A Brief History of: The Demon Core (Short Documentary)
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Arguably the two incidents show how you can't take for granted a material with the potential of going supercritical at the drop of a hat. Unsurprisingly the item in question would gain the name the demon core, but what was this innocuous looking item?
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Nice John :) - but tell us why didn those scientist perform these experiments? couldnt they make it with a noncritical mass and some reflectors? Couldnt they just measure the cross section and later use it in calculations - i believe feynmann was calculating all these geometries of a bomb - no need to tickle the critical mass :)
Lmao, calling it a “demon core” even though it only killed a few people, whereas the CORES of Fat Man and Little Boy literally killed hundreds of thousands of people.
Why do people dump for the FAKE MSM so much? Why can’t people think critically for themselves?
Luv you Johhhhhhn! Muah! ❤️
Pure Fiction, Proof of all Claims Required.
NEW CLEAR ENERGY IS THE MOVEMENT OF WATER.
"You'll be dead if you carry on like this!"
He carried on like that. Then he was dead.
*shock face 0o0
That man was a prophet
@@tisnotdawey4982 Enrico Fermi was just one of the most genius scientists of that time. sometimes it takes a genius to see the obvious
😂😂😂
fuck around and find out
Slotin was quite calm after the incident. Knowing he'd just received a lethal dose of radiation, he simply announced "Well, that does it".
Hahaha!
Famous last words. 😂🤣
What a lad.
doodily doo the rad lad
What a chad!
Sadly, intellectual brilliance and common sense do not necessarily go han-in-hand. Wow, those early days of nuclear science were a real f*ckin' cowboy show, huh??
"Ayo, Grip check"
*smacks screwdriver out of hand*
this made me lol
This is why the future generations would be the extinction of humanity, not some natural disaster
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Lol Ik is a funny lad
Nice.
Demon Core with SpongeBob voice: "Wanna see me kill a scientist? Wanna see me do it again?"
Imagone dropping it and it laughs like spongebob before exploding.
@@psychogoreman198LMo
I feel the core is getting a bad rep. If anyone approached me with a screwdriver and started poking I'd go super critical as well.
And if I knew that as a result of the guy poking me with a screwdriver, I would wind up the star of a Plainly Difficult video, yeah, I'd be super critical too!
Man you ever just-(levels a city)
what's ur pfp from?
Bro saaame
Based demon core
You didn’t mention how they were smart enough to document everyone’s position and distance in the room providing valuable data on radiation exposure effects.
I'm sure that would be the surviving scientists that did that.
Solar Blitz No, it was done immediately after it happened and the scientist that did it died soon after. None of them died immediately, it took days for them to die of their exposure.
@@sandracheeks1811 oh damn, alright. Thanks!
@@sandracheeks1811 understand that if I found out that I had days left to live because someone else exposed me to radiation, I'm using every second of life I have left beating him senseless. Not killing him, just hurting him.
@@getthegoons who wouldn't? i'd personally take his ass with me though.
"Not only will this kill you, it will hurt the whole time you're dying"
it damages you at cellular level if your next to plutonuim core when its in criticle state might as well just take a gun and end it right there
I heard morphine wouldn’t even touch the pain people had from ARS. You’re literally getting torn apart into a soupy mass.
@@FlameDarkfire Hard for painkillers to be effective when your entire nervous system falls apart.
I don t get it .. I mean if your nervous system falls apart wouldn't it lose its connection to the brain and so you'd go numb?
Damian Curie the nervous system will send garbage signals that the brain will just interpret as “pain!”
imagine naming what's possibly the most dangerous weapon created at that time that could flatten a city if u drop a brick into it, and you name it "Rufus"
Fat man and Little Boy are way better of course
Like a fuckin naked mole rat off that cartoon LOL
Phonetic alphabets before standardization were fuckin wild man.
Rufus for R in radiation.
Well, better than Tiffany
"Tell me something good."
imagine being one of the guards stationed to "protect" this thing. You don't really understand what it is or how it does what it does outside of broad terms, or what to do if one of the scientists fuck up, but you get to make sure it doesn't walk off by staying in close proximity to the sassy death marble that's killed 2 men within seconds. Yaaaaay, can I get reassigned to an Arctic radar station, please?
"sassy death mable" is a great phrase
@@jaysea5939 thank you!
SCP Foundation guards in a nutshell.
