This Is What They Meant By Making America Great Again?
This Is What They Meant By Making America Great Again?
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If you're in the US, it actually is possible and legal to order small quantities of radioisotopes even today.
https://unitednuclear.com/radioactive-isotopes-c-2_5/
Just note, they DO NOT ship internationally. And if you try to order 10,000 disk sources, you WILL be getting an angry knock on your door from the NRC.
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Huh and how many discs would it take to make a small generator for a house so I can tell my electric company to fuck off LMAO
For legal reasons that was a joke
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Talk about inflation! These atomic rings were only $0.15 in 1947! And those disks for polonium210 are $120
Kind of cool but i wouldn't know what to do with it and i don't need an expensive hobby lol
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you can make a cloud chamber with clear plastic containers, a really cold frozen thing, high proof alcohol, and hot water (example)
these can visualize cosmic radiation, or you can always hold a smoke detector next to it to see it really pop off
so you can literally have an inexpensive hobby involving nuclear physics haha
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I like to imagine radiologic security checks are done by border agents with cloud chambers. Not fancy electronic detectors, just literal cloud chambers. Just imagine there's some customs guy at a port in LA. He's standing outside a shipping container. In his hands he has a giant glass dome filled with fog. And he's just awkwardly waving this giant impractical object all over the surface of a shipping container.
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that'd be WAY more fun than a pancake GM or whatever the hell they use lol
it's kinda steampunk
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YES! Make it a glass sphere adorned with many brass fittings. And they track the counts/minute by manually counting and using a brass stopwatch that matches the design of the cloud chamber.
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FETCH THE FANCY STOPWATCH COUNTING-BOY
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Yes! Each customs agent needs at least one, preferable several, scrappy apprentices.
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So dumb, you can just order 8,000 discs and then order another 9,000 to your neighbor and they won't even know 🙄
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