#geiger counter

[reddpenn]

I got a Geiger counter!

Let’s look through my collection for some Spicy Rocks!  I’ve never deliberately collected radioactive specimens, so I have no idea what I’m going to find.

First, though, let’s test the baseline level of radiation in my house.

It’s fun to hear the Geiger counter click as it detects radiation.  20 counts per minute.  Nice!  You’re unlikely to ever see a count of zero, as pretty much everything in the world, including the human body, gives off a little bit of radiation. 

20 is a normal baseline, nothing to be concerned about.  Standing in my house, I’m getting a radiation dose of about 0.00013 milliseieverts per hour - or a little over one mSv a year.  This is an average yearly dosage of radiation for people in my country, and is something my body can easily process.  For context, a dosage of 100 mSv would slightly increase my risk of cancer, and a dosage of 1000 mSv would immediately give me radiation sickness.

But enough about these boring, safe amounts of radiation.  I want to see some spice!  Let’s check over by the Rock Wall!

Hm, I’d expected the CPM to be noticeably higher around my rock collection, but I’m getting nothing!  Even testing each individual rock, nothing’s more than a few ticks above the baseline.  So far, my fancy new toy is looking like wasted money.  :c

WAIT!  THERE!!  62 CPM!  That’s three times higher than the base reading in the rest of my house!!!  YESSS!!  THIS ROCK IS SPICY!!!!

Here’s the rock that’s setting off my Geiger counter.  (Yes I’m touching the spicy rock with my bare hands, don’t worry about it.) 

This fossil, which is as big as my head, is part of the femur bone of a Megalonyx, a North American giant ground sloth!

These huge animals could grow as big as ten feet tall.  They lived alongside humans during the last ice age, and it’s theorized that humans may have hunted them to extinction.  This particular fossil was found in a phosphate mine!

Why is it radioactive?  Because... sometimes fossils are just radioactive!  They spend a lot of time in the ground, which is full of radioactive minerals, and often radiation just gets all up in there.  There are some fossils on display in museums which are so radioactive that they have to be coated with lead paint for the safety of curators and museum-goers!  Compared to those, this femur bone is barely radioactive at all.

So is it really safe for me to have this in my house, much less handle it with my bare hands?  Well, yeah!  Remember, despite having this spicy rock in my collection, the radiation baseline in my house is completely normal.  Here’s why.

Even just a few centimeters away from this specimen, the Geiger counter’s reading is halved.  A few inches away, and it can’t detect any radiation at all.  It basically has to be directly touching the rock to get an abnormal reading.  Which means I also have to be touching the rock to receive a meaningful amount of radiation exposure.

But even holding this rock in my hands, I’m only getting a dosage of about 0.0004 mSv per hour.  If I never let go of this rock for an entire year, I would get a dose of about 3.5 mSv.  Which is... still completely within the safe threshold for my body to process.  Nothing to worry about!

Man, I gotta start collecting some spicier rocks.

#rock collecting #red pen has cool rocks #fossils #north american giant ground sloth #geiger counter #radiation

[energysoda]

why are geiger counters so cute. they are like little animals to me. making cute little noises when they detect radiation.

#mine #shitpost #geiger counter #radiation #radium #uranium #uranium glass #little animals #cute aggression #they are cats to me

[farcillesweep2024]

Ryoko Kui wrote the most radioactive Yuri on the planet. Geiger counter would sound like white noise

#farcille #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #falin touden #marcille donato #yuri #falin and marcille making out sloppy style #ryoko kui #radioactive #geiger counter

[huntthemouse]

Nuclear Mickey

33/365 #hunt the mouse

this place is not a place of honor… no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here… nothing valued is here.

I am making 365 new versions of Mickey Mouse for the public domain and releasing them under public domain all year long.

You can join the initiative to #hunt the mouse or suggest a theme yourself via my ask box.

