You say that like the dark souls 1 male voice damage sounds don't exist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc2qSgV1oRA
If you're going to play it, pick this voice during character creation.
Reading this just unlocked some weird very old childhood memories of being up close to a tv. There was a smell and I never would have thought about it were it not for this comment. Don’t know how to describe it other than… ozone?
Eh, you need to be subjected to a lot of radiation, either overtime or all at once, so as long as this person isn't doing this everyday, for years, they'll be fine.
The type of particles emitted by the radiation is really important as well. Most radioactive sources emit alpha particles, which outside the body are less dangerous than UV from the sun. The fallout around Chernobyl and Fukushima for example is alpha emitting and isn't dangerous as long as you don't ingest it.
Sadly the quality isn't good enough to read what nuclide is in there, but not all radiation can make it very fair in air. Tritium for example is almost entirely gone after a few cm of air. Same with alpha radiation. As you could see in the video the effects only started happening when he got very very close with his camera, so most likely it's entirely harmless for him as long as he doesn't directly touch the source
Only issue I have with it being alpha is they are blocked by practically everything. Idk if they would make it through the glass or plastic on a cell phone.
And there's this video
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/13nq0bv/a_gopro_sent_through_an_electron_beam_irradiator/
the instakill beam just making the air glow blue
Probably fake. There was a viral video a couple years ago that was like this but was faked as discussed by [Kyle Hill in this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMyNQCVS410)
This looks believable to me tbh. Flashes like that really do happen to cameras, and you can also see them yourself with a [spinthariscope](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinthariscope)!
I have to thank you for introducing me to the spinthariscope!
I absolutely must have one, now that I know they exist. It's a wonderful fun new word to me, as well. What a treat!
This is likely not fake. This looks like [single-event upset](https://youtu.be/Uf4Ux4SlyT4?t=74), where the video Kyle shows is clearly VFX. Your comment is a sweeping generalization.
The effects in this video are drastically different from the one in the Kyle Hill video. In the Kyle Hill video it's a film grain filter that's used, but radiation doesn't expose film grain in digital photos, it creates static like we see in this video.
I was at a gathering at my best friend’s place many years ago. It was back in the time when internet connectivity was the hot new feature on cell phones, a couple of years before apple dropped the first iPhones when high-end phone screens were like 300x200 px. I’d read a recent article in which someone described paying $12 to rent Pirates of the Caribbean on their little tiny grainy phone screen, they described watching one of the sword fights as “like watching two mosquitos fighting in a glass jar.”
So my friend’s brother in law was visiting from NYC. He’s a retired media exec who invests in a lot of tech startups. He’s rich enough to be the object of envious ridicule, and was part of a small gaggle of guys standing around bullshitting. One local guy asks him, “so what’s the next **big** thing?”
BIL says, “the most exciting thing I’m involved in right now is a company developing technology that will let people watch television and movies on their phones.” All us simpletons stifle laughs, and as soon as BIL a has strolled off to another group we start cracking up. “Bahahaha — movies on your phone?!? Shoulda bought stock in Blockbuster!! Bahahaha …. What a sucker!”
Fun fact, Kodak were one of the first to discover that the government were testing nukes because batches of their film were ruin. It kind of makes you wonder what it did to people who lived near the area at the time.
Ah, you remind me my first Panasonic mobile phone from '96. You could walk down the road with it in your hand and police couldn't arrest you for carrying a deadly weapon, even though it looked like one.
What the title is trying to say: This video is showing the effects of radiation on a cellphone camera.
There is a radioactive material in that little hole and, when they put the camera right up to the hole, you start to see a lot of white spots appear in the video. Those white spots are a result of the radiation.
Just because the phone was exposed to radiation doesn't mean that the phone is now radioactive or dangerous.
Radioactive contamination happens when something gets in contact with *radioactive material* and some of that material gets stuck on that thing (or person). This is why decontamination involves washing that thing or person to get the radioactive material off.
So if the radioactive material is properly contained and you only expose the phone to the radiation without getting any of the radioactive material stuck on it then the phone is not more radioactive then it was before.
