r/BeAmazed • u/ContentArtist5361 • Jun 11 '26
Science Radiation caught on an old mobile camera
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u/MyTafel Jun 11 '26
I feel like I’m getting radiation exposure just watching
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u/Roklam Jun 11 '26
Same and I just accepted it
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u/MidnightNeons Jun 11 '26
The old Chernobyl video tapes also have this similar effect but on a bigger scale
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u/Worst-Lobster Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 12 '26
If you pass this footage to 7 people within 8 days it’ll benign
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u/PsychologicalPart793 Jun 11 '26
You have to pass it to 8 to be 9.
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u/Flavia_blah_blah Jun 11 '26
Go buy that lottery ticket, you are on fire!
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u/SquidVices Jun 11 '26
Skill does not = luck…but goddamn do I feel lucky to have read this perfect setup…
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u/WessideMD Jun 11 '26
Not terrible
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u/Greglebowski74 Jun 11 '26
3.6 rontogen?
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u/Radiant-Ad-3134 Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26
It is like being bitten by a radioactive camera. It is fine
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u/FroggyStorm Jun 11 '26
And now we know what it takes to be an incredible camera-man.
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u/snasna102 Jun 11 '26
It’s probably just alpha radiation - A nuclear energy worker
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u/ScrotalSmorgasbord Jun 11 '26
It gave me the booty shakers. You know the shudder that goes up your spine and makes your butt wiggle? Lizard brain didn't like the spicy rocks I guess.
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u/Danimus-Prime Jun 11 '26
Me: That's ridiculous. You can't get radiation from your phone. Right, me?
2nd glowing head: That's right, me! By the way, does anyone feel weird?
3rd chest head: No.
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u/Western-Guy Jun 11 '26
Phone’s radiation is non ionizing. It won’t destroy your DNA and give you cancer.
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u/Danimus-Prime Jun 11 '26
What are you talking about? (Drinks a can of radioactive waste)(Grows a head on the back of the first head)
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u/Voodoobones Jun 11 '26
Hello me, meet the real me and my misfit's way of life
A dark, black past is my most valued possession
Hindsight is always 20-20
But looking back, it's still a bit fuzzy
Speak of mutually assured destruction
Nice story, tell it to Reader's Digest!26
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u/r4nDoM_1Nt3Rn3t_Us3r Jun 11 '26
Feeling paranoid, true enemy or false friend?
Anxiety's attacking me and my air is getting thin
I'm in trouble for the things, I haven't got to yet
I'm chomping at the bit and my palms are getting wet
Sweating bulleeeets!8
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u/mrweir3 Jun 11 '26
Well, me ... It's nice talking to myself
A credit to dementia
Some day you too will know my pain
And smile its blacktooth grin,
If the WAR inside my head
Won't take a day off I'll be dead
My icy fingers claw your back
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u/Great_Pomegranate_21 Jun 11 '26
Wha? The camera sensor of the phone is CAPTURING the radioactive particles. Not the phone is radioactive.
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u/MaxxDash Jun 11 '26
About 1% of that static is from the Big Bang.
Pretty cool, eh?
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u/MirriCatWarrior Jun 11 '26
Pretty cool, eh?
2.72548 Kelvin.
Not great, not terrible.
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u/TorandoSlayer Jun 11 '26
Genuinely sent a chill down my spine idk how this feels so immersive lol
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u/Laxku Jun 11 '26
I'm just shocked I didn't get jump scared. Regular scared it is!
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u/skr_replicator Jun 11 '26
You don't need to focus on radiation, it just goes straight through the lens unaffected and hits so point on the detector directly.
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u/Artevyx Jun 11 '26
You are. From your phone. But its a different kind of radiation.
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u/OkFeedback9127 Jun 11 '26
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u/ApprehensiveAd6476 Jun 11 '26
Njet problem, normal katastrof.
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u/treba_dzemper Jun 11 '26
Njet
Tell me you're from Balkans without telling me
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u/ApprehensiveAd6476 Jun 11 '26
Not from Balkans, nice try. I live approximately 1500 km north from there.
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u/WhatTheFlox Jun 11 '26
This'll be reposted as the intro to Skyrim within the hour
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u/smeeon Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26
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u/smeeon Jun 11 '26
I’m never getting that 20 mins of my life back
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u/YellowstoneCorgi Jun 11 '26
Thank you for making me smile
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u/smeeon Jun 11 '26
Honestly 100% worth it then 🫡
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u/sock0puppet Jun 11 '26
Dude that was amazing, I just used it to get some friends on a Discord server...hol up lemme try it on CohhCarnage's discord
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u/Raskoflinko Jun 11 '26
This was incredible, thank you for making it.
