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Our schools have failed yet again.
Phosphorescent seafood freaking out folks
"It was like a bright eerie light was shining on it," said Peters, who works for a natural food store.
"I thought that maybe it had been overirradiated, you know, too much radiation. Now, whenever I buy seafood, I take it home and turn out the lights."
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Radiation does not make ordinary crap glow except in very rare cases, you dipshits! If you see the glow, you're dead, unless it's Cherenkov radiation in a suitably deep pool. Got it? Good. Gawd.
What do you want to bet he protests against food irradiation from this position of complete ignorance?
(BTW, it was naturally phosphorescent bacteria found in ordinary seawater.)
"It was like a bright eerie light was shining on it," said Peters, who works for a natural food store.
"I thought that maybe it had been overirradiated, you know, too much radiation. Now, whenever I buy seafood, I take it home and turn out the lights."
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Radiation does not make ordinary crap glow except in very rare cases, you dipshits! If you see the glow, you're dead, unless it's Cherenkov radiation in a suitably deep pool. Got it? Good. Gawd.
What do you want to bet he protests against food irradiation from this position of complete ignorance?
(BTW, it was naturally phosphorescent bacteria found in ordinary seawater.)
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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".