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Interesting, I have some old gas lights with mantels sitting out in the garage that I inherited many years ago. Never used them. but I wonder if the old mantles are of the thorium kind.
Sort of. Iodine won't save you from non-latent radiation. Basically, if you're downwind of a nuclear disaster, pop Iodine and move out of it's way. It buys you some time but not much. Iodine will also give you cancer if you take it too frequently.
Fun fact: DTPA mixed with gadolinium is injected as an MRI contrast agent to improve image quality. It also does not cross the blood brain barrier, so its used to highlight areas where that barrier has been compromised when studying bleeds and tumors in the brain.
Ive had MRI contrast once! Much better than CT contrast imo lol Also they warn you that 'hey your body might not remove this but that's okay it's not toxic it just hangs around sometimes!' Lol
Radiation suits do shield you somewhat from radiation. The military makes their members train with CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear) suits that have charcoal inside to both keep the nastiness off you and to block some of the radiation. MOPP 4 is the full suit, and it sucks to do this training in Las Vegas in summer.
@@termiterasin But as said in the video, iodine is a preventative measure, not for cleaning your body. Rad X is probably the in-universe equivalent to iodine tablets. Surprisingly enough, Rad X is found in pill bottles in the game.
Ditto! 😅 Also, your jumpsuit tidbit is a 🤯! Given that what Kyle showed looked to be that *exact* color blue, it either has to be, or is one _HELL_ of a coincidence!
Prussian Blue is actually already referenced in Fallout 3 in one the Germantown police HQ terminal entry: “We're low on Prussian Blue. Most of them don't know what that really means, for which I'm thankful.[...]” Radaway could be a patented commercial variant in the fallout universe, though that wouldn’t explain how its able to treat radiation sickness on top of removing radionuclides. My personal head cannon is that it uses a technology similar to FEV that quickly repair DNA to a point that it is effectively as if the patient was never exposed to radiation in the first place. While rad-x would just boost the body natural ability to repair DNA by itself.
Another potential canon would be using the DNA Repair Factors from the radiation resistent bacteria from deep sea vents. Repair agents stacked with chelation agents (like EDTA and Prussian Blue).
Germantown police headquarters was so surreal to explore for the first time, the story of the aftermath survivors sprinkled amongst the current gruesome tale of the super mutants and residents of big town that you originally arrive for, incredible experience for myself personally.
It could be something like FEV. I know glowing fungus is a ingredient in making radaway in fallout 4(and that glows the same as any radioactive animal or ghoul). Then there is the quest in fallout 3 with Moira Brown and her attempt to improve/home brew rad away that resulted in permanent mutation that requires high radiation exposure and being exposed to radiation to regenerate limb damage. So radaway has some ability to alter dna if the exposure to radiation is very high. ( I kinda think radaway might be why ghouls exist)
Chlorella, a blue green algae will pull radioactive material and other heavy metals out of your body. The broken cell wall is what does that. Pretty great stuff!
The devs of Fallout 1 (Black Isle Studios) were nerds and did actually know a thing or two about radiology, physics, and biology. The radiation exposure mechanics can be traced all the way back to the very first Fallout, where it's treated fairly realistically.
Another cool fact about Prussian blue, it’s an intigral part of the Cyanotype process, one of the earliest known photographic processes. You may also know the prints it makes as “blueprints”.
The 1000 RADs started in Fallout 1. However, if your stats were high enough to remain above 0 from the debuff 1000 RADs granted, it wouldn't instakill you. Instead you would have 24 in game hours to bring your RADs below 1000. If you failed to do so, then you would die. Given the care put into the first 2 Fallout games, and that it wasn't an instakill but a this will kill you unless you use Fallout super science tech to remove it, it is highly probable they knew the significance of 1000 RADs.
Prussian Blue for radiation is canon in Fallout 3, it’s mentioned in the Germantown Police Station on a terminal by medical personnel overseeing a refugee camp after the bombs dropped.
that fucking terminal killed me man. Made my stomach hurt, and all the time spent clearing out Germantown had that thought up close and personal, lingering in my head. I know the series isnt known for its writing, and maybe that terminal seems better in hindsight just because of the emotional impact it had on me, but I swear that was the only serious, well-written text in the game.
@@Colm1800 how does the epic games version run? i know the steam version requires so many hoops to run that people are opting to just port all the content into new vegas with tale of two wastelands
In all seriousness, can we all take a nerd moment to appreciate Kyle's approach to the topic and the tones he uses depending on the facts being laid out. In HLH it's a stoic revenant narrator VO. In his more fun pop culture videos he's on screen, there's banter with ARIA, and more energy (for lack of a better term). But he is one of the very very presenters in my lifetime that I know of that can seamlessly do both in the same video and not have it be a jarring transition from either form. That takes a lot of practice and a lot of skill. Seriously my dude, kudos Edit to correct spelling/grammar
I actually have to add something to your fact at the end concerning iodized salt! The reason common table salt is usually iodized is because it prevents goiter, which is the common symptom of iodine deficiency. Goiter is a swelling of the thyroid in an attempt to soak in more iodine from foods in the body. It used to be a huge problem back in the day, but because of iodized salt, we've mostly cured it across the modernized world.
@@CDCI3but wrong. It's not for preventing goiter, it's for preventing iodine deficiency period. It causes mental retardation in developing children and numerous health problems (including goiter) to all ages.