@@iggystoneman2933 lol
back then the weapons-grade plutonium was the most expensive metal known to man
"Oh, meltdown. It's one of these annoying buzzwords. We prefer to call it an unrequested fission surplus." - CM Burns
‘Nuclear excursion’ sounds like it went on a field trip!
The goggles do nothing!
Who's that dog?
@@Worldsawesomestguy Mr Peanutbutter 🎶
Let them have their tartar sauce. Homer was a genius!
Let's just take a second and appreciate the fact that the scientist didn't panic instead he thought of the science behind the accident and told everyone to stand still and mark where they are stand so the effects could be studied
Psychopath shit to do when people are going to die and experiencing their last moments
@@yehororlov8362 sounds like you want to meet god and ask him if he saw your great work on earth!!..... is that the conversation of extraordinary person!!
@@cchoice4919 u make it sound like we wanna do it voluntarily. Their fate were sealed, so they might as well contribute something for the future at that point
@@cchoice4919Take your meds
"well we die anyway in a couple of days. Let's work on a final publication with analysis data of your fatal radiation dose."
"3 dimensional sunburn"
Quite possibly the scariest thing about this video is knowing that such a thing exists.
Just imagine the atoms in your body being torn apart in places, killing cells in real time. Holy shit.
Not to mention it totally destroys your DNA, so your body doesn't know how to replicate the cells necessary to live! Your body starts to die and wither away. This is a very bad way to go.
@@jimtheedcguy4313 bruh no matter what we all die.
@@hendrik6720 yea but have u seen what radiation that severe does to a persons body?
Having worked as a tow truck operator, I'm very aware of my own mortality, but drowning and radiation poisoning aren't ways I want to go out.
Something about the core being a simple ball makes it that more ominous and horrifying
Half a sphere technically
i was thinking, what if the position of the berrylium outer spheres could be self regulating in order to always prpduce sub-supercritical amounts of nuetrons/radiation/power?
if berrylium blocks neutrons, will a dense *gaseous* berrylium still block neutrons?
what about mercury as a containment/heat transfer material, say in a closed loop system?
@@hendrik6720 1) Gasious Berylium can never be as dense as solid, and therefore as useful as a Neutron reflector.
2) These days nuclear science is done somewhat differently.
3) The gist of what you are describing allready exists. It's called a Nuclear Reactor.
@@whoknowswhocares885 a hemisphere, technically.
Real scary
I think the worst part of this was that Louis Slotin had observed Harry Daghlian’s deterioration the year before from a similar event, so he knew what was going to happen to him the moment it happened.
That was the confusing part for me.
"If it glows pink, it's a girl. If it glows blue, it's a boy."
These gender reveal parties are really getting out of hand.
What if it’s red
@@AzRill5 Miscarriage
@@starjamm9862 ah I see, thank you
@@starjamm9862 yes my fellow ace friend yes 😂😂😂👌
"So if the case closes, it will go supercritical and kill us all?"
"Yep."
"Can we learn anything by poking it with a screwdriver?"
"Nope."
"Sounds like a plan"
Looks cool though
Scientist: you'll die in a year, if you will continue to violate safety instructions.
Other scientist: dies in a year, because of violation of safety instructions.
Took me a second to remember this was an actual big historic thing and not just an analog horror video
You need to go outside more
"This ball can wipe out a city."
"Ok, but have you seen me with a screwdriver?"
Nincadalop
One little untightened pipe can cause a cascade of trouble.
Loose it in Los Angeles and let it do its work, then take it to San Francisco.
@@jamiebraswell5520 the plague would die out at least
NO, AND NETHER AS ANYONE HAND IF WE DID YOU BE ON THE NEWS AND DOING LONG LONG TIME OR ON THE UPSIDE YOU BE THE BEST SCREW SCREWER ON THE PLANET I THINK YOU JUST A CLOWN THINKING YOU DANGEROUS
a pencil is enough o.o
I would say complacency mixed with arrogance, or at least on Slotin’s part. You alluded to this in the video. Slotin had been warned by ENRICO FERMI himself, no less! Yet he continued using a screwdriver, no doubt supremely confident that his abilities could prevent any accidents. Sadly, he only had 9 days to contemplate the hubris which was ultimately responsible for his premature death.
Love your videos - thanks!
I'm reminded of an airline that crashed because a dad decided to let his two kids take control of the plane.
"Complacency" is the keyword here.
Can you tell me what was this incident that happened?
