Duzzy Funlop posted:

This one looks like the footage from the 700kt A-bomb the Brits were hoping would exceed a megaton in order to dupe the public that they already had the H-bomb, when they hadn't.
They were scrambling to produce enough tritium, but in their haste, they hosed up their nuclear facility at Windscale.

Speaking of Windscale, this is the hilarious setup of that plant.



"That's right. Let's just ramrod fuel elements in aluminum-finned casings through a giant air-cooled graphite core and have them drop into a little water basin on the other side?
No, we don't need air filters for the giant chimney. What? Some douchebag is making us install huge filters anyway? Let's call the filters something that mocks his name then, boy will he feel stupid when the graphite core never catches fire.
We need to convert fuel quicker? gently caress it, let's just make the casing of the fuel elements thinner so they get hotter, what could possibly go wrong.
What's that? Elements got stuck and caught fire? Turn up the fan, we'll just blow the fire out.
Okay, so turning up the fan made the fire spread, let's douse it in water, blazing uranium/aluminium really likes water."

Wikkheiser posted:

lol Peter King is a dumbass. I wonder if anyone in the IRA ever told him about its affiliation with the political left and the PLO.

New York Times posted:

Macon Hawkins of Kosciusko, Tex., an employee of a pipe-laying company, is a hostage of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta.

DoktorLoken posted:

Blanks will still kill you dead or severely injure you at close range.

zoux posted: