I mean, by a while you mean a short period 😂 the problem is that radium gives off a ton of alpha beta and gamma radiation compared to like, uranium glass. Which gives off very little alpha and beta in small amounts. Beta being the worst in uranium. And radium has way more alpha and beta radiation than uranium glass. Not even including the worst, gamma. A dozen radium wrist watch hands will be significantly, greatly, lots more radioactive in alpha and beta radiation than even a large amount of uranium glass. And they made uranium glass out of legit yellowcake brah. my mom got a whole cabinet full of uranium glass but most of the alpha radiation doesn't make it out of the uranium glass and the rest doesn't make it out of the cabinet. The beta particles only travel a few inches even with no objects blocking it, max. The problem with radium is it gives off a metric crap load more alpha, beta, and the worst, gamma. 5 sheets of paper will stop all the alpha particles coming off of radium, beta is harder to stop but doesn't travel far at least, but the gamma radiation can go through lead if it's not thick enough. Yeah you'll probably not have problems sitting in the cockpit for a little while but man, the guys doing 5 hours of training once a week in these older jets were sure getting way way way too much exposure to alpha beta and gamma radiation for sure. A cabinets full of uranium glass with each piece giving off 10-200 miliseverts is nothing compared to 20 old wristwatch hands giving off 80,000+ and also gamma rays 😫. Who cares if it has 80,000 alpha if I'd blocked by sunscreen, but It's the gamma that is the issue my man. It sucks esspecially so I mean bro let's not pretend it's safe to sit in the cockpit. You wont die if you don't hang around but it's not healthy by any means 😂 radiated cockpit my guy. Less gamma tearing your DNA apart the better. And that's after years and years of decay. They used to give off even more radiation and it's still too much to really let people hang around the radium dials any longer than they need to get a good look on this old jet 😂 luckily the more you stand back the less exposure you get. I mean come on brotha, it's not that safe haha. I'll stand by a whole display case full of uranium glass with no worry every day of the week my whole life, but 5 radium wristwatch hands gives off enough of all 3 forms of radiation in large enough amounts that I'm tappin out dog 😂 I'll check out the radium dials in small amounts once if I get the chance but I'm not hanging around. I'm too young to risk it. If I was 40 and didn't get cancer until 80 then I could live with cancer and die of old age with cancer. If I go hanging around radium dials it's going to give me years and years worth of the radiation uranium glass is giving me in a way way very short period of time 😂 I'll die of cancer by the time I'm 50 or 60. No thanks from me brother haha. Maybe I'll hang around some radium when I'm not 23 and worried about making sure my testicles keep working for a while longer

@@TheAnnoyingBoss bro you REALLY gotta work on your writing. "Radium is actually fairly dangerous compared to other alternatives such as uranium glass since it gives off many times more alpha and beta radiation but more importantly gamma which penetrates most surfaces. Short exposure isn't too bad but as a pilot the cumulative exposure can definitely affect your health." See? A lot more concise and readable. Other option for your bible is that you're spun as fuck, in which case, godspeed! 🤣

@@TheAnnoyingBoss always funny watching someone try to pretend like they know what they are talking about. Thanks for being that person.

Didn't they use tritium by then

@@TheAnnoyingBoss so it seems you've a vast misunderstanding regarding this subject. The primary danger of radium was actually the alpha particles. You might think that's the least worrying type but infact when inhaled or ingested it is extremely damaging. So generally the painting process was the issue but the dials in the cockpit are shielded when this is used. The amount of radiation taken in given exposure is actually less than the radiation you and this theoretical pilot are exposed to simply by flying at a causing altitude. Time of exposure is the real indicator for risks here.

No, I guarantee it’s because they don’t want to get sued by anyone

@@hoosierhell7456 Who would sue who ???

@@alcalyne5388 If the museum knowingly let people get into the cockpit, even if it’s just an overall low dose of radiation, I am 100% sure that someone would try suing.

