[Milsurplus] HOTSY-TOTSY

[Hue Miller]

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From: "b. smith" <smithab11 at comcast.net>

> Speaking of    "What I would do is determine the 2 mr/hr boundary.  Don't 
> regularly sleep inside that radius"
> 
> The Air Force had a problem in the late fifties and very early sixties. We 
> would spend a lot of time on Alert and the Flight Surgeon discovered that 
> some of the crew members were developing numerous  skin blemishes...

Breck, that's a good story, BUT....how do skin burns from exposure to radioactivity,
themselves become radioactive? How did their faces glow without having their faces
painted with radium? Exposure  to radioactivity does not make one "glow".  Even 
ingesting radioactive material will not make one "glow", altho it will make one "count".

BTW, i would appreciate comment on this story:  fellow i know says he attended a 
Catholic school taught by nuns.  Some student pointed out to a teacher that the
watch she wore had a radium painted dial face. "Well that explains this", she said,
and took off the watch. There was a watch-shaped shadow on her wrist where the
watch had been. That's the story. But it seems to me, #1 the back of the watch is
metal, #2 she didn't get the only copy of this watch made, you would think many,
in fact, every other owner of the watch would have noticed this and the alarm would
have been put out, and #3, i am very leery of  "the urban myth".   Yes, i do know
watch face numbers were highlighted with radium-based paint, but that was most
dangerous to the women who painted the numbers, not the owners of the watches.
-Hue Miller