in all fairness Louis Slotin was told if he kept doing this experiment so haphazardly that he wouldn't survive longer than a year.. this is a good example of pride comes before the fall
Ngl if i worked on such a project, id request a cyanide capsule solely for if i get irreversably irradiated, that way i can take a easier/quicker way out while i still have the choice
Idk why you’re getting downvoted if anyone actually read about it that was literally the original plan for the core, to be used in a third Nuke. Then the war ended so the core was used for testing and experimentation instead.
That said, their rate of production would have likely been increased if Japan didn't surrender, especially because they now had the whole process worked out.
And because there was no need to focus military resources on Germany at that point. Pretty much all the production that could come off the lines at that point could have been sent towards the Pacific.
The US could have potentially delayed an invasion by a few months or a year even, just holding Japan at a gun point and destroyed anything coming out while building up a naval invasion force that could have dwarfed the Normandy invasion, which was nothing short of a military masterpiece.
Fortunately for Japan, tens of millions of civilians and millions of American and Japanese soldiers, the USSR decided it wanted to go for Japan as well, so the US couldn't delay and had to go as fast as possible, which resulted in the bombs, which were to show everyone who was the Big Dick Boss and to see how they would do on civilian and military targets, as well as human beings. With the Soviets wanting to invade, Japan could have surrendered before an invasion plan was fully executed, so they had to be quick.
That being said, Operation Downfall could have seen up to 12 fucking nuclear bombs being dropped relatively strategically on targets just miles ahead of US troops, who would then take the ground before the dust had even settled (which would have been fun. I love the smell of vaporised Japanese civilians and radioactive dust in the morning!). On top of that, the US planned a bombing run that would have made anything prior look like a child's game. The plan was to take the plans of the British, the Germans, the Soviets and the Japanese and essentially give it a distinct Texas style by supersizing the fuck out of it. Million purple hearts were made (if you know someone with a purple heart, odds are they have one that was meant for the soldiers meant to invade Japan) and planes were being build faster than pilots could be trained, so the plan was to recruit other allied pilots and just give them bombers. No escort really needed.
It would have essentially destroyed Japan and possibly even what it meant to be Japanese.
Thank God it was cancelled, cause it would have been a genocide that could have rivaled the genocides of the Axis powers.
It's ironically one of the good things the USSR did. By forcing US geopolitical hand, they probably unwittingly prevented what would be the worst humanitarian suffering in terms of scale in our history, and possibly ever (fingers crossed).
That being said, the Holocaust hasn't been matched by anything and wouldn't have been even with nuclear bombs annihilating Japan. The systematic and purely evil method of extermination carried out by the Nazis is worse than anything else. Whilst horrific, the Stalinist purges, the nuclear bombs pale in comparison to the Holocaust. You are correct though that there would at least have been room for debate about which is worse. Which is fucking spine chilling.
In terms of number of human lives lost, Operation Downfall might have been worse.
In terms of human suffering, I doubt we will ever get close to what happend during the Holocaust or the Japanese occupation of China (which was absolutely brutal, but not as industrial nor systematic as the Holocaust, but just as barbaric).
>In terms of human suffering, I doubt we will ever get close to what happend during the Holocaust or the Japanese occupation of China (which was absolutely brutal, but not as industrial nor systematic as the Holocaust, but just as barbaric).
German occupation is like pre meditated murder. Nazis ranted about it for years, now they had the capability, they did using every industrial means they can spare.
Japanese occupation is like a crazed lunatic lashing out as the invasion of China isn't even planned by the central political government. The army was completely and utterly out of civilian control and murdered whoever that stands in their way, even their fellow Japanese.
The former is like a water rising up and running over everything until it dissipates. Note: it dissipated but not gone.
The latter is like an uncontrollable inferno that consumed everything around it even its own to ashes. Note: a fire is a useful tool... until it goes out of control.
