Gregory's ServerWhat a lovely shade of orange
wouldn't it be funny if-.. no, it couldn't be
but maybe, let's have a peek...
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 @predrag I know of such things as "Berlin", and "Train stations", but if you get more specific I'll be like Homer backing into the bush... @alastc haha I was just making a joke about the station being on Berlin's U8 line, but being lined with uranium (U-238, as on the periodic table). @predrag @alastc @whalecoiner @gigabecquerel Most jokes have a short half-life. This one, on the other side...  @gigabecquerel @blangry Are you going to visit Oranienburg? I always wondered what's left of the Doramad factory.   @gigabecquerel Did you just happen to notice this or did you find out another way? I can't find it documented online _at all_! @gigabecquerel Fantastic. Super curious how widespread this is on the U-Bahn, I find it hard to believe it was just used in one station. Will absolutely be visiting that station after CCC camp later this year! @jonty There were (or still are) some tiles at the potsdamer platz (the red line at the ceiling), but that's in the old part of the station which is currently locked out for construction.  @jonty @gigabecquerel I found a stray reference to Rosenthaler standing out for it, so it's probably at least used way more there than elsewhere. But the architect did like 70 stations in Berlin (1910s-30s), so it wouldn't be too surprising if a few more used such glazes in smaller places. Most orange stations I can think of are distinctively 70s though. @HeNeArXn @gigabecquerel "Vibrant colors of orange, yellow, red, green, blue, black, mauve, etc. were produced" from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_tile I am amused by the concept of vibrant black @gigabecquerel That's a berlin station, right?! I think I recognise it and I see an SPD poster. @ttpphd Yes, exactly! @gigabecquerel yeah, super cool. Well Hot, I guess and I appreciated your "Hot damn" in your toot! @gigabecquerel damn and I thought our subway system was noxious!! @gigabecquerel wow didn't know it was a thing! thanks! (btw, is that dangerous?) @piks3l life is about learning!  @gigabecquerel so, if the station were to collapse, or demolished and all the tiles piled up...would that cause a critical radiation event? @gigabecquerel @strahlenschutz fuer mehr Informationen zur Strahlenbelastung von Farben, Fliesen und Ubahnstationen? :) @gigabecquerel i wonder what would be the effective dose you absorb if you commute and wait inside the station for ~10 minutes every day @gigabecquerel worse: how about a person (e.g. homeless person) sitting or sleeping close to the walls several hours a day? @eichkat3r @gigabecquerel Would most likely be less dose than sitting outside for the same amount of time.   @gigabecquerel quite 'normal' building material.π https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_tile |
The
whole
fucking
station
is uranium glazed???
That must be tens of kg of uranium!
Hot damn I almost didn't want to leave
Edit:
Fuck sake there are so many armchair experts here.
NO, this is NOT dangerous!
Radiation is all around you and so far you have done just fine surviving that.
It's a nice color and an interesting historical fact, and that's all there's to it.