@@lawyerreactsnotthemoon85 death by radiation poisoning isn't a peaceful and quick death. Your organs shut down and you feel sick and pain. Not sure anything about this death could be called blissful
@@lawyerreactsnotthemoon85 lmaoo idk why but this sounds like smth a emo kid would comment under a true crime video on tiktok 💀 this is definitely not blissful idk bout you my guy
@michaelboles4057 wouldn't them having to remain in that position expose them to more radiation? Or was the radiation only produced when the dome was in contact with whatever it is the screwdriver separated it with?
I just saw another comment which stated he had them only remain that position to mark it so he could calculate it, so I guess my question has been answered. Even though staring death in the eye, he remained calm and collected.
@@shuenshuenIf they had propped it up correctly, it would've been fine. The metal shell kept most of the radiation contained but not enough for it to hit critical mass. Shows the speed that the atoms were travelling on the inside.
He also walked up to the chalkboard and started to calculate how long his survival and everybody else in the room survival rate would be and that was deadly accurate
@@pebbleboyshorts765 yeah. You guys should really hit one of those things. You'll get the ability to see the future. Just like my late friend who predicted his death!"
Im pretty sure that everyone in the room eventually died due to radiation poisoning…. Crazy. Just one of the things our government has had that is extremely dangerous
@@alkazarblack7266 his attitude towards it was much more like that, yeah. He bragged about it like it was a parlor trick. Hell of a way to go choking on his own hubris by the end though
I mean, there was a safe way with blocks in place and whatnot, but then he couldn't get as close to criticality so he elected to not use them. Pretty much everybody he worked with was against his method.
The team was supposed to use little spacers to avoid exactly what he did but he chose not to use them since they wouldn’t allow the dome to get as close to criticality as he wanted
Slotin grabbed the Beryllium dome to keep the core from going super spicy mode & saved those around him. this is the scientist version of jumping on a grenade to save comrades. impressive dude
@@bonehead6395while slotin was especially bad at it, the whole culture in the lab was bad, considering same core killed a scientist like a year earlier when a radiation reflector brick fell on the core. Enrico Fermi even told them that they will all be dead within a year if they keep doing those experiments like that.
He was constantly warned about how dangerous this approach was, But he basically thought he was invincible. I can't remember who, but some famous physicist at the time said he would be dead within a month if he kept doing this experiment so recklessly.... And he was right to within a few days
Maybe he liked the feeling of skirting danger? I can imagine it'd raise your adrenaline. But if an atom bomb went off instead of radiation when it slipped, that'd be the ultimate feeling. Maybe. For a split second.
I have been electrocuted by similar mistakes, I touched something that should have been grounded and got shocked, you usually keep doing things in stupid ways until something like that happens, I got another chance, he didn't, I also could have died, the breaker didn't worked when I was shocked because it was inside the circuit, it didn't drew enough current to trip it but it was painful, I must have damage something, I was with a headache for days, but I am alive, if I had used the other hand I could have stopped my heart, I was stupid, trying to find what was causing an error without proper precautions, like using gloves. I am lucky, most accidental deaths are small mistakes.
The cool thing is that they learned a lot about radiation sickness, they wrote detailed notes of his final days, and he was able to add to the body of human knowledge right up to the end.
This is why human experimentation won't ever end. People consider the results invaluable, regardless of what and who had to be sacrificed to obtain it. And however unwilling they were to be sacrificed. If the ends justify the means, then the horror will never end. No matter how many ethics boards prop up. If the research from such experiments is kept and even lauded, then that is de facto tacit approval of the means to get there. After all, if people can be sacrificed to further the body of scientific knowledge... then surely reputation and morality can be sacrificed as well, for *progress*.
@@TheSuperRattI get your point, and I agree to some extent, but just to clarify: He wrote the documentation about how the radiation affected his body himself. And it did help us with knowing how bad radiation is and the symptoms, so yeah, not entirely a sacrifice or inherently evil as your comment would like to imply.
@@TheSuperRatt I'm convinced you're looking at things the wrong way around with your comment. If we are, as you see to be implying, "not-allowed" to learn from accidents, then there wont be accidents, only planned catastrophes. This was reckless at best, but it still was an accident.
The Demon Core received this name as a direct result of its history, This is not the only time it would take a life and was named after those incidints.
This is what I meant by the second accident being directly his fault. People constantly kept telling him to stop doing this and that he’d wind up killing himself
@@Jobobn1998 he was able to get the core even closer to super criticality for even greater results using the screwdriver over the spacers, which was why he opted for that method.. and also some degree of ego. It’s kind of like a modern version of Icarus flying too close to the sun.
@@Jobobn1998 he was cocky and, while it's a tragedy that he passed away so horrifically, he is at blame. He endangered everyone in the vicinity and while he may of been the only immediate death, others were still exposed to radiation
I used to watch your videos on history in jail on the tablets they provided inmates. As an avid history nerd, I've been trying to find your videos since but since this was back in 2018 I'd forgotten your name but I am so glad to have found your videos again 5 years later. Thank you Hank. You have no idea how much you entertained me in the most boring place in the galaxy.
@zee9709 yes, in the county I live in. They're far from Ipads though lol so didn't think those incarcerated are just living it up lol they actually serve a very practical purpose. They keel fights down because most people who can afford to do so can listen to music through the app in there, you can send text messages to loved ones and make phone calls through the pre programmed phone system so there aren't lines for days to use the phones in the jail, there's a distraction for people, you can use it to study and take classes and earn actual college credits. Obtain your GED etc. That is where I found these videos.
@@reginthehoneybadger8957 well...I know my post seemed weird, 😑 but at one point there was a digital poll graph that hung under the comment above posted by I.b8896, and UA-cam asked you to select out of 4 ratings if the comment by I.b8896 was: •Funny •Not Funny •Difficult to understand •Show more like this Then after you made your selection and gave feed back, the graph switched to a message that read "Thank you for your participation". then it disappeared, and the UA-cam thread went on as normal and the poll graph option was gone. I've never seen that before in the UA-cam comments; so it was *strange* and I assumed someone, somewhere was testing a social media bot and needing feed back on its interaction. 👀
@@reginthehoneybadger8957 maybe its a real person and not a bot at all. But there was a poll rating being collected for their comment. Kinda reminded me of this 👉👇ua-cam.com/video/mlR9fCXfWyM/v-deo.html
Fun Fact: When the blue flash happened, everyone except Slottin ran out of the room. He called them all back, threw them a piece of chalk, and told them to mark on the ground where each man stood when the incident happened. This he did to find out how much radiation each man received based on the distance from the core.
And despite the fact that the accident was his fault, the fact that he didn't run and instead ripped the dome off protected everyone else. It doesn't make up for it, but. Thank goodness.
@@JoycenatorGaming yeah, the purpose of the chalk was to calculate how many years of life he'd approximately taken off of his colleagues. I think the highest was 20? He didnt even calculate his own, seeing as the hand he ripped the dome off with was scorched
Imagine a flash of light and you feel fine at the time, but you know for a fact that not only is that the end for you, it will be agonizing. That's truly terrifying.
He only had three options. #1. Run(Still would have died and everyone on that base) #2. Stand there in shock and immediately vaporize after the core with critical. #3. Sacrifice himself by grabbing the core and preventing a major catastrophic event.
@@midnyte_ryder I firmly believe flat head screwdrivers were invented to fuck with us. There not suitable to perform the job they are built for let alone the job of a chisel, awl, prybar, putty knife, punch, can opener, drift, ignition switch, key, CONRTOL ROD....
He also had everyone stay in the room afterwards and charted everyones exposure based on how far away they were standing at the moment the screwdriver slipped, approximating roughly how much they could expect their lives to be shortened. This was less than a year after Slotin’s colleague had met a very similar fate experimenting on the same plutonium core.
The scariest part is that he was functionally dead. Not like a fatal disease which would eventually kill him but all his cells were killed. No more cell division. Just dead. A walking zombie
He was SUPPOSED to be using a set of shims to keep the lid from closing, but supposedly preferred the screwdriver because he had better leverage at the cost of lower surface area to keep the lid on the end of the screwdriver.
I can’t imagine how painful it was to die from radiation poisoning over the course of 9 days. Over a week of absolute torture with absolutely no hope of survival.
