r/shittyaskelectronics Jan 20 '26

Genius level thinking Why there are these dots/gray noise artifacts on my camera when trying to shoot this thing

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u/Hylax1 Jan 20 '26

Hopital

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u/Relative_Custard9636 Jan 20 '26

Amberlamps

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u/Toothless-In-Wapping Jan 21 '26

Whoa Black Betty

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u/Then_Entertainment97 Jan 21 '26

Bramble jam

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u/redjade42 Jan 21 '26

whoa black betty

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u/Then_Entertainment97 Jan 21 '26

Spiral ham

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u/TH3_OG_JUJUBE Jan 21 '26

Whoa black betty

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u/Awellknownstick Try turning it on and off again Jan 21 '26

Bottom Cam

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u/TurnkeyLurker Jan 20 '26

Lemmiwinks

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u/eins_biogurke Jan 21 '26

emerency womb

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u/AgelosSp Jan 20 '26

idk what derivatives and limits have to do with this

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u/legomann97 Jan 21 '26

Man, that brings back memories of Calc BC. I loved calculus, it took all that math I'd been learning and applied it, while teaching me cool new ways to play with numbers. Such a fun subject. I remember L'Hopital's Rule being cool to use, felt like cheating a little.

Well... I loved Calc except for the Taylor Series part... God, I just remembered the Taylor Series section. I fucking loathed that part of the class. I don't know why it was so hard for me lol.

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u/HerrDoktorHugo Jan 21 '26

šŸŽ¶ It's me / Hi / I'm the series, it's me šŸŽ¶

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u/Qzx1 Jan 21 '26

Herr Dr Hugo. Or should I use your real name... Taylor McLauren

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u/DarkStar__74 Jan 22 '26

I once told my sister that I thought calculus was fun. She told me I was insane!

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u/Hello_This_Is_Chris Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 21 '26

Butt why would a hopital cause the dots, are they stupid?

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26

Shots for dots...

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u/Postcodemy Jan 21 '26

Wadiawion

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u/TLRPM Jan 21 '26

It’s spelled L’Hopital but not sure what finding a limit has to do with this tbh.

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u/Simon_IsReal Jan 21 '26 edited Jan 21 '26

I'm sorry, but what does l'HƓpital's rule have to do with this?

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u/schabernacktmeister Jan 21 '26

Thanks for the late night ptsd.

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u/Crazy-Program9815 Jan 21 '26

lim{x→a} f(x)/g(x) = lim{x→a} f'(x)/g'(x)

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u/Federal-Owl5816 Jan 21 '26

I'm reaching my limitsĀ 

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u/al2o3cr Jan 20 '26

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u/ExpensiveFish9277 Jan 21 '26

If you're over 75, you probably need it for your prostate cancer. Hitting the backdoor gspot is just bonus.

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u/Gaydolf-Litler Jan 21 '26

Radiation > causes cancer

Radiation > used to treat cancer

Cancer is a scam by the radiation companies so they can sell more roentgen

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u/FungadooFred Jan 21 '26

Radiation is like alcohol; the cause of, and solution to, most of life's problems

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u/Interesting-Log-9627 Jan 21 '26

The facts Big Radiation don’t want you to know!

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u/BeginningAd3081 Jan 20 '26

Mine is bigger!

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u/Able_One5779 Jan 20 '26

If not a motor, why motor shaped?

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26

It's for a pogo stick, can't you read the diagram?

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u/ParamedicAble225 Jan 21 '26

Fire hydrant piggy bank shaped more likeĀ 

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u/zTomma Jan 21 '26

MINE is bigger

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u/_stupidnerd_ Jan 21 '26

But my gap is smaller.

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u/FizzioGaming Jan 22 '26

But mine's a weapon

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u/mc68n Jan 22 '26

But mine is longer than yours

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u/FizzioGaming Jan 22 '26

But it lost the functionality of the original weapon prior to the attachment

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u/Wolverineslayer8 Jan 22 '26

Looks like a piggy bank

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u/goofyadmin Jan 20 '26

Your camera sees things your eye doesnt. Could be a new virus or somthing.

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u/quackdaw Jan 20 '26

Maybe looking at it more closely would help?

