OK, I know how to handle these safely, and so I want one. One of each color, actually. I hope these return to market.

Encased in that plastic, you'd pretty much have to eat one for it to hurt you.

macserv

@92FakeThomasJefferson: It's never Lupus. Except when it is.

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

and yet, I still want one. Hmm, I accept my Darwin award now.

jkr2

The question is does Mr. Burns know about the missing "material"?

VideoVampire

i want one!!!

jcrockerman

I've worked with tritium before in the lab, it requires proper disposal/handling, but in this circumstance its safe since the radiation won't be able to pass the plastic casing. Regardless getting arrested is predictable.

Scaramanga

@Git Em SteveDave: I think it was the one where it turned out to be Lupus.

92BuickLeSabre

Wasn't there an episode of House M.D. about this?

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

Great gift for someone you hate. Load them up with radiation, place it around a "friend's" neck and watch parts of their anatomy start to wither and fall off.

CAPage

@berribrand: I'm half too, and I'm suspending your Japan card for six months.

makanai

The customers were just getting more for their money.

Tw33kR

@DeadWriter

like 50+ years

Costermonger

okay... i really like this. can we actually buy them?

pixelchild

I would love to have one(or 23) of those keychains. Tritium lights are so cool. Tritium is a low-level beta emitter, so unless you are inhaling it, it can't hurt you.

ogremustcrush

How many times does a giant prehistoric creature have to stomp on that country before they learn the facts about radiation???

russdanger

@92FakeThomasJefferson: After Boron it gets a little slow, but the Actinides, WOW!

strider_mt2k

@Kakkoister: I'm pretty sure the problem is that the tritium contamination is on the outside of the container, not safely inside. Meaning if you touch the keychain and then touch your food, you ingest the tritium where it can then cause trouble.

The Lab

There was another story long ago of little Tritium pocket light or something like that.

Tritium isn't harmful unless you eat it.

Which is why I'd love one of these lol.. A glow stick that doesn't stop glowing for atleast 12 years? Fuck yeah.

Kakkoister

Tritium is dangerous if inhaled or consumed, but not sitting in a lanyard. It emits beta radiation. I wonder how long it would take to cause a rash or mild burn if it sat next your the same spot of skin- weeks?

DeadWriter

Turgidson:

Ah, come on DeSadeski, that's ridiculous. Our studies show that even the worst fallout is down to a safe level after two weeks.

DeSadeski:

You've obviously never heard of cobalt thorium G.

Turgidson:

No, what about it?

DeSadeski:

Cobalt thorium G has a radioactive halflife of ninety three years. If you take, say, fifty H-bombs in the hundred megaton range and jacket them with cobalt thorium G, when they are exploded they will produce a doomsday shroud. A lethal cloud of radioactivity which will encircle the earth for ninety three years!

Turgidson:

Ah, what a load of commie bull. I mean, afterall...

SigmundTheSeaMonster

@Git Em SteveDave: If you can remember it, can still see it, or survived it you weren't there.

@ludwigk: Dude, Spoiler Alert much? I'm just about to start watching The Periodic Table of Videos, and hydrogen is the first one!

92BuickLeSabre

Oh my goodness, that's insane. Knowing me, if I saw a glowing lanyard I'd probably buy one.

Kobe_No_Means_No

@ryan1524: This is perfect for Ravers. If they keep them in their pockets, it limits their chances of breeding, and if they attend raves in Russia, they'll be blinded as well.

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

@92FakeThomasJefferson: you mean deuterium, and hydrogen? Sorry. Too many science classes, and not enough sense of humor.

I used to think these things were cool. Good thing I never sprang for one. I'd probably have cancer, or be sterile, or both, or worse!

ludwigk

The products will be with in spec. with in 2 or so years. Tritium has a half life of about 12.32 years.

DeadWriter

Wicked!!

The next new trends at the rave/circuit parties, I bet. "Now destroying brain cells from inside AND out.

ryan1524

symbolic p.a.y.b.a.c.k.

ANoel

NICE, wouldn't need to pay my doctor obscene amounts of money just for a vasectomy now, just $50 and its a done deal, no more baby juice.

Fused7

If you don't ingest tritium, it won't hurt you.

Now by Chromium 51 lanyards kick ass!

DNABio

Was it called a UGrow? Hahahaha. I'm half Japanese so I can make fun of them :P

berribrand

This is the problem with tritium.

That's why I stick with bitium or just plain ol' tium.

92BuickLeSabre

This is, in no way, good to keep in your pocket.
No no no...

kOtic

So you continue glowing after you take it off?

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

me wants one :D

ollie_ho

Is this a part of the Lego home chemo kit?

wanago

@Fused7:

But surgery to remove your testicles when you develop testicular cancer is probably more expensive -- though your insurance is more likely to cover it I suppose.

Faxmonkey

And later you can use your glowing testicles as a key fob and interesting conversation piece!

robbo

Shit...

I'll have to ask my wife if she remembers where she put the receipt!

KillerQ

Aww.... Why can't these suckers be nuclear? Cheap punks.

Mr.Wilson

Are you telling me that this sucker's NUCLEAR?

No this sucker's electrical, but I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity I need.

OtakuboyT

In for 10!

outie