@@karlbarnett5863 no, although that would have been my guess before I found this out. Screwed came from the shape of a pig penis, which is like a corkscrew. And when a pig mates, their penis rotates like a corkscrew. And that's how we got the term, "screwed."
I love this method of relaying "spookiness" without promoting pseudoscience or making mountains out of molehills. So many channels base all of their content on the idea that "we don't know what it was, but the person is missing and maybe it was a ghost." I love this version so much more, we have the answers and this doesn't detract from the eerieness.
The worst part is we DO have the answers. 'Spicy rock' was contained and the 'spice' got so dense it shot out and went through bodies. Tearing apart their DNA and ability to reproduce cells. Soon your cells die as they always do.. But they can no longer be replaced and your body just starts breaking down. Piece by piece. Cell by cell. Tissue by tissue. Organ by organ. While you live and breath. At least up until the point your heart and lungs stop.
Yep. Chernobyl (the show) was both excellent human drama, and also a bit of a horror show itself just due to the relaying of some of the realities of the incident. The firefighter's arc is a good example.
I feel like this streamer is so full of shit that he brushes his teeth with toilet paper also why was there a security guard in a lab? Also how is this science when you're using music to set a vibe
Biggest problem with Osha is they're pretty useless for making certain things safe in your workplace because of how they wrote some of the safety laws. What they consider acceptable levels of noise pollution is really bad for your ears. Way over the safe limit
The reason he said "well that does it" is actually more complicated and more dramatic to tell. Before the other men ran out, he told them to mark where they stood so he could calculate how much of a dose they received. He got that all others will likely live but he would almost certainly die, which prompted him to say "well that does it".
You are correct, he sure did that before everyone left, and for the others, i belive they did actually die due to cancer which was hard to determine as fact that it had to do with the demon core, However.... i think it happened to majority of them so, can kinda say theoretically that it DID had something to do with it lol.
I was reading about how they did the initial tests to determine when it would go critical, and they used blocks to shield the radiation back in a similar way the dome would. One guy got fast and loose with placing the block, and accidentally placed one too many, causing the reaction to start like happened here. Instead of getting out of there, he tried to cover up his mistake and tried to pick the blocks back up with his hands. He also died an agonizing death from radiation poisoning.
@@venuztrvp dead ass. what I’m supposed to waste the very small amount of life I have left being upset about the fact that I inadvertently killed myself? If you only have nine days left to live what you doing?
The worst part is that there were actually proper procedures in place to prevent this from happening. He was just using a screwdriver instead of the wedges the protocol called for. This happened because of his negligence
Suns? Suns are pretty close. Giants in space. Extremely powerful. Their lifespan is so long, they might as well be seen as unending. Staring at them for too long can cause damage.
yeah, the building blocks of matter as we know it being ripped apart, the particles of what’s left turning into a light that destroys anything it touches
@@PresidentFunnyValentine All the ionizing electromagnetic zingers: Gamma, X-Ray, and UV. Without our atmosphere we'd not only be barbecued, but also doomed to every kind of cancer in the book within seconds of exposure.
He burned his hands and as people were running out the door. He said no. Everyone back to where you were so I can mark everyone's position to see how much of your life was actually taken.
@@IDECIDETHETRUTHHe may have fucked up but he stopped the demon core from running and wanted to know if everyone would survive (probably, I'm not entirely sure his reasons for asking everyone to get back into position were altruistic)
@@dieselhall4505 what’s your source on that? I googled it, and from what I can find, they all took in a non-fatal dose, and each of them died some 20-50 years later, mostly natural causes, with one dying in the korean war and another by heart attack while skiing. The photographer appears to have been one of the few that actually did die from cancer, him and one other.
There's a huge difference between letting a brick fall and using a screwdriver to prop up a dome, that difference being that only one of them shows irresponsible behavior and the other doesn't, the only thing that could be called irresponsible would be the method of testing. What would be ironic though is that they might've switched from the brick method to the dome because it would be safer due to working with spacers and a crane to move the upper dome in a very controlled manner that isn't susceptible to human error, only for Slotin to go: "lmao, why would you need all of that when screwdrivers exist."
@@makeshiftparadox I wonder if they were due to run the experiment but the crane or other equipment to run the test safely was delayed or being used somewhere else?
@@lordpsi99 Nah, the thing is simply that the safe testing methods took more time than Slotin's screwdriver method (lifting the crane, bringing it back down, getting spacers built for the exact distance you want the dome to be open etc.). So he just ignored them, in favor of his quick and efficient screwdriver method.
We all get sinking feelings when something terrible has happened, like our heart just jumped to our throats.. but this must have been on another level. Just knowing that there and then you're a dead man walking.. damn
The problem with us being children in our lives make us feel invincible and that we will live forever, growing up is when you should have that feeling that your a dead man walking every single day, maybe we would all accomplish more, maybe be kinder to eachother, I think about that a lot
He’s right, always walk the earth knowing that just like everything, you must die too. You don’t know when, where, how, or why. So appreciated every single extra day you get to live
What makes it even spookier is that that experiment where the screwdriver slipped was supposed to be the final experiment done on the core before it went into permanent storage
the worst part of this death is that it isn't instantaneous, you know that you're gonna die in a few days and you just think to yourself "if only i didn't do that" and you keep regretting it as you slowly deteriorate over the span of these days. can you imagine the despair you'd feel
Remember that phrase about better living with the fact you tried and failed instead of living with the fact you never tried? Yea thats not one of those cases for sure.
Eeriest thing to me is technically the death is instantaneous as your body basically stops functioning upon such a dose. Youre just conscious as youre body decays/burns away depending on dosage concentration.
@@brolysadvocate why would you need a whole set for only two outcomes? 😜 Yeah it's pretty easy to calculate dose at any given distance if you know the dose at another one. A little trickier if the amount of shielding is different between them, but still easy enough if you know the tenth thickness of the material
@@HoepRemains those are just the most important outcomes lol... anything more would be varying levels of sick and or dying. I suppose the doses ranged from dead in 9 days to dead in x years of a radiation related illness. Someone must have gotten lucky and died of something else altogether.
@@brolysadvocate yeah I mean at the time we definitely didn't have the information we do now but realistically it 100% matters how close you got to that fatal dose. Like if you get an acute whole body dose of 500 rem you might not die but you're not gonna enjoy life for a while if ever again
He was the only one who received a fatal dose, but everyone in the room eventually died early from some form of cancer. However, he did contribute to science by having everyone mark where they were with chalk and he calculated the grays received by everyone, which helped us in our knowledge of radiation poisoning.
@@yueshijoorya601 A sphere makes nuclear bomb detonation much more efficient with less wasted fuel and higher output. This was designed and machined for a bomb before it was decommissioned for research.
In cases such as this, can't a Doctor give a lot of medicine to make patient feel comfortable until death comes? Or if the patient wants and requests...give a fatal dose of morphine or some other strong pain medicine?
This is why media will never show us how real scientists act in labs. We really do just be like "what if I made a ball of death... And then just had everyone poke it. Pretty neat?"
There's one, the moment you know you only have a few minutes/seconds to live (ex: airplain crash, someone firing a gun at blank point, falling off a high place...) That feeling must be horrifying.
@@tomhenry897 Nah, plenty of people warned Slotin. He knew himself. He just chose not to take proper care, for whatever stupid reason. He certainly knew better.
Because "smart" and "stupid" are lies we use to unfairly categorise people based on privilege, enthusiasm and field of interest. I'm a very enthusiastic student of biology in a country where education is mostly available to a portion of the community which up until recently included me, and whaddya know I'm considered smart. When I'm called that, I take it as the compliment it's intended as, because I really *do* back up my love for the field with inquisitiveness, attentiveness and effort, but imo I'm not necessarily "smarter" than someone who was just bullied out of the education system for being the wrong kind of disabled but can still play a lathe like a virtuoso.
Another sad detail is that he had already accepted a professorship at Chicago teaching biophysics, and was in the process of training someone to take over his role at Los Alamos when this happened. He was just 35.