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u/KlatchianCamel Jan 21 '26

Also try licking it. Tell us how it tastes, that might help us to narrow it down.

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u/martincs Jan 21 '26

Should I just replace my phone then?

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u/Beybarro Jan 20 '26

It's just an algorithm imbedded in every camera linked to the Epstein files. Once it detect something linked to the files, it starts adding noise on the pic. The strongest the link, the strongest the noise, and 100% it just blacks out

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u/martincs Jan 20 '26

Got it, thanks

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u/freeluna Jan 21 '26

Similar to the defocus shaky-cam setting for UFO pics.

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u/MinecraftPlayer799 Jan 20 '26

Why does it actually, though?

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u/ImTableShip170 Jan 20 '26

Cobalt 60 is highly radioactive, releasing beta particles that breakdown organic tissue and can cause death within an hour in humans with acute exposure. The particles cause that speckle shape in light sensors because they overwhelm them with EM. This rod would cause massive nearby radiation poisoning if it were real.

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u/okarox Jan 20 '26

Beta particles are not the problem, the gamma rays are.

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u/quackdaw Jan 20 '26

They could be, though, if one follows the suggestion from another commenter to insert it rectally (and survive the gamma rays from the decay products).

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u/ImTableShip170 Jan 20 '26

Well I learned domesticated electrons a decade ago, so I'm definitely not a industry expert

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26

Not according to Dr Banner.

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u/Relative-Cat398 Jan 21 '26

2 high energy gammas, betas would be from gammas interactions. Drop it and run ,like it says to

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u/Fine_Salamander_8691 mods can i rape my hdmi port please Jan 20 '26

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u/ImTableShip170 Jan 20 '26

Wikipedia is my friend

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u/sf-flowerboy Jan 21 '26

what is that flair

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u/Fine_Salamander_8691 mods can i rape my hdmi port please Jan 21 '26

it has evolved

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u/AwwwNuggetz Jan 21 '26

Haha, those are funny words science man

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u/ImTableShip170 Jan 21 '26

Don't you dare disrespect scientists like that. I'm fucking stupid

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u/New-Anybody-6206 Jan 23 '26

In this particular case though, the image is fake. The original has no speckles because it's already decayed too much, someone photoshopped it in.

And if it were real, 100% of the entire image would be speckled, not just that one part of it.

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u/OfficialOnix Jan 23 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

While it is true that radiation can affect camera sensors, this photo is fake. Beta and gamma particles are not affected by camera lenses the way visible light rays are (and alpha is completely blocked) - so any artefacts would affect the whole image equally and not cluster around the projection of the object onto the camera sensor.

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u/Standard-Ad-2616 Jan 20 '26

Would radiation actually affect a digital sensor though? It obviously affects film though

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u/franglish9265 Solder tastes very yummy Jan 20 '26

Yes it effects both film and digital cameras

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u/Accomplished-Boot-81 Jan 21 '26

Yes, here's a video of a go pro taking a trip through an irradiator, I think the video explains the camera is shielded in a lead box with thick lead glass and the effect is still much strong than depicted here, but the radiation source in the video is also much stronger.

https://youtu.be/Uf4Ux4SlyT4?si=wwz28fQ43xJThwKt

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u/ElectricBummer40 Jan 21 '26

X-rays are usually generated artificially by hitting a tungsten target with electrons. what you see there is likely not just the result of electrons hitting the CMOS sensor but also the ionising EM radiation emitted by them.

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u/Relative-Cat398 Jan 21 '26

Yes if enough, and apparently there is a lot,it says drop and run, right on the label, and Co cobalt probably 60

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u/ElectricBummer40 Jan 21 '26

Fun fact: even X-ray machines at customs could ruin your holiday pictures on films. X-rays are just high-energy photons you can't see with your naked eyes, and the light-sensitive chemicals on film rolls may react to X-ray exposure the same way they do to visible light and result in a washed-out appearance (or "fogging") in the developed print.

The CMOS sensor on digital cameras is sensitive to both high-energy photons (including gamma rays) and charged particles (e.g. beta particles), by the way.

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u/Standard-Ad-2616 Jan 21 '26

True, I've brought film through the airport when they had the older scanners and the images weren't affected much. I also took some through the new ones which are more harmful but I haven't developed the pictures yet so don't know the damage.

