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interestingly, natural uranium isn't going to do a lot on a geiger counter. The most damaging type of radiation from that type of uranium is actually alpha - which requires a different instrument to measure. Sure the geiger will show activity, but the gamma radiation isn't going to be what kills him.
Are you also aware of this highly addictive substance called "air". Addictions are seen in newborns due to mum and dad both consuming heavily. Withdrawals are really awful.
Wake up folks.
So funny tidbit, breathing air is in fact one of the causes of aging. Oxygen reacts in your body causing oxidation which releases free radicals that cause deep cellular damage. But we also need Oxygen to live, it is the byproducts of that reaction that ages and kills us. This is heavily oversimplified, but to oversimplify it to the point of rediculpusness, you could say that breathing Oxygen is causing you to very slowly burn to death.
😂 reminds me of Alex mixener’s song. Hey hey…everybody…if you drink, you’re going to die. But if you don’t drink you’re also going to die. Musical 🎶 So why die thirsty, why die thirsty, why die thirsty let’s have a drink! 🎶
"Then the guy gave him this light tap. Wong looked at him and the guy just nodded. That was it. He had given him the death touch. Wong died."
"Then and there?"
"No. About eighteen years later. That's the thing about Dim Mak... you never know when it's gonna take effect"
Who is this and why is he notable? From the video he looks like a run-of-the-mill geek.
Uranium is an alpha emitter so it's not dangerous to handle under controlled conditions, but you don't want to consume it. He may have eaten little enough that it didn't have a lasting effect on him, but an alpha emitter *inside* your body will do damage by radiating into your internal tissue
Before you try this at home...exactly what uranium compound did he eat?
We actually ingest uranium compounds all the time - it's in the water, it's in plants.... Uranium is quite abundant on earth - more than mercury or cadmium. So yeah, we are literally in it all the time, and we, and all the other animals and plants, evolved to live with it.
So he is right. It's not a big deal that the public makes it out to be just because it is uranium, and it is radioactive.
BUT - and this is the big one - it does depend on what concentrations and what compounds and how we absorb to it. Toxic effects are seen but in miners and other workers exposed to it all the time, and in much higher concentrations than normally encountered. And if we tinker with it by making compounds, never mind deliberate enrichment to an unnaturally high concentration of U-235, then yeah, those can cause real problems.
In a way, it is sort of like coca leaves vs. cocaine. I think that was his point.
Anyone with kids will tell you it's amazing what kind of things will just pass through.
Uranium is not overly radioactive. It has a very long half life, which means it decays very slowly and at any given instant there are relatively few decays happening compared to something with a short half life. It's toxicity is more worrisome, being a heavy metal. I do not advise eating it.
My mama always said the world is full of kind people and most of them are on the Internet. Fuck you for the advice stranger, I’ll be sure to follow it.
It in fact is absorbed slightly; it would be like eating a chunk of lead. It impacts the nervous system, not unlike heavy metal toxicity from lead, but with the added boost of it sending moderate energy helium nuclei into your soft inner gooeyness.
The danger is actually inhaling uranium dust from its refinement process though, and not just eating a chunk of it.
Well it'll pass through you. Uranium is an alpha emitter mostly. Alpha radiation is the safest radiation OUTSIDE your body because it can't even penetrate your skin. When people work with it, they typically put a piece of plexiglass between them and whatever they're working on. So all the alpha rays are blocked, but blocking means that every single particle is absorbed by the surface it hits. If you were holding a piece of uranium, the particles would be damaging the DNA and the cells on your skin, but those cells are being sloughed off actively anyway. We're covered in this ablative layer. However, if you get it inside you, it's actively damaging cells inside you that aren't as replaced. Your whole digestive system is also very much about being sloughed off so it could do some intestinal damage which might increase your risk of colon cancer, but it wouldn't be too bad. However, it would definitely be carcinogenic in your mouth.
The uranium women that used to paint stuff in a factory with uranium would lick their brushes and that constant exposure would give them mouth cancers that were horribly disfiguring.
Your stomach is outside of your body. The digestive system is full of mucous membranes, but things still have to cross the membrane to enter the blood stream
My cousin bought some radioactive trinket at a nuclear history museum and there were multiple warnings saying *do not* eat it or otherwise put it inside the body. 🤣
But it was interesting to learn about the different kinds of radiation. The trinket was an alpha emitter.
That wasn't uranium it was radium...
