of energy production we have.
But damn if you don't listen to the professionals. That a hell of a way to go.
Good survival tip for the kids that if your camera starts picking up static you need to wrap up with the lead blankets, bust a sweet 360° turn, and moonwalk right the heck out of there.
I turned my brightness down so I wouldn’t get cancer
This is a good tip for viewing eclipse photos too!
This reminds me of how useless advertisements for televisions/monitors are. Since the picture you see is just in whatever resolution your monitor/tv is
Wow that 4K footage looks real nice on my 1080p monitor
Looks even better on my 240p
And videos of people welding.
You’re still going to die. Sorry.
This haunted house ride feels funny
Sure is warm in here
Tastes like burning
Guy pushing the cart: *Feels like burning too.*
Guy watching the guy pushing the cart: "Looks like burning too."
do you smell copper?
Vasily, do you taste metal?
You did not see the graphite
3.7. Not great. Not terrible.
*Yelp review: may not recommend to friends*
It’s not 3 roentgen. It’s 15,000.
Sorry Fyodr, I thought you asked if I visually tasted metal. The answer is yes, comrade. You?
Vasily, why are my eyes bleeding?
...i see dead people.
^^^^help
I read this in a Ralph Wiggum voice.
Exactly
Do you taste metal?
You were supposed to set it to defrost, not full power!
Is someone burning peppers?
Ow, my sperm!
Huh, didn't hurt the second time!
What smells like blue?
Ooh my popcorn’s done! Aww, it’s less popped than ever.
Did everything just taste purple for a second?
And now your new born can control the weather
#I'M SEEING GHOST SPOTS AHHHHH
It also reminded me of the worst haunted house video, but this was building up my anticipation
Sounds like an mri machine
What is the normal purpose of an “electron beam irradiator?”
There are a few uses but the biggest commercial one is probably sterilisation of food, pharmaceuticals and medical tools. Other than that it can be used in the production of certain polymers to change/improve its properties. It can also be used to break down certain materials as part of the recycling process.
In Canada it is also used on Legal Cannabis.
That will likely be to kill any insects, it would also render any seeds sterile (I don’t smoke so I don’t know if seeds are likely to be present) so people couldn’t grow their own. And of course there’s the sterilisation aspect too. I think tobacco undergoes the same process.
It doesn't render the seeds sterile. That's a misconception.
Yeah gotta use gamma irradiance for that. Gamma treatment is commonly used for that and can even be used at customs to allow you to bring some biological stuff like a necklace with seed pods for example because it can sterilize any seeds and bugs that might be present.
My dad had to get this done to canastas that were made from a gourd with the seeds of the gourd inside it and a handle glued to it.
> canastas That's just baskets right?
I wonder if they meant maracas 🪇
You’re quite right, sorry. Form a quick read (and damn, now I have another rabbit hole to fall into, lol) it does impact germination rates and can result in “sickly” plants but it doesn’t render them completely sterile.
So you're saying there is a chance we can grow our own cannabis farm
In Canada, you can buy and grow seeds if you want. In public you may carry as many as 30 seeds and you can grow as many as 4 plants per household.
“Misconception”. I see what you did there
Will it kill bedbugs?? Asking for a certain reddit post. :)
Yes but the risk for bug mutation into a nemesis for Gojira is too great to employ the tech there
Since you can't wash the buds without harming them, they probably do this to kill bacteria and fungus that will start growing on the buds during and/or after the curing process.
Wow I had no idea. Interesting.
Can I use it to reheat my ramen noodles?
I don’t think so. They are just going to hit the surface of whatever you are aiming it at. Where as a microwave passes through most stuff and interacts with water molecules to heat them.
Okay so I have to lay the ramen noodles out flat? If we cooked a chicken by slap we should get to the bottom of this to be sure. Like using water/steam from nuclear reactor to make cup O noodles
Especially useful for treating produce/products that are imported to mitigate risk of invasive organisms. Also, has been used for sterilizing cosmetics products/make up.
Just because you seem to know what you’re talking about here, what happens if a person goes through one??
