Deep thoughts by Recon: vol. 1

[Recon_Ninja_985]

nuclear survival.

assuming one has survived in a bunker for 5 years or so and decides it's safe enough to go out in their little mopp suit and find a lesser irradiated place to live above ground.

my question is can an irradiated geiger counter be relied on to work properly when it has radiation absorbed from when you left your original location,
how can it possibly stop tick tick ticking enough to accurately inform you of any true safe levels of radiation in your travels? ...  

[Fresnel]

How can a thermometer accurately tell near-freezing temperatures if it's spent a whole summer being hot?  

[Recon_Ninja_985]

Fresnel

How can a thermometer accurately tell near-freezing temperatures if it's spent a whole summer being hot?

that's different.

my concern is absorbed nuclear radiation that is going to stay on the geiger counter interfering with readings in clean areas

nuclear radiation likes to do that for some stupid reason.  

[Fresnel]

Recon_Ninja_985

Fresnel

How can a thermometer accurately tell near-freezing temperatures if it's spent a whole summer being hot?

that's different.

my concern is absorbed nuclear radiation that is going to stay on the geiger counter interfering with readings in clean areas

nuclear radiation likes to do that for some stupid reason.

It's not absorbed radiation, it's floating alpha particles. Think of it like dust... dust that will kill the ******** out of you eighteen times over if you breathe it in. Canned air will actually solve the problem, but if your counter got alpha particles on it, so did you, and you're dead.  

[ArmasTermin]

Fresnel

Recon_Ninja_985

Fresnel

How can a thermometer accurately tell near-freezing temperatures if it's spent a whole summer being hot?

that's different.

my concern is absorbed nuclear radiation that is going to stay on the geiger counter interfering with readings in clean areas

nuclear radiation likes to do that for some stupid reason.

It's not absorbed radiation, it's floating alpha particles. Think of it like dust... dust that will kill the ******** out of you eighteen times over if you breathe it in. Canned air will actually solve the problem, but if your counter got alpha particles on it, so did you, and you're dead.

But if the counter got irradiated, it's going to stay irradiated. So how's anyone supposed to use it to find non-radiated places if it keeps thinking it's being irradiated?  

[Fresnel]

ArmasTermin

Fresnel

Recon_Ninja_985

Fresnel

How can a thermometer accurately tell near-freezing temperatures if it's spent a whole summer being hot?

that's different.

my concern is absorbed nuclear radiation that is going to stay on the geiger counter interfering with readings in clean areas

nuclear radiation likes to do that for some stupid reason.

It's not absorbed radiation, it's floating alpha particles. Think of it like dust... dust that will kill the ******** out of you eighteen times over if you breathe it in. Canned air will actually solve the problem, but if your counter got alpha particles on it, so did you, and you're dead.

But if the counter got irradiated, it's going to stay irradiated. So how's anyone supposed to use it to find non-radiated places if it keeps thinking it's being irradiated?

Things don't just get irradiated by coming into contact with irradiated particles, not for a noticeable amount of time. Think of it like light. If you shine a light on a wall, and then turn the light off, does the wall keep shining light back? Not unless it's painted glow-in-the-dark. In this scenario, radioactive particles are akin to glow-in-the-dark dust. If it sticks to the wall, the wall will glow a bit. If you wash/vacuum/dust the wall, it won't glow any more.

Alternate, "the sky is blue because that's the color of oxygen" answer: draw a new zero line on the geiger counter.