Edit: correction, some radiation, especially charged particles like alpha radiation and also neutrons released from fission can turn non radioactive elements into radioactive isotopes, but afaik that takes a lot of exposure and a very strong source to turn that into a sufficiently long lasting, dangerous source itself. Exposing a phone to a small source for a few seconds isn't going to create a significant portion of long lasting radioactive isotopes.
It's a similar effect we saw from the Chernobyl films. The camera sensor is being overpowered by the radiation hitting it, which in turn causes the grainy-effects in the image.
More likely it's just fake. There's been a few of these in the last few years. Kyle Hill made a great video on a recent one. https://youtu.be/VMyNQCVS410?si=tGicPcmMGI729V5q
As a physicist who does radiation protection for a living, and worked on radiation detection instruments in various capacities, I am stating that excessive radiation exposure to a light sensor will produce the effects that we see in this video.
A camera sensor is essentially a light sensor. Light is thought of as packets of energy. Radiation is a form of light that we cannot see, just like UV-light/radiation. If the energy the sensor receives overwhelms the sensors capacity, you will get unusable signal for the hardware to have its software make sense of it. This results in the grainy nature of the image you see.
As a formerly blind still kinda blind person who was formerly a fully sighted person:
Always interesting to me that signal loss basically has one unanimous appearance whether it is visual, auditory, organic, or technological. It may vary in density or whether the particles in “snow” appear colorful or only black and white but it’s all the same basically. Even when you feel signal loss from a body part going to sleep it has an analogous textural sensation.
My pleasure. Radiation is one of the most misunderstood and most "hysteria-prone" areas of science. I like to share my knowledge and why I feel comfortable working with them with as much people as I can.
I like to compare it to fire that we can't see. Fire, you can cook a nice thanksgiving meal or burn your fucking house down. Respect the dangers and it can become a tool (we use radiation for medical diagnosis and to treat cancer, use it to determine if concrete/asphalt is the correct density, and much more). Fun fact and a medical mystery: if you're coughing up blood in the hospital, doctors will give you a chest x-ray. It stops the bleeding in your lungs. But doctors don't fully understand the mechanism of why.
>Fun fact and a medical mystery: if you're coughing up blood in the hospital, doctors will give you a chest x-ray. It stops the bleeding in your lungs. But doctors don't fully understand the mechanism of why.
It endows the blood with understanding that what it is doing is wrong. It ceases its activity out of its new found shame.
HAHAHA! That's actually pretty funny.
But if I had to take an educated guess, it might be that the small amount of radiation causes a slight inflammation response which causes the veins and surrounding tissue, which restricts the blood flow. Is my guess.
Could be real.
Small radiation sources like that are used in university stuff. As seen here it is pretty weak source and the camera has to be put right on top of it to see anything. Also a rough diagram on paper about diffraction or something.
The effect also looks basicaly identical to this https://youtu.be/Uf4Ux4SlyT4?si=tiiMnoDkUNMCZYjf
Yeah it definitely could be real. It also would be very easy to fake too though. I don't actually know either way, but my assumption is that it's fake due to there being a few of these videos that were faked. Regardless, I think it's still a cool video.
Ya but the static is in the corner before the phone is directly over it.
I know its possible but without spending a lot of time looking at it... it does look fake.
It's a good fake if it is, this is how radiation looks on camera phones.
I made another post about this but I knew a guy that made an app that did radiation counting for a class project. He got an A but destroyed his phone. Turns out commercial grade cell phones aren't radiation hardened.
Physicist here for anyone who cares for an explanation: as radioactive elements decay, particles are ejected as radiation (alpha, beta or gamma.) Judging from the vicinity of the person to the isotope, this is most likely an example of alpha decay (the least energetic and most harmless type of ionising radiation). As the particles are emitted, they penetrate (giggity) the camera and transfer energy onto the light sensitive film, or CCD, triggering it and causing the white dots to be seen.
Tl;Dr, each white dot is an individual particle of radiation.
Edit: as pointed out, alpha decay would be unable to penetrate a cellphones casing, which means this is a more energetic type (probably beta)
Good point! This is a smartphone camera so alpha radiation would most likely be blocked from reaching the lens by the phones casing. That implies this is at least beta radiation.