@@matheusalencar4762 he's talking about the crash of Airbus A310 over Russia in 1994. There are many documents of this flight on UA-cam, X Pilot has it with the cockpit recordings.
@@matheusalencar4762 ua-cam.com/video/RrttTR8e8-4/v-deo.html
That was in Russia, I'm sure Vodka was a contributing factor, and of course typical Russian not giving a frick.
@@kdrapertrucker No, the key factor was absence of sound alarm for turning off the autopilot, while it could turn off by itself in certain situations.
Demon core: I killed Daghlian and Slotin
Chernobyl: Hold my graphite
4:01
"510 REM of neutron radiation"
Dyatlov: 510. Not great, not terrible.
510 Rem = 581.5 Roentgen. So actually pretty goddamn terrible.
I think the demon core is probably more scary since its so small yet it still killed 3 people.
Plus emitting a blue glow before killing you, sounds like somthing out of Wolfenstein
Actually the elephant's foot under the chernobyl plant is much scarier. Just this strange alien mass melting it's way into the earth, so highly radioactive that getting too close can fucking vaporize you
@@IkeanCrusader1013 not to mention that it's sitting over a massive underground water casm if it melts through and drops into the water it will heat fracture somehow making it re melt down. And they say do to the fact that's it's concentrated all in one mass instead of fuel rods if it goes boom it will without a doubt be the worst nuclear disaster the world has seen along with the biggest nuclear detonation to date .... The only thing worse is America's radiation dumpsite near bikini atoll it's a huge dome that seals in all of the Manhattan project waste aswell as fall out debrie from the a bomb and h bomb tests in the Pacific they say one good storm could destroy the dome scattering all the shit into the Pacific not that it matters because they burried it on a very small island that's made out of coral it's porus so the seas water flows right through the island and the put all that shit in a wet hole the dumb fuckers so needles to say the ocean life around there is fucked and the nomadic people that used to live on boats and hop island to island had to move to mainland places and give up thier culture because the fishing is so bad there now I think that may be the worst one
@@todydn I'd have to disagree, chernobyl is worse. The dome protecting it, if it were to fall, would spill out so much radioactive fallout and waste that the resulting nuclear blanket would last for hundreds of thousands of years. And that's not even counting the explosion of the elephant's foot.
scientist:
"I AM A SCIENTIST, I KNOW THE DANGER OF MY WORK!"
also scientist:
"safety go brrrr"
humans gotta fool around
For every Heisenberg and Bohr, there are a thousand Homer Simpsons.
Requisite joke: D'oh!
A thousand? Try a hundred thousand. We’ve got lots here in the states. Some of them are rather easy to spot, they’re the ones that don’t wear masks and contribute to the spread and death toll of covid-19.
Probably more like for every million
Organic Giraffe I like to think it’s not just unique to the states but it’s definitely more concentrated here
We know..
Look at the last election!
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"OK due to Harry's death we've increased the safety precautions when working with the core."
"Hmm... doesn't say anything about not using screwdrivers in here."
Everyone in that room died of cancer no one survived
@@thecloneguyz yes, I also read the story, no need to repeat it.
IKEA instructions.
Part of me can't help but feel a little bad for them, as that's definitely not a pleasant way to go. The other part of me, probably the bigger part if I'm honest, finds it hard to sympathize with someone's demise when it's entirely a consequence of their own bad decisions.
Dont spit into the wind, dont tug on Superman's cape, and never, ever tickle the tail of the dragon.
were wally I thought it was "don't piss into the wind" or is that why your shoes are wet? Lol Jk
Also never pat the head of the tiger and try to braid their whiskers.
@@Fisthammet or try to brush its teeth
and "don't provoke the borg!"
Don't knock the hat off the ol Lone Ranger and you don't mess around with Jim...
I can not let you escape Squidward, I am adding another demon core to your confinement untill you calm down.
Whether it’s in a laboratory or a machine shop, you are never in more danger than when you’re relaxed and think you’re safe.
Works on the street, too...
Exactly today in 1946 the screwdriver dude had his accident
RIP "Screwdriver Dude." We hardly knew ye.
Exactly 7 days ago was same date he made the experiment!
And then Bob Lang slept there
Das tuff
Demon Core? Nah.
Spicy ball? Hell yes
"Plutonium is just spicy Lead."
