http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/ Engadget Comments for The UN's new international radiation symbol http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/
How many innocent alien lives could have been saved?
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http://www.aleph.se/andart/archives/2006/10/warning_signs_for_tomorrow.html]]>Feb 18th 2007 3:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/
Let me try to help:

Trefoil (the thing that looks a bit like a fan or a tape reel):

Nuclear reactors
Nuclear bombs
Radioactive isotopes (Sr-90, Cs-137, Ra-226)
Cosmic Rays
Particle Accelerators
X-Ray Machines


RF radiation or electromagnetic fields:

Radio and wireless communications
Radar
Microwave ovens
Microwave imaging
Uplink Satellite Dishes
Magnetrons
High frequency, high impedance electronics

These are NOT denoted by the trifoil. The symbol shows the outline of an antenna can can be seen here: http://beradio.com/media/0505/505br1108.jpg
Or here http://www.gaijin.com/images/journal/gallery/rf-hazard-00.12.03.jpg


You would NEVER put the trefoil on any radio equipment.

Also, low-frequency electromagnetic fields or DC fields, such as those produced by MRI machines are symbolized differently, usually with a picture of a magnet.

Please get this right. Every time I see the nuclear radiation symbol on a cell phone it makes my skin crawl!
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Not saying anything against you, but I thought it was funny.]]>Feb 20th 2007 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/]]>Feb 18th 2007 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/
SUN + RAYS = ZOMG SKIN CANCER DEATH RUN!!!]]>Feb 18th 2007 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/Feb 18th 2007 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/
they do:
this
http://www.donoharm.org.uk/alert/images/danger.jpg
this
http://www.health-safety-signs.uk.com/productimages/Caution-outdoor-sign.gif
or anything else in a yellow triangle. ]]>Mar 1st 2007 10:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/Feb 18th 2007 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/Feb 18th 2007 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/Feb 18th 2007 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/Feb 18th 2007 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/Feb 20th 2007 7:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/Feb 18th 2007 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/Feb 20th 2007 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/If you see a mass of squiqqly lines are coming towards you, run perpendicular to them. Whether you choose left or right depends on which side the zombies are coming from.

Choose to run in a direction that is both perpendicular to the squiqqly lines and away from the zombies.

Would this work for the robot revolutions too? Perhaps if we replace the skull and cross-bones with a PS3 slinging BlueRay disk of death...]]>Feb 18th 2007 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/
thats the message im getting from this...kinda fu..ed up...]]>Feb 18th 2007 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/Feb 18th 2007 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/
Why exactly do danger symbols have instructions on them now? Are we really that stupid?]]>Feb 19th 2007 5:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/Feb 18th 2007 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=160]]>Feb 18th 2007 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/Feb 18th 2007 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/
They should learn to put 5 second looping clips as signs. Then just have a loop of toddlers on fire, running from a mushroom cloud.]]>Feb 18th 2007 9:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/
Seriously though, THIS is the "symbol" they came up with? It's more of a 3 panel comic if anything and, as the comments have shown, easily interrupted as anything. I thought the idea of changing the symbol would be so it was easier. But it seems burocracy as once again made things more complicated.

I dont see too much wrong with the origional one. Just as with any symbol it needs to be explained, but once you learn it you've got it in your brain forever with out an explination. Having to relarn a symbol that really needs to be read is bad practice.]]>Feb 18th 2007 8:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/Feb 18th 2007 8:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/
:)

-Ghoti]]>Feb 18th 2007 10:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/
It's when the sperm fly from the fan, run to the right, away from the pirates.]]>Feb 18th 2007 10:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/
This sign is far too complex and it isn't working at all. Anyone who knows the radiation symbol with the three "rays" would know enough by just looking at the much simpler symbol. Anyone who doesn't know the radiation symbol is just as lost as looking at the symbol only.

So some poor 3rd world guy looking at the sign might intepret this as when the fan starts blowing flee from the giant skull to the right...]]>Feb 19th 2007 1:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/Feb 19th 2007 12:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/Feb 19th 2007 1:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/Feb 19th 2007 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/Feb 19th 2007 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/
don't you guys remember this: http://digg.com/general_sciences/How_to_Warn_500_Generations_of_Nuclear_Waste_

We still need to warn the aliens that take over our world that this stuff is deadly (to us at least).]]>Feb 19th 2007 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/
What a waste.]]>Feb 19th 2007 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/the-uns-new-international-radiation-symbol/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kt/395457657/]]>Feb 20th 2007 7:55PM