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Gamma Rays, shoot the bastards with Gamma Rays in an irradiation chamber.

Pxtl 3y ago
Exactly what I was thinking. Hospitals already use a lot of hyper-hazardous materials and ionizing radiation, this is within their skill and logistical abilities. A hospital could leverage something similar to a big industrial food irradiator within its laundry system to sterilize everything.
- LargoLasskhyfv 3y ago
  Maybe industrial application of so called 'cold-plasma' would be a more sensible thing to do? Or in addition, just to 'be sure'.
- jayknight 3y ago
  I work at a children's cancer hospital and they have UV robots that go into rooms to disinfect them between patients.
  - genewitch 3y ago
    at the main hospital here they have a large UV/ozone machine that makes a popping sound like a large flashbulb twice a second or so. I don't think it's a robot. As an aside, where can i reliably get any real UV-C + Ozone bulb these days? I had 3, i gave one away and two broke during the pandemic, and all i have been able to find in the past year and a half is UV-C that doesn't produce ozone, but instead that weird "too much sunlight" smell - anti-septic smelling but it doesn't murder pathogens like ozone does.
- ajb 3y ago
  I dunno about that. I remember reading about an incident where a radiation source was transported in a lorry for miles without the cap on. Would have been a quite damaging if it hadn't happened to be pointed downwards Edited to add: found it: https://archive.is/mtvCY https://archive.is/mtvCY
  - cratermoon 3y ago
    See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident "an unsecured radiotherapy source was stolen from an abandoned hospital site in the city."
ycombinete 3y ago
That’s how you get gamma ray resistant bacteria.
- giantg2 3y ago
  Are there any resistant to gamma irradiation procedures today?
  - hoseja 3y ago
    Hydrothermal vent extremophiles are also very resistant to radiation.
    - giantg2 3y ago
      Thanks! I was able to find a very interesting article on that subject with those search terms. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38394859 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38394859
  - LargoLasskhyfv 3y ago
    While not directly on-topic, this article has many interesting links https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5137497/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5137497/ Also we don't really know that much of funghi, mosses, lichen & algae, and their symbiotic relations utilizing bacteria. All in all a rather undiscovered territory.
  - the8472 3y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioresistance#Radioresistance_comparison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioresistance#Radioresistanc... But hopefully the intersection between radio-resistant, antibiotic-resistant and dangerous-to-humans is empty.
ajnin 3y ago
Wait until they evolve to use them as energy like the mushrooms of Chernobyl.
matheusmoreira 3y ago
*Evolves a way to survive your gamma rays* *Evolves a way to eat your gamma rays* *Absorbs the DNA plasmids of any fallen bacteria like microscopic Mega Men* Nothing personnel, kid.

Pxtl 3y ago

Exactly what I was thinking. Hospitals already use a lot of hyper-hazardous materials and ionizing radiation, this is within their skill and logistical abilities. A hospital could leverage something similar to a big industrial food irradiator within its laundry system to sterilize everything.

LargoLasskhyfv 3y ago
Maybe industrial application of so called 'cold-plasma' would be a more sensible thing to do? Or in addition, just to 'be sure'.
jayknight 3y ago
I work at a children's cancer hospital and they have UV robots that go into rooms to disinfect them between patients.
- genewitch 3y ago
  at the main hospital here they have a large UV/ozone machine that makes a popping sound like a large flashbulb twice a second or so. I don't think it's a robot. As an aside, where can i reliably get any real UV-C + Ozone bulb these days? I had 3, i gave one away and two broke during the pandemic, and all i have been able to find in the past year and a half is UV-C that doesn't produce ozone, but instead that weird "too much sunlight" smell - anti-septic smelling but it doesn't murder pathogens like ozone does.
ajb 3y ago
I dunno about that. I remember reading about an incident where a radiation source was transported in a lorry for miles without the cap on. Would have been a quite damaging if it hadn't happened to be pointed downwards Edited to add: found it: https://archive.is/mtvCY https://archive.is/mtvCY
- cratermoon 3y ago
  See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident "an unsecured radiotherapy source was stolen from an abandoned hospital site in the city."

ycombinete 3y ago

That’s how you get gamma ray resistant bacteria.

giantg2 3y ago
Are there any resistant to gamma irradiation procedures today?
- hoseja 3y ago
  Hydrothermal vent extremophiles are also very resistant to radiation.
  - giantg2 3y ago
    Thanks! I was able to find a very interesting article on that subject with those search terms. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38394859 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38394859
- LargoLasskhyfv 3y ago
  While not directly on-topic, this article has many interesting links https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5137497/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5137497/ Also we don't really know that much of funghi, mosses, lichen & algae, and their symbiotic relations utilizing bacteria. All in all a rather undiscovered territory.
- the8472 3y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioresistance#Radioresistance_comparison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioresistance#Radioresistanc... But hopefully the intersection between radio-resistant, antibiotic-resistant and dangerous-to-humans is empty.

ajnin 3y ago

Wait until they evolve to use them as energy like the mushrooms of Chernobyl.

matheusmoreira 3y ago

*Evolves a way to survive your gamma rays* *Evolves a way to eat your gamma rays* *Absorbs the DNA plasmids of any fallen bacteria like microscopic Mega Men* Nothing personnel, kid.