Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for April 18, 2021

KIRBY KRACKLES Part of a complete radioactive breakfast!

“you now have the powers of a regular guy.” Well, if Brewster also has the intellect of a regular guy, it would be a big step up for him.

I was wondering why I glow in the dark and why I have super powers.

Our levels picked up a bit since 1945. That was when we started playing around with nuclear weapons.

It gave me a super power, I can see stupid people.

If bitten, you may need/want to get “checked” for infection: rabies, tetanus, hepatitis, …

Oh K, Potassium wins.

I won’t go completely bananas over knowing that.

If you have an elevated Potassium level (normal range 3.5 – 5.0) you need some Resonium which you can mix in water.

Just ate banana ! Radioactive maaan !

And people worry about what’s in the vaccine…!Other common radioactive things include the non-reflective coating on some camera lenses, gas mantles, Brazil nuts, smoke detectors, Dartmoor . . .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

In the comics, gamma radiation seems to be a popular source for super powers. However, if you in reality were actually exposed to a strong dose of gamma radiation, two things would happen to you:

1) You would get one hell of a sunburn.

2) You would soon die, rather miserably.

I once tried to measure the potassium 40 in a bunch of bananas. It was a real challenge to sort it out from the background radiation from cosmic rays.

I hear it makes you Imagine Dragons. Welcome to the new age!

Scientist check fish in a lake that had high radioactivity. The fish were smaller than they should have been and didn’t live as long. Some cancer, no superpowers.

Brewster: I was bitten by a radioactive guy!

“Dr.” Mel: May it rest in peace!

40 years ago, I stuck my head in a nuclear reactor just to get a picture of the core. I’m alive, and no I did not grow a third arm, I don’t glow in the dark, My skin did not turn green, I’m not able to leap tall building and I’m not faster than a speeding bullet. No superpowers at all, too bad I always wanted x-ray vision. I’m Radioactive-man and I’m alive and well.

Brewster was bitten by a radioactive clown…

Is he strong?Listen bud.He’s got radioactive blood.

Theme from the 1960s animated Spider-Man series

WKRP in Cincinnati was radioactive.

I actually really was radioactive to the point that I couldn’t be around anyone for about a week or I would have killed their thyroids or damaged them in other ways. I had thyroid cancer and treatment included drinking a high does of radioactive iodine, along with a thyroidectomy. 15 years cancer free now!

I was in a car accident about 2 1/2 years ago, some pins in the tibia below the knee. They took what seemed a lot of X-rays during my assessment and treatment. Alas, no superpowers. Hopefully not an elevated risk for cancer.

They’ve been able to detect that I’ve recently eaten a banana when I’ve had a wholebody radiation scan at work. Very sensitive machinery.

LOL, reminds me of an incident during the Three Mile Island problems. The NRC had installed a radiation sensor on the outside of Middletown’s City Hall, hooked to a horn, that was supposed to go off if radioactive emission levels got dangerous. They were doing a good job of controlling those emissions, so the horn never went off – so people claimed the horn didn’t work.

To prove the horn worked, a NRC guy took a harmless high school chemistry class radioactive sample and placed it near the sensor – and the horn went off. Most of the crowd stepped back, then accused the NRC guy of bringing a dangerous radioactive sample that could kill them all…

The NRC guy explained that the sample was weaker than the radiation emitted from a typical wristwatch that had glow-in-the-dark markings. He moved his watch near the sensor, and the horn went off again…

The crowd jumped back, and began ripping their watches off their arms and throwing them into the vacant lot across the street. Then they ran off. Me and another guy started looking at the watches – most of them didn’t even have glow-in-the-dark markings…

I was once bitten by a radioactive Book.

That’s my origin story of how I became a Compulsive Reader.

I glow in the dark. But I don’t think it’s because of the bananas.

The return of Doctor Solar…

Purified U-238 is no more radioactive, with a 4.5 billion year half-life.

So monkeys be the most radioactive of the creatures, eh.

Banana man? What would his powers be?

Some mushrooms can also be higher in radioactivity than other foods.

Would a rabid, radioactive dog give you radioactive rabies or give you super-foaming power?

Bananas are my favorite food because they have a peel.

Fruits in general are high in potassium.   Bananas are medium among fruits.   I once went through The Nutritional Contents of Foods calculator in hand, and found that, Calorie for Calorie, oranges are the champion sources of potassium.

But oranges are rather messy to eat.   Bananas come in a biodegradable easy-open wrapper, never dribble on your jersey, and can be eaten with filthy hands.