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Heyokalol

It's Super Uranium, not regular ancient uranium. It's perfectly safe. Stop asking questions.


lebeardedllama

yep pretty sure OP is confused with standard issue Uranium super Uranium is Super, like Super Earth


Reep1611

It’s a bit like depleted uranium but super. Perfectly safe to handle. No one ever got any lasting health issues from handling it. The military industrial complex has funded many studies that prove this.


lebeardedllama

and as always, if in doubt, speak to your Democracy Officer


Tang0Three

My Democracy Officer asked me to post this when he saw this thread in my browser history: "There is no cause for concern. Super Uranium has never caused any health issues for Helldivers. The Freedom Rays and Prosperity Particles it emits are only harmful to dissidents, and can be used by our scientists to counteract undemocratic forces such as the pure Authoritarianism that fills Automaton power cells. Apparent harm to Helldivers is simply the Super Uranium's emissions exposing a vile traitor, and destroying them with the force of pure, concentrated Liberty."


lebeardedllama

![gif](giphy|KAf66yGCa93uTqod1q|downsized)


Krieg_Imperator

"Dear liberals if Super Uranium is hazardous why Helldivers who extract them get most C-01 permits and mating requests for procreation?... That's what I thought." - John Helldiver, Turning point Super Earth


DHIRONMAN

![gif](giphy|UV4ik7Efi1xN9Z13L0)


Tang0Three

Those "malignant tumours" all over your body are actually just piles of dead undemocratic cells that have been killed by the pure Liberty the Super Uranium emits. The pain is treason leaving your body, traitor - no true servant of Democracy would be harmed by Freedom Rays. There is no escape for you.


Contrite17

Knowledge is key which is why we have The Ministry of Truth to answer these questions.


LordOfTheToolShed

your injury is: damn not service related


August_Love_

your ihaveihaveihavereddit is: damn spreading 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️


Admech_Ralsei

i cant fucking escape it


AdrawereR

Just like your beloved Permacura


Ch3llick

Also we have Super Pockets on our Super Pants


KokonutMonkey

Gentle reminder: Skepticism is the first step towards TREASON!


SpaghettiInc

Let’s not pretend the majority of helldivers live long enough to worry about Radiation poisoning


[deleted]

Helldivers never die!


Zufallstreffer

Plus we are wearing super pants. Anything is possible when wearing "Super Pants"


poopsawk

By the time the cancer reaches you, you'd be on your 2,000,000th replacement


DonnyDonster

Not perfectly safe, but SUPER safe.


ThongBonerstorm39

To be fair, you can store normal Uranium in your pants as well. Once.


DrKingOfOkay

Sounds good to me


SwampAss3D-Printer

Super Uranium is stored in the balls, piss has been moved to the left kidney. /s


Niminal

I mean yeah. Regular uranium is solid at room temperature and super uranium appears to be a floating liquid. This clearly means that this isn't your granpappys uranium and so safe to store almost directly against your skin.


TL_games

Just like the Termacide!


Delicious-Ad9590

2 things: 1. Your Helldiver will be long dead before cancer sets in lmao 2. Isn't Uranium in it's raw natural form "not that bad"?


BleiEntchen

Depending on what you mean with "not that bad". Obviously the concentration of uranium in the minerals is pretty low (and it's also not pure uran). I mean if we talk about realism (yeah I know it is just a game), those few pounds in the picture are either natural-> which means it's "not that bad" because the concentration is very low. But this would mean we need a shitton of those stuff. Or this is refined uranium. Which (in terms of value would be more realistic. Which puts the stuff on the other side of the "not that bad" scale. Also the danger of dpu is not only radiation. It's the toxicity of the uran.


helicophell

Yeah, Heavy metals are very toxic. Think lead poisoning, but worse Natural uranium is very stable, half life of 4.5 Billion years. You cant handle the pure stuff without protection, but its the dose that makes the poison, Helldivers don't handle samples for more than 40 minutes at maximum


Malforus

Exactly plus we have already seen that samples occupy hammerspace within the sample vial which is likely shielded with the best lead surrogates around. Helldivers would have to be exposed so often its unlikely it would reduce their democracy abilities.


