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Too little of the electromagnetic spectrum is used in food preperation. Infrared, naturally; microwave, undoubtedly;--yet what of gamma rays? It is known that they can purify a green hamburger or some yellow water, but what of crunchy toast? A boiled egg? A piping-hot sausage? If these things are
possible to the lowly infrared ray or microwave, how much more then will they be possible to a gamma ray.
I suggest a toaster oven that toasts while sanitizing with gamma radiation. This machine could be constructed using current technologies.
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Sounds like a safe kitchen
appliance to me. |
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Pete and Una seem to think that gamma rays make food radioactive. This is not the case. You are associating gamma rays with nuclear fallout, which contains radioactive elements as well as poisons. |
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I suggest not cobalt-60 but rather gold, paladium, platinum or some other heavy, inert, non-poisonous metal with an anti-mater feed. The annihilation of the matter/anti-matter would produce heat, light, and gamma radiation, perfect for toasting and purifying. |
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"Too little of the electromagnetic spectrum is used in food preperation." |
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So why stop with gamma radiation? Let's zap our food with the entire spectrum. |
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I do need to upgrade my toaster-oven. My boring, non-gamma-ray toasteroven has a bad habit of catching on fire, setting chicken stripps on fire, and/or turn the bread on my cheese-toasted-sandwich into charcoal yet ot even melting the cheese. but it IS better than the OLD toaster. Try making the GammaToaster2000 talk, too. |
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It might be a bit safer to use high-power X-ray tubes in place a matter/anti-matter reaction or radio-isotope for the gamma-rays. It could at least be turned off. |
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But anyway, when can I buy one? |
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Nah, I tried cooking with gamma radiation, now I have an 18 month old mackerel who you wouldn't like when he's angry |
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I like the idea! But what about those busy couples with too many kids and not enough time on their hands? Then consider the height of a typical kitchen countertop, relative to the average person. You could offer an unshielded version, makes perfect toast AND automatic birth control - what more could you ask of any household appliance! |
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Wunderbar! I have to congratulate Vance on actually thinking of creative new uses for nuclear technology, despite the fact that it freaks everyone out (even scientists) for no good reason. Personally, I'd definitely buy this. |
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BTW, Gamma rays CAN cause some atoms (but only a few of them) to become radioactive. When certain isotopes of a few elements (I know there is a pattern, but I don't remember off the top of my head) absorb gamma radiation, it severely disturbs their electron configuration, and they are then called "m" or "charged isomeric" isotopes. These will decay either by releasing the energy in the form of new gamma rays (called "gamma resonance") or electron capture. |
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The good news is that this isn't very common .(EC has only been observed to occur this way 1 or 2 times.) |
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