GoPro Ride Through an Electron Beam Irradiator at Full Beam Power (GOPR0016trim)

Beam parameters: 3.0MeV, 50mA
Radiation shielded Gopro Session is sent through electron beam irradiator. Looking at calcite samples as they pass under the beam. GoPro is enclosed in a 3/8" thick lead pig with a 1/2" thick, 50% lead glass window. Additionally there is a 1/4" thick lead plate above the camera box to provide shielding from direct irradiation from the beam. For this run the beam current was turned up to full power allowing the ionized air glow to be visible in the dark.
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[@EATSLEEPDRIVE2002]

Thank you for uploading this. Now I don't have to go through an electron beam irradiator myself

[@terryhoyt2058]

This beam cures every old cancer in your body while leaving completely new ones in its wake!

[@corpsie666]

Wuss

[@JoeyJoJoJr0]

But that's how superheroes are made!

[@FunnyHaHa420]

It's not the beam that gets you it's the headcrab hiding at the end of the tunnel that will.

[@Gentleman...Driver]

I want to lick it.

[@BradOmedic]

Worst ride at Disney ever..

[@ayamesgrl]

OR best haunted house ride EVER

[@ephjaymusic]

omg! lol!🤣🤣🤣 I was about to say that!

[@flameplasmainian85724]

Later my skin turned red and I went to the hospital

[@thatguyalex2835]

Haha. Good one. :)

[@helenhoward5346]

I dunno why I just laughed at this. Everything's so serious in the radiation realm and you see a random sarcastically funny comment..

[@Channel9Productions]

This is truly the best way to get that authentic film grain for your movies

[@atomgutan8064]

Truly random numbers

[@tredI9100]

simply cover the entire stage in ionising radiation!

[@darthnosam3313]

Just irradiate your film set genius

[@TheSquidNinja]

Everything in this, from the gray bricks and warning signs, to the approuching hum and eerie glow after the tunnel goes completely dark, to the sudden and dramatic increase in noise and interference as we pass through the beam, is so much more menacing, intriguing, terrifying, etc. than any recent attempt at science fiction or horror I've seen in the last decade

[@user-account-not-found]

Do you read Sutter Cane?

[@StarMan-dt9ce]

I was going to mention this. Despite it just being a camera on a cart being run through a several-rooms-sized machine it felt like a clip from an internet horror series. The beam causing genuine distortion to the picture after turning the last corner in the hallway cemented that. Now just put a halloween decoration or creepy mannequin in the beam chamber, film another run, and upload it to a new channel with no context or information and you'd have an internet mystery for years I'm sure haha.

[@TradBarbie]

You are quite the writer ay??

[@user-account-not-found]

@@TradBarbie shouldn't you be barefoot in the kitchen right now?

[@elm9391]

dont shit your pants clown

[@fartamplifer]

They’re waiting for you Gordon, in the test chamber.

[@ivanp7]

Why no helmet though?

[@russellsnc1337]

​@@ivanp7 Because he's a professional.

[@ArcYT]

@@ivanp7 Gordon is a highly trained professional, he doesn't need to hear all this

[@zalmanaronow6126]

"Are you f*king serious? I've never seen a chef serve microwaved shrimp before. In my entire life. Electron beam? More like electron SCREAM!" --- Chef Gordon

[@WackoMcGoose]

"This is a bad experiment! We are bad people! WHY DID WE USHER FORTH THE GREEN APOCALYPSE?!"

[@ElectronicsPeddler]

“You must be this shielded to ride 👉🏼” Finger points to 1 meter tall stack of lead bricks.

[@Goosebump837]

*"Where's my lead jacket?"*

[@danielle3064]

🤣🤣🤣

[@UnknownEvil_BadAliens]

The "forbidden ghost ride" 🙃

[@scratchymarcus2517]

Robots: THATS A DEATHRAY! GoPro: My leg is numb.

[@SpaceMissile]

"lead is poisonous; I'll be fine without."

[@largeproblem]

I love how subtle the entry into the area it effects is, with the fuzz being all sparse at first before suddenly ramping up as the camera goes directly under the beam

[@tombowen9861]

Pretty awesome how you can see the scattering radiation still causing fuzz after passing through, but once it gets past the next turn it drops off sharply. Those zig-zag passages are handy!

[@Evan-mv9rl]

Reminds me of that scene in Half Life when you push the cart carrying the crystal into the beam

[@mebeperson]

GORDON! GET AWAY FROM THE BEAM

[@jonki87]

i was thinking in the conveyor maze where you go through an oven 😄

[@nickpeck4561]

@@mebepersonShutting down… Attempting shut down… It’s not… it’s not shutting down! AAAAAAAAAAAAA-

[@humankerbal3623]

Its.. its not shutting down

[@_randolph2200]

For me it reminds the waste factory where you get crushed on conveyor belt .

