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In case you've never heard of it, the Goiânia accident was a great study in what morons will do with nuclear materials if they ever get a hold of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident
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Nocheez posted:In case you've never heard of it, the Goiânia accident was a great study in what morons will do with nuclear materials if they ever get a hold of it: The only morons were the people who left it there.
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Jun 22, 2017 18:07
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Jerry Cotton posted:The only morons were the people who left it there.
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Jun 22, 2017 18:17
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quote:Four months before the theft, on May 4, 1987, Saura Taniguti, then director of Ipasgo, the institute of insurance for civil servants, used police force to prevent one of the owners of IGR, Carlos Figueiredo Bezerril, from removing the objects that were left behind.[6] Figueiredo then warned the president of Ipasgo, Lício Teixeira Borges, that he should take responsibility "for what would happen with the caesium bomb".[6] This annoyed me: they said 'please let us remove this hazard' - got stopped by a court order and then got fined for not removing it.
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Jun 22, 2017 18:24
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Lifestyle blogger Rebecca Burger killed by exploding whipped cream dispenserThe Independent posted:A lifestyle blogger has been killed by an exploding whipped cream dispenser. https://www.instagram.com/p/BVkpNCiDIn4/ Apparently these things are no joke: BBC: Exploding cream dispenser kills French fitness blogger BBC posted:A whipped cream dispenser works by injecting gas into a metal container, keeping the entire dispenser under high pressure.
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Jun 22, 2017 18:41
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Jerry Cotton posted:The only morons were the people who left it there. actually the moron was the security guard who ditched his job to go watch Herbie Goes Bananas
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Jun 22, 2017 18:50
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Holy poo poo. I use one of these all the time at work. How many N2O chargers are these people putting into them that they're exploding?
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Jun 22, 2017 19:17
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I think this is one that specifically was recalled
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Jun 22, 2017 19:18
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I like that they mention it's recalled but don't say who made it so people at home can check if they have a potential bomb waiting to go off. I use them all the time at work too, but I always make sure that it is put together properly and I don't try to cram as many cartridges into it as I can. Some times it takes two charges to get a good consistency coming out of it and even that makes me nervous.
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Jun 22, 2017 19:26
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So Math posted:I guess the actual set-up was deemed too unrealistic for the movie. I just noticed how close dude's crotch is to that assembly 
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Jun 22, 2017 19:26
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Thumposaurus posted:I like that they mention it's recalled but don't say who made it so people at home can check if they have a potential bomb waiting to go off. I have never put more than 1 charge in at a time, I am sure you can take a guess why.
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Jun 22, 2017 19:28
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Cause you're a coward
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spog posted:This annoyed me: they said 'please let us remove this hazard' - got stopped by a court order and then got fined for not removing it. See also: Love Canal. "Sell us this property." "No, we've buried a lot of stuff there, in full accord with existing laws." "Sell us this property so we can build homes and schools on it." "What? No way. There's a lot of toxic poo poo buried there. Here, we'll show you where." "Sell us this property or we'll condemn it and seize it via eminent domain." "Sigh. Okay. We'll sell it to you for a buck. But if you build homes and schools on it, that's not our fault." "Great, thanks." (Some time passes.) "Okay, we took the property you sold us and built homes and schools on it and broke through the clay burial vault so we could run pipes through it and we used the clay as fill. We're suing you for the cleanup."
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Jun 22, 2017 19:59
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Darkman Fanpage posted:They didn't use it for a bomb. It was supposed to be used in the Operation Crossroads tests but it ended up not being used due to it's radioactivity levels following the criticality accident. It was eventually melted down and used to make other cores. You're right. Maybe I'm confusing it with something else. I could have sworn a core of some sort involved in an accident was used in a bomb and the explosion was slightly larger than predicted.
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Jun 22, 2017 20:32
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There were a lot of tests that were larger than expected for whatever reason, most notably Castle Bravo.
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Jun 22, 2017 20:51
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Phanatic posted:See also: Love Canal. I hate that so much, because it's almost always presented as "This company dumped toxic poo poo in a school area" rather than "they built a school in a toxic waste dump."
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Jun 22, 2017 20:52
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Thumposaurus posted:I like that they mention it's recalled but don't say who made it so people at home can check if they have a potential bomb waiting to go off.
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spog posted:This annoyed me: they said 'please let us remove this hazard' - got stopped by a court order and then got fined for not removing it. Brazil is a terrifyingly corrupt shithole so you know someone was getting kickbacks somewhere along the line.
