More story time please

Absolutely incredible work, and I can't think of a better way to drive home the terrible danger nuclear weapons pose to everyone. Superb work, sir.

What would have happened to the demon core if it was completely covered for one week. Would it even last that long?

I love the new format, you should do more videos like this that cause real fear.

Very good. Feels like an actual documentary

NOOOO NUCLEAR EDGING

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I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought of this

I'm not even sure I know what that means and pretty sure I don't want to but it made me laugh...wtf

@@russhamilton3800 basically “baby I’m about to go critical” “not yet. You go critical when I say so”

Yeah I'm pretty sure you just described the human condition.

@@isleschild damn

@@hwburner1524 lol... I only mean that the difference between Hisashi Ouchi and John Everyman is that Ouchi knew he had only days left, and knew (or discovered) that they would be excruciatingly painful. But, none of us get out of this life alive. We're all walking dead men, so to speak. Some have more time than others. The "Jesus" emphatic was well placed, insofar as only those who believe in "life after death" have any cause for relief.

@@isleschild damn, you’re completely right. I guess life can also be considered a slow death

@@avory7938 I am a melancholy, brooding personality, and have always loved philosophy. If I weren't a Christian I have little doubt that I would have caved under this existential anvil years ago. On the other hand, I now live knowing that I fail to live up to the divine standards of a holy judge, so 🙃 ... still "working" on the implications of imputed grace.

But they weren't dead: several lived into their 80s, none of their eventual deaths can be connected to the accident.

@@maxr.dechantsreiter5226 ahh well that’s on me for assuming, I’ll have to look up what the results of his equations were for my own curiosity

Nonsense, only Slotin died because of his failure.

@@OmmerSyssel yes someone else astutely pointed it out already

I'd actually call it quick thinking. We can gain knowledge from this incident, or we can NOT gain knowledge from this incident. We spent a lot of time in the early nuclear age dancing around how much exposure people would receive, and how much they could tolerate. When the costliest data of all, direct exposure, happened, it seems logical to want to receive something for the cost paid.

Just to make clear, this is utterly terrifying. But with the incredibly irresponsible manner in which he conducted the experiments he pretty much lost my empathy. He didn't just play around with his life but with the lives of all his colleagues.

@@richbrooke3008 The entire setup of his experiment was absolutely dumb and reckless. I mean, he never thought about what would happen if he accidentally let the screwdriver slip out of his hand. It's the movie Jackass in real life...

You made me BURST out laughing

Knoxvilles gonna sue you

i just dont get what he hoped for and why he did what did.. is the explanation really as simple as "adrenaline junkie"? the whole thing is just so wild man..

Yeah, that's more or less exactly what it was. Except, it wasn't a gun.. it was a detonator for a nuclear bomb.

So just like those idiots that stick guns down their pants on facebook.

@@eno2870 Yes, we got that lol you didn't have to explain it

"Sir, have you considered aiming the gun away from your own face?"

Worse is that (if I understand it right) if they hadn't pulled it away and thus stifled the chain reaction in time after the 'oopsies', it could have caused a thermonuclear explosion. AKA, it would have literally nuked their entire facility with the same destruction that we wrought on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was not just the people in the room that were put at risk. These people put so many more lives at risk in the process. Hopefully they at least had the common sense to make this facility a safe distance away from anywhere that innocent bystanders live.

Lol fr.

😂😂😂😂😂

U're basically describing the scientific method. Lol, true

😆😅😆😂

Basically how experimental data is collected ☠️🤣

Definitely. Foolish.

Its snoring though, he wouldn't hear you.

@@joeyferguson840 I'm sitting in his mouth and haven't died yet. Anything is possible.

@@Jfreek5050 good point

Tickling the dragons balls more like

What? You no want to tickle the tail of the sleeping dragon?

Modern science is really good at answering true/false questions, but the scientific method alone cannot answer questions of ethics and spirituality, nor can it determine the purpose of the information it creates... There is certainly a place for this kind of knowledge seeking, but this is what happens when we ignore other forms of knowledge, like the value of human life...

