A glowing horizon for phones

A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years::A glowing horizon for phones

  • Transporter Room 3@startrek.websiteEnglish
    112·
    8 months ago

    Man, I figured the joke was obvious but I guess not.

    “tiny amount of radioactive material whose radiation stopped by thin plastics is a literal death sentence” is, I thought, pretty clear hyperbole.

    • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
      5·
      8 months ago

      A lot of people are really irrationally afraid of anything involving radiation. I mistook you for one of them.

      • Transporter Room 3@startrek.websiteEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        No worries. Glow it up, let’s get some extreme energy density up in this bitch. I went for nuke in the old days where I enlisted in the military.

        I have a healthy respect for radiation. That’s why I leave handling the good stuff to the professionals.

        I’ve actually got some small isotope samples in a lockbox from an old highschool demonstration lab for Geiger counters. No Geiger counter though yet. I haven’t even opened it since I got it to check the contents were intact.

      • deranger@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        Inhaling a beta emitter would be catastrophic in your lungs. The concern is absolutely warranted and it’s significantly more dangerous than lithium ion. I’m not afraid of nuclear power but this is stupid.