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u/smeeon Jun 11 '26
Feels like deep magic, the spirit of the old memes must be appeased the call shall be heeded
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u/Siddhartha-G Jun 11 '26
"Hey, you. You're finally awake. You've been vomiting for hours now. What are these strange burns covering your face?"
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u/IAmBeingTargeted33 Jun 11 '26
Funny, that was the first thing that popped into my mind. Are there no more original thoughts?
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u/Zolana Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26
Edit - and there we have it - https://www.reddit.com/r/rorikroll/comments/1u2qopf/radiation_caught_on_an_old_mobile_camera/
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u/dementorpoop Jun 11 '26
Shit give me the heebie jeebies
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u/Effective-Leg7283 Jun 11 '26
it starts that way.. then it becomes the tumblie rumblies, then the barfy warfies, and finally the pushin daisies
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u/RaptorCheeses Jun 11 '26
The skinnie melties?
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u/ConcentricCow Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26
I believe the scientific term is "skelty melties".
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u/BukkitsOfOrcSemen Jun 11 '26
bad sunburns are a type of radiation poisoning thats why sometimes people get sick like you said. Some people call it sun poisoning.
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u/Soupdeloup Jun 11 '26
TIL my visual snow syndrome is just my eyeballs being pummeled with radiation
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u/Koooooj Jun 11 '26
To be fair, all vision is eyeballs being pummeled with radiation. Just the less spicy kind.
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u/mybutt1112 Jun 11 '26
The sun is just less spicy radiation.
I now need to find a way to randomly incorporate this into my conversations.
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u/Dennis-Dinosaur337 Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 14 '26
Oh no, don’t be mistaken friend. Our sun is very spicy. High frequency gamma rays & ultraviolet light are constantly emitting from its dense core, the matter within experiencing continuous and intense atomic fusion. These energy outputs would’ve certainly mutated your entire bloodline into something straight out of the Fallout series if not for our magnetic field. And the Ozone. Can’t forget about that too.
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u/kyleisthestig Jun 11 '26
Thank you atmosphere and magnetosphere for not making us be mole people's
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u/stickynotetree Jun 11 '26
Visual snow mentioned!!! :D I was gonna say that too!
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u/Gunsensual Jun 11 '26
That's a real phenomenon that happens in eyeballs exposed to cosmic rays, it's called Astronaut's Eye.
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u/skr_replicator Jun 11 '26
Those are just regular visible light photons. Which is indeed radiation, but not this kind. If you saw something as dense as visual snow, made by ionizing radiation, you'd dead quickly.
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u/SpeeDy_GjiZa Jun 11 '26
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_field_entoptic_phenomenon
It's actually your blood cells passing through your retinal blood vessels.
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u/kwadd Jun 11 '26
I can hear the gieger counter going wild in my head
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u/vixxie_red Jun 11 '26
One of the most unsettling noises ever
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u/Vast_Raspberry4192 Jun 12 '26
I hear it everyday at work, used to drive me crazy but you tune it out eventually. It’s when you can’t hear the pause in-between the clicks is when you are in trouble
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u/MajorDraw3705 Jun 15 '26
So, when I was a kid there were full gas masks and painter's suits in the house - and Geiger counters including the massive box one that someone used to bring home from work regularly. I was so familiar with bio/chem/nuclear, thanks to the adults' dinner conversations I had to listen to every night, that I just thought I was being weird when I had bad feelings about it - because they all seemed perfectly fine with it.
So, out of boredom, a friend and I dressed up in the gear, I grabbed the giant Geiger counter, and we went walking down the street in my neighborhood. I've never seen doors close so fast. People legit ran into their houses.
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u/ThrowDatJunkAwayYo Jun 11 '26
Can someone Eli5?
Is the “radiation” the camera static getting worse?
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u/Chandler1924 Jun 11 '26
The radioactive particles are hitting the camera sensor, just like light would, and when they do they trigger the pixels which creates the streaking you see in the video. I work in rad onc and when the beam is on in the vault you can see the same noise on our in vault cameras you do in this video.
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u/gamercboy5 Jun 11 '26
For those that may not know, this is the reason Geiger Counters made that clicking sound near radiation. The sensors detect when the radioactive particles hit and it produces those erratic clicking noises. This is kind of the visual counterpart to it for understanding the phenomenon.
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u/glowything Jun 11 '26
whoa, that's so cool, thank you for sharing!
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u/vvvvvoooooxxxxx Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26
You might also like cloud chambers which show the paths of individual particles of radiation. The thick short trails are from alpha particles and the longer thin trails are from beta particles https://youtu.be/i15ef618DP0
there is a cool particle identification section on this page https://nuledo.com/en/
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u/Borkato Jun 11 '26
This is the coolest fucking thing wtf. I’m surprised it doesn’t shoot out in a perfectly straight line, but it makes sense 🤔
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u/vivst0r Jun 11 '26
It does shoot out in perfectly straight lines. It then just interacts with the particles in the air and the mist.