Ouchiesphere
Auuuuugh! The Core! The Core is blue hot! Screwdriver you rat, you weren't stabilizing the Beryllium sphere, you slipped and gave me the ol Spicy Ball! How could you give your own scientist, Slotin, the spicy ball !?!
What if these scientists were given DMT or LSD while exposed to the nuclear radiation? what could probably happen to their state of mind? i was curious as to the term "state of confusion" the scientist felt after being exposed.
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Safety is not just for you, it's also for those people around you
Where did the idea that radiation gives super powers come from? It literally just obliterates your cells.
Stan Lee
@@kevinhall4061 fair enough lol
Ionizing radiation can cause genetic mutations in offspring of those affected. Not all mutations are essentially harmful.
@@poppedweasel Most are :,(
@@edwrd687 Evolution has been fuelled by mutations that proved beneficial. Whether radiation was the cause or not is irrelevant to the question of the original poster. Ionizing radiation causes mutations. Imaginative people wrote stories about beneficial mutations. X-Men were born.
The Demon Core, or as I call it "The Spicy Meatball"
Forbidden Marble
The Master Pokeball
Very very hot Bakugan
Bad bad jawbreaker
95 percent of a hot time?
“If Happy Fun Ball begins to emit smoke, leave the area immediately.”
One of my favorite ads on SNL. "Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball."
I was specifically looking for a Happy Fun Ball reference. Thank you!
"Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball."
...Or if it begins to glow...
Actually, you would be deadman before you could take 3 steps.
This could also be called Darwin's Sphere.
Underrated comment
This name...I like it. I shall ignore its true name from this day onwards
I love this new name 😂😂
What if these scientists were given DMT or LSD while exposed to the nuclear radiation? what could probably happen to their state of mind? i was curious as to the term "state of confusion" the scientist felt after being exposed.
Christopher Sikes why?
When you sacrifice all your wisdom status points to add intelligence ones.
The nuclear scientist version of *_"HOLD MY BEER...."_*
*HOLD MY SCREWDRIVER*
Morgan Phillips p
@@samuelcervantez8552 hm?
I'd be like hell no bro you win by default lol
"... took the lives of two very talented scientists."
One which was literally poking the heart of a nuke with a screwdriver.
_3-dimensional sunburn_
*That's a lotta damage!!*
He rolled a 1 on the d20.
Technically speaking this is a fission core, and the sun works with fusion. So no its not really a sunburn :D
Phil Swift could have fixed this easily
He should've drank some sunscreen.
I can only imagine what he exper9 man. How different do you think your state of awareness would be slowly slipping out of this world the way he did?
Having read the reports on this, you have made a very well made video and highly accurate and I applaud you. Excellent synopsis. The guard that survived they didn't realize he had leukemia until after he died. So at least he had that peace of mind.
@Free Spirit 🤣😂🤣😂
Under different circumstances, you could start a religion with this “demon core”.
like the children of atom?
@@vladimirpinera1137 hell yeah
@@vladimirpinera1137 beat me to it!
@@vladimirpinera1137 i love it
@@vladimirpinera1137 Can't even begin to guess at the amount of time I've spent trying to ignore that fucking preacher while drinking irradiated water for Moira's bloody Wasteland Survival Guide...
I find radiation so fascinting, so amazing and with so many uses that can benefit humanity, yet so dangerous.
Step 1 - place plutonium core on table, level with your nads.
Step 2 - keep cores subcritical with a screwdriver
Step 3 - I can promise you it isn't profit.
Don't forget to squint when the air starts glowing
Cowboy boots.
Step 10 - congratulations you have been worthy of acts of stupidity Darwin award
Step 11 - receive natural selection award by being painfully dying
Not a recommended form of male birth control.
Imagine the SCP foundation having the safety precautions of the Manhattan Project...
*shudders*
Have you played containment breach? Cuz they are worse
Lowkey sounds fun as fuck
jack roberts yeah but you’re supposed to be executing recontainment procedure. Game wouldn’t be fun if they were all in their boxes
_hOly MoLy_
Plainly difficult: Refers to many scientific references and words
Me: Ahh yes round ball bad. No touch. No touch bad ball
This was one of the most crude experiments performed by supposedly professional scientists. Sorry, but this was definitely Slotin's fault and the whole experiment was an accident waiting to happen due to complacency and disregard for safety.
It bears noting that the screwdriver was actually an improvement on the original method used to separate the two half spheres; they originally used chopsticks.
