ByteJunk
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- Comment on Fun new game 2 days ago:
Yes, that’s the second arc.
In the first accident there were no half-spheres, the neutrons were being reflected back using bars of tungsten carbide placed around the exposed core.
Wiki photo from a recreation of the first incident: Image
In the second accident, a year later, the reflective material was the two beryllium half-spheres. Shims were used to ensure the two halves were never fully closed, which would trigger the nuclear chain reaction.
Supposedly, this guy liked to show off and had done this demonstration a dozen times in front of different audiences, wearing jeans and cowboy boots and using his screwdriver instead of the shims.
Some report that Fermi told the guy and others that “they would be dead in a year” if they kept doing that… and voila.
The good thing is that he at least was hunched over the core, so he mostly shielded everyone else in the room from the worst of the radiation by absorbing it himself. 9 days later, he was dead. The guy closest to him was in the hospital for several weeks with severe radiation poisoning, but at least survived but died fairly young, in his 50s, which may or may not have been related…
- Comment on Fun new game 2 days ago:
That was hilarious. Also kinda spooky to think that, if Japan hadn’t surrendered, Demon Core-kun would have been the 3rd nuke dropped over them.
The cartoon only covers the second story arc though, the one with the screwdriver.
In the first arc, the core is “nude” and they’re stacking neutron-reflecting bricks around it to bring it close to criticality. A scientist drops a brick by accident on top of the core and boom, blue light and you’re dead (takes 2 weeks for your body to notice though).
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 3 days ago:
I never understood the fixation on IPs. For a kick ass universe with amazing lore etc, ok sure.
I mean I love Jev and the gang as much as the next guy, but they’re not core to my enjoyment of KSP1. The mechanics were.
- Comment on The havoc is often trigger happy 3 days ago:
That’s because it’s lifted from an actual security flyer, edited for funnies.
The original is probably this: Image
- Comment on The havoc is often trigger happy 3 days ago:
- Consumption of alcoholic beverages will help target selection in target-deprived environments.
- Comment on coping 4 days ago:
You really took the bit between your teeth blaming the lycan there, didn’t you Mr Fox. The lab guys are pulling teeth to get the results, but we’ll soon know who’s bite marks are on that girl who bit the bullet. You wouldn’t be lying through your teeth now would you? Because I’ll sink my teeth into you and bring you down if it’s the last thing I do…
…said some detective with a hyperfixation.
- Comment on Trump administration announces tariffs that may make plenty of tech more expensive from August 1 5 days ago:
Fake news. Remember, TACO.
- Comment on Underpaid regional supermarket workers to receive $5.5m after court settlement 6 days ago:
According to the union, on average, each worker will receive almost $11,000 in back pay. One worker is set to receive more than $145,000.
You won’t believe this, but I found it in the OP’s article. Wild.
- Comment on Time travel doesn't work unless you also have teleportation. If you travel to the past/future, Earth will be in a different position in its orbit, and you'll die in space. 6 days ago:
For science?
- Comment on Time travel doesn't work unless you also have teleportation. If you travel to the past/future, Earth will be in a different position in its orbit, and you'll die in space. 6 days ago:
You’re still thinking in a context where the earth is travelling around the sun, etc etc.
If you assume the Earth as the reference point, then that is fixed, absolutely frozen, doesn’t move at all. That’s point zero.
You cannot calculate where the earth is. What you do is calculate where everything else, the universe itself and even other dimensions, are with regards to your fixed point.
This can feel counterintuitive, but here’s a random visualization: youtube.com/shorts/UZyuZVvCE78
Note that, in that video, only the perspective has changed. The solar system is moving as usual.
- Comment on As of 30 minutes ago at the time of posting, the NYPD has detained two young Black men after they refused to show ID without explanation or cause. 1 week ago:
Well played by these two bros.
Making them waste time and resources with nothing to show for it, plus standing up for those who can’t. Respect.
- Comment on Fart kontrol 1 week ago:
What is that 2 - 12 kmh sign? A speed limit for a pedestrian road?
- Comment on Cow eggs 1 week ago:
And probably made of chocolate? I can see where they might have picked that one up.
- Comment on [US Politics] How much can Mamdani even do as Mayor? Couldn't the NYC City Coucil just block every progressive thing he tries to do? 1 week ago:
You’re not very good at this…
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 2 weeks ago:
The idiot digs deeper, and shows his true colours. Asinine.
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 2 weeks ago:
No. We get exactly what his comment is about.
If he was in the renewables camp, there would be no point, in this discussion over solar, to bring up nuclear. It’s absolutely unrelated.
What he’s doing is pushing the thought into people’s heads that nuclear is a good solution, and that’s why I’m calling him out for. For being a shill.
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 2 weeks ago:
No. I type less.
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 2 weeks ago:
How idiotic.
- Comment on Do I need to make it anymore obvious? 2 weeks ago:
No, I’m on that boat too.
I’ll pick up different songs as I hear them, but my brain after a while defaults to 4 non blonds - what’s up.
I have no idea why, I don’t particularly like the music, I never listened to it much, and still it got imprinted into my brain somehow.
Out of the blue, it just picks up at *And so I wake in the morning and I step outside
And I take a deep breath and I get real high
And I scream from the top of my lungs, “What’s going on?” * - Comment on Pikachew 3 weeks ago:
But are Gyarados edible too? I feel Pokémon terribly neglects the nutritional aspect in the show.
- Comment on Pikachew 3 weeks ago:
HMMMMM Dungeon Meshi.
I mean, surely people have tried to roast Pokémon before. Some of them look real plum and juicy…
- Comment on Very small deal 3 weeks ago:
Are they like one size fits all?
- Comment on RIP Thomas 3 weeks ago:
What other good things in life come in 6-packs, I wonder.
- Comment on Have a look around. Anything that brain of yours can think of can be found... 3 weeks ago:
There’s no need to panic, this isn’t a test
Just nod or shake your head and we’ll do the rest… - Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 3 weeks ago:
I feel like this is a very “scientisty” thing - the theoretical aspect is so fascinating and being able to fit all the pieces into a model that is mathematically accurate is the reward.
Considering the practical application of the model and how it can benefit society (or in other words, be marketed for profit) takes a different set of skills.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 4 weeks ago:
You celebrated 50 years together two years ago… Such a heartwarming story!
- Comment on CEOs Are Creating AI Copies of Themselves That Are Spouting Braindead Hallucinations to Their Confused Underlings 4 weeks ago:
Exactly my question. More often than not, I’d wager on AI making the right call instead of the arrogant, power tripping blabbering dimwit who got to CEO because he’s got absolutely no scruples or morals and absolutely zero shame and will sacrifice anything for his goal of hoarding more wealth.
It probably has less hallucinations.
- Comment on ICE thugs pounced on a man right there in the courthouse, mere minutes after his immigration case was dismissed 5 weeks ago:
Holy shit. Goon squads. They don’t even identify themselves??
Imagine a hypothetical scenario where a group of random citizens gang up on an ICE agent during their Sunday stroll and handcuff them, and throw them off a bridge somewhere, handcuffs still on.
How would a sheriff know that they aren’t ICE agents themselves? Or are we going by skin colour?
- Comment on Correct Grindr Response 5 weeks ago:
Good thing that was the giveaway, and not the “nice dick” edit, because I’d like to point out that it’s perfectly normal to compliment an acquaintance’s dick or give it a suck.
- Comment on Banana tonight 5 weeks ago:
@The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world undercover?