You work at a nuclear power plant? My dad worked at Browns Ferry nuclear power plant in Alabama as a machinist supervisor for like 25 years. He talked about stuff like that and also that the walls were soooo thick, feet on feet on feet to try and protect in case something happened. I was always sketchy about going around there, not that I could get through the gates anyway. Lol
The movie Fatman and Little Boy portrays this scene and I was always confused how casual the response from the actor was but I guess it was super accurate
I get it, actually. Sometimes when something really bad happens really quickly, and you know enough to immediately know the ramifications, the understanding of the whole situation can settle in in faster than the fear, and all you're left with is a general feeling of "well, shit."
Basically he was smart enough to know how bad this was, and how little he could do to prevent his own demise. Kind of like hearing a beloved family member died out of nowhere, it probably didn't really hit him until after the incident was over.
@@foogod4237 think aswell it would be partly due to the shock factor of it happening is why people respond with just things like "well,shit" because that's all the brain can procces through the shock
the fact that he knew that if that happened he’d definitely die, but still chose to have the only thing between him and certain painful death be a screwdriver is astonishing to me
He still had the presence of mind to tell everyone to mark their location on the floor with chalk, he also documented then dictated his health to the doctors so they would have a complete record of his death. Downright hero right there.
How exactly is he a hero if as one of the leaders of the project did something as irresponsible as using a screwdriver to prop open something so critical. If this had happened today, he would be called stupid and not a hero
If I remember correctly, while he was the only one to receive a fatal dose to die immediately, both Graves and Cieslicki had on going health problems for the rest of their lives, and died about 20 years later. Both died very young, Cieslickiin his 40's and Graves in his 50's. This story never fails to anger me. For some reason physicist of the era were notoriously dismissive of human lives, their own and others. Lots of irresponsible experiments who could have easily been made safe happened back then and people payed with their lives just due to ignorance and negligence
I chalk this up to reckless negligence, Unit 731 on the other hand (which was a completely different field of science) that’s utter disregard for human life. Worse yet, it’s very likely medical science would be less advanced if not for the horrible actions involved (mainly the live human dissection)
@@donovanulrich348 The "Angel of Death" is not death. It was an angel that performed a couple of God's miracles. No religious text ever referrs to the angel of death taking individual lives.. MC Mark's comment was better lol
@@Merlincat007 I'm not american, and I still feel like I'd do the same. Radiation poisoning is no joke. It's a slow and agonising way to go. Your body is literally being torn apart on a cellular level as your organs shut down one by one.
@@MartinFinnerup I agree with the assisted suicide idea, it's just the gun in the nightstand thing is so classically American and ill-advised. Someone with a gun in their house is more likely to be killed by a gun. Especially if theirs is in a nightstand and not locked in a safe.
And if I recall correctly, this was supposed to be the LAST experiment to be done with the Demon Core as it was the end of that research. It was the last day of tickling that dragon.
@@mhaseth well, yes. however in both situations you know you're most likely dead, and the best thing you can probably do is find a way to enjoy the rest of the time you have left, in one case by maybe also going skydiving without a parachute XD
Our lab prof told us this story after going through all the safety precautions when we were in the radio lab. And then like five minutes later someone asked about the random metal suitcase that was like half-hidden behind a pillar. And he said: “Oh yeah that’s some alpha emitter we found laying around. No one wanted to pay to get rid of it properly, so it’s just been sitting there in that suitcase for the past couple years.” Scientists really be like: why spend money when you can diy it
@@kittenloveer1625 nah yeah for sure, if it was like super dangerous it wouldn’t have been chillin there. But still, the situation was kinda funny. Like in our experiment we were only allowed to touch the beta emitters with gloves, but just after our prof explained this to us, he touched one without a glove. And he was just like: “Meh. Back when I was at uni, they straight up dumped the radioactive material into our bare hands.” Physicists have such a low sense of self-preservation XD
@@leoneph2295 Reminds me of the dark room: professors would say “use the tongs to move the photos from tray to tray” as they dipped their fingers into them. Everyone I’ve known who worked long-term in a dark room was a little loopy 😅🤣
@@charlesterrizzi8311it’s possible but this man is almost 100% lying and on top of that they either dead, old, or too busy studying physics to teach 20 year old high schoolers
Even on the very first day. i don't think he had any reason to not commit suicide, considering that the same thing happened to someone else so he knew exactly what was going to happen
@@drm.himself considering the agony he would be experiencing I think at most he had someone else write it down. I can't imagine he was able to properly function enough to write down what he was experiencing
Fun fact: obviously everyone ran, but he called them all back in gave them some chalk and said “mark where you where standing” so he could calculate how much radiation they received at the time of criticality
Yeah man they also kept him alive for 9 days so they could document the effects on a living person. For the first 4 days he repeatedly begged for them to let him die but they didn't. After the 5th he was unable to communicate and his flesh was peeling off his bones.
@nestormakhno8596 it was but after a certain point he should have been allowed death. He was literally goo and couldn't digest food urinate or anything... imagine the tubes on him 😢 it was an experiment though. They paid him and he wanted his wife and kids supported so he did it for them :(
Louis Slotin was my grandpas friend, from Winnipeg. I wrote a paper about him & the accident before it became declassified. I’m sure I was put on some watch list for my nuclear weapons research at age 8
wow, that’s wild. how do you pronounce his last name properly? i’m also working on a piece of work referential to him and i want to make sure i pronounce his name 100% correctly, and since your grandfather knew him i just thought i’d ask
The fact that he knew he was dead, but he still removed the dome to prevent a worse disaster is one of the greatest acts of heroism in history. A flash of blue light is one of the most terrifying things in existence.
“Well, that does it”. The realization that no amount of panic or tears would save him. He just calmly accept his fate in that instant
@@ismaelsoliman
Grammar 'national socialist German workers party members' need not apply! LOL
@@biggee8111 lame response
@@biggee8111 cool party man
accepted*
When you have to explain the source of inaccuracies in your lab report: “fatal human error and hubris.”
Accurate, if you put "hubris" first.
Not sure if an OSP fan in the wild, or a coincedence
@@accelmemory how dare you say things that are entirely true.
When you have to explain your own error that caused your own fatality before you're dead.
We really are just hairless chimps playing God at times lmao
There is something almost magically eerie about knowing the spectre of death will greet you in a few days because you let a screwdriver slip.
Yeah I can't imagine that bliss 😩🤍
@@lawyerreactsnotthemoon85 death by radiation poisoning isn't a peaceful and quick death. Your organs shut down and you feel sick and pain. Not sure anything about this death could be called blissful
@@lawyerreactsnotthemoon85 lmaoo idk why but this sounds like smth a emo kid would comment under a true crime video on tiktok 💀 this is definitely not blissful idk bout you my guy
@@lawyerreactsnotthemoon85 I thought it was funny my dude don't worry about these guys
@@rythenx yeah, like they said, better than an average day
He spent the immediate time after measuring where everyone else was standing so he could reliably tell them they would be ok. He was a nice man.
Is this true?
@Selinasdevil yes it is. He immediately told everyone to stand still so he could calculate everyones radiation exposure.
@michaelboles4057 wouldn't them having to remain in that position expose them to more radiation? Or was the radiation only produced when the dome was in contact with whatever it is the screwdriver separated it with?
I just saw another comment which stated he had them only remain that position to mark it so he could calculate it, so I guess my question has been answered.
Even though staring death in the eye, he remained calm and collected.
@@shuenshuenIf they had propped it up correctly, it would've been fine. The metal shell kept most of the radiation contained but not enough for it to hit critical mass. Shows the speed that the atoms were travelling on the inside.
He also walked up to the chalkboard and started to calculate how long his survival and everybody else in the room survival rate would be and that was deadly accurate
Heh, pun not intended.
"You know, the demon core helps you see the future. This one scientist said he was gonna die and then he did"
He had them mark their positions on the floor too for distance measurement
@@pebbleboyshorts765 yeah. You guys should really hit one of those things. You'll get the ability to see the future. Just like my late friend who predicted his death!"
Im pretty sure that everyone in the room eventually died due to radiation poisoning…. Crazy.
Just one of the things our government has had that is extremely dangerous
Can we have a reliable setup for the experiment?
Them: a screwdriver should do it. It’s just a nuclear core.
