Jazz hands

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• MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The third sentence makes it clear it’s fake

  • Geiger counters aren’t rhythmic, they’re random
  • How would the audience know the beat matches the counter?
  • Random music doesn’t sound good, the audience would be more excited for good music

  Disappointed in the people who believed this.

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  • philipp_@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And even if it worked, you wouldn’t need a radiation source more dangerous than a banana to make a geiger counter go click enough to play along.

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  • i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well… This is jazz… I’m skeptic as well, but what if it was some sort of experimental modern jazz where the musicians would try to predict the next click?

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    • MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You can’t predict the next click, that’s what random means. This would never have gotten far enough to appear in front of an audience. They would have tried it at rehearsal and realised it was impossible.

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• 58008@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I believed this was real until I searched for it 😂 To be fair to my own credulity, Plutonium Jazz would not be the most insane thing people did with radioactive materials back then. The “medicines” alone make Plutonium Jazz sound pretty tame.

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• Grayox@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Live performances at Chernobl when?!

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• brown567@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If there were hazardous levels of radiation, the clicks would be a squeal, you wouldn’t be able to match a rhythm to it

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  • toddestan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Right. If you were to attempt something like this, you’d be better off with something like a chunk of granite than plutonium.

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• hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I believed it. Sadly it’s not real: knowyourmeme.com/memes/plutonium-jazz

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  • Arbiter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sadly??

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  • paddirn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It seems believable given the story of the “Radium Girls”, workers who painted radioactive paint on watch dials to make them glow. They’d lick the tips of the brushes when they got too frayed… which eventually led to cancer.

    www.cnn.com/2017/12/19/style/…/index.html#:~:text….

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    • rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      To be fair, the factory management knew that it was dangerous but didn’t tell the workers and encouraged them to lick the brush.

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    • hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Whoa. Eating radioactive material isn’t great at all.

      From a different time, too: An X-Ray shoe fitter

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  • tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Phew.

    I came to the comments for this hope.

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• karika@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  knowyourmeme.com/memes/plutonium-jazz

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• lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Since “Geiger” is German for “violinist”, you can replicate it with a guy who counts how many violinists are present

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• Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But Geiger counters aren’t rhythmic at all, radioactive decay is, pretty famously, random.

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  • theilleists@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Rhythmic? No, not really. More exciting if the musician could somehow anticipate this fundamentally unpredictable event? Absolutely.

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  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    … Jazz.

    /S

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  • eran_morad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Follows a Poisson distribution. I guess one could call that random.

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    • Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well, its random, like… by definition.

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  • lemonmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    True, much like memes are pretty famously fabricated.

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• zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sounds like a Cowboy Bebop episode involving smuggled fissile material.

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• SARGE@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This sounds like something that was made up for a fallout game.

  Of course, so does “bombarding myself with xrays and moving around to entertain the audience looking at my bones” and “including uranium in paint to make watch dials glow”

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  • davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sadly, it is. (But not for Fallout specifically.)

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  • SattaRIP@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They did it with uranium too? I knew about radium, but not that.

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    • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Uranium wasn’t used for watch dials, but Uranium Orange is a colour of cermic glaze. It was pretty popular in America from the 1930’s to around 1942, when the government needed all the uranium for some big secret project. After the 60’s it was made with depleted uranium, instead of natural ore, until someone realized this still wasn’t a great idea.

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