I love that the voice-over for the opening titles talks about impurities of 1 part in a billion ... and the guy carrying the sample is wearing normal clothes and smoking a pipe! Incongruous, or what?!?!
@@ghz24The voice over talks 1 part in a trillion impurities while showing a man in street clothes smoking a pipe pick a plastic bag out of a container and place it in a device. The impurities being introduced here are seemingly through the roof. Perhaps it doesn’t impact the testing but it’s pretty odd.
@@silikon2If you will notice @19:57 the scientist points out that when the sample is removed from the "rabbit" it is placed in another plastic bag to prevent contamination. So they took a non-radioactive sample and induced radiation by bombarding it with neutrons. We saw the fellow with the pipe pull a sample in a plastic bag from a transportable shielding box and pass it in front of a Geiger counter to demonstrate/test that it is radioactive then place it in a stationary shielding device and close it. This means it is already been put in the second outer plastic bag that we were told is to protect the sample from contamination. I am not familiar with what the multichannel analyzer apparatus looks like but it's probably not the round box he is placing it in because a bag to prevent contamination would have to be removed before the test to exclude any contamination. Also notice after the round box is closed the camera pans to a device about (54 seconds in) that actually looks like a test device (probably this is the multichannel analyzer). Probably later the actual scientist/tester will come and remove the outer bag and place the sample in the tester. The round shielding box he placed the sample in is most likely just a holding box where the sample sits until they run the test. Probably after they finish smoking their pipe. It may be that plastic doesn't interfere with the test because it is made of just hydrogen and carbon and deuterium and carbon 13 can be ignored by the test so it may not need to be removed from the inner bag.
Shalom He may be a little awkward but he sure was a smart guy when it came to science! He is my uncle and I actually lived in one of his houses when I was a teenager! He wasn't picking up uranium, he was picking up germanium! He also was a very nice man! Shalom
@Hopi Ng Shalom Chemicals mixed with light refracting But as spectacular as it is ,the question is, is the Illumina that's being emitted harmful to the environment? As chemicals from the rocket’s exhaust freeze and drift like clouds through the atmosphere, the sun shines through them as well. The light is refracted through these frozen chemicals at different wavelengths, creating the spectacular displays of color. Unfortunately what can cause something spectacular may not always be a healthy situation! And putting aside the conspiracy theories of chemtrails, but focusing on the Clear truth of the chemicals that are being emitted from these Rockets, these can be harmful! For instance Every time a rocket launches, it produces a plume of exhaust in its wake that leaves a mark on the environment. These plumes are filled with materials that can collect in the air over time, potentially altering the atmosphere in dangerous ways. It’s a phenomenon that’s not well-understood, and some scientists say we need to start studying these emissions now before the number of rocket launches increases significantly. Some rockets do produce heat-trapping greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide, but those emissions are negligible, according to experts. “The rocket business could grow by a factor of 1,000 and the carbon dioxide and water vapor emissions would still be small compared to other industrial sources,” an engineer at the Aerospace Corporation who studies the effects of rockets on the atmosphere, tells The Verge. Instead, it’s tiny particles that are produced inside the trail that we need to watch out for, engineers say. Small pieces of soot and a chemical called alumina are created in the wakes of rocket launches. They then get injected into the stratosphere, the layer of Earth’s atmosphere that begins six miles up and ends around 32 miles high. Research shows that this material may build up in the stratosphere over time and slowly lead to the depletion of a layer of oxygen known as the ozone. The ozone acts like a big shield, protecting Earth against the Sun’s harmful ultraviolet radiation. However, the magnitude of this ozone depletion isn’t totally known, says engineers.
John Fitch was famous internationally in his time, I would love to have met him. I saw many of his films ( not then videos ! ) while studying sciences in the 1960s here in the UK.
LOLLLL haha!! SMOKING A PIPE in the gamma spectroscopy room and reactor control room! Hilarious. Man that Homer guy was awkward AF. Inspiration for Homer Simpson?
Why is that dangerous? Natural uranium isn't dangerous to handle. Even enriched to a pretty decent grade, it's still perfectly safe. The greatest risk to a uranium fuel pellet, for example, comes form someone touching it with bare hands; the oil and dirt from their skin would ruin the fuel. Radiation is so poorly understood (thanks in large part to the fossil fuel industry's scare campaigns).
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How does society survive without this level of information presented anymore
What well designed 'interviews', to get the most essential facts across.
Fellow handling radioactive material in a suit and tie and a tobacco pipe in his mouth.
The good old days.
People were made of tougher stuff back then.
Chaaged paadicles at 12:15 little bit of Bostonian/Massachusetts accent there, nice.
Scientist wearing a suit and tie, smoking a pipe and putting men on the moon while still looking so cool and unflustered.
Hello..I'm Don Draper..MIT scientific reporter, coming to you from...
I love that the voice-over for the opening titles talks about impurities of 1 part in a billion ... and the guy carrying the sample is wearing normal clothes and smoking a pipe! Incongruous, or what?!?!