​@@nunyabusiness164nope, "spirituality" is not a thing, it's a term used by people that wants to make others believe that believing in magic and ghosts is actually logical, and not f*cking stupid. And the scientific method is not related to ethics, unless it's about something that is objectively harmful to everyone involved. (Nukes, white phosphorus, artificially castrating populations, etc)

@@nunyabusiness164 This is pure nonsense. It is entirely possible, indeed more effective than intuition, to form a full understanding of empathy based exclusively on an understanding of causes, effects, and consequences, and the application of that analysis to the self. I don’t want to be stolen from. Therefore, I should foster an environment where I will not be stolen from. Therefore I should use my knowledge and skills to make the environment around me, whether physical or social, to be such that no one around me feels the need to steal. Therefore, I should help them and not harm them. Therefore, I should ask them how I can help them, and follow through on those requests so long as I am capable and it does not harm me or anyone else. If-then relationships to pieces of information tell us everything we need to know, and the application of that knowledge gets us everything we need to have.

Einstein became very depressed after he helped to develop this technology. He knew it was just a weapon of destruction to the world and he helped create it. His intelligence was not rooted in violence or anything like that, but rather to better the world around him.

Oops.

Only thing scarier is “oopsie woopsie, we made a fucky wucky! A widdle fucko boingo”

Or "oops"

Memes have desensitized me and made think Slotin went "Oh no... Anyway" after his experiment went critical

How about? "The lower my payment, the lower the reactor coolant"?

Dam

Cherenkov radiation always wins.

Give this to the artificer of the party in dnd see what happens

He shoulda used a Philips screwdriver

Pablo why are we dead?

Admittedly, the passing away of these two man would be a very tragic way to get to know them. I suspect if we see "blue aurora" we may be witnessing an extended blue flash 5:38 which would result in massive amounts of radiation deaths for that part of the world. I have even wondered if our "blue sky' is actually a blue aurora like we see on Jupiter.

The average nurse, especially in a high profile hospital, will deal with shit like this all the time

@@afromoth8354 I suspect there is going to be a massive Blue Wave CME over Asia and Russia. Something very different we have not seen in nearly 70,000 years. It will be so prominent massive levels of population will be lost, nearly Extinction Event Levels. When the masses start coming looking for help here in India, Australia, Africa and The Americas, we will have to show them Mercy and let them in.

this reminds me of the horrific scenes from the tv series chernobyl as the first responders basically slowly melted in their hospital beds into mush. it's incredible to me that so many people, after witnessing these ghastly outcomes, still decided these weapons are worth making. instead of figuring out how to conduct diplomacy... let's instead pour resources into devastating weapons that will maul and mangle. why? what's the point of these brains if we can't use them to avoid terrible suffering?

@@afromoth8354 deal with severe radiation poisoning? you can probably count on one hand how many nurses have dealt with that XD

It’s even cooler to stand over the cavity and see the baffle plates (next to the fuel when operating) glow blue because they are so highly irradiated

Scarier than that... going to Za'ha'dhum

Can I see?

That’s so interesting but also the most eeriest thing I read.

Scary. Very, very scary.

Yet considered a genius..

it probably came from a mindset at least partially like "well, he clutzed it up and made a mistake which cost him his life. I'm better than him, I wouldn't make that sort of mistake." only to learn otherwise

Nah, that's just how scientists are. Like, astronauts did go into space after that failed Apollo mission. The same way painters don't worry too much about working with toxic pigments and other materials, scientists stop caring about safety the second they think they can do something amazing

Proof you can be the smartest person in the room yet be a complete idiot at the same time.

He'd also exposed himself to 100 roentgen just a few months before fixing a nuclear reactor underwater while it was operating instead of waiting a day for it to be shut down. The man just had a death wish.

im quoting this.

Also remember that Ryan Seacrest tried to give a blind kid a high five ... as the kid was walking outside of the room hahaha 😆

Yeah there is that. I'm gonna use that too.

Well...there was that ONE time that I did, but I don't really have time to get into the story: I only have a few hours left to complete my will..

Ah yes I've never been happier with a mundane ordinary catastrophic fuck up.