Yeah it shows that just because someone/a scientist is very smart in someways, doesn’t mean they aren’t very dumb in other ways
Kayle hill has a dettailed video about this shit. It s just incredibile
A screwdriver literally did it though, they weren't lying 🥲
It at least did one scientist in..
Pretty sure some of the other scientists had an actual safe procedure but this guy was pretty loose with safety. Iirc.
@@DiabloTommaso who?
“We have a safe way of using this”
“Screwdriver”
"Ayo, check this shit"
@@alkazarblack7266 his attitude towards it was much more like that, yeah. He bragged about it like it was a parlor trick. Hell of a way to go choking on his own hubris by the end though
I mean, there was a safe way with blocks in place and whatnot, but then he couldn't get as close to criticality so he elected to not use them. Pretty much everybody he worked with was against his method.
Sorry but my immediate thought when I read your comment was "Ah, so this is what the Soviet Union said when making a certaint plant in Chernobyl"
The team was supposed to use little spacers to avoid exactly what he did but he chose not to use them since they wouldn’t allow the dome to get as close to criticality as he wanted
Slotin grabbed the Beryllium dome to keep the core from going super spicy mode & saved those around him. this is the scientist version of jumping on a grenade to save comrades. impressive dude
@bonehead6395 no lie detected
The grenade wouldn't have been live weren't for Slotin's stopgap solution of using a flathead screwdriver.
@Smartz118 very true
@@bonehead6395while slotin was especially bad at it, the whole culture in the lab was bad, considering same core killed a scientist like a year earlier when a radiation reflector brick fell on the core. Enrico Fermi even told them that they will all be dead within a year if they keep doing those experiments like that.
“Super spicy mode” is the only way i will refer to supercritcality from now on
He lost the opportunity of saying: "Well... I'm screwed"
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He was constantly warned about how dangerous this approach was, But he basically thought he was invincible. I can't remember who, but some famous physicist at the time said he would be dead within a month if he kept doing this experiment so recklessly.... And he was right to within a few days
It was Enrico Fermi who (reportedly) said that.
@@jared_bowden he described it as tickling the tail of a sleeping dragon
Maybe he liked the feeling of skirting danger? I can imagine it'd raise your adrenaline.
But if an atom bomb went off instead of radiation when it slipped, that'd be the ultimate feeling.
Maybe.
For a split second.
I have been electrocuted by similar mistakes, I touched something that should have been grounded and got shocked, you usually keep doing things in stupid ways until something like that happens, I got another chance, he didn't, I also could have died, the breaker didn't worked when I was shocked because it was inside the circuit, it didn't drew enough current to trip it but it was painful, I must have damage something, I was with a headache for days, but I am alive, if I had used the other hand I could have stopped my heart, I was stupid, trying to find what was causing an error without proper precautions, like using gloves. I am lucky, most accidental deaths are small mistakes.
@@gy7uj917 wasn't it Feynman who said that?
Using a screwdriver to haphazardly keep a nuclear disaster from happening is only the second craziest OSHA violation I've seen this week
What was the first?
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@@clag1109what are you, 60? This ain’t myspace
@@effingdingus early 20s, I just used to be chan-culture adjacent as a teen
@@clag1109 that’s scary. I’ll leave you alone now.
The cool thing is that they learned a lot about radiation sickness, they wrote detailed notes of his final days, and he was able to add to the body of human knowledge right up to the end.
You mean they should not have touched the tree..? Right?
His body became human knowledge*
This is why human experimentation won't ever end. People consider the results invaluable, regardless of what and who had to be sacrificed to obtain it. And however unwilling they were to be sacrificed.
If the ends justify the means, then the horror will never end. No matter how many ethics boards prop up. If the research from such experiments is kept and even lauded, then that is de facto tacit approval of the means to get there.
After all, if people can be sacrificed to further the body of scientific knowledge... then surely reputation and morality can be sacrificed as well, for *progress*.
@@TheSuperRattI get your point, and I agree to some extent, but just to clarify: He wrote the documentation about how the radiation affected his body himself. And it did help us with knowing how bad radiation is and the symptoms, so yeah, not entirely a sacrifice or inherently evil as your comment would like to imply.
@@TheSuperRatt
I'm convinced you're looking at things the wrong way around with your comment.
If we are, as you see to be implying, "not-allowed" to learn from accidents, then there wont be accidents, only planned catastrophes.
This was reckless at best, but it still was an accident.
“Well everybody this concludes my presentation..”
I will now proceed the painful process of dying violently in a short period of time due to radiation Sickness
... and my life... see you all in hell
😭😭😭☠️
Why did this make me laugh so hard 😭
Lmao
Ain’t no way in hell you would catch me propping something called “The Demon Core” with a screwdriver
In his defense, I dont think they were calling it that just yet.
It was just a regular old Plutonium core before it took the lives of 2 scientists.
The Demon Core received this name as a direct result of its history, This is not the only time it would take a life and was named after those incidints.
@@ianmastin They gotta have known that it was a goddamn nuclear core
@@ianmastin Should have called the screwdriver the demon driver!
This is what I meant by the second accident being directly his fault. People constantly kept telling him to stop doing this and that he’d wind up killing himself
They even had spacers for keeping the beryllium hemisphere from coming down too far and reflecting too many neutrons, but he refused to use them.
@@Jobobn1998 he was able to get the core even closer to super criticality for even greater results using the screwdriver over the spacers, which was why he opted for that method.. and also some degree of ego. It’s kind of like a modern version of Icarus flying too close to the sun.
@@MsScarletwings entirely ego. Spacers of any thickness could have been provided upon request
@@MsScarletwings considering the sun is a just a really big nuclear reaction, that's a pretty apt comparison.
@@Jobobn1998 he was cocky and, while it's a tragedy that he passed away so horrifically, he is at blame. He endangered everyone in the vicinity and while he may of been the only immediate death, others were still exposed to radiation
I used to watch your videos on history in jail on the tablets they provided inmates. As an avid history nerd, I've been trying to find your videos since but since this was back in 2018 I'd forgotten your name but I am so glad to have found your videos again 5 years later. Thank you Hank. You have no idea how much you entertained me in the most boring place in the galaxy.
Where is the most boring place in the galaxy?
@@ProjecTSymbiosiS I would assume jail.
They provide tablet?
@zee9709 yes, in the county I live in. They're far from Ipads though lol so didn't think those incarcerated are just living it up lol they actually serve a very practical purpose. They keel fights down because most people who can afford to do so can listen to music through the app in there, you can send text messages to loved ones and make phone calls through the pre programmed phone system so there aren't lines for days to use the phones in the jail, there's a distraction for people, you can use it to study and take classes and earn actual college credits. Obtain your GED etc. That is where I found these videos.
@@justinwesthoff8212 that is very interesting
The most annoying part is they had something specifically to prop it open but homie was like “nah bro I got this flat head.”
Hello bot. Why did they need us to rate your comment for a poll? Strange. 😐 ... anyways I selected ☑ that your comment was "funny."
@@TheSouthernSiren what…
@@reginthehoneybadger8957 well...I know my post seemed weird, 😑 but at one point there was a digital poll graph that hung under the comment above posted by I.b8896, and UA-cam asked you to select out of 4 ratings if the comment by I.b8896 was:
•Funny
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Then after you made your selection and gave feed back, the graph switched to a message that read "Thank you for your participation". then it disappeared, and the UA-cam thread went on as normal and the poll graph option was gone.
I've never seen that before in the UA-cam comments; so it was *strange* and I assumed someone, somewhere was testing a social media bot and needing feed back on its interaction. 👀
@@reginthehoneybadger8957 maybe its a real person and not a bot at all. But there was a poll rating being collected for their comment. Kinda reminded me of this 👉👇ua-cam.com/video/mlR9fCXfWyM/v-deo.html
@@TheSouthernSiren while it’s possible it’s third party I’ve seen it before, so I do believe it’s something implemented by UA-cam
Fun Fact: When the blue flash happened, everyone except Slottin ran out of the room. He called them all back, threw them a piece of chalk, and told them to mark on the ground where each man stood when the incident happened. This he did to find out how much radiation each man received based on the distance from the core.
And despite the fact that the accident was his fault, the fact that he didn't run and instead ripped the dome off protected everyone else. It doesn't make up for it, but. Thank goodness.
