This Famous Film and TV Location is Radioactive

[@TheGreatGastronaut]

Absolutely breathtaking timelapse sequence. I’ve said it before, folks would support a workshop on your photo techniques.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Glad you liked the timelapses. Not sure about doing a workshop...maybe in the future.

[@P_RO_]

@@RadioactiveDrew If you haven't done it yet, perhaps enter something in local amateur photography displays and contests. No money in it, but the networking can get you deals on gear and contacts for future things. You can never know too many people!

[@LegacyVision.]

Drew2 channel :P ​@@RadioactiveDrew

[@metallusmelandril7380]

@@RadioactiveDrewyou need to do workshops about working 70mm IMAX hehehe That’s a skill much less known :/

[@solanaceae2069]

Radiation is just another form of energy. It's everywhere.

[@jonboz7585]

More scintillating information, so thank you, RD! 👍👍👍

[@andrewhamop6665]

Man, you always pick the most awesome looking landscapes for these videos! I really want to take a trip out west and go hiking at some of these places, and maybe pick up the odd chunk of radioactive granite too hahaha.

[@markmark2080]

Hi Drew, this is reference to the "Colorado couple" video of a couple months ago at the Mi Vida mine site. This morning I found a reply to my comment from Mark Steen 'hisself' that you would be very interested in reading, if you haven't already... Cheers, take care.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

I was just looking at that comment. Sounds interesting...the only thing that gives me pause dealing with someone like this is that I had someone claiming to be Steen's son a couple months back saying how I was trespassing at the MiVida. There aren't any signs there and the land has no ownership registered. I did see it as a site controlled by the DOE or something like that. I'm very interested in what this guy had to say but when someone threatens me with legal action for some perceived wrong I did...there is nothing they could offer that would make me trust them again.

[@Ojref1]

Aww, wanted to see torn-shirt Gorn fight.

[@oldminer5387]

Thank you Drew. Interesting area and great photography.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Thanks.

[@MarkHirstSWL]

When I saw the title of the video, I wondered if it was about the controversy surrounding the film "The Conqueror" featuring John Wayne.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

I'm planning on doing a video about that area.

[@deracool6]

I was actually wondering the same thing that would be really cool

[@lancelessard2491]

Thanks!

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Thanks for that.

[@GeeBee135]

Thanks for sharing your visit to the Alabama Hills, and your excellent drone shots! Interestingly, the hills were NOT named for the state of Alabama, but because their profile reminded someone of the Civil War ironclad vessel, CSS Alabama. This location, and a few other places in the Owens Valley of California, were used for shooting the original Tremors film!

[@RadioactiveDrew]

I love that film. Just started watching it again after I was there.

[@JohnCouch-m4f]

Beautiful time lapse with the big city lights glowing in the horizon!

[@ausnorman8050]

That time laps was amazing and what a night sky!

[@RadioactiveDrew]

That area has some amazing views of the night sky.

[@christophertiredofbs8514]

Thank God for making it Thank Drew for filming it AWESOME!!!!!!

[@CheekyMiner]

Fascinating videos, so interesting how much radiation is around us. You are so fortunate to live in such a beautiful area to explore.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Thanks. I use to live by here, now I live in Montana. Plenty of beauty if you know where to look.

[@CheekyMiner]

@@RadioactiveDrew Very true, is this your hobby or are you a radiation analyst or something along those lines?

[@RadioactiveDrew]

@@CheekyMiner Its something that I have spent the last 7 years learning about on my own. I read loads of research papers and college books on radiochemistry to get better familiar with the subject. But I think the best thing is being out in the field and learning while doing...at least that has helped me a lot doing this.

[@CheekyMiner]

@@RadioactiveDrew That is really amazing, I particularly liked your episode where you discovered one of the towns roadways was heavily radioactive and you made the connection with a local mining area and those roads were basically built with radiative material, I don't have the specifics exact but thought that was really interesting. Continued success and thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@dixiecup3928]

Awesome info about Alabama hills. Great place to camp!

[@thexfile.]

Radiation should not be feared. It only becomes dangerous when the industry gets ahold of it.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Well it’s more about people understanding that radiation has different levels of intensity. Kind of like heat has different levels, low heat you can feel and can have it cook food. Heat at the upper limit of what’s possible will vaporize most materials in an instant.

[@jamesmiller9480]

That was an amazing time lapse. The topic of naturally occurring radiation, we had filter socks in the oil field and first they would throw them in the trash and then they said due to NORM naturally occurring radioactive material that would build up in the filter socks, they had to be properly disposed of. I always wondered if they were actually dangerous or not.

[@squishvr174]

oh YES new doohickey clicky video

[@neillthornton1149]

Love Alabama Hills, I'm there at least once a year, it's such a cool place.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

I use to go there all the time when I lived down in LA. Bishop is a cool place to visit as well.

[@neillthornton1149]

@@RadioactiveDrew it sure is! My sister lives up near Lake Tahoe so when I come up from San Diego it's eastern Sierras all day long. Such an amazing area.

[@randyhavener1851]

Absolutely Beautiful!!

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Thanks...that place makes it a bit easy to capture nice shots.