Exactly

@@hoosierhell7456 well no. If they do let people get in. The museum would need to setup waivers of sorts as too insure people don't damage it somehow and walk away

Right? This stuff and tritium has been used in all sorts of things including watches for decades.

Smoke detectors have it. I can't remember what the back of mine said to be specific.

@@Wub892 smoke detectors have americium in very very small amounts and americium doesn't give off gamma rays. Only alpha particles and small amounts of beta particles. Just like small amounts of uranium. So it's much safer. Americium inside a little metal box in your smoke detector is basically harmless unless you're busting it open and eating the americium or sleeping with your smoke detector as your pillow. All the americium alpha radiation particles are blocked by the little metal box inside the smoke detector. The beta radiation particles can't be stopped by thin materials as easy as alpha particles but beta can only travel about two inches away from the decay source before it peters out and dissapears. Same with uranium. Uranium in large amounts and in powder form is particularly dangeorus because you can't breath it in and larger amounts gives of more alpha and beta particles because more particles are actively decaying and giving off more alpha and beta particles. But uranium glass uses little enough uranium and traps it inside the glass for the most part so uranium glass is usually actually pretty safe. Not safe to eat off of every day like a ceramic plate. A uranium glass plate still gives off a little radiation so you don't want to be eating off a uranium glass plate every day. But in a display in your house, basically none of the radiation makes it out. So it's perfectly safe to collect Uranium glass even. Uranium when it's in the glass, and Americium when it's in the smoke detectors, is very very safe when compared to radium. They didn't use radium in smoke detectors. They used it in dials and wrist watches, clocks. Back before they knew what gamma ray radiation was. A dozen or two radium wrist watch hands gives off orders of magnitude more alpha radiation than the uranium when it's inside uranium glass. Or even raw yellowcake in even much larger amounts for that matter. They painted it on dials because it had a glow, but the people who painted these dials often died. Radium gives so much more alpha radiation than uranium that you can actually get an aloha radiation burn just like the radiation burn the sun gives you we call sunburn. Except that's only one of the symptoms of radium radiation poisoning. They'd get alpha burns on their skin, the beta would go an inch or two inside their bodies and cause cancers. And the worst, gamma ray radiation which radium has that uranium and Americium both do not have. Which is the worst kind of the 3 because it can send the gamma radiation ray which is so small, it goes in-between molecules. It can damage DNA and the DNA struggles to replicate. You get a combination of this kind of high levels of radiation from such super small amounts of radium that people poisoned by radium can look like they're melting. Almost because they sort of are. Their DNA is all screwed up and it kills them. Looking at in a museum isn't bad but living with it is really bad. Really really vad. Radium is too dangeorus for most commercial applications unlike uranium, or uranium in glass, or Americium smoke detectors. They didn't use radium in the smoke detectors because the women who were painting the watch dials started melting. Losing their jaws, dying of cancer, hands all burned, cancers all throughout their gastrointestinal tract because they were licking the radium paint brushes to try to get a clean nice and neat paint line on their wrist watch and clock dials. After that they stopped using radium. They used americium in the smoke detectors because it's like uranium, it has Alpha particles in not extreme amounts like radium, beta in less amounts than alpha by a wide margin, so a small metal box contains all the radiation in the smoke detector. And the people building them aren't getting exposed to gamma radiation. They also went and developed glow in the dark paint after the radium incidents. And that's what you see on watches to this