Comments on: Atomic Golf Ball

By: Torgo

Torgo — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:47:48 +0000

Wasn’t there a alternative rock band called Atomic Golf Ball?

By: Rick Auricchio

Rick Auricchio — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:29:31 +0000

As soon as there are a bunch of other golf balls on the fairway (or in the rough), your Geiger Counter detects them all.

So much for that idea.

By: Deth

Deth — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:23:11 +0000

That it’s penetrating through the golf ball’s “cover” and that you can detect it “in dense woods” with 1950’s era geiger-counters tells me that it is most definitely not alpha and probably not beta radiation. I think this is probably a very mild gamma source. Alpha wouldn’t even get through the plastic, and beta would be stopped by almost any amount of material beyond nothing.

It’s probably not dangerous just sitting there, unless you were around it for a very long time, got a lot of them together, had it very close to your skin for prolonged periods, or it got burned, melted, or somehow ingested.

By: JMyint

JMyint — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:10:26 +0000

The amount and type of radioactivity was so low as to be stopped by human skin. Much in the same way that the radioactive sources in smoke detectors produce only low energy alpha rays.

By: rsterling78

rsterling78 — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:59:09 +0000

“…he gives the fairer sex a chance to marvel at modern science.”

Uh, none of you are pregnant, are you?

By: Casandro

Casandro — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:23:15 +0000

How about putting a miniature atomic bomb into it, as well as neuron detectors everywhere? That way you could quickly detect it’s position.

By: ann.

ann. — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:42:59 +0000

We are currently developing another new golf ball that, upon landing, releases a dense cloud of chlorine gas, ensuring you’ll be able to find it easily!