Okay, so you know how in sci-fi movies where scientists are worried about radiation, they wave a little handheld thing that makes ticking sounds?
That's a geiger counter. They're used to measure radiation, and they're named after this scientist called Hans Geiger that helped develop the Geiger–Müller tube -- um, one of the components that's used in them.
[A pause.]
History-slash-science joke. I was going for -- yeah.
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[Now he feels like a jerk.]
Okay, so you know how in sci-fi movies where scientists are worried about radiation, they wave a little handheld thing that makes ticking sounds?
That's a geiger counter. They're used to measure radiation, and they're named after this scientist called Hans Geiger that helped develop the Geiger–Müller tube -- um, one of the components that's used in them.
[A pause.]
History-slash-science joke. I was going for -- yeah.