I often think the lack of safety measures leading to deaths like these are less out of ignorance and more out of a collective passive desire to test boundaries. It's not one of those situations where they had no idea and suddenly tragedy occurs and they have to double down on caution. It's more "we knew the risks and were willing to take them, now that we know what the worst case scenario is we don't ever need to take such risks again."
You must like sniffing your own farts
There was no scientific gain from him using a screwdriver through.
@@csspezzzz twisting the screwdriver gave fine adjustments in the gap between the 2 halves
Absolutely man 100%!
again, as I mentioned in another text , Bob Lazarr was one of the Men who worked on something Very similar to this "demon core' and thats basically what they were doing. Crazy shit
so many things we take for granted came at the cost of Intelligent men&women's lives
@@---kx3nw
Well said!!
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This is one of the stories that got me interested in science. The way i like to think about it is science is kind of like our unviverses version of magic you can have all these strange substances with strange behavior and if some of them are not handled, used, and/or stored correctly it can have catastrophic consequences.
The universe is magic, what we call science is our tool of trying to explain what can't be explained. And when science doesn't explain something....well....
that's why i'm studying math.
insanely simple rules can lead to complex behaviours and patterns and it's just like, how did that even happen or why, but it just is. you're figuring out the rules for the rules for the universe.
Science would work on magic. Science is a method for figuring out how things work, while filtering out as much of the experimenters' biases as possible. If magic was real, science would be able to figure out how it works.
Science is when you explain how it works to others.
Magic is when keep them in the dark to entertain or fleece them.
@@kennethsizer6217 you are explaining what a magician does I was thinking more along the lines of fictional magic. The type of stuff you would think of when talking about a wizard or something along those lines. When I think about that type of magic it makes me think of something that needs to be studied and understood and can be very dangerous if you don't know what you are doing.
"You're gonna die within the year"
"Haha, screwdriver goes BRRRRR"
I wouldn't want to be anywhere near something like that, no matter how much guarantee of safety there was. The injuries to those men is terrifying and disturbing.
Seriously! If anything goes wrong, you're going to die. But not instantly, like a bullet to the head -- your body and brain are going to slowly, painfully melt over a period of weeks.
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can you speak like American?
your accent is unberable
Ok
@@xziaah6j63kx9 damn bro it’s just a British man
@@xziaah6j63kx9 can you learn to spell English properly, your spelling is unbearable
My late partner's mother was a nurse in attendance for the man who died from exposure from "tickling the dragon's tail". The hospital was roughly where the new public library now stands in Los Alamos.
Anyone else already heard this story but keep coming back to see other people talk about it
Sounds like a new market
Randonautica app
Bro I've never heard of this story
@@KamiTenchi then my comment wasn't for you
@@swordtaker2 No it was not but I embraced it anyway.
Heck I’m no scientist but the entire screwdriver idea is just begging for something stupid dangerous to happen.
Amazing how fucking stupid intelligent people can be, aye? If someone who's cognitively impaired does dumb things, it somehow seems more justified - but if you have literal nuclear physicists doing retarded things like this...well idk what to say ^^
@@tommeakin1732 That even nuclear physicists are human, and thus capable of doing Darwin Award worthy acts of stupidity?
@@neuralmute There's normally the assumption that intelligent people are less prone to acts of stunning stupidity - which is a reasonable assumption I think, but in reality I do think we're all alarmingly prone to being fools every now and again
@@tommeakin1732 *Everyone* is capable of acts of stunning stupidity, especially when their brain is busy doing some ridiculous calculation when it should be (for example) watching the traffic. Sometimes the most intelligent people make the biggest, dumbest mistakes, as illustrated by this video.
@@tommeakin1732 This is less a case of stunning stupidity and more a clear case for incredible idiocy, he knew perfectly well how risky his behavior was, whereas you could forgive someone who's stupid of ignorance.
Government: Hey this thing can level a city, so we wrote some rules down for you guys to follow, heres some extra money to get good safety equipment.
Scientists: *All for wanting to know what happens when you put this thing in place of a tennis ball say "I".*
😂😂
I mean no not really. Creating the kind of chain reaction necessary to create an atomic blast requires compressing the core with explosives. In either a gun style or implosion style bomb.
Jacob Naber if touching it with a screwdriver can make it go apeshit, it is well within the realm of possibility that hitting this thing with a tennis racket and it slamming into the ground could cause some problems with hazardous radiation, let alone a nuclear explosion.