@@DelphineDenton and his own body protected some others by absorbing the fatal dose.
That’s badass actually
@@evilsharkey8954 yeah but one of the other people also later died of cancer anyway and another eventually died from a weird blood condition
@@JoycenatorGaming yeah, the purpose of the chalk was to calculate how many years of life he'd approximately taken off of his colleagues. I think the highest was 20? He didnt even calculate his own, seeing as the hand he ripped the dome off with was scorched
Imagine a flash of light and you feel fine at the time, but you know for a fact that not only is that the end for you, it will be agonizing. That's truly terrifying.
I'd rather blow my brains out before having to withstand the torture of slowly dying to radiation poisoning
Just because of a screwdriver, it's even more depressing
Ain't no way. I would've swallowed a bullet. I bet he wanted to, but didn't because of the potential results.
It's radiation, you'd get radiation sickness and possibly radiation burns
@@subu_versus yeah it was becuz it wasn't a Craftsman but a chinese screwdriver.
Touching an unshielded nuclear reactor with your hands is metal as fuck
You should look up warhammer 40k star drive reactors.
& almost heavy :)
@@stevenjacobs6608no he should not. And acting like he should isn't ok
He only had three options.
#1. Run(Still would have died and everyone on that base)
#2. Stand there in shock and immediately vaporize after the core with critical.
#3. Sacrifice himself by grabbing the core and preventing a major catastrophic event.
@@dmr123kkla you are correct. And more importantly you didn't ask anyone to go play dungeons and dragons, or read the wizard of oz
As a mechanic, I've learned over the years that if you use a screwdriver to prop something open, it's gonna slip.
I’ll second that. Especially a damn flat head 😂
Right, I pry with a flat head all the time and they suck and slip.
Perfect way to lose a finger too! 😂
Nah they were using craftsman instead of Mac
@@midnyte_ryder I firmly believe flat head screwdrivers were invented to fuck with us. There not suitable to perform the job they are built for let alone the job of a chisel, awl, prybar, putty knife, punch, can opener, drift, ignition switch, key, CONRTOL ROD....
He also had everyone stay in the room afterwards and charted everyones exposure based on how far away they were standing at the moment the screwdriver slipped, approximating roughly how much they could expect their lives to be shortened. This was less than a year after Slotin’s colleague had met a very similar fate experimenting on the same plutonium core.
You must have fallen down the same rabbit hole I did lol
@@wisconsinaquatics wdym fallen. I was already there long ago
Not quite you knucklehead , he had them mark where they stood with a piece of chalk then told them to get out
@@kenfoerster8521 ope ya broke rule number one of UA-cam insults, never directly say "you" when trolling or belittling lol
@@wisconsinaquatics thou
The best part was how he continued to document his health as he was dieing so the research would be there
what kinda stuff did it say?
@@philardo69 “radiation poisoning sucks ass”
@@philardo69I’m dead
@@robsnook4512that shit had me wheezing lmaooo
@@philardo69got any jet smoothskin
The scariest part is that he was functionally dead. Not like a fatal disease which would eventually kill him but all his cells were killed. No more cell division. Just dead. A walking zombie
Didn't think of it that way... sheesh. That's nuts.
I wonder if cocaine would have helped
@@EnzoJoveTradesmight as well do it all 😏
@@EnzoJoveTrades😂😂 couldn’t hurt anymore
@@EnzoJoveTrades only if it was medical grade
And remember! He calculated how much damage had been done to everyone, and in fact perfectly predicted his own death in 9 days.
damn. science is crazy.
Protogen
Proto 😳
@@porcupinepunch6893 ☕🗿
@@lngbenn no.
Moral of the story: Just because you're smart doesn't mean you can't be stupid
Yeah, it usually just means that you can be stupid in hilariously specific ways 😄🙄
Wisdom and intelligence are two different things
Wisdom is life iq Intelligence is Learned iq
AND I AM NOT CHANGING THAT AGAIN!
YOU DEAL WITH IT THEN!
@@seantaggart7382 the opposite
@@littleskeleton420 i mean i’m pretty sure they’re right but phrased themselves wrong
"You're the smartest guy I have ever met, yet you're so stupid to see, that he made up his mind ten minutes ago..."
“Well that does it” imagine what that moment of realizing his own death was imminent must have felt like.
TBH no. I don't want to right now.
Nah. Just imagine instead how painful 9 days of dying of radiation poisoning must feel like. Goddamn
@@kanyebreast6072 such an absolutely terrible, painful , and relatively slow deaths out there
@@jjcoola998 Yeah exactly
@@kanyebreast6072 back to the depths with you, Kanye.
He was SUPPOSED to be using a set of shims to keep the lid from closing, but supposedly preferred the screwdriver because he had better leverage at the cost of lower surface area to keep the lid on the end of the screwdriver.
See? That's why safety norms are supposed to be followed as they were written. Cutting corners always opens up the chance of someone f"cling up badly.
I can’t imagine how painful it was to die from radiation poisoning over the course of 9 days. Over a week of absolute torture with absolutely no hope of survival.
In this scenario, I think suicide is a valid option. If it’s a scientific impossibility to not die horrifically, why not save yourself the suffering?
And like… so slowly. Day one he was just like “shit” and physically perfectly fine
I'd probably beg the doctors to euthanize me if I was hit with a fatal dose of radiation.
Yeah, I'd be checking out a different way by day 2 or so
The images of their hands is definitely unsettling.
"Well men, it seems we have made what is called a fatal oopsie."
oopsies are generally non fatal, the technical term is an oopsie woopsie.
@@kylehenline3245 😭😭😭😭
time to go to the forever box
@@kylehenline3245 nah there’s only one line for this specific kinda oopsie woopsy.. “I let the demon out of the core after me he’s coming for y’all”
@@toomuchdamnyogurt5449 😆 🤣
This must be where the term
“I screwed myself!” came from.
Lol two different “screws” entirely.
Actually you don't want to know the origin of this term
@@NikoBellaKhouf2 really? What is it?
I'm thinking old torture or death device.
Well that's a fine how-do-you-do One mistake with the screwdriver and And you've got a date with Grim
@@karlbarnett5863 no, although that would have been my guess before I found this out.
Screwed came from the shape of a pig penis, which is like a corkscrew. And when a pig mates, their penis rotates like a corkscrew. And that's how we got the term, "screwed."
Fun fact: Beryllium not only reflects neutrons, but it also creates more neutrons when bombarded with alpha particles.
That is thank u
Oh that's why just a few millimeters makes a difference. Thanks screw driver 😢
I love this method of relaying "spookiness" without promoting pseudoscience or making mountains out of molehills. So many channels base all of their content on the idea that "we don't know what it was, but the person is missing and maybe it was a ghost."
I love this version so much more, we have the answers and this doesn't detract from the eerieness.
The worst part is we DO have the answers. 'Spicy rock' was contained and the 'spice' got so dense it shot out and went through bodies. Tearing apart their DNA and ability to reproduce cells. Soon your cells die as they always do.. But they can no longer be replaced and your body just starts breaking down. Piece by piece. Cell by cell. Tissue by tissue. Organ by organ. While you live and breath. At least up until the point your heart and lungs stop.
Yep. Chernobyl (the show) was both excellent human drama, and also a bit of a horror show itself just due to the relaying of some of the realities of the incident. The firefighter's arc is a good example.
This versiom he tells us nothing at all the screwdriver slipped is about all he could tell us in 30 seconds lol
I feel like this streamer is so full of shit that he brushes his teeth with toilet paper also why was there a security guard in a lab? Also how is this science when you're using music to set a vibe
@@network735 then you must've not seen the video
I know OSHA isn't always popular but this is a good reason to keep em around lol
For sure bro, I can deal with OSHA as long as people aren't fuckin around with their lives like this 😱😱
Seriously. OSHA exists because things have been Written In Blood.
I'm pretty sure it doesn't apply to classified military facilities working on cutting edge hazards
Biggest problem with Osha is they're pretty useless for making certain things safe in your workplace because of how they wrote some of the safety laws. What they consider acceptable levels of noise pollution is really bad for your ears. Way over the safe limit
OSHA casually rolling in to a secret military lab
The reason he said "well that does it" is actually more complicated and more dramatic to tell. Before the other men ran out, he told them to mark where they stood so he could calculate how much of a dose they received. He got that all others will likely live but he would almost certainly die, which prompted him to say "well that does it".
