/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.12745213]

I want Demon Core memes

[Anonymous No.12745224]

denied

[Anonymous No.12745227]

[Anonymous No.12745271]

[Anonymous No.12745293]

[Anonymous No.12745429]

Why did the science ball start shooting out gamma rays?

[Anonymous No.12745442]

>>12745429

Screwdriver slipp

[Anonymous No.12745505]

>>12745429
cuz it was a fan of them

[Anonymous No.12745634]

How discontinuous was the demon core? No contact=No radiation, contact=Full radiation?

[Anonymous No.12745679]

>>12745634
>"Hey anon wanna take a dip in a nuclear pool? We'll be fine as long as we don't touch the rods"

[Anonymous No.12745785]

>>12745213

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[Anonymous No.12746693]

>>12745679
So am i to believe that a 5 micron separation was safe but making contact was assured death? Nobody was being irradiated in all the formerly safe screwdriver experiments?

[Anonymous No.12746720]

>>12746693
It's like the US economy. It used to be fine until 2008 then the USD/Neutrons in circulation started to expand rapidly. In the last microsecond since microsecond 2020 half of the neutrons in circulation was created. In the coming year even more neutrons will be around. Find safety behind some lead or gold.

[Anonymous No.12746801]

imagine dying because some funny blue ball

[Anonymous No.12746837]

What have I missed

[Anonymous No.12746876]

>>12746837
the accident of Los Alamos Laboratory in 1940 and 1950

[Anonymous No.12746886]

>>12746876
Why are there so many memes of it

[Anonymous No.12746895]

because the accident was stupid

[Anonymous No.12746922]

[Anonymous No.12746948]

>>12746895
they fuking did it again tho!

[Anonymous No.12746970]

>>12746720
... did you just compare increasing liquidity to forestall debt defaults to a supercriticality?

[Anonymous No.12747214]

>>12746970
Sounds legit.

[Anonymous No.12747288]

>>12746693
>So am i to believe that a 5 micron separation was safe but making contact was assured death?
No numbnuts.

[Anonymous No.12747291]

>>12746948
Not true. Slotin, the screwdriver guy, was the second.

[Anonymous No.12747315]

>>12746886
Imagine you had a hand grenade, resting gently in a container, perfectly safe to handle unless you drop it.
Now imagine picking it up from the container and resting it on a counter ledge

[Anonymous No.12747355]

>>12747315
>having a grenade with an armed impact fuse sitting on your counter
Obviously you are not a cat owner.

[Anonymous No.12747380]

>>12746895
Seriously how the fuck did it happen
Like shit damn bro what the shit
You dont play with a loaded gun, why play with a loaded demon ball?

[Anonymous No.12747527]

>>12747380
It makes more sense when you realize the "experiment" was actually a stunt these guys were doing to show off how daring they were.

Slotin is the same guy who swam in an operating nuclear reactor at Oak Ridge, instead of waiting one day for the reactor to be shut down first.

[Anonymous No.12747574]

>>12747527
well, to be fair, you can stand over an open water reactor no prob.
but the screwdriver thing? dude got what was coming to him

[Anonymous No.12747582]

>>12747574
>well, to be fair, you can stand over an open water reactor no prob.
He didn't stand over it. He dove six feet down into it, and received a 1 Gy / 100 roentgen dose of radiation.

[Anonymous No.12747584]

[Anonymous No.12747593]

>>12745634
>>12746693
>>12747380
It's not about contact. The round thing above the core is basically a mirror that reflected the core's neutrons back onto itself. The point of the whole thing was to find out the exact moment at which enough neutrons were reflected to start a self-sustaining chain reaction.

[Anonymous No.12747603]

>>12747593
the wiki page said they performed the "experiment" a number of times. i'm not a scientist but I would be surprised if it was really necessary to do something so dangerous more than once or twice.

[Anonymous No.12747609]

>>12747603
also that they would do it in front of an audience. it wasn't about the data after the first couple times.

[Anonymous No.12747619]

>>12745213
cringe
>>12745227
>>12745785
>>12745811
>>12745817
>>12747584
based

[Anonymous No.12747664]

>>12747609
Its honestly pretty lame
Like how small of dicks must they have had to spend their time doing that

[Anonymous No.12747672]

>>12747603
Yeah, not arguing with that. It was totally unnecessary, especially since that was the second time it happened and they already knew the point at which it went critical from the first actual experiment. I'm just replying to the anon who seems to believe that it isn't possible for the core to be safe below a certain point and deadly after it.

