this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2023
684 points (98.4% liked)
Not The Onion
12577 readers
1321 users here now
Welcome
We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!
The Rules
Posts must be:
- Links to news stories from...
- ...credible sources, with...
- ...their original headlines, that...
- ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”
Comments must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.
And that’s basically it!
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
A bit of trivia: it used to be called NMRI, nuclear magnetic resonance imaging. They dropped the N after it became clear people didn't want to go in the machine because they were afraid of radiation. That's why it's called MRI now.
In Chemistry (where it originated) it is still called NMR. There is no image produced, but a spectrum (graph).
If chemists were worried about nuclear magnetic resonance because of potential radiation, I'd be more worried about those chemists!
Chemists and microbiologists are worried about obscure little things you and I haven’t even heads of. But, oh boy are those things nasty. You know, nightmare stuff like acid that slips through your skin and eats your bones or breathing a single spore that is enough to kill you. Such delightful people to have lunch with.
And see this is the kind of reason I'm nervous about actual space travel and think "hard sci-fi" is a lot less fun sometimes.
Can confirm, I regularly rant about HF to unsuspecting non-chemists.