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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

A longer stick would be preferable

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago

It wouldn't be a doomsday weapon if it didn't also kill the wielder.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

A few miles longer, just to be safe.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Demon Core flail

18 blunt damage 65 radiant damage over time No saving throw

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Eh 65 is survivable. We're looking at more like 650.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The folks exposed died a few days after. So it wasn't instant. Very slow and horrible probably as all their organs and cells died at a molecular level and skin fell off.

So damage over time and can not be healed. Would be accurate.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Slotin knew he fucked up as soon as it happened too. Apparently, he would always use a screwdriver to hold the thing open and was warned multiple times he was gonna kill himself. He did use himself as a human shield, though (not sure if it was deliberate or just happenstance), and ended up being the only fatality in that incident, iirc.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In fairness, several others in the room died years-to-decades later of leukemias that were arguably attributable to their exposures. That said, the Slotin criticality accident is one of those cases where nuclear disasters end up being both completely horrifying and a lot less deadly than you think they ought to be.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

So about 1d8 con damage instantly then 1d2 con daily.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

1d65 radiant damage per day in perpetuity

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

18 blunt, 65 radiant damage, 6 constitution damage, continuous 1 constitution damage per day.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Demon Core. It was meant to be part of a third nuclear bomb to be dropped on Japan, but after their surrender, the core was used in two experiments which both killed several people via exposure to lethal doses of radiation.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

It was used in hundreds of experiments, two of which killed the respective operator and injured others.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

2nd guy was asking for it. Poor, dumb, bastard.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

My favourite thing about that story remains that even if everything had gone to plan and he hadn't fully dropped the second half , it would still just be a couple of dudes with PhDs only slightly irradiating their own junk.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

My favourite part from reading it then is:

Enrico Fermi reportedly told Slotin and others they would be "dead within a year" if they continued performing the test in that manner.

Slotin died.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

A third testicle is sexy, okay? Though maybe not on the head...

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The first time this thing killed someone was because they dropped a brick on it. The second time this thing killed someone was because they were fuckin around with it using a screwdriver

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Bro watch this"

[everyone in the room dies horribly over the course of several days]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

"just a prank bro"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Didn't they all have to stay in the same hospital room/area too? You'd be getting grilled for that till you die

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah reading the Wikipedia article, the drop is unfortunate but the screwdriver bit, what a fucking moron. And he regularly did this while others observed, like fuck me if you're going to be a dumbass, be a dumbass by yourself, dumbass.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Oh, for sure, the screwdriver was a "hold my beer" moment. The brick, though, I gotta disagree. While it was an unfortunate accident, we knew enough about radiation at that point to know even tiny accidents could delete you. Playing Legos around something I know could kill me in an attempt to ease it to the point of maybe almost killing me just sounds like a slightly better thought out way of asking someone to hold my beer

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bartender, I'll have a screwdriver.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

My hands feel weird...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Good thing I’m always carrying a screwdriver

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Would anyone not get it, lol

Demon core memes have been absolutely fucking everywhere

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me, I have no idea what this is about.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Look up demon core on Wikipedia. It was the core from a nuclear weapon. Some dumbasses decided to play with it in very dangerous and stupid ways and died.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Took 12 upvotes for the answer. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some dumbasses

ironically some of the top scientists in the world at the time

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, at least one person according to the comments.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So like when, what I assume is an irradiated piece of metal, slipped in the back of Homer's shirt he killed himself and like the entire town, right?

The thing was glowing.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

That's when all the people of Springfield turned yellow.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All it took is a good swing, and then your enemy are gone... as well as anything else in a couple of kilometers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I get it. Thanks to Kyle Hill

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Ooh ya clap those cheeks

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Clap them cheeks

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“The Ultimate Cheek Clapper”

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