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**Bud** · 10-24-2008

Interesting.

Tape measure: X-rays detected from Scotch tape - Yahoo! News

Just two weeks after a Nobel Prize highlighted theoretical work on subatomic particles, physicists are announcing a startling discovery about a much more familiar form of matter: Scotch tape. It turns out that if you peel the popular adhesive tape off its roll in a vacuum chamber, it emits X-rays. The researchers even made an X-ray image of one of their fingers.

**mike** · 10-24-2008

And............why??????????????????????????

**Bud** · 10-24-2008

Why does it do it or why would you want to do it?

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In the new work, a machine peeled ordinary Scotch tape off a roll in a vacuum chamber at about 1.2 inches per second. Rapid pulses of X-rays, each about a billionth of a second long, emerged from very close to where the tape was coming off the roll.
That's where electrons jumped from the roll to the sticky underside of the tape that was being pulled away, a journey of about two-thousandths of an inch, Escobar said. When those electrons struck the sticky side they slowed down, and that slowing made them emit X-rays.

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He suggests that with some refinements, the process might be harnessed for making inexpensive X-ray machines for paramedics or for places where electricity is expensive or hard to get. After all, you could peel tape or do something similar in such machines with just human power, like cranking.

**mike** · 10-24-2008

ok, then a better question is....How do you come up with this shit ????

**Bud** · 10-24-2008

Extremely bored researchers with a lot of grant money from the government.

**Thender** · 10-24-2008

Why don't they just rub a balloon on their head for electricity....

**dracula** · 10-24-2008

Because they are Geeks...and Geeks have a grounding cord permanently attached to their wrist so static won't harm the computer their Geek-asses are in front of...

**Bud** · 10-24-2008

**ob1** · 10-27-2008

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Originally Posted by dracula

Because they are Geeks...and Geeks have a grounding cord permanently attached to their wrist so static won't harm the computer their Geek-asses are in front of...

I have velcro on mine so I can get out of the house once in a while...

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