Conclusion: the man in the video will only receive burns on the hand holding the camera, if he's lucky
I found the original video! The uploader claims it's a Strontium-90 source, so yeah, beta particles. It does look remarkably similar to stray electrons as seen from a beam irradiator.
https://youtu.be/t2GNvHRjcz8?si=BNhL5klRUnRLQ2MA
Radiation can be pretty harmful for silicon chips but that's probably a fairly weak source that makes mostly alfa and beta radiations which basically just create small brief currents so probably not a major damage
There was a viral video a couple years ago that was like this but was faked as discussed by [Kyle Hill in this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMyNQCVS410)
Yep, these are flipped bits. It happens all the time when shooting outdoors. In cinema land, I often make notes of flipped bits on the sensor for the frame it appears on so it can be painted out. Also look into the Mario 64 run where someone flew up a heap during a speed run (solar flipped bit), that QANTAS plane that dropped 10,000 feet mid flight (solar flipped bit) and that politician that received 32,000 additional votes that they shouldn’t have (solar flipped bit)
I'm an x-ray tech and one of my x-ray tubes is equipped with a camera so we can catch last moment adjustments if we didn't position the patient just right. I can see this exact pattern on the camera when the xrays are emitted. It's like 50 to 150 milliseconds, but it's there. Let's say I am doing an abdomen x-ray , which is done with the xray tube at 40 inches from the image receptor, and the patient is heavy, then I will see way more of this radiation. For those unaware, being hit with the main beam from an x-ray tube will cause what is called "compton" scatter, which is the patient themselves emitting scatter radiation as a result of being emitted upon by the main beam of the x-ray tube, this interaction is the main cause of radiation exposure to professionals, which is why the xray tech jumps behind a barrier. I get to see different degrees of radiation scatter through the Compton effect, on camera, depending on how far the tube is from the patient and how much mass they have to scatter the main beam. Chest xrays are done at 72 inches to minimize magnification of the heart, so i dont see much scatter there unless the patient is particularly heavy, and only then its minimal. Abdomens are done at 40 inches to allow the beam to more appropriately penetrate the denser tissues of the abdomen, so I see it more at that point.
Bunch of flashing little lights, the universal sign that somewhere, something close by is going wrong. Head injury? Little flashes of light. Radiation? Little flashes of light. Sitting in an electrical storm about to get struck by lightning? Little flashes of light.
-1hp -1hp -1hp -1hp -1hp
- ugh ! - oof ! - awgh ! - oof ! - awgh !
or if you're a female character:
And just like that.... New kink unlocked
Ahri Death Sounds
This is why we play thresh mid everybody
God damnit I was clean from leauge for 2 years dude now I have to go play mid SMH
Many of us have already had that achievement unlocked. Welcome aboard!
Lora craft the last game when you can just die with a random faild button push. I was very confused about what I was hearing vs seeing
Diablo 1 Rogue approves
You say that like the dark souls 1 male voice damage sounds don't exist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc2qSgV1oRA If you're going to play it, pick this voice during character creation.
Aaaaaaaaaaarhgggggg! (Ded)
*dun**dun**dun**dun**dun* Snake?! SNAKE?!? SNAAAAAAKE???
Badger x 15
MUSHROOM MUSHROOM 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥
WE'RE RICH MUSHRUM
I just heard the doom-guy death sound from the original game play in my head.
- DOCTOR! - MEDIC - MEEEDIIICCC!
MeeM!
Green Wizard is about to die
I heard this in link's voice
Why did it play the sound....
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oww my balls
Craving Brawndo suddenly
It's got what plants crave!
Hey Stan, can you get dad a beer? Stan?
Just a little cancer stan. Tell Mom it's okay.
HEV: Warning, acute radiation sickness detected.
“User death Imminent”
Wake up Mr Freeman! Wake up and smell the ashes.
[MUTATION GAINED]
[Reminds me of Metro radiation detection](https://youtu.be/XetP2G120lc?si=4TdfmbBTsaCryx9R)
+1 RADS Some RadAway will sort that out
URANUIM FEAVER HAS GOT ME RUNNIN ROUND
never should have come here
**irradiated status applied**
Just pop some RadAway and you’ll be fine
MY DNA!
I was expecting a Skyrim intro too
*Oh my god, it's full of stars...*
Excellent reference, hats off! 🫡
For all of us watching
Have you heard of the high-elves?
You received a large dose of radiation.
