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asciilifeform: meanwhile in chance finds of vintage lulz. ( de-pdfized of the engl. text. ) ( and see also . )
asciilifeform: i dun consider slotin et al to be shining examples to follow, but will also point out , that errybody dies eventually, and personally would rather chance to eat 100kV than to die of boredom sitting in a chair kanzure-style.
mircea_popescu: you telling me slotin was a sort of curie jr, had "no idea what could occur" ?
a111: Logged on 2018-09-11 01:22 asciilifeform: incidentally much noise was made re the elaborate calculations of early nukes, but good chunk of the design params ~also~ only were accessible empirically. hence the slotin incident.
asciilifeform: !#s slotin
asciilifeform: incidentally much noise was made re the elaborate calculations of early nukes, but good chunk of the design params ~also~ only were accessible empirically. hence the slotin incident.
asciilifeform: '...they gathered eight rods painstakingly crafted out of plutonium, and positioned them side-by-side on a table to photograph how nice they looked.' << lol! slotin spins in his lead coffin
asciilifeform: slotin holding them hemispheres apart with cock.
mircea_popescu: phf i thought it was gonna be slotin and his beryllium hemisphere
wilbns: didn't write about it, but was thinking about Louis Slotin for example - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin - who accidentally irradiated himself when doing nuclear research
BingoBoingo: Waiting untile they can have a SLotin moment?
BingoBoingo: My favorite part of the Slotin story is Man makes mistake. Man pays for mistake.
BingoBoingo: My favorite is Slotin, the Incredible Hulk.
BingoBoingo: Why did Dr. Banner become the Hulk, yet Dr. Slotin the closest thing the Hulk has to an opposite?