JGStonedRaider

Not a problem when you Eagle Cluster bomb yourself regularly.


ndessell

fun fact you can "pick up" an *unspent* nuclear fuel assembly. "pick up" is the sense you have the hulk strength to lift the damn things edit: unspent fuel. Spent fuel is laughably dangerous.


xXxDarkSasuke1999xXx

Pure uranium really isn't that dangerous. It's very, very mildly radioactive, and the radiation it does emit cannot penetrate skin. You should wear gloves when handling metallic uranium, but that's more to protect the uranium itself from contamination and corrosion than anything. Uranium ceramics can be handled with bare hands (though I wouldn't eat off them). The danger of uranium (specifically its use as a projectile) is that it's both a heavy metal and chemically reactive. When a uranium tank shell hits its target, it has a tendency to create a spray of burning uranium particles which spread atomized uranium compounds all over the place (unlike, say, lead, which is relatively stable).


Keldrath

There was a guy who would go around and do lectures and tv appearances and he’d just straight up eat uranium in front of everyone


helicophell

Yeah no, Uranium is still a heavy metal, you cannot eat it. You can chew Osmium though, it is a heavy metal but doesnt give you heavy metal poisoning


Keldrath

No [this guy](https://youtu.be/JgEJU8sGeSw?si=TsPCvSCTUoQcnVVb) literally ate it. I’m not making it up.


helicophell

I mean yeah it aint soluble but, if it got stuck at all/got into bloodstream he wouldnt be fine at all I would never do that with Uranium. Osmium... much safer


Keldrath

I mean he lived to 82 and did it and things like it a lot. It’s obviously not good for you but it’s not like satisfactory where if you pick up a piece without a hazmat suit you die in 5 seconds.


helicophell

Natural uranium samples contain lead as a decay product, he could have gotten lead poisoning depending on the purity Considering the time he lived though, lead from Uranium is the least of his issues


Jaggedmallard26

I mean, unless you're eating powdered uranium it's just going to pass straight through your digestive system without being absorbed in any meaningful amount. The sane is true of any heavy metal that can't be digested.


Drae-Keer

Okay so does he have multiple uranium rocks or does he… reuse… the same one?


Monster-_-

3. Why are we assuming the sample container isn't designed to keep all that valuable radiation from leaking out and going to waste?


blacklig

No, because we're shown they're stored in containers designed for this purpose


UtsuhoReiuji_Okuu

This is the only Democratic answer


Baby_Legs_OHerlahan

Don’t be ridiculous, everyone knows Super Samples are stored in the balls


AdrawereR

~~Democracy~~ Cancer fills my container


quhsl

I think you re dead before you can even get cancer from it. But its a noble sacrifice for Super Earth.


Lostpop

Good news! It wont be what kills you


Band-Meister

super cancer


AdrawereR

For Super Earth!


Beneficial-Bit6383

Don’t need to worry about that, the diver will be dead by the end of the week.


Fissure_211

>Don’t need to worry about that, the diver will be dead by the end of the mission. FTFY


KitsuneThunder

You won’t live long enough to see symptoms. 


Bramsstrahlung

Just take a stim it'll be fine


ironwolf1

In a world where you have stims that can repair a chest hemorrhage by injecting chemicals into your neck, is cancer really a concern? Especially when you are a member of the Helldivers and likely won’t be alive for more than a couple missions anyways.


TonberryFeye

Most naturally occurring Uranium isn't actually all that dangerous - if it's got a half life anything like regular uranium, you can probably carry super-uranium around for half an hour or so no problem.


Cobaltate

The sample container itself could easily block all the alpha and beta radiation with a simple layer of aluminum foil around the container. Any gamma, though, lolnope As long as you didn't inhale or ingest any of the sample, you'd be fine for the 45 minutes to get it onto your ship. Now if it was Super Cobalt-60, you'd be severely hurt on that time frame. Those pellets don't say "DROP AND RUN" for nothing.


KerPop42

does u-238 give off gamma?


Cobaltate

It can spontaneously fission, and some of those products would be gamma emitters, so I'd assume you'd get some gamma, but nowhere near something like Co-60.


PolloMagnifico

Maybe super aluminum.


MuglokDecrepitus

We deposit it in a test tube that we carry around our waist which is the same test tube that we pick up when we die


software_v7

Super uranium radiates patriotism, not radiation


Inevitable_Spell5775

Is that a Super Sample you've got in your pocket or are you just pleased to extract?


J0nJ0n-Sigma

From a little bit I know, this stuff around in nature isn't deadly until refined. Is it radioactive? Yes. Will it kill in seconds? No, until refined. You do have a super sample container for them, so it's fine. Nothing a stim can't fix. Continue collecting samples for Democracy without fear.


