Scotch tape surprises everyone by producing X-rays
By Samuel Axon 
posted Oct 23rd 2008 5:32PM
posted Oct 23rd 2008 5:32PM
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posted Oct 23rd 2008 5:32PM
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Wait, how do they get the X-ray then. I mean does the image show up on the tape of what?
No, they still need to use film to record the image. triboluminescence along those lines.
X-ray film, just like in the hospital/doctor's office.
The big machine generates X-rays, the white metal plates mounted on a stand or placed under the table contain the film that catches the x-rays after they pass through your body.
When tape is pulled off the roll, electrons make the jump between the roll and the strand of tape. When they slow down they emit X-rays.
BUT, this only occurs in a VACUUM.
You are safe so long as you aren't in a vacuum, which is hard for most of us to actually pull off unless we are astronaughts with rolls of tape in our pockets.
This is a great thing cause people without electricity could realisticly create X-rays of broken bones in children. My only worry is the amount of protection needed to keep from being sterilized.
Umm... by this, "... researchers at UCLA peeled scotch tape at 1.18 inches per second in a vacuum chamber and found that X-ray pulses were emitted by the process." Doesn't it mean that the radiation was emitted by the tape-peeling process?
I can't wait to try this inside my Dyson
There's a law office party somewhere tonight. I just hope 3M's defence gets to those cosmonauts fist.
@ Flashpoint
"...we are astronaughts..."
LOL at your misspeling, naughty astroboy! :)))
Won't it take at least some electricity to make a good vacuum? Don't think a handpump will be effective enough.
Your handpump is busy doing something else...
Tell me it's not the 1st of April....is it?
LOL
That's what I thought too! I was like LOLz wut?!
But seriously....I want to meet the Russian scientist who thought..."Hmmm, I bet X-Rays are emitted from Scotch tape when it is pulled from the roll..." I really, really want some of what he was smoking.
Agreed with both of you :D.
Same here. I saw this on another site and thought it was a joke.
wowww thats creepy....great to know that my scotch tape will be giving me cancer.
in a vacuum
In a related story.
Folding a piece of wax paper in a room lit with a green light bulb causes the effects of gravity to decrease by 18%.
someone better get government funding for this ASAP
The new space shuttle is now powered with the revolutionary new wax paper drive.
WARNING!!!
omgduct-tapeXrays
PEWPEWPEW!!!
O_o
I remember waaaay back in the pre-digital dark ages, we had to be careful opening film packets in the darkroom, because of blue sparks spoiling the unexposed stock. I used to assume it was just static electricity, but I guess I was just not clever enough to test it in a vacuum.
It was just static electricity.
If McGuyver had only known...
If he only asked Chuck Norris...
IMA MAKE AN X-RAY GUN!
you're doing it wrong
If pulling scotch tape off a roll causes X-Rays, you could probably microwave a Hungry Man dinner by pulling apart duct tape that folded back on itself.
do you live in a vacuum?
Those old x-ray glasses are not so far off!!!
So basically what they're saying is that if I put Scotch Tape over my glasses I'll have X-Ray vision?
No. They aren't saying that at all.
Who knows dude? It's sure worth trying.
You're lucky to have glasses.
Me, aint got even the scotch tape!
Even if you could see X-Rays (which you can't... just to be clear), you'd have to place the tape-peeling-in-a-vacuum device on the opposite side of whatever you were wanting to see through. Not on your glasses.
Yes. To better the effect, stick the tape directly on your eyes.
I occasionally use those nasal strips to help you breathe while you sleep and discovered one night that it gives of luminescence as you pull the backing off so I can quite believe this. (I just hope that's all they gave off and I haven't been sticking radioactive bits of plastic on my nose!)
isn't it a bit early for an april fools' story?
Or a bit late?
This is the real deal, but was up on Reddit yesterday.
No I didn't see it coming!
I didn't have my tape X-ray thingy yet!!
You'll know it works when you see construction workers on the streets with rolls of scotch tape fitted to some glasses ... HEY BABY!
i'm a construction worker. and you just offended me.
Yep, I can confirm John is in fact a construction worker. Just look at his punctuation!
There are many, I might say, practically all of your co-workers and industry fellows who I have seen consistently offend women walking down the sidewalk. I don't think I've passed by any construction site and not witnessed it happening if a couple of ladies were also walking by.
It's almost like the french being losers to non-French speaking Americans.. I didn't want to believe it was true until I went to France and witnessed it myself.
@hfm
It's one thing to rag on Construction workers...but to compare them to the french. have you no shame?
Be careful offending construction workers, they can beat up your nerd ass. The French will just surrender to you.
I dont know who this McGuyver fellow is, but I think Angus MacGyver would be interested as well.
Do-eth, that was supposed to be for @ED
So my GF who scotch taped my nuts up last night.....I should be concerned......
OK that joke went nowhere....Sorry.
http://thecraptastics.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/fail.jpg
If by girlfriend you mean, right hand....then yes.