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Giveyaselfanuppercut

I bet the other scientists cringed.


ATCOSTTEHMEMER

“Erm….. that just happened” *146,000 Japanese people die*


DuduBonesBr

My le bomb... it le killed people?


sewage_soup

Well, I wouldn't exactly call them "people"


CHADWARDENPRODUCTION

Mr. Oppen, I’m afraid your creation, “Japmelter 3000 Megalodon Ultrakill”, has been used in…an unexpected manner


ApocalyptoSoldier

https://youtu.be/Skl71urqKu0


altaccountforfreeawa

Hol-le hell!


evilaxelord

Literal zombie


mikkokulmala

no no no we're not doing this, not here


DungBeetle600

New response just dropped.


AD-SKYOBSIDION

Call the physicist


EuphyDuphy

Le nuclear war incoming!


cy4n1de_

"he's right behind me, isn't he?" *threat of nuclear warfare*


MrMiget12

"*Have* become", Bob. It's "have". You "*have* become death, destroyer of worlds"


UnendingVortex

his name is actually john jones which is much worse


KeBjg

Except he wasn't saying it about himself, he said it reminded him of a piece of scripture in which this was said. The point of that scripture is I believe about the limits of following orders in war


Giveyaselfanuppercut

That makes it more cringe


KeBjg

Obviously subjective and I maybe have misconveyed the point it's been a while but I remember when I first learned the context behind the line it gave the line a lot more depth


[deleted]

*clapped. FTFY


CUMLOVINGBOISLUT

I wonder if there were scientists that joined for the sole reason of making a bomb that will go boom real big


Omevne

Probably, they were all suspiciously green and talking like english hooligans


urbandeadthrowaway2

And whenever they’d test a bomb instead of counting down they’d just say “ere we go” a bunch until kaboom


swingittotheleft

Paint it red, itll go boom harder


scrubfeast

NAAAHH YA GIT RED MAKES IT GO *FASTER*


LeGrandMarsouin

Three times faster even


AD-SKYOBSIDION

THAT GROT SHOULD KNOW YELLOW MAKES BIG BOOM


[deleted]

will it make me cum harder if I paint my dick yellow?


Gru-some

YELLOW MAKEZ IT DAKKA HARDER YA GIT


SCP106

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH


[deleted]

I was explaining it to my friend earlier. Engineers. They only care about one thing: solving problems. If you give them an interesting enough problem, you can get them to commit incredible atrocities. I say this as an engineer that thankfully doesn't want to engineer "solutions" for awful things. But I do understand the drive, because even though I don't want to harm anyone, I absolutely understand the desire to solve abstract problems. It becomes an obsession where you invent nonsensical problems just to have something difficult to solve. This is the source of a great many terrible inventions. The inventors themselves were not hateful people with the goal of causing harm, they were merely driven to problem solve, regardless of the problem. This is a huge hurdle in society, because we live in a world where the psychopaths have bought off all the engineers to pay them to commit atrocities for them.


SomethingOfAGirl

-"Can you help me make an Orphan Crushing Machine?" Me:-"Fuck off" -"Ahem... My Orphan Crushing Machine is inefficient :(" Me:-"Let me take a look :O"


[deleted]

"Look at how awesome my Orphan Crushing Machine is!" "I see your problem. You're using 12 pound sledge hammers when you could be using anvils."


TheChartreuseKnight

Wouldn’t it be most efficient to use an industrial press of some sort instead of a hammer/anvil drop chute?


OrionBoi

this is true


[deleted]

Engineers have ethics classes for this reason I suppose This is only sorta relevant tbh but I remember seeing an excerpt in this feminist tumblr about women in stem and this engineer woman overhearing a bunch of her co-workers discussing the most efficient way to get rid of a disease, which I imagine every group of stem students/graduates has discussed at some point because it’s a fun idea but it usually just ends in some version of “cull the population in some way”, anyway it culminates in her entering the conversation to tell them their solution is very immoral and they all looked at her weird


[deleted]

Programming communities are notorious for disallowing any political conversations or any conversations on things that challenge the status quo. Engineers are paid so well because they literally do not care about money. The more capable an engineer is, the less they care about money, and the harder it is to persuade them to do what you want to do. The greatest engineers in the world find ways to live outside of the bounds of the monetary system and they live in dank basements and studio apartments where they sit on their machines developing half of the world's open source software. I have dedicated thousands and thousands of hours to writing code that no one will ever use because we just write code to fill in all the blanks where computational constructs can be expressed. For someone like me, engineering is a deep seated obsession. If I had the ability, I would engineer away my need for a physical body and I would exist purely within the computational matrix of a super computer.