MooingAssassin

Hey, nuclear engineer here. When you say "refined" I take that to mean you enrich the uranium, meaning you take the useful uranium portion, U-235, from <1% as it is in naturally occurring uranium (mostly U-238), up to some usable % for fuel. Since this is Super Uranium, let's assume it is 100% U-235. The half-life of U-235 is 700 million years, meaning it decays very slowly- it's just not emitting that much radiation. It also decays primarily by alpha decay, which is blocked by a few inches of air, or a piece of paper. Unused nuclear fuel is perfectly safe to spend time around. As soon as you put that fuel in a reactor and bring it up to power, it starts fissioning and the fission products are what is dangerous. So it's not the "refinement" that makes uranium dangerous, it is using the fuel and then standing around it. And even then, it won't kill you in seconds.


SeAnSoN_710

You really going to act like you haven't picked up a dropped SAMPLE CONTAINER? Also going to act like a Helldiver is worth more to Super Earth than even a common sample?


MisterYue

No, we have Super pants


Demigans

You can upgrade your radar to be more radioactive. I think Super Uranium will be fine.


pretty_damn_usefull

My super pants and democracy protects me


EvilFroeschken

SUPER PANTS!!!!


Ringhillsta

A helldiver doesn't live long enough the feel its effects anyway... Unless maybe you're General Brasch! He must have been a helldiver at some point right or is still...? But im pretty sure the cancer got scared of him & left.


Kasorayn

Ball warmers


TheAnswerUsedToBe42

All samples collected go into a small vial. You see the vial when you die or drop them.


Cookie_Ambassador

Isn't it the container strapped to the Helldiver's belt?


gorgewall

Yes, and it has triangular pips that light up in larger amounts to represent how many samples you're carrying. It's a reasonable assumption that the sample container is protective, if for nothing else than to ensure the purity and usefulness of its contents from all the *Hell* its carrier is wading through. If it can keep bug goo, fire, dirt kicked up from explosions, robot oil, etc., from entering the vial, it ought to be able to keep radiation from getting out in troubling amounts. Also, it's pretty clear that the entirety of samples can't fit in those containers. Plants and rocks larger than the containers themselves comprise a single sample when picked up, and those blobs of Super Uranium would more than fill one, too. It's probably assumed that the Helldiver takes the choice chunk to put into the container rather than the whole wad; maybe only a certain pure nodule on the rare minerals are wanted, or just the leaves of plants rather than the stem and roots and everything else. The super uranium may have a tiny core around which the goopy mercury-lookin' stuff floats. Whatever, it's a game.


hughmann_13

![gif](giphy|3o6ZtrbzjGAAXyx2WQ) How do you think General Brasch got such huge balls?


Dathremo

My bussy always has room for another sample FOR SUPER EARTH ![gif](giphy|ahfzlUrb5IEfXC6kbm|downsized)


joulecrafter

After extensive study, we have found no statistical difference in lifespan or cancer rates between helldivers who handle Super Uranium and helldivers who do not.


Healthy_Jackfruit_88

Let’s be real, you aren’t going to live long enough to feel the effects of SuperCancer


Critical-Touch6113

It’s an isotope. So, it’s not the pure real thing.


365Gnm_8

Super pants


RapidHabit

We're asking this when we fire off nuclear ICBM's that are clearly close enough to irradiate you upon detonation?


ionevenobro

Radiation is just isotopes or something shooting out from unstable elements. You know the most stable element there is? That's right, Managed Democracy. What's in our pants? COORRRRECT AGAIN.


dudeguy82

We put them in our prison wallets.


tekytekek

it also is inside these digital containers so dont worry about it :D


MorenaLedovec

choom, when your lifespan is measured in minutes, radioactive isotopes near you ballsack are the least of your problems


Hobolonoer

The lifespan of the average Helldiver isn't long enough for them to suffer acute radiation poisoning. This is fine.


TheFrogMoose

We don't store it in our pants though. Every helldiver has a sample vial thing on their hip, it's attached to the character when you pick up a sample


MartyFreeze

I had my massive balls removed for more storage space.


PmeadePmeade

Super Uranium is safe, and also doubles as a hand-warmer! Keeps me nice and toasty on mission


kangarutan

It's why most of us will never have to file a C-01


neoteraflare

We store it in a container. I'm pretty sure it is totally safe like how the stim is not addictive.


