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Feb 16, 2025 12:06 AM
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LifeIsADanceOfMinds
Something from The Expanse, Season 1, I believe.
ouroborus777
My friends would probably briefly wonder why it's warm, lick it, then take it home to show everybody.
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
I mean, if not to be used "internally", why is it phallos shaped?
Tengenstein
I hate that this cis a reason I have gsve a Geiger counter in the office
livurz
This is cute and all, but these labels exist because international agencies have had to evacuate large areas when scrappers break open the wrong parts of medical equipment.
Necrothean
They haven't used Curies on these labels in over 50 years. Becquerels, the SI unit, are used worldwide, including the usually measurement unit backwards US. So I think it'll be OK using a warning label from 1974.
McVear
ehhhh, something stamped with this label in 1970 would still be hot enough to give you your yearly occupational limit dose in less than 30 minutes (very rough back of the envelope) and while not drop and run bad, in the realm of get distance and call it in bad.
metroid2
That is exactly where they got the idea from for that Startrek The Next Generation episode
ScarySpider
Stop using warning labels as decoration
jedidachshund
no
Necrothean
They haven't used Curies on these labels in over 50 years. Becquerels, the SI unit, are used worldwide, including the usually measurement unit backwards US. So I think it'll be OK using a warning label from 1974.
ScarySpider
Old cobalt sources from that time period are /exactly/ the ones that cause trouble. Just because something is old doesn't mean it's not dangerous, and probably makes it more so because they were a lot more careless about them.
devilsdisguise
I'm really curious, but do you have any sources for that? Because it runs counter to at least some of my experience. The people I went to university with did radiation related research, and despite becquerels being the SI unit, curies are still used for the kinds of sources they used. In this image, if you look closely, you'll see that these have uCi printed on them as the units. Disclaimer: I'm not a nuclear engineer
devilsdisguise
And just to be clear: I'm also not saying you're wrong. Just surprised to hear that, especially when I've seen just enough physics related stuff to know that they use some off the wall, non SI units sometimes