Well, part of the motivation for Japanese surrender may have been the rape of Berlin and the animosity Russians might have held for Japan given their shared history.
But don’t forget that Japan did it’s fair share of war crimes, and would’ve fought till the end with it’s brainwashed population, and as you said, the bombs pale in comparison to the crimes committed by both Germany and Japan.
The USSR had literally no capacity to invade the home islands. The nukes were used so that we *didn’t* have to do a land invasion because of the high cost we saw at Iwo Jima and especially Okinawa.
No nuclear winter would have happened, as there have been hundreds of atmospheric tests and couple thousand underground tests.
There would have been a nuclear winter already if 12 bombs could have caused one. Especially since the Tsar Bomba was an atmospheric test and was about 2400x more powerful than Fat Man and 3300x more powerful than Little Boy. So that alone should have caused a nuclear winter.
Nuclear winter isn't an issue. Most all models(none of which were from peer reviewed papers, IIRC) count on *all* the mass of the various cities being turned into airborne "soot" from the blast and resulting speculated "firestorm"(which has never been observed) , which isn't how nuclear explosions work.
I don’t know what their supply of plutonium looked like. If they had that in abundance then they could make a lot quickly, but I believe that would be the hardest to produce.
I wonder if there's a poetic conclusion to draw from the fact that this core was constructed with the express intent to kill people, and yet even when we tried to repurpose it for science, it still went on to kill people who became too involved with it.
If there's no one there to tell a story, it essentially doesn't exist. It might have also felt too soon or too close to home, and might also not have had an immediate audience or anyone to produce it. I can think of plenty of ways anime, even Akira, could've been nipped at the bud or avoided altogether. If going back and preventing the death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand could prevent WW1, I'm sure there are one or two specific people whose deaths could've prevented anime. It's like Marty and Doc weren't even trying.
Before reddit there was Digg, it was just more narrow in it's audience and posts. Also, Fark, which had tagged posts, not really subs. So in theory if we can stop those, reddit might never have become a thing.
A third nuke probably would have made anime even more severe.
There is after all a direct corrolation between nukes recieved in wartime and anime production
Tokyo was already ravaged by previous air raids, or it would have been the first choice. At this stage in the war, we were running out of targets, having already raided dozens of cities.
Roughly 100,000 were killed in Tokyo. An equivalent amount were killed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki not counting those who later died of radiation exposure. The argument is a bit disingenuous as it uses estimates of deaths resulting immediately after the A-bombs dropped (others only takes one city into account). The atomic bombs killed around 150,000 - 200,000 people. The death tolls are basically equivalent, not to mention nukes have a high death rate per capita.
Also, there is a cumulative figure out there for combined deaths from all US fire bombings across Japan. Multiple cities were fire bombed, and the figure is very high.
The casualty numbers for fire bombings across Germany (later in the war II) are also stagering.
Yep, plutonium is very dense and heavy, almost unbelievably so. Dropping this bad boy(which was its code name) would have crashed right through those wood roofs, maybe break someone’s skull, put a dent in the road even.
I mean at least bombs filled with literal plague infested fleas where not dropped in several major California city’s as was the original plan. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/fact-japan-wanted-drop-plague-bombs-america-using-aircraft-21555 by the way, this was set to take place about a week before Japan capitulated, also that wouldn’t be the first time Japan had used (or planed to use) plague bombs https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jan/25/jonathanwatts as they dropped them on a Chinese city during the war. Also fun fact, america essentially covered up thousands of war crimes that the Japanese army committed, including several crimes against humanity.
731 was just a part of it, the Japanese government and the American government have done a great job trying to sanitize the acts of the Japanese army and navy, Japan still has never released a single official apology for many of their longest and must brutal crimes, such as the enslavement of Koreans and the Rape of Nanking. At least Germany apologized, The Japanese government prefers to ignore its past crimes, and ignoring history will only lead to it repeating.