[@AlexeyFilippenkoPlummet]

After watching this video I feel like I've depleted my x-ray limit for the year

[@m1ghtyboy]

this video makes me feel like I'm gonna need a screening in a few days

[@1700iDiGuy]

In the words of the Riddler ‘Does anyone elses brain feel like a fried egg?!’

[@miroku_tsuki]

Bur actually, you've depleted your cathode ray limit for the year)

[@TheSpaceMomma]

For real. I know it’s not logical but I felt scared to even watch this 😂

[@AlexeyFilippenkoPlummet]

@@TheSpaceMomma true, right? It's like watching a video of someone doing wielding and feelling that you for certain will lose your vision if you watch it without eye protection.

[@TimGriffiths1]

Golden Ticket Award for best dark ride.

[@madcow3k]

I like how at the end this guy just quickly picks up this glowing, presumably hot piece of irradiated stone like it's no big deal.

[@brandonrushton4108]

That beam is EMF, not nuclear. The camera wasn't "hot" in any way. Think of the beam as a bolt of lightning but spread out into a cloud that's raining downward over the camera.

[@vizanonn1728]

Yep. You could kill every bacteria, or living organisms through that beam. It can be used to sterilize medical equipment, or food going to space. Pretty useful tool.

[@user-sq4qv1ql2q]

yeah i dont know about any of this stuff so i would immediately think its a bad idea to pick anything up from going in there and through that beam.

[@vizanonn1728]

@@user-sq4qv1ql2q these kind of facilities are used to sterilized some foods for packaging.

[@iwontreplybacklol7481]

​@brandonrushton4108 so why's it's glowing?

[@midnight_lol]

the effect on the screen just explains the feeling of your leg falling asleep and waking up

[@eddy7346]

The best way I can describe it is "tv static"

[@McGregor007]

hm....

[@Flesh_Wizard]

There's too many electrons in my leg

[@SolarWebsite]

@@eddy7346 Kids don't really know what that is anymore. Digital TVs don't display it.

[@davecrupel2817]

​@@SolarWebsite He's spot on calling it that tho.

[@rinconerotico4806]

Love the fact that inside the tunnel before you reach the beam there are STOP buttons, like if for some random reason someone gets in there he can just press it

[@squishlez]

safety regulations are written in blood.

[@fullmetaljacket7]

​@@squishlezso that means it actually happened before

[@xtrafrostingisaflop]

@@squishlezso that means it actually happened before 😨

[@squishlez]

@@fullmetaljacket7 if I remember right this kind of thing has happened multiple times. Kyle Hill put out a video on one of them recently

[@umloginqualquer]

There's a nuclear cientist who once got his skull and brain pieced by an electron beam... He only saw a flash, but he knew what just happened. And then he went home. 😂 Look it up

[@gzozulin]

A few years back, I had a similar experience when visiting a village toilet in the Russian countryside: low-hanging pulsating fluorescent light with a buzzing sound and a feeling of a hidden danger in the nearby darkness.

[@Smedley1947]

The real danger to you are the black widow spiders in the pooper hole being in close proximity to your gonads. It's a thing, I grew up on a farm and the reason why the spiders hang out there is because that's where the flies are at. So basically it's a constant all you can eat buffet for various kinds of spiders down the hole.

[@joeyjamison5772]

Go-Pro service guy: "WTF did you do to this camera?"

[@hyerrogaming2780]

We went to vlog the elephents foot down at chernobyl 💀🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@LarmesdeGauchistes]

​@@hyerrogaming2780That's crazy 😂😂😂

[@hyerrogaming2780]

@@LarmesdeGauchistes 😅😅😅😅

[@PhilXavierSierraJones]

RIP dosimeter

[@alextsov-obq11]

The dosimeter overloaded (over 10) ( 9.99) and it switched off.

[@acmenipponair]

@@alextsov-obq11over 10 msev??

[@nickpitrof8283]

@@alextsov-obq11not great, not terrible

[@Kalvinjj]

It just went like "Yep, you're dead and so am I, see ya in heaven"

[@ddxs12]

They didn't use the good one

[@voiddustry5879]

the sight of that innocent blue counter completely obliterated actually freaked me out

[@anjeroxjp]

How do you know it was innocent? just because it's blue? kinda racist

[@quetzalcoatlz]

Wouldn't want to be near you during an emergency

[@cheeseballer_]

@@quetzalcoatlz lol

[@cartler]

does this hurt the blue counter?

[@arcticfox037]

@@cartler Probably killed it

[@Bucking_Fastard]

That electric buzzing sound is delightful.