day. The bright green, non highly radioactive paint. A radioactive wrist watch wouldn't be a big deal if it was only alpha particles, easily totally contained by the watch housing. Problem is uranium and Americium have beta particles in small amounts and they travel up to about 2 inches and can penetrate almost the entire distance unlike alpha particles. So it's damaging to wear on a wrist 24/7 365. Radium is worse because gamma rays will go clean through multiple people and lead can't even stop it until you make it thick enough. That's why they give you a lead vest when you get X-rays. X-rays use gamma rays which come from radium. One of the commerical applications of radium we know best. But they only hit you with a very little bit in a very fast exposure often in a small localized area to make an x-ray and they don't want you getting too many x-rays, let alone sitting in a cockpit with the stuff with no lead vest on 😂 you can collect uranium glass your whole life and get way less radiation exposure than having a couple dozen radium wrist watch hands on your pocket for just relatively short time in comparison, or something crazy like that. Unless the radium isn't potent. You can watch a chemist on KZfaq put a geiger counter up to a good siezed piece of uranium glass and then up to a very very small box of old radium wristwatch dial hands and the small box was like 4000x more radioactive or something wild like that. Plus that's a bigger deal with it's gamma radiation. 80,000+ alpha/beta particles is a ton to be exposed to directly at one single time but at least a cardboard box can block all of that except the beta. Beta particles in uranium and Americium in very small amounts isn't enough that when they do penetrate it's not too big of a deal unless you get abnormal exposure like in a uranium factory. Radium has tons of alpha, lots of beta, and gamma. So if you wrap a piece of yellow cake uranium in a towel, only the few beta particles it puts off will go through. Enough I wouldn't recommend it. Don't play with yellowcake. Most of the alpha will be blocked though. Same with americium. With radium, it be orders of magnificent more alpha radiation particles, which sucks for direct contact but at least cardboard or a thick towel blocks it. Problem is radium gives of enough beta particles that if you hold radium directly even if you block the alpha for too long you get much more beta particles which penetrates and inch or two. But you won't be worrying about that because the gamma rays from radium will go through lead if it's not thick enough. Wreaking havok on your DNA 😂 Only way to excape gamma from radium is to stand behind a thick lead wall or to stand far away because the farther away you get from radioactive materials the less exposure you get. Which is why the sun doesn't fry us unless we stand outside do long and then it actually does fry us. That's way way more important with radium, to stand back or have thick lead protection unless it's a museum setting like this where you get a quick look and don get too much exposure esspecially with people that aren't around too much radiation. They can handle it. Just isn't go overboard. Limit exposure when possible obviously. radium is way too dangeorus to use in smoke detectors. They use americium because it has no gamma rays, very low beta particles, and enough easily controlled alpha particles to do the smoke detectors job without being way overboard like radium. Alpha particles aren't nearly as bad esspecially in low low amounts like in uranium glass, but when you have as many alpha particles and as radium gives off, if their is any accidents involving the stuff then you have a lot of exposure to a metric ton of alpha particles and you can get burned and you won't even know your burned until after the particles hit you and the burn starts developing over time. Like a sunburn. So it's just safer to not use worse elements in smoke detectors that are safer in the event of an accident. After the radium girls they stopped using radium in these more "everyday" products. The radium went to X-rays instead of wrist watches. They never used it in smoke detectors. Thankfully or we'd all be walking around looking like that guy that was chained in the basement in the goonies 😂