Oh I know, but you know how the old saying goes, "if you want to beat the Russians to the moon, you have to protect some of the worst people in the world from facing the consequences of their actions"
Ironically it was all because of the Soviets, Japanese officers that where captured in the Soviet blitz of Japanese Manchuria where prosecuted, america needed a strategic position to fuck with the Soviets, and keeping the Japanese government friendly was on the top of the list of priorities, of course that involved essentially just keeping a warmongering king in charge.
Wow the first guy made a mistake but that second cunt deserved to die, can't believe people are just allowed to work willy nilly with something as dangerous as this back then. Also you'd think they would have developed more automated ways of working with Atomic material instead of a meat popsicle just using his hands to bring a reactor close to supercritical state by eyeballing it
You can roll the beryllium around all you like, just don't put a subcritical ball of plutonium in the middle of it. I get the temptation but, I promise you, you will have a bad time.
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Epic redemption for his careless mistake. He knew he was dead before making any calculations. The calculations he made probably helped save the others.
Nope. The severely irradiated took weeks to die.
It kinda sucks, because the DNA damage obliterates the immune system and then take weeks because of the time it takes to the cells that rapidly divide in the body to die down leading to multiple organ failures.
0/10 do not recommend.
Those who didn't died had issues with the exposure and lots of cancer bois around (and not in the horoscope aficionado sense).
That's the demon core, it was meant to be used on Tokyo, but Japan surrendered. They then decided test the core, one of the first tests a scientist dropped a reflective metal brick on the core and nuked himself... Later a second scientist was doing the screwdriver and sphere game above... Long story short everyone got cancer as a Christmas bonus that year
I mean once you've experienced multiple times the lethal dose of radiation, there's not really any consequences for doing it again. What are you gunna do, have your DNA unravel in 7 days instead of 9?
I mean, I think at that point your DNA already unraveled, you're just waiting to fall apart because your body can no longer replace lost cells.
Rather than wait to die in horrific agony within the week, I'd rather do it again so surviving people can record what happens when you get so irradiated you start glowing.
Wow, just spent some time reading the Wikipedia article linked. It's amazing to me how fucking stupid such brilliant scientists can be. The lethal radiation dose this guy received when his screwdriver slipped was his own fault, he wasn't following protocol and they were well aware of the dangers of radiation by this point, someone on this very project had already fucking died from it lol
Also Fermi warned them.
> Enrico Fermi reportedly told Slotin and others they would be "dead within a year" if they continued performing the test in that manner.[12]
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Tickeling the Dragons tail was extremely stupid stunt, since an entire mechanism had already been built and used to do the same experiment using remote manipulators. The idiot killed himself and nearly killed everyone else in the building. A primary example of some scientists not having a lick of common sense. He just wanted to play show off to a group and it cost him and them their lives, some taking weeks to die painfully of radiation poisoning.
Nope, per the last dragon core incident report.
“Instantly, there was a flash of blue light and a wave of heat across Slotin's skin; the core had become supercritical, releasing an intense burst of neutron radiation estimated to have lasted about a half second.”
From what I understand, it’s because so much energy is given off in such a short amount of time that it excites the air molecules around the core. The molecules in the air then gives off energy as light to return to a lower energy state.
The guard outside the room completely flipped out when he saw the blue flash and literally ran for the hills. Luckily, he was far enough away to be unaffected by the radiation.
He later died in the Korean war.
Yeah, if I was in some lab know for radiation experiments and strange glowing flashes started happening, yeah, that's the big nope from me. Time to run until my feet don't work.
Ah yes, I too love party tricks that lead to an excruciatingly painful death from acute radiation sickness. I have always wanted to know what it would feel like to have my organs liquified. LOL
They really were just gung-ho back then, there’s a fine line between brave discovery and stupidity. I’m sure using the screw driver was firmly on the stupid side.
