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[–] lemmyng@piefed.ca 141 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Cobalt 60 has a half life of 5.27 years. Assuming that a language lost to time is at least 500 years old, the rod should be fairly safe to handle. Heck, even after only 100 years less than 0.01% of the original amount of radioactive material would be left.

But that aside - One of the items that can be found in the video game series Avernum is Uranium bars, which give you a nice unhealthy glow :)

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 66 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

If it's actively glowing blue, I don't think it's safe to handle.

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 52 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

If it's actively glowing blue it means it's under water producing Cherenkov radiation and the water should shield you from the alpha particles.

[–] Archpawn@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

But if it's a blue flash, that's a completely different effect and there was a criticality accident and you're probably going to die.

[–] F_State@midwest.social 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago

Ah, I remember this story:

on September 24, Ivo, Devair's brother, successfully scraped some additional dust out of the source and took it to his house a short distance away. There he spread some of it on the concrete floor. His six-year-old daughter, Leide das Neves Ferreira, later ate an egg while sitting on the floor. She was also fascinated by the blue glow of the powder, applying it to her body and showing it off to her mother.

What a horrible way to die :(

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

My favorite podcast did an episode about that!

Highly recommend if you like leftism, and also want to listen to an engineer talk at length about what this blue glowing powder is, the series of bad decisions that led to some scrap collectors finding it, and the even longer series of even worse decisions people made regarding what to do with this blue glowing powder

You can skip the Goddamn News if you want, discussion of the spicy rocks starts at 20:28

[–] ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one 5 points 3 weeks ago

I love Well There's Your Problem, highly recommend that episode as well

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 40 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Somebody casted Repair on the rod

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 47 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

i cast mending on the pile of lead, giving me a solid cubic foot of weapons grade plutonium.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

giving me a solid cubic foot of weapons grade plutonium

Briefly

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

hey DM what's the range of mending? as long as it's over a few kilometers i should be fine

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Range: touch (d&d 5e)

Range: 10' (d&d 3.5e)

Perhaps you want it as a contingent spell activated upon your death

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

nah i can sacrifice a familiar to cast it. i don't like the raven one.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Sadly I got around to looking up decay chains and the isotope of lead that is at the bottom of the chain containing [plutonium 243](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_plutonium] ends at lead 207 which is only 22% of the lead on Earth, so you're unlikely to get anything instantly dangerous. Though if your lead came from an ancient natural reactor your chances are much better

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

The past tense of cast is cast

[–] Damage@feddit.it 24 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

What if it was stored in a fridge

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Isotopes only have a "worst by" date unfortunately

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

They do have a use by date. The nastier they are the shorter their use by date

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

Does temperature affect nuclear decay?

Technically, maybe, but the effect is negligible.