What. That is, not incongruous.
trillion, not billion.
Wait Homer? Working at a reactor?
@@ghz24The voice over talks 1 part in a trillion impurities while showing a man in street clothes smoking a pipe pick a plastic bag out of a container and place it in a device. The impurities being introduced here are seemingly through the roof. Perhaps it doesn’t impact the testing but it’s pretty odd.
@@silikon2If you will notice @19:57 the scientist points out that when the sample is removed from the "rabbit" it is placed in another plastic bag to prevent contamination.
So they took a non-radioactive sample and induced radiation by bombarding it with neutrons. We saw the fellow with the pipe pull a sample in a plastic bag from a transportable shielding box and pass it in front of a Geiger counter to demonstrate/test that it is radioactive then place it in a stationary shielding device and close it.
This means it is already been put in the second outer plastic bag that we were told is to protect the sample from contamination.
I am not familiar with what the multichannel analyzer apparatus looks like but it's probably not the round box he is placing it in because a bag to prevent contamination would have to be removed before the test to exclude any contamination.
Also notice after the round box is closed the camera pans to a device about (54 seconds in) that actually looks like a test device (probably this is the multichannel analyzer).
Probably later the actual scientist/tester will come and remove the outer bag and place the sample in the tester. The round shielding box he placed the sample in is most likely just a holding box where the sample sits until they run the test. Probably after they finish smoking their pipe.
It may be that plastic doesn't interfere with the test because it is made of just hydrogen and carbon and deuterium and carbon 13 can be ignored by the test so it may not need to be removed from the inner bag.
Shalom
He may be a little awkward but he sure was a smart guy when it came to science!
He is my uncle and I actually lived in one of his houses when I was a teenager!
He wasn't picking up uranium, he was picking up germanium!
He also was a very nice man!
Shalom
@Hopi Ng Shalom
Chemicals mixed with light refracting
But as spectacular as it is ,the question is, is the Illumina that's being emitted harmful to the environment?
As chemicals from the rocket’s exhaust freeze and drift like clouds through the atmosphere, the sun shines through them as well. The light is refracted through these frozen chemicals at different wavelengths, creating the spectacular displays of color.
Unfortunately what can cause something spectacular may not always be a healthy situation!
And putting aside the conspiracy theories of chemtrails, but focusing on the Clear truth of the chemicals that are being emitted from these Rockets, these can be harmful!
For instance Every time a rocket launches, it produces a plume of exhaust in its wake that leaves a mark on the environment. These plumes are filled with materials that can collect in the air over time, potentially altering the atmosphere in dangerous ways. It’s a phenomenon that’s not well-understood, and some scientists say we need to start studying these emissions now before the number of rocket launches increases significantly.
Some rockets do produce heat-trapping greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide, but those emissions are negligible, according to experts. “The rocket business could grow by a factor of 1,000 and the carbon dioxide and water vapor emissions would still be small compared to other industrial sources,” an engineer at the Aerospace Corporation who studies the effects of rockets on the atmosphere, tells The Verge.
Instead, it’s tiny particles that are produced inside the trail that we need to watch out for, engineers say. Small pieces of soot and a chemical called alumina are created in the wakes of rocket launches. They then get injected into the stratosphere, the layer of Earth’s atmosphere that begins six miles up and ends around 32 miles high. Research shows that this material may build up in the stratosphere over time and slowly lead to the depletion of a layer of oxygen known as the ozone. The ozone acts like a big shield, protecting Earth against the Sun’s harmful ultraviolet radiation. However, the magnitude of this ozone depletion isn’t totally known, says engineers.
You said that twice.
John Fitch was famous internationally in his time, I would love to have met him. I saw many of his films ( not then videos ! ) while studying sciences in the 1960s here in the UK.
Salam alaykum.
They both picked up the uranium sample.
Wada'an!
LOLLLL haha!! SMOKING A PIPE in the gamma spectroscopy room and reactor control room! Hilarious.
Man that Homer guy was awkward AF. Inspiration for Homer Simpson?
Simpson also works in a reactor building.
Only because you wern't around in 1964.
The way he picked up uranium, 04:21 was rather quick ?
Is there a date this was broadcast on WGBH?
What was all that noise on the audio while in the reactor building. Was it background radiation?
No, it was likely pumps and other motorized equipment.
Ok everyone, don't make the mistake I just made, because at the end of the video there will be a pop quiz.
In my time, lasers were made from wood...computers certainly were..lasers were made sometimes from dies...:) with ethylene glycol and pumps...:)
Dudes just wearing suits and handling radio active material 😂
Casually picking up cylinder of uranium.
Why is that dangerous? Natural uranium isn't dangerous to handle. Even enriched to a pretty decent grade, it's still perfectly safe. The greatest risk to a uranium fuel pellet, for example, comes form someone touching it with bare hands; the oil and dirt from their skin would ruin the fuel. Radiation is so poorly understood (thanks in large part to the fossil fuel industry's scare campaigns).