Frame said the ring likely used polonium-210 because it was the most accessible substance that could produce the alpha particles required to make the effect work. However, polonium-210 has a relatively short half-life of 138 days, meaning that approximately half the polonium in the ring would have been gone within about four and a half months. In other words, a vintage Atomic Bomb Ring isn’t going to be producing any scintillations.
Even while the ring’s effect was still happening, though, kids weren’t really in danger. Alpha radiation can be dangerous when ingested, but it’s also the easiest type of radiation to block — even a sheet of paper is enough
This is straight out of Fallout lol
My first exposure to nuclear physics came at the age of 10 in 1947, two years after the atomic bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima.
Nothing much to do with the Lone Ranger, but everything to do with being proud we invented nukes and used them on a civilian population. Spinning it into the potent propaganda of children’s cereal toys. That’s pretty MAGA.
Fascinating and apparently true.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kix-lone-ranger-atomic-bomb-ring/
Newspaper ad here:
On 1 November 2006, Litvinenko was poisoned and later hospitalised. He died on 23 November, becoming the first confirmed victim of lethal polonium-210-induced acute radiation syndrome.
Yea, but Kinder Surprise eggs are illegal as fuck in the US…
If you’re in the US, it actually is possible and legal to order small quantities of radioisotopes even today.
https://unitednuclear.com/radioactive-isotopes-c-2_5/
Just note, they DO NOT ship internationally. And if you try to order 10,000 disk sources, you WILL be getting an angry knock on your door from the NRC.
Huh and how many discs would it take to make a small generator for a house so I can tell my electric company to fuck off LMAO
For legal reasons that was a joke
Talk about inflation! These atomic rings were only $0.15 in 1947! And those disks for polonium210 are $120
Kind of cool but i wouldn’t know what to do with it and i don’t need an expensive hobby lol
+5 rads per second
Still some on eBay, too rich for my blood. Love one for my curio cabinet of weird shit.
Looks like perfect swallowing size.
