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No justice, no peace.

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Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • sad_detective_man@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    roll for initiative, ducky

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  • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You see duck with a demon core, i see duck is frying stuff in its wok.

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    • memfree@beehaw.org ⁨57⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I see a duck demanding peas. Tasty rolly green peas.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      NO DUCKIE DON’T FRY YOUR YOUNG IN THERE I KNOW WHAT KIND OF DUCK YOU ARE

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  • pentastarm@piefed.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Untitled Demon Core game when?

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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  • Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    After reading the wiki, this is sort of macabre:

    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. Slotin received a lethal dose of 1,000 rad (10 Gy) neutron and 114 rad (1.14 Gy) gamma radiation in less than a second, while the position of Slotin’s body over the apparatus shielded the others from much of the neutron radiation. Slotin died nine days later from acute radiation poisoning.

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    • Patches@ttrpg.network ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But why he no wear lead suit?

      Given that it had already tasted human blood.

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      • zout@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Why not use the shims designed for this instead of the tip of a screwdriver?

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      • janus2@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        a lead suit would have done fuckall in that situation
        the amount of lead you can feasibly wear on your body can protect you from, say, dental X-rays, but not from research FAFO-grade gamma radiation

        you need several inches of lead and/or tungsten for that kind of shielding. you might also need several feet of concrete if neutron radiation is involved

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  • redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ducking demon core.

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  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You know, something I always wondered was what would have happened if the core was allowed to stay in Prompt Critical configuration?

    The design provided the extreme rate of fission at T=0, which in a bomb is when it gets compressed (the density increases). But that density is relatively uniform, the demon core didn’t change properties.

    Normally I’d suspect it would just melt, but since it was in a neutron reflector, it should increase the rate of fission as T>0. Hence the chain reaction.

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ask the goddamn Russians.

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      • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Jeez. Talk about an area denial weapon. That’s horrifying. Just massive deadly glowing sphere of doom that’s both too energetic and not energetic enough to stop the chain reaction. That’s incredible.

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      • TheRealKuni@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Fuuuuuuuck yes, a playlist to binge.

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      • Camille@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Thank you so much, this series looks awesome, I can’t wait to binge it

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