[@unclepappy3823]

Beautiful site, beautiful radiation from beautiful geology

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Lots of beauty out there.

[@lancelessard2491]

Never been out there before. But will now sometime in the next few years when I'm back in California.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

The Eastern Sierras have some awesome places to visit. I feel like I should do a follow up video to this that’s a bit longer showing the sites of this area.

[@kennethnielsen3864]

Thanks for sharing.

[@enigma51ted]

Need me some kryptonite. Well done adventure!

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Thanks. I have a big piece of uranium ore that looks like kryptonite under UV light. I’ll make a video about it.

[@Kevin-ht1ox]

I have been planning a road trip to visit there in October!

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Good time to go. The weather could be nice. The wind can get pretty crazy in that area.

[@FutureRoadkill]

Hey drew, I’ve been starting to get into radioactive rock hounding since it gets me out of my area and I get to explore. I’ve been to a couple of sites in the SoCal area, most are private property or some are just hotspots. I was wanting to ask you what mines are in the SoCal area if you’ve been to any, I’ve seen some of your videos of mines near LA but I wanted to see if you knew any more, or if I should roadtrip out of state. I’m looking forward to go explore once I come back from deployment.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

I did a video on a mining area near Joshua Tree. That area had some decent rocks to find. The other mining area I went to was the video before this one where I almost got stuck. That's a uranium mining area in the Eastern Sierras. The road is very rough and the uranium ore isn't great. Once you get back I would say plan a trip out to the Moab, Utah area. There are some great mining areas to check out that have some screaming hot rocks. You could even go out towards Uravan, which isn't too far from the Moab area. There is also Temple Mountain, which is a bit West of the Moab but there's a pretty big mining area and has some great deposits where the uranium ore will glow under UV light.

[@FutureRoadkill]

@@RadioactiveDrew I plan to hit up Joshua tree once I come back, I should have some good free federal holiday leave dates so I can use those for a roadtrip there. For Utah, I plan to take my own leave since I’ll be road tripping awhile. How are the routes up there? Lots of incline, I can do off-roading in a Corolla I’ve done it before so I know it’s possible, but I don’t want to bite off more than I can chew. I only got myself a Radiacode 103G, and I’m looking into getting another device, I’m unsure what of. Are there any shafts there? I was wanting to see if I can go in a little deeper but I’ll have the proper gear

[@soylentgreen7074]

Have you ever done a video on uranium glass?

[@RadioactiveDrew]

I've had uranium glass in some of my videos...but I've never done a video just on uranium glass. That might be a good topic to have its own video at this point.

[@soylentgreen7074]

@@RadioactiveDrew i never heard of it until a half an hour ago. Got recommended a group on fb and the post was about uranium glass spiders. I liked your video on the radioactive pottery.

[@YourPupsBestFriendNY]

Id love to see you do a deep dive into the whole Acid Canyon news stories ive seen recently

[@Tormented86]

The night sky Timelapse is breaking 🫶

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Glad you liked it.

[@chemicode]

the radiation makes it even more beautiful

[@GreenJeepAdventures]

Have you by chance checked out the uranium mines in the Kern Canyon, such as the Miracle Mine? Just walking up to the opening makes my Geiger counter scream. I hear there was some uranium prospects down the road from Alabama Hills near the Haiwee Reservoir. Was this by chance near the area you explored?

[@RadioactiveDrew]

I haven’t been out to the ones in the Kern Canyon. But I’ll have to look into them. The last video I was out by the uranium mines near the Haiwee Reservoir.

[@GreenJeepAdventures]

@@RadioactiveDrew Oh, one more Kern County site....the Josie Bishop Radium Claim, near Red Rock Canyon. Her story might be an interesting tale to tell.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

@GreenJeepAdventures thanks. I added it to my notes.

[@stipi6996]

Hi Drew, i saw a video about Yooperlite stones and they shine under 365 nm uv light, people gathere then on surface... did you have anny encounters with them and if yes are they "active?" 😅

[@RadioactiveDrew]

I haven't had any experience with them. Find other glowing rocks usually. As far as I know the Yooperlite rocks aren't hot.

[@twveach]

Nice 1st noooooo

[@the_mentaculus]

How is the 103G treating you? How does it compare to 102 or 103? Or Raysid?

[@RadioactiveDrew]

The 103G has been pretty cool. The real advantage it has over the 102 and 103 is gamma spectroscopy resolution. I haven’t tried out the Raysid.

[@aggibson74]

If you ever come to santa barbara. check out the levels at the court house

[@RadioactiveDrew]

I've only passes through there but I want to head back and spend some time exploring more. I'll make sure to check out the courthouse.

[@flotsamike]

The last report I saw on the Bikini Atoll showed it had about the same radiation levels as the 1400 cps reading you showed would indicate.. It stated that a person living on the Atoll would get about100 mrem/year above background from the radiation. That lets you know just how low background radiation levels can be on an atoll in the middle of an ocean. That does not even account for the lower radon levels.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

I was getting 1400 CPM (Counts per Minute), not counts per second. But I think that might have been a typo in the comment as I believe the dose rates you posted about Bikini Atoll.