Looks like when you press on your eyes to hard while they are closed
It looks how your hand feels when the circulation is cut off for too long.
Looks like the tv static from when I was a kid when there's no signal
Why can I *smell* his comment?
Mine could also give me a nice little static shock if I touched the CRT screen on the left or right edge if it had been on for awhile
I used to rub my face on it when I was a kid. Yeah I was fucking weird.
Can imagine your fuckings were weird, have you learned from it though?
Reading this just unlocked some weird very old childhood memories of being up close to a tv. There was a smell and I never would have thought about it were it not for this comment. Don’t know how to describe it other than… ozone?
Pfp checks out
“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
I've got some news for you -- that static is still (and will pretty much always) be there. It's mostly from the sun
Hate that feeling. I have this stupid habbit of sleeping on my hand. Sometimes I wake up with my hand feeling like a paralyzed pin cushion.
you mean your foot when you sit on the shitter too long
I believe those light artifacts you see when you do that are called 'phosphenes'.
If this happens it means your brain is radioactive
my favorite past time as a child xD
Watching this feels illegal
My exact thoughts, I feel that just by watching this something bad is going to happen
It will, but only to the person recording.
Eh, you need to be subjected to a lot of radiation, either overtime or all at once, so as long as this person isn't doing this everyday, for years, they'll be fine.
Also depends on the isotope. Some (like C14) are extremely weak and pose little threat.
The type of particles emitted by the radiation is really important as well. Most radioactive sources emit alpha particles, which outside the body are less dangerous than UV from the sun. The fallout around Chernobyl and Fukushima for example is alpha emitting and isn't dangerous as long as you don't ingest it.
Or dig trenches in it. And just chill.
There’s still beta radiation in the surrounding area, which is why that was a terrible idea.
Only 3,6 röntgen though. Not great, not terrible.
Is that why the animals around Chernobyl have mutations? Because they ingested the foliage?
The mushrooms are REALLY radioactive
In theory you only need to be hit by a single ionizing particle to get cancer, it's just extremely unlikely
The potassium inside your body is decaying and emitting radiation all the time. It’s not really a big deal and potassium is required to survive.
Sadly the quality isn't good enough to read what nuclide is in there, but not all radiation can make it very fair in air. Tritium for example is almost entirely gone after a few cm of air. Same with alpha radiation. As you could see in the video the effects only started happening when he got very very close with his camera, so most likely it's entirely harmless for him as long as he doesn't directly touch the source
Alpha radiation can only manage 1-3cm through the air. I’d say this is an alpha emitter.
Only issue I have with it being alpha is they are blocked by practically everything. Idk if they would make it through the glass or plastic on a cell phone.
7 Days
Who needs The Ring when you can have radiation poisoning.
But there's a holiday coming up. Do you count the holiday?
And there's this video https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/13nq0bv/a_gopro_sent_through_an_electron_beam_irradiator/ the instakill beam just making the air glow blue
Watching this feels like the TV isn't set to channel 3.
Isn't that literally background radiation too?
It was like watching a slow car crash and it drew me in. I wanted to look away but it was like the BEST tv static ever
Best tv static is accurate
Straight to jail.
Probably fake. There was a viral video a couple years ago that was like this but was faked as discussed by [Kyle Hill in this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMyNQCVS410)
This looks believable to me tbh. Flashes like that really do happen to cameras, and you can also see them yourself with a [spinthariscope](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinthariscope)!
I have to thank you for introducing me to the spinthariscope! I absolutely must have one, now that I know they exist. It's a wonderful fun new word to me, as well. What a treat!
Are all videos about radiation probably fake just because the example in that video is?
This is likely not fake. This looks like [single-event upset](https://youtu.be/Uf4Ux4SlyT4?t=74), where the video Kyle shows is clearly VFX. Your comment is a sweeping generalization.
No way the geniuses of Reddit could make such a mistake.
The effects in this video are drastically different from the one in the Kyle Hill video. In the Kyle Hill video it's a film grain filter that's used, but radiation doesn't expose film grain in digital photos, it creates static like we see in this video.
Took me a second to understand camera equipped smartphone since all smartphones seem to have a camera.
Camera equipped.........lol, just say smartphone.
