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:

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…

Nobody should be barred from posting their art online, even if it’s abysmal, as long as it’s actually theirs.

Here’s my 15 second, god awful taco:

How will they exploit their position for profit though? Selling policy to the highest bidder like a regular corrupt politician? Pff have some class will you…

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).

I never understood the fixation on IPs. For a kick ass universe with amazing lore etc, ok sure.

I mean I love Jeb and the gang as much as the next guy, but they’re not core to my enjoyment of KSP1. The mechanics were.

This guy HRs.

Ah I missed that, sorry. But that’s hilarious, I can imagine the Republican-level mental gymnastics that many democrats are now required to pull off so they can still support Cuomo.

I think you’re right and that is how the word is most often used, but at least merriam-webster gives a broader definition, as the “practices or pretensions of a quack”, which it then says is the same as a charlatan, so I guess it would be acceptable. I’m not a native speaker, however… :)

That’s because it’s lifted from an actual security flyer, edited for funnies.

The original is probably this:

6. Consumption of alcoholic beverages will help target selection in target-deprived environments.

I hate the term “pseudo-science”. Call it what it is: quackery.

By this point, the world is like that, eagerly watching if the guy can upset such a corrupt, biased system.

So he will definitely be the democratic nominee, right? And now he’s going against a republican in the general election? When is it?

This is my partner, minus the goth (her thing was hip-hop).

I wonder just how many times people on the spectrum were looked at as “Fae”.

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.

Grownup me thinks that very, very badass and wants to be P2

The perk of growing up is, sometimes, being able to have the childish things you’ve always wanted.

The downside is that you rarely have time to play with them.

A tragedy, really.

This is the work of dementia.

Push comes to shove, you don’t need to buy a new car, or a new PC or a new smartphone. Even new clothes, or specific foods, you can do without any of those by replacing them or buying 2nd hand or just not having them.

Medicine is not the same. You cannot afford to “not buy it”, in most cases, without severe or even fatal consequences, so tariffs are absolutely useless.

Prices will just get shifted to the end user, as they always are. It’s especially egregious when it comes to medication because the prices are already hyperinflated and there’re closely orchestrated monopolies that prevent price competition.

Good thing TACO.

For science?

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: https://youtube.com/shorts/UZyuZVvCE78

Note that, in that video, only the perspective has changed. The solar system is moving as usual.

Are you perhaps experiencing a fever, discomfort or itching at the bite site, and a sudden and inexplicable fear of water?

Because it’s been a hot minute since I’ve seen such a nonsensical, aggressive response to an innocuous comment…