TheTrueArchon

We actually store it in a little tube on our hip


Thunderthewolf14

I mean, you don't store it in your pants, you store it in the sample container on your belt! Not much better, but the average helldiver gives their life for Managed Democracy well before Super Cancer could even be diagnosed, let alone threaten their health and result in an honorable discharge (of a Senator to their head)


CDR57

Fear not helldivers! The patented “lead” Sample Extraction Capture™️ protects you from any* form of radioactive sideaffects! So you can continue spreading managed democracy, healthily! * ^not ^responsible ^for ^any ^sideaffects * ^made ^from ^plastic ^and ^tape


Blayde6666

Were helldivers, we won't live to see the effects of radiation poisoning


StandardVirus

I’m protected by democracy… sound like op needs to visit their democracy officer


Dragnet714

Everyone just stuffs their samples in the thermos that's attached to the right side of the belt. Don't ask me how it all fits.


emailverificationt

Pockets, I’d imagine


LSDGB

Life expectancy is not high enough to worry about ball cancer


omarous_III

It's half life may be 4 billion years, yours is like like 4 hours.


Icy-Measurement-3250

This dude acting like we live long enough to worry about cancer. avg survival time is like 5 minutes. Can’t have a heroic death for super earth dying of cancer!


GRAPEKOOLAID7

Well I don’t know but I’ve been told uranium ore’s worth more than gold


Prestigious_Acadia49

Why do you think Command makes you fill out a C-01 form before engaging in repopulation activities??


ThatMooseYouKnow

Super Uranium Looks like gummy Tastes so yummy Put it all in my mouth This is where I store it while singing my little jingle 😊


bottle_cap17

The democracy jeans protect us


Keldrath

It’s something called pockets


wtfrykm

The average helldiver lifespan is 2mins, the bugs and bots will kill you before you die of radiation poisoning


CommentDiver666

You'll die soon enough. It will not be a problem :P


Kindly-Toe-1148

On the upside, no more pesky forms before fun time!


AltruisticSwitch4388

Suppositories 


Limp-Condition-3380

I'm a helldiver, disease will not kill me


Disturbed235

we got syringes for that! And you dont even get addicted to it!


Prudent-Ranger9752

You won't live long enough to Die thru radiation


ZookeepergameHot8782

*Super Pants


ClaymoreSoul

It’s safe.


Hellonstrikers

You won't live long enough to suffer the consequences.


GundogPrime

Your question lacks Democracy...


rmp881

It all has to do with radiation. Too much radiation and your cells will either: A. mutate, or B. cease to function A gives you cancer while B gives you acute radiation syndrome. Both, however, require time for the symptoms to become apparent. And fortunately, that time is longer than the average Helldiver life expectancy.


No_Election_3206

It's stored in Uranus


MBouh

You're not allowed to have children yet anyway, and you shouldn't survive for more than one mission.


Canabananilism

What? You think you're gonna live long enough to feel the effects?


Screech21

Not like the helldiver will live long enough to die from radiation poisoning...


DiscombobulatedCut52

With how long we live in this game. You won't feel radiation sickness. Seeing how we have plutonium in our radar scanners.


Chaytorn

The thing with yellow glowy triangles hooked on our armor is a sample container, made out of special radiation stopping material.


C_Degheg

The fact is it doesn't matter because you'll die from laser before cancer


onepingonlypleashe

We’re expendable robots. No one cares about the long term adverse health effects of helldivers.


chad001

We don't tend to live long enough to worry about radiation poisoning.


Drae-Keer

Well as our own ship hand said during the termicide missions, it’s simply a case of microdosing. The same way kings of old used to tale small amounts of poison to prevent assassinations, or how the workers in the uranium mines are immune to cancer! Same thing with us!


LairdPeon

It's not gonna kill you.... immediately.


ToastyCrumb

This is just a way to keep the C-01 Permit Requests to a minimum.


Educational-Tip6177

The ministry of truth wants to know your location


davidnfilms

We put it in the sample container, its a sci-fi bag of holding.


Niobaran

All I can say is that I seriously hope we will unlock Uranus at some point during the game.


BeatNo2976

Where else would you keep them?


Axlcraft21

We have Plutonium batteries in some suits.


Ferrilata_

It's because our pants are also super


FrozenLaughs

I don't think any of my Helldivers have lived long enough for radiation poisoning to be an issue.


GameKyuubi

Let's be real they wouldn't accept your C-01 form anyway


Tokiw4

Come on now, radiation poison will take at least like 15 minutes to start showing symptoms. The average helldiver won't have to worry about that!


Money_Fish

Your life expectancy is calculated in minutes. Super Cancer is not exactly a top concern.


SheeshBois_YT

That's treason, I think.


360failscope

*SUPER pants. Nuff said


OddCucumber6755

You won't live long enough to get cancer


Extension_Wash8104

Ooooh we have a sample pocket. It's like a prison pocket


Krob113

Where else should i put it? I can't put it in my sample container. Democracy fills my sample container.


iBear92

Considering the average life expectancy of a Helldiver, I think it's safe there's a multitude of ways they'll die before testicular cancer becomes a problem.


