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[–] 71 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

Apparently it flopped because it didn't explode like the chemistry kits did, so kids thought it was boring.

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago

    They no longer include quality toys like these in foods :(

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Alpha is the weakest, usually stopping on the skin or other thin layer. Gamma goes right through a person. In college, we were warned more about beta emission because beta could enter the body by couldn't leave in the same way that gamma could.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Alpha is generally considered the most dangurous, so saying it is the weakest is kinda doing an injustice. The penetration is the weakest, the radiation is the most harmful.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    FOR EXTERNAL USE ONLY

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Anyone else think this looks like a retro-futuristic adult toy with an extra buzzy feature?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    At least it wasn't in the cereal like with some of the therapeutic waters available in that time

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    TIL Kix was around in 1947.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Ok Kix, why did a cowboy have an atom bomb toy? What was the tie-in? Did Tonto help Oppenheimer? Was this just a way to sell a few tons of used polonium?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The just post WWII times were a weird hybrid of nostalgia for the old west “cowboys and Indians” stories and the space/atomic age becoming en vogue. Toys like this that tried to appeal to both are the result.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Rebrand it the Trump Ring and sell it to MAGA for $300.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's totally fine, the ring is probably also made of lead.

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    There are no claims, even not from child which ingest it. Only statistical issues.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    If this is really what MAGA was about, I'd get on board.

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