You are correct, he sure did that before everyone left, and for the others, i belive they did actually die due to cancer which was hard to determine as fact that it had to do with the demon core, However.... i think it happened to majority of them so, can kinda say theoretically that it DID had something to do with it lol.
My man knew he's practically dead now and still was like: "yep."
I was reading about how they did the initial tests to determine when it would go critical, and they used blocks to shield the radiation back in a similar way the dome would. One guy got fast and loose with placing the block, and accidentally placed one too many, causing the reaction to start like happened here. Instead of getting out of there, he tried to cover up his mistake and tried to pick the blocks back up with his hands. He also died an agonizing death from radiation poisoning.
This all seems so reckless
Sheesh
Isn't this what hank said in the episode before this
*accidentally gives himself a lethal dose of radiation*
"Aww man."
Chucks
I mean what else can you say or do really 😂
@@johanlorentzon4963gee wiz gosh golly darn…I guess I won’t see my kid’s wedding
@@venuztrvpthen he gets a call from a red phone and all he heard was "you're gonna die in 9 days"
@@venuztrvp dead ass. what I’m supposed to waste the very small amount of life I have left being upset about the fact that I inadvertently killed myself? If you only have nine days left to live what you doing?
"Well, that does it."
Security Guard Leaning on a Wall eating a bag of Potato Chips: "Does what?"
Not much of anything to guard at that point
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
This is gold
Nothing, I’m dead…
Holy moly
"Gentlemen, synchronize your death watches."
the references to tf2 are everywhere
Whoever dies first wins
I have done nothing but teleport bread for three days
Lol
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"That does it" one of the craziest ways to react to knowing you will die is a horrible death
"So how'd you die?"
"Demon core"
"That's rad"
Yes but how many rads?
@@wwerdo4 a whole bouquet of oopsie daisies worth.
Alternatively:
“So how’d you die?”
“Screwdriver slipped”
“Bruh”
@@wwerdo4 I'll give you some caps if you get me that core.
Haha. Rad.
The worst part is that there were actually proper procedures in place to prevent this from happening. He was just using a screwdriver instead of the wedges the protocol called for. This happened because of his negligence
"Gentlemen, it would appear that I made a fuckie wuckie" *melts to death*
😂
😂
Poor guy suffered for days in the most agonizing way possible before dying. Glad it made some people laugh though. 😀
😂😂😂
I laughed way harder than I should have.
I also read it in a British accent.
I stubbed my toe on the bathroom cabinet this morning, so I understand his pain.
Radiation is the closest thing we have to an eldritch horror.
Suns? Suns are pretty close.
Giants in space.
Extremely powerful.
Their lifespan is so long, they might as well be seen as unending.
Staring at them for too long can cause damage.
@@Biggestofoofs And doesn't the sun also emit a form of radiation? That's double the horror in my opinion.
@@Biggestofoofs Exactly it would be black holes since some are bigger than the tiniest of galaxies.
yeah, the building blocks of matter as we know it being ripped apart, the particles of what’s left turning into a light that destroys anything it touches
@@PresidentFunnyValentine All the ionizing electromagnetic zingers: Gamma, X-Ray, and UV. Without our atmosphere we'd not only be barbecued, but also doomed to every kind of cancer in the book within seconds of exposure.
He burned his hands and as people were running out the door. He said no. Everyone back to where you were so I can mark everyone's position to see how much of your life was actually taken.
Man was a homie
@@jasoncastaneda1942How was he a homie? He got everyone in that room killed
@@IDECIDETHETRUTHHe may have fucked up but he stopped the demon core from running and wanted to know if everyone would survive (probably, I'm not entirely sure his reasons for asking everyone to get back into position were altruistic)
@@IDECIDETHETRUTH the video makes it sound a lot like he was the only one to die.
@@dieselhall4505 what’s your source on that? I googled it, and from what I can find, they all took in a non-fatal dose, and each of them died some 20-50 years later, mostly natural causes, with one dying in the korean war and another by heart attack while skiing. The photographer appears to have been one of the few that actually did die from cancer, him and one other.
Slotin literally watched his coworker brutally die due to the exact same irresponsible behavior and was like omg I need to do the same
Probably felt guilty helping create a bomb that killed tens of thousands, suicide maybe?
There's a huge difference between letting a brick fall and using a screwdriver to prop up a dome, that difference being that only one of them shows irresponsible behavior and the other doesn't, the only thing that could be called irresponsible would be the method of testing.
What would be ironic though is that they might've switched from the brick method to the dome because it would be safer due to working with spacers and a crane to move the upper dome in a very controlled manner that isn't susceptible to human error, only for Slotin to go: "lmao, why would you need all of that when screwdrivers exist."
@@makeshiftparadox I wonder if they were due to run the experiment but the crane or other equipment to run the test safely was delayed or being used somewhere else?
@@lordpsi99
Nah, the thing is simply that the safe testing methods took more time than Slotin's screwdriver method (lifting the crane, bringing it back down, getting spacers built for the exact distance you want the dome to be open etc.). So he just ignored them, in favor of his quick and efficient screwdriver method.
Imagine being at the top of your field with a full understanding of what’s going on only to be reassured of imminent death.
We all get sinking feelings when something terrible has happened, like our heart just jumped to our throats.. but this must have been on another level. Just knowing that there and then you're a dead man walking.. damn
The problem with us being children in our lives make us feel invincible and that we will live forever, growing up is when you should have that feeling that your a dead man walking every single day, maybe we would all accomplish more, maybe be kinder to eachother, I think about that a lot
@@seanmower3926 a lot of people would also become nihilists and commit crimes for the heck of it. You didn’t really think this one through.
Memento mori @Sean Mower
He’s right, always walk the earth knowing that just like everything, you must die too. You don’t know when, where, how, or why. So appreciated every single extra day you get to live
Think about that really think about it smoke a joint and think about it 🤔
What makes it even spookier is that that experiment where the screwdriver slipped was supposed to be the final experiment done on the core before it went into permanent storage
the worst part of this death is that it isn't instantaneous, you know that you're gonna die in a few days and you just think to yourself "if only i didn't do that" and you keep regretting it as you slowly deteriorate over the span of these days.
can you imagine the despair you'd feel
Especially knowing this was a direct result of your own stupid and reckless actions
Yep this is honestly where I'd just end it all myself.
Remember that phrase about better living with the fact you tried and failed instead of living with the fact you never tried? Yea thats not one of those cases for sure.
Eeriest thing to me is technically the death is instantaneous as your body basically stops functioning upon such a dose. Youre just conscious as youre body decays/burns away depending on dosage concentration.
@@daslynnter9841 radiation kills you before you die, you get to see yourself decompose. really scary shit
Dude basically faced death with a "it be like that sometimes"
"Well that's a whoopise. Everyone mark where you were. Your distance is proportional to your premature death!"
He could calculate a set of radial zones from the center of the core that denote immediately fatal or not.
@@brolysadvocate why would you need a whole set for only two outcomes? 😜 Yeah it's pretty easy to calculate dose at any given distance if you know the dose at another one. A little trickier if the amount of shielding is different between them, but still easy enough if you know the tenth thickness of the material
@@HoepRemains those are just the most important outcomes lol... anything more would be varying levels of sick and or dying. I suppose the doses ranged from dead in 9 days to dead in x years of a radiation related illness. Someone must have gotten lucky and died of something else altogether.
@@brolysadvocate yeah I mean at the time we definitely didn't have the information we do now but realistically it 100% matters how close you got to that fatal dose. Like if you get an acute whole body dose of 500 rem you might not die but you're not gonna enjoy life for a while if ever again
@@HoepRemains 🤣, fallout for 500 Alex: 1000 of these units is a fatal dose of radiation.... what is a rad? Lol
He was the only one who received a fatal dose, but everyone in the room eventually died early from some form of cancer. However, he did contribute to science by having everyone mark where they were with chalk and he calculated the grays received by everyone, which helped us in our knowledge of radiation poisoning.