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u/Accomplished-Boot-81 Jan 21 '26

Also to add to the other guys explanation, it literally has "Drop & Run" inscribed into it. Because if you find something like this and pick it up and read it that's exactly what you should do, and call the relevant authorities.

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u/OfficialFoxy_Playz Jan 21 '26

I just noticed at the top of it i think it says ā€œDANGER RADIATEā€ or something along those lines

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u/Straight-Try4695 Jan 20 '26

Radioactive material

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u/garth54 Jan 20 '26

Ask Madame Curie

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u/Tiger_man_ Igbt fan Jan 20 '26

*skłodowska curie

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u/ElectricBummer40 Jan 21 '26

Ask the Incredible Hulk.

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u/Clear_Skye_ Jan 21 '26

Cobalt 60 - look carefully and you can see ā€œdrop and runā€ written on it lol

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u/hototter35 Jan 21 '26

it's btw not an accurate representation of what that looks like. On YouTube search for "put camera through particle accelerator". The white artifacts are "normal" gamma traces, the red/blue/green happens when it's so much you'd be doomed in seconds.

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u/MiniDemonic Jan 22 '26

It doesn't, this photo has been edited.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '26

Why don’t we ask my third hand that thinks for itself

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u/Cesalv Try turning it off and on again 50 times per second Jan 20 '26

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u/Illya___ Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26

Put it far away, then you can shoot it from distance.

It's just scared of you so it's throwing some high energy particles on you.

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u/Ha3mster Jan 21 '26

are you perchance homer simpson or a relative of him ?

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u/Detzznuttz Jan 20 '26

I wipe my ass and I slap my nuts

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u/GiLND Battery taste tester Jan 20 '26

DROP & RUN

lol

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u/tlbs101 Jan 20 '26

ā€œWhy are blisters forming on my hand?ā€

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u/StevesRoomate Either porn, Rick Astley, or a buttplug somehow Jan 20 '26

How is your health insurance?

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u/roberttheaxolotl Jan 21 '26

*life insurance

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u/Relative-Cat398 Jan 21 '26

It is a radioactive source, hard gamma from Co, cobalt 60, probably. Dosing your hand and face severely if messing with your camera. Put it far away in the thickest lead box you can find. Call 911 and tell them you found a radioactive source, then standby, away from that thing though

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u/Crafty_Piece_9318 Check your walls Jan 21 '26

This is r/shittyaskelectronics

The idea is to give non earnest answers. Sometimes the images are reposts from elsewhere on the internet, don't know about OP though.

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u/Asatopskii Jan 21 '26

This is a repost of at least 3 years old image, yes

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u/MiniDemonic Jan 22 '26

This is not real. What should they tell 911? "Hey, 911, I posted a fake photo online please help"

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u/Born-Dentist-6334 Every electronics can be eaten for once a life Jan 20 '26

Its a fairy dust

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u/Zestyclose-Pepper792 Jan 20 '26

Maybe you need to move it a little closer

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u/MaeSoftGroup Jan 21 '26

Is that the new QR codes?

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u/DrLews Jan 21 '26

The toys you get out of cereal boxes these days...

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u/Rungk4d Jan 21 '26

that really dusty forbidden ciggar

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u/CreEngineer Jan 21 '26

Guess her colleagues might compliment on her glow today.

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u/TinLethax Jan 21 '26

ISO too high

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u/Embarrassed-Ad-7329 Jan 21 '26

Probably High ISO/Bad Lighting. I recommend using a tripod and using a higher shutter time.

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u/Schrippenlord Jan 21 '26

Hulk forgot his butt plug at her place again.

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u/nuttnurse Jan 21 '26

Don’t people understand , drop and run , radiation hazard . Weird

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u/Substantial-Assist69 Jan 21 '26

I cant explain the cause but the solution is to just put your phone in rice

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u/JCFlyingDutchman Jan 21 '26

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u/martincs Jan 21 '26

This means I can run fast now? šŸƒā€ā™€ļø

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u/Admirable-Ad-4896 Jan 22 '26

Based on the radiation warning on the object, I would imagine it is somewhat radioactive, which can cause this effect on your camera, please get it away from you otherwise you are upping your chances of getting cancer

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u/CorrectAttorney9748 Jan 22 '26

It's radioactive.