[@Gunbudder]

this reminds me of playing with irradiated sodium chloride in chem class. we were told it was irradiated in a system like this, but i've never actually seen it before. seeing the blue glow outside of water is pretty insane too. i can't imagine how terrified i'd be if i saw that glow in person

[@PlaywithJunk]

It completely messes up the sensor but the camera survives... amazing. Thank you for this exceptional video! Who would ever know what that looks like....

[@iverstaylot00]

Camera is surrounded by a protective box, details in the description. Sensor was not

[@RustyorBroken]

And the GoPro started detecting the free electrons before the sensor did.

[@techno1561]

​@@iverstaylot00Isn't the sensor also in the box? It looks like it's attached to the inside corner of the box.

[@iverstaylot00]

@@techno1561 could be, not entirely sure. It seems to me like it's outside on a separate post, but I could be wrong

[@Ovahlls]

That's pretty normal. Doesn't permanently damage the camera till after a long while if it's a digital camera.

[@EphemeralProductions]

That's crazy that you can actually SEE the beam. It is such a high energy that it is ionizing the air its contacting.

[@TheExpressionless1]

Isn't it just the usual property of cameras to capture wavelengths that we can't normally see?

[@TheSHJGaming]

@@TheExpressionless1 But what wavelength would it be emitting? Keep in mind that this is firing electrons, not light.

[@RAPOtheLLAMA]

@@TheSHJGaming The blue light is just visible light: electrons ionize air and you can see air glowing, just like northern lights. The white spots are X Rays, generated from the interaction of electrons with molecules.

[@TheSHJGaming]

@@RAPOtheLLAMA Oh, I wasn't actually asking it as a question, I was trying to give him the answer without actually telling him. But yeah, you're right.

[@RAPOtheLLAMA]

@@TheSHJGaming oh I see, I'm sorry

[@TheSpaceMomma]

This is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen. This needs millions of views.

[@thisisnotisaac983]

Living proof once again, that the cameraman always survives.

[@notottomedic]

Three minutes ago I had no idea what an electronic beam irradiator was and now I know what it looks like to put a gopro through one.

[@AstronomyKid]

So BTW it is electronic BUT it is an “electron beam irradiator” an electron is a subatomic particle

[@user-account-not-found]

@@AstronomyKid that's just what all the atomic particles want us to believe. You gotta do your own research, by going through an electron irradiator with a gopro strapped to your head.

[@JT-si6bl]

go play half life part one...

[@mannibimmel09]

pretty informative isnt it?

[@cos9398]

What did I learn exactly?

[@mousermind]

One of the best GoPro commercials I've ever seen.

[@JacobKinsley]

A lesser known rule of the internet is that if you think something viral might be part of a guerilla marketing campaign, it most certainly is.

[@steel4388]

"GoPro is enclosed in a 3/8" thick lead pig with a 1/2" thick, 50% lead glass window" (Description).

[@adakalyoncu1913]

​@@steel4388so is the blue counter on the bottom left corner that didn't make it through alive, despite having less complexity and less things to go wrong than an action camera

[@CasabaHowitzer]

it's shielded

[@evilsharkey8954]

@@steel4388And that’s how much X ray radiation it was getting hit with inside the shield

[@robertmonroe9728]

Amazing. The air is glowing

[@lIlIIlIllIIIllIIllIlIllIllI]

dude i looked through your other videos and man you kick ASS awesome life

[@Dutch3DMaster]

This video, like nothing else I've ever seen truly makes the internet such a wonderful place. This is something no one would otherwise ever have seen apart from maybe medical students becoming radiologists.

[@ghost5dascension]

or simple guy mutating monkeys

[@daveyjoseph6058]

M or F?

[@nspro931]

@@ghost5dascension Uppercut the chunky

[@Eternal1nstant]

@@daveyjoseph6058 This ain't omegle bud.

[@thezipcreator]

@@daveyjoseph6058 who cares

[@Muonium1]

Notice how brilliantly the package tape holding down the tripod fluoresces under the beam and also the two rings of white LED strips above and below the camera too. Also note the huge chunk of calcite still phosphorescing bright orange when the guy takes it off the tray at the end. It seems to be warm to the touch and the glow surprises that blue hat guy when it's put in the shade of that other guy's coat.

[@adityawalimbe4800]

the 7 segment display is toast

[@jan.tichavsky]

@@adityawalimbe4800 More like the electronics that drives it.

[@JonathanTaylorW]

holy moly i thought that was just a bright orange protective case for something!

[@we4selradio591]

i wondered if the objects on the trolley ahead were incandescently hot, i didn't think of fluorescence at that color.