Goitres can occur from other thyroid disorders too They come from a endocrine pathway disorder (mostly TSH, but TSI in graves disease also iirc is associated with it) Iodine deficiency is a big cause but ultimately its more the high TSH that causes a Goitre In deficiency, the TSH signalling is never down regulated because t3/t4 production cant keep up because of low iodine stores/fucking with thyroid peroxidases. TSH signalling --> hyperplasia --> goitre But any erroneous high signalling (note signalling, that's how TSI causes graves) of TSH is likely to cause a goitre over time
@@BirnieMac1 I appreciate the information, it's pretty interesting. The biggest reason I specified Iodine deficiency as a cause of goiter was because of how prevalent it was several decades ago until we started added iodine into our diets, in such a case we saw it drop significantly. I have no reason to disbelieve you though. Goiter is a symptom of any specific issue. I actually learned about goiter when I was in HS in Chem II. My Chemistry teacher was showing us something about iodine and he mentioned how helpful it is for our bodies, and included the past issues with iodine-deficiency-induced goiter to exemplify it.
The problem I have with this is that Radaway flushes out exposed and damaged tissue; that's the only way it would decrease RAD in-game. Sure, Prussian Blue would flush out contaminants from the body, but it would not decrease the level of exposure, it would just remove the radioactive particles from the body. It's also why in fallout 4 and 76 when you use Radaway, your health doesn't go up, it just increases the maximum health pool that you have. It's why it stops you from feeling the effects of radiation sickness in the earlier games.
Wife's friend made some creamy cakey dessert cups for us last week and used WAAAAAAAAAAY too much prussian blue based food dye to colour the whipped cream toppings - CAN CONFIRM IT TURNS POOP BLUE FOR DAYS, and it also starts turning a deep vibrant green towards the end too. I almost drove myself to the hospital before remembering the over-dyed desserts. Thanks for attending my TED talk. Update: 05:11-13-8-2024UTC: Still making the smurf fudge.
I have the Radiacode 103, I went to an aircraft museum and found a ton of radium coated dials, including one 1000x above normal background. I normally use it to find uranium glass or other radioactive items
Fun fact, I used to have a wristwatch from the late 50's... before the usage of radium was banned here in Brazil... I trew it away when it broke, it was way too damaged to be fixed, but it was pretty stylish, brass bodied and leather wristband. And probably radioactive...
@@carloshenriquezimmer7543 I’ve got several radium clocks and watches, the watch I have isn’t very radioactive but the clocks definitely are, especially if the glass were to be removed, but don’t do that or you might get radium dust in the air.
It seems to be made to work with a phone app. How well does it work alone at the time? How well does it work without connecting it to the app ever? BTW: I like that the app works without Google Play with OpenStreetMap.
What in the HELL Kyle? I thought we were having a silly fun time talking about Fallout Rad-Away & midway through the video this becomes a Half-Life History? You even adopted the "Somber Professor" voice.
You can find references to Prussian Blue in Fallout 4. in one of the staging area towns on the outskirts you can find notes about the medical staff running out of it.
I think my favorite pop culture use of cold fusion is when some Starcraft marines are planting a bomb and they open the man-sized storage case to reveal...it's a cooler full of beers, ice, and a football sized explosive "He he, thank god for cold fusion!"
Just a few comments from someone that specializes in Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear decontamination, especially in mass casualty decontamination. At 1:50 you mention washing yourself thoroughly with water and soap. You have to be super careful when doing this, you cannot use pressurized water, like from a showerhead, and you cannot scrub hard. You are supposed to use a high volume, low pressure water source, basically a high volume misting device. You are to GENTLY brush your body off using very specific chemicals. You gently brush down and away starting from your head going down to your feet. DO NOT use shampoo or conditioners, they have chemicals that bind to hairs. If you use them, the shampoo/conditioner will bind the radioactive contamination to your hair.
As someone else who is trained in this. A. You are correct. B. We were trained that of all the branches, USAF is the best in CBRN decon, and take charge of the site upon arrival. Glad to see one out and about online
@ceu160193 You wouldn't be shaved per se. Yes, your hair would be cut, but not shaved. It would be cut short because doing a shave has the possibility of causing micro tears in the skin, which would allow contamination to enter the body. The goal is to remove as much contamination as possible while mitigating any methods of contamination entering the body.
A fun intersection of art and medical science with Prussian Blue, it's used as a differential stain in histology especially with bone marrow slides to identify iron disorders
What I really like about the Rad-Away, alongside other stuff in Fallout, is that it has a "consumer product" name for what would be a specialist's material. I mean, radiation poisoning is not something that could be a dayly concearn, at least not for the majority of people. But in Fallout, because of the massive usage of nuclear energy in consumer products, like cars and those domestic robots, that has become a mundaine occurance, so a consumer product to deal with that had to be created. Not only that, but it is a 50's style of consumer product name. That is great diagetic worldbuilding and storytelling.
There's also the fact that fallout has the 1950's style but is actually 2070's when the bombs drop. So this is a civilization that not only uses WAY more nuclear power than reality but has done so for much much longer (120 years) and so likely has developed a wide range of radiation treatments beyond us. Radiation is in vehicles, TV's and hell food. I get the feeling Rad-Away is just an off the shelf drug like any basic painkiller.
I thought there were a lot of nuclear disaster adjacent products bc companies made tons of products marketed to consumers as being helpful in the event of a potential nuclear war (the vaults themselves being the foremost example)
@@KiithnarasAshaa Rad isnt an acronym, you can spell it like meter. If Radaway is like Stimpacks, it's science on the level of a repeatable miracle. Stimpacks are roughly liquid flesh that replace what is missing and is never rejected by your system, being addictive. -Why cant people make clones with Stimpacks? Dont know, says it uses existing properties of the user. Radaway is roughly a cellular physical that mitigates the consequences (not prevent, reverse!) of ionizing radiation. -Why doesnt it work on cancer? Dont know, it probably doesnt fix dna or long term rogue cells.
@@KiithnarasAshaa i saw the bit about Radiation Absorbed Dose. turns out it is an acronym! Im used to people saying Absorbed Radiation Dose so i figured the acronym was in hindsight. turns out it was lowercase because it's a symbol for measurement. he symbol is *rad*, the unit system is *CGS*.