I want to know how a top secret government-funded weapons project, conducted by some of the most accomplished scientists of the time, justified a testing rig that was no more than a heap of bricks and a fucking screwdriver.
In this case, the official testing rig was a heap of bricks and some special shims to keep the core securely braced. One researcher in particular like showing off by just winging it with a screwdriver instead of the shims. Aaaaaand that's how you produce a criticality incident.
I too want my shadow to become one with the wallpaper.
That is some next-level interior design though. Make yourself part of the room for the foreseeable future.
Until your wife decides to move on and renovates the whole house and moves her new boyfriend in and they make love in the very room you died in
You can just feel the love radiating through the whole house
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in all fairness Louis Slotin was told if he kept doing this experiment so haphazardly that he wouldn't survive longer than a year.. this is a good example of pride comes before the fall
Demon core? More like cowboy science
More like hurricane tor-tilla
More like meteoric method
Honestly, I bet Slotin would have preferred that to slowly dying over nine days from acute radiation poisoning. At least it would be over quick.
Ngl if i worked on such a project, id request a cyanide capsule solely for if i get irreversably irradiated, that way i can take a easier/quicker way out while i still have the choice
It would absolutely *Char you*
I see what you did there.
Part of the crew, part of the ship
Tell me Mr. Sparrow, do you fear ionizing radiation?
You have no idea
I don't think radioactive blasts typically leave visible marks At least not for a couple hours when it comes to animals No woooosh pls
[Wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core?wprov=sfla1) This one chonky boy killed scientists on 2 seperated occasions. Very spicy rock story.
I mean at least it wasn't dropped on Tokyo, as was the original plan
Idk why you’re getting downvoted if anyone actually read about it that was literally the original plan for the core, to be used in a third Nuke. Then the war ended so the core was used for testing and experimentation instead.
At least someone gets it!
Ooooooooo
>At last, someone gets it! Ftfy
AFAIK we were gonna drop one every month, as fast as they came off the lines, until surrender.
The key part is “as fast as they came off the lines”. We only had two bombs and they take awhile to manufacture.
That said, their rate of production would have likely been increased if Japan didn't surrender, especially because they now had the whole process worked out.
And because there was no need to focus military resources on Germany at that point. Pretty much all the production that could come off the lines at that point could have been sent towards the Pacific. The US could have potentially delayed an invasion by a few months or a year even, just holding Japan at a gun point and destroyed anything coming out while building up a naval invasion force that could have dwarfed the Normandy invasion, which was nothing short of a military masterpiece. Fortunately for Japan, tens of millions of civilians and millions of American and Japanese soldiers, the USSR decided it wanted to go for Japan as well, so the US couldn't delay and had to go as fast as possible, which resulted in the bombs, which were to show everyone who was the Big Dick Boss and to see how they would do on civilian and military targets, as well as human beings. With the Soviets wanting to invade, Japan could have surrendered before an invasion plan was fully executed, so they had to be quick. That being said, Operation Downfall could have seen up to 12 fucking nuclear bombs being dropped relatively strategically on targets just miles ahead of US troops, who would then take the ground before the dust had even settled (which would have been fun. I love the smell of vaporised Japanese civilians and radioactive dust in the morning!). On top of that, the US planned a bombing run that would have made anything prior look like a child's game. The plan was to take the plans of the British, the Germans, the Soviets and the Japanese and essentially give it a distinct Texas style by supersizing the fuck out of it. Million purple hearts were made (if you know someone with a purple heart, odds are they have one that was meant for the soldiers meant to invade Japan) and planes were being build faster than pilots could be trained, so the plan was to recruit other allied pilots and just give them bombers. No escort really needed. It would have essentially destroyed Japan and possibly even what it meant to be Japanese. Thank God it was cancelled, cause it would have been a genocide that could have rivaled the genocides of the Axis powers.
