… hilariously, I have a 3d-printed version of that object sitting on a display shelf, because I’m a terrible gremlin like that.
But Seriously, If you are holding it in your hands? YOU ARE ALREADY DEAD from rad poisoning, you just haven’t realized it yet- the words “DROP AND RUN” are not a joke. Colbalt-60 is Not Fun.
The people in the tiktok video? are very lucky to have dodged their Darwin Award. (And finally, the gene pool appears to be in need of some chlorine.)
Most of us actually do that, in these days.
Most smartphones have a nice 3D magnetic sensor, such as e.g. this one. There are free apps to read the raw field values along the 3 axis if I ever encounter a magnetic portal, I’ll be ready.
My experience was on the water, fishing from my kayak and a couple miles from land. No place to go or hide and a trio of carbon-fiber lightning, urr…, fishing rods sticking up around me. I got the whole enchilada - hair standing on end, crackiling sounds, etc. My saving grace was I knew what was going on. My solution was to lay the rods down and slip into the water (warn air, warm water, safe conditions). I even let my kayak float away from me while holding onto a tether. I figured if I kept my head low in the water then the boat was a least a little higher than me.
In the end, there was lightning in the area but none close enough to be worrisome. I counted the experience as a bonus swim.
are those white specs actually electrical discharges on the sensor? or some dust in the wind? or sparkling fiber off their clothes? (I was wondering that their phones seemed somewhat unaffected by all that electricity around them)