Hi Yukoner, I was thinking exactly the same thing! Remember the fluoroscopes in the shoe stores back about 60 years ago so you could look at how your feet fitted into your new shoes! ( You kids, they REALLY had those back then!! I’m NOT kidding!! Fortunately, my Dad wouldn’t let anybody use one on me! )
I remember the fluoroscope (foot/shoe) in Sears when I was a kid. I played with it a lot looking at my feet. Sears quietly got rid of it when they learned what a bad thing they had. Both of my feet had nerve problems requiring operations when I was in my 40’s. Never thought about a connection……………….hmmmmm
Whenever my mother took me into a shoe store I would go straight to the flouroscope and watch the bones in my toes wiggle (simple minded kid). No foot problems, but I’m not sure I’m any smarter now.
My local shoe store had the fluoroscope well into the 1950’s. The images were sort of cute, and at least my shoes fit. Don’t know that the radiation caused any problems for me. But it may have for the guys who worked them or for other customers.
During the Manhattan Project, a scientist named Louis Slotin sat in a room with masses of fissile material, bringing them to near critical mass levels in order to establish critical mass values. This came to be known as “tickling the dragon’s tail”. Makes x-rays and fluroscopes seem pretty mundane.
I always wondered how much radiation people got when the The first nuclear reactor in the US, at the University of Chicago, was started up December 2, 1942
I read about an experiment where the plutonium had gone critical, and the lab techician died from complications. Not to be outdone, the investigator reproduced the experiment, with the same results.
RCMinor - Yes, that’s how he did it. The radiation levels were monitored so the scientists could better estimate how much material was needed to use in the bomb. All they had were theories, so they needed empirical data. Slotin died of radiation poisoning in 1946 after he accidentally started a fission reaction during another criticality test. The mental picture of him sitting in a room pushing the material closer and closer with counters clicking away madly in the background always amazed me.
Gramps is just glowing about his grand kids! He’s a RAD, ol’ dude! Go ahead! Ask him penetrating questions for revealing answers to the structure of a Grampa!
The people who painted the luminous dials used to lick the brush with their tongue to put a fine point on the bristles – BAD, BAD move!!
Once it gets on the dial and inside the watch, it’s perfectly safe because it emits alpha particles and they are big heavy clumsy things that won’t even go through the watch crystal.
I once put my luminous dial watch over a Geiger tube to prove this to a friend, and the count went down because the watch was shielding the Geiger tube from the natural background radiation.
“Interesting that few are complaining about the blast of ionizing radiation now required at airports for the full body scans.”
It amazes me that the people have been turned into such sheep nowadays by the politicians that they wouldn’t complain about ANYTHING! We can torture people and nobody says a word! A startling percentage of the population even thinks it’s good!!
WHERE IN BLAZES is the free spirit that founded this country!!!
This country is being turned into a dictatorship!!!
Yukoner about 14 years ago
I bet they glow in the dark.
BigChiefDesoto about 14 years ago
Hi Yukoner, I was thinking exactly the same thing! Remember the fluoroscopes in the shoe stores back about 60 years ago so you could look at how your feet fitted into your new shoes! ( You kids, they REALLY had those back then!! I’m NOT kidding!! Fortunately, my Dad wouldn’t let anybody use one on me! )
pouncingtiger about 14 years ago
If you show him too many, he’ll have a “bone” to pick with you.
kreole about 14 years ago
I remember the fluoroscope (foot/shoe) in Sears when I was a kid. I played with it a lot looking at my feet. Sears quietly got rid of it when they learned what a bad thing they had. Both of my feet had nerve problems requiring operations when I was in my 40’s. Never thought about a connection……………….hmmmmm
Olddog1 about 14 years ago
Whenever my mother took me into a shoe store I would go straight to the flouroscope and watch the bones in my toes wiggle (simple minded kid). No foot problems, but I’m not sure I’m any smarter now.
rshive about 14 years ago
My local shoe store had the fluoroscope well into the 1950’s. The images were sort of cute, and at least my shoes fit. Don’t know that the radiation caused any problems for me. But it may have for the guys who worked them or for other customers.
Sandfan about 14 years ago
During the Manhattan Project, a scientist named Louis Slotin sat in a room with masses of fissile material, bringing them to near critical mass levels in order to establish critical mass values. This came to be known as “tickling the dragon’s tail”. Makes x-rays and fluroscopes seem pretty mundane.
wascherer about 14 years ago
I always wondered how much radiation people got when the The first nuclear reactor in the US, at the University of Chicago, was started up December 2, 1942
captainedd about 14 years ago
I read about an experiment where the plutonium had gone critical, and the lab techician died from complications. Not to be outdone, the investigator reproduced the experiment, with the same results.
ububobu about 14 years ago
captainedd: sounds like the investigator qualifies for a Darwin award.
Sandfan about 14 years ago
RCMinor - Yes, that’s how he did it. The radiation levels were monitored so the scientists could better estimate how much material was needed to use in the bomb. All they had were theories, so they needed empirical data. Slotin died of radiation poisoning in 1946 after he accidentally started a fission reaction during another criticality test. The mental picture of him sitting in a room pushing the material closer and closer with counters clicking away madly in the background always amazed me.
treBsdrawkcaB about 14 years ago
Gramps is just glowing about his grand kids! He’s a RAD, ol’ dude! Go ahead! Ask him penetrating questions for revealing answers to the structure of a Grampa!
treBsdrawkcaB about 14 years ago
See the movie “Fat Man & Little Boy”.
BigChiefDesoto about 14 years ago
olmail,
The people who painted the luminous dials used to lick the brush with their tongue to put a fine point on the bristles – BAD, BAD move!!
Once it gets on the dial and inside the watch, it’s perfectly safe because it emits alpha particles and they are big heavy clumsy things that won’t even go through the watch crystal.
I once put my luminous dial watch over a Geiger tube to prove this to a friend, and the count went down because the watch was shielding the Geiger tube from the natural background radiation.
BigChiefDesoto about 14 years ago
Nabuquduriuzhur said, about 13 hours ago
“Interesting that few are complaining about the blast of ionizing radiation now required at airports for the full body scans.”
It amazes me that the people have been turned into such sheep nowadays by the politicians that they wouldn’t complain about ANYTHING! We can torture people and nobody says a word! A startling percentage of the population even thinks it’s good!!
WHERE IN BLAZES is the free spirit that founded this country!!!
This country is being turned into a dictatorship!!!