[@Muonium1]

@@we4selradio591 More precisely, it is probably room temperature thermoluminescence. Indeed as I type this I see that there is an image of one Dr. Timothy Koeth from U Maryland Applied Physics holding one of the exact same kinds of specimens (iceland spar type manganocalcite) visible in this video irradiated at the very same facility, where they report that cooling the glowing calcite to 0C eliminates the luminescence entirely, and heating it to 110C reveals its maximum brightness. (search his name and calcite / thermoluminescence and you can read more about it). Why is this video so popular today?

[@Shnazzleboxxin]

Kinda looks like you can actually see the swirling storm of electrons. Fascinating.

[@_BullsEyeBob]

This roller coaster looks sick!!

[@obviousalexc]

Truly a cameraman never dies moment

[@simonehudspeth861]

well the gopro didn't but the counter did so imma pack a camera for wherever i go just in case

[@az0r22]

Gordon doesn't need to hear all this, he's a highly trained professional

[@keaton52257]

KZbin recommended never ceases to disappoint

[@amangupta3620]

This is one more example (in addition to thousands), that the cameraman never dies

[@gilles466]

I love that the guy at the end picks up a block from the front plate and puts it in his coat 😂

[@bojohannesen4352]

What's funny about that?

[@H3wastooshort]

That is apparantly a block of calcite. You can see it glow after it passed through the beam

[@gilles466]

The cutoff as he walks off hints that he just took it home@@bojohannesen4352

[@HokoraYinphine]

​@@bojohannesen4352c u b e

[@theorixlux2605]

It looks red hot

[@OMEGOOLIEBIRD]

That truly is one of the most terrifying human creations I have ever seen! The noise and the visible beam are insane!!!

[@KingRidley]

Buddy I think there's a lot of terrifying human creations you might need to catch yourself up on.

[@56independent42]

​@@KingRidley for me personally, this is terrifying. There's a lot of other terrifying things, but being killed by a machine in a cold manner is my personal nightmare fuel

[@Nine_Divines]

@@56independent42 Does this fear stem from a personal experience by chance? Just curious because in our area we have a rather large wave pool and when I was about 12 or 13 I swam up to the wall that produces the wave and it was covered with a chainlink fence to keep you from being able to get near the machinery which is basically a bunch of toilet tank like baffles that air is blown into until they fill up to the point of collapse(flush) but when I realized it was right there in front of me and not further back along with the return current that seemed like it was trying to push/pull me in after each wave I panicked and ever since then I've feared anything machinery like underwater, but this thing is a close second.

[@M8gazine]

personally i think there are more terrifying creations out there (like the iron maiden... not particularly whimsical and fun, that one!)

[@HamidKarzai]

@@M8gazinethe good news is that there's no evidence iron maidens were ever actually used. Bad news is that people have been documented doing even worse anyway

[@adriankoch964]

I like how it fried the device for measuring&displaying electron count but the gopro went through it mostly intact.

[@PlaysGames11]

i would like to point out that the fact the gopro survived this absolutely insanely destructive ride for electronics (the counter didn't last even a few ms at the high intensity) is an absolute achievement. even if the gopro was shielded, this was really REALLY intense

[@miss-astronomikal-mcmxcvii]

Before the camera went fully through this irradiator, it almost looked like the film was getting older and older by the second 😂

[@Maverrick2140]

that is radiation hitting the sensor .. despite all the lead shielding.

[@calsavestheworld]

Well... technically... yeah it was getting older by the second.

[@MrVolodus]

I am pretty sure, if person went through, he would die of old age right there!

[@michaelforis2713]

​@@calsavestheworldThat has me cracking up. Most true statement

[@markb8556]

Gets so old that after it passes through the beam, everything has turned into black and white and rubber hose animation

[@howlingwolven]

That with 3/8” shielding all the way around and 5/8” directly in the beam path the sensor was *that* affected is quite impressive and honestly a little scary. It’s good that irradiators are very well interlocked and labrynthed off. Also quite impressive that that beam is generated rather than being a source that’s exposed

[@Dutch3DMaster]

