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Well, they clearly didn’t think much of the doctors advice… the next day: > “September 16, Alves succeeded in puncturing the capsule's aperture window with a s
by mrexroad 4y ago
Well, they clearly didn’t think much of the doctors advice… the next day:
> “September 16, Alves succeeded in puncturing the capsule's aperture window with a screwdriver, allowing him to see a deep blue light coming from the tiny opening he had created.[1] He inserted the screwdriver and successfully scooped out some of the glowing substance. Thinking it was perhaps a type of gunpowder, he tried to light it, but the powder would not ignite.”
- EdwardDiego 4y agoWhen I first read about this, I wondered how you wouldn't be afraid of something glowing with a deep blue light. I feel like that would get the ol spidey sense tingling for most.
- throwanem 4y agoCherenkov emission is quite beautiful. If you don't have any inkling of the hazard it indicates, why be afraid?
- dylan604 4y agoIgnorance is bliss as they say. however, "let me light this glowing-blue stuff on fire to see if it is gun powder" really sounds like they forgot the part where he said "hold my beer"
- throwanem 4y agoI mean, I can respect an experimentalist approach. It certainly seems foolish when considered on the assumption that everyone in the world knew as much about radiation forty years ago as you and I know today, but so to assume would constitute flagrant historiographical presentism.
- dylan604 4y agogranted, i did omit the 40 years ago factor in my judging.