[Anonymous No.12747688]

>>12745213
>Wikipedia early life section
Every single time

[Anonymous No.12748030]

These are good. Post more demon core

[Anonymous No.12748063]

>>12747582
100 roentgen? Not good, not bad. Kek.

[Anonymous No.12748064]

>>12747688
Demon core did nothing wrong

[Anonymous No.12748145]

>>12746801
>imagine dying because blue balls

[Anonymous No.12748555]

[Anonymous No.12748584]

Jesus fuck. Who though a screw driver was a safe way to manipulate this thing?

Should have used a something firmly attached and couldn't accidentally move.

[Anonymous No.12748591]

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[Anonymous No.12748602]

[Anonymous No.12748606]

[Anonymous No.12748611]

[Anonymous No.12748640]

[Anonymous No.12748674]

>>12747315

I think the question is, why are there so many memes now? Has there been some tv show about it or something?

[Anonymous No.12748756]

>>12748584
>Jesus fuck. Who though a screw driver was a safe way to manipulate this thing?
Nobody. They did it that way because it was more exciting.

[Anonymous No.12748765]

>>12748674
not many events in human history has this level of high-tech stupid

[Anonymous No.12749117]

[Anonymous No.12749191]

>>12746693
Just one neutron too many reflected and pow right in the bone marrow.

[Anonymous No.12749198]

>>12747603
People who own motor bikes tend to ride them regularly. Danger fetishists needs regular hits or the thrill of skirting death wanes.

[Anonymous No.12749314]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJXwRdbbQ50

[Anonymous No.12749412]

My gramps was probably taking doomer night walks on Tinian while the 509th Composite Group was assembling the bomb.

[Anonymous No.12749413]

>>12745817
isint radiation food for godzilla?

[Anonymous No.12749458]

>>12745293
lmao

[Anonymous No.12749487]

>>12745213
What are this meme from?
Chernobyl?

[Anonymous No.12750024]

>>12749487
No.

[Anonymous No.12750242]

Surely there is a "You are already dead" meme for this.

[Anonymous No.12750338]

>>12750024
Thanks for the information, it helped me very much

[Anonymous No.12750379]

If life were game theory, the demon core is in the core.

[Anonymous No.12750433]

Why do I keep seeing memes about it recently, did Netflix do a shitty show involving it or a documentary or something?

[Anonymous No.12750464]

>>12750338
>>12749487
The memes are based off the real life death of Manhattan Project scientist Louis Slotin. He was a Canadian working in America, not a Russian, and died 26 years before construction on Chernobyl began. He is not mentioned in HBO's 'Chernobyl' miniseries either. He has no connection to Chernobyl at all.

[Anonymous No.12750852]

>>12747619
Gay anime edits are anything but based

[Anonymous No.12750941]

>>12746720
The economy of any society is almost always fine. The only time it's not fine is when manufactured crises are created in order to profit on extreme swings in asset prices and flows into and out of certain areas of the economy

[Anonymous No.12750949]

>>12750464
I think what he's asking is why there's a sudden uptick in interest in nuclear technology and whether it comes from the Netflix Chernobyl show.

[Anonymous No.12750958]

>>12750949
>I think what he's asking is why there's a sudden uptick in interest in nuclear technology and whether it comes from the Netflix Chernobyl show.
Maybe, but that show never mentions Slotin at all, so it's an indirect causation at best. My guess is pic related is a more proximate cause.

[Anonymous No.12750986]

>>12750949
>>12750958
There's an uptick in nuclear interest because the powers that be are now starting to heavily invest in fission and fusion solutions for electricity generation as well as space propulsion. Aside from the yurocucks, they've managed to get progressives to accept that nuclear is the way forward for the bulk of our energy needs.

[Anonymous No.12750995]

>>12750986
>Aside from the yurocucks, they've managed to get progressives to accept that nuclear is the way forward for the bulk of our energy needs.
I guess this hasn't filtered through to my social circles yet. In my social circles, mostly progressives, nuclear is still considered
>"that dangerous retarded nonsense republicans ramble about to distract us from solar and wind"

[Anonymous No.12751018]

>>12750995
Yeah, France and Germany are still dismantling their nuclear plants, but Biden actually supports nuclear and approved some kind of space application for it. Meanwhile, Bill Gates and some other billionaires have been found to be investing in a fusion company.