[@Denver_____]

That Timelapse camera is good! Just wished it wasn’t 3 k lol

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Believe it or not, you could get the same results with a much cheaper camera. I've been shooting timelapses starting with the Canon 20D way back when. Then I got a Canon 5D Mark 2 and started shooting astro timelapses with that. Most of the cameras out can capture a pretty good image, just as long as you aren't using auto exposure. The other half of getting good shots is processing. I convert all the RAW frames into DNGs and then import them into DaVinci Resolve to do color, contrast, hue, saturation and noise reduction to the shots. Then render out the frames into a single file I can use in a video later.

[@TheGreatGastronaut]

@@RadioactiveDrew thanks for the workflow info! Any additional insights appreciated. Perhaps a topic for a future video post?

[@RadioactiveDrew]

@TheGreatGastronaut I’m sure I could do a video about it.

[@GTSongwriter]

The guy that lives to get radiated! 😂

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Pretty much.

[@deracool6]

So I recently took a trip to Puerto Rico where I visited the Old San Juan area. I suddenly regretted not bringing my radio code 103 when I realized many of the streets are bricked instead of paved. not only that they seem to be covered in a lovely blue glaze so I wondered if those bricks might happen to be Radioactive. would you happen to have any insight into that?

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Usually blue isn’t a radioactive glaze pigment.

[@adamlumpkins2000]

If that's Lone Pine California that I'm thinking about, you are within a few miles from Brent that lives in cierra Gordo!!!

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Would be nice to check out Cerro Gordo. Maybe that can happen.

[@adamlumpkins2000]

@@RadioactiveDrew I mentioned it because I thought you had said something in a past video about trying to do a collab.

[@adamlumpkins2000]

Drew, have you ever contemplated on putting the 103 on your drone and flying it into places that you could normally not get to to check levels I'm sure it can lift it it can't be that heavy LOL

[@RadioactiveDrew]

I'm sure my drones could handle a 103 and a phone to track the radiation. I want to do some tests to see how viable something like that would be.

[@adamlumpkins2000]

@@RadioactiveDrew that would be awesome!

[@fredharvey2720]

I just wished they let us take Radiacode to the Nevada Test Site 😭😭

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Yeah, I don't ever see that happening.

[@fredharvey2720]

@@RadioactiveDrew 😭😭😭😭

[@MegaKickn]

Would love to hear your opinion and take on what going in Arizona with the uranium mine situation. I feel like it’s not that bad of a situation as the tribe describes it.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

What exactly is the problem? I've heard a lot of extremely false things said about exposure to uranium. I also saw a documentary talking about old uranium mines that seemed to have zero facts. So much of what is being said by members of the tribes involved, seems, to be coming from a very uninformed place. I just did a quick search and it seems like the Navajo tribe is giving making it difficult to move uranium ore through their land.

[@gorgly123]

You ever put your radiocode on your drone to survey areas?

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Not yet...but its been an idea I've been wanting to try out for a while now.

[@keithsyers5833]

I wonder if you put your radiacode on your drone and flew it around, would you get a bigger picture of the radiation in the area

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Its very possible. I have some test I want to run to see what I can find.

[@49shinn]

Don't know how else to send a message to you. But would be really intrested to see the spectroscopy from a 103 on something like an IR192 radiography source like i used to use for work if you could contact someone to make this happen this would be amazing. Although these devices are very much guarded and acsess is very regulated I think you could make it happen.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

I think that would be really cool. There are a couple of industrial sources I would like to do a video on. A soil density gauge is another one.

[@escuelaviejafarms]

🤘😎🤘

[@candui-7]

Elevated radioactivity from the Nevada test site fallout? The ambient levels of radiation are not a concern. Just don't inhale any dust. That could be a concern.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

This doesn't have anything to do with fallout from the Nevada Test Site. The elevated level of radiation is coming from the geology in the area. Certain deposits concentrate naturally occurring radioactive elements.

[@candui-7]

@@RadioactiveDrew Are you sure? My ex's mother died of lung cancer at 43. She was Japanese raised non-smoker far from Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Where did it fall? We'll never know.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

@candui-7 yes, I’m sure. I can tell from the gamma energy coming from the rocks.

[@sitwazheng]

石头缝里会不会有蝎子🦂和响尾蛇？

[@enigma51ted]

Looks like Mars, though I doubt theres much uranium on mars, but lots of solar radiation streaming in

[@landonferguson7282]

If you're still near Lone Pine. You should check out a town called Cerro Gordo. It's a neat place. I hope to travel there one day.

[@RecipeForDeath]

that dude is a scumbag who burned down a historical hotel.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

I would like to check it out one of these days for sure.

[@RecipeForDeath]

@@RadioactiveDrew OP deleting my comment for calling out the POS who bought cerro Gordo and burned down a historical hotel is just as bad

[@rustymotor]

Love the time lapse footage, spectacular! That area sure is similar to here in central Australia and we have excellent dark sky locations perfect for astro photography.

[@landonferguson7282]

@@rustymotor I'd love to live in a place that the milkyway is visible on most nights.

[@sitwazheng]

荒无人烟的地方😮