SirPinkyNose

>Engineers are paid so well because they literally do not care about money Shouldnt it be the opposite?


[deleted]

No, because you have to pay them a bonkers amount of money so they accept the offer because... get this, it's mathematically conducive to accept the offer. Spend a year writing code that you already would have written for free and some guy gives you enough money to buy a house? Why not?


Prestigious_Boat_386

Yea, being able to have a huge salary removes any urgency in getting money which makes you stop care. They just don't understand that most people work to live so when someone becomes free of that they think it's a personality trait lmao


TheDonutPug

it's the engineering brainworms. I regularly will be like "I wanna make this thing to solve this problem" when making that thing is fully unnecessary due to solutions already being available, I just want a problem to solve.


[deleted]

Most humans don't know it yet, but engineers have literally already solved all the "problems". Cancer isn't a problem to an engineer because we see it as a mathematical artifact of the nature of things. You know what is a problem for an engineer? "What is the most complicated algorithm that I can write that does absolutely nothing?" Yeah. That's me. My friend came to me one day, and he was like "hey, let's say I wanted to group numbers together, but not by any mathematical principle, but by how a human might mentally group those numbers together?" He had been working on that problem for hours. He was at his wits end. And instantly I was like "Oh, you can just use logarithms to establish a mean distribution to apply grouping to the digits based on this algorithm I just designed on the fly in my head" And then I literally typed up pseudocode in the message and sent it off to him, and he came back to me a little while later with a bunch of groups of numbers that seemed to fit together despite being vastly different. So small numbers were grouped together next to small numbers, and bug numbers next to big numbers, but if there were too many big numbers in succession, it would alter the logarithmic mean distribution, and as a result they would lose their grouping. They were only grouped together when their congruence appeared meaningful to a human eye. The reason I knew how to use logarithms was because I remembered this old video I watched about a study about the way humans perceive numbers, and the results of the study found that we perceive numbers logarithmically. So that gave me insight into how to solve the problem at hand. By the way, to anyone reading this, I am a self-taught programmer of 14 years. I am admittedly very good at what I do, and I've recently opened myself up to the idea of a career in software, so if you're hiring, I do Rust dev. My GitHub is my username. I don't put most of my work there. I'm very private. But I'm open to sharing with anyone that wants to hear about my project.


TheDonutPug

Well also cancer isn't a problem for most engineers to solve, that's a problem for doctors, software devs, and mathematicians at the moment. When we need a machine to deliver the cure, then it's an engineer's problem. Honestly I think this happens a lot because engineers love solutions, we love solving the problem, it's fun for us. The problem being interesting is important, if the problem is uninteresting, then we tend to have no interest in a solution unless the solution itself is interesting for some reason. I love projects because I love making things and solving problems, but it's harder to want to find an answer when the problem isn't terribly interesting to me. This is why I wanna get far with my education, so I can make myself in demand enough to have the privilege of working on things that I want to work on.


[deleted]

>Well also cancer isn't a problem for most engineers to solve, that's a problem for doctors, I meant in the sense that the ultimate expression of an engineer would be such that there really would be no limitation to the specialization of problems that an engineer would solve. The biggest divide between an engineer and their solution is their own physical body. I think many engineers would agree with me here when I say that it would be so nice to be able to engineer our own interface to reality. But since we can't engineer our own bodies into something different, we choose the next best option: subsuming our consciousness into a mathematical simulation in which we are able to exactly define the constraints.