[Anonymous No.12751041]

>>12751018
congrats, we have sustainable fusion thats cost effective. Now everyone in the know, SHUT UP ABOUT IT, we need to rewire/reinvest/shuffle assets EVERYWHERE FIRST, once done, you may THEN ANNOUNCE IT TO THE WORLD.
Lots of money on shifting ALL fission systems to small/easy to bury and forget systems, new nuclear missiles, and making solar/wind/etc the peasant class power sources.

[Anonymous No.12751124]

>>12751018
Nuclear power plants just aren’t cost effective or scalable. They’re not being abandoned for environmental reasons

[Anonymous No.12751177]

>>12751018
I mean in America. I work in tech, most of my coworkers are progressive west coast americans, and for the most part they all have nothing but derision for nuclear power. And from what I understand, Bill Gates has been funding nuclear projects for years, so I don't think that's anything new.

[Anonymous No.12751181]

>>12751124
Draconian environmental regulation is the reason they aren't economical.

[Anonymous No.12751290]

Was there some show about it on Netflix? Or why are all the epic memers spaming this shit?

[Anonymous No.12751300]

>>12750433
>>12751290
>why are all the epic memers spaming this shit?
Why are you "spamming" this question?

[Anonymous No.12751305]

>>12751018
Bill gates also founded Terra power which plans on building 4th Gen fission power plants

[Anonymous No.12751306]

>>12751300
Why are you a fucking faggot?

[Anonymous No.12751309]

>>12751306
Why are you fixated on netflix being the cause of it? It was probably google's youtube, unless you have any better evidence: >>12750958

[Anonymous No.12751316]

>>12751309
Netflox google youtube whatever zoomer shit makes the 15 year olds here spam memes.

[Anonymous No.12751368]

>>12751316
fyi netflix had nothing to do with chernobyl either, that was HBO.

[Anonymous No.12751379]

>>12751306
>faggot
Why the homophobia?

[Anonymous No.12751396]

>>12751181
I think you mean
>it is only more expensive because you expect it to be safe

Even conservatives won’t permit nuclear waste disposal in their districts

[Anonymous No.12751407]

>>12751396
just throw it allon china
the radiation will prevent more pathogens coming from there

[Anonymous No.12751497]

>>12751407
They’ll just ship it back to us as radiation contaminated manufactured products

[Anonymous No.12752747]

>>12750958
Fucking e-celebs that regurgitate old shit and get millions of views.

[Anonymous No.12753073]

>>12745429
the scientists edged the blue ball to the edge of cumming without letting it cum. the scientists were putting beryilium spheres to touch the science ball and make it shiver with anticipation but accidently closed the spheres making the science ball go over the edge.

[Anonymous No.12753216]

From blue ball to 3 balls in 10 seconds

[Anonymous No.12753238]

So what would've happened if they didn't separate it after it fell?

[Anonymous No.12753241]

>>12753238

[Anonymous No.12753246]

>>12753241
Seriously? That easy?

[Anonymous No.12753249]

>>12753246

[Anonymous No.12753386]

>>12752747
Plainly Difficult is a flagrant wikipedia reciter, though at least he can do it without being obnoxious. Kyle Hill's target demographic seems to be zoomers with ADHD.

[Anonymous No.12753391]

>>12753246
>>12753238
If it were so easy, the rest of the bomb wouldn't need so much effort put into it. It would be a fizzle, not a full proper detonation. The initial surge of energy would blow the assembly apart before it had time to go FULL nuke.

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[Anonymous No.12753564]

>>12753391
it's still gonna explode though, just not fully

[Anonymous No.12753582]

>>12748674
>I think the question is, why are there so many memes now? Has there been some tv show about it or something?
The story's just gotten more popular here lately due to people emphasizing how absurdly ridiculous and stupid the screwdriver "hack" was despite the obvious scientific intelligence of the people involved

Basically the world-leading nuclear physics version of a car mechanic getting under a big car with a jack they fully know to be weak and unreliable and getting crushed under the car after doing it a few times. Or testing a gun you're building by looking into the barrel and pulling the trigger daily without checking to see if it's loaded

[Anonymous No.12754151]

>>12753582
>This here is our 50’ ladder Widowmaker
>”Why is it called that?”
>Well, it was originally designed as a set of stairs to be installed in a house. The people who commissioned the house died before it was finished so we got to keep it. Unfortunately, because it wasn’t designed to be free standing, the bottom isn’t level.
>”Isn’t that dangerous?”
>Yes, in fact, if it fell it would shatter into splinters across the entire room like a Porcupine sneezing, but it’s okay. We use a matchbook to prop up the uneven side.