No. Only he and one other person there died from cancer.
And from this experiment. The scientists know not to play with the devils balls.
They did not and some how this happened -again- ffs. The demon core wasn't disposed of until much later.
@@OldBuggaboo really?? The smartest person is usually the most dumbest in the long run
@@OldBuggaboo seriously 😑
I mean, they didn't have to make it a sphere.
@@yueshijoorya601 A sphere makes nuclear bomb detonation much more efficient with less wasted fuel and higher output. This was designed and machined for a bomb before it was decommissioned for research.
I always love how obviously dangerous fields of science are so wild about safety in the early days
Those 9 days were likely agony on a scale we can't comprehend
Yes! Because it usually takes far longer to die from radiation exposure... Man it's some hell of a thing, radiation
I would literally kill myself if I ever got radiation sickness. Its inhumane to let anyone go through that
@@Jordan-bg7xc I agree and theres no possibility for recovery so you may as well end it ☠
@@Jordan-bg7xc I was just thinking that myself
In cases such as this, can't a Doctor give a lot of medicine to make patient feel comfortable until death comes? Or if the patient wants and requests...give a fatal dose of morphine or some other strong pain medicine?
Remember kids, when someone says "stop that or you will end up dead" isnt an opportunity to reply with "hold my beer".
Hold my lead, gonna tap those demonballs.
Hold my screwdriver
Hold my screwdriver
Kenny from South Park "Hold my beer" lol
Hold my screwdriver
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😂😂😂
Perfect
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Technically OSHA doesn't have authority with nuclear components. That would fall under the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
@@lexus14blacklist 🤓
This is why media will never show us how real scientists act in labs.
We really do just be like "what if I made a ball of death... And then just had everyone poke it. Pretty neat?"
“It appears as though I have made an oopsie.”
“A little bit of a fuckie wuckie if you will”
"Oopsie? That is more than an oopsie!"
"Oopsie daisy!"
that's not how you spell "fuckie wuckie"
welp it seems that I have discovered a "Bruh moment"
That has to be the worst feeling in the world to know without a shadow of a doubt that the next few days will be your last and most painful.
There's one, the moment you know you only have a few minutes/seconds to live (ex: airplain crash, someone firing a gun at blank point, falling off a high place...) That feeling must be horrifying.
@@grec. never been the same when a wire from a ski lift anchor stuck in a maintenance ladder swung past me. Feels like i already died in 2005
Not only that but to know that it was completely your own fault. Who in their right mind would bet their life on a screwdriver staying upright?
@@sleepingisathing6598 Wow. Must had felt so unreal. I hope you can somehow stay sane despite the said circumstances.
@@grec. not at all.. that's a very calm tame death. Instant is not very scary
"This is only dangerous if you mess it up"
famous last words.
Why would anyone want to be near a demon core is beyond me.
@@JackCrossSamaI would assume it's because they were being paid lol
@@pumkin610 You could pay me billions and I ain't going near no damn demon core.
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My Dad lives his life this way.
How could a group of people so smart do something that stupid?
There is a reason wisdom and intelligence are different stats in d&d.
Only human
It was all new
@@tomhenry897 Nah, plenty of people warned Slotin. He knew himself. He just chose not to take proper care, for whatever stupid reason. He certainly knew better.
Because "smart" and "stupid" are lies we use to unfairly categorise people based on privilege, enthusiasm and field of interest. I'm a very enthusiastic student of biology in a country where education is mostly available to a portion of the community which up until recently included me, and whaddya know I'm considered smart.
When I'm called that, I take it as the compliment it's intended as, because I really *do* back up my love for the field with inquisitiveness, attentiveness and effort, but imo I'm not necessarily "smarter" than someone who was just bullied out of the education system for being the wrong kind of disabled but can still play a lathe like a virtuoso.
Another sad detail is that he had already accepted a professorship at Chicago teaching biophysics, and was in the process of training someone to take over his role at Los Alamos when this happened. He was just 35.
wow
I like how he just accepted his fate, "well, guess I'm dying"
I like how he just accepted his fate, "well, guess I'm dying"
@@giovannigiorgio2262 why u copy?
@@crispyboi6283 why u copy?
@@crispyboi6283 why u copy?
@@giovannigiorgio2262 why u copy?
My last job had training that stated "If you experience a flash of blue light, proceed to...."
Was your last job in a nuclear power plant?
@Calkimchican't if ur on the damn ground lol
You work at a nuclear power plant? My dad worked at Browns Ferry nuclear power plant in Alabama as a machinist supervisor for like 25 years. He talked about stuff like that and also that the walls were soooo thick, feet on feet on feet to try and protect in case something happened. I was always sketchy about going around there, not that I could get through the gates anyway. Lol
I love this story, it's such a good demonstration of the ability of man to be the biggest safety issue no matter how many safeguards are in place.
The movie Fatman and Little Boy portrays this scene and I was always confused how casual the response from the actor was but I guess it was super accurate
I get it, actually. Sometimes when something really bad happens really quickly, and you know enough to immediately know the ramifications, the understanding of the whole situation can settle in in faster than the fear, and all you're left with is a general feeling of "well, shit."
Basically he was smart enough to know how bad this was, and how little he could do to prevent his own demise. Kind of like hearing a beloved family member died out of nowhere, it probably didn't really hit him until after the incident was over.
He also knew he was using an unapproved procedure. FUNNY ENOUGH the screw driver was not approved for holding that in place.
@@foogod4237 think aswell it would be partly due to the shock factor of it happening is why people respond with just things like "well,shit" because that's all the brain can procces through the shock
Cusack isn't that good of an actor, so there's that too.
the fact that he knew that if that happened he’d definitely die, but still chose to have the only thing between him and certain painful death be a screwdriver is astonishing to me
The answer was ego, this wasn't the first time he did the demo either with it
He still had the presence of mind to tell everyone to mark their location on the floor with chalk, he also documented then dictated his health to the doctors so they would have a complete record of his death. Downright hero right there.
How exactly is he a hero if as one of the leaders of the project did something as irresponsible as using a screwdriver to prop open something so critical. If this had happened today, he would be called stupid and not a hero
@@NithinMukundakumar123 read above
@@NithinMukundakumar123 he helped ensure others that would study this after him would not suffer the same fate
@@NithinMukundakumar123 bad take
@@FirstLast-ox1iy good take
this one actually gives me chills every time. Slotin knew he was dancing w the devil, and he tripped
If I remember correctly, while he was the only one to receive a fatal dose to die immediately, both Graves and Cieslicki had on going health problems for the rest of their lives, and died about 20 years later. Both died very young, Cieslickiin his 40's and Graves in his 50's. This story never fails to anger me. For some reason physicist of the era were notoriously dismissive of human lives, their own and others. Lots of irresponsible experiments who could have easily been made safe happened back then and people payed with their lives just due to ignorance and negligence
I chalk this up to reckless negligence, Unit 731 on the other hand (which was a completely different field of science) that’s utter disregard for human life. Worse yet, it’s very likely medical science would be less advanced if not for the horrible actions involved (mainly the live human dissection)
I for one am glad to live in an Era when ethics boards get final say about what does and doesn't fly for most research.
and it got even worse but more precise.
over the years. planned precise ignorance.
We have all those safety features thanks to those accidents, dont fool yourself
Tha flash of light was death materializing and saying "Hi, I will see you later"
The blue light was the angel of death "Are we really doing this now"
*rips the dome off the core*
"Oh, okey. Ill see you next week"
@@donovanulrich348 The "Angel of Death" is not death. It was an angel that performed a couple of God's miracles. No religious text ever referrs to the angel of death taking individual lives.. MC Mark's comment was better lol
good old Cherankov radiation flash of blue and goodbye to you
If you see a flash of blue, you know the days are few.
“Sir are you sure it’s safe”
“DO YOU NOT see the screwdriver..OOPS…well that does it”
That’s sad. He was dying saying “well that does it” :(
"Lewis just a quick question is my face supposed to be melting off"
As if radiation would be so kind as to kill that quick. A death by radiation is a slow and guarenteed one
Imagine holding something with the power of 1000 suns and you say something right out of a sitcom☠️☠️☠️
I know that's a reference, but it doesn't even come close to 1% of the power of a single sun.
