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Post by Sheep2 on Jul 23, 2023 19:55:03 GMT
Fortunately for all of you I work in accountancy and I have never audited anyone with more than trace radioactive elements for X-Rays.
I Have been inside a reactor room at CERN.
The actual chamber was too small to climb into.
About the size of a small kiln.
The nice physicist said that the Geiger counter showed a higher reading outside than in the chamber. He even showed us. I'm pretty certain there was some sleight of hand tho.
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Post by MrTiddles on Jul 23, 2023 20:25:07 GMT
š¶ Shen-guin,
You don't have to put on the red light,
Those days are over,
You don't have to sell your fries through the night,
Shen-guin,
You don't have to be the chef tonight,
Walk the streets with leaflets,
You don't care if they're wrong or if they're right,
Shen-guin,
You don't have to put on the red light,
Shen-guin,
You don't have to put on the red light...š¶
(Thank the Lord Jebus that's out of my head)
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Jul 23, 2023 21:08:03 GMT
It's still raining here. It's rained every day in July and this shit is going to continue until mid-August. I just want a few hot days man. A man needs his fucking sunshine.
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Post by Sheep2 on Jul 23, 2023 21:15:39 GMT
It's still raining here. It's rained every day in July and this shit is going to continue until mid-August. I just want a few hot days man. A man needs his fucking sunshine. Try southern Europe or China or the southwest USA. Either you'll get your sun or the locals will love your rain dance. |
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Post by amipal on Jul 23, 2023 21:34:27 GMT
So Oppenheimer was pretty good. Watching it though ā¦ I couldnāt help but think āwas the atom bomb engineered?ā Were both the bombs over-engineered? The first and second bomb, and the test bomb? I mean ā¦ surely - once you know how much uranium or plutonium you need to reach critical mass, canāt you get the separate amounts together with mechanics - like springs and cogs? Explosives to drive it all together seems to be over-egging the pudding. Was there any mention of Tube Alloy? Or the Tizard memorandum? Nuclear weapons are incredibly difficult objects to produce. The exactitude required is beyond most countries industry. The uranium core needs to be a perfect sphere. The explosives surrounding it need to produce a shockwave that is also a perfect sphere - any imperfections mean a failed implosion, and either no self-perpetuating chain-reaction or a very poor yield. A single bubble in the explosives can do this. The explosives also need to detonate at the same precise moment. Nanoseconds matter here, as the shockwave from one part of the explosives āfootballā would have moved a considerable distance in a single nanosecond should there be a delay. There was an idea to āfireā a chunk of plutonium into the uranium core, but it was soon discovered that because of how reactive the plutonium was, that stray neutrons from it would initiate the reaction too soon. Hence why they went with the implosion device. |
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Post by RollingEscargot on Jul 23, 2023 21:48:03 GMT
So Oppenheimer was pretty good. Watching it though ā¦ I couldnāt help but think āwas the atom bomb engineered?ā Were both the bombs over-engineered? The first and second bomb, and the test bomb? I mean ā¦ surely - once you know how much uranium or plutonium you need to reach critical mass, canāt you get the separate amounts together with mechanics - like springs and cogs? Explosives to drive it all together seems to be over-egging the pudding. Was there any mention of Tube Alloy? Or the Tizard memorandum? Nuclear weapons are incredibly difficult objects to produce. The exactitude required is beyond most countries industry. The uranium core needs to be a perfect sphere. The explosives surrounding it need to produce a shockwave that is also a perfect sphere - any imperfections mean a failed implosion, and either no self-perpetuating chain-reaction or a very poor yield. A single bubble in the explosives can do this. The explosives also need to detonate at the same precise moment. Nanoseconds matter here, as the shockwave from one part of the explosives āfootballā would have moved a considerable distance in a single nanosecond should there be a delay. There was an idea to āfireā a chunk of plutonium into the uranium core, but it was soon discovered that because of how reactive the plutonium was, that stray neutrons from it would initiate the reaction too soon. Hence why they went with the implosion device. FAO @iran |
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Post by Felice Landry on Jul 23, 2023 21:57:52 GMT
Just watched the new Dune, have to say they did a damn good job of reproducing the key points/scenes from the book, though it did mean that the first hour was exposition city, still good though, will see part 2 at the flicks. 4*
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Post by amipal on Jul 23, 2023 22:02:22 GMT
Was there any mention of Tube Alloy? Or the Tizard memorandum? Nuclear weapons are incredibly difficult objects to produce. The exactitude required is beyond most countries industry. The uranium core needs to be a perfect sphere. The explosives surrounding it need to produce a shockwave that is also a perfect sphere - any imperfections mean a failed implosion, and either no self-perpetuating chain-reaction or a very poor yield. A single bubble in the explosives can do this. The explosives also need to detonate at the same precise moment. Nanoseconds matter here, as the shockwave from one part of the explosives āfootballā would have moved a considerable distance in a single nanosecond should there be a delay. There was an idea to āfireā a chunk of plutonium into the uranium core, but it was soon discovered that because of how reactive the plutonium was, that stray neutrons from it would initiate the reaction too soon. Hence why they went with the implosion device. FAO @iran If I can find out about this stuff, anyone can. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Jul 23, 2023 22:08:16 GMT
North Korea don't seem to have had that much difficulty creating nukes.
Or Pakistan.
I'm pretty sure most larger countries could afford it.
The question is whether it is worth the effort to create something very expensive you can't really use.
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Post by MrTiddles on Jul 23, 2023 22:19:55 GMT
North Korea don't seem to have had that much difficulty creating nukes. Or Pakistan. I'm pretty sure most larger countries could afford it. The question is whether it is worth the effort to create something very expensive you can't really use. Like an accountant?
*runs away*
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