[Anonymous No.12754205]

[Anonymous No.12756238]

>>12754205
this is great

[Anonymous No.12756309]

>>12754205
Whats up with it, does it really shine blue when closed?

[Anonymous No.12756337]

>>12756309
it's been reported from some criticality accidents that the excursion was accompanied by a blue flash. it's commonly thought that the sudden surge of ionizing radiation ionizes the atmosphere.

[Anonymous No.12756456]

>>12756337
It's called Cherenkov radiation

[Anonymous No.12756472]

>>12756456
But that's in water desu.

[Anonymous No.12756491]

>>12756456
it's not in this case. as >>12756472 points out, in water the speed of light is substantially slower than the particles moving through it, resulting in Cherenkov radiation. in criticality accidents in air it's something else. ionization of air seems the most likely, but some have postulated other causes like possible physiological effects. i guess people haven't cared to investigate further

[Anonymous No.12756497]

>>12745788
Didn't expect to see 現場猫 on /sci/ kek

[Anonymous No.12756500]

>>12756491
Might be some retinal damage that appears as blue light due to gamma radiation and has nothing to do with actual color, at least would be my guess

[Anonymous No.12756501]

>>12756456
Really really unlikely, light already travels 99.9997% of c in air. Even if nuclear reactions created superfast light, it wouldn't be bright enough to be considered a flash. It has to be a tertiary effect like air being ionized or maybe the speed of light is slower in a dense neutron cloud (also doubt, the sun isn't blue). Cracksmoke theory or not, its not directly cherenkov radiation if its even something that happens at all.

But if anyone in this thread would like to reenact the demon core event, that would be epic and I'd love to watch it on youtube.

[Anonymous No.12756516]

>>12747672
If you can imagine being alive back then, and witnessing yourself energy shooting out of what used to be a rock, it would be the most novel god damn thing you have ever fucking witnessed. Yeah people underestimate danger but this happens in all facets of life, constantly.

[Anonymous No.12756518]

>>12747664
>discussion about demon core
>think about dicks
Everytime with you homos

[Anonymous No.12756523]

>>12756501
sure, just lemme call up Y-12 and see if i can get a plutonium sphere on short order. i know a guy

[Anonymous No.12756525]

>>12745817
go back to /k/

[Anonymous No.12756534]

>>12756523
*uranium. plutonium would be glowing red hot

[Anonymous No.12756539]

>>12751124
Nuke power IS scalable.
It's not the power source that require poisoning thousands of niggers in african mines just to have enough lithium.

[Anonymous No.12756547]

>>12748674
First I saw it is from japs on pixiv
You severely overestimate Netflux consumers if you think they'll do this.

[Anonymous No.12756565]

>>12756518
No if I was homo Id think about big dicks, slotins mustve been small, like a little mangina

[Anonymous No.12756583]

[Anonymous No.12756586]

>>12750464
>He was a Canadian working in America
A fucking leaf? But of course.

[Anonymous No.12756596]

The virgin Plutonium-238:
>11.3 Watt/cm^3
>glows a dim red
>has never been used to assassinate anything
The CHAD Polonium-210:
>1330 Watt/cm^3
>glows so blindingly white it vaporizes itself
>deadliest poison known to man
>used with extreme prejudice by the KGB
>all of Putin's critics live in fear of this isotope

[Anonymous No.12756603]

>>12756583
what the actual fuck

[Anonymous No.12756609]

It's a jap meme folks, that's why it's so autistic.

[Anonymous No.12756612]

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[Anonymous No.12756626]

>>12747355
Or he doesn't let his cat roam on his countertops like a filthy lowlife

[Anonymous No.12756630]

>>12748063
Shut up

[Anonymous No.12756645]

>>12756626
Are you going to keep an eye on the cat 24/7? That sounds like 3 or 4 full time jobs to me.

[Anonymous No.12756661]

>>12756645
What? Do you watch your cat to make sure it shits in the litter box as well?

[Anonymous No.12756674]

>>12745271
I LAUGHED

[Anonymous No.12756676]

>>12756661
I don't have a cat because they're disgusting creatures that brainwash their owners using parasites. What I'm saying is, if that anon thinks it would be okay to leave such a sensitive grenade on his counter, he must not own a cat.

