I like to imagine radiologic security checks are done by border agents with cloud chambers. Not fancy electronic detectors, just literal cloud chambers. Just imagine there’s some customs guy at a port in LA. He’s standing outside a shipping container. In his hands he has a giant glass dome filled with fog. And he’s just awkwardly waving this giant impractical object all over the surface of a shipping container.
YES! Make it a glass sphere adorned with many brass fittings. And they track the counts/minute by manually counting and using a brass stopwatch that matches the design of the cloud chamber.
you can make a cloud chamber with clear plastic containers, a really cold frozen thing, high proof alcohol, and hot water (example)
these can visualize cosmic radiation, or you can always hold a smoke detector next to it to see it really pop off
so you can literally have an inexpensive hobby involving nuclear physics haha
I like to imagine radiologic security checks are done by border agents with cloud chambers. Not fancy electronic detectors, just literal cloud chambers. Just imagine there’s some customs guy at a port in LA. He’s standing outside a shipping container. In his hands he has a giant glass dome filled with fog. And he’s just awkwardly waving this giant impractical object all over the surface of a shipping container.
that’d be WAY more fun than a pancake GM or whatever the hell they use lol
it’s kinda steampunk
YES! Make it a glass sphere adorned with many brass fittings. And they track the counts/minute by manually counting and using a brass stopwatch that matches the design of the cloud chamber.
FETCH THE FANCY STOPWATCH COUNTING-BOY
Yes! Each customs agent needs at least one, preferable several, scrappy apprentices.