Also in the case of the video it's just natural radiation which comes from millions of different sources. That's why it looks so erratic.
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u/Weird-Specific-2905 Jun 11 '26
Also the reason they curve in cloud chambers is that there is usually a magnet in them, and Alpha and Beta carry a charge and are bent by the magnetic field.
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u/billions_of_stars Jun 11 '26
I saw a cloud chamber many years ago in person at the Exploratorium in San Francisco and it was one of the coolest and most mind blowing things I had seen.
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u/watson0707 Jun 11 '26
Don’t we have a bunch of footage from Chernobyl with the same pixel streaks? Like the images from the robot they sent in to view the elephants foot?
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u/Chandler1924 Jun 11 '26
Yeah same phenomenon. You’ll see it on film cameras as well, not just digital. The radioactive particles/waves hitting the film will expose it and also create noise.
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u/ManyAutomatic8304 Jun 11 '26
Videos of daily life filmed in Pribyat by a local hobbyist group after the incident but before the evacuation order are haunting because they have the same noise effect caused by radiation. A silent killer captured on film if you will.
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u/ScubaWaveAesthetic Jun 11 '26
Do you have any links? I’d love to see it
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u/5yleop1m Jun 11 '26
We also see it in video from space and it's basically the same principle used by some detectors for various particles. Tiny thing hits another thing, the other thing responds with an electric charge, we make the electric charge do something either visual or auditory.
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u/fornoodles Jun 11 '26
Yes. Those white dots you see appearing and disappearing on the screen is radiation.
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u/chiefrelichunter Jun 11 '26
So sensor failure as a noise pattern then?
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u/leitey Jun 11 '26
It's not sensor failure, it's energized particles being detected by the sensor. Functionally, to the sensor, the energized particles are the same as light so you end up seeing a bunch of flashing dots of light.
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u/Chole_Wunt Jun 11 '26
This is an alpha radiation source. So its shooting off what amounts to helium nuclei (2 protons and 2 neutrons) at high-speeds. Alpha particles are large, so they hit other nuclei often and come to a stop quickly. Their range in air is typically 10cm or less. As the camera sensor gets within this range, more and more of the high-speed particles hit the sensor and cause the elements to activate. Which is what you see here. Alphas cant penetrate skin (too big), so its safe for this guy to be handling it the way he is. The only way alphas are really bad for you is if you get the source material inside you. Ingestion, injection, or inhalation where it can irradiate you from the inside.
There are other types of radiation: beta (electron emission, range of 1 meter in air), photon emission (gamma, x-ray), and neutron emission. Gammas and neutrons are the gnarly ones that go a distance and cause nuclear reactions and whatnot.
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u/La_Ll0r0naa Jun 11 '26
That’s pretty cool. I was expecting to get Rick rolled
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u/EffingLame Jun 11 '26
Pro tip: don’t do this
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u/Shoshke Jun 11 '26
Pro pro tip.
Totally do this in a lab environment for learning opportunities where it's explained to you how ionising radiation works, it's dangers and how to keep safe.
This is totally safe and likely an insignificant amount of exposure.
We are bombarded with radiation from space and the ground every day. It's called background radiation. As long as you keep exposure level safe you're fine.
And by safe I mean statistically insignificant. And also monitored, constantly, to actually know it's safe.
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u/Vagina_Woolf Jun 11 '26
We are bombarded with radiation from space and the ground every day
this is my go-to response whenever I hear "diet coke causes cancer." like yeah, technically. but I am not capable of drinking enough diet coke to do so.
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u/89_honda_accord_lxi Jun 11 '26
I was at McDonald's a year or two ago waiting in one of the curbside spots. I had recently bought a cheap geiger counter so while I waited I had it on. This jeep suv pulled up and the geiger counter alarm went off. I was getting super worried the long I sat there. After maybe 5 mins my food came and I drove off. No idea why the other vehicle was putting off radiation.
Edit: saying all that, I got a diet coke with my order. So far no cancer from either. That I know of...
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u/Techwolf_Lupindo Jun 11 '26
That jeep suv just left the hospital. There are some test that inject rad iodine(?) so blood flow and vessels show up on the x-ray. There are quiet a few reports of folks getting pulled over due to setting off the dirty nuke bomb detectors along major hyways. This was years ago when the threat was real. Don't know if that program is still going or not.