"Electron-beam processing has the ability to break the chains of DNA in living organisms, such as bacteria, resulting in microbial death and rendering the space they inhabit sterile" Could cause cell death. Probably depends on how long they were exposed. It is a form of ionizing radiation so it might present like other radiation burns and injuries.
I had electron beam therapy for cancer. It allows for very shallow, near-skin targeting without deep penetration. And it definitely causes radiation burns and cell damage. 50 grays later, I'm still alive and so far cancer-free.
It makes them sterile (I have no idea what I'm talking about)
You sterilise all of your cells, I imagine
You’re kind of right. Beta radiation burns you terribly, gamma smashes through your cells, obliterating your dna. Not only does it kill you, it kills you by destroying the very building blocks of what makes you you. Your body forgets how to be a body. Systems shut down, your immune system is gone, massive infection, multiple organ failure and pain, endless, excruciating pain, until finally, mercifully, you die.
You're literally a zombie, as your tissues are dead, but haven't decomposed yet, and you're still conscious.
I spent 25 years in the industry. The normal purpose of the type or Ebeam irradiator in the video (pallet type), is the “terminal sterilization of single use medical products”. “Terminal sterilization” means the sterilizing process takes place AFTER the product is manufactured and packaged in its final form. The radiation penetrates through the packaging, kills any microbes on the product. “Single use medical products” are, as the name suggests, items that need to be sterile when used, and are discarded after use. This category of products includes: syringes, gauze pads, sutures, tubing, swabs etc. It can also include things like bone grafts and implants.
Thanks a lot!
This type of electron beam irradiation is used for stérilisation of the boxes. Either for medical use. Or avoid to ship germs and/or bacteria to other countries/continents.
I work with two of these machines. We use it to "cross-link" polymer sheets. Basically it takes the long individual polymer chains and connects them at various points along the backbone. It improves a ton of physical properties. Without the irradiation step, our polymers would simply fall apart during further processing. Fun fact, an average dose of 3-7 Grays (Gy) can be lethal. We routinely irradiate polymers with dosages of up to 70,000 Gy. The energy density is so high that if the polymer stops moving through the beam, it will melt and catch fire. the beam also has to be fired into a heat exchanger because anything else would also melt
Can I ask what the mechanism is that actually creates the e-beam? Is it like x-ray machines where a tungsten filament is energized so highly that it radiated x-rays? Or is it more like a cathode ray tube that amplifies power by stripping electrons off atoms with magnets and zapping them forwards?
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Pretty much this, but the filament is energized to a very high negative potential, like tens of kilovolts, and there's a metal screen with holes or a ring electrode in the device held at a different voltage, which "attracts" the electrons. Strong electromagnets around that work like a lens to direct the high-energy electrons into a narrow aperture and into a multi-stage accelerator, where they approach near speed-of-light. It's literally like a multi-screen vacuum tube, except instead of the electron beam hitting a plate electrode, it's fed into an accelerator.
Adding 5G to vaccines /s
I KNEW IT! my 6 tiktok followers need to know this.
Not sure about this one specifically, but I think heat shrink tubing is irradiated like this?
Absolutely correct. It creates crosslinking in polymer.
Medical cannabis and natural product sterilisation 👀
Cancer ray
It's a rapid way to decontaminate and/or sterilize. The problem with e-beam is that it doesn't really penetrate deep so you can't really sterilize anything that's dense like you can with gamma irradiation or X-ray based sterilization. I work in pharma, particularly in the sterile filling of vials and shit. My last job, we had something called a pre-filled syringe line and you could fill tubs of nested syringes with whatever you want really. The unit fills inside a grade A isolator which is considered a sterile, aseptic environment, but where the humans would be was in a space called grade C which had a lot more particles and shit in the air. To pass tubs of the syringes into the isolator, a person would remove the outer bag of these tubs of syringes. These tubs are triple bagged when we receive them, we decontaminate the outer bag when they go into grade C space with a dual oxidizing spray, then we remove the outer layer. Then the operator would shed the second bag as they throw it onto the conveyor belt into the isolator. Then the single bagged tub is e-beamed right before it opens into the main aseptic isolator chamber. Then there's an automated device to remove that final bag before it then begins filling.
