Radiation - Tumblr Posts
Rad-Nessie!
I started playing FO76 again and wanted to see an irradiated Loch Ness Monster, and I showed my process as well ❤️
HELLO HELLO I HAVE SHITTY (unfinished) ART!!
Yeesh, he is one ugly muthafucka...
...i love him
Okay read on if u wanna hear about lore n stuff if not byeee!
Wow you're still here? I'm sorry 💀
Okay so this is Galanos!! He is an anthro (not a furry shut up) albino wels catfish that cant actually talk. I'm now realising I forgot to add his voice box thingy. Whoops! Well it's unfinished I'll add it tommorow and colour him in.
Anyway so Galanos can't talk, how does he communicate? Well he has a small radio on a collar around his neck, think Steve from cloudy with a chance of meatballs, that he uses, whatever he wants to say, the radio says for him in a text-to-speech voice.
I've made some changes to how a normal wels catfish looks, such as how I've made the dorsal fin (which is usually small and far back) go along the whole length of his body, from his head to the tip of his tail. I like to imagine it kinda looks like hair? Sorta? Okay not really but I just thought he looked a bit boring without it. He's got webbed hands and feet because I thought they looked cool, lol. Also like I said, he's an albino wels catfish, I'll put some pics of what they look like underneath here, but Galanos is more of an orangey yellow colour with an almost white belly, like the first picture.
The clothes he's wearing are meant to be waders, why is a fish wearing waders you might ask? Well I just thought they looked cool 😁 Also they're based off this image \/ (why is it so low quality help)
The world he lives in is pretty Fallout-esque, being post-apocalyptic and radiation filled. Part of the reason I wanted him to be a wels catfish (apart from the fact that they're one of my favourite species of fish) is that there are actually large wels catfish living in the cooling pond at Chernobyl, which I thought was pretty cool when I found that out.
Although sorry to burst everyone's bubble but they aren't radioactive mutants, they're perfectly healthy and thriving, their large size is perfectly natural, being pretty small for some other specimens caught!!
This was what inspired me to have them live in this world, as I thought, what if he wasn't affected by radiation at all? Like a nuclear blast could go off nearby, and as long as the blast or fire didn't kill them, then he'd be perfectly fine. In fact I've been considering having radioactive particles extend his life, making it so that he can't die of old age, he could obviously still be shot and die.
One last thing before I go to sleep, that might shock some people... his parents.......
ARE ALIVE!!
That's right, he hasn't had to watch his parents die, although they never knew their biological parents. He was adopted by two very lovely mothers, one a Victorian goth, and the other more alt/ punk (I wanted to give them styles idk why)
Final little things before I go to sleep, he's objectum, bisexual, polyamourus and transmasc (just self-projecting onto him 💀) and is more of a lone wanderer, roaming around, looting abandoned buildings and corpses, the usual. He carries around a satchel to carry food, drink and useful items he finds.
This is Soren He’s a 2nd or 3rd generation of genetically engineered humans sent to a radioactive Post-Apocalyptic Earth around 100 to 200 years into the future of today, many humans in this world have fled to space and send down genetically engineered humans to try and reclaim earth, but not all humans escaped earth, plenty were left behind along with animals leaving mutated humans and beasts that he has to fight off on the regular
Despite being Genetically engineered to resist Radiation Soren is still minorly affected by radiation, he suffers from CIPA, and Vocal Cord Paralysis, but he also has some cool features, like Amber colored eyes and his hair just not following any physics
That coffin shaped device on Soren’s hip can make him invisible, it’s not attached to his body and can be take off whenever he pleases (which isn’t often he’s a paranoid boi)
The badge on his jacket is the symbol of the human space station
Effects of a nuclear fallout in life on earth according to the media
So I have do some research in the internet to know the general opinion of the fictional media of what would happen to all species in earth in the aftermath of a nuclear fallout
Plants: almost all die, sometimes mutate but is very rare
Mammals: Become nightmare fuel, desfigurated and mutated, a little bigger and a lot more stronger and ferocious than before "beware of Smokey the bear and the big bad wolf".
