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i have a backyard pile of cardboard boxes, tree branches, pulled up weeds covered with an agricultural tarp. every few months after the high natural pH of the local biome it all melts and become inhabited by worms and bugs, then i use it to make a new fun mound to my yard cosplaying as an iron age hill fort.

better than paying to give it to the waste management who do the same thing and then sell it to the city.

edit: two feet by seven feet big. away from the house near a green space.

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Twinsies! I use empty pallets for weight!

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Last time this was posted I went down a rabbit hole of reading about the Nuclear Boy Scout David Hahn

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Mister Americium himself?

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Bonus: the photo was taken with a film camera and the graininess is from all the radiation.

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why the dogfuck did they not illuminate the hallway the camera goes through

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because only product being irradiated goes there. no human should be in that area. plus with the lights off you see the ionized air. that would probably be washed out with another light source.

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Why would they? Humans aren’t supposed to be there

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It’s kind of crazy how the electron beam looks like a special effect from a 1980’s sci-fi movie.

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Awesome

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Very cool. Feels like it should be a level in Half Life.

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Super cool. Working on some ebeam sterilization stuff through contractors. Cool to see the nuts and bolts.

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Aside from the film grain, I’m pretty impressed that the camera seemed to survive that and that the footage from it could be extracted like nothing of this nature had ever happened to the device.

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Well, it WAS impressively shielded as well.

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Does non beta-radiation have the same effect? (Especially gamma rays which don’t even have an electric charge)

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I don’t know. If the gamma rays are absorbed and converted to electrons in the photo-sensor, it could also cause noise I suppose ?

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Noise: digital

Grain: film

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Hey guys I found the next superfund site!

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Relax guys, it’s just the new Mt Dew flavor, Radical Radium.

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