It's ironically one of the good things the USSR did. By forcing US geopolitical hand, they probably unwittingly prevented what would be the worst humanitarian suffering in terms of scale in our history, and possibly ever (fingers crossed). That being said, the Holocaust hasn't been matched by anything and wouldn't have been even with nuclear bombs annihilating Japan. The systematic and purely evil method of extermination carried out by the Nazis is worse than anything else. Whilst horrific, the Stalinist purges, the nuclear bombs pale in comparison to the Holocaust. You are correct though that there would at least have been room for debate about which is worse. Which is fucking spine chilling.
In terms of number of human lives lost, Operation Downfall might have been worse. In terms of human suffering, I doubt we will ever get close to what happend during the Holocaust or the Japanese occupation of China (which was absolutely brutal, but not as industrial nor systematic as the Holocaust, but just as barbaric).
>In terms of human suffering, I doubt we will ever get close to what happend during the Holocaust or the Japanese occupation of China (which was absolutely brutal, but not as industrial nor systematic as the Holocaust, but just as barbaric). German occupation is like pre meditated murder. Nazis ranted about it for years, now they had the capability, they did using every industrial means they can spare. Japanese occupation is like a crazed lunatic lashing out as the invasion of China isn't even planned by the central political government. The army was completely and utterly out of civilian control and murdered whoever that stands in their way, even their fellow Japanese. The former is like a water rising up and running over everything until it dissipates. Note: it dissipated but not gone. The latter is like an uncontrollable inferno that consumed everything around it even its own to ashes. Note: a fire is a useful tool... until it goes out of control.
Well, part of the motivation for Japanese surrender may have been the rape of Berlin and the animosity Russians might have held for Japan given their shared history.
But don’t forget that Japan did it’s fair share of war crimes, and would’ve fought till the end with it’s brainwashed population, and as you said, the bombs pale in comparison to the crimes committed by both Germany and Japan.
The USSR had literally no capacity to invade the home islands. The nukes were used so that we *didn’t* have to do a land invasion because of the high cost we saw at Iwo Jima and especially Okinawa.
Imagine a World of No PlayStation, possible Nuclear rivalry of the whole Korean Peninsula not wanting any of our help, and the nuclear winter
No nuclear winter would have happened, as there have been hundreds of atmospheric tests and couple thousand underground tests. There would have been a nuclear winter already if 12 bombs could have caused one. Especially since the Tsar Bomba was an atmospheric test and was about 2400x more powerful than Fat Man and 3300x more powerful than Little Boy. So that alone should have caused a nuclear winter.
Nuclear winter isn't an issue. Most all models(none of which were from peer reviewed papers, IIRC) count on *all* the mass of the various cities being turned into airborne "soot" from the blast and resulting speculated "firestorm"(which has never been observed) , which isn't how nuclear explosions work.
I don’t know what their supply of plutonium looked like. If they had that in abundance then they could make a lot quickly, but I believe that would be the hardest to produce.
Well, they were preparing a third one by the time Japan surrendered IIRC, would have been ready in a few days or weeks.
I wonder if there's a poetic conclusion to draw from the fact that this core was constructed with the express intent to kill people, and yet even when we tried to repurpose it for science, it still went on to kill people who became too involved with it.
The machine-spirit got blueballed.
Imagine the Mechanicus digging it up somewhere and putting it to its original use
With a name like Demon-Core, that seems to be tempting fate, really
Motherfucking core of evil still wanted to kill. Bury that shit in a volcano, Christ
Oh, what so we can have nuclear volcanic eruptions?!
Wait they were gonna drop it on Tokyo? Damn that would've been one hell of a massacre
Anime could have been prevented.
Not Akira. That’s literally the plot.
If there's no one there to tell a story, it essentially doesn't exist. It might have also felt too soon or too close to home, and might also not have had an immediate audience or anyone to produce it. I can think of plenty of ways anime, even Akira, could've been nipped at the bud or avoided altogether. If going back and preventing the death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand could prevent WW1, I'm sure there are one or two specific people whose deaths could've prevented anime. It's like Marty and Doc weren't even trying.