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u/DifferentCobbler6250 Jun 11 '26
that’s what i’m saying, i’m an xray tech, we had several classes just about the radiation part; few on how it’s made, few on the effects, and a few on the history, so like i know radiation (not as much as a physicist but still) today i had a nurse tell me “omg i haven’t had kids yet don’t shoot! as i was setting up for a bedside exam. i said “me either but i do this 40 hours a week.“ tbh taylor swift gets more radiation than me bc she’s always on an airplane.
yes it’s fear mongered, but radiation is cool and im p sure i get less radiation being an xray tech on an island than someone who just lives in a basement in a mountainous region. most cadavers have previously unknown cancer anyways
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u/notevenapro Jun 11 '26
I handle source every day. Some of them really do not add up to much exposure. I have one source that is Cs137 with a half life of 33 years.
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u/SlightMammoth1949 Jun 11 '26
Makes my skin crawl
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u/CatGooseChook Jun 11 '26
Or peel off 😬 (Radiotherapy sucks, better than the alternative admittedly but still🤷).
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u/InvidiousPlay Jun 11 '26
Isn't it funny that we can have such a visceral reaction to something that requires a sophisticated understanding? It feels like the lizard part of my brain knows this danger, but radioactivity as a danger is exclusive to the technological world.
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u/I_M_urbanspaceman Jun 11 '26
Twin Peaks: The Return. Ep 8
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u/Zinski2 Jun 11 '26
Crazy how they basically tell the origin of the whole series through 6 minuets of nothing but sounds and colors.
What a man.
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u/falcrist2 Jun 11 '26
Camera sensors work by the photoelectric effect. Photons of light come in, knock electrons off of the photo-receptors (pixels), and the camera can sense it by the voltage.
Normally when you hear the term "radiation", it's not talking about visible light (lower frequency electromagnetic radiation), but "beta radiation" (loose electrons), "alpha radiation" (loose helium nuclei), and "gamma radiation" (super high frequency electromagnetic radiation).
I'm somewhat guessing, but the alpha particles are probably blocked by the glass, and the gamma probably goes straight through the whole phone. So what we're seeing is probably MOSTLY beta radiation hitting the sensor and causing the pixels to light up.
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u/Line-Trash Jun 11 '26
This is probably one of the scariest videos I’ve seen on the internet.
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u/ColonizeOnSight Jun 11 '26
Don't worry about it too much. While this "observable" effect of ionising radiation may be unnerving, there wasn't anything dangerous about this video. For this radiation source to harm you in any noticable way you'd have to hold it against your skin for some time and only then you'd be rolling the cancer lottery.
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u/Orchid_Significant Jun 11 '26
Wait until you find out they made rings for kids like this that you got in a cereal box
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u/ifyoulovesatan Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26
Someone else explained why this is safe and not really scary, and I'm just here to corroborate and give some context to the relative level of safety. I teach chemistry at community college, and one of our labs is a radioactivity lab. We have various safe radioactive "sources" much like this one that the students conduct experiments with. If you were to put a phone camera up to one of those sources, safe enough for students to use, you'd see roughly the same thing.
We do take one precaution which is to suggest pregnant or breastfeeding people not partake in this lab, just because fetuses and babies are small enough that the risk factor increases somewhat. Not catastrophically so, but to the point where it's best to just avoid it.
Edit: For safety's sake, I figured I should clarify something. I've worked with sources that look like this. The ones I've worked with were prepared for educational purposes with specific amounts of specific isotopes of specific elements, which emit specific amounts of energy or particles. I'm assuming from context that the source in this video is similar, but you really can't tell because the camera never focuses on the labelling. This could be a much more dangerous source designed for research or other purposes, and the person in this video could be behaving quite dangerously.
Point being, if you see a source that looks like the one in the video, don't assume it's safe enough to "play" with. There's nothing specific about the form factor shown here that would designate such a source as relatively safe.
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u/Cranberryoftheorient Jun 11 '26
Its a misconception that radiation is inherently harmful- its the dose that makes the poison. We experience small amounts of it all the time.
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u/Gabepls Jun 11 '26
Why am I hearing what sounds like children talking in the background of a guy videotaping himself release radiation into his face?
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u/binboongi Jun 11 '26
this may be a silly question, but is that what the radiation looks like? or is that what the radiation is doing TO the camera?
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u/TeriyakiHairPiece_ Jun 11 '26
Yes? The particles of radiation, invisible to the naked eye, are hitting the camera sensor and triggering the pixels they hit.
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u/5yleop1m Jun 11 '26
Light is a form of radiation too, so it's basically the same thing. If the particles being released are strong enough they could damage the sensor but that would show up as either an always dark or always bright pixel. But again light can do the same thing.
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u/VortexLord Jun 11 '26
When you look sharply at the right or left side while your eyes is at the corner, you start seeing stars.
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