@@TheAnnoyingBoss even if you slept on it as a pillow you’d need the americium completely out of the thing to do anythign significant. I’m pretty sure alpha particles have barely a few cm of air penetration let alone skin penetration so unless it’s like… sitting on your face it wouldn’t do anything and the worst case is skin cancer which is probably the least sever form of cancer I can think of if treated properly, though that doesn’t mean people should mess around with any radioactive material recklessly, regardless of if it’s a weak alpha source or anything. I mean even using very weak near depleted sources in college we have to sign disclaimers in the UK and have rediculously strict safety requirements to do experiments with that stuff. I heard watch painters back in the day all got severe skin cancer on the tongue due to licking the painting brushes with radium on them, but sitting in that cockpit for 5 minutes probably wouldn’t do anything close to significant but correct me if im wrong there

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Jefferson Golden Hour clocks had it. I have one.

Depending on alpha beta and gamma and in all cases that is terrible advice

@@kalrioproductions no, this is correct. If you're hearing individual beeps like this, i.e. less than ~500 counts per minute, with any type of radiation, you're pretty fine.

@@hooviedoovie5220 thank you

@@hooviedoovie5220if you ingest alpha at any concentration your chances of cancer will increase.

And I do believe some toys too!

Yeah the Radium Girls were lit

@@blackmusik109 Literally 💀

@@blackmusik109 heh

Used in gun sights as well

I just saw that.. They would use that stuff for makeup.. Can you say cancer... It was awful..

I wanted to say this but you were before me. 100% accurate

And in glass

@@BAZZAROU812 the show I watched about it said that they also put it on their teeth, along with a list of things that they tried, it was several years ago when I watched it.

Radium all over the place! Smoke detectors🤷‍♂️

Came here to say this.

Never under estimate the stupidity of people in the youtube comment section. There are a few that deny this proved anything.

Radium girls

Their health & safety guys probably just said "Look, it's a museum piece and it's appreciably over background, just keep it shut from the public and our underwriters won't freak out, ok?"

Euan: Do you believe me now? Geiger counter: *_b e e p_*

You didn't prove anything other than the cockpit has something radioactive in it, not where it is. Wildly flailing a geiger counter around doesn't tell us which dials are radioactive. The only spicy place seems to be the artificial horizon/gunsight, which are known to use radium, but those aren't the dials you claimed were radioactive in the previous video. Also, it's a Russian fighter jet. The Soviets were well known to not give a flying toss about radiating their own citizens, let alone their armed forces. For all we know, there could be uranium/plutonium dust sprinkled about the cockpit from the last pilots boots.

kids these days get their degrees on youtube and think that they can learn in 20 minutes what people learned after years in real life. Idiocracy became reality.

It's Radium, glows green so at night they can see the dials at night.

Its simply so you can see your instruments at night.

Because they were licking the brushes to make them sharp.

Now maybe not so much because radiated objects have a half life and that jet is decades old as well as the paint, but when the paint was new the radiation was probably much stronger than it is now with prolonged exposure it could have caused side effects. And to make matters worse if I'm not mistaken they were issued watches that had the same paint so they would glow in the dark that they wore on they're wrists.

No, this type of paint usually emits only beta radiation (electrons). They can’t go through the glass.

No prolly not, but people are stupid and if someone broke something it could be bad or they tried to steal the gauge its liability

@@anon457 um that paint is just as bad as new, and at times worse. Firstly Ra-226 the predominate isotope has a half life of 1600 years. Secondly it has had decades to build up daughter isotopes from its decay, isotopes that were previously separated in production. A radium clock doesn't get better with age unless your waiting one or two millennia, it actively becomes worse. Clocks that maybe read 3uSv/h on contact new can read up to 300uSv/h now.

@@The_true_BoBa well the decay chain is predominantly alpha and beta, the whole chain is accompanied by gamma emissions in the form of electron bursts. Most of these are from both Pb214 and Bi214, with energy averaging in the range of 0.7MeV, but can go as high as 2-3Mev. Accompanied by lower energy gamma emissions near 800KeV, and everything in between.

Its radiation, it comes from the decay of the radium atoms themselves. The quantity of neutrons/electrons/protons is unstable and parts will break off over time producing visible light/radiation and a stable radon gas atom.

Light activates phosphors, so does radium. Problem with the latter is over time the phosphors degrade in a manner that the radium will no longer excite it, but a strong light still can.

@@mfree80286 interesting theory, ty!

It's the modern Flat Head Society that's the problem...

It was normal-sized until he got too close to the dial.

ONLY 6 YEAR OLDS USE CAPS. Also i definitely wanted to see how radioactive it could be especially with Russians generall lack of care when it comes to exposing troops to dangerous conditions

If you go back to old video, there are a ton of comments saying they didn't believe him and that he was wrong.

There is a flat earther that doesn't get it as well but thats to be expected with that level of stupidity.

That’s not how radiation works

@@Sucker4Suede plus that little radium paint doesn't go nearly far enough to harm.

@@firstletterofthealphabet7308 the production of the dials did.