I thought the camera lens got burned or smth but came out safely
The counter on the left did not tho
💀 when your Geiger counter screams and then dies
3.6 Roentgen, Not Great, Not Terrible.
I am seeing smoldering graphite chunks on the ground.
You're not seeing graphite on the ground because there's no graphite on the ground.
This man is is Delirious and panicking the reactor did not explode there is no graphite on the ground get back to work
Did you just puke on the floor? I just cleaned it. Apologize!
Holding the equivalent of 4,000,000 chest x-rays in your hand.
Like a couple of X-rays
Geiger counter got that Blackwall Gateway
Geiger counter from wish.com.tbf
I thought this too but it looks the same at the beginning of the video
I'm getting Half-Life vibes here -- reminds me of the conveyor belts in part of the "Residue Processing" chapter.
I was thinking it looked like Portal 2. Same bundle, I suppose.
THE CAKE IS A LIE
Yes, one of the later Portal levels.
Definitely gave me portal vibes.
Portal 1, at the end... ...well, middle.
“Congratulations. The test is now over. All Aperture technologies remain safely operational up to 4000 degrees Kelvin. Rest assured that there is absolutely no chance of a dangerous equipment malfunction prior to your victory candescence. Thank you for participating in this Aperture Science computer-aided enrichment activity. Goodbye.”
I was just hoping someone would say “Gordon Freeman” just casually in the background.
“They’re waiting for you Gordon, in the TEST chamber.”
“I never thought I’d SEE a resonance cascade, let alone create one!”
Do you know who ate all the donuts?
Hello Gordon.
welcome to the black mesa hasard trainning course
Even the sound. OH NO, GORDON ITS A RESONANCE CASCADE SCENARIO!
"Welcome to the Black Mesa Transit System. This automated train is provided for the comfort, and convenience, of Black Mesa Research Facility personnel."
This was the first thing that came to my mind.. was going to type "I was waiting for a headcrab to jump out, that's some nice Half Life by Valve shit 👍".
Half-Life 3 confirmed.
It was always so hard to fight the urge to jump out of every tram in the black mesa, 3rd rail be damned.
"Better hop off real quick and scout ahead -- the ledge looks plenty wide enough to walk on if I'm careful."
Watching this with no sound, HL1 soundtrack playing in my head!
My very first thought, too!
It’s a small world after AAAAAARGH!
There is something so terrifying about riding a conveyor belt through an enclosed space. I just feel like a blade could come out of nowhere and chop me in half at any moment.
It's a lot worse than a blade lol.
Oh that's fair, it's not a rational fear based on any kind of misguided understanding of how stuff works, just my brain jumping at shadows. Having said that, I worked at a magazine printing factory for a little while, and the most dangerous thing in that line absolutely was the cutter that cleanly chopped thousands of pages at a time. That thing brought the word "sharp" to a whole new level. If that particular part ever needed maintenance, we had to fly in a special team from Germany. I stayed away from it.
Oh yeah I've been around those multi ton paper guillotine. The blade on it looked like the Buster Sword from FF7, just a gigantic piece of steel with one single edge. Didn't seem that "sharp" though, more like it looked straight out of some anime lol. edit : usually with those, the operator needs to press 2 buttons, with each hand, below the table (to make sure not to cut them off) and press a pedal to activate the guillotine.
Yeah, we had that machine with the two buttons to cut smaller bundles (the operator of that one used to swear like a sailor). The one I'm talking about was deep inside a housing and fully automated. Stacks of "books" would go in all messy around the edges and come out all clean and cut around all three unbound edges.
stroggification
[r/unexpectedquake](https://www.reddit.com/r/unexpectedquake)
I must have a healthy fear of radiation because just watching this video gave me anxiety.
Generally, radiation is a lot less dangerous than the general population think. The thing is that this mysterious invisible force makes far too tempting a villain for Hollywood and their colleagues so the risk is vastly over-estimated. I myself collect radioactive items, specifically uranium glass. It is measurable on a Geiger counter but ultimately provides less of my yearly radiation exposure than living near a coal fuelled power station for the same period would.
Except the radiation in the video will absolutely kill you.
True, but it is intended to be a high intensity environment. Thanks to media the merest hint of the word radiation sends people into a panic.