Former Physics Major? DId you lose your credentials?

​@@daskampffredchen9242might've dropped out before completing

@@daskampffredchen9242probably changed to a different major

​@@daskampffredchen9242possibly they switched to their major or maybe failed to graduate

@@daskampffredchen9242 It indicates she matriculated. One is a Physic Major student while in study, and afterward, holds a degree with a major field noted. These are English idioms.

🤡

the loc-nar

Hahaha

Killer Kore**

@Jay R that was the most obvious shit you could have said

Jay R bro, you just repeated what was said in the video

Humans are naturally obedient to authority and that can be a bitch. Still not nearly the worst showcase of said obedience in that decade, though.

Don't forget.. this was nearly 80 years ago. We literally didn't know any better.

@@BaldBlokeOnABoat I mean they knew they would all die if he messes up.....

@@BaldBlokeOnABoat they knew perfectly, Marie Curie had come before and died from her radioactive discoveries. And they just dropped two of the cores on Japan...

@@Stegibbon yeah, but neither of those two things involved playing with supercriticality on someones desk..

If there’s an accident you’re dead anyway who cares if it drops away?

​@@StormBredthe difference is how long the accident lasts for

@@CrunchyJoints it seems like it doesn’t matter how long it lasts, if it happens you’re dead

Otherwise known as ‘mythbusters style science.’

@@ghazghkullthraka9714 well this one got busted

well fucking around are necessary for **SCIENCE** rip to those who have died tho

That's how my son was born.

Yeah, it seems completely stupid to LOWER the metal half-sphere, as gravity is constantly working to kill you. Why not flip the experiment upside down so you're raising the half-sphere. That way the worst that can happen is it falls to the ground, maybe on your foot.

Other Scientist: How about Camera + Lead Wall + string and pulley? Slotin: Haven't you ever wanted to poke a nuke with a screwdriver?

@@BobMcBobJr string and pulley wouldnt have worked the hole point which was for nuclear bombs is how close you can get it before it exploded. With a pulley system measurements will be off and if the string snaps well you are fucked anyway. So if you are gonna be fucked either way why not do it the most accurate way. What I dont get is why they were all exposed only one guy maybe two needed to be exposed everyone else could stand behind a lead wall.

And let's not wear protective gear

You know, I was fixing the disk brakes on my bike the other day, and I knew what would happen if I slipped (it looks like I'll lose my finger nail in the next couple of days) but I still thought “naw I'll be fine”, so oddly I feel I understand where they were coming from...

@@Gubers “Almost certainly never happen today”... Ya I bet people have learned their... “since 1945 there have been 60 supercriticality accidents and 21 deaths” Oh... I guess nuclear physicists aren't that bright after all...

That sounds familiar what movie is it

@@fourcheeseblend8573 "You are the dumbest smart person I ever met in my life!" - Will Smith in _I, Robot_ To which a comedy robot replied: "Just like your wife!" And that was enough for Big Will to b1tchsl@p every robot in the movie until they were nothing but a junk pile.

@@fourcheeseblend8573I robot

@@fourcheeseblend8573also varsity blues. Kilmer says it to mox. You are the dumbest smart kid I know.

lulw

The best comment here

Must of had his luck level low too

"I wanna research a nuclear core" "You got a natural 20" "Oh finally, after all those trie- "The continuing process got a 3"

yea i think u mean Luck

@@jacobnolan510 it's must HAVE for fuck sakes

I've done nothing but teleport bread.

@@MochaFur1 How much

@@captainshadowfox WHERE?! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN SENDING THEM TO?!

@@maixe13 I DO NOT KNOW ALL I HAVE DONE IS TELEPORT BREAD!

@@captainshadowfox ffffffffff U r R Y

I think of it more as touching the wire that megavolts travel along. The arc of lightning is unimaginable.

Right?! Something wasn't right there. Over and over and over again with a screwdriver. Then one day 'well, that does it' and immediately focused on where everyone stood. It's a horrifying story. Also I don't care screw that guy.

