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The Mothership - 2021-03-10

Um, somebody explain to me how those folks on the end of the conveyor belt aren't exposed to dangerous particle waves?


Rafiki - 2021-03-10

Science.


casualcollapse - 2021-03-10

From the emitter?


Lef - 2021-03-10

The conveyer belt is built like a rectangle, and most of that rectangle is surrounded by bricks. The radiation source is occluded from the people by that brick rectangle, so no direct beams will hit them. Electron beams don't bounce off of brick very well. No heavy nuclear interactions taking place, no radioactive gopro's come out of that system. Similar to why you eat irradiated apples and not die.

Does not mean Beta radiation is not dangerous. It'll tear molecules apart (think DNA and skin cancer). Eat a beta emitter, and you gonna die.

Disclaimer: I am an internet fool, not a scientist. Don't play with nuclear radiation kids.


casualcollapse - 2021-03-10

I know you say that but I really want to go through that thing just to see how it feels..


exy - 2021-03-10

Bad. It feels bad.


Chicken the Did - 2021-03-10

Tell the slow kid that if he rides through one he'll gain super powers!


jfcaron_ca - 2021-03-10

You might get to see Cherenkov radiation from the electrons shooting through the fluids in your eyes. That'd be pretty neat and awful.

You see the trays go through a zig-zag of concrete shielding before getting to the radiation area. That way there is no line-of-sight from the emitters to the outside, and as mentioned above reflections aren't a concern for this type of radiation.

Neutrons reflect like crazy on concrete. You wouldn't want just a maze for protection.


Lef - 2021-03-11

"You might get to see Cherenkov radiation" - jfcaron_ca

Holy shit now I want to go thru one of those machines.


The Mothership - 2021-03-13

I was just thinking that this camera might have absorbed some of this radiation and shared it with the folks on the other end of the tube.


Adjuvant - 2021-03-10

Loved the block that glowed orange after exposure to the irradiator. Per the youtube description, that was calcite.


badideasinaction - 2021-03-11

Now put a 360 camera on there and make this into a VR ride.


Old_Zircon - 2021-03-11

I remember this Duke 3d level.


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