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Don't you think that x-rays have potential long term cancer effects? I worked with some medical devices in the past. Often after work I used the device in my o
by holoduke 5y ago
Don't you think that x-rays have potential long term cancer effects?
I worked with some medical devices in the past. Often after work I used the device in my own body or random equipment just for fun to see the inside. I didn't know anything about side effects..I am still alive 20 years later and i think it wasn't too bad. But still.
- buescher 5y agoAnother proponent of mechanical television!
- CamperBob2 5y agoWell, sure, they're ionizing radiation. Of course there's an increased cancer risk, one that becomes more noticeable with increasing exposure. Normally we trade that off against their beneficial diagnostic properties, but this was an era when people didn't always think the tradeoffs through completely. X rays are the least of your worries with this project, though... this was back in the day when men were men, women knew their place (except for that uppity Marie Curie broad), and engineers wired headphone jacks directly to high-voltage B+ supplies. (See the schematic in this very article, in fact.) It's amazing our ancestors survived to pass on their genes. A lot of our would-be ancestors didn't.