​@@OzymandiasWasRighthe literally only focused on where everyone stood to get the radiation dosage to see if anyone needed immediate medical attention. Brainless idiots these days always assume the most illogical and psychopathic decisions as the most obvious choices LOL

Watch the movie the Manhattan project

The video gives a misleading account. He was calculating dosage, from which one could gauge their future risks. Over a certain amount, near certain death. Another amount, maybe not death but definitely shortened life due to cellular damage (and this was not well understood at the time). How shortened? Depends on luck. There's a book ("Under the Cloud", I believe) which goes into detail on the fates of most of the people in the room. For example, Graves, who was standing only a couple of feet further away from criticality (9:40), died 20 years later at the age of 55. Heart attack, which is a typical fate for anyone who endured a high radiation dose. You can reasonably think of a radiation blast as being significantly aged in an instant (or think of steady radiation exposure as enduring accelerated aging), since the two effects are similar. Most of the rest of the people in the room died at ages and from issues which would be easier to judge as natural causes. That all said, the point to understand is that radiation exposure does not feature a 1:1 relationship with one's lifespan, unlike what the video casually suggested.

@@Asterra2 sorry the 14 minute long video that was made for people to watch while eating or shitting didn’t go into extreme detail about the lives of everyone in that room and how the incident effected them and what eventually cause them all to die

@@heyitsjack7129 I'll give you the benefit of doubt in assuming you're just being snarky, rather than actually failing to understand that giving the exposure explanation slightly different wording would have sidestepped the issue I underscored, without lengthening the video.

HIS would have been that particular moment right after his ass whopping 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The poor guy accepted it like it was nothing

@@chumimintv9052 he had to realize it was only a matter of time until he slipped.

@@kayakr17 probably didn’t think he had much to lose

@@chumimintv9052 poor guy? He was literally asking for it lol. Sucks he shortened those other scientists lives though.

@@lethalheart6370 By that logic everyone there asked for it, they were doing what they were researching. A death is still a death.

Yeah, that's the worst. Hate when that happens. 🤔😂

I will say that the blue light is like nothing that you have ever seen. I had the chance to see the test reactor at Penn State main when they were running tests on it. The reactor was submerged in a large pool of deuterium water which absorbed all the radiation. I'd describe the blue light as a mix between navy blue and 'normal' blue.

Terrifying

@@Zippytez that has to be an impressive sight.

@@HideSeek_Soje111 if you ever get the opportunity to ever see it, I highly recommend getting a tour. Its simply mind blowing.

Your user name makes it 10 better

If i was in charge of that bullshit: ''Never...EVER...touch or mess with the Demon Core. Slowly get back to my car. Drive AWAY as fast as i can to Mexico.''

Like, there got to be safer was to handle an experiment where you know blue light = death

Sounds like something Aperture Science would do.

It's particularly bad when you realise it HAD a safety device to stop it from completely closing and he REMOVED it in order to replace it with the much less safe version of an unsecured screwdriver.

Where do they get the Pu239/240?

@@Dave-ohhh In a graphite moderated reactor (or heavy water D2O moderated reactor). Pu 239/240 are manufactured elements, they do not exist in nature because half-life is only 24,000 years (there are traces as a result of the decay of other elements such as neptunine). In the reactor, the moderator slows down the neutrons in order to maintain the chain reaction of U235, and an important part is the absorption of slow "tetmal" neutrons in U238, which gives U239, which decays into Neptunium 239 in about 23 minutes, and after a little over 2 days, Neptunium turns into Pu 239. Now , Pu239 can also absorb a neutron and become Pu240, so it is important that the reactor fuel is briefly exposed to the neutron flux in the reactor, but still long enough that the production cycle made a usable amount of Pu239. Supergrade Pu for weapons is up to 3% contamination with Pu240, 3-7% is weapongrade and above that it can only be used as fuel for fast or breeder reactors.

@@dinkoz1 jezuz my knowledge of basic chemistry goes as far as understanding isotopes electron configuration but that just sounds like Chinese to me but I kinda get it. Thank you for answering me.

Every scientist ever

And poke it with a screwdriver perhaps

Nothing ventured nothing gained.

Yeah let’s just have 60 accidents, what could go wrong

@@vijeykumar7429 I get the reference buddy hahah. Rick..

