A small piece of the apocalypse

I've been meaning to mention this to marnameow for a little while..
I have my own little piece of radioactivity - I ordered a Traser Glowring off the 'net.
These little things have a small amount of radioactive tritium gas, which reacts with the coating of the chamber it is in, to glow... continually, for about ten years.
Neat, althought I'm not sure i actually want to use it as a keyring long-term, given the proximity of my keys to the part of the body that stores my genes for possible future reproduction.

I'm not sure if the device actually emits much radiation though.. I believe the emitted radiation reacts with the coating to cause the glowing, thus converting some, or hopefully all, of the radiation to light.
So, anyone have a geiger counter to check? ;)

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A link to a thread on the safety of Tritium-based lamps

Toyota Corona

Oh dear.. I'm a bit embarrassed.
My Toyota Corona webpage is the 2nd hit on Yahoo, and is getting a lot of traffic.. but the page doesn't actually contain anything interesting or useful at all!

I must really get around to completeing that page.. the old '73 was indestructable (and rather slow - top speed of about 25mph, until it had warmed up - which took most of the way to work from Prospect to Glen Osmond Road. Its a sad day when you have busses getting impatient because you're going too slow... but it'd reach 180 kph with a tail wind and perhaps a slight downhill increment ;)