Atropods: Ultra overgrow activated! now they eat everything around them alive or dead becoming "Godzilla food source"
Amphibians: Bigger and scarier "they will eat you whole if they see you"
Fish: They walk on land now! No one is safe!
Reptiles: They have become the alpha massive OP superpredators of the new world "all hail the new kings of earth".
Humans: they are desfigurated strong and brutal but they have a huge hard time hiding in the underground and mines because everyone else in the list is trying to kill them and reptiles destroy the buildings and the hiding places of the poor human mutants in their search of food and nesting grounds.
Sean bienvenidos, japonistasarqueologicos a una nueva entrega en la que hablaremos sobre el asunto de Japón y las aguas residuales al mar una vez dicho esto pongan cómodos que empezamos. - Hace poco están en todos los medios de comunicación del mundo, que Japón tiene luz verde por la ONU para verter agua tratada en la planta nuclear de Fukushima en el accidente acontecido en 2011. - Hay más de 1.000 tanques y 1,34 millones de toneladas, posiblemente al 98% de la capacidad, además se está analizando el agua de mar y los alrededores de la central nuclear, actualmente se está analizando la concentración de tritio, los resultados estarán disponibles el día 25 por la tarde, previamente se habían tomado muestras de agua de los depósitos dando como resultado que era seguro, pero posiblemente tendrían que haber esperado más tiempo. - La población japonesa, se manifiesta al respecto porque esto va a generar problemas a largo plazo a la economía mundial. China suspende todas las importaciones de productos del mar japoneses, no se iba a quedar de brazos cruzados ¿Qué opinan ustedes al respecto? - Espero que os haya gustado y nos vemos en próximas publicaciones que pasen una buena semana.
考古学の日本研究者の皆様、ようこそ！今回は、日本と海への汚水問題についてお話しします。
最近、日本が2011年の福島原発事故の処理水を海洋投棄することを国連から許可されたことが世界中のメディアを賑わせている。
タンクは1000基以上、134万トンあり、おそらく容量の98％であろう。また、海水と原発周辺は分析中で、現在はトリチウムの濃度が分析されており、25日の午後に結果が出る予定である。以前は貯水池から水を採取し、安全であるという結果を出していたが、おそらくもっと待つべきだったのだろう。
日本国民が抗議しているのは、これが世界経済に長期的な問題を引き起こすからである。中国が日本産水産物の輸入を全面的に停止したのだから、黙って見過ごすわけがない。 これについてどう思う？
お気に召していただけたなら幸いである。 それではまた、良い一週間を。
Welcome, japonistasarqueologicos to a new installment in which we will talk about the issue of Japan and sewage into the sea, that said, make yourselves comfortable and let's get started. - It has recently been all over the world's media that Japan has been given the green light by the UN to dump treated water into the Fukushima nuclear power plant from the 2011 accident. - There are more than 1,000 tanks and 1.34 million tons, possibly at 98% of capacity, also the sea water and the surroundings of the nuclear plant are being analysed, currently the concentration of tritium is being analysed, the results will be available on the 25th in the afternoon, previously water samples had been taken from the reservoirs giving as a result that it was safe, but possibly they should have waited longer. - The Japanese people are protesting because this is going to create long-term problems for the world economy. China suspends all imports of Japanese seafood, they are not going to sit back and do nothing. What do you think about this? - I hope you liked it and I'll see you in future posts. Have a good week.
i always say i do art then i never put any art on here so have artyom
This really is a catch 22 situation isn't it.
Explain nothing and make the place as uninteresting as possible - > people WILL go there someday, not knowing what the danger underneath is.
Use markers etc to explain what's going on - > people WILL go there because there MUST be something valuable there, there's so many markers they don't understand/keep talking about some deadly curse!
It would be funny if nuclear waste warning messages become an attraction for future historical linguists.
