People like to keep those hissing roaches as pets.....next is little tshirts to dress them up
This is a true story
I was working in a biology department with a professor that used a lot of P32 (which is radioactive phosphorus)
The radiation safety guys came through all the time to make sure he was using the right safety procedures and keeping his lab "clean"
One of the ways they checked was with a Geiger counter. The inspector ran the Geiger counter over the bench top and the reading pegged, he went and got the professor to show him that his lab bench was contaminated and needed cleaning but when he came back it would not make a reading above background on the Geiger counter. This confused the inspector, who then meticulously scanned the counter until he found the culprit; it was a small albino roach that was eating the pellet out of the bottom of a centrifuge tube that had the radioisotope in it.
strangest thing I ever saw, pure white roach. Will roaches survive a nuclear explosion???? They will thrive on it.
This is a true story
I was working in a biology department with a professor that used a lot of P32 (which is radioactive phosphorus)
The radiation safety guys came through all the time to make sure he was using the right safety procedures and keeping his lab "clean"
One of the ways they checked was with a Geiger counter. The inspector ran the Geiger counter over the bench top and the reading pegged, he went and got the professor to show him that his lab bench was contaminated and needed cleaning but when he came back it would not make a reading above background on the Geiger counter. This confused the inspector, who then meticulously scanned the counter until he found the culprit; it was a small albino roach that was eating the pellet out of the bottom of a centrifuge tube that had the radioisotope in it.
strangest thing I ever saw, pure white roach. Will roaches survive a nuclear explosion???? They will thrive on it.