Re[2]: rad outreach programs

[forrere@ccmail.orst.edu]

          The Cutie Pie was standard Star Trek prop.  It was used in
          several episodes as a scanner for various reasons.  A very
          good 50/60ish B movie is either "Dr. Cyclops" or "The Island
          of Dr. Cyclops".  It involves a mad scientist experimenting
          on animals with a device he built which concentrates the
          radioactive power of a pit of nearly pure Uranium.  Seems
          the way he uses it shrinks living tissue.  Of course our
          heroes who get stranded on his island are subjected to the
          ray.  One memorable scene shows two of the characters next
          to a radiation detector which consisted of two foil strips
          in a glass bulb.  One character pulls out a baseball size
          chunk of rock from his pocket.  When he puts it next to the
          detector the foil strips fly straight out.  He tells his
          partner that they will be rich because the rock is almost
          pure Uranium.  Bad flick but should give anyone in the field
          a chuckle.

          Gene Forrer