Contest Entry #1

[spuzzlightyear.livejournal.com]

Comments

[aj-hyena.livejournal.com]

So how much damage DOES "2700 mache units" do?

Wonder where the "Rayodes" are now...

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

Mache units (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mache_%28unit%29) = 1 ME = 3.64 Eman = 3.64×10-10 Ci/L = 13.4545 Bq/L.

So 2700 units in two quarts (I'm assuming US quarts here) is 2700 units in a Litre, which is 36300 Bq (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becquerel). Taken internally, over a long period of time, can't be a good thing.

[seminarist.livejournal.com]

Wait, two US quarts is 1.89 Liters.

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

Dammit, so it is. OK - 68700 Bq. That's worse.

[hideko.livejournal.com]

Actually, it'd be such a ridiculously small amount of radiation ingested, it would hardly make a difference. Eating one banana will give you 3520 picocuries of radiation, while this ridiculous concoction is a tiny fraction of even that.

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

one could just sit the jar in strong sunlight for a day ...

[hideko.livejournal.com]

Actually, it'd be such a ridiculously small amount of radiation ingested, it would hardly make a difference. Eating one banana will give you 3520 picocuries of radiation, while this ridiculous concoction is a tiny fraction of even that.

[lisasimpsonfan.livejournal.com]

That is scary

[mary-shelley77.livejournal.com]

I wonder how many people died of cancer after drinking this stuff?

[janenx01.livejournal.com]

My husband has gout. I don't think I'll be suggesting this to him.

[bear-foot.livejournal.com]

get him life insurance first! :)

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

It depends on how much you like your husband... ;p

Yes!

[neuralclone.livejournal.com]

.... And as a bonus, you get to glow in the dark!

(Any idea when this was published, btw?)

Re: Yes!

[seminarist.livejournal.com]

I would say 1920th.

Re: Yes!

[spuzzlightyear.livejournal.com]

1914.

YES

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

And it does wonders for the eyesight too; you'll be able to see at night by your own gentle green glow.

YES

[njbearcub1.livejournal.com]

I used to get periodical headaches, until I stopped reading magazines.

Re: YES

[cactuswren.livejournal.com]

... ba da bum.

[farranger.livejournal.com]

"The Rayode will last a lifetime."

Not a hard claim to keep if your product is radioactive.

yes

[willowind76.livejournal.com]

this is super spooky. I wonder how many people accually used it?

[hydrozoa.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Byers

[nekochanpurr.livejournal.com]

D:

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

I wonder where all the radioactive "medical" gadgets ended up. To a landfill? People's attics?

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~koeth/hp/radium.html

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

as of 1990, 65% of America's Ra-226 stockpile is unaccountable for.

O_o!!

Yes

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

In Rod we trust!

[meezergal.livejournal.com]

In a way, it's no crazier than the man who turned blue taking colloidal silver he compounded himself from wire. Except this is, of course, radioactive. Crazy people will always be with us.

[lightning-rose.livejournal.com]

A century ago, Denver was a hotbed of radium processing, and ended up with 65 superfund sites to show for it.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=denver+radium

Yes

[cactuswren.livejournal.com]

I wonder how much it cost?