I mean look at this thing:
A parallel text in 7 languages, with 4 different scripts between them! And pictograms! All designed to be preserved intact!
Okay, so as someone who’s currently taking a class on climate science at the graduate level, that solution is not nearly as good as you’re making it out to be. For those of you who didn’t click the link, the solution to storing solar power proposed above is to build a pump setup at a hydroelectric dam that uses extra solar power to pump water back up the dam so that it can fall down and generate more power later.
Even if we ignore the prohibitively high cost of constructing one of these dams (there are only a few in the world right now, and that is not for lack of trying), the problem is that we just can’t build them everywhere. It’s not a matter of resources, it’s a matter of location. Hydroelectric dams already can’t function as a viable power source everywhere in the world because they require running water at a fairly significant flow rate and can only be built in areas with significant elevation changes. Even if we converted every single hydroelectric dam in the world to function as a solar energy battery like this, we would still never get enough storage to make solar energy fully viable on its own.
Solar and wind energy (I’m including wind because it has almost all of the same problems as solar) simply do not have the consistency of power output to fully serve as replacements for fossil fuels without revolutionary leaps in energy storage technology. And even then, solar and wind aren’t just inconsistent from day to night, but over the entire year too. Even countries like Germany that have invested significant portions of their national budget into solar and wind power end up getting about 50% of their energy from fossil fuels, because sometimes you just don’t get as much solar or wind energy as you thought you would. Additionally, solar and wind farms take up a lot of space, a lot more than conventional power plants, harm the local environment (did you know that if a bird flys over a solar farm, they can burst into flames in mid-air?), and are currently on track to generate a lot of technological waste containing heavy metals when a lot of solar panels start just wearing out in a few years.
So what IS the solution? Clearly we don’t want to keep using fossil fuels, but if climate scientists are saying solar and wind aren’t especially great either, what do they think we should use? The answer is nuclear energy. I know there’s a bit of a stigma about nuclear energy, but frankly, it produces a lot of consistent power and, weird as it may sound, is actually generally safer than most other sources of energy. 100% of the waste products of nuclear energy are stored in sealed containers, and those sealed containers take up startlingly little space across several years of nuclear power. Most people are worried about the meltdowns at nuclear power plants, which are a concern, but the deaths caused by said meltdowns are a drop in the bucket compared to death tolls from pollution and extreme weather brought about by climate change. Additionally, deaths due to radiation from these incidents have been relatively low. There were 1600 deaths during the Fukushima incident due to mismanagement of the evacuation by the Japanese government compared to just one confirmed cancer death that can be attributed to radiation exposure. On top of that, most of these accidents can be attributed to low safety standards and the scientific community has had DECADES to learn from these mistakes and implement ways of preventing them. These incidents are few and far between. For reference, France gets over 70% of its energy from nuclear power, but because they raised their safety standards in 2011 after the Fukushima incident, they have not had a singular nuclear incident since 2009.
Properly implemented nuclear power is cleaner, cheaper, safer, and more consistent than solar or wind. Solar and wind technology are primarily useful as a stopgap as we try to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. The energy storage solution to make solar power viable proposed in that link may seem like a picturesque solution to all our energy problems on the surface, but when some of the leading scientists in the field of clean energy tell you that solar power simply isn’t viable as a replacement for fossil fuels, you should look at the solutions they’re actually proposing instead of trying to dunk on them with a single article for Tumblr points.
Get ready kids, because I’m about to tell you all about gamma gardening!
Basically, after WWII, some people were interested in using fission energy for good. One of the uses they came up with was to create useful genetic mutations in plants.
But unlike today’s careful gene editing, gamma gardens took the “just blast them with radiation and pray that the RNG gods give you something good” approach.