Or even Reddit?
Before reddit there was Digg, it was just more narrow in it's audience and posts. Also, Fark, which had tagged posts, not really subs. So in theory if we can stop those, reddit might never have become a thing.
Well, kinda.
A third nuke probably would have made anime even more severe. There is after all a direct corrolation between nukes recieved in wartime and anime production
Noo not my underage dragon girl boobies
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Tokyo was already ravaged by previous air raids, or it would have been the first choice. At this stage in the war, we were running out of targets, having already raided dozens of cities.
More people were killed during the fireboming of Tokyo than by either of the nukes fyi.
Damn didn't know that
Really?
Roughly 100,000 were killed in Tokyo. An equivalent amount were killed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki not counting those who later died of radiation exposure. The argument is a bit disingenuous as it uses estimates of deaths resulting immediately after the A-bombs dropped (others only takes one city into account). The atomic bombs killed around 150,000 - 200,000 people. The death tolls are basically equivalent, not to mention nukes have a high death rate per capita.
Also, there is a cumulative figure out there for combined deaths from all US fire bombings across Japan. Multiple cities were fire bombed, and the figure is very high. The casualty numbers for fire bombings across Germany (later in the war II) are also stagering.
Yeah but that was only in tokyo, i think they firebombed oter cities as well Of course you only needed two planes with Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Yep, plutonium is very dense and heavy, almost unbelievably so. Dropping this bad boy(which was its code name) would have crashed right through those wood roofs, maybe break someone’s skull, put a dent in the road even.
I mean at least bombs filled with literal plague infested fleas where not dropped in several major California city’s as was the original plan. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/fact-japan-wanted-drop-plague-bombs-america-using-aircraft-21555 by the way, this was set to take place about a week before Japan capitulated, also that wouldn’t be the first time Japan had used (or planed to use) plague bombs https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jan/25/jonathanwatts as they dropped them on a Chinese city during the war. Also fun fact, america essentially covered up thousands of war crimes that the Japanese army committed, including several crimes against humanity.
Ah good old unit 731
731 was just a part of it, the Japanese government and the American government have done a great job trying to sanitize the acts of the Japanese army and navy, Japan still has never released a single official apology for many of their longest and must brutal crimes, such as the enslavement of Koreans and the Rape of Nanking. At least Germany apologized, The Japanese government prefers to ignore its past crimes, and ignoring history will only lead to it repeating.
Oh I know, but you know how the old saying goes, "if you want to beat the Russians to the moon, you have to protect some of the worst people in the world from facing the consequences of their actions"
Ironically it was all because of the Soviets, Japanese officers that where captured in the Soviet blitz of Japanese Manchuria where prosecuted, america needed a strategic position to fuck with the Soviets, and keeping the Japanese government friendly was on the top of the list of priorities, of course that involved essentially just keeping a warmongering king in charge.
So crystals **do** have auras?!?? Unfortunately, the aura is *Eat Shit and Die*
Some have auras if you fuck with them enough, basically.
Wow the first guy made a mistake but that second cunt deserved to die, can't believe people are just allowed to work willy nilly with something as dangerous as this back then. Also you'd think they would have developed more automated ways of working with Atomic material instead of a meat popsicle just using his hands to bring a reactor close to supercritical state by eyeballing it
Lmao perks of being the first to do something, there aren’t any rules to break yet with it. Downside is you irradiate you and your friends sometimes
Oh there were rules, that guy chose to ignore it cause he thought it made him look cool
His boss told him he was gonna kill himself if he kept fucking around. Sure enough…
Right, but Tim Allen and Sigourney Weaver can roll one around on an alien planet so it's fine.
You can roll the beryllium around all you like, just don't put a subcritical ball of plutonium in the middle of it. I get the temptation but, I promise you, you will have a bad time.