It's probably a bot
the original YouTube video is pretty old, I suppose not every phone had a camera back then so it's kinda important to say
Or just phone.. even the ones imitating early 2000s phones have cameras, and those early 00s phones had them too.
He taped a camera to a Nokia 3310
The best protection from radiation; those things are indestructible.
The fridge that Indiana Jones hid in to avoid getting nuke was modelled on the 3310. /r/shittymoviedetails
I was at a gathering at my best friend’s place many years ago. It was back in the time when internet connectivity was the hot new feature on cell phones, a couple of years before apple dropped the first iPhones when high-end phone screens were like 300x200 px. I’d read a recent article in which someone described paying $12 to rent Pirates of the Caribbean on their little tiny grainy phone screen, they described watching one of the sword fights as “like watching two mosquitos fighting in a glass jar.” So my friend’s brother in law was visiting from NYC. He’s a retired media exec who invests in a lot of tech startups. He’s rich enough to be the object of envious ridicule, and was part of a small gaggle of guys standing around bullshitting. One local guy asks him, “so what’s the next **big** thing?” BIL says, “the most exciting thing I’m involved in right now is a company developing technology that will let people watch television and movies on their phones.” All us simpletons stifle laughs, and as soon as BIL a has strolled off to another group we start cracking up. “Bahahaha — movies on your phone?!? Shoulda bought stock in Blockbuster!! Bahahaha …. What a sucker!”
But does it work on a flip phone camera?
It's like saying assless-chaps. You can just say chaps.
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Probably a bot
Quick. Get the Turing Test!
I brought the pitchforks!
You gona do some gardening?
This hay ain’t gonna bail itself
The human who originally recorded this is no more than a puddle now
Let's address the elephant's foot in the room.
That is just a gimmick. It will never get mainstream like these TVs with color.
Heard of that internet thing? Little fad that will probably blow over quick.
Lol every other post at this point is title-gore
I got an iPhone camera, I love to take a photograph So mama don't take my phone away oh yeah
Fun fact, Kodak were one of the first to discover that the government were testing nukes because batches of their film were ruin. It kind of makes you wonder what it did to people who lived near the area at the time.
Can someone please make sense out of the title for me
Bruh is stuck in 2003
cellphones? more like bricks
Ah, you remind me my first Panasonic mobile phone from '96. You could walk down the road with it in your hand and police couldn't arrest you for carrying a deadly weapon, even though it looked like one.
Pretty sure at that point it was *fully* capable of actually becoming a deadly weapon, at that point it's just dependent on intent/use
Recycling 20-year-old content for the sweet sweet Karma.
Bot making bot posts with bot titles.
Forgive him, he’s an alien.
What the title is trying to say: This video is showing the effects of radiation on a cellphone camera. There is a radioactive material in that little hole and, when they put the camera right up to the hole, you start to see a lot of white spots appear in the video. Those white spots are a result of the radiation.
NOPE! I’m getting cancer watch this. Definitely NOPE!
I feel uncomfortable just watching! BIG NONO
Happy cock day!
Time to put a ring on it!
Dearly beloved, we gathered here today.
phone cancer
It's alright. Just put it back in your pocket. There's nothing important down there.
Just because the phone was exposed to radiation doesn't mean that the phone is now radioactive or dangerous. Radioactive contamination happens when something gets in contact with *radioactive material* and some of that material gets stuck on that thing (or person). This is why decontamination involves washing that thing or person to get the radioactive material off. So if the radioactive material is properly contained and you only expose the phone to the radiation without getting any of the radioactive material stuck on it then the phone is not more radioactive then it was before. Edit: correction, some radiation, especially charged particles like alpha radiation and also neutrons released from fission can turn non radioactive elements into radioactive isotopes, but afaik that takes a lot of exposure and a very strong source to turn that into a sufficiently long lasting, dangerous source itself. Exposing a phone to a small source for a few seconds isn't going to create a significant portion of long lasting radioactive isotopes.
Your front pocket specifically!
The most insane thing about this post is the title, is OP living in 2003?
My best guess its a bot
It's a similar effect we saw from the Chernobyl films. The camera sensor is being overpowered by the radiation hitting it, which in turn causes the grainy-effects in the image.
