I'm radioactive

[Paco Lopez]

I went to the doctor this morning and now I'm putting out about 1 millirem per hour. Now I'm just waiting for my new superpowers to kick in.

Pics 'cuz it happened:

[crosbike]

A person would get this amount of radiation from

* Three days of living in Atlanta
* Two days of living in Denver
* About seven hours in some spots in the Espirito Santo State of Brazil.

You increase your dose by a millirem by:

* an average year of TV watching
* a year of wearing a luminous dial watch
* a coast-to-coast airline flight
* a year living next door to a normally operating nuclear power plant

[HeavyMetal]

A person would get this amount of radiation from

* Three days of living in Atlanta
* Two days of living in Denver
* About seven hours in some spots in the Espirito Santo State of Brazil.

You increase your dose by a millirem by:

* an average year of TV watching
* a year of wearing a luminous dial watch
* a coast-to-coast airline flight
* a year living next door to a normally operating nuclear power plant

/thread

[crosbike]

and you shaved your beard. -2 points.

[CSaddict]

A person would get this amount of radiation from

* Three days of living in Atlanta
* Two days of living in Denver
* About seven hours in some spots in the Espirito Santo State of Brazil.

You increase your dose by a millirem by:

* an average year of TV watching
* a year of wearing a luminous dial watch
* a coast-to-coast airline flight
* a year living next door to a normally operating nuclear power plant

Wow. Fuck Wikipedia. Alex is the shit.

[Paco Lopez]

A person would get this amount of radiation from

* Three days of living in Atlanta
* Two days of living in Denver
* About seven hours in some spots in the Espirito Santo State of Brazil.

You increase your dose by a millirem by:

* an average year of TV watching
* a year of wearing a luminous dial watch
* a coast-to-coast airline flight
* a year living next door to a normally operating nuclear power plant

I didn't get a 1 millirem dose, I'm emitting 1 millirem/hour (and have been since 9:00 this morning when they injected me with some radioactive goo) so you would receive the equivalent of 1 year next door to a nuclear power plant by standing next to me for 1 hour. For comparison my mom is emitting .022 millirem.

I stuck the sensor up to the TV screen and it didn't seem to go up at all from the background level (~.017 millirem). This made me sad.

So while I'm sitting here irradiating the couch with nothing better to do, does anyone else have any suggested targets for me to point my radiation-o-meter at?

PS: In before "your mom" jokes.

PPS: How long before the FBI raids SiS because the words "nuclear power plant", "radioactive", and "target" appear in the same post?

[Ruecifur]

So while I'm sitting here irradiating the couch with nothing better to do, does anyone else have any suggested targets for me to point my radiation-o-meter at?

go poop... then test your poo

[wannabejeep]

A while back my boss was getting caner treatments. He told me the first night he got home, he went in the bathroom and turned off all the lights to see if he would glow in the dark

[Paco Lopez]

go poop... then test your poo

I thought of that but I already took a dump before I got the meter and I'll probably be back to normal by the next one.

Added difficulty is that I can only measure things I can put the meter on and walk away from, otherwise I throw the reading off.

[Even]

where do i get one of them there fancy testers?

[Lawn Guyland]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. interesting.

[Paco Lopez]

where do i get one of them there fancy testers?

Make friends with people who have to deal with radioactive stuff for a living

[Even]

Make friends with people who have to deal with radioactive stuff for a living

i'll have to see if my brother can get a hold of one

[Quartney]

just let us know when you grow an extra arm out of your forehead

[DrThunder]

FYI, I've picked up a couple hundred or so millirem in the course of a day at work and have worked in areas that emit 600+ millirem per hour. Basically just watch your total dosage rise. I still don't glow.

The fact that you are emitting radiation is kinda cool.

Stick that thing in a microwave