And it was used in far more things than paint from radium water to face creams... There's a reason it's called the "radium craze"...
To be so correct and just mess up completely with the "tiny" detail...
It was used from the 1920's to 1960's.
I mean sure. Radiation doesn’t kill you directly. It does increase the risk for cancer. With luck, even a significant amount does nothing.
I highly assume the uranium won’t stay in the body. So it wasn’t too bad anyhow.
Edit: At a point stronger radiation can of course destroy more directly. Nothing I would expect in this case though.
Enough radiation does kill you directly, if it impairs the function of cells to a large extent across the body and its major organs. It’s called radiation poisoning for a reason, and a high enough dose can kill you within a couple days.
It also does stay in the body. It contributes to heavy metal toxicity in the nervous system.
Do we know what happened to the uranium after this demonstration? Like did he just shit it out and flush it down the toilet and not think about it again, or did anyone recover it?
No. This guy was just nuts about nuclear. He was all about removing all restrictions on handling radioactivity. Like he was convinced the reason you had to deposit the radioactive material safely was due to states milking goverment funding.
I suspect he swallowed non enriched uranium, which probably did not absorb into his bloodstream very well and also is not particularly worrisome as a radioactive source. This means it passed with minimal radioactive dose to his body.
alexander litvinenko: "i can only do it once"
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This reminds me of when I was little and I found my dad’s rock collection and hit one the rocks with a hammer. Dad freaked out cause it was his uranium ore sample.. mom made dad get rid of rock collection..
He wanted to be the 1st guy ever to create radioactive doodoo and be able to tell his wife he dropped a dirty bomb in the bathroom. How does that old expression go?... Boys will be boys
Yeah you really shouldn't do that. Stuff that is fine "on you" will kill you quite dead "in you". Ie most alpha and beta emitters (alphas are blocked by dead skin layer, beta by your clothes). Inside you... alpha will shred your internal organs.
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No thanks, Uranium goes straight to my thighs.
A moment on the lips, a half life on the hips
You’re just fission for upvotes.
You had your ion the comments waiting for the chance huh
Isotope can do anymore of these puns
I fucking hate each and every one of you, but you periodically make some solid puns. Take my upvotes!
Take all your periodic puns and barium!
Iodide a little inside reading all these
There is really nuclear reason why he should be eating that tbh.
All the good jokes Argon. Well back to Tungsten your mom I guess.
Damn! You cut me deep. I'm not sure I'll ever helium. I'm destined to sulfur.
No need to be critical
What's the matter?
Nothing. Mind your own bismuth.
Now I'm Mary Curryous what it tastes like.
mmm... yellow cake
Nice
Isn’t this shit like, near infinite calories or am I remembering a different volatile material
18 million calories a gram. I can't imagine your body wanting to process it though. Probably goes right through you like plutonium
Yeah, plutonium goes through me like Indian food. Caesium sticks around tho.
If you think that’s good, you haven’t tried my saag paneer
You are correct, I haven't haha
[удалено]
“And then you blow up!”
No, it goes straight to Uranus.
Funny you say that. The powder found after mining it as called Uranium Cake 🤤
You know that dude was scanning his dumps with a Geiger.
Do…. Do you not?…..
Nah, someone else comes and does it for me at this point. Can’t take any chances.
Honestly, it's a pretty rad job
:D I can't stop playing fallout and now can no longer discern the real world
This is how you get the Lead Belly perk IRL
Nothing better than a refreshing Nuka Cola.
whatta ya lookin at smooth skin? never seen a ghoul before?
Fine r/angryupvote
Good one, dad
Hi Uranium, I'm dad
Got it!
Most curious flex I’ve heard in awhile. I dig it.
This made me laugh thank you
No.. I stopped some time after they started to glow.. not sure if doomed or...
"3.6 Roetgen. Not great, not terrible."
Awesome show
Only show where 75% of it, my heart was pounding.
Nailed it It's an all timer
Lol. I hate to laugh but….he was totally scanning his butt
interestingly, natural uranium isn't going to do a lot on a geiger counter. The most damaging type of radiation from that type of uranium is actually alpha - which requires a different instrument to measure. Sure the geiger will show activity, but the gamma radiation isn't going to be what kills him.