There’s actually a terminal entry in FO3 @ Germantown police station talking about Prussian Blue with no mention of Rad-Away. It was an army medic talking about it so they may well use a more formal terminology for it, that is to say, you may very well be right.
From a game mechanics standpoint, the radiation damage in newer Fallout games equate to .1% loss of maximum health, so 1000 rads just erases your entire health bar. It works exactly the same on enemies that aren't immune to radiation damage. 1000 Rads will kill anything that isn't flagged as immune.
Seriously the first in video add I immediately visited. I got a cheap Geiger counter, and it didn't even react on the uranyl acetate in our anorganic chemistry department. But was a lot of fun as a theoretical biochemist to go to the institutes where I did my BA and ask for a radiation source
Kyle mentions iodine tablets being a radiation preventative rather than a purgative measure at the end and I'd like to point out the Fallout analog mught be Rad-X?
Rad-X might contain iodine and other metals your body would like to absorb, Randal Clark mentions iodine tablets alone in the Honest Hearts DLC for FNV.
Back when the Chernobyl disaster happened, our pediatrician prescribed iodine pills for children, just in case. (It was in a country neighboring Ukraine, in the former Eastern Block. Official news covered the event very sparsely, so people were - understandably - on the edge.) Much later, when I played Fallout and realized the similarity, it gave me the chills.
I gotta say Mr Award Winning Science Educator Rad Dad, I really loved the style in this vid, felt like a variety pack of your different vids, and felt very uniquely you. Very fun and cool science. Thanks Kyle!
So i had a friend that worked for years as a wielder in nuclear power plants. Then he became a safety officer. At one time, they shutdown a nuclear reactor (I forget which one) and he was making sure everyone did and followed the rules. However, one new guy who was a new supervisor didn't really pay attention. He walked into the reactor and since there are no rails near the inner pool. My buddy told him not to go closer, so he looks away for a moment... So there was a splash and the guy feel into the pool. Sp they pulled him out and moved him in a decontaminate chamber then stripped him and washed him with these decontamination wipes. however, he feel in the water. So he had him do jumping jacks and running in place until he nearly passed out.
to me the sound effect always made me wince because it sounds like the bag is being tightly squeezed to get all the liquid out fast. . . while the other end of the tube is a needle... probably in a large vein...
Ah.. I knew about the Prussion Blue :D It was one of the experiments in my childrens chemical lab box. I actually didn't use it to rad-away me, but for the blue color I used for drawing a map...
Technically with all the different end cards from the various things you do, this is probably true, even if the only actual ending (until broken steel) is Fawkes telling you to fuck off and die.
Rad Away in IV Form in the Fallout games still makes sense, because there's so many ways available in those games to get radiation out of your system & Rad Away is one of the more rare & expensive ways.
As someone who already owns a RadiaCode 103, I am not surprised that they would sponsor someone like Kyle. But I am surprised that they are now actually sponsoring RUclipsrs at all. It's an awesome device, and a perfect fit for this channel honestly.
I've played every fallout game, even have about 900 hours in f76 and I'm only now learning the radiation thing on the pip boy actually has a purpose, I thought it was just there to look cool
a few thoughts: the way RAD-X works is a simple process called "masking" in chemistry, which is a process in which a chemical is introduced into a reaction to remove disruptive reagents from the equation. for example if the reaction you are experimenting with targets potassium, but your main reagent also reacts eagerly with sodium, you need to incorporate something that will react with sodium, but not with potassium first. and this is how RAD-away would actually work, by introducing a cocktail of chemicals into the body that binds to the more common radioactive isotopes in ways that prevent them from incorporating into chemical processes that happen inside the human body. another thing you can do is to introduce an abundance of less harmful chemicals into the body that can displace the radioactive isotopes because they have similar chemical properties, but no radioactivity to speak off, which is not only a thing in radioactive treatments either. for example one treatment to carbon monoxide poisoning is to provide the body with an abundance of pure oxygen to displace the harmful carbon monoxide. another consequence of this process is how arsenic is deadly to animal life, you see arsenic is chemically similar enough to phosphorous to be integrated into the same molecules as phosphorous, but not similar enough for those molecules to then function properly in further reactions. same thing could be done to remove radioactive isotopes of elements that do have non radioactive isotopes by flooding the body with the non-radioactive isotopes OR lighter metal ions from the same main group that can bind to essential molecules more strongly than the heavy radioactive ones.
Some form of potassium iodine. I’m guessing I haven’t even watched the video. This is exactly where I’m at so far but I’m making a guess it’s potassium iodide. 0:39
until today's 30 somethings run the governments and are "the man" you cant call martha stewart an "old person reference", you just cant. i refuse to be called old when i have none of the old person privileges!
9:36 ok so not physics related but prussian blue is also used in histology - specifically Perls Prussian Blue stain! Didn't realise how versatile this was lol
When I was in the navy, they still used Rads but also used REM which if memory serves is a measure using Roentgen but applied to that absorbed in living tissue. Looking up the name to make sure my memory hasn't failed fully since those days, it stands for "Roentgen Equivalent Man". We did not use Greys or Sieverts at all, and I probably just dated myself by admitting that, because I believe now that they do (but don't quote me on that). Our TLD (thermoluminescent dosimeter) measured in Man- REM, if memory serves, but we also had short term Digital readout dosimeters (TLD had to be taken apart and put into a machine to read) that read out in Rad per hour. Anything over 100 was considered a Hi-Rad area. Obviously nobody goes in the core chamber while it is at criticality, but even when shut down there were "hot spots" that could go well above 100 R/hr and when working in such areas we had to be extra careful. I love the work you're doing to educate the people about nuclear power and radiation and dispel the fearmongering and undeserved hate that nuclear industry currently gets. I'm jealous that you said you have many "nerdy friends in the nuclear field"... I WISH I had found a good opening when I discharged, but nothing was open, so I drifted away from the industry completely.