Jacob Naber also r/woooosh
He was using the screw driver to separate the two hemispheres that deflect neutrons. Basically controlling the reaction by allowing some to escape. It might indeed go supercritical and release radiation. But that won't cause it to explode. You seriously have to be trying pretty hard to get that kind if reaction. The two bombs dropped on Japan were essentially cannons inside. They worked by shooting a uranium shell into a uranium plate at the end if the barrell. Implosion type bombs like what that core would have been used for. Work by escasing the core in a thick layer of C4. Drop it whack it all you want. It won't explode. Same with nuclear reactors. They may heat up and melt but they won't explode.
The longer the Demon Core is on Earth, the stronger it becomes.
me see "the longer..." also me STOP! youve violated the law.
*The DooM Slayer would like to know the Demon Cores location*
Except the opposite is true due to the radiation halflife
Both 'supercriticality' incidents were amalgamated into one pre-July 1945 vignette in the 1989 film 'Fat Man and Little Boy', with Paul Newman as General Leslie Groves, and Dwight Shultz as Robert Oppenheimer. Shultz is best known for his portrayal of Murdoch in the A-Team, and Lt. Reg Barclay in Star Treks TNG, Voyager, and, I believe, DS9, as well as ST:FC. His Oppenheimer is absolutely brilliant, holding his own, and more, beside Mr. Newman.
The vid's creator knows his stuff, both historicaly, and scientifically. Very well done.
3:35 Most hardcore game of Jenga.
This is why we can't have nice things at the weapons lab.
Excellent
I read that in Half Life scientis voice in my mind.
FREEMAN YOU FOOL!!!
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Kacper Bywalec “IT’S ABOUT TO GO CRITICAL”
"Come on guys, I'm not gonna stick a screwdriver in the demon core, not gonna d- oh ten bucks? Bet"
you would think the top berillium sphere would be machined with small ribs making it completely impossible for the gap to close completely.
Fun facts: 1) Shortly after Slotins's accident, two PU cores were used in the Operation Crossroads tests at Bikini Atoll.
2) Alvin C. Graves was the SOB who allowed the 1954 Castle Bravo tests to irradiate hundreds if not thousands of people in the Marshall Islands, including the death of the radio operator of the Lucky Dragon fishing boat.
So glad I found your channel my man, love it and been binging
It's the "loc Nar" in "Heavy Metal" the movie
That's exactly what I was thinking! The corpses of those airmen killing the pilot in the WWII scene, classic
TheSmokingBurrito yes
Lol bro crazy i was thinking the exact same thing
Love the reference!
Ive always thought the same thing ever since I heard about this experiment.
I wouldn’t call scientists that hold up a sphere of death with a screwdriver “talented” but that’s just me.
Star Pillars Roy Acuff told Hank Williams that he had a million dollar talent with a 10¢ brain. I think these scientists have a million dollar brain with a 10¢ talent lol.
wait till they spin it lol
6:20. I didn't know that he took away the shims and decided to use a screwdriver instead. I've never laughed so hard in my life before
Note to self: "You don't want to see the blue glow."
Next note to self: "Disregard above. Once you see blue glow it's too late to worry about it."
@@1BeGe note to self : I want to see the blue glow
person1:"wat dis?"
person2:"one of the most dangerous things on gods green earth!"
person1:"oh....."
person1:"lets screw with it!"
person2:"i thought youd never ask"
I don’t know if you know for DBZ Abridged but this comment reminds me of one scene with Picolo and Nail, when they fuse together.
That reminds me of the gabrial Iglesias crocodile hunter joke.
basically the story of humanity! We screw with EVERYTHING!!!
"note- the earth started glowing a bit more green after we used the first two of these"
When you genius and stupid at the same time
Do you know how common that tends to be? I had a professor prove this point by making her whole class try to solve these overly basic riddles. She proved that we all ended up overthinking it, we were all stupid and smart
@@douglasbagwell9467 Riddles are terrible for overthinkers
@Michael Burns This is why D&D always separated the wisdom skill, from the intelligence skill.
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*screwdriver slips* "Hey! who put lemon juice in my beer!"
When I was a child I read about this, and there was something else they did called tickling the tail of the dragon, my understanding was that it was a game that they were playing like Russian roulette.