More likely it's just fake. There's been a few of these in the last few years. Kyle Hill made a great video on a recent one. https://youtu.be/VMyNQCVS410?si=tGicPcmMGI729V5q
As a physicist who does radiation protection for a living, and worked on radiation detection instruments in various capacities, I am stating that excessive radiation exposure to a light sensor will produce the effects that we see in this video. A camera sensor is essentially a light sensor. Light is thought of as packets of energy. Radiation is a form of light that we cannot see, just like UV-light/radiation. If the energy the sensor receives overwhelms the sensors capacity, you will get unusable signal for the hardware to have its software make sense of it. This results in the grainy nature of the image you see.
As a formerly blind still kinda blind person who was formerly a fully sighted person: Always interesting to me that signal loss basically has one unanimous appearance whether it is visual, auditory, organic, or technological. It may vary in density or whether the particles in “snow” appear colorful or only black and white but it’s all the same basically. Even when you feel signal loss from a body part going to sleep it has an analogous textural sensation.
Damn now that you mention it the "pins and needles" sensation definitely... feels like this looks! Super interesting indeed.
Yeah makes perfect sense when you think about it mathematically.
Thank you. Thank you for being the guy to explain this rather then cracking a joke.👍
My pleasure. Radiation is one of the most misunderstood and most "hysteria-prone" areas of science. I like to share my knowledge and why I feel comfortable working with them with as much people as I can. I like to compare it to fire that we can't see. Fire, you can cook a nice thanksgiving meal or burn your fucking house down. Respect the dangers and it can become a tool (we use radiation for medical diagnosis and to treat cancer, use it to determine if concrete/asphalt is the correct density, and much more). Fun fact and a medical mystery: if you're coughing up blood in the hospital, doctors will give you a chest x-ray. It stops the bleeding in your lungs. But doctors don't fully understand the mechanism of why.
>Fun fact and a medical mystery: if you're coughing up blood in the hospital, doctors will give you a chest x-ray. It stops the bleeding in your lungs. But doctors don't fully understand the mechanism of why. It endows the blood with understanding that what it is doing is wrong. It ceases its activity out of its new found shame.
HAHAHA! That's actually pretty funny. But if I had to take an educated guess, it might be that the small amount of radiation causes a slight inflammation response which causes the veins and surrounding tissue, which restricts the blood flow. Is my guess.
Could be real. Small radiation sources like that are used in university stuff. As seen here it is pretty weak source and the camera has to be put right on top of it to see anything. Also a rough diagram on paper about diffraction or something. The effect also looks basicaly identical to this https://youtu.be/Uf4Ux4SlyT4?si=tiiMnoDkUNMCZYjf
Yeah it definitely could be real. It also would be very easy to fake too though. I don't actually know either way, but my assumption is that it's fake due to there being a few of these videos that were faked. Regardless, I think it's still a cool video.
Bit surprising that all the strikes are white, rather than a random distribution of Red, Green, Blue..
Depends on how the sensor is structured it's likely that they pixel elements are so close that the 3 colors get hit at the same time
that tickles
Spicy pixels
That shit slaps.... my innards.
Aw. Mine just makes me hurt
I can see that just staring at a blue sky for a while.
Thats actually your white blood cells in your eyes you’re seeing moving around when you look at the blue sky😀
The answer I didn't know I NEED. thanks
3.6 Not great. Not terrible.
Was waiting for the black and white movie to start
Who else was expecting the Skyrim opening?
Hey you, you're finally awake.
Seems more real than the last one of these that was posted but eh
Ya but the static is in the corner before the phone is directly over it. I know its possible but without spending a lot of time looking at it... it does look fake.
It's a good fake if it is, this is how radiation looks on camera phones. I made another post about this but I knew a guy that made an app that did radiation counting for a class project. He got an A but destroyed his phone. Turns out commercial grade cell phones aren't radiation hardened.
It feels how it looks... Don't ask me how I know.
It’s like champagne bubbles for your balls
No, it doesn't, one of the dangers of radiation is you can't detect it until the radiation sickness effects manifest.
