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3nicewatches
·There is a fungus growing in the inner parts of the Chernobyl reactor site and it is using the radiation as an energy source. So, if fungi can handle Chernobyl, tritium in a watch is a breeze!
Radiotrophic Fungi And You
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MoclovFlop
·If you're near a university I'd take the watch to the Chemistry, Materials, Mineralogy, Geology, Biology, (I don't know what) Departments and ask whether they would be willing to analyse a sample. They might be crystals. See this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acicular_(crystal_habit)
I'm sure we'd all love to find out what it is.
Interesting Idea. I wonder if there is enough material there for them to figure it out.
Maybe it was growth of another mineral in the tritium compound (sulfur maybe). Same way Bismuth grows in a lab.
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MoclovFlop
·Here's a shot of one I found on the inside of the caseback of a 1940s rolled gold pocket watch.
When I first opened it, there was a tiny white fluffy bush, radiating out from a central spot. I cleaned the caseback with a Towntalk cloth and noticed the etching into the surface plating that the fungusy growth had made.
There were other spots, some not as well developed and all seeming to radiate from a small central spot.
Alien spores?
A sub-atomic city that I carelessly destroyed?
Old time watchmakers sneeze residue?
We shall never know.
Ah man, like the Simpsons episode where Lisa grows a small city on an old tooth.
But I bet it was nearly the same stuff. That is so crazy.
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BlackTalon
··This Space for RentI think it is crystal formation. The watch is trying to morph into a quartz... 😁
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JwRosenthal
·Wet season we get mould on top of mould. Have seen black leather straps turn a fluffy green in a week if left out...
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MoclovFlop
·I think it is crystal formation. The watch is trying to morph into a quartz... 😁
Gonna sell it on ebay as a quartz prototype. Thanks for the money making ideas!
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JwRosenthal
·Gonna sell it on ebay as a quartz prototype. Thanks for the money making ideas!
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Engee
·I feel a new Marvel series coming along.
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MoclovFlop
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Jesus. nature, you scary.
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64Wing
·Where's Lindsay Lohan when you need her.
If I lived in Australia, it would be Friday, and I would have posted this in the "not all things want to kill you" thread.
Seeing as I'll probably die from opening this. It would have been a good fit.
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DaveK
·Nice work JW, you just gave Corum an idea for their next dial
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JPE.88305
·IMO looks more crystalline than fungal...
but you should still coin the term "lume plume" or "lume bloom".
but you should still coin the term "lume plume" or "lume bloom".
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MoclovFlop
·IMO looks more crystalline than fungal...
but you should still coin the term "lume plume".
You guys are just making the next Hodinkee article write itself. Save some of this literary fluff for their writers!
But damnit if that's not clever. Full credit to you when this trend takes off.
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Foo2rama
··Nowhere near as grumpy as he used to be...I know how this movie ends.
kill it with fire.
kill it with fire.
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MoclovFlop
·You guys are just jealous that you don't have a movie-rights worthy watch sitting on your bench.
Now then, what's the over-under on how long until I grow a new arm...
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Rasputin
·Take a small sample and place it under a microscope. Fungi have distinctive features when viewed under the scope.
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JwRosenthal
·It is growing on radioactive material, nuking might just accelerate the growth….
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MoclovFlop
·Good idea. I’ll put the dial in some water and see if anything “happens”.
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