Ah yes the festooned-with-mold look.

Rice is great if you’re really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.

Maybe, but Slotin knew exactly what kind of dangers he was dealing with. He just chose to be a nuclear cowboy instead.

Early nuclear scientists were batshit crazy deranged lunatics. Louis Slotin was researching the criticality of a plutonium core by lowering half a sphere of beryllium over it using the tip of a screwdriver and not a single piece of safety equipment.

It did not end well.

Oh no. I’d rather take a hammer to the dick.

I’e been out of the loop, what happened?

Trolley solution

TIL about skeuomorphisms

I’ve kinda been feeling like a rotisserie chicken myself lately ngl

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Well, did he win?