Researchers came up with a warning symbol for this exact scenario

“In the aftermath of repeated incidents where the public was exposed to radiation from orphan sources, a common factor reappeared: individuals who encountered the source were unfamiliar with the trefoil radiation warning symbol, and were in some cases not familiar with the concept of radiation. During a study in the early 2000s, it was found that only 6% of those surveyed in India, Brazil and Kenya could correctly identify the meaning of the trefoil symbol.”

ISO 21482 - Wikipedia

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giving me a solid cubic foot of weapons grade plutonium

Briefly

hey DM what’s the range of mending? as long as it’s over a few kilometers i should be fine

Sickglow stones?

I’m not feeling creative today so I’ll just write “Dildo joke”.

It’s only glowing blue because there are orcs nearby.

Haha good one. “Punny answer.”

I am curious where this drop and run source comes from.

Typically, they’re sealed in a shielded box, where you can open a small windows that the gamma say can escape and are used for field radiography when inspecting bridge/pipeline solder. Definitely not a drop and run thing

If your are very lucky, you can find one by the side of the road in Australia.

I’m guessing it’s short for “If you don’t know what this is and you find it outside of any shielded box, shit has gone very wrong and you should not be near this, let alone touch it”. The probably best way to get people to stop touching it is to suggest that it poses an acute threat, hence the urgency in the phrasing “drop and run”.

So if you’re operating a device wherein it’s properly contained, you don’t see the label. If you’re removing it while protected appropriately, you already know the label doesn’t apply to you. If you know how to handle it, you don’t need instructions.

I am guessing the idea is to induce terror in the holder such that, if they did not intend to hold a vial of Co 60, they would not mess with it further. It conveys the appropriate level of danger, if not an appropriate set of handling instructions.

Edit: So I looked it up and I misunderstood: if you can read that (especially by the blue glow) then its rapidly killing you. I really don’t understand how dangerous some radiation is lmao.

find the right answer by posting the wrong answer.”

Cunningham’s Law FTW

Time for a rewatch of Chernobyl.

They have “ray of frost”. They can understand “radiation”. Not necessarily what is radiating but the word itself is old.

radiation(n.)

mid-15c., radiacion, “act or process of emitting light,” from Latin radiationem (nominative radiatio) “a shining, radiation,” noun of action from past-participle stem of radiare “to beam, shine, gleam; make beaming,” from radius “beam of light; spoke of a wheel” (see radius).

Tldr “radiate” is like 1500’s whereas “emitter” is a fairly modern word, from the 1880’s.

Lots of “stops” everywhere and and skulls in red triangles, yeah, that should be somewhat clear toa lot of people. But not everyone

Ah, I remember this story:

on September 24, Ivo, Devair’s brother, successfully scraped some additional dust out of the source and took it to his house a short distance away. There he spread some of it on the concrete floor. His six-year-old daughter, Leide das Neves Ferreira, later ate an egg while sitting on the floor. She was also fascinated by the blue glow of the powder, applying it to her body and showing it off to her mother.

What a horrible way to die

Does temperature affect nuclear decay?

Technically, maybe, but the effect is negligible.

My favorite podcast did an episode about that!

Highly recommend if you like leftism, and also want to listen to an engineer talk at length about what this blue glowing powder is, the series of bad decisions that led to some scrap collectors finding it, and the even longer series of even worse decisions people made regarding what to do with this blue glowing powder

You can skip the Goddamn News if you want, discussion of the spicy rocks starts at 20:28

Make it fancy. “Malluminance” or something

This glyph clearly portrays the object with the ️ symbol bringing someone back from the dead! We should consume the blue powder inside this metal case, as it’s clearly a kind of medicine

This kind of symbology is never going to work. We know what archaeologists do when they understand the “you will die if you break this seal” message. Ain’t no symbol is going to keep a damn human from cracking open the glowy blue box