@pinemarten i don’t understand this meme at al. like, the orb thing. the closest i can figure is its related to oppenheimer or something. am i retarded?
@graf@yockeypuck@pinemarten Nuclear safety is fun. I heard from a guy that they have roped off sections in Los Alamos where one side is considered "safe" while the other side is not. That rope hanging in the air magically filters radiation.
@graf Had a booboo fooling around with plutonium bomb core. Google "Demon Core."
On the day of the accident, Slotin's screwdriver slipped outward a fraction of an inch while he was lowering the top reflector, allowing the reflector to fall into place around the core. Instantly, there was a flash of light; the core had become supercritical, releasing an intense burst of neutron radiation, the exposure of which was calculated based on the estimated half second between when the sphere closed to when Slotin removed the top reflector.[6] Slotin quickly twisted his wrist, flipping the top shell to the floor.[15] The position of Slotin's body over the apparatus also shielded the others from much of the neutron radiation, but he received a lethal dose of 1,000 rad (10 Gy) neutron and 114 rad (1.14 Gy) gamma radiation in less than a second and died nine days later from acute radiation poisoning.
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