[Anonymous No.12756682]

>>12756674
the poor dad got dosed too.

[Anonymous No.12756688]

>>12747380
A young man with a 200 IQ is still a young man

[Anonymous No.12756692]

>>12753582
>pulling the trigger daily without checking to see if it's loaded
There's got to be an amazing history of weapons safety there.

[Anonymous No.12756694]

>>12749412
incredibly based
just think, no matter how small his part was, he helped extinguish the lives of over 350,000 nips

[Anonymous No.12757287]

>>12756523
Pls don't do that, we already have one anon who gassed himself already, I know that some people here are actually insane enough to do that

[Anonymous No.12757329]

>>12756583
saved

[Anonymous No.12757350]

>>12757287
if a senior nun could sneak into Y-12...
it's kinda funny, there's a disc golf course that abuts ORNL. it has a fence with warnings all over it that lay out how the gov't is going to fuck you if you cross the fence. there is also a car trail for patrol. every once and a while you get some stinkin long hair trying to recover their disc that they threw over the fence. i hear a humvee comes to check on you

[Anonymous No.12757682]

>>12756609
I guess they didn't get enough radiation in the 40s

[Anonymous No.12757695]

>>12756609
i guess its a way of coping with getting nuked twice, to laugh at the people who nuked them into being the sissies that they are today.

[Anonymous No.12757707]

>>12756491
>This blue flash or "blue glow" can also be attributed to Cherenkov radiation, if either water is involved in the critical system or when the blue flash is experienced by the human eye.[42] Additionally, if ionizing radiation directly transects the vitreous humor of the eye, Cherenkov radiation can be generated and perceived as a visual blue glow/spark sensation.[44]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticality_accident

[Anonymous No.12757740]

Why has this suddenly become a thing?

[Anonymous No.12757776]

>>12751124
Germany is abandoning them solely because greens screeched after fukushima. And now they have to increase usage of coal plants that were planned to be decommissioned and have to buy electricity from abroad to handle peak usage.

[Anonymous No.12757796]

>>12757740
I'm going with the jewtuber/tiktok theory. do the kids still use reddit these days?

[Anonymous No.12757805]

>>12757695
Why are ameritrannies like this?

[Anonymous No.12757885]

I want meme demon cores.

[Anonymous No.12759146]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZIjbX1gj88&list=LLOT5zh0JAK-CxdSZHqiqVKg&index=290

[Anonymous No.12760810]

Just had this idea, but is there any demon core origami? /co/ would never know

[Anonymous No.12760853]

>>12749314
Nice

[Anonymous No.12761264]

If it exists there is furry art of it, no exception.

[Anonymous No.12761270]

It was evidently a human mistake so why isn't it called the human core?

[Anonymous No.12761290]

>>12745213

[Anonymous No.12761323]

>>12756583
LOL
this is the one

[Anonymous No.12762045]

[Anonymous No.12762093]

>>12745817
Godzilla has endured worse

[Anonymous No.12762191]

>>12751300
The second post wasn't even from me asshole

[> No.12762239]

>>12761270
Because the core itself was involved in many incidents.

[Anonymous No.12762587]

>>12749117
Great concept, lousy photoshop.

[Anonymous No.12762594]

>>12745227
too soon

[Anonymous No.12763349]

>>12756472
Your eyes are water

[Anonymous No.12763381]

>>12753073
this is the best explanation.

[Anonymous No.12763384]

>>12751379
This is 4chan, we celebrate free speech here. Real free speech, not your feminine censorship - you flaming faggot.

[Anonymous No.12763397]

>>12751379
Why not the homophobia?

[Anonymous No.12763399]

>>12745429
What was the screwdriver actually supposed to fucking do?

[Anonymous No.12763418]

>>12763384
>>12763397
newfags lmao

[Anonymous No.12763421]

>>12763418
>pretend to be a faggot
>others assume you are sincerely a faggot
>"haha you're newfags for thinking I'm actually a faggot"
Faggot.

[Anonymous No.12763426]

>>12763399
prevent the beryllium spheres / casing from fully closing but because the screwdriver slipped, it fully closed and thus causing the ball to go blue and emit radiation

[Anonymous No.12763429]

>>12763418

[Anonymous No.12763433]

>>12763418
>defending any form of censorship even ironic

Been here longer than you, cancer

[Anonymous No.12763437]

>>12763418
Go back

[Anonymous No.12763813]

>>12745213
Can someone explain this meme in detail? What is this strange metal orb and why does it glow harder than the CIA niggers on /pol/?