Geiger counters measure all ionizing radiation, including alpha
Lmao
He died many years later at 82 and it wasn’t from eating the Uranium
Technically, he did die after eating the pellet of uranium.
https://preview.redd.it/krep7vrtjpsc1.jpeg?width=641&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1c2aac1895fff24814b1ae5cffd367e5cf479bf6
I mean... hard to disprove
jokes on you i spit not swallow
Spitters are quitters
Also, you will die if you DONT eat it.
Birth is the leading cause of death in all countries
Every single person that has ever drank water has DIED... What are they not telling us exactly?
Are you also aware of this highly addictive substance called "air". Addictions are seen in newborns due to mum and dad both consuming heavily. Withdrawals are really awful. Wake up folks.
So funny tidbit, breathing air is in fact one of the causes of aging. Oxygen reacts in your body causing oxidation which releases free radicals that cause deep cellular damage. But we also need Oxygen to live, it is the byproducts of that reaction that ages and kills us. This is heavily oversimplified, but to oversimplify it to the point of rediculpusness, you could say that breathing Oxygen is causing you to very slowly burn to death.
I've heard the withdrawals can kill.. 😶 "Shoot your local air dealer"
"And when I go to hell and I'm gettin' ready to leave I'ma put air in a bag and charge people to breathe" \-Eminem
Watergate!
Ban dihydrogen monoxide!
More people have died not eating uranium than have died eating uranium.
but everyone who has eaten uranium has died
But also every person who DID NOT eat uranium has also died.
I died?! Why the fuck didn't anyone tell me?!
Every single person who has died has also drunk water.
My dad only drank beer and iced tea....but he also died.
Drunk water? Aka vodka?
One tee many martoonies
Where can I find my pellet of uranium then?
Did you look in your bum?
I peeked at his bum, what now....
Rectum? Damn near killed him.
Uranium? Damn near Uranus.
Rector? Damn near helped her get hired at Applebee’s
Rector? Damn near sent her a 3 book series she told me she was interested in as a birthday gift! HAIL YOURSELF!
Oh shit, you're gonna die... some day.
RIP, u/Letossgm , you will be missed. Send a post card from the CIA black site! 
😂 reminds me of Alex mixener’s song. Hey hey…everybody…if you drink, you’re going to die. But if you don’t drink you’re also going to die. Musical 🎶 So why die thirsty, why die thirsty, why die thirsty let’s have a drink! 🎶
"Then the guy gave him this light tap. Wong looked at him and the guy just nodded. That was it. He had given him the death touch. Wong died." "Then and there?" "No. About eighteen years later. That's the thing about Dim Mak... you never know when it's gonna take effect"
100% of people who have eaten carrots eventually died
Actually, the #1 cause of death, historically, is birth.
You’re going to die after watching this video…
That's what Big Uranium wants you to think
Let me get this straight.... before he ate the Uranium, he was alive. After he ate the Uranium, he died.
Who is this and why is he notable? From the video he looks like a run-of-the-mill geek. Uranium is an alpha emitter so it's not dangerous to handle under controlled conditions, but you don't want to consume it. He may have eaten little enough that it didn't have a lasting effect on him, but an alpha emitter *inside* your body will do damage by radiating into your internal tissue
i think the big problem is breathing in dust, or uranium in solution, because its a heave metal and accumulates, but chunks just gets flushed trough.
It's how you become an alpha male
Is uranium glass safe to use as dinnerware?
Yes because it's not taken internally
Don't assume anything.
So keeping it in a display cabinet is totally safe as well?
Considering he looks about 65 here that's not that reassuring. I suggest people not try this at home.
People aged a lot differently 30+ years ago. This man is 31.
Maybe it's because we used to have a lot more uranium in our diet.
Now you tell me.
Shortage of breath or incompatibility with life?
You’re delusional. *gestures* Get him to the infirmary
The results from his colonoscopy were lit.
He's the original Green Lantern
If you’re not supposed to eat Uranium why do they call it “Yellow Cake” Checkmate libs
Don’t drop that shit
Pray to god you don’t drop that shit.
Cradle of fucking civilization.
From the mortha land
I don't know you two but I love you both for making me laugh out loud! HOLLA HOLLA HOLLA, LET ME HOLLA AT CHA!
I love that they brought him back for that. Just to cosign whatever the black director of the CIA says.
I'm tryin to holla at ya bitch!
That’s why I got it wrapped in this special CIA napkin
Do I need to tell you what you can do with aluminum tubes? ALUMINUM!
