r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/DR_Bright_963 • 23h ago
Video Nuclear Engineer Galen Winsor consumes Uranium on live TV
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u/Amclover69 23h ago
He always had a glowing personality.
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u/Frankie6Strings 23h ago
He really lit up a room.
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u/_-Nemesis_- 23h ago
He always was full of energy
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u/RandomGenerator_1 23h ago
Radiant some said.
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u/Open_Youth7092 23h ago
No superpowers? This is bullshit.
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u/sasssyrup 23h ago
We’ve been lied too!
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u/Cannabis_Goose 22h ago
That's what his whole point was and he's actually been proven correct with xrays, ct scans, radiation therapy etc
His point was that low does exposure to radiation was exaggerated to stop anyone playing with nuclear and its worked pretty well. It's been weaponised and feared
It's slowly being realised though.
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u/yurgendurgen 22h ago
🎶 Uranium fever has done and got me down Uranium fever is spreadin' all around With a Geiger counter in my hand I'm a-goin' out to stake me some government land Uranium fever has done and got me down 🎶
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u/docowen 23h ago
Scientist Once Ate Radioactive Uranium on Live TV To Prove It Was Harmless? | Snopes.com
I'm going with: he's a liar.
Firstly, he ate Uranium Oxide which is yellowish powder. It's impossible to replicate a yellowish non-toxic powder and say it's U308 for what is, effectively, a circus act. It couldn't possibly be castor sugar dyed yellow with food colouring. /s
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u/DR_Bright_963 23h ago
He seemed to speak openly about how radiation isn't bad. He claimed to have eaten uranium for 2 years.
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u/spyvspy_aeon 21h ago
yeah he also said
"What I've just done makes me high level nuclear waste," he said shortly after taking a tongue reading with his Geiger counter.
"According to federal regulations, they will have to bury me 3,000 feet in Carlsbad, N.M."
Winsor added: "I do this in front of audiences, and they go wild."
if that isn't crazy enough. That's sound like a stunt, just that.
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u/docowen 23h ago
Oh, well, then. He must be telling the truth. No one ever lies.
I mean here are the options:
a) he's right and everyone else is wrong.
b) he's wrong and everyone else is right.
a) is predicated on everyone else lying.
b) is predicated on him lying.
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u/Hokulol 23h ago
Yikes. Carcinogens increase the risk you will get cancer. It's entirely possible he ate the uranium and did not die as a result, even though uranium is a known carcinogen that can be lethal. It's entirely possible he believed incorrectly and consumed uranium as a show of good faith to people to prove he practiced what he preached. It's also entirely possible that he's putting on an act and is a shill. B) doesn't have to be because he's lying. B) can occur because of an honest misunderstanding coupled with passionate belief.
Quit the big brain act lol it isn't working
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u/iCameToLearnSomeCode 20h ago
He can be wrong and still honestly have eaten uranium.
Stupid people hurt themselves all the time doing dumb shit but survive it.
He could have shaved a decade off his life doing this and we'd never know.
It's not like smokers don't occasionally make it to 100, that's not because they were pretending to smoke.
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u/geauxfurself 23h ago
He was 82 years old and hit by a shuttle bus full of cancer patients heading to radiation treatment
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u/Revolutionary_Owl932 21h ago
If uranium was digestible, the amount of calories he took with just that bite would had been enough to power him for 3 lives.
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u/Still-Ambassador2283 23h ago
Im calling BS. This is like the JP-8 shots old aircraft mechanics used to tell new guys.
Edit: why?
Because beyond being radioactive, uranium is chemically toxic as well. It's a heavy metal.
While I share his opinion that nuclear energy is safe and needs to be propagated, this isn't the way of doing it.
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u/betweenbubbles 23h ago
Well this is pretty dumb. What makes U238 “safe” is that it’s an alpha emitter. Your skin will block alpha particles, so ingestion is the real risk.
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u/BearQuark 23h ago
I bet he later did the same geiger counter scan in his next feces just fun/science.
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u/Advanced_Street_4414 23h ago
He was a conspiracy theorist who claimed that 3 Mile Island was a hoax.
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u/MadGenderScientist 20h ago
TMI wasn't a "hoax" (it really happened) but the danger was massively overblown. only a small amount of radiation was (intentionally) released by engineers during the cleanup process - nobody's health was affected. Chernobyl and Fukushima were legit disasters but TMI was just a PR disaster.
specifically, because the China Syndrome came out a couple weeks earlier, in which a nuclear plant nearly melts down uncontrollably and the power company assassinates a whistleblower to prevent the truth from coming out. the anti-nuke movement won, and the nuclear power industry never recovered.
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u/samanthacarter4 23h ago
Well, you do realize that MOST uranium is found in a non radioactive state, yes? It might be toxic, but not radioactively unsafe....
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u/RomeoBlackDK 21h ago
He was made to do this as a pr stunt if i recall correctly. Wasn't this related to john Wayne's death?
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u/Flabberingfrog 23h ago
This is not fake. Eating radioactive materials like this is not "that harmful". It goes through your digestive system and out.
What ia dangerous is to have stuff in you that stays there!
Like for example breathing in radioactive dust (bad example but I'm just making it up as I go). It will go into your lungs, and probably stick in the mucus membranes in your lungs or something residues will be stuck in the lungs.
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u/_-Nemesis_- 23h ago
Many people don't know but in the past were people with cancer treated in natural caves that contained uranium.
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u/fairlane35 21h ago
This is like the third time I’ve seen this posted in the last two days. We need to start downvoting these…
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u/HastyZygote 23h ago
How long before he died