[Anonymous No.12764009]

>>12763813
they poked the science ball with a screwdriver and it released the bad tickle beams, we live in a society

[Anonymous No.12764057]

>>12763813
>The demon core was a spherical 6.2-kilogram (14 lb) subcritical mass of plutonium 89 millimetres (3.5 in) in diameter, manufactured during World War II by the United States nuclear weapon development effort, the Manhattan Project, as a fissile core for an early atomic bomb, that was involved in two criticality accidents, on August 21, 1945, and May 21, 1946. [...] The device briefly went supercritical when it was accidentally placed in supercritical configurations during two separate experiments intended to guarantee the core was indeed close to the critical point. The incidents happened at the Los Alamos Laboratory in 1945 and 1946, resulting in the acute radiation poisoning and subsequent deaths of scientists Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin, respectively. After these incidents the spherical plutonium core was referred to as the "demon core".

> The experimenter needed to maintain a slight separation between the reflector halves in order to stay below criticality. The standard protocol was to use shims between the halves, as allowing them to close completely could result in the instantaneous formation of a critical mass and a lethal power excursion. Under Slotin's own unapproved protocol, the shims were not used and the only thing preventing the closure was the blade of a standard flat-tipped screwdriver manipulated in Slotin's other hand. [...] Enrico Fermi reportedly told Slotin and others they would be "dead within a year" if they continued performing the test in that manner.[12]

>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 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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core

[Anonymous No.12764123]

>>12763421
Im not even the guy who made the post
>>12763437
to?
>>12763433
>claims to be here longer
>doesn't recognize a staple shitpost that gets dropped whenever someone says "faggot"
lol

[Anonymous No.12764125]

>>12764123
You stand out like a sore thumb.

[Anonymous No.12764160]

>>12764123
>Im not even the guy who made the post
Redditors all collapse into a single entity.

[Anonymous No.12764613]

>>12746693
It's the difference between 1 ^ .999 and 1 ^ 1.0001
1 ^ 1.0001 might not seem like alot, but when the period is 1x10-14 secs, the output increases quite quickly

[Anonymous No.12764732]

is thorium a meme

[Anonymous No.12764922]

>>12756609
Why? How is an obscure American nuclear accident a meme in Japan?

[Anonymous No.12764977]

>>12763421
>>12763429
>>12763433
>>12763437
dumb newfags

[Anonymous No.12765084]

>>12764977
see >>12763421

[Anonymous No.12765165]

>>12764922
>obscure
It ended with two bombs dropped on Japan, you know.

[Anonymous No.12765175]

>>12765165
The demon core accidents are minor footnotes in the history of the Manhattan Project.

[Anonymous No.12765204]

>>12748063
faggot

[Anonymous No.12765233]

>>12757805
What? Bombs 1 and 2 weren't enough so you had to Fukushima yourself for old times sake?
Seethe harder Jap.

[Anonymous No.12765395]

>>12757695
I don't think they're laughing at America or even the Manhattan Project in general. All the memes I've seen look like they're laughing at the very premise of having such a cavalier attitude towards something so dangerous, or at most, laughing at Slotin.

And it always is Louis Slotin that is the target of these memes, not Harry Daghlian (it killed two guys in two different incidents, remember?) Why is that? Because Harry Daghlian butterfingered a brick but he wasn't willfully in disregard of safety procedures when it happened. His death was what you could call a legitimate accident. Louis Slotin though? He was known for idiotic bravado. He was deliberately violating safety procedures to be a showoff, other people told him this, and told him that he'd die if he kept doing it. He kept doing it anyway. His screwdriver stunt was incredibly moronic, which is why the screwdriver stunt specifically is the subject of these memes.

>>12746922
underrated post

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>>12745505
You should have posted Skrewdriver.

[Anonymous No.12765899]

>>12747688
Canadians?

[Anonymous No.12765904]

The first incident was funnier. Dude dropped a tungsten brick on an atomic bomb

[Anonymous No.12765910]

>>12748674
It's because people think they're so smart that they know about it. It's like a IRL rick and morty joke, something smug individuals think they're smart for knowing the meaning.

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>>12765910
Rick and Morty doesn't have any demon core reference which is how we know it belongs on a lower level of the pseudo-intellectual smug spectrum.