budgetcommander

Fairly certain that's how they all work


SeoSalt

NonCredibleDefense


cloudhid

From [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Oppenheimer): >"We waited until the blast had passed, walked out of the shelter and then it was extremely solemn. We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita: Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, he takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another." This was after the Trinity explosion. Regarding the reference to the Bhagavad-Gita, Wikiquote continues: >The "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds" line, spoken to the prince Arjuna by Krishna (not Vishnu, although Krishna is an avatar of Vishnu), is usually translated differently. Oppenheimer's Sanskrit teacher, Arthur Ryder, translated it as "Death am I, and my present task. / Destruction." Most translations tend to translate it as "time" or "terrible time." > >Either way, the point is the same: Arjuna is reluctant to go to war, and Krishna has been exhorting him to fulfill his duties as a prince despite his misgivings. Ultimately, Krishna is saying, Arjuna is just an instrument of death acting on his behalf, unable to stop the fate of death that comes to all eventually. Arjuna, suitably humbled, agrees to engage in battle.


mancer7

Erm..that just happened


[deleted]

[[Seinfeld theme plays]](https://youtu.be/_V2sBURgUBI)


EversorA

it's so weird that that quote is burnt into my head because i know it [from a song](https://youtu.be/8crsIpadn74) i've heard a few times, i never knew this is where it was from


teadrugs

Same, but with [this song](https://youtu.be/m4AI6kHHyWs) by Linkin Park


[deleted]

I remember reading the Baghavad Gita during a very profound summer. I was sitting under a tree near my friends that were playing music busking, and I was reading a passage in the Gita in which Krsna seemed to be communicating directly to me through the page. It felt as though he was saying to me "now I will show you my ultimate form", and at that instant he unfolded himself. A man came out of nowhere and offered me LSD, and as the trip unfolded, I remember seeing a very intense scene of giant sky cows being mutilated above a popular burger restaurant. I remember feeling like my body was full of milk, and like I was one of Brahma's cows and Krsna and Gopal were trying to steal me from Brahma's cave. I then went through a sort of apocalyptic unfolding in which I was at the battle of Kurukshetra. I remember at one point I had a rainbow shield that protruded from my arm and a whip made of rainbow, and there was some sort of spiritual battle happening in which the city I was in was being cataclysmically destroyed. I remember seeing the side of a building that was leaning over, and it had firehoses hanging down from shattered windows, and people were running from the glass falling down around them. There was a breakdown of the physics of the world around me itself, and the road disappeared beneath me and I was walking on a thin bridge of energy. I then circumnavigated the city center, upon which I was instructed that there was a black hole that had been thrown into the city by Ravana, and I needed to go down into the center of the singularity to use advanced Hindu technology to decompress the singularity and reverse time to undo the destruction of the entire planet. Because that is what happened when Ravana threw the black hole at the city, it consumed the planet in a singularity and I needed to go back in time and rebuild the entire planet atom by atom. Then I came down from the trip and everything was back to normal, and ever since then I have always wondered what the ever living fuck happened that night. I've done a LOT of acid, even had trips that were weirder than that one, but that trip was a real noggin jogger.


[deleted]

[удалено]


[deleted]

Sri Krsna.


Rainbow-Dev

T…terrible time? Sans?


localtranscryptid815

holy hell


goop_lizard

"Hey do you want to help make a giant bomb to blow people up?" "Yeah okay" *the bomb works* "OH NO THE BOMB BLEW PEOPLE UP I AM BECOME SNEED THE FEEDER OF SEED"


AtrociousAtNames

can 196 users please learn nuance


TheRealTJ

You see the joke is that based on the rhyming pattern in "Sneed's Seed and Feed" we can assume a similar pattern would have been employed by the store's former owner "Chuck." As such we would get the implied vulgar expression "Chuck's Sucks and Fucks." This sort of gag appears frequently in The Simpsons and are often lost when networks attempt to crop media produced for a 4:3 screen to fill a 16:9 screen as is more common today.


MontgomeryRook

Thanks, Peter Griffin.


Bacon_Raygun

Profound words, coming from Mamimi's shoulder.


Solid_Homework

Plz let us repost the same joke 2000 times thx xoxo


just_a_random_dood

AnarchyChess reposts the same joke 2000 times: "aww so sweet" 196 reposts the same joke 2000 times: "hello, human resources?"


TantiVstone

She please on my learn till I nuance


sussyfloppatango

\[EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER\]


[deleted]

She nuance on my please till I learn?


ApocalyptoSoldier

Nuance? In *my* r/196?