I remember when Mt Dew Voltage and CoD MW2 came out pretty close to the same time. I went to GameSpot for the Midnight release, got my shitty night vision, called in sick to work after 6 hours of playing, and my poop was blue/purple for 2 days...
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Good to know, because mine is in the shop.
Interesting, I have some old gas lights with mantels sitting out in the garage that I inherited many years ago. Never used them. but I wonder if the old mantles are of the thorium kind.
Anti-radiation pills.
It's potassium iodide, dude🤦
Where would I use this?
"Iodine tablets are more of a preventative measure than an active removal."
So, Rad-X, then.
*walks in and out of a dirty bomb crater with only burnt scarred feet*
Removing dissolved heavy metals is done by chelation with EDTA.
Yep
Sort of. Iodine won't save you from non-latent radiation.
Basically, if you're downwind of a nuclear disaster, pop Iodine and move out of it's way. It buys you some time but not much. Iodine will also give you cancer if you take it too frequently.
Kinda, but NOTE that it only lessen iodine uptake. If you're worried about another contaminant like cesium-137, it won't do anything.
Missed opportunity at 12:45, should've said "In the event of, ahem, total atomic annihilation."
If there was ever a RUclipsr to be sponsored by a goddamn pocket radiation detector, it would be Kyle.
Or Radioactive Drew.
"Is that a radiation detector in your pants or are you just happy to see me? 😏"
"Oh, it's just a radiation detector."
@@deathsyth8888 "Yes! And also yes 😘"
Maybe Cody if the feds didn't confiscate all his stuff.
Super Sus & kerosan (Ukrianian urbex youtubers) are the only other people I've seen advertise this product, and it's always on the Chernobyl episodes
Fun fact: DTPA mixed with gadolinium is injected as an MRI contrast agent to improve image quality. It also does not cross the blood brain barrier, so its used to highlight areas where that barrier has been compromised when studying bleeds and tumors in the brain.
Ive had MRI contrast once! Much better than CT contrast imo lol
Also they warn you that 'hey your body might not remove this but that's okay it's not toxic it just hangs around sometimes!' Lol
@@j.adamwegs2882 It's surely not as strong as Sarumoninium, Frodon, or Sauronium.
9:59 kid eating paint at my kindergarten was just really paranoid about radiation got it.
Too many bananas
It's ok to admit it was you.
cap
Lead paint was a thing. It's still in some older homes. Along with asbestosis.
@@kasugaifox8571 asbestos?
Radiation suits do shield you somewhat from radiation. The military makes their members train with CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear) suits that have charcoal inside to both keep the nastiness off you and to block some of the radiation. MOPP 4 is the full suit, and it sucks to do this training in Las Vegas in summer.
Irradiated dust is most of the threat after 48 hour or so. the stuff that just shoots death rays in all direction has a short halflife
Now we just wait for the inevitable “Blue RadAway” mods for fallout 3, NV and 4
The radaway bags look like they are filled with an iodine solution.
@@termiterasin Robitussin. Ain't nothing the 'tussin can't fix.
@@termiterasin But as said in the video, iodine is a preventative measure, not for cleaning your body. Rad X is probably the in-universe equivalent to iodine tablets. Surprisingly enough, Rad X is found in pill bottles in the game.
@@Maria_Erias almost out of 'tussin? add water, shake, more tussin!
Okay, challenge accepted. Where should I post the Nexus link for you once completed
Never knew RAD stood for "Radiation Absorbed Dose" and not just short for "Radiation"!
So... are vault jumpsuits colored with Prussian Blue?
Ditto! 😅
Also, your jumpsuit tidbit is a 🤯!
Given that what Kyle showed looked to be that *exact* color blue, it either has to be, or is one _HELL_ of a coincidence!
Prussian Blue is actually already referenced in Fallout 3 in one the Germantown police HQ terminal entry:
“We're low on Prussian Blue. Most of them don't know what that really means, for which I'm thankful.[...]”
Radaway could be a patented commercial variant in the fallout universe, though that wouldn’t explain how its able to treat radiation sickness on top of removing radionuclides.
My personal head cannon is that it uses a technology similar to FEV that quickly repair DNA to a point that it is effectively as if the patient was never exposed to radiation in the first place. While rad-x would just boost the body natural ability to repair DNA by itself.
Yes! I was going into the comments to mention the same thing. I thought that was really cool when I found it waaaay back when 3 came out.
Another potential canon would be using the DNA Repair Factors from the radiation resistent bacteria from deep sea vents. Repair agents stacked with chelation agents (like EDTA and Prussian Blue).
Germantown police headquarters was so surreal to explore for the first time, the story of the aftermath survivors sprinkled amongst the current gruesome tale of the super mutants and residents of big town that you originally arrive for, incredible experience for myself personally.
It could be something like FEV. I know glowing fungus is a ingredient in making radaway in fallout 4(and that glows the same as any radioactive animal or ghoul). Then there is the quest in fallout 3 with Moira Brown and her attempt to improve/home brew rad away that resulted in permanent mutation that requires high radiation exposure and being exposed to radiation to regenerate limb damage. So radaway has some ability to alter dna if the exposure to radiation is very high. ( I kinda think radaway might be why ghouls exist)
I knew I remembered that but i couldn’t remember which game
Chlorella, a blue green algae will pull radioactive material and other heavy metals out of your body. The broken cell wall is what does that. Pretty great stuff!
Yeah it will also kill you with cytotoxins
The devs of Fallout 1 (Black Isle Studios) were nerds and did actually know a thing or two about radiology, physics, and biology. The radiation exposure mechanics can be traced all the way back to the very first Fallout, where it's treated fairly realistically.
Really puts things into perspective when you say "it was one of the world's worst nuclear accidents. 4 people died."
Another cool fact about Prussian blue, it’s an intigral part of the Cyanotype process, one of the earliest known photographic processes. You may also know the prints it makes as “blueprints”.