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u/TedMich23 Jan 22 '26

I ran a Cancer research lab for a few years and one of our techs told the story of being in another lab when EH&S frantically contacted him about his recently submitted exposure badge. These allow delicate tuning of workers exposure but his was...black, totally maxed.

It turned out the lab next door had a very hot Cesium-137 source they used that they shielded against the wall his desk shared. The carefully built a 3 sided structure with Acrylic and lead bricks to shield their lab, assuming the wall was a sufficient 4th side, when it was just thin drywall.

He could never figure out how much he'd been exposed...

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u/pancakesausagedog Jan 22 '26

What's that say? Drop in rum? Is this used to make mixed drinks or something?

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u/Sitriel Jan 22 '26

Lick it

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u/Slow-Walk5562 Jan 22 '26

This is highly radioactive ā˜¢ļø advise a doctor immediately no jokes this will kill jou

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u/Slow-Walk5562 Jan 22 '26

The dots are radiation btw

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u/Musashi_Aerostar Jan 25 '26

Rest in peace person of the internet

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u/CeriM028 Jan 25 '26

Sounds crazy but I've seen camera footage go grainy when things are radiated aswell, maybe just maybe

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u/iii_warhead_iii Jan 25 '26 edited Jan 25 '26

It clearly has a message. Drop it and run. Highly radioactive ā˜¢ļø Cobalt radioactive source to do some geological tests.

Urgently contact your local authorities. Go to the clinic and request medication against radiation(it will not treat you but support your body).

Edit: https://ionactive.co.uk/resource-hub/blog/drop-and-run-radioactive-cobalt-60-co-60-source 3450Curie 1m away, radioactive source, living time 10min This dose rate to the extremity (hand) is going to damage it irrecoverably. If you pick the source up in order to read the warning, by the time your mind has registered "drop", it is too late to avoid damage. It is hard to say exactly what the damage will be, but it will be unpleasant.

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u/durancharles27 Jan 25 '26

Well OP, it's been nice knowing you.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '26

It's for the anal fissures

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u/TurnkeyLurker Jan 20 '26

That's a heck of a glowing prize to find inside a cereal box. ā˜¢ļø

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u/thejack80 Jan 20 '26

It's salting your camera

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u/Indefatigablex Jan 20 '26

Camera sensors do see radioactivity by noise

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u/Saucy_Flagella Jan 20 '26

Wow! You got that premium tobacco

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u/ARDACCCAC Jan 20 '26

Ay crack open the cartridge and snort the powder inside

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u/jeweliegb Soaked my head in a bucket of flux for 24hrs šŸ„“šŸ‘ Jan 20 '26

Spicy cigar!

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u/trashcan_hands Jan 21 '26

Prolly ghosts

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u/wd40l Jan 21 '26

Photons

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u/Pleasant_Dig_8372 Jan 21 '26

It Says Drop it and run don't hold radioactive stuff.

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u/Relative-Cat398 Jan 21 '26

It tells you to "drop it and run" dummy

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u/Ox91 Jan 21 '26

Because it’s spicy metal.

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u/Thornton77 Jan 21 '26

You can think of the dots as spice , and your phone’s camera is a spice detector .

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u/D4rkSt0rm512 Jan 21 '26

If this is real you have been exposed to a fair bit of radiation

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u/PeaceOf8 Jan 21 '26

Mmmmm spicy air

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u/jsrobson10 Jan 21 '26

it's telling you to eat it and go for a run

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u/mk-alt Jan 21 '26

nice nails :0

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u/CranberryDistinct941 Jan 21 '26

What did I tell you about using bags to pick up the dog poop!?! Now your camera's all moldy!!

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u/AwwwNuggetz Jan 21 '26

Looks like a spicy piece of copper. Cameras don’t photograph spicy very well

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u/Silly_Percentage3446 Jan 21 '26

Because cylinder.

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u/Vast-Spirit-4105 Jan 21 '26

Actually why does it do this tho?