Linear accelerators have been in use for cancer treatment for a long time, due to the fact the beam is switchable: no more radiation needed or a lower dosage, different pattern on the pattern window, all doable, and in the case of a linear accelerator much easier than with an isotope of whatever sort. (Not that isotopes have ceased to be used for cancer treatment at all, but they have started falling out of favor more and more). With a linear accelerator you only need a stupidly powerful stepup-conversion circuit room filled with step up transformers and other equipment to get to such a high voltage you can start to bombard particular metals on a plate with them to produce the desired radiation (it's sort of how X-ray machines work, just with a different type and wavelength of exposure, and typically with a lower amount of power). A hospital in my country that has specialized in cancer treatment mentioned that they favor the linear accelerator over isotopes because the hospital is right in the middle of a neighbourhood and sees military style lockdowns upon transportation of a new source into the hospital: the lobby has to be completely evacuated, streets get cordoned off and staff is evacuated from the floor that will eventually use the new source, and that's leaving out the transportation of said material to the hospital. I would not be surprised that due to the slightly more crude nature of a beam irradiation device the power generation required for it is ehm, a little less shielded and you are actually hearing the mains hum of all the step up transformers. My brother once applied for a job at the hospital I mentioned earlier for maintaining a linear accelerator, and said this about the power generation room: "Yeeea...it's good you can't see that when you are on the table, that alone would freak you out big time." Something he later extended to the part about the device covers: "You do not want to see the insulators the conductors are resting on...it's good that the thing has covers, it would make you feel incredibly uncomfortable otherwise").

[@HenriFaust]

Irradiators are probably the most common source of radiological accidents. Operators tend to get sloppy with the safety precautions, but that only really causes operator fatalities.

[@Orcinus24x5]

@@HenriFaust I suggest you read up on the Therac-25!

[@HenriFaust]

@@Orcinus24x5 Therac-25s got shut down after just a couple of years. There are only six documented accidents in total.

[@Orcinus24x5]

@@HenriFaust I was addressing your "only causes operator fatalities" comment.

[@jopar024]

That is incredible. Thank you for doing this and sharing.

[@jed8831]

I am very, very glad this made a part of my day

[@raoulduke7668]

1:25 my brain when I slam my elbow against the table:

[@CrankyRayy]

me after the lobotomy

[@raoulduke7668]

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[@Resuvean]

​​@@CrankyRayyTrue (also I sub to you idk why)

[@AlexzanX89]

Brah

[@AlexzanX89]

@CrankyRayy brah

[@PiotrBarcz]

The scariest part of this is the buzzing noise which I assume is the electron beam projector. That is such an ominous and terrifying sound. (this might be the first time I've had 1000 people make it clear that a comment I wrote was worth pressing the like button for)

[@circleinforthecube5170]

eh yes and no, it also sounds like a gas station at 3 am in the sticks

[@SomeDudeInBaltimore]

Sounds like it's pulsed. A capacitor may be storing a bit of energy and dumping it periodically into some kind of discharge tube probably. Like how old camera flash bulbs worked. Just doing it repeatedly many times a second.

[@khlorghaal]

it sounds like mains-AC frequency and is probably the power supply

[@tbuk8350]

That's what incredibly large amounts of AC power sounds like.

[@Alkatross]

Yeah, i thought it was the power supply. Sounds like a loose coil on a beefy transformer.

[@BonesMcoy]

This has been an irradiating experience

[@justincatterall9597]

The bit after the irradiator looked like a level from Quake, happy memories!

[@jess648]

stroggification

[@Tigerodoes]

This is exactly what i imagined instant death by radiation looks like.

[@CasabaHowitzer]

If it looks like anything, is it really instant?

[@evilsharkey8954]

It probably wouldn’t kill you instantly since the beam is a narrow band. If you went in feet first, you’d have a bad ten seconds, and the Neobeam employees would have a heck of a time cleaning all the organic contaminants off of the emitter.

[@Sam-pw6vi]

No such thing. Death by radiation is generally months in hospital wishing for death.

[@evilsharkey8954]

@@Sam-pw6vi With a high enough dose, radiation can kill you instantly. Usually, something else kills you faster, like the heat and/or shockwave of the reaction. Only two such reactions have happened, and they each killed tens of thousands of people in the first day. This is an electron beam, though. It’s not quite the same as normal radiation, even as it’s causing X ray sparkles in the camera sensors

[@B.L.U.S]

Your not getting instakilled by that you need to build a machine just to do that if you want

[@uss_04]

They’re waiting for you Gordon. In the Test Chamber

[@gordonyantis941]

Oh no, not again...

[@jonathanspecter1324]

Good morning and welcome to the Black Mesa Transit System.

[@mspikmin123]

I love the sound, very interesting

[@Seacat17]

It's amazing that GoPro actually survived.

[@Dutch3DMaster]

I was thinking the exact same thing...In a way, seeing how the particle counter on the left died, I'm not fully sure whether it might actually be a testament to designing electronics to survive interference (after all, remember the FCC rule that's on practically every device even when sold outside the US? "This device must accept all and every form of interference, even if that may cause undesired operation.") Completely unsure whether the design of components to withstand static electricity factors in here (I suspect it totally doesn't given the massive currents in such a beam) but still, remarkable. It could also just be the GoPro died a couple months later.

[@ShimrraJamaane]

It was heavily shielded under lead and lead-glass. That should show you how terrifying that beam is. Some of that was gamma radiation, too.