So that's why the paper was always blue...
@@Asertix357mmmm, cyanide
Fun fact: prussian blue also stains the walls of holocaust gas chambers due to the high concentrations of cyanide gas.
The 1000 RADs started in Fallout 1. However, if your stats were high enough to remain above 0 from the debuff 1000 RADs granted, it wouldn't instakill you. Instead you would have 24 in game hours to bring your RADs below 1000. If you failed to do so, then you would die. Given the care put into the first 2 Fallout games, and that it wasn't an instakill but a this will kill you unless you use Fallout super science tech to remove it, it is highly probable they knew the significance of 1000 RADs.
Prussian Blue for radiation is canon in Fallout 3, it’s mentioned in the Germantown Police Station on a terminal by medical personnel overseeing a refugee camp after the bombs dropped.
that fucking terminal killed me man. Made my stomach hurt, and all the time spent clearing out Germantown had that thought up close and personal, lingering in my head. I know the series isnt known for its writing, and maybe that terminal seems better in hindsight just because of the emotional impact it had on me, but I swear that was the only serious, well-written text in the game.
@@cherrybramble I on my first playtrough right now using ps4s emulator
@@JunglefatigeDayton christ, they make emulators for that? ive got one in my living room lmao
@@JunglefatigeDayton why emulate? epic just had fallout 1&2&tactics for free, i also got new vegas and F3 for free from epic months ago
@@Colm1800 how does the epic games version run? i know the steam version requires so many hoops to run that people are opting to just port all the content into new vegas with tale of two wastelands
In all seriousness, can we all take a nerd moment to appreciate Kyle's approach to the topic and the tones he uses depending on the facts being laid out.
In HLH it's a stoic revenant narrator VO. In his more fun pop culture videos he's on screen, there's banter with ARIA, and more energy (for lack of a better term). But he is one of the very very presenters in my lifetime that I know of that can seamlessly do both in the same video and not have it be a jarring transition from either form. That takes a lot of practice and a lot of skill. Seriously my dude, kudos
Edit to correct spelling/grammar
Missed a few spots during your edit. But don't worry about it, perfect is boring.
@@levilandes1719 did I miss them or did I leave them in to see if you were paying attention? 🤔
His ability to 'read the room' when presenting both sets of stories, is part of why I tune in. 👊
I actually have to add something to your fact at the end concerning iodized salt!
The reason common table salt is usually iodized is because it prevents goiter, which is the common symptom of iodine deficiency. Goiter is a swelling of the thyroid in an attempt to soak in more iodine from foods in the body. It used to be a huge problem back in the day, but because of iodized salt, we've mostly cured it across the modernized world.
I only eat ionized salt for radiation.
1. That's not related to radioactivity and 2. that's pretty common knowledge...
@@CDCI3but wrong. It's not for preventing goiter, it's for preventing iodine deficiency period. It causes mental retardation in developing children and numerous health problems (including goiter) to all ages.
Goitres can occur from other thyroid disorders too
They come from a endocrine pathway disorder (mostly TSH, but TSI in graves disease also iirc is associated with it)
Iodine deficiency is a big cause but ultimately its more the high TSH that causes a Goitre
In deficiency, the TSH signalling is never down regulated because t3/t4 production cant keep up because of low iodine stores/fucking with thyroid peroxidases. TSH signalling --> hyperplasia --> goitre
But any erroneous high signalling (note signalling, that's how TSI causes graves) of TSH is likely to cause a goitre over time
@@BirnieMac1 I appreciate the information, it's pretty interesting. The biggest reason I specified Iodine deficiency as a cause of goiter was because of how prevalent it was several decades ago until we started added iodine into our diets, in such a case we saw it drop significantly.
I have no reason to disbelieve you though. Goiter is a symptom of any specific issue.
I actually learned about goiter when I was in HS in Chem II. My Chemistry teacher was showing us something about iodine and he mentioned how helpful it is for our bodies, and included the past issues with iodine-deficiency-induced goiter to exemplify it.
2:02 nice mask 😎
How does your comment have no likes?
@@evil_new4997lol yeah
"This doctor that definitely doesn't have bodies in his basement"
Kyle, that's called a morgue.
Or Doc Morbid's place...
No, he actually does have a body in his basement.
@@ThisOldSkater Doc Crocker, the plastic surgery guy did it if I remember the quest right
That's what I'll tell the police once I'm caught.
"Its just an involuntary morgue"
@@middlefin383 Exactly. I mean technically "their" basement since they were partners.
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Kyle, Bob Ross wouldn't be mad; he'd only be disappointed, and that is far worse.
But if you make him mad,
his technique will make your mistress weep,
put her to sleep,
elbow drop her dreams,
he goes deep...
:D
The fuck?
Wasn't Bob Ross ex-military or something?
@@vladyvhv9579 yeah he was in the airforce i believe
I was coming down here to comment this, honestly not surprised someone beat me to it
0:30 why did that line delivery sound like Charlie day lmao
As a painter, radiochemist, and occasional gamer, this video fits nicely into my algorithm.
The problem I have with this is that Radaway flushes out exposed and damaged tissue; that's the only way it would decrease RAD in-game. Sure, Prussian Blue would flush out contaminants from the body, but it would not decrease the level of exposure, it would just remove the radioactive particles from the body. It's also why in fallout 4 and 76 when you use Radaway, your health doesn't go up, it just increases the maximum health pool that you have. It's why it stops you from feeling the effects of radiation sickness in the earlier games.
Wife's friend made some creamy cakey dessert cups for us last week and used WAAAAAAAAAAY too much prussian blue based food dye to colour the whipped cream toppings - CAN CONFIRM IT TURNS POOP BLUE FOR DAYS, and it also starts turning a deep vibrant green towards the end too. I almost drove myself to the hospital before remembering the over-dyed desserts. Thanks for attending my TED talk.