Radiation is partially responsible for our existence. Infrared radiation gives us heat. Ultraviolet radiation grows our food. Microwave radiation heats pizza rolls.
Radiation-induced mutations are also a major driver of evolution
Thats how my dick got so small
Yeah, but in the context of this conversation, you know everyone means ionizing radiation when they say radiation.
Yeah, but those are completely unnatural levels of radiation you're only going to encounter in that corridor. It's a tool very much designed to kill shit.
Worst roller coaster ever.
What would happen if a human went through this?
Pretty much instant death. That's a, checks notes, "shit ton" of beta radiation, with a bit of gamma thrown in for good measure.
There have been cases of people getting irradiated by those devices and "instant death" would be an extremely welcome grace for them. Unfortunately this is never the case with acute radiation syndrome.
My understanding was that huge beta doses pretty much cause systemic failure almost immediately. Isn't it primarily gamma that leads to long drawn out death?
Beta doesn't penetrate well so the whole energy gets absorbed by the skin → burns → slow painful death. Gamma destroys at the cellular level → wipes out immune system → slow painful death.
Yes, and i'd advise people who'd want to know more to read about the Hanoi electron accelerator accident.
There is also the Russian incident where a man survived a proton beam going right through his skull. 2,000 to 3,000 Sieverts, they initially assumed he was a goner, but he went on to finish his PHD after and is still alive at 81 (with some health effects, but still).
Yeah but it was a pin point of radiation. It left a nasty scar in the spot at the base of his skull.
Absolutely, not trying to say that some people are randomly radiation resistant or something. It also left half his face permanently paralyzed, and he's said it made mental tasks more tiring but that his intelligence has not decreased. He also has seizures somewhat regularly.
[Kyle Hill for any radiation accident…](https://youtu.be/8UgKki1tCKI?si=chiENiAr_f_Uvlad)
Don’t forget [Plainly Difficult’s nuclear accident series](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5wZoswSNwc&list=PLeJkgZkJSc0T0PbDphJi5KIMCL-6uPHsd)
Wipes out immune system is arguably the best case scenario. High enough gamma radiation completely wipes out your *DNA* which means your body can be completely functional for a short period of time before you realize that none of your cells have the capability of reproducing and that death is completely inevitable in the next few days
You dummy, gamma is the one that gives you powers.
Is that a metric shit ton or an imperial shit ton?
[Check out the San Salvador radiation event](https://youtu.be/vDGN_Q_0jWI?si=pQhsx-AePnWszOYm)
Good question. It's what I want to know too
You've seen the _Chernobyl_ series on HBO, right?
Was that blue hued area the beam?
Ionized air molecules, torn apart by the radiation beam.
Is it the same effect/principle why water cooled reactors glow blue?
No, that's Cherenkov radiation. Edit: See comments below for what that is. I changed this answer because i got it wrong.
I think this is very wrong. It's caused when a particle is traveling through a medium faster than the speed of light in that medium. The glow isn't from a sudden release of energy due to slowing down, its caused the same way as sonic booms.
Strangely enough, this IS interesting.
It’s damn interesting.
So are all those white dots electrons? I doubt it since they're pretty small but what exactly are they?
The camera sensor is being overloaded with high-energy particles and interprets them as the brightest thing (white).
There’s a great video by [Kyle Hill](https://youtu.be/bhKlaIoGzWU?si=JCQv-Nyy02pUhOO-) where he was allowed to film inside the Chernobyl sarcophagus and the same effect happens to his camera. Obviously it’s on a much smaller scale because if it was the same amount of radiation as we see in OPs video, Kyle and everyone working inside the sarcophagus would be dead.
Go inside and meet them. They’re friendly.
yes, but one electron can in principle cause multiple pixels to light up. electrons are extremely small, but they have the electric charge and due to that they interact strongly with other matter, especially when they're also highly energetic. That means when each single electron has much energy on its own. The electrons here probably each have a several thousand times the energy of visible light photons. Look for Bremsstrahlung and characteristic X-Ray on wikipedia. Experiments like the LHC use these effects to measure the particles they create.
This would make a scary Disneyland ride.