According to Wikipedia, the methodology was as follows:
Gamma gardens were typically five acres in size, and were arranged in a circular pattern with a retractable radiation source in the middle. Plants were usually laid out like slices of a pie, stemming from the central radiation source; this pattern produced a range of radiation doses over the radius from the center. Radioactive bombardment would take place for around twenty hours, after which scientists wearing protective equipment would enter the garden and assess the results. The plants nearest the center usually died, while the ones further out often featured "tumors and other growth abnormalities". Beyond these were the plants of interest, with a higher than usual range of mutations, though not to the damaging extent of those closer to the radiation source. These gamma gardens have continued to operate on largely the same designs as those conceived in the 1950s.
They’ve decreased greatly in popularity as the reputation of radiation has gone down the toilet, but one notable product of gamma gardens is the ‘Ruby Red’ grapefruit!
^ this is a proper Fallout-style mutant
Combine this man’s efforts with some sunflower fields & you’ll have some quicker cleanup on the way. Either way, the fallout can be a golden opportunity to work more on use of the medical field, like in the concentrated plasma for treatment.
The Radioactive Man Who Returned To Fukushima To Feed The Animals That Everyone Else Left Behind
Naoto Matsumura is the only human brave enough to live in Fukushima’s 12.5-mile exclusion zone
He fled at first but returned to take care of the animals that were left behind
He returned for his own animals at first, but realized that so many more needed his help, too
Matsumura, who is 55 years old, knows that the radiation is harmful, but he “refuses to worry about it”
“They also told me that I wouldn’t get sick for 30 or 40 years. I’ll most likely be dead by then anyway, so I couldn’t care less”
Matsumura discovered that thousands of cows had died locked in barns
He also freed many animals that had been left chained up by their owners
Many of them now rely on him for food
The government has forbidden him from staying, but that doesn’t stop him either
He started in 2011 and is still going strong 4 years later
He relies solely on donations from supporters to work with and feed the animals
His supporters are calling him the ‘guardian of Fukushima’s animals’
The man clearly has a sense of humor as well
This has just reminded me that there is a Spider-Man comic, Reign, set in the future where Mary Jane is dead because Peter Parker's radioactive semen gave her cancer.
This is what Radaway was made for
France conducted its first nuclear test known as the "Gerboise Bleue" in February 1960 in the Sahara Desert - an atomic bomb that was four times the strength of Hiroshima. A total of 17 tests were carried out, four of them atmospheric detonations, and 13 underground.
Nuclear testing continued in the region until 1966, four years after the independence of Algeria from French colonial rule, due to a clause in the Evian Accords which were signed by the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic (GPRA). The accords established the parameters for Algerian independence. The defeated colonial power demanded to be able to continue to destroy Algeria's environment and poison its people.
At the time of the tests, around 40,000 people lived in the affected area, and the tests had a horrific effect on these communities. Many were impacted directly, while others were poisoned over time due to the radiation. In fact, 60 years after Gerboise Bleue, babies are still being born with illnesses and malformations.
https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/amp/comment/2021/2/12/frances-nuclear-colonial-legacy-in-algeria
PHYSICS APPRECIATION: CHERENKOV RADIATION
I'm a student, enthusiast and massive nerd, this is my best attempt at sharing all the awesome little secrets and tid bits, beyond your average high school science class. (It's cool I swear).
In a visit to Sizewell power station last year (highly reccomend), I learned that nuclear reactors don't glow the radioactive green we see in cartoons:
But rather a brilliant blue:
It's cause is simmilar to that of a sonic boom. Normally, matter can't accelerate past the speed of light, however, the speed of light in water, is much slower than the speed of light in a vacuum (around 75%). This means that, charged particles emitted during nuclear reactions, are able to exceed the speed of light in their medium (water), and things get weird.
Water is dielectric (able to be electrically polarised), so when charged paricles faster than the speed of light travel through it, its particles become polarised. In order to return to their ground state, the particles emit photons.
The photos travel as waves with high frequencies and short wavelengths (remember ROYGBIV?), which tend towards the blue/violet end of the visible light spectrum, hence the blue. (And perhaps even ultraviolet, which we can't see).
If anyone wants me to go more in depth, or if I've made any mistakes, please lmk!!
It was either this or the caption "I am an F-ing Mutant, This sucks."