Update: 05:11-13-8-2024UTC: Still making the smurf fudge.
even after being abolished, prussia is still managing to make people miserable lol
Make sure to replenish minerals after your excrement color turns back to normal. Cs isn't hte only ion that can get chelated out of your body.
@@jannikheidemann3805 I've been making sure my caffeine levels are replenished 👍
It's been 3 days since your last update. I'm invested.
@@splatterkat3838 It has now returned to normal colouration and texture. Thank you for your concern.
Radiacode sponsorship is aweaome. Congratulations on that!
I have the Radiacode 103, I went to an aircraft museum and found a ton of radium coated dials, including one 1000x above normal background. I normally use it to find uranium glass or other radioactive items
Awesome use cases!
Fun fact, I used to have a wristwatch from the late 50's... before the usage of radium was banned here in Brazil...
I trew it away when it broke, it was way too damaged to be fixed, but it was pretty stylish, brass bodied and leather wristband. And probably radioactive...
@@carloshenriquezimmer7543 I’ve got several radium clocks and watches, the watch I have isn’t very radioactive but the clocks definitely are, especially if the glass were to be removed, but don’t do that or you might get radium dust in the air.
I’m unsure if that’s a fun fact or not. It may be, but I can decide
It seems to be made to work with a phone app. How well does it work alone at the time? How well does it work without connecting it to the app ever?
BTW: I like that the app works without Google Play with OpenStreetMap.
there is one small problem with this, Prussian Blue is mentioned by name in fallout 3, separate from RadAway. at germantown in the terminals.
In his defense he doesn't KNOW he has bodies in the basement.
True and its only his fault by trusting the insane surgeon he partners with
they were patients when last he checked on them. too bad he only stands in one place waiting for the PC to talk to him
Doctor Crocker definitely didn’t fail the facial recognition surgery🤫
The editing goes crazy 🤯
What in the HELL Kyle? I thought we were having a silly fun time talking about Fallout Rad-Away & midway through the video this becomes a Half-Life History?
You even adopted the "Somber Professor" voice.
"Wait, it's a half-life history?" 🔫"Always was" 🧑🚀
@@alexishayes9935 💀
2:13 thank you so much for putting in that joke, I know not everyone will appreciate it. However, I loved it, and wanted to say as much.
I don't have a Geiger counter. Mine is in the shop.
Go free some toasters! Ad victorium
Must be a BMW product
A fellow railroad man I see
@@vintageludwighe doesn’t know 😏
*Deacon liked that*
You can find references to Prussian Blue in Fallout 4. in one of the staging area towns on the outskirts you can find notes about the medical staff running out of it.
I think my favorite pop culture use of cold fusion is when some Starcraft marines are planting a bomb and they open the man-sized storage case to reveal...it's a cooler full of beers, ice, and a football sized explosive
"He he, thank god for cold fusion!"
Starcraft 1 zerg mission 4 or 5 iirc
And shortly after, they have a fun little jig with the k-mart nids in the off-brand space hulk they were trying to blow up.
Cerveza Cristal! starts playing
A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.
Just a few comments from someone that specializes in Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear decontamination, especially in mass casualty decontamination. At 1:50 you mention washing yourself thoroughly with water and soap. You have to be super careful when doing this, you cannot use pressurized water, like from a showerhead, and you cannot scrub hard. You are supposed to use a high volume, low pressure water source, basically a high volume misting device. You are to GENTLY brush your body off using very specific chemicals. You gently brush down and away starting from your head going down to your feet. DO NOT use shampoo or conditioners, they have chemicals that bind to hairs. If you use them, the shampoo/conditioner will bind the radioactive contamination to your hair.
So the decontamination arc in fallout 4 is actually accurate?
As someone else who is trained in this.
A. You are correct.
B. We were trained that of all the branches, USAF is the best in CBRN decon, and take charge of the site upon arrival.
Glad to see one out and about online
@MrGhosta5 the idea yes. You don't want to make micro tears in your skin, force it into openings, or go anywhere but down and off
You would be shaved anyway to get rid of some contamination, that could bind to your hair.
@ceu160193 You wouldn't be shaved per se. Yes, your hair would be cut, but not shaved. It would be cut short because doing a shave has the possibility of causing micro tears in the skin, which would allow contamination to enter the body. The goal is to remove as much contamination as possible while mitigating any methods of contamination entering the body.
15:02 you just described Rad-x my guy
A fun intersection of art and medical science with Prussian Blue, it's used as a differential stain in histology especially with bone marrow slides to identify iron disorders
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
What I really like about the Rad-Away, alongside other stuff in Fallout, is that it has a "consumer product" name for what would be a specialist's material.
I mean, radiation poisoning is not something that could be a dayly concearn, at least not for the majority of people. But in Fallout, because of the massive usage of nuclear energy in consumer products, like cars and those domestic robots, that has become a mundaine occurance, so a consumer product to deal with that had to be created.
Not only that, but it is a 50's style of consumer product name.
That is great diagetic worldbuilding and storytelling.
There's also the fact that fallout has the 1950's style but is actually 2070's when the bombs drop.
So this is a civilization that not only uses WAY more nuclear power than reality but has done so for much much longer (120 years) and so likely has developed a wide range of radiation treatments beyond us.
Radiation is in vehicles, TV's and hell food.
I get the feeling Rad-Away is just an off the shelf drug like any basic painkiller.
None of which Bethesda had any part in. All of 'that' was from Fallout and Fallout 2, not developed or written by Bethesda.
Your spelling dude.
dude radaway isnt the commerical name its just what the wasterlander call it
I thought there were a lot of nuclear disaster adjacent products bc companies made tons of products marketed to consumers as being helpful in the event of a potential nuclear war (the vaults themselves being the foremost example)
8:23 - Kyle, you're at your best when you're serious. In my personal opinion, of course.
