Alpha is the weakest, usually stopping on the skin or other thin layer. Gamma goes right through a person. In college, we were warned more about beta emission because beta could enter the body by couldn't leave in the same way that gamma could.
Alpha is generally considered the most dangurous, so saying it is the weakest is kinda doing an injustice. The penetration is the weakest, the radiation is the most harmful.
Modern breakfast cereals are largely product of post WWII “innovation”. Most of them still exist in some form. One of my favorite example is Sugar Smacks which were introduced in the early 50s and were over 50% sugar.
Ok Kix, why did a cowboy have an atom bomb toy? What was the tie-in? Did Tonto help Oppenheimer? Was this just a way to sell a few tons of used polonium?
The just post WWII times were a weird hybrid of nostalgia for the old west “cowboys and Indians” stories and the space/atomic age becoming en vogue. Toys like this that tried to appeal to both are the result.
More lead than at first; polonium-210 decays to lead. With a half life of 138 days, and 1947 being over 28,000 days ago, most of the original material is gone.
33 Comments
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml · 73 pts · 1y
Apparently it flopped because it didn't explode like the chemistry kits did, so kids thought it was boring.
crankyrebel@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 1y
🤣
Bwaz@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Hey, as a kid I spent a LOT of time trying to make something explode with chemistry sets. Very disapointing.
TabbsTheBat@pawb.social · 51 pts · 1y
They no longer include quality toys like these in foods :(
Revanee@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 39 pts · 1y
That's rad
Lawnman23@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y
ch00f@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 1y
https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/spinthariscopes/lone-ranger-atom-bomb-ring-spinthariscope.html
Huh.
ch00f@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 1y
Even while the ring's effect was still happening, though, kids weren't really in danger. Alpha radiation can be dangerous when ingested, but it's also the easiest type of radiation to block — even a sheet of paper is enough, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y
Alpha is the weakest, usually stopping on the skin or other thin layer. Gamma goes right through a person. In college, we were warned more about beta emission because beta could enter the body by couldn't leave in the same way that gamma could.
ryannathans@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y
Alpha is generally considered the most dangurous, so saying it is the weakest is kinda doing an injustice. The penetration is the weakest, the radiation is the most harmful.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
That reminds me of the myth related to the daddy long-legs, that it has the most potent venom of any spider but can't break your skin.
ch00f@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
the hollowpoint particle.
davel@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 1y
FOR EXTERNAL USE ONLY
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org · 14 pts · 1y
At least it wasn't in the cereal like with some of the therapeutic waters available in that time
crankyrebel@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 1y
Don't worry, high-fructose corn syrup and unnatural dyes came a bit later for the cereal. It is like they want us dead.
OmgItBurns@discuss.online · 13 pts · 1y
Anyone else think this looks like a retro-futuristic adult toy with an extra buzzy feature?
mathemachristian@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y
Get this cockring for glow-in-the-dark balls!
Evotech@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Come here baby, I’m going to nuke your pussy
IWW4@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 1y
TIL Kix was around in 1947.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 1y
Modern breakfast cereals are largely product of post WWII “innovation”. Most of them still exist in some form. One of my favorite example is Sugar Smacks which were introduced in the early 50s and were over 50% sugar.
TinFoilEmpiricist@retrolemmy.com · 8 pts · 1y
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Ok Kix, why did a cowboy have an atom bomb toy? What was the tie-in? Did Tonto help Oppenheimer? Was this just a way to sell a few tons of used polonium?
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 1y
The just post WWII times were a weird hybrid of nostalgia for the old west “cowboys and Indians” stories and the space/atomic age becoming en vogue. Toys like this that tried to appeal to both are the result.
PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
Fallout aesthetics
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Also you can just think of it as Albuquerque themed
crankyrebel@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
Promotion of war propaganda into the culture? "Mom, why am I growing a 6th finger?"
Zerush@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
https://www.nine.com.au/entertainment/latest/9now-body-bizarre-desilva-family-brazil-six-fingers-polydactyly/93d5fd33-1b6d-4a14-ac92-efd2fb4ed528
AllToRuleThemOne@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Thats literally what they are still doing: getting rid of the nuclear waste by passing it to the younger generations.
Etterra@discuss.online · 5 pts · 1y
Rebrand it the Trump Ring and sell it to MAGA for $300.
pachrist@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
It's totally fine, the ring is probably also made of lead.
tauisgod@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
More lead than at first; polonium-210 decays to lead. With a half life of 138 days, and 1947 being over 28,000 days ago, most of the original material is gone.
Evotech@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
https://www.ebay.com/itm/127037035907?_skw=atomic+bomb+ring&itmmeta=01K1BN3MHWKXWHPCJEC46JZHJD&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA8FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1daZ%2FXALKxKo1hvRnEtLWDg6q7aw5ckQcNKPhVQiJ%2BKbSS1%2BzBSzmsWJZhs0bbTQ6I6848GcLJf9f%2FvGh5--7GFvmxieNvhmJZFGTCT5bqw01o8IPGxusCjFIFnjmFV5n3FbbA%2BewpFBQpiNmDxF1KL60oUvWCFbTG27uUTJZ3B9Rlsq4TFHpO4N%2BIRslRfkPpPUbn41sznP2lN2qoOq2POZH2v1X0wSNswRBt%2FryEWhA1ZOBVP2ebxWmyeq5OFKqV2%2FTq%2BvZNMgsKKtFzbvxtsyOwWeQDxS95ZhkGGfb1%2B9A%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR47JjvWKZg
400 bucks, not bad
Zerush@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
There are no claims, even not from child which ingest it. Only statistical issues.
n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
If this is really what MAGA was about, I'd get on board.