*awesome fuck

You can build one of these for yourself to detect cosmic rays. This is near the top on my list of "shit I would so build just to have if I had an outlook on life worth participating in."

http://www.amnh.org/education/resources/rfl/web/einsteinguide/ activities/cloud.html

Beyond awesomoe.

My next bar is going to be called Awesomoe's

Cloud chambers are great. There's a big one at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, where you can see background radiation and cosmic rays in action.

(a) this is how my dick looks, from the right perspective

(b) see a

(c) assuming no relevant changes after 4:00

My next bar is going to be called Awesome Fuck

Awesomoe Fuck

Awe so moe uguu kawaii

Watch the sides and corners and you can see the occasional bit of cosmic ray debris zip past.

Uh, yeah. Why, what did you think was going to happen?

http://youtu.be/HZjZbJuhPAo?t=1m45s

The subtitle said it was pitchblende, which is a naturally occurring, uranium oxide bearing ore; IIRC uranium, either enriched or depleted, is pretty safe to handle; things only get nasty once it goes through a reactor and you get plutonium and unstable isotopes mixed in that things get tricky or when it gets powderized and inhaled or ingested..

As long as you don't eat, you'll be fine.

Finally, an end to mad deadly world-wide communist earphone slavery!

Which end?