[@operationscomputer1478]

its amazing that you didnt read the description of the lead shielding of the gopro

[@Seacat17]

@@operationscomputer1478 dude, ya see that noise? This means that it's still getting heavily exposed

[@ShimrraJamaane]

@@Seacat17 Heavily shielded doesn't mean fully shielded. Why do you think there is such a giant concrete maze leading into that machine? Still, it was shielded enough from direct energy to keep it alive.

[@fjs1111]

Andrew, that's awesome. That 3M volt power supply must be massive. It's cool how the beta radiation floods the CMOS sensor except the pixels that are already triggered by light from the LED display. Really cool, shows it's the charge hitting the CMOS sensor and not the internal circuitry causing interference. Thanks for sharing that.

[@weeardguy]

Though this particular thing probably needs a rather massive power supply compared to the ones used on the average medical linear accelerator, I doubt it's very big. I was also quite stunned to see how small the 1,6 MV or so supply was on the accelerator at a hospital I got to see as part of a job interview once. Insulation, semiconductors and especially a lot of oil (that also cools everything) keep it remarkably small. I do remember the warning signs: I expected the general (and a bit stupid in such machines) 'Caution High Voltage' signs, but nope: multiple covers of the machine itself had it stated a 'bit different': LETHAL CURRENTS AND VOLTAGES INSIDE! DISCHARGE POWER SUPPLY FIRST AND TAKE MEASUREMENTS BEFORE REMOVING THIS COVER! DO NOT WORK ALONE! And then the technician who explained a few things about the machine just casually pointed his finger towards multiple components and even laid his hand on top of the cover when I leaned back a little in awe of what he did: 'Don't worry, it's safe. It needs to be safe. Just don't touch the glass of the wave guide, even though it should be safe to touch, we have found out by experience it can hold a nasty charge right after testing, haha!' The cameras inside the room where the patient would be for treatment, were overloaded with dead and hot pixels, most of them with an eerie blue or purple color, unlike anything I'd seen before. As the machine was rotating, you could just see that more radiation was hitting the sensor as the head was facing the ceiling. It was also a really weird feeling to start such a beast of a machine with just the press of a button on an RS232-interface... The only thing that really stuck with me was the feeling 'My god... I hope I never have to lie under such a thing...'

[@fjs1111]

@@weeardguy that is really cool, accelerators are fascinating. I have always liked cyclotrons, first one was only a few inches in circumference.

[@weeardguy]

@@fjs1111 I have never seen a cyclotron, just linacs ;) Impressive nonetheless, especially when you hear that getting a new machine in to the treatment-room via the anti-radiation maze has the forklift operator sweating with just an inch to spare on both side of the maze walls... And pressing the emergency shutdown switch button in the treatment room as part of the testing procedure also was not a simple 'click'. All kinds of alarms started to sound and the press itself created a large 'thud' from the main relays/switches opening to kill the HV power supply. Never got to work there, but I work at a very nice place now as well ;)

[@patrickradcliffe3837]

That wasn't beta sir that was gamma rays reacting with CCD of the camera and the silicon in the chips.

[@ryanbentley6147]

Uh? What? Go back to school. @@patrickradcliffe3837 It's definitely β radiation.

[@myperfectlyimperfectfamily9484]

Broooo this new Journey into Imagination ride lookin wild 💀💀💀

[@NyxRDF]

moment of respect for the insulation/shielding on either the memory/sd card or the bay it sits in to manage to keep the footage at all...

[@HaydenWR]

that sound of that beam is terrifying

[@RandoWisLuL]

its exactly what id imagine a high powerful electron gun would sound like. Or a huge magnetron. like imagine being on that cart and seeing that coming at you.

[@gorak9000]

You don't like the angry buzzing??

[@angrydragon4574]

​@@RandoWisLuLThe demons are indeed angry.

[@terryhoyt2058]

😮 I think there's bees around that corner... ... oh thank God, not b-😵

[@Engineer9736]

Sounds more like it’s a big transformer hum which is powering the beam rather than the beam itself

[@DioTheGreatOne]

1:26 POV: You're a soviet worker in a nucler powerplant

[@turolretar]

when hardbass beat drop

[@scottyPsychotty]

Delusional!

[@simplerealistic.]

For those wondering he's referring to Anatoli Bugorski

[@Charted]

Pov: you work at Chernobyl

[@kyleroy9116]

@@Charted The liquidators they were called. Hired to clean all the radio active material and most of those people died that night or even within just a few hours of being exposed to radiation, In one documentary video they said if you were close enough to the reactor the radiation level is was so high it was approximate to almost 10,000 chest X-rays per minute, something like that. more then enough to kill you in 2 hours or less. at that rate the body would decay significantly right down too the bones

[@xdevs23]

Finally, after all this time, got to watch this.

