Radiated beer
Why the heck is Axel drinking the beer? If everything is radiated, isn't the food and drink contaminated, too?
shareThe food could be contaminated. Unless it was sealed. Like if it was in a can. The beer was sealed too. Can radiation penetrate glass?
share"Sealed" rofl. That one got me.
shareLol Poor choice of words. It happens. Still, I'd like to know the answer to OP's question. Is the beer safe from radiation and OK to drink?
shareIn answer to your question, no it's not safe. Radiation is an energy wave that goes through objects, like a microwave does. Certain substances do reduce the amount of radiation that can pass through them, such as lead, but aluminum doesn't do squat to stop radiation. I don't mind answering the question, but you could've just as easily looked it up too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation
Cool, thanks!
Yeah, I could have looked it up. But it's easier to just ask you.
To be honest, the whole situation was kinda silly, because generally with the symptoms the doc was showing (vomiting, hair loss, blood), the radiation poisoning is most likely already fatal, and every person in that bunker would've probably been equally exposed. Radiation in larger doses is like a ticking time bomb. If you are exposed long enough and/or in high enough quantities, even if you get to safety, you are a "dead man walking" with only a few days/weeks/months to live before it kills you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_radiation_syndrome
At the rate they mentioned they were at(6 Gu), the mortality (death) rate is 95–100% within a month without medical attention, so yeah technically they'd already be dead men walking. But hey, this is a tv show. lol
Most shows are somewhat silly, and I agree with you. The doctor's radiation symptoms were way advanced, hair falling out and such, even though they've only been there for a short period of time. Yet, it was also interesting that she appeared to have gotten "more" poison than the rest of the crew who did not exhibit any symptoms that I remember, or even showed weakness until much later. But, for some sick reason, pun intended, I enjoy the show.
shareI think the Doc got more exposure due to performing that autopsy on the radiated (and melted?) bodies from the freezer. It's possible the radiation originated with those bodies because they were injected with a radioactive substance before or after death. It's probably why they were sealed in the freezer in the first place, though why they wouldn't use the quarantine area first is a mystery. It's also possible that the radiation exposure would have been much slower if they'd never opened that freezer door and pulled those bodies out of it.
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