That one kid who swears he doesn't need the goggles

Well there were no standards for poking bomb cores at the time...

This isn't a lab safety story but it's more of a woodworking safety story: Basically used to do woodworking in high school, right? My bullies tried to push me into the drill press, they got in trouble. After that i was waiting to use the bandsaw and one of the bullies was using it and i saw them put their fingers in the silver circle (basically that's very very close to the blade) multiple times. I took the safety rules and always looked at them, and i accepted them while paying attention because i knew they were important. I yelled at him for "SILVER CIRCLE" and he didn't listen. Teacher saw him and flipped out. I flipped out. He didn't get hurt but jesus christ... he could of lost his finger. I know he's almost injured me in the woodworking class before but seriously. He could of lost his freaking finger. I always listen to safety rules completely by the book, Don't be like him.

@@tailsfan465 Don't be like him. Oh yeah losing fingers is *Normal* choice for children. Your story is basically "the floor is made out of floor" meme

The first rule of lab safety is to have fun.

Well sometimes a Fella’s gotta eat a Fella

That was just beautiful, wow

So original 👏

Ffs

Spooder

@@vantablack131 you saying “so original” also isn’t well original

Can be handsome be handy!

The pursuit of knowledge is a dangerous one.

Minds as bright as theirs know no bounds.

People are dumb =\

-agreed...

Is that an Interstellar reference? If so, well done. 😂👍🏼

@@luke_mckay Sure is, such a great movie.

@@stormfath3r754 It is such a great flick and not far from the truth, so I hear.

Come on TARS!

Kinda feel bad for laughing lol

What about "hold my screwdriver "

When does and something not go wrong, when you say it will be fine.

That and " Oops!... "

or "well, that's it, we're done here."

"Huh. That doesn't seem right."

Pretty sure he died a few weeks later. So like a 99.04 reduction of your current life?

Half life.?? That applies to radioactive materials, not exposed objects..

@@lieutenantpliskin I think the comment was referring to the security guard in the same room as Daghlian, who got radiation-induced leukemia three decades later

Funny how this 7 month old comment has 4 replies, all from

@@Unbridled-Whimsy ohh

Steve Irwin, if he had been a nuclear scientist...

What can go wrong?

@@rufodeer5421 I thought it only grows a hand but its looks like it doesn't...

Ur mushrooms are more dangerous than that core.

IT'S ANGREH!!! OH OH IT'S ANGREH!!

That was your grandfather?! That's so cool

Seeing as your grandfather must have been a sort of super genius to have been in that room, did you happen to inherit your grandfathers intelligence?

Some people die from radioactive emissions quickly. Some die slowly. That is very convenient for those who say only 28 people died from Chernobyl. There is no known, safe dose for a carcinogen.

@@jackfanning7952 Bruh, you are exposed to background ionizing radiation every second of everyday. Even if you locked yourself in a lead chamber to block it out from elsewhere outside, certain elements and chemicals necessary for your survival, including but certainly not limited to the potassium that causes your heart to beat, give off some amount of ionizing radiation.

@@jackfanning7952 None of that had anything to do with my response to your idiotic claim that there is "There is no known, safe dose for [radiation]". We can't begin to talk about what's safe for waste disposal if we haven't acknowledged that you yourself are radioactive or that radiation is something life is necessarily adapted to for a certain (yes, safe) dosage. I'm not getting into an argument with you about nuclear energy, you are so far from the mark that I would consider myself lucky if I managed to get through to you even the possibility that your fear even might be the irrational phobia that it is.

Oof

No one: uwu, I made an oopsie woopsie, I am sowwy my hands did a slippsies and dwopped the glowwing bawl. Meanwhile that scientist that was supposed to be watching the degenerate brought back in time to 1945: “Laughs in unrestricted violence”

"we gonna have to work on our communication"

I AM SATAN I MADE LIKES 666 I AM SO FUNNY HAHAHEBBSHDBEBBEIDBS

Here before 696 likes

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Nuclear Physicists being told not to do super-criticality experiments on the demon core by hand: "It'll be fine." Those nuclear physicists when someone drops a reflector: 👁 👄 👁

Even better. I can come up with a safe way to do it on the top of my head. Fix the damn thing onto a filly threaded rod and use that to very slowly and safely lower it. That way it cannot fall or close unwanted.

