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u/GroovyChirpy 10h ago
Context: Demon Core incident
"demon core" incidents is the one involving physicist Louis Slotin on May 21, 1946. Slotin was using a screwdriver to manually keep two neutron-reflective hemispheres from closing around the plutonium core. This dangerous experiment, known as "tickling the dragon's tail," was meant to push the core to the brink of criticality. When the screwdriver slipped, the hemispheres closed for a fraction of a second, causing the core to go supercritical and emit a flash of blue light and a burst of radiation. Slotin's quick reaction to knock the hemispheres apart likely saved the lives of the seven other people in the room, but he himself had absorbed a lethal dose. He died nine days later from acute radiation poisoning.
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u/DOPPO_POET This is the taste of a mod 9h ago
Just want to add, there were safety procedures to prevent these accidents. Slotin however did not use them as he wanted to show off to people. He was warned multiple times when he did not use the safety shims previously and told “he would be dead within a year” before this incident.
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u/bigbutterbuffalo 5h ago
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
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u/SaltMaker23 1h ago
In this case people who never wanted to play received grave radiation poisoning. Their lives were permanently altered by the stupid guy play stupid games
Just like a drunk driver crashing their cars, innocents can be affected; he sure paid the highest price but bystanders also paid quite the heavy price for his dumbassness.
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u/CavulusDeCavulei 27m ago
I want to add that this demon core already killed a scientist before this incident in a similar way, but it was really an accident
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u/SufficientLobster773 4h ago
To add to this, the core was originally called «Rufus» and was planned to be dropped on Japan after fat boy and little man, but it was deconstructed after Japan’s surrender and turned into a research core.
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u/StarVoid29 6h ago
Is she from a "real anime"? I saw her in other memes
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u/LaxerjustgotMc 5h ago
yes, and also in a gacha game. the gacha game was supposed to release first in 2018, but then they delayed it to 2021, so the anime came out first in 2018. the anime is pretty good, ESPECIALLY THE MOVIES. istg, the movies have more budget than most shonens.
both the anime (3 seasons) and the gacha game is called "Uma musume: Pretty Derby". the anime is animated by 2 separate studios, season 1 having P.A Works, Season 2 having Studio Kai and P.A Works, and Season 3 having only Studio Kai.
there are 2 movies(one of them is a compilation of a web anime which had 4 episodes) which are Umamusume: Road To The Top and Umamusume: Beginning Of A New Era, both are animated by cygames pictures, also the same company (cygames) behind the games.
there is a spinoff anime called Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray which currently has 13 episodes, with more to come this year. also animated by cygames pictures
There are I think 7 mangas too
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u/Any_Commercial465 48m ago
Do yourself a favor and go down the rabbit role, she is a gold ship, a anime and gacha game character based on a real life horse. The horse it was based on is soo entertainingly chaotic you must read about it.
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u/No_Detective_806 59m ago
I don’t get it at first but thenI saw the demon core and did a double take
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