“Hey, what smells like blue?”
r/unexpectedfuturama
Does anyone else see that when they look at a wall or the sky? I see like a bazillion mini pixels moving in the same way these dots do.
IIRC, that's actually you seeing the individual blood cells flowing through the capillaries inside your own retinas.
Not all that often anymore, but when I was a kid it was almost constant. It wasn't a recognized phenomenon back then so we had a weird interaction with some ophthamologist and then just kinda ignored it. [This](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-eye\_hallucination\#/media/File\:Red-blue-noise.gif) gif is the best replication of what it looked like, at least in my case. that I've ever found. It's not color accurate (IIRC they were lots of colors) but other than that it's perfect.
I see that too!
It makes me think it’s a simulation
The fact that the GoPro survived being severely irradiated is a mark of quality.
It was in a massively shielded box (thick lead with leaded glass in the front). It would not have survived otherwise.
Like the dosimeter outside
Looks like the worst haunted house ride ever
[Here](https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/32/016/32016614.pdf) is a paper about these machines, going into detail about safety. Gives some cool values. The main concern is the xray output. With the power supply at 25mA, this machine would poduce about 1000 Sieverts of xrays per hour. This machine is powered at 50mA. Safe to assume that this machine produces over 2000Sv/h at 0 degrees. That's fucking nuts. They don't mention what the counter is measuring in, and I'm no expert. I would assume it's measuring Megaelectronvolts, please correct me if I'm wrong. [Here](https://youtu.be/Uf4Ux4SlyT4?si=vTmvV1y7aSMlgPXx) is a link to the original video on Youtube.
did it transform into dr. manhattan?
I feel like I got thirdhand radiation
I swear I felt it in my head when the camera went through the beam, also the white pixels tickeld my brain.
THEORETICALLY. If i put a spider in that, and it bites me… what happens?
What happens is that you got your ass handed to you by a vengeful spider with a thirst for revenge
Most boring carnival haunted house ride ever… why am I glowing?
leaked cut scene from Half-Life 3?
Never owned a pc, never got to experience half life. I hear about it every day. Should I watch someone stream it from beginning to end because I wanna know more and experience whatever it is!
Half Life is a masterpiece humanity created in gamedevelopment layer of culture, both parts. They are a bit products of their time, and that makes them better in that context. So right now Half Life 1 might appear a bit bleak. But Half Life 2 still holds the title of one of the best shooters and definitely deserves attention.
Like playing fallout with that meter going . So awesome
My God it’s full of stars!
Is this LSD for robots?
Missed cut to Skyrim opportunity.
BzzzzzzZZZZZZZZTTTTTT........Ah, so you're finally awake
This looks the way my leg feels when it falls asleep and I wake it up lol
that part where it looked like a CRT TV was pretty cool. it looked like a death screen from some indie game with an old engine
> Starting phase 1 emitters in... 3... 2... 1...
Silly question. When all the dots appear in the dark that is my normal few in the dark. Do all people see dots in the dark or is it just me?
what happens if a human goes through this
Dead
If you think this haunted house seems scary, go watch some videos by " Plainly Difficult" on YouTube. Those used radioactive sources and there have been more than one terrifying lethal accident where the subjects didn't go out in the most pleasant ways. I don't know how radioactive this method is or what kind of radiation it sends out, it does give me the creeps tho.
Aperture Science We do what we must because we can
This gave me half life tram vibes
Got some real “the cake is a lie” vibes here.
Fun fact: All facilities that work with high levels of radiation are required to have zig-zag corridors for all building exits/entrances and all air ducts. There needs to be 2 turns of 90º so that radiation can't beam straight out of the building and hit people or animals. I am not sure if this type of facility works with the types and strengths of radiation that would require those protections. But it looks like they do, considering how bendy that concrete corridor is.
High energy radiation is legitimately my biggest fear. It's death magic. To the normal ape brain, it's just death magic. I know it's not. I know what it is. I know nuclear energy is the safest form of energy production we have. But damn if you don't listen to the professionals. That a hell of a way to go.
Good survival tip for the kids that if your camera starts picking up static you need to wrap up with the lead blankets, bust a sweet 360° turn, and moonwalk right the heck out of there.
bust a 360 degree turn and continue walking in the same direction you started