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Radiation affects the memory first... I think!
Posted by bdk on Wed Feb 04, 2004 09:50:01 PM
In reply top Paul Vaguely remembering his Physics class posted by Paul McMillan on Wed Feb 04, 2004 07:25:45 AM
Also very dangerous are all those old instrument dials. There have been a couple of instrument repair shops in the Los Angeles area closed down because of this problem.
You should not keep these instruments in your bedroom, and NEVER open the instrument and mess with (or eat) the dial. And don't keep these instruments in your pocket either.
: And frightenly.. We had a lot of radio active stuff at Sch
: ool when I was a kid.. Locked away in a special cupboard w
: ith a radiation symbol on it this would give security serv
: ices a headache now.. aka dirty bomb like) the only troubl
: e was the School couldn't get rid of it. Catch 22. They re
: ally shouldn't have had it anymore, but they couldn't find
: anyone to accept it/dispose of it safely.