[Anonymous No.12766008]

>>12765165
That happened before this event. The demon core was to be part of the third bomb had Japan not surrendered.

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>>12756534
Pu 238 glows due to decay heat from short half life of 87.7 years. What was used in the experiment was pu 239 which has a half life of 24,110 years, so very little decay heat is produced from it

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>>12756534
Actual retard. So certain of your own knowledge, you neglect to use the tools available to you to look up the facts. You should kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.12768024]

>>12756501
>>Really really unlikely, light already travels 99.9997% of c in air.
The blue flash observed by witnesses of these criticality incidents (also observed during the Tokaimura accident) is most likely Cherenkov radiation, but not in the air. It's most likely Cherenkov radiation in the vitreous body inside their eyeballs. A dose of radiation so hard, it fills their eyeballs with that blue glow.

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>>12768024
>>12756501
>Experimentally Observed Cherenkov Light Generation in the Eye During Radiotherapy
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7161418/

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>>12745213
so what would have happened if the handlers failed to quickly remove the reflective materials during these experiments? would it be a 'melt down' situation or an actual explosion?

[Anonymous No.12770095]

>the guys who wrote the physics textbook tell you not to use a screwdriver
>ignore them

[Anonymous No.12770164]

>LMFAO
youtube.com/watch?v=hh89h8FxNhQ

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>>12745505
didn't the demon core emit primarily neutron radiation?

[Anonymous No.12770248]

>>12770189
Yes, neutrino particles and such

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>>12770164
lmao that's pretty shit. the real slotin wasn't so afraid and nervous about what he was doing, otherwise he'd not have been doing it. and this video tries take blame away from him even more with the dumb dropped cup gag.

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>>12748030
dis good

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>>12748030
james may would have the right tool tho

[Anonymous No.12771110]

>>12756500
Cherenkov radiation, but inside your eyeballs.

[Anonymous No.12771112]

>>12756586
A russian jew on top on that.

[Anonymous No.12771120]

>>12770085
>>12770085
Most likely heat up, melt, and spread out as liquid through gaps, stopping the reaction.

You would have a nice puddle and steam of highly toxic and radioactive material.

[Anonymous No.12771940]

https://youtu.be/Od_RTVirPCo
https://youtu.be/uNZnfbl_Z7M

[Anonymous No.12771991]

reddit thread

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>>12771120
Since the building won’t have any particular shielding it would probably cook everyone in the building and start a lot of fires

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>>12771991
>any thread that doesn’t have low-iq autists flaming eachother is a reddit thread
Can’t 4chan have a comfy thread from time to time?

[Anonymous No.12772193]

>>12772184
no! posting amusing things is reddit!

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>>12770164
"Everyone should be okay except me."

The others died because of it too just not immediately afterward.

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>>12772184
People here are blatant redditors.
Many of these memes are straight from there and the people here post like redditors too.
I don't actually mind the thread I just felt like pointing it out.

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>>12772229
Ironic that reddit now creates better OC than the chan because its been overrun by boomer facebook newfags.

[Anonymous No.12772524]

>>12746922
Kekarino

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>>12764613
>1 ^ 1.0001
>1 ^ .999

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>>12746693
No, 16 pounds of plutonium isn't safe to be around, period. It naturally releases alpha and beta particles, neutrons and xrays. Prolonged exposure to 16 pounds of it regularly and under protected will make you die really early. Just being exposed to it once from less than 10ft away for a few minutes is dangerous for long term health.

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>>12765175
Well that's painfully subjective

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>>12747380
They didn't know it was the demon ball at that time.

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>>12763399
Essentially maintaining the neutron economy internal to the core itself buy using the screw drive to adjust the height of the reflector cap. The Beryllium cap was used as a neutron reflector and the scientists calculated the exact height that the cap can be elevated without causing the core to go critical ,meaning a sustained nuclear reaction.

Therefore , once the screwdriver ( that was maintaining the core just before criticality)slipped, resulted in causing a fission chain reaction releasing an immense amount of energy and radiation.

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>>12767986
Underrated

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>>12772998
No it isn't.

