this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2023
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Fake History Porn

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Welcome to /c/[email protected] , where fake history is made. Find a historically significant photo, come up with a fake history title, post it, laugh.

The name is a reference to the fact that the pictures should be worth marveling at. This is NOT a place for hardcore pornography. Tasteful nudity is fine as long as it fits within the context of the post (please mark it as NSFW).

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you think that the suit he's wearing somehow protects against the gamma radiation and neutrons screaming through his body? It's just to keep from tracking dust / tiny radioactive particles.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yes, I did think that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't there a suit that can protect from radioactivity? Whats the point of the suit if the user gets fucked either way?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

No, there's nothing human+portable that will provide enough protection for it to be worthwhile:

Unlike charged particles, a certain percentage of gammas will always make it through the absorber, and it is useful to consider the half-value thickness of a given absorbing material for the gamma ray energies of interest.

https://sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu/presentations/%CE%B1-%CE%B2-%CE%B3-penetration-and-shielding

Neutrons require similar shielding.

It's possible to block alpha emissions with skin/paper and beta with a sheet of foil, gamma and neutron are scary