And I don’t care if you don’t get it. I get it.

  • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    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.

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      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.