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Jun 22, 2017 22:38
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Platystemon posted:There were a lot of tests that were larger than expected for whatever reason, most notably Castle Bravo. There is a really cool book about DARPA called The Pentagons Brain (by Annie Jacobson, who also wrote a pretty cool book about Area 51) and near the beginning it talks about the absolute terror the scientists faced when they realized the bomb they were testing was much more powerful than it was projected to be. One of the neat OSHA-y parts is that a senior scientist forgot his special Atom-Proof goggles downstairs and there wasn't enough time for him to go get them (ya know, before the thermonuclear bomb went off) so he took a set off a younger scientist, and the younger scientist turned his back to watch what he could of the show from that angle. "The presence of x-rays made the unseen visible. In the flash of Teller light, Freedman - who was watching the scientists for their reactions - could see their facial bones. In front of me... they were skeletons. Their faces no longer appeared to be human faces, just jawbones and eye sockets. Rows of teeth. Skulls. Inside the bunker, the firing party was silent. They could not feel or see the fireball. All they had to go on was the violent electronic chatter on the equipment racks. O'Keefe, another scientist, had calculated that it would take 45 seconds for the shock wave to travel the nineteen miles from ground zero across the lagoon and hit the bunker. And so when the bunker began to shudder and sway, O'Keefe instantly knew that something unexpected had happened. He recalled: the whole building was moving. Not shaking or or shuddering as it would from the shock wave that had not arrived yet, but a slow, perceptible motion. Like a ships roll. He felt nauseated, completely unable to get it through his head that the building was moving. Objects on the surfaces and walls began to rattle, slide and crash. It was impossible for the shock wave to have reached the island, but the bunker was moving, the motion was unmistakable as it built up. Lights flickered, and the wall began to bulge. Then there was a loud and frightening crash, like a thunderclap, as the giant steel door beat like a drumhead. Then the worst possible element was thrown into the mix: WATER. THERE IS WATER COMING IN. His legs went rubbery - it was too early for a tidal wave, and he began to think that perhaps the entire ocean had erupted around them. Their bunker would now be at the bottom of the lagoon, a watery tomb. Dr. John Clark sent a technician to investigate. The technician found that the bunker was not underwater at all, the water had come from burst pipes. The group then decided to take a look outside, Geiger counters in hand. The situation was worse than anybody could have anticipated. Palm trees were on fire. Dead birds littered the land. There was no visible life, and they sensed that there might not be life anywhere. The sun was blotted out behind the nuclear mushroom cloud. The air was filled with a whitish chaff, O'Keefe recalled. He stuck out his hand, which was soon covered with a substance like talcum powder. When O'Keefe turned on his Geiger counter to check for radiation, the needle spiked. Someone else shouted out a dangerous radiation level. If a human were exposed to this level of radiation for 25 minutes, they would be dead. The men all ran back into the bunker, but inside, behind three-foot concrete walls, there were also life-threatening radiation levels. The group retreaded to a region far back in the bunker, behind a second concrete wall block where the urinals were. They called for an emergency evacuation but were told it was too dangerous to send a helicopter just yet. The bunker was designed with a ten-thousand factor of radiation blocking. Whatever was going inside the bunker, outside it was ten thousand times worse. They were just going to have to wait it out."
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Jun 22, 2017 22:49
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Jesus that had the rising dread of a lovecraft story, but it's real life.
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Jun 22, 2017 23:01
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This seems fine to me.  Platystemon posted:There were a lot of tests that were larger than expected for whatever reason, most notably Castle Bravo. IIRC Castle Bravo was much bigger than anticipated because of an unforeseen nuclear reaction that converts lithium-7, which was expected to be inert, into tritium. Essentially, at the moment of detonation, the bomb transmuted a large chunk of its core "filler" into additional fusion fuel. Whoops. (Wouldn't it be fantastic if the Castle Bravo primary was made from the Demon Core, though?) Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Jun 22, 2017 |
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Raskolnikov38 posted:actually the moron was the security guard who ditched his job to go watch Herbie Goes Bananas No way it's a classic.
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Thumposaurus posted:I use them all the time at work too, but I always make sure that it is put together properly and I don't try to cram as many cartridges into it as I can. I didn't realise anyone actually used these to dispense whipped cream.
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The Lone Badger posted:I didn't realise anyone actually used these to dispense whipped cream. dingdingding someone else finally joined in the fun, that's precisely why I never put more than one cartridge in!
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Jun 23, 2017 01:35
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They've got all kinds of uses, like making instant green dragon.
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So Math posted:I guess the actual set-up was deemed too unrealistic for the movie. I didn't realize how long people have had to wear those drat picture ID badges. And you can spoof them the same way now as back then. That's a hell of a thing. "Oh no! I'm going to burn to death!" Then BAM! You spasm to death. Very ugly. Bastards.
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Ceiling fan posted:I didn't realize how long people have had to wear those drat picture ID badges. And you can spoof them the same way now as back then. well tbf that photo is from what was at the time the most secretive and secure military research installation in the country. I don't think your average factory worker or data processor started having to wear those until much more recently
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Jun 23, 2017 03:32
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drat, RIP dat rear end
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Ceiling fan posted:I didn't realize how long people have had to wear those drat picture ID badges. And you can spoof them the same way now as back then. 
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Jun 23, 2017 03:47
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Oops wrong link
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3juHtXISlcM
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Just curious about the whipped cream dispensers you all are referring to. I'm assuming it's not the ReddiWhip type that you buy in the supermarket? What type of dispenser is it, exactly? Because I've never seen one where you load in the nitrous.
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Jun 23, 2017 09:09
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Where's all that rock and rubble even coming from 
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Gorilla Salad posted:Where's all that rock and rubble even coming from Probably used to be a chimney or smokestack there. Probably came all the way up to where the floating scaffold is. You can see the tarp for when they were sliding rubble off the roof, or maybe the tarp is to cover the hole where the chimney was.
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Zipperelli. posted:Just curious about the whipped cream dispensers you all are referring to. I'm assuming it's not the ReddiWhip type that you buy in the supermarket? What type of dispenser is it, exactly? Because I've never seen one where you load in the nitrous. Supposedly one of these:  The failure mode is apparently that the little CO2 cylinder attachment point fails and it shoots off like a bullet.
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Anta posted:Supposedly one of these: Does that white plastic piece thread onto the metal nipple to puncture the end of the CO2 canister. If so that is dumb as hell design
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