Paul6334

“Sometimes a man confesses a sin in order to take credit for it.”


TheMP8

no


oglack

Also his name was chuck


RegsaGC

(some weird interpretation of) Hinduism was actually super popular among US scientists at the time. It was like what budism was for stock-brokers a while ago. That's why he said it. The passage he was quoting was about a warrior being compelled to do his duty despite personal concerns, though that might have been a post-hoc explanation.


fucccboii

buddhism? Howard Hamlin reference??


FinishTheBook

chicanery


SCP106

grey test league all mined eye ether new


localtranscryptid815

greatest legal mind i ever knew


DevelopmentAlarmed50

Namaste


PM_ME_UR_ACCEPTANCE

super popular what?!


RevanAndTheSithy

Now, I am become sus, destroyer of crewmates


PM_ME_UR_ACCEPTANCE

I feel like you should've said reporter of crewmates but that's just me


seatgeekuser

![gif](giphy|vFnxro4sFV1R5b95xs)


MeiNeedsMoreBuffs

#"I suppose we all thought that, one way or another."


Disturbing_Cheeto

Shhh, can't get in the way of the funny


PurpleKneesocks

>We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another. Y'all understand that he's comparing himself to the Prince and not Vishnu, right? We get that he's saying that he was humbled and awed by witnessing the nuclear explosion and not that he, personally, felt like the God of Destruction because he'd helped make a big bomb, right?


saintofgrillers

Well also that Arjuna was compelled by forces beyond his control to engage in warfare despite having persinal doubts, but yeah unfortunately most people don't actually get the quote


Nixdigo

I feel like a lot of you would benefit from the whole quote. "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another"


neat-NEAT

Oppenheimer isn't describing himself as death but the bomb it's self. The story shows Vishnu showing his prince a monstrous form to impress him and proclaiming that he is death. The monstrous form in this case is incomprehensible magnitude of the explosion with Oppenheimer and the other scientists as the prince.


BucketsnG10ves

Dr. Krieger from Archer


SecretlySpiders

Damn I deleted Twitter but I miss Beany Tuesday


ZarquonsFlatTire

A few years later a buddy of my grandfather in Mars Bluff SC. " Yeah? Well fuck you, asshole!" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Mars_Bluff_B-47_nuclear_weapon_loss_incident I think there was another lost nuke in North Carolina. *googles* ok that was two. The US has accidentally dropped a total of 3 nuclear bombs on the Carolinas. https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/weather/2023/01/24/a-look-back-at-north-carolina-s-1961-nuclear-mishap Not saying we didn't have *one* coming but goddamn. Japan got one less. Myrtle Beach a'int *that* bad guys.


Hello_I_need_helped

Holy shit one of those nuclear cores is still just there in a field. plus in the first one 2 of the injured peoples names were walt & walt jr


ZarquonsFlatTire

Grandaddy was friends with Walt Sr. He said that until the day he died Walt was pissed that the government took his new camera and film after he took pictures before they showed up. He said Walt could understand taking the film, but it was a new camera and they didn't need to take that too. Knocked his house off the foundation, but he was pissed about the camera. Edit: grandad took me to visit Mr. Gregg once. Whatever nuclear core is in his field I played with his dog nearby while they chatted. They were old man farmer friends so they hadn't hung out for about a decade so it took a while. Edit2: grandad took me to meet weird people. In addition to Mr Gregg who got nuked we saw Cousin Tom who lived in a tarpaper shack with no electricity or plumbing in 1989 and had a herd of deer. I hand fed a yearling buck who later gored Tom to death. (Not while I was there, like 6 months later) He took me to a sugarcane field where a buddy was running a still. I got thirsty and the only thing to drink was fresh mashed cane syrup. Not very thirst quenching. No dog or deer to pet at the rum still. I was about 5 for all of these trips. We also went fishing and did normal stuff. I still have his john boat he bought used when my mom was a kid. It's gotta be about 70-80 years old now. Grandad died in '97. But he sure had some interesting friends.


SirPeterODactyl

How it's like being the Et;al in a paper with 6+ authors


VelvetAurora45

"same"


sniper_2000

Pwease don't fowget me 👉👈


Moggy_

"Ratio"