[@DarshanDoesStuff]

this is unironically awesome

[@idontneedaname85]

I love the ear protection required sign.

[@iamunamed5800]

i didnt notice that. thats actually really funny

[@jennifersaar1611]

Well, I mean you die, but at least you have your hearing.

[@oskareko140]

Pay respect to the amazing cameraman who was brave enough to go inside electron beam irradiator.

[@trunkmonkey9417]

The cameraman never dies.

[@GKOYG_and_KAAF_is_epic]

Dead horse beating of a overused joke.

[@Xsar1942]

It was a gopro

[@GKOYG_and_KAAF_is_epic]

@@Xsar1942 i like ur pfp

[@ninakuup21]

@@Xsar1942No way its a gopro, there is definitely a dude filming this through the electron beam irradiator

[@XDisGood]

This convey a feeling of torture AI machine soldier in the torture device, stripped of all your apparatus except from the optic sensor and strapped on the conveyor, just to endure the pure sensory overload again and again with no end, and the worst thing is not that you can literally felt the electron monsoon bashing through your component, but the suffering of anticipation and memory of upcoming punishment, to relive the ordeal before even experience it again. So that your artificial soul can collapse before your physical part does.

[@VorpalStorm]

I really like this. 👍

[@Brad_Okami]

That is wild.. gave me a few crazy theories too

[@jovanholland36]

That is just crazy how you can see the radiation getting higher as it goes through

[@Murdoch493]

I don't know if the docimeter broke itself, but maybe the LED display did. You can see the other displays start to glow then all of them die out when you pass under the beam. Super cool stuff!

[@bronistevoni]

This is my favorite disney dark ride!

[@erikjacks9370]

This reminds me of a project some physics people with UW-Madison and I think somewhere else were working on, where they had people download an app and point the camera at the sky and leave it sit, and the app would detect and record the little rare bits of static that would show when some high energy particle hit the camera sensor. Only you'd get one tiny blip in huge sums of time unless you had the phone on a plane and above much of the atmosphere.

[@dubsteppa420]

Good thing they have the sign for ear protection on the entrance to the tunnel

[@Dutch3DMaster]

If you watch Plainly Difficult's video's you'd know those facilities at times have been entered by humans :P . Not sure if the power stage for the accelerator can be on without the beam being on but if it can and you have to remove a blockage of equipment, I think it's best to wear something, the power stage was humming agressively...

[@seekerfractal]

It's wild that it made the other samples fluorescent

[@jogandsp]

Phosphorescent. Phosphorescent materials continue to glow after the energy source is removed. Fluorescence ends immediately after the energy source is removed

[@narrativeless404]

@@jogandsp Where did you see it continuing to glow after being exposed? Edit: My bad, i see it now

[@cddevelopment363]

Honestly didn't expect to see the cherenkov radiation in this video, super eerie!

[@goofballbiscuits3647]

Reminds me of growing up in the uranium mines. My eyes were always doing cool stuff as a kid.

[@radbot1]

Truly fascinating. Did anyone else feel irradiated and sickly watching this?

[@isidrodeleon673]

Gordon Freeman: - Hold my beer.

[@HotForgeChaos]

Look Gordon, an electron beam!

[@glumpfi]

Welcome to the HEV Mark IV Protective System for use in hazardous environment conditions

[@ivandetoledo]

🔊 warning... radiation... levels... extremely... hazardous...

[@Prometheus203]

Considering many of the things portrayed in that game have analog in the real world, makes you wonder who on the dev team at Valve worked or visited some of these labs...

[@danp9551]

Yeah, the Half-Life vibe is extremely strong in this video.

[@Kairosdex]

For some reason this reminds me of a David Lynch movie, the sounds and the small specs of static its like something out of Eraserhead or Twin Peaks S3.

[@davidjones8043]

That noise is making my phone vibrate in my hands like ive never felt before!!! Wow

[@mraxfdisco]

Reminds me of getting Stroggified in Quake 4

[@gkid9957]

DOOOD I was thinkin that

[@Scrogan]

3MeV and 50mA means 150kW minimum. A 3MV 200kW PSU is a very scary thing to imagine even without the electron beam.

[@Alexander-qz6px]

I don't think it actually has to be using million volt anywhere, it's going to be some sort of staged accelerator. Or not?

[@inductivelycoupledplasma6207]

@@Alexander-qz6px yeah, most likely a linear accelerator. Still, the power supply for whatever microwave tube (magnetron or klyston?) powers the accelerator must be quite scary. Beam is still by far the scariest part however!