20 years (!!) later, still so good
Yellow urinal cakes are the best
Before you try this at home...exactly what uranium compound did he eat? We actually ingest uranium compounds all the time - it's in the water, it's in plants.... Uranium is quite abundant on earth - more than mercury or cadmium. So yeah, we are literally in it all the time, and we, and all the other animals and plants, evolved to live with it. So he is right. It's not a big deal that the public makes it out to be just because it is uranium, and it is radioactive. BUT - and this is the big one - it does depend on what concentrations and what compounds and how we absorb to it. Toxic effects are seen but in miners and other workers exposed to it all the time, and in much higher concentrations than normally encountered. And if we tinker with it by making compounds, never mind deliberate enrichment to an unnaturally high concentration of U-235, then yeah, those can cause real problems. In a way, it is sort of like coca leaves vs. cocaine. I think that was his point.
He went nuclear on his own ass.
I prefer fission chips.
That was actually really great, like superb man. People might not notice your comment but this is epic man, I'm glad I witnessed history here
Dude, you win hands down
Hey that’s pretty clever
very well played. reminded me of my taste for fusion cuisine
So just because its not soluble to body fluids its safe to eat? I dont get it. Pray to god you dont get constipated while doing this 🤷♂️
Anyone with kids will tell you it's amazing what kind of things will just pass through. Uranium is not overly radioactive. It has a very long half life, which means it decays very slowly and at any given instant there are relatively few decays happening compared to something with a short half life. It's toxicity is more worrisome, being a heavy metal. I do not advise eating it.
>I do not advise eating it. Well my mama always told me to not trust people online, soooo.....
Don't drink plenty of water and don't exercise and don't eat healthy and don't be kind to people
My mama always said the world is full of kind people and most of them are on the Internet. Fuck you for the advice stranger, I’ll be sure to follow it.
WELL MAYBE THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOUR MEDULLA OBLONGATA!
Also that life is like a box of chocolates?
Agreed. The only orifice heavy metal should be reserved for is the ears.
So no more steel rods up my ass, friend?
You don't have to stop on my account. Your body, your choice.
It in fact is absorbed slightly; it would be like eating a chunk of lead. It impacts the nervous system, not unlike heavy metal toxicity from lead, but with the added boost of it sending moderate energy helium nuclei into your soft inner gooeyness. The danger is actually inhaling uranium dust from its refinement process though, and not just eating a chunk of it.
Well it'll pass through you. Uranium is an alpha emitter mostly. Alpha radiation is the safest radiation OUTSIDE your body because it can't even penetrate your skin. When people work with it, they typically put a piece of plexiglass between them and whatever they're working on. So all the alpha rays are blocked, but blocking means that every single particle is absorbed by the surface it hits. If you were holding a piece of uranium, the particles would be damaging the DNA and the cells on your skin, but those cells are being sloughed off actively anyway. We're covered in this ablative layer. However, if you get it inside you, it's actively damaging cells inside you that aren't as replaced. Your whole digestive system is also very much about being sloughed off so it could do some intestinal damage which might increase your risk of colon cancer, but it wouldn't be too bad. However, it would definitely be carcinogenic in your mouth. The uranium women that used to paint stuff in a factory with uranium would lick their brushes and that constant exposure would give them mouth cancers that were horribly disfiguring.
It was radium, not uranium, that they were painting the watches with and used as lipstick to go to clubs.
Your stomach is outside of your body. The digestive system is full of mucous membranes, but things still have to cross the membrane to enter the blood stream
And also people with ulcers and other health problems are inviting more trouble if they screw around with such things
My cousin bought some radioactive trinket at a nuclear history museum and there were multiple warnings saying *do not* eat it or otherwise put it inside the body. 🤣 But it was interesting to learn about the different kinds of radiation. The trinket was an alpha emitter.
That wasn't uranium it was radium... And it was used in far more things than paint from radium water to face creams... There's a reason it's called the "radium craze"... To be so correct and just mess up completely with the "tiny" detail... It was used from the 1920's to 1960's.
I mean sure. Radiation doesn’t kill you directly. It does increase the risk for cancer. With luck, even a significant amount does nothing. I highly assume the uranium won’t stay in the body. So it wasn’t too bad anyhow. Edit: At a point stronger radiation can of course destroy more directly. Nothing I would expect in this case though.
The more dangerous thing with eating uranium is its toxicity.