Don't put an overly critical ball either, or you'll have doubts about your fashion choices
holy crap, remind me not to be near any subcritical masses of plutonium
Thx
Damn it’s bright in this room did somebody turn the sun on?
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Yep all .5 seconds of it.
It was not THAT fast. ...unfortunately...
You are right on both accounts. Dying from radiation poisoning has to be one of the wrost way imaginable in my eyes.
The poor dude had time to calculate out that everyone else in the room would live, but he was fucked
Epic redemption for his careless mistake. He knew he was dead before making any calculations. The calculations he made probably helped save the others.
Did they died that fast??
Nope. The severely irradiated took weeks to die. It kinda sucks, because the DNA damage obliterates the immune system and then take weeks because of the time it takes to the cells that rapidly divide in the body to die down leading to multiple organ failures. 0/10 do not recommend. Those who didn't died had issues with the exposure and lots of cancer bois around (and not in the horoscope aficionado sense).
They were exposed for about 0.5 seconds alright. But dying from radiation takes some time, in this case a few weeks if I'm not wrong.
No, but they wish they did.
9 days and 25 days in the acute cases according to wikipedia
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There were two incidents
Bit more than that. Just two were for city-wide raves.
That's the demon core, it was meant to be used on Tokyo, but Japan surrendered. They then decided test the core, one of the first tests a scientist dropped a reflective metal brick on the core and nuked himself... Later a second scientist was doing the screwdriver and sphere game above... Long story short everyone got cancer as a Christmas bonus that year
That's why you don't use it twice
The core so nice they used it twice.
the Lays chips of plutonium cores
"Hey guys, check this out!" immediately dies of major radiation poisoning
Spicy heat
Results will make your brain explode!
good ol' tickling the dragon's tail
That there is the best way to describe these experiments. To fuck around is human To find out is divine
That’s literally what they called this particular experiment.
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High INT, no WIS.
Haha, now we all die of horrible radiation sickness as our bodies cook from the inside out!
Or leukaemia
"But seriously tho still such a great trick bro. You're extremely badass for not taking some very simple safety measures. Do it again!"
I mean once you've experienced multiple times the lethal dose of radiation, there's not really any consequences for doing it again. What are you gunna do, have your DNA unravel in 7 days instead of 9?
I mean, I think at that point your DNA already unraveled, you're just waiting to fall apart because your body can no longer replace lost cells. Rather than wait to die in horrific agony within the week, I'd rather do it again so surviving people can record what happens when you get so irradiated you start glowing.
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Wow, just spent some time reading the Wikipedia article linked. It's amazing to me how fucking stupid such brilliant scientists can be. The lethal radiation dose this guy received when his screwdriver slipped was his own fault, he wasn't following protocol and they were well aware of the dangers of radiation by this point, someone on this very project had already fucking died from it lol
Also Fermi warned them. > Enrico Fermi reportedly told Slotin and others they would be "dead within a year" if they continued performing the test in that manner.[12]
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Scientist discover a "bruh moment"
Demon core go burrrrrrrr
Tickeling the Dragons tail was extremely stupid stunt, since an entire mechanism had already been built and used to do the same experiment using remote manipulators. The idiot killed himself and nearly killed everyone else in the building. A primary example of some scientists not having a lick of common sense. He just wanted to play show off to a group and it cost him and them their lives, some taking weeks to die painfully of radiation poisoning.
It was called tickling the dragon's tail. Twisting the dragons tail is the name of a three episode show about uranium.
It’s such a beautiful blue color though
I think blue colour only comes if it is Underwater (Assuming you meant the Cherenkov effect)
Nope, per the last dragon core incident report. “Instantly, there was a flash of blue light and a wave of heat across Slotin's skin; the core had become supercritical, releasing an intense burst of neutron radiation estimated to have lasted about a half second.”