#hunt the mouse #art #character design #mickey mouse #public domain #artwork #mickey #nuclear #geiger counter #spike field

[rubystims]

☢️ / ☢️ / ☢️ ☢️ / ☢️ / ☢️ ☢️ / ☢️ / ☢️

samuel (name) stimboard for @cracklin-ion with science and nuclear themes !!

#stim #stimmy #satisfying #stimboard #name stimboard #nuclear #science stim #science #geiger counter #power plant #liminal tw #horror tw #horror #(just in case) #flashing lights #pulsing lights #gray #blue #green

[parageist]

i feel like im a dragon but instead of gold i amass hordes of radioactive materials:3

#radiation #fiestaware #uranium #geiger counter

[biveaday]

Does Bive have Uranium Fever?

(listen to the song preferably by Elton Britt if ya don't know what I mean.)

day thirty nine - uranium bive

um I still don’t know anything about fallout and I think this has something to do with it,, so I might have drawn the wrong thing or something eheh,,,

#bive a day #regretevator #regretevator bive #regretevator fanart #bive #geiger counter #uranium fever #elton britt

[geigercounterr]

I’m not gonna post much up here, but here is ART!

I follow back :P

#art #alien #alien oc #digital art #digital drawing #alien species #cicada #bugs #oc art #original chatacter #green #geiger counter

[homedepotwizard]

Hi everyone this is my great grandpas marching compass that i’ve had in my bedroom since childhood. turns out it’s radioactive. 👍

it’s from the radium paint on it and we measured 10,000 cpm of gamma radiation. This is fine

#it probably is fine just because i had it on a shelf on the other side of the room for all those years #and the geiger counter didn’t detect anything farther than 3 feet #but if id kept that in my nightstand we’d have a problem if i’m understanding correctly. #anyway happy new year #intercom #video #geiger counter

[nuclearparks]

The Nuclear Protection National Parks Remembrance and Documentation Project

Artefact 7 (2 pcs).

#vogue #cyberpunk #radioactive #chernobylite #chernobyl fashion #hazmat suit #biohazard suit #geiger counter #unreality

[prawnwar]

#meowmeowtalks #white lucio #overwatch #geiger counter

[lumatotuwu]

geiger counter jumpscare

@trans-ishtar

#shitpost #jumpscare #geiger counter #i literally just used the wikipedia image #:3 #196

[stijlw]

#find #upload #wayback machine #web 1.0 #fishing #radioactivity #nuclear energy #nuclear #wolf creek #burlington #kansas #USA #geiger counter #lol #Internet Archeology

[hellenic-whore]

My friend the Geiger counter always makes so many happy sounds when I visit

#uranium #radioactive #radioactivity #geiger counter #science #science memes #shitpost #196

[rubystims]

☢️ / 🔥 / 📓 ☢️ / ⚛️ / 📓 ☢️ / 🔥 / 📓

a cracklin and chief (ION) stimboard with blue/gold colors for @cracklin-ion !!

#stim #stimmy #satisfying #stimboard #ion object show #cracklin ion #chief ion #food stim #food #egg #weapon tw #gun #geiger counter #drink stim #drink #nuclear #flower stim #flowers #hands #flashing lights #pulsing lights #tw trypophobia #blue #yellow #gold #gray

[legisaskerator]

Are any of y’all in or near Launsdorf, Austria? Long story short, my new Geiger counter has a website where there’s live feeds of radiation all over the world, from various models of counters. While browsing, I noticed one tiny shop in Launsdorf with readings spiking up to over 10,000cPM (background is 15-25). I can look at the public history of the device and it looks like it jumps up there on a fairly regular basis, multiple times a day. What the hell is going on over there?

I checked the website for the company, but I can’t read German and my phones translate doesn’t make it much clearer. I would chalk it up to an error but it happens way too regularly for that to be the case.

The company is named Shel software and Engineering. These were easily the highest numbers on the entire global map, so I’m dying to know what the cause is.

https://www.shel.at

#radiation #Geiger counter #uhhhh #Austria?