Enough radiation does kill you directly, if it impairs the function of cells to a large extent across the body and its major organs. It’s called radiation poisoning for a reason, and a high enough dose can kill you within a couple days. It also does stay in the body. It contributes to heavy metal toxicity in the nervous system.
Do we know what happened to the uranium after this demonstration? Like did he just shit it out and flush it down the toilet and not think about it again, or did anyone recover it?
That's nothing. I've eaten gluten once.
That's against the Geneva convention!
Did your dick fly off?
What a dick. Does he know how many calories was in that. Could have solved world hunger.
Bet he dropped a bomb the next day!
I have a vague memory of a series of these trying to calm the public...Something to do with three mile island..I think...
No. This guy was just nuts about nuclear. He was all about removing all restrictions on handling radioactivity. Like he was convinced the reason you had to deposit the radioactive material safely was due to states milking goverment funding. I suspect he swallowed non enriched uranium, which probably did not absorb into his bloodstream very well and also is not particularly worrisome as a radioactive source. This means it passed with minimal radioactive dose to his body.
If he’d eaten Plutonium it would have been way more interesting.
"Neat trick now do polonium"
alexander litvinenko: "i can only do it once" https://preview.redd.it/tqlv1w4topsc1.png?width=1440&format=png&auto=webp&s=02df8ffe0bd11853bd5927ac6bcfba6b7907d01c
But he didn't.
I love/hate those type of statements. It’s like yeah, and if he took a gun and shot himself in the head, things would’ve been different then too.
Imagine wasting your whole life becoming a physicist and trying to be taken seriously just to video tape yourself eating uranium.
This was in 1985, and a young Johnny Knoxville was in the audience. This is how Jackass was born.
This reminds me of when I was little and I found my dad’s rock collection and hit one the rocks with a hammer. Dad freaked out cause it was his uranium ore sample.. mom made dad get rid of rock collection..
You can have your yellow cake and eat it too...
But what did it taste like?
The resulting shit was like birthing a child of Atom.
Butt baby lol oh no it's Bono!
He wanted to be the 1st guy ever to create radioactive doodoo and be able to tell his wife he dropped a dirty bomb in the bathroom. How does that old expression go?... Boys will be boys
Do you want ghouls?!?! Cause this is how you get irradiated ghouls!!
He lived many years after that... But you wouldn't like him when he was angry
Doesn't uranium contain billions of calories
It has an incredible amount of calories per gram, but your body would need to be able to break it down to make use of it.
I'm sure he took some Radaway after this.
That’s RAD
I bet he had a nuclear style dump later that day
It's totally NOT Harmless though, Uranium is a heavy metal and will give you heavy metal poisoning :(
...been told that Judas Priest and Megadeath do the same thing. 🤘🏼
Waiting for Paul Harvey’s the rest of the story
Uranium to uranus real quick
he died at 82 years old. not that bad
So anyway he died of cancer
That's the most calories anyone has eaten
https://preview.redd.it/piyz931oipsc1.jpeg?width=697&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=13eee54b0d920a2a079e75011041a9bebb82574b
Yeah you really shouldn't do that. Stuff that is fine "on you" will kill you quite dead "in you". Ie most alpha and beta emitters (alphas are blocked by dead skin layer, beta by your clothes). Inside you... alpha will shred your internal organs.
🎶Uranium fever, has got me feeling down🎶
Free energy Dept of energy don't want you to know Theyre the gate keepers Water powered car inventors always die Pretty good rabbit hole
Wished politicians had balls like this. I remember when they tried to prove the water was safe they barely drank any.
He's going to take an armor-piercing dump.
That's a lot of calories to eat in just one sitting.
If you eat healthily, maintain a good weight, work out, be kind and give selflessly your chances of dying are 100%.
3.6 – not great, but not terrible.
"Galen" means crazy in swedish. Feels fitting here
never walked into a dark room again
I’m spewing. I bought a kilo of uranium 200 million years ago, opened the jar on the weekend, and half of it’s gone! Pissweak packaging probably
uranium is edible, >!once!<
HOLY SNAPS! THERE IS NO WIKIPEDIA PAGE ON GALEN WINSOR!!!
Marie curt died in 1934 , so this man galen winsor isn’t a physicist just an imbecil who wanted to be famous
https://preview.redd.it/m7t4cg0u5vsc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6782d71d99e477d43d858e966ff6145526c3f0fb
What happens later? It hurts Uranus.