Fun fact: The first Fallout used rem as the radiation measurement! Rads only became a thing in FO3
I believe FO2 used RADs as well.
@@KiithnarasAshaa Rad isnt an acronym, you can spell it like meter.
If Radaway is like Stimpacks, it's science on the level of a repeatable miracle.
Stimpacks are roughly liquid flesh that replace what is missing and is never rejected by your system, being addictive.
-Why cant people make clones with Stimpacks? Dont know, says it uses existing properties of the user.
Radaway is roughly a cellular physical that mitigates the consequences (not prevent, reverse!) of ionizing radiation.
-Why doesnt it work on cancer? Dont know, it probably doesnt fix dna or long term rogue cells.
@@gabbonoo If you were paying attention to the video, you'd know that it actually is: Radiation Absorbed Dose
@@KiithnarasAshaa i saw the bit about Radiation Absorbed Dose.
turns out it is an acronym!
Im used to people saying Absorbed Radiation Dose so i figured the acronym was in hindsight. turns out it was lowercase because it's a symbol for measurement.
he symbol is *rad*, the unit system is *CGS*.
8:17 did not expect this but hey brazil mentioned :)
15:02 So what you're saying is Iodine is Rad-X and Prussian Blue is RadAway? Dope!
I used to play Bass for "Unstable Flavour" in high school.
There’s actually a terminal entry in FO3 @ Germantown police station talking about Prussian Blue with no mention of Rad-Away.
It was an army medic talking about it so they may well use a more formal terminology for it, that is to say, you may very well be right.
Nice to see someone else read that terminal too lol. I remembered it immediately when he mentioned Prussian Blue.
First learned about Prussian Blue while being trained to recondition Automotive cylinder head valve to valve seat patterns.
Kyle Hill x Fallout is some of my favorite content on RUclips right now. Great video
Each person who knows you has a different perception of who you are.
From a game mechanics standpoint, the radiation damage in newer Fallout games equate to .1% loss of maximum health, so 1000 rads just erases your entire health bar. It works exactly the same on enemies that aren't immune to radiation damage. 1000 Rads will kill anything that isn't flagged as immune.
Seriously the first in video add I immediately visited. I got a cheap Geiger counter, and it didn't even react on the uranyl acetate in our anorganic chemistry department. But was a lot of fun as a theoretical biochemist to go to the institutes where I did my BA and ask for a radiation source
Kyle mentions iodine tablets being a radiation preventative rather than a purgative measure at the end and I'd like to point out the Fallout analog mught be Rad-X?
Rad-X might contain iodine and other metals your body would like to absorb, Randal Clark mentions iodine tablets alone in the Honest Hearts DLC for FNV.
Back when the Chernobyl disaster happened, our pediatrician prescribed iodine pills for children, just in case. (It was in a country neighboring Ukraine, in the former Eastern Block. Official news covered the event very sparsely, so people were - understandably - on the edge.)
Much later, when I played Fallout and realized the similarity, it gave me the chills.
11:00 I can honestly say I wasn't expecting _that_ in a Kyle Hill video, today.
Fun fact: the colour of Skyrim's Magicka Poison is Prussian Blue.
It drains you of magicka.
Somehow, Todd Howard wins again.
So, radiation = mana?
Fun fact, you would indeed not want to make Bob Ross angry. Considering his earlier career as a soldier.
I gotta say Mr Award Winning Science Educator Rad Dad, I really loved the style in this vid, felt like a variety pack of your different vids, and felt very uniquely you. Very fun and cool science. Thanks Kyle!
So i had a friend that worked for years as a wielder in nuclear power plants. Then he became a safety officer. At one time, they shutdown a nuclear reactor (I forget which one) and he was making sure everyone did and followed the rules. However, one new guy who was a new supervisor didn't really pay attention. He walked into the reactor and since there are no rails near the inner pool. My buddy told him not to go closer, so he looks away for a moment... So there was a splash and the guy feel into the pool. Sp they pulled him out and moved him in a decontaminate chamber then stripped him and washed him with these decontamination wipes. however, he feel in the water. So he had him do jumping jacks and running in place until he nearly passed out.
Thank god he survived (nuclear already has enough bad press), but bloody hell is he an idiot.
And?
Please keep going!!!!!
Wait what happened next?!
This has so many misspellings I can’t believe you. This is cap.
Guy named cancer when i drink "blood like substance":
I always just thought you were slurping Rad-Away like a pouch of Capri Sun when you used it.
The forbidden Kapo
that'd be my preferred canon until they start adding chem use animations to their games. Needles give me the jeebies.
@@LetLiveEverything You get used to needles real quick, to be honest.
@@KatyaAbc575 This. Been there, done that. I react only if the needle gets a bit too close to a nerve these days.
to me the sound effect always made me wince because it sounds like the bag is being tightly squeezed to get all the liquid out fast. . . while the other end of the tube is a needle... probably in a large vein...
Prussian blue definitely reminds me of how pyridium works with UTI otc stuff! The dye is what coats the lining of the urethra and dulls the pain
1:00 To be fair, in the fallout universe, it's "weird" for a doctor to not have bodies in the basement.
Man I love sponsors that actually have to do with the focuses or channels.
"It just works" and my head goes straight to It Just Works by the Chalkeaters. And I'm left smiling.
Ah.. I knew about the Prussion Blue :D
It was one of the experiments in my childrens chemical lab box.
I actually didn't use it to rad-away me, but for the blue color I used for drawing a map...
Tell me more, tell me sweet little lies, "Fallout 3 will have 200 endings" - Todd Howard
Technically the game ends every time you save and quit :P
"I love you".
@@curtissharpe7084 uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Technically with all the different end cards from the various things you do, this is probably true, even if the only actual ending (until broken steel) is Fawkes telling you to fuck off and die.
