re: #25 goddamnedfrank

Exactly, generally the only way to shield sensors from “seeing” higher level wavelengths than they are optimally designed to detect is via the properties of the optics and filters placed in front, and gamma is an absolute motherfucker that pretty much just punches through everything. This is why almost all practical and semi-affordable thermal wavelength sensors are based on micro-bolometers positioned behind germanium metalloid lenses, which have a curious “window” in the thermal range but become conveniently opaque in what we call “optical” (ie detectable by the human eye), near IR (not detectable by humans by not quite “thermal”) and UV frequencies.

Gamma rays = Asshole fotons = Assholeons?