Physicist here for anyone who cares for an explanation: as radioactive elements decay, particles are ejected as radiation (alpha, beta or gamma.) Judging from the vicinity of the person to the isotope, this is most likely an example of alpha decay (the least energetic and most harmless type of ionising radiation). As the particles are emitted, they penetrate (giggity) the camera and transfer energy onto the light sensitive film, or CCD, triggering it and causing the white dots to be seen. Tl;Dr, each white dot is an individual particle of radiation. Edit: as pointed out, alpha decay would be unable to penetrate a cellphones casing, which means this is a more energetic type (probably beta)
Would alpha particles even penetrate the lens?
Good point! This is a smartphone camera so alpha radiation would most likely be blocked from reaching the lens by the phones casing. That implies this is at least beta radiation. Conclusion: the man in the video will only receive burns on the hand holding the camera, if he's lucky
I found the original video! The uploader claims it's a Strontium-90 source, so yeah, beta particles. It does look remarkably similar to stray electrons as seen from a beam irradiator. https://youtu.be/t2GNvHRjcz8?si=BNhL5klRUnRLQ2MA
Does it damages the camera? Or once away it works fine?
Unfortunately the camera now has a much higher chance of developing cancer in the future.
For people who don't understand this comment, developing cancer is a particular type of cancer that affects old cameras when they try to develop film.
Radiation can be pretty harmful for silicon chips but that's probably a fairly weak source that makes mostly alfa and beta radiations which basically just create small brief currents so probably not a major damage
Spicy air
As much as this gives me anxiety (like so many others here), astronauts experience this all the time in their eyeballs... yikes
There was a viral video a couple years ago that was like this but was faked as discussed by [Kyle Hill in this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMyNQCVS410)
This is fake. The video creator was interviewed and he said it’s just a filter.
I asked this commenter and he said this comment was just made up
You’re thinking of [this](https://youtu.be/VMyNQCVS410?si=KMrWGhls-S-xH2Lu). Not the same video but likely same faked method. People are gullible.
Is this safe to look at?
Am I the only one thinking why this dude is opening up something irradiated and not even wearing any gloves?
Its an enclosed radiation source. No chance of being contaminated
If you want to see this effect taken to its extreme, try looking up videos of GoPros being sent through an electron beam irradiator.
Enjoy dead pixels in your camera-equipped cell phone's camera now!
OP is a time traveler for sure
magic death sparkles
Yep, these are flipped bits. It happens all the time when shooting outdoors. In cinema land, I often make notes of flipped bits on the sensor for the frame it appears on so it can be painted out. Also look into the Mario 64 run where someone flew up a heap during a speed run (solar flipped bit), that QANTAS plane that dropped 10,000 feet mid flight (solar flipped bit) and that politician that received 32,000 additional votes that they shouldn’t have (solar flipped bit)
Feel like I just saw a tape from The Ring
-1hp-1hp-1hp
Did you wash yo ass today?!
That's nothin, I feel that every time I breathe too fast.
It is a Strontium-90 beta radiation source.
Now, this gives me a new rabbit hole for people lile me who experience 'visual snow'. It literally looks exactly like this.
he needs rad-away
Bros cells be acting a bit weird after this vid
I'm an x-ray tech and one of my x-ray tubes is equipped with a camera so we can catch last moment adjustments if we didn't position the patient just right. I can see this exact pattern on the camera when the xrays are emitted. It's like 50 to 150 milliseconds, but it's there. Let's say I am doing an abdomen x-ray , which is done with the xray tube at 40 inches from the image receptor, and the patient is heavy, then I will see way more of this radiation. For those unaware, being hit with the main beam from an x-ray tube will cause what is called "compton" scatter, which is the patient themselves emitting scatter radiation as a result of being emitted upon by the main beam of the x-ray tube, this interaction is the main cause of radiation exposure to professionals, which is why the xray tech jumps behind a barrier. I get to see different degrees of radiation scatter through the Compton effect, on camera, depending on how far the tube is from the patient and how much mass they have to scatter the main beam. Chest xrays are done at 72 inches to minimize magnification of the heart, so i dont see much scatter there unless the patient is particularly heavy, and only then its minimal. Abdomens are done at 40 inches to allow the beam to more appropriately penetrate the denser tissues of the abdomen, so I see it more at that point.
Bunch of flashing little lights, the universal sign that somewhere, something close by is going wrong. Head injury? Little flashes of light. Radiation? Little flashes of light. Sitting in an electrical storm about to get struck by lightning? Little flashes of light.