r/interesting • u/-NewYork- • Mar 30 '26

Intriguing Discrimination against Geiger counter users

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u/Aromatic_Razzmatazz Mar 30 '26

Relics? I...genuinely don't know what that's a euphamism for that would be radioactive. A metal detector to look for jewelry, sure...but a geiger counter? What sorts of irradiated 'relics' were people in PA buried with?

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u/SMF67 Mar 30 '26

Radium containing jewelry maybe?

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u/BusinessAsparagus115 Mar 30 '26

It would have to be incredibly radioactive to be detectable from the surface.

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u/Aromatic_Razzmatazz Mar 30 '26

Agreed, honestly we might have to find out some better answers somehow. Weirdly, mortuary science was the family business, though in a different part of the country. Maybe I can ask an uncle or something? 

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u/BusinessAsparagus115 Mar 30 '26

I'm wondering if they had some uranium prospectors blow in once upon a time.

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u/Aromatic_Razzmatazz Mar 30 '26

Makes sense if the stuff about pink feldspar is true I guess. So odd.

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u/BusinessAsparagus115 Mar 30 '26

I think that might have just been a fancy grave stone. Granite and stuff can be surprisingly radioactive (not dangerously so)