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>>12756456
Haha gatoraade
*SLUUUUUUUUUURRPPPP*

[Anonymous No.12774200]

>>12745213
Oh man fuckin kek

[Anonymous No.12774209]

>>12747582
They really walked the walk back then

[Anonymous No.12775308]

>>12774170
Kys

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>>12773546
But they did

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>>12775440
No, only after Slotin's stupidity was it named the demon core.
Had it been named so earlier, would Slotin maybe have used more caution in his experiments

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>>12756547
>netflix adaptation
>makes Louis Slottin Lois Slottin

[Anonymous No.12777874]

>>12745213
Hi /sci/ curious retard here. Why didn't they do this in some large pool and wearing diving suits or some shit?

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>>12756583
Oh shit. SUGOI!!!

[Anonymous No.12778381]

If shit hits the fan the water won't help much, and it will get in the way of fixing the problem.

Also having to get into scuba gear, make waterproof equipment, record data underwater, and then account for changes to the experiment because you're underwater makes science hard to do. What Slotin did was dumb, but doing experiments underwater so that the water shields you from radiation is also dumb.

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>>12775456
Slotin's party trick was called tickling the dragon, therefore we can conclude the device was the dragon ball before it got renamed to demon core. Had it been renamed earlier, he'd be tickling the demon.

[Anonymous No.12779017]

Why the fuck would you even make a demon core it has no practicle use

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>>12779017
It was going to be used in the 3rd bomb dropped on Tokyo if the Japanese didn't surrender. But they did, so the core was studied instead because weapons grade plutonium was especially hard to make back then.

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>>12751379 >>12763397
Homeomorph-phobia

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>>12745213
What the fuck, can you seriously create a nuclear bomb just from touching some blocks of metal together?

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>>12756456
Those pipes look like knees

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>>12779017
scientists like to do things like this because it gives them a power trip
they thought the bomb might even ignite the atmosphere and kill us all, didnt stop them. Scientists must be stopped

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>>12745213
https://discord.gg/eJv6S9QJ9a

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>>12779257
Little Boy was exactly that.

2 sub critical masses of uranium. Slapped together with a tungsten shell to reflect neutrons.

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>>12761264
why are the dragon furry designs always so intricate
none of the other furries do it

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>>12777874
that isn't a fun party trick

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>>12746693
> what is a chain reaction
> what is a threshold
unironically kill yourself you intellectual failure

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>>12767986
What is the girl in the back holding? Why is she have a wind-up key?

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>>12778381
retard

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>>12761264
>furry thinks the ball was blue to start with
further proof, as though more were needed, that retards should not be allowed on the internet.

[Anonymous No.12781560]

>mfw I have a genuine fascination about atomic energy, fission, fusion, different ways to use them to produce energy in different situations, experimental reactors etc... but I don't want to google or research too much about this subject because I don't want glowies to monitor me and see the weird shit I jack off to
it's a special kind of hell

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>>12781560
I have very nice hazel green eyes. Only the best people have the best green eyes.

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>>12781560
nobody gives a shit about you reading about nuclear energy. why do normalfags think the feds give a shit about this? without nuclear material you can't make a bomb.

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>>12781723
the feds combed cody’s lab’s house after he made a youtube tutorial on refining uranium, I’m pretty sure they care a lot about proliferation of knowledge on nuclear energy

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>>12782307
The feds care about you acquiring and refining nuclear material. They don't give a shit about you reading some wikipedia pages about nuclear energy. Codyslab was raided for the materials he acquired, not the information he read.

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>>12753386
I tend to enjoy Plainly Difficult, I've only watched one of Kyle Hill's videos and it was obnoxious as fuck

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>>12745213
I love how this one dude's experiment was so mindbogglingly retarded that people are STILL making fun of him 70 years after his death.

[Anonymous No.12785706]

>>12785632
its all the so.ybois in their science fields jealous that they will never be as much of a chad as him

[Anonymous No.12785724]

>>12745213
man oh man

[Anonymous No.12785740]

>>12756309
look up cherenkov radiation

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>>12785598
Same. Kyle Hill is way too "reddit/rick and morty"

[Anonymous No.12786357]

>>12771110
Sounds scary. Imagine seeing blue light but it's not because radiation is in water somewhere but because radiation is in water in your own eyes

[Anonymous No.12786363]

>>12786357
Imagine being a distance away, but still close enough to see the blue flash in everybody's eyes.

[Anonymous No.12786367]

>>12786363
as if they were possessed by a demon or something...
wait

[Anonymous No.12786531]

>>12765910
what's it like being incapable of having fun, you boring contrarian?

[Anonymous No.12787586]

>>12786531
>if somebody doesn't like my favorite cartoon that means they are incapable of having fun
grow up