I'm sure Chad will drop by to say otherwise. Here's the thread:
https://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=404772
Thanks for that. I needed a good laugh. Haha. Wow. The complete and utter lack of radiological and nuclear science knowledge is mind boggling. Anyone who listens to any of that and takes it seriously needs to avoid walking near banana's or salt substitute, or even going outside. LOL.
The post that was put in there today does ask some good questions.
CPM readings are pointless and are only there to make people go "giggity giggity giggity". I had a cardiac stress test done a while back. I was injected with radioactive tracers. The CPM my body was giving off afterwards was through the roof. Thousands upon thousands of counts per minute. The energy, however, was minimal which is why I didn't drop dead from it.
X-Rays are generated when high speed electrons strike a target and the resulting collision transfers that energy into a x-ray. The faster the electron is moving, the greater the energy and higher intensity of the resulting x-ray. Use high current and a high voltage, and you will generate a LOT of x-rays.
When you get x-rayed at a doctor's office, the x-ray "gun" they use fires high current and high voltage towards what I believe is a Tungsten target which generates the x-rays in a focused area.
Also, the statement "there is no safe level of radiation" is not fully true. If that's the case, then human beings should not exist. You don't want radiation getting into exposed DNA since yes, that can be bad. Our skin, however, has a good thick layer (relatively speaking) of dead skin cells that block a lot of radiation. We also have clothes. In addition, a low energy x-ray just gets absorbed into the air around you, your clothes, your skin, etc.
So yeah, that was a good laugh. I needed that. Haha.