Around 1950 a British Nuclear lab technician similarly was left alone to carry two sub-critcial heavy half-spheres by hand to the next bunker. The corridor was far too narrow for his outstretched arms an he then noticed the things glowing as his hands were too close together for safety. He got stuck for a moment until he returned sideways to the bench and dropped one of the semi-spheres back on the table top.
Rufus is his civilian name Demon Core is his villain name
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Fun fact, the gallium makes the plutonium machineable and its presence marks the material as meant for or originating from weapons.
"We made a safety procedure to avoid at maximum the chances of accident for our extremely dangerous experiment"
scientist: "i'll use a screwdriver"
scientist dies horribly ...
Literally though this was a military group ordered to research demons 😂
I would like that video better than this one
Why not we have space force fuck it I'm in ... Who you gonna call
for real. i was hoping somethimg different, but was still entertaining.
This shit is more scary than some lame ass demons
UAC INTENSIFIES
I cannot IMAGINE the suffering these people went through.
"Demon Core" That's pretty metal, to be honest.
Sounds like it could be part of DOOM.
I came in here thinking this was DOOM lore..
@@ThisAintIt435 same
Great name for a Heavy Metal band !
@@latte1608 same also
RIP AND TEAR!!!
Brings a whole new meaning to the saying of playing with fire and getting ur hands burned
It can and has happened with radioactive liquid solutions when carelessly poured into a spherical container. Now the protocol when dealing with such solutions is to use geometrically safe containers.
"Welp, that'll do it." Slottin
"Experienced put-togetherness" 😂
Daglien: "It's alright, it's alright. Everything's good here, people."
Slotin: "Hold my screwdriver."
You know it's a great day when you now have a video about this from Dark Docs and Plainly Difficult
Thank you, tho was a bit worried when dark docs came out, that people might think I’ve copied but the video was already in the works! I hope you enjoyed it!
Oh yes, I really did. The beautiful thing about multiple people covering the same thing is that:
A) The core points get reaffirmed.
B) Little details that the first didn't cover get revealed in the second's explanation.
Something ive always wondered is what would happen if, instead of pulling away the neutron reflectors, Dahglian or Slotin just ran away. Would there be an explosion, or would the core just burn itself out and spread radiation across the area? Or would it be something in between, causing a radioactive fire?
This is what’s in the “Lost Ark of the covenant”
Yahweh made plutonium?
How would anyone know unless it becomes the found ark of the covenant? 🤔
Might explain when u open it, a huge amount of radiation blasting at u that u die instantly
@@kogasoldier9379 found it opened it
The hole on top of the sphere was NOT for a better holding the sphere !
It was a kind of "security valve" for the neutrons !
Without this hole, the thing could go of.
Great video. Both of those scientists sound like they were more than a little unstable.
Sar Jim screwdriver guy was obviously mental but the first dude just made an honest fuck up right?
Experienced physicist and teacher: “I’m one one of the few people left here who are experienced bomb putter-togetherness!”
Me: *Note to self; drug test the professor ASAP!
What if these scientists were given DMT or LSD while exposed to the nuclear radiation? what could probably happen to their state of mind? i was curious as to the term "state of confusion" the scientist felt after being exposed.
Pot toghetherness!
@@paulocuento9949 Singuaritly
@@vladtepes2667 brother.. please elaborate.. thanks
I guess the main takeaway here is no matter how good you think you are, never disregard safety protocol.
You never know when your body will fail you, or circumstances around you.
A good reminder.
1946: People regularly fiddling with subcritical nuclear reactor cores with screwdrivers, or their bare hands.
2020: You aren't allowed to work at the car wash without wearing eye protection.
Can we maybe find a happy medium here?
You'll be glad to know that I wash cars part-time and no one has ever suggested that I needed to wear safety goggles for that. But one does have to be careful with the pressure washer.
Man I was washing my car yesterday and I got so much soap in it, that shit's necessary.
Louis: I’m one of the most talented scientist of plutonium and worked from the manhattan project
*uses screwdriver to open a gap instead*
Read about this in high school, probably one of the crazier side notes in history.
Question: what would have happened if the lid of the core wasn't removed during the supercritical incident? Would it have exploded? Or just gotten super hot?
No, itll spawn butterflies.
The second case in particular was utterly needless. They had those wedges to do their stuff more safely.
As a long time viewer I'm happy this video blew up for you.
Thank you Dylan!
4:20 The same reason why Americans die to accidental discharge, this guy dies to nuclear radiation.
10/10 Would drop brick again.