Thread: Sticky scotch tape generates X-rays

Sticky tape generates X-rays

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/0810...2008.1185.html



Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have shown that simply peeling ordinary sticky tape in a vacuum can generate enough X-rays to take an image — of one of the scientists' own fingers

Hmm, there is a possibility of an 'economy' x-ray scan in the future. Bundled with body hair removal.


Can someone rephrase the above sentence so it is less cheesy?

That's wicked.

That's gonna be nothing compared to when they try duct tape =P