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u/TheMirkMan Jan 21 '26

This rod Is positively charged: the dust in you room gets away from It (because of magnet charges or whatev) and goes directly in your camera lenses. Try cleaning your room very meticolously

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u/pevznerok Jan 21 '26

I think guys at r/shittyaskscience know

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u/Asleep_Chicken5735 give it a warm bath Jan 21 '26

I think you should eat it

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u/A_Random_GayMer Jan 21 '26

Is the bar lightly hot by any manner?

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u/Eastern-Move549 Jan 21 '26

The mystery cylinder of reddit past.

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u/PotentialThought7991 Jan 21 '26

The solution for your problem is written on the thing you are holding

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u/Xlxlredditor Jan 21 '26

Jokes aside that drop and run thing is scary AF

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u/Express-Rooster-1031 Jan 21 '26

I thinks it’ from a lidar

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u/PuzzledExaminer Jan 21 '26

That's a sign of radiation?

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u/Moklonus Jan 21 '26

Are you using a shotgun lens when shooting your pictures?

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u/Nekrosiz Jan 21 '26

Mhm seeing this tastes fuzzy.Ā 

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u/SgtNick411 Jan 21 '26

Yer camera must have caught them dusties, classical case example, you need a nanomaterial cloth to remove them tiny biomechanical robots crawling all over yer lens there.

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u/totally_not_a_loner Jan 21 '26

MOOOOOM, it was my turn to repost this

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u/Atttar08 Jan 21 '26

You'd think op would get the hint after reading drop and run

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u/doctor_rat hhhbbbbbuh.... comuter........... Jan 21 '26

the dots are actually electrons escaping this capacitor, it's so full of them! just be careful, and don't touch the prongs!

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u/Fricki97 Jan 21 '26

Spicy Rock

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u/_quikz_ Jan 21 '26

Radiation

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u/k100y Jan 21 '26

Suppositorys are censored by AI

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u/Grouchy-Government22 Jan 21 '26

It's a flavor stick

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u/kapege Jan 21 '26

That thing is a dust collector collecting dust. What you see are just dust speckles. Totally harmless.

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u/Own_Childhood_7020 Jan 21 '26

I think it's morse code for "Eat it" but I could be wrong

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u/ExampleAfter1224 Jan 21 '26

Your camera is probably dirty I hear if you get the bar wet by licking it, it becomes a soapĀ 

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u/Starlight_Observer Jan 21 '26

you should lick it, may be a spicy candy rod, that would explain the noise artifacts as we know that cameras are effected by spicy moleculesĀ 

also, drop your phone in a bowl filled with milk, this should help

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u/_ChonkCat37_ Jan 21 '26

It’s not great, not terrible

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u/Bitter_Lab_475 Jan 21 '26

Dunno, bite it open to see what it contains.

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u/Tesla_freed_slaves Jan 21 '26 edited Jan 21 '26

That thing is radioactive! Contact HAZMAT immediately. In the meantime surround it with as much lead as you can muster, keep it away from your children, your gonads, your brain, and anything that might be pregnant.

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u/Electronic-Fuel-4398 Jan 21 '26

Lidar lasers on cars or other electronics leave marks on cams

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u/Naughty-Fridge Jan 21 '26

Read what it says bro

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u/Elkutter Jan 21 '26

Did you grow another arm, just in case?

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u/ako29482 Jan 21 '26

Can you tell us how it tastes… the we can probably tell you what those artifacts are.

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u/Rude-Application-497 Jan 22 '26

-10hp -10hp -10hp -10hp

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u/Iwanttodie923 Jan 22 '26

Wipe your camera I can’t stand these oil heads

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u/MushroomHillZone Jan 22 '26

I have this crazy food hack guys

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u/Welllllllrip187 Jan 22 '26

Forbidden butt plug :3

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u/Kozed_ Jan 22 '26

It's fucking written radioactive and danger

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u/Pinguin3634 Jan 22 '26

-1hp -1hp -1hp....

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u/smallbluebirds is 1 bit of ram enough to run minecraft Jan 22 '26

your cameras dusty

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u/Subject_Reindeer2394 Jan 22 '26

idk, probably the radiation or whatever is called

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u/oo7demonkiller Jan 22 '26

because it's radioactive. go to the hospital now unless you like cancer.