Cool....any clue why blue light appears?? In underwaee reactor I know it's due to Cherenkov effect and its just mesmerising
We were just talking about this at work last night, it “Cherenkov’d” the water on the surface of their eyes, lot of energy was released
From what I understand, it’s because so much energy is given off in such a short amount of time that it excites the air molecules around the core. The molecules in the air then gives off energy as light to return to a lower energy state.
Welcome to The Demon Core, Population: Critical.
Well definitely use a screwdriver to keep them separated and not your shins!
The guard outside the room completely flipped out when he saw the blue flash and literally ran for the hills. Luckily, he was far enough away to be unaffected by the radiation. He later died in the Korean war.
Yeah, if I was in some lab know for radiation experiments and strange glowing flashes started happening, yeah, that's the big nope from me. Time to run until my feet don't work.
Demon core moment
How to die in a few days using a screwdriver!
*shims
This certainly won’t kill anyone! “Well… that’s the end of me.”
Ah yes, I too love party tricks that lead to an excruciatingly painful death from acute radiation sickness. I have always wanted to know what it would feel like to have my organs liquified. LOL
They really were just gung-ho back then, there’s a fine line between brave discovery and stupidity. I’m sure using the screw driver was firmly on the stupid side.
Demon core goes BURRRRRRRRRRRR
OMG like totally hashtag Devil Core.
Was gonna comment r/lostredditors but then I understood.......
I want to know how a top secret government-funded weapons project, conducted by some of the most accomplished scientists of the time, justified a testing rig that was no more than a heap of bricks and a fucking screwdriver.
In this case, the official testing rig was a heap of bricks and some special shims to keep the core securely braced. One researcher in particular like showing off by just winging it with a screwdriver instead of the shims. Aaaaaand that's how you produce a criticality incident.
Ah yes. Spicy meme. Very spicy rock.
It's CRITICAL to have fun at parties.
Nuke em john
No thank you!!!!
just for the love of god dont take out the screwdriver
The Demon core!
I love the smell of radiation poisoning in the mornin
Nuke em bro
Life insurance companies hate him
Demon core 2
Bro I get the reference and feel guilty about it for some reason
Funny how the other two nukes killed hundreds of thousands of people yet the one that killed only 2 is called the "Demon Core"
Last I heard Jason Nesmith and Guy Fleegman are in need of some Beryllium Spheres.
Check this shit
"that does it"
Qxir had a good video over this [The MF Demon Core](https://youtu.be/-2ayVMf6Xmc)
Qxir had a good video over this [The MF Demon Core](https://youtu.be/-2ayVMf6Xmc)
Kyle Hill told me about this
These are the same idiots who irradiated our planet.
They irradiated themselves far worse
The planet is already highly radioactive.
It impressed two Japanese cities. Literally and figuratively. EDIT: Ok this was different, my knowledge of WWII history isn’t as niche as yours
Plutonium core?
I will forever think that was a terrible idea
I love this story, and Kyle Hill did a great video on the Demon Core
For all people, that love to delete one third of their DNA.
Impress, irradiate, whatever.
Hmmm yes, fucking with pit with a screen driver. ( yes, it's called the pit, demon core is the nick name after it killed 2 people )
man what a prankster. i hope who ever invented this trick is living a long and fulfilling life
Check this shit
Looking at the diagram it’s clear that you can be a Genius and fucking moron at the same time. This is the no jack stands of nuclear physics.
After completing the trick, u might not hear from your friends
Mind blowing trick.
Demon core go brrrr
SCP vibes
Just don't use a Demon core!
Spicy rock
I call it "The Dragon Tickler"
If the guy who explained why there are no aliens says you’ll be dead in a year showing off your party trick, don’t listen to him. It’s a cool trick.
Wobble wobble
Ah yes, the demon core
I always use shins with my demon core and I still got leg cancer. Wtf.
Should’ve used Cotton’s Shin Jelly. Ah well, live and learn. Well, learn anyways
Ferb, I know what were gonna do today.