And I don’t care if you don’t get it. I get it.

    • @[email protected]
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      558 months ago

      Demon Core. It was meant to be part of a third nuclear bomb to be dropped on Japan, but after their surrender, the core was used in two experiments which both killed several people via exposure to lethal doses of radiation.

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        8 months ago

        My favourite thing about that story remains that even if everything had gone to plan and he hadn’t fully dropped the second half , it would still just be a couple of dudes with PhDs only slightly irradiating their own junk.

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          178 months ago

          My favourite part from reading it then is:

          Enrico Fermi reportedly told Slotin and others they would be “dead within a year” if they continued performing the test in that manner.

          Slotin died.

        • Midnight Wolf
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          38 months ago

          A third testicle is sexy, okay? Though maybe not on the head…

    • @kernelle
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      28 months ago

      It’s becoming a meme because every creator who has anything to do with nuclear or tragedy has covered the demon core.