"well that does it"
*laugh track plays*
And a funny catchy song starts
Lmao I imagined the laugh track after that
Better than the marvel "well THAT just happened."
That’s one of those moments when you grab the pistol from your nightstand. I’m not going through radiation poisoning if I can help it
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Lol @ Muricans
@@Merlincat007 I'm not american, and I still feel like I'd do the same.
Radiation poisoning is no joke. It's a slow and agonising way to go. Your body is literally being torn apart on a cellular level as your organs shut down one by one.
@@MartinFinnerup I agree with the assisted suicide idea, it's just the gun in the nightstand thing is so classically American and ill-advised. Someone with a gun in their house is more likely to be killed by a gun. Especially if theirs is in a nightstand and not locked in a safe.
@@Merlincat007 mine is locked on a special safe on my nightstand. It's a pretty cool contraption I hope I never need for it's intended purpose
i knew all of this but his realization of the end is fucking terrifying Hank.
And if I recall correctly, this was supposed to be the LAST experiment to be done with the Demon Core as it was the end of that research. It was the last day of tickling that dragon.
This is what happens when you spread your buttcheeks to fate.
@@bryanergau6682 is fate the new tranny in the block's corner? Many buttcheeks have been spread by now 😂😂😂
@@bryanergau6682 i need that on a t shirt fuck
tickling lol
ball lmao even
@@bookle5829 I REALLY wanted to avoid saying anything about tickling, dragons and balls in the same sentence >.>
If only he had used duct tape and bubble gum instead
Edit: wow! 7 likes! I'm famous!
He was a scientist, not an engineer 😅
Jokes aside, still kinda chilling. I would stay far far away from whatever they were experimenting
Or some bungee gum smh
@@lawyerreactsnotthemoon85 is that the one with the properties of both rubber and gum?
@@joat6774 bungee gum is indeed imbued with the properties of both rubber and gum
Lol for real
Propping it up with a screwdriver is like the equivalent of SpongeBob and Patrick building Squidward’s Tiki Land out of earwax.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. I will always be your friend Jim...
And that’s why you gotta have the right tool for the job. Bob taught me that one without any fatalities
The builder? Lol
No lol, I think he means Ross.
bob villa?
Bob grace
wut?
It's crazy how calm you can be when surrounded by other people.
"That settles it" is the science version of "it is what it is"
well, when you skydive and you know the parachute won't work and survival is unlikely, all you can do is to just enjoy the fall while it lasts.
There's nothing we can do.
"Shit happens"
@@LucasTheOnion although I would personally far rather die falling than 9 days of radiation poisoning setting in
@@mhaseth well, yes. however in both situations you know you're most likely dead, and the best thing you can probably do is find a way to enjoy the rest of the time you have left, in one case by maybe also going skydiving without a parachute XD
Our lab prof told us this story after going through all the safety precautions when we were in the radio lab. And then like five minutes later someone asked about the random metal suitcase that was like half-hidden behind a pillar. And he said: “Oh yeah that’s some alpha emitter we found laying around. No one wanted to pay to get rid of it properly, so it’s just been sitting there in that suitcase for the past couple years.”
Scientists really be like: why spend money when you can diy it
Tbf alpha particles can be stopped be even a single sheet of paper so the metal suitcase should be completely fine
@@kittenloveer1625 nah yeah for sure, if it was like super dangerous it wouldn’t have been chillin there. But still, the situation was kinda funny. Like in our experiment we were only allowed to touch the beta emitters with gloves, but just after our prof explained this to us, he touched one without a glove. And he was just like: “Meh. Back when I was at uni, they straight up dumped the radioactive material into our bare hands.” Physicists have such a low sense of self-preservation XD
@@leoneph2295 oh my God 🤦♀️Xb
@@leoneph2295in come the chemists with their azidoazide azide bs again :P
@@leoneph2295 Reminds me of the dark room: professors would say “use the tongs to move the photos from tray to tray” as they dipped their fingers into them. Everyone I’ve known who worked long-term in a dark room was a little loopy 😅🤣
My Chemistry101 professor in college was there when this accident happened.
He told the class this story during one of his lectures.
Was he really? How old was he? Did it seem true? Or was he bluffing for fun
Dude he lied to you or your lying, to feel special, no one is alive from then.
@@jizzstain4458this was after ww2, yes there are some people still alive from then, and you don’t know when the class in question happened
@@charlesterrizzi8311 nah everyone dead
@@charlesterrizzi8311it’s possible but this man is almost 100% lying and on top of that they either dead, old, or too busy studying physics to teach 20 year old high schoolers
As soon as he moved his head and I saw the screw I KNEW. Dear god this incident still gives me nightmares
At least mans had the sense to rip the dome back off
What happens if they don't take off the dome.
@@miltonperez3421boom
@miltonperez3421 my guess is it would catch on fire. Like when they can't cool off a nuclear reactor. That's essentially what it would be.
It would melt a super radioactive hole into the earth.. not sure how deep but it's going to be pretty deep. Look up Chernobyls core.
@@miltonperez3421 ever heard of a Nuclear meltdown or Chernobyls Elephant foot? Which happens to contain less radiation
Considering he died after nine days of exposure I can only imagine how agonizing those 8 days were
Even on the very first day. i don't think he had any reason to not commit suicide, considering that the same thing happened to someone else so he knew exactly what was going to happen
He's a scientist, probably used the time to write about what happened
Just imagine a virus thats programmed to delete or corrupt every function in the computer before shutting it down forever
@@drm.himself considering the agony he would be experiencing I think at most he had someone else write it down. I can't imagine he was able to properly function enough to write down what he was experiencing
@@hereandnow3156 You're acting like you knew what he was feeling, nobody has any idea.
Man creators like this be sending you down rabbit holes for 3hrs
proof that the photographer always survives
any camera film would have been "over exposed" 😂 without the shutter ever opening.
nahh he died 9 months later
Ironically, he died in a car crash, and not from cancer.
The original photographer of the Elephant's Foot would beg to differ.
If they had survived taking the photo, that is.
Fun fact: obviously everyone ran, but he called them all back in gave them some chalk and said “mark where you where standing” so he could calculate how much radiation they received at the time of criticality
Shoutout to him though, maintained composure and acted quick enough to make sure nobody else died, even though he knew he was a lost cause
Yeah man they also kept him alive for 9 days so they could document the effects on a living person.
For the first 4 days he repeatedly begged for them to let him die but they didn't.
After the 5th he was unable to communicate and his flesh was peeling off his bones.
@@joelsamuel6457That's Hisashi Ouchi, you're confusing a Japanese man with the scientist talked about on this video.
@@thepeasant269 you are correct, my mistake
@@thepeasant269Hisashi Ouchi also wasn’t kept alive as an experiment, it was his wish.
@nestormakhno8596 it was but after a certain point he should have been allowed death. He was literally goo and couldn't digest food urinate or anything... imagine the tubes on him 😢 it was an experiment though. They paid him and he wanted his wife and kids supported so he did it for them
:(
I can’t imagine why I had no idea you were a stand-up comedian 🤦🏻😅🤣🤣
He was smart, stupid, and badass at the same time
What a man
Forgive me, but he looked it… like the kind of guy , who had the world, but lost everything with the slip of screwdriver…after he had been warned!!
Ngl, he’s kinda hot
Louis Slotin was my grandpas friend, from Winnipeg. I wrote a paper about him & the accident before it became declassified. I’m sure I was put on some watch list for my nuclear weapons research at age 8
wow, that’s wild. how do you pronounce his last name properly? i’m also working on a piece of work referential to him and i want to make sure i pronounce his name 100% correctly, and since your grandfather knew him i just thought i’d ask
@@ExperimentIV slow-tin
@@kendracherrett8276 thank you so much!
“You guys wanna see something cool?…
Aw ffff-“
What? What was the cool thing? Was it the flash? Why are you looking at me like that? 👀
@@silverblue73 You may wanna contact your wife and kids. Why? Umm, you don't talk to them enough 😓
The fact that he knew he was dead, but he still removed the dome to prevent a worse disaster is one of the greatest acts of heroism in history. A flash of blue light is one of the most terrifying things in existence.