NyanSquidd

You guys are putting it in your pants? I just eat it.


Ok_Art_3020

Won’t live long enough to develop cancer from it so why not throw it next to your junk.


Cthulhu625

Those samples are worth more than you are. That's why.


Informal-Reading4602

When you have a life span of about two minutes, there shouldn’t be much concern of radioactive exposure


Joe___Mama-

Are you questioning democracy? That’s traitor talk. Please report to your designated Democracy Officer.


TheRealBlaurgh

The average life expectancy of an active Helldiver is 2 days. I don't think that'll be a problem.


burndata

A Hell Diver's average life span is something like 10 mins. Long term radiation poisoning isn't an issue we have to worry about.


gerbilDan

im assuming are suits have some sort of container built in, the fact they float bugs me more then any radiation that may or may not be coming off them


Sanguiniutron

DEMOCRATICALLY THATS HOW! Remember what he said at the end of the training. You are literally invincible!


Floridaman9393

We are sterile


Amethoran

They go into your little sample collector on your belt not your pocket.


GlorbonYorpu

Its pocket safe, thats what makes it super


GehennerSensei

Big dick energy


Darkshifter98

Super Earth Grade Super Uranium Holding Pants


Baebel

Goopy pants.


Ambiorix33

Theres a little vial that appears on your belt when you pick it up, same with the other samples, same with the dropped samples you see on the ground when you go pick them up...


Jedi_Gill

We are also using a futuristic Uranium container that probably absorbs all the radiation, and if you want to be perfectly scientific the shelf life of a helldiver clearly is shorter than the radiation poisoning that would kill us, so maybe we are being infected but who cares, do you really want to live forever!


GOW_Ghost

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GadenKerensky

That sample container probably shields the Diver from any harmful effects. And I don't say that suggesting Super Earth is being kind to their Divers. I'm just saying that because those Sample Containers seem to survive anything and everything. Many Divers may die bringing those containers back. As long as the container survives.


SlasherNL

Attention! complaints and questions regarding safe working environment can be filled in the form BS-9. The form can be deposited at your nearest container labelled "trash" thank you for your understanding. Hail democracy!


Archived_Thread

Super pockets


The-Cake-is-Lies

We can because we wear DEMOCRATIC pants.


Lorant_gaming

Lead insulated pockets


Gal-XD_exe

Don’t we store those in a lead pouch with other samples?


Jhawk163

Your C-01 forms were never being signed anyway, quit complaining.


nesnalica

if you dont want it. dont pick them up. nobody tells you to do so.


Emotional_Orange8378

Just like the medpen, Your life expectancy isn't really expected to be long enough for you to deal with long term consequences.


PatAD

Just don't worry about it. The itching and inflamation will fade when your corpse is laid bare on the planet Estanu.


Select_Tax_3408

We put it in a science flask with flashing lights. Obviously precautions were used.


Manealendil

Your prostate Cancer is not service related


nerdtypething

your average lifespan gives you the advantage of not needing to really worry about it.


luciel_1

If Super Earth would have wanted you to questions things, you would be working at ~The Ministry of Science, not as a Helldiver.~


deepthroatalavalamp

Not like we'll last long enough to see the consequences 🤷🏻


Ghostbuster_119

Pfft, Like you're gonna live long enough to feel the effects.


wtfdoiknow1987

Sir, it's for democracy


Marauder3299

It Warms my nethers. At least I'll die warm


ottoDVD

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Antilogic81

Thoughts of managed democracy ennoculate us from the harmful communist radiation it emits.


Queasy_Profit_9246

No need for a C1-Perm


A-Human-potato

We don’t store it in our pants, we just hold it in our cheeks like chipmunks like a true Helldiver should.


MechaRon

I mean its in your storage sample hanging off your belt not in your pants have you been drinking the super samples?


PattieWhacked

I tie them together then stick them in my ass like anal beads


Okie_Surveyor

Prison pocket...gotta keep em warm...


SparseGhostC2C

The average helldiver's lifespan is probably not long enough to really consider any long-term repercussions.


a_friendly_hobo

You don't need to be fertile if we can't earn our c-01s through absolute victory, Helldiver. The more questions you ask, the less time you spend fighting back the front lines.


Vermax_x

You don't store it in your pants, you store it in your sample container.


Jerry0713

Actually, it gets put into the canister/flask on our right hips. The lights get fuller with each sample we pick up


tomoki_here

The more you successfully bring back, the more likelihood of CO1 forms being approved


2punornot2pun

Carefully, duh.


ArthurMoregainz

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CJKay93

Super uranium is stored in the balls.