I believed it. Sadly it’s not real: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/plutonium-jazz
Sadly??
It seems believable given the story of the “Radium Girls”, workers who painted radioactive paint on watch dials to make them glow. They’d lick the tips of the brushes when they got too frayed… which eventually led to cancer.
Whoa. Eating radioactive material isn’t great at all.
From a different time, too: An X-Ray shoe fitter
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To be fair, the factory management knew that it was dangerous but didn’t tell the workers and encouraged them to lick the brush.
Phew.
I came to the comments for this hope.
This sounds like something that was made up for a fallout game.
Of course, so does “bombarding myself with xrays and moving around to entertain the audience looking at my bones” and “including uranium in paint to make watch dials glow”
Sadly, it is. (But not for Fallout specifically.)
They did it with uranium too? I knew about radium, but not that.
Uranium wasn’t used for watch dials, but Uranium Orange is a colour of cermic glaze. It was pretty popular in America from the 1930’s to around 1942, when the government needed all the uranium for some big secret project. After the 60’s it was made with depleted uranium, instead of natural ore, until someone realized this still wasn’t a great idea.
Fun fact: fiestaware plates (this was the company that made the uraranium glazed ceramics) are commonly used by radiation safety folks as check sources and for teaching how to use survey meters. This is because they usually aren’t considered a radioisotope source, so there’s less paperwork to keep them around.
If there were hazardous levels of radiation, the clicks would be a squeal, you wouldn’t be able to match a rhythm to it
But Geiger counters aren’t rhythmic at all, radioactive decay is, pretty famously, random.
True, much like memes are pretty famously fabricated.
Follows a Poisson distribution. I guess one could call that random.
Well, its random, like… by definition.
Live performances at Chernobl when?!
Since “Geiger” is German for “violinist”, you can replicate it with a guy who counts how many violinists are present
Sounds like a Cowboy Bebop episode involving smuggled fissile material.