Comments on: Scotch Tape emits X-Rays: film at 11

By: Ted Annonson

Ted Annonson — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:19:00 +0000

Just don’t pet your cat in a vacuum, with all that static electricity the X-rays could kill both of you from radiation poisoning.

By: neil craig

neil craig — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:03:53 +0000

Lets hope the media don’t hear about this or they will be report that trouser zips might release harmful radiation.

By: Mary Hinge

Mary Hinge — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:07:00 +0000

Adrian S (13:12:09) :

“That global warming has caused this effect in sellotape.
my erectile dysnfuction is a direct result of the high levels of raidation I experienced wrapping chritsmas presents. I intend to sue”

Your ED is more likely to be from an overdose of logical ‘phallacies’!

By: old construction worker

old construction worker — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:14:27 +0000

I wonder if I corrolate x-rayproducing soctchtype with lobal warming and get a government grant. It should be easy with the right math, enough assumptions and a computer model.

By: Drew Latta

Drew Latta — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:52:21 +0000

I thought this might be a useful link for any of those that happen upon this site and are interested in weather events:

http://www.theweatherprediction.com/

This Haby guy has a plethora of knowledge about weather and meteorology.

By: Ian L. McQueen

Ian L. McQueen — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:50:37 +0000

I noticed the emission of light in the late 50s while peeling off tape in a darkroom, to be used to attach the end of a length of 35mm film to the spool of a film cartridge. Just think, if I’d checked for X-rays I’d be the famous one!

By: swampie

swampie — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:44:47 +0000

Sheesh, the things I’ve missed by working in an office environment with lots of light.

By: Lucy Skywalker

Lucy Skywalker — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:33:27 +0000

I don’t need sellotape, I just touch the fire after I’ve been at the computer for a while and pow! it shocks! And my daughter could never wear a watch because they always stopped on her wrist – and when she was in a bad mood the computer played up (mine does too). I swear, the most amazing science discoveries yet to come lie right under our noses, so common that nobody thought of checking them out….
h’mmmm….
like CO2 not being responsible for global warming….
Back to topic after that unavoidable rant, it’s only recently that Newton’s basic laws of motion have been proved from the Zero Point Field department of Quantum Mechanics. Thought they were proven did you? well you were mistaken!

I smell a clue in this Sellotape stuff… it feels like Zero Point Field stuff peeping out again. And I think that ZPF research holds a lot of potential for the future, energy-wise. You just need to peel away the scales of “impossible” from your thinking.

By: David Ermer

David Ermer — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:27:25 +0000

My PhD thesis adviser is referenced 2 or 3 times in that paper. I never worked in that side of the lab but I did know were to go if I ran out of tape.

By: Dan McCune

Dan McCune — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:17:07 +0000

Here’s a link with everything you could ever want to know about “Scotch” tape (and then some). BTW, it’s no longer made with cellulose as it was originally.

http://www.answers.com/topic/cellophane-tape

By: woodentop

woodentop — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:05:18 +0000

The same effect (blue light) can be seen when opening self-sealing envelopes in a darkened room. Even if you open the gummed edges quite slowly you can see the crackling blue light at the junction of the flap and the body of the envelope.

By: Adrian S

Adrian S — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:12:09 +0000

Its obvious, That global warming has caused this effect in sellotape.
The vastly increased temperatures, due to AGW, have over excited electrons causing them to smash through sub atomic particles resulting in Xrays being generated in the process.
We urgently, for the sake of our children, need to ban all sticking tape and set up a goverment enquiry into why for so long such a dangerous object was not detetected allowing billions of people to become irradiated with danegrous xrays. I myself are convinced my erectile dysnfuction is a direct result of the high levels of raidation I experienced wrapping chritsmas presents. I intend to sue

By: Jannie

Jannie — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:02:56 +0000

Good Lord.

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:56:43 +0000

This is TOTALLY unrelated but… why is there a little smile at the bottom left corner of these pages?

By: Gary Hladik

Gary Hladik — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:39:36 +0000

This reminds me of the cell phone popcorn gag.