Jonty WareingFeb 6, 2023

Favourite thing I've learned in 2023: Rosenthaler Platz U-Bahn station in Berlin is entirely decorated with radioactive uranium glazed tiles.

@gigabecquerel visited with a geiger counter to check.

https://chaos.social/@gigabecquerel/109818433760462038

gigabecquerel (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 video The whole fucking station is uranium glazed??? That must be tens of kg of uranium! Hot damn I almost didn't want to leave Edit: Fuck sake there are so many armchair experts here. NO, this is NOT dangerous! Radiation is all around you and so far you have done just fine surviving that. It's a nice color and an interesting historical fact, and that's all there's to it.

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Show threadJonty WareingFeb 7, 2023

If you liked this, you may also like the General Electric Lightning Laboratory ...which is under threat due to imminent demolition ⚡️🚧

If you can, please donate to help rescue the equipment - some of which was demonstrated at the 1939 World's Fair.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/Saving-GE-Lightning-Laboratory

Show threadrobinhouston
@jonty I found this amazing description of the General Electric lightning show at the 1939 New York World's Fair. https://www.1939nyworldsfair.com/Ponderings/General_Electric.aspx
General Electric

Feb 8, 2023 at 9:49amWeb
Show threadrobinhoustonFeb 8, 2023
@jonty Why don't we have indoor lightning shows any more? What would it take to mount a lightning show at, say, EMF camp?
Show threadJonty WareingFeb 8, 2023
@robinhouston I've been trying to arrange it for years and it's just never worked out!
Show threadmikechislettFeb 8, 2023
@jonty @robinhouston will Nottingham gaussfest suffice?
Show threadJonty WareingFeb 8, 2023
@mikechislett @robinhouston There's also often a teslathon in Cambridge https://www.teslacoiling.co.uk/eventspage/
Events | UK Tesla Coiling

Show threadrobinhoustonFeb 8, 2023
@jonty @mikechislett This is great! I had no idea these events existed.