r/comics • u/FieldExplores Gator Days • 2h ago

It Glows - Gator Days

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u/The_Oliverse 2h ago

Once they removed the radium, it really never hit the same :(

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u/agedlikesage 2h ago

What are you thinking of? They stopped using radium in the 60s

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u/Azealas 1h ago

They did say it was removed

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u/YesterdayAlone2553 1h ago

A Florida Man in the 90's made a homemade atomic bomb with paint scrapings from clocks and old chemistry kits specifically because he couldn't do it with the newer stuff.

I'm thinking it was removed.

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u/pseudo_deja_pris 34m ago

It was not a bomb, it was a nuclear reactor.

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u/pandakatie 35m ago

A Florida boy scout!

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u/bobmailer 33m ago

Radium cannot sustain a chain reaction because it isn't fissile. You would need to split about 31 billion atoms every second just to power a tiny 1-watt LED bulb. Chain reactions are important for bombs.