[@Dutch3DMaster]

@@Alexander-qz6px You can bet that it uses anything over hundreds of kilovolts...these linear accelerator style power stages are massive... (And I would not be surprised that the hum we hear is said powerstage).

[@Dutch3DMaster]

@@inductivelycoupledplasma6207 Not sure about the tube, could be a big plate-style thing that they bombard with high voltage, but the power stage for a linear accelerator for cancer treatment already scared the shit out of my brother when he applied for a job as a maintainer of one and got a tour of the facility...

[@teresashinkansen9402]

Its actually a RF based electrostatic accelerator (Dynamitron). Each stage is capacitively coupled to two large RF plates it has hundreds of plates in cascade similar to a Cockroft-Walton multiplier, one of the few ways to build practical MV power sources capable of delivering hundreds of KW. So yes It actually has a terminal with a potential of several million volts, all inside a pressurized tank full of sulfur hexafluoride.

[@SpunckyJew6969]

going frame by frame through that was awsome

[@Disc_11]

That gave me a pure sense of dread. Really makes me hope that their safety protocols never fail or malfunction cause I'm sure it wouldn't be pleasant to be hit by that. You'd be surprised how many accidents like that DO occur.

[@christophebonhomme8398]

Look for. '' les irradiés de Forbach '' in france😢

[@marshad82]

Massive Portal and Half Life vibes. To think that all these silly levels encountered in various old school FPP games have got a real world counterpart, and that it makes an absolute sense (radiation protection). It's also impressive that despite all the lead based protection the camera was nearly fried.

[@josecitowhisky]

This is the coolest and scariest shit I ever watched

[@daveo7481]

Something something state prison something something.

[@CitrusMike]

@@daveo7481 huh?

[@jerzyfabjan1982]

@@CitrusMike hes dumb fuck

[@garyh4458]

Breathtaking

[@Blueskies2513]

Ive been on this ride before and it is really cool!

[@messemphanger]

I can feel the electron beam coming off my monitor and hitting me in the face.

[@Anonyhouse]

3.6 roentgens, not great not terrible

[@GauravSanjeevKumarBhardwaj1220]

Don't worry comrade,,,just a chest x ray

[@mel816]

That's pretty much what would happen with CRT monitors if it wasn't for the phosphor layer and leaded glass in the way...

[@StephenJohnson-jb7xe]

Just your face? My sphincter was tingling!

[@WackoMcGoose]

@@mel816 Yup, good ol' _desktop particle accelerators._

[@80sruler]

Feels like a new ride at Epcot

[@user-H_m]

WOW that looks funky!!

[@gaerteall]

My cat went crazy over the sound

[@sayori3939]

"I've been told it's the equivalent of a chest x-ray"

[@ytubeanon]

great, now I have the superpowers of a gopro

[@jasonyang6738]

You now have the super radioactive gopro lol

[@raydunakin]

What is the purpose of irradiating calcite?

[@greenlungo3996]

Amazing! I'm really glad you did this for us. Any chance you could do iy again wiyh an on-boars light. I want to SEE what was in that dark mystery space!

[@Ms_Cheesecake]

I watched this video YEARS ago, and it popped up on my KZbin homepage again today (and it seems for a ton of other people, too). I still love this video 😍

[@RyanSchweitzer77]

This is amazing to watch! You can see at about 1:00 the initial stray electrons starting to hit the GoPro's image sensor and overloading some of the sensor's pixels, looking much like analog video noise/snow. Looks almost like a analog satellite TV "rain fade" or other gradual loss of signal. :) You can also see the streaks of electrons when you pause the video, basically the image sensor is acting as a solid-state cloud chamber, I'd reckon. And that blue ionized air! And the coup de grace at 1:26--total overload! The image sensor is totally incapacitated by the extreme onslaught of electrons, albeit attenuated and a temporary incapacitation, thanks to the leaded pig for shielding. Unlike the fate of the dosimeter (eV meter?) outside the GoPro & pig that looks it has it's last gasp at 1:25! :)

[@epegorcs6258]

Gordon doesn't need to *see* all of this. he's a highly trained professional!

[@rainbownoob8556]

Why is this in my recommended *7 YEARS LATER*

[@snoozieboi]

maybe it's been commented here already, but I recommend looking at videos of radiation in "cloud chambers". There's this girl who demonstrates several isotopes and it's super cool to see how it affects the tiny clouds of cloud chambers.

[@TheProjecttian]

*Alright I'll see!*

[@peterjensen6844]

The initial ride in had some strong Portal Vibes :)

[@geminin6674]

Yeah I was thinking of test chamber 19, before the fire pit

[@klabsbr]

Esse brilho azul é o efeito Cherenkov é um local fortemente radioativo!

[@scrashthepunkstar]

That was an intense ride.