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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] 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