Now there's a classic FO meme I haven't seen in so long
Prussian blue chemistry channel mentioned!!! Its official Kyle Hill chemistry fan
kyle thank you saving me from my doomscrolling
Rad Away in IV Form in the Fallout games still makes sense, because there's so many ways available in those games to get radiation out of your system & Rad Away is one of the more rare & expensive ways.
Prussian Blue is also used on precision-fitting machined surfaces to locate high spots on bearings valves, gears etc.
And, since 1842, it has been used to make exact copies of engineering schematics, hence the name "blueprint".
At a factory, we use blue dye on plastic car parts to find defects.
As someone who already owns a RadiaCode 103, I am not surprised that they would sponsor someone like Kyle.
But I am surprised that they are now actually sponsoring RUclipsrs at all.
It's an awesome device, and a perfect fit for this channel honestly.
I've played every fallout game, even have about 900 hours in f76 and I'm only now learning the radiation thing on the pip boy actually has a purpose, I thought it was just there to look cool
So glad you posted a vid! Been bummed out lately and your content always brightens my day!!
Thats why i love this channel, if you get interior radiation poisoning the cure is paint pigment in pill form. Tremendous.
One of the labs i used to work in used EDTA and DTPA as a chelator in the event of nickel and cobalt skin/eye contamination
a few thoughts:
the way RAD-X works is a simple process called "masking" in chemistry, which is a process in which a chemical is introduced into a reaction to remove disruptive reagents from the equation.
for example if the reaction you are experimenting with targets potassium, but your main reagent also reacts eagerly with sodium, you need to incorporate something that will react with sodium, but not with potassium first.
and this is how RAD-away would actually work, by introducing a cocktail of chemicals into the body that binds to the more common radioactive isotopes in ways that prevent them from incorporating into chemical processes that happen inside the human body.
another thing you can do is to introduce an abundance of less harmful chemicals into the body that can displace the radioactive isotopes because they have similar chemical properties, but no radioactivity to speak off, which is not only a thing in radioactive treatments either.
for example one treatment to carbon monoxide poisoning is to provide the body with an abundance of pure oxygen to displace the harmful carbon monoxide.
another consequence of this process is how arsenic is deadly to animal life, you see arsenic is chemically similar enough to phosphorous to be integrated into the same molecules as phosphorous, but not similar enough for those molecules to then function properly in further reactions.
same thing could be done to remove radioactive isotopes of elements that do have non radioactive isotopes by flooding the body with the non-radioactive isotopes OR lighter metal ions from the same main group that can bind to essential molecules more strongly than the heavy radioactive ones.
Some form of potassium iodine. I’m guessing I haven’t even watched the video. This is exactly where I’m at so far but I’m making a guess it’s potassium iodide. 0:39
I gotta love the old person references of Martha Stewart and Bob Ross.
until today's 30 somethings run the governments and are "the man" you cant call martha stewart an "old person reference", you just cant.
i refuse to be called old when i have none of the old person privileges!
I'm only 37 and I know those, I'M NOT OLD DAMMIT!!!!
😢😭😭😭😭😭😭
I think if you go into Nexus right now you'll find some Radaway mod with that blue tone.
Damn, the whispering on Fallout 4 in the background had me thinking I was going nuts
"Call it a ... happy accident." My heart is happy.
“It just works” 😂 I heard that, Aria 💙
Kyle nice set up with the death sound FX in the background for the transition wp sir wp
9:36 ok so not physics related but prussian blue is also used in histology - specifically Perls Prussian Blue stain! Didn't realise how versatile this was lol
Its used in alot of places ink machining ect it is actauly illegal in some countries as an ink because how permanent the stains are
“It just works” ABSOLUTELY gave me the giggles
10:21 also don’t forget it’s also what lines the walls of the showers and certain German labor camps during World War II
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When I was in the navy, they still used Rads but also used REM which if memory serves is a measure using Roentgen but applied to that absorbed in living tissue. Looking up the name to make sure my memory hasn't failed fully since those days, it stands for "Roentgen Equivalent Man". We did not use Greys or Sieverts at all, and I probably just dated myself by admitting that, because I believe now that they do (but don't quote me on that). Our TLD (thermoluminescent dosimeter) measured in Man- REM, if memory serves, but we also had short term Digital readout dosimeters (TLD had to be taken apart and put into a machine to read) that read out in Rad per hour. Anything over 100 was considered a Hi-Rad area. Obviously nobody goes in the core chamber while it is at criticality, but even when shut down there were "hot spots" that could go well above 100 R/hr and when working in such areas we had to be extra careful.
I love the work you're doing to educate the people about nuclear power and radiation and dispel the fearmongering and undeserved hate that nuclear industry currently gets. I'm jealous that you said you have many "nerdy friends in the nuclear field"... I WISH I had found a good opening when I discharged, but nothing was open, so I drifted away from the industry completely.
wow i came here to say "radaway?" as a joke thinking it was a ridiculous notion, imagine my surprise barely a minute later
aria quoting todds “it just works” is perfect
You even do sponsors better than others. Everyone should be more like Kyle.
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Bob Ross in my Fallout video essay? That's a happy nuclear accident if there even is such a thing.
1:36 is that a radiation detector of some kind?
Like metal detectors at airports, but you know, useful?
In the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games vodka reduces radiation.
Thing is, it actually does...except you will die from alcohol poisoning, if you drink enough of it to have radioprotective effect.
I remember when Mt Dew Voltage and CoD MW2 came out pretty close to the same time. I went to GameSpot for the Midnight release, got my shitty night vision, called in sick to work after 6 hours of playing, and my poop was blue/purple for 2 days...
Loved the Bob Ross voice, made me feel like I was watching his scientific counterpart.
I never thought I'd stumble on a video of Intellectual aquaman teaching me how to make radaway but I'm glad I did
Prussian blue was extremely important to the development of hand scraping, which is the best way to make a flat steel surface.
Aria’s cheerful “it just works” absolutely sent me