Nope, it's ordinary crap because 'most everyone is familiar with the use case and most of those folks have direct experience of it.
And most folks are almost certainly *also* unaware that it isn't the tritium itself providing the glow directly; look at how often radioactive objects are portrayed as glowing that exact green color.
My middle school science class's ultimate culmination was making an erupting volcano by igniting a compound (which compound I cannot recall) by way of a magnesium fuse, resulting in a lovely ash cone some five or six times the volume of the original compound. School didn't teach me anything about the structure of atoms until high school chem, or anything substantial about fission and fusion until college. In other words, even somebody who passed middle school science with flying colors could be utterly clueless about radiation.
(Don't you *love* how I can attack every little point you make, without in any way disproving (or even addressing) your actual argument? How people even put up with me, I have no idea.)
You do realize that the end conclusion of this, and in fact almost all of our discussions*, is that willful ignorance is the default state of mankind, right? Not a thought I needed before my coffee this morning. :)
*Except for those discussions that lead to the conclusion "mmm, boobies".
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Date: 2007-10-26 05:14 pm (UTC)And most folks are almost certainly *also* unaware that it isn't the tritium itself providing the glow directly; look at how often radioactive objects are portrayed as glowing that exact green color.
My middle school science class's ultimate culmination was making an erupting volcano by igniting a compound (which compound I cannot recall) by way of a magnesium fuse, resulting in a lovely ash cone some five or six times the volume of the original compound. School didn't teach me anything about the structure of atoms until high school chem, or anything substantial about fission and fusion until college. In other words, even somebody who passed middle school science with flying colors could be utterly clueless about radiation.
(Don't you *love* how I can attack every little point you make, without in any way disproving (or even addressing) your actual argument? How people even put up with me, I have no idea.)
You do realize that the end conclusion of this, and in fact almost all of our discussions*, is that willful ignorance is the default state of mankind, right? Not a thought I needed before my coffee this morning. :)
*Except for those discussions that lead to the conclusion "mmm, boobies".