Hello, welcome to MASSAGE-2(A-B)b, a wonderful world full of beautiful fauna and flora along with massive amounts of natural resources ripe for exploitation.
I’ve been sent here by FICSIT, a totally not evil intergalactic space corporation, to exploit those yummy natural resources but I’ve run into a bit of a problem.
You see, factory building is hard work, and I quickly became bored of the weird pistachios, hopefully-not-poisonous berries, and magic mushrooms that the environment had to offer.
But while I was looking through the list of parts I’d eventually be creating, something caught my eye.
Nuclear Pasta.
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Music featured in this video:
Main music throughout the video:
"Quirky Dog" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Dramatic music for the first unit of Nuclear Pasta:
"Screen Saver" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Unhinged bit at the end:
"Flying Kerfuffle" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Other material used:
Image of types of Nuclear Pasta retrieved from:
www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/nuclear-pasta
(Pretty sure it actually comes from another source further down but this specifically is where I got it from).
If you want to read up more on what Nuclear Pasta is start with the Wikipedia article:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pasta
Description of Nuclear Pasta is copied from that article but referenced as being from a paper behind a paywall:
Caplan, M. E.; Schneider, A. S.; Horowitz, C. J. (24 September 2018). "Elasticity of Nuclear Pasta". Physical Review Letters. 121 (13): 132701. arXiv:1807.02557. Bibcode:2018PhRvL.121m2701C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.132701. PMID 30312063. S2CID 206317364.
Link: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.132701