Chief Longwind Of The North
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I just had an interesting discussion with one of my sons who believes he knows everything there is to know about everything. I told him that a friends I grew up with had been stationed aboard a nuke submarine, and they didn't need refrigerators to keep food fresh. Instead, the food was exposed to gamma radiation, which destroyed all pathogens, making the food shelf stable. My son told me that that wasn't possible as gamma rays were more powerful than xrays, and doctors stayed behind protective shields to prevent being exposed to xrays.
I tried to explain to him that yes, xrays and gamma rays are harmful to the body. But that irradiating foods with them leaves no radioactive particles on the food. Gamma radiation, xrays, ultraviolet, infra-red, and white light are all the same thing, just at different frequencies. wave radiation is powerful enough to punch little atomic holes through your body, which can damage and disrupt DNA and RNA, and cause cancers, and radiation sickness. But they don't leave you radioactive. Infra-red is a long, relatively weak radiation that gives up its energy quickly in the skin, exciting the molecules to produce heat.They are wavelengths of photons. High energy, short wave radiation simply passes through you, leaving noting but damage. It is great at making perishable foods shelf stable as gamma radiation is powerful enough to pass through sealed containers, making everything inside sterile.
Most people are afraid of irradiated food, and yet, it's safer than the preservatives we flood our bodies with on a daily basis.
Ok, that's my strange topic for the day.
Seeeeeya; Chief Longwind of the North
I tried to explain to him that yes, xrays and gamma rays are harmful to the body. But that irradiating foods with them leaves no radioactive particles on the food. Gamma radiation, xrays, ultraviolet, infra-red, and white light are all the same thing, just at different frequencies. wave radiation is powerful enough to punch little atomic holes through your body, which can damage and disrupt DNA and RNA, and cause cancers, and radiation sickness. But they don't leave you radioactive. Infra-red is a long, relatively weak radiation that gives up its energy quickly in the skin, exciting the molecules to produce heat.They are wavelengths of photons. High energy, short wave radiation simply passes through you, leaving noting but damage. It is great at making perishable foods shelf stable as gamma radiation is powerful enough to pass through sealed containers, making everything inside sterile.
Most people are afraid of irradiated food, and yet, it's safer than the preservatives we flood our bodies with on a daily basis.
Ok, that's my strange topic for the day.
Seeeeeya; Chief Longwind of the North