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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Fun fact: there’s enough calories in a single gram of plutonium to sustain a person for 10,000,000 years.

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• Thief@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨8⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  This could be a cool song title: ‘And the post said plutonium pucks, could taste like orange crush’.

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• kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Lol it looks like that because it’s glowing from heat (probably heat it is producing through radioactivity) it looks like pretty much any metal, just like uranium. Uranium compounds are super pretty though, plutonium probably too if anyone was nuts enough to make dyes with it.

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  • BussyCat@lemmy.world ⁨24⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Pu 239 which is the kind that we use the most since it’s the most fissile has a half-life of around 25k years and alpha decays so its very unlikely that it is heat from radioactivity. It may be heat from forging.

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• expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  if it looks that hot, fission is pretty active and a lot of particles coming your way

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  • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My Shad is where all my generation comes from. /s

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    • expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      more like the future generation

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    • edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I typically get My Generation from The Who

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  • dellish@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ahhh water. Blocks alpha particles. Disables magnets. Is there anything this wondrous liquid can’t do?

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    • janus2@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      be easily compressed

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    • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It can dissolve a lot of things too

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    • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If you reverse a magnet it makes water more west

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  • fullsquare@awful.systems ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    this is how 238Pu ceramic pellets for space probe generators look like, no fission required just alpha decay. If it was fission, it wouldn’t need to glow like this entire time because you can just turn it off

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    • gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well, either you can turn it off or you’re about a microsecond away from being vaporized.

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  • CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Doesn’t this contaminate the water?

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    • expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      my comment is oversimplified and partly joke, but nuclear power plants use mostly uranium fuel pellets, which are inserted in metal fuel rods and these into another metal container called fuel assemblies, before the are inserted into the water pool, so fual and water dont touch each other, and the vapor cycle is a closed system

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• kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Image

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• BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  People have tasted it, they all seem to claim accidentally, the key report is that it tastes ‘metallic’.

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    And jet fuel melts steel beams.

    Y’all, it’s fucking delicious. Like Simply Orange hate-fucked Tang and the baby was adopted by a loving lesbian couple, Starburst and Skittles. Smith.

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  • dellish@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Fun fact: hang around a strong enough radioactive source and you get the metallic taste WITHOUT even having to touch it. You just get the taste for free!

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    • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Scientists don’t want you knowing this one trick!

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    • eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Don’t tell CrossFit people about radiogenic hemorrhage or they’ll start fetishizing it.

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  • pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    🤯

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  • Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Forget tasted it, some people just flat out ate it, such as Galen Winsor

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I want to know what lifting it is like. Say just a beer can of volume. Depleted uranium is freaky dense!

  Math may be off:

  7kg

  15.4lbs.

  Freaky!

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• thefluffiest@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why would we never know? What’s a little sacrifice for science?

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• Septimaeus@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Oh look, ti proseccos

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• Gork@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The fillet on the top makes it look delectable.

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• culpritus@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  TIL you cook plutonium in cast iron skillets

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• Septimaeus@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  disagree that any method too hard for beginners

  I’m with you and mostly agree with the approach. You’re right that there’s power in expectation,

  There is, however, a small asterisk WRT young male identities due to how they’re socialized in our time, where there’s a kind of boy-to-man collective attestation that (literally just other, usually older men) must recognize, sufficiently justify in some way, then acknowledge as valid, in order for a boy to obtain acceptance as a man. My NB stripes mostly spared me from all that awkwardness, but I have a lot of second-hand familiarity with it.

  Anyway the social importance of that collective male acceptance is the reason experienced men are expected to take some care to ensure their various rites of passage, however Byzantine, are ultimately reasonable and surmountable.

  For example, teaching yourself OG straight razor technique first is these days considered legit hard core by most. (I’ve practiced enough to manage it mostly now, but still haven’t figured out the wrist action over sharper mandibles so I always resort to a series of planes around the jawline moving the skin away from the sharp angle.)

  Safety razors are great, economical in the long run. I just recommended the modern high tech solution because it gets them past the finish line, or through this rite of passage, immediately and without more injury. They can put their signature on it later.

  Re: scifi hair removal, no first hand knowledge but trans partner definitely swears by the lasers for the ongoing convenience. She says she’s lucky for how dark her hair is but for her it’s basically the vellus hairs you described. She uses a commercial razor brand that has a massive soap slick surrounding the blades on the head and always bests my shaving time even when I use my fast 3-blade, so I take it those lasers really are a help.

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• JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s not what Back to the Future taught me

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