@@theexchipmunk Boggles my mind that these scientists couldn't figure something like that out. They knew full well the danger of radiation. They shoulda been behind several inches of lead glass or ideally, operating it with a remote camera.

@@theexchipmunk The video says they had spacers to stop the core from being complete, not sure why they couldn’t just make smaller spacers if they weren’t giving good enough results..

@@ArmourGX Yes, thats also another possibility. But my point stands and this makes it even worse. If a complete layman can come up with a safe solution, it‘s hard to grasp how none of these intelligent people could.

The game was rigged from the start

*Fantastic* logic

Ave

Good reference

I have a Hypothetic Degree in physics

BS, MS, PHD. Bull Shit, More Shit, Piled Higher and Deeper😂

Depends on the school. 😊

Eeexxxactly

At this juncture, most schools in most ‘countries’ are more prop than education. Observing the basis of the curriculum, the meta language and incentives of the programs, the pitch at which those things are mandated, the methods in which order is maintained in what ever society one is operating in. This should be enough for a conscious being to determine the legitimacy or not. Where I’m from, ruling through violence and fear is often a telltail sign of an inferior authority. Your still getting an education though.

@Sam Themann Where does your life begin? Does it start when you are ‘born’? When you are conceived? Did it start in a lab? When and where did you consciously come ‘online’?

Really sound like an item a Boss drops in a MMORPG but of course when it drops you ar not prepared

Doom ???

Shadow of Chernobyl?

I think I've played something that has a demon core but I'm not sure

@@listenhere1623 You've likely played dozens of things with the name "Demon Core" in them.

Surprisingly, it was mentioned in several science fiction books in the late 50s, early 60s before it made the newspapers. Somebody spilled the beans.

@@haroldwilkes6608 There was an old movie which included in the plot a square wooden box, a cube maybe two feet x two x two. It was deemed valuable. Near the end of it, on a beach somewhere, somebody opened the box to see an intense white light. No explanations, just suspenseful, scary stuff. Cue credits . . .

@@EllieMaes-Grandad You have officially ruined my day...Now I will spend all night trying to find it because I don't remember it. I do remember a Phil Harris song, "While I was walking down the beach one bright and sunny day, I saw a great big wooden box a-floating in the bay. I pulled it in and opened it up and much to my surprise, Ooh, I discovered a * * * right before my eyes. Ooh, I discovered a * * * right before my eyes." When I find the movie, I'm not going to tell you where it is is...suffer with me.

@@haroldwilkes6608 My apologies; I can't remember the name of it either. Set in California I think, with Robt. Mitchum.

My physics professor was there too. I would have stayed on the theoretical side.

This comment wins!

More like don't hold my screwdriver!

ppl that fall to dust in japan i am a joke to you ?????

LMAO! While watching this video, I'm sitting here drinking a screwdriver!

Too soon!

People surprise you the most when they know they are already dead.

​@@acetrigger1337 not expecting the man himself in this kind of video lol

He sounds like he likes torture.

I read that quote in the voice of Cave Johnson AKA JK Simmons.

Did one of the scientists say this? Currently watching at the moment

Amazing

Wow God bless your son for that

It must have shocked you so much for you to still remember it 62 years later, that’s incredible

Must've been a crazy feelling

Was is this how you remembered it?

...a twist of my screwdriver!

Unfortunately, though, he quite literally … screwed up.

What's up guys today my colleague and childhood friend Henry dauglian just died a slow and agonizing death in the hospital just yesterday and I guess I should also die a slow and agonizing death by the demon core too BUT THIS TIME THERE'S A TWIST 🪛

It was fine at first but soon it just spun out of control

It just cranked up to the extreme

Actually, since radiation kills slowly ,it was actually nones last word

the physicist version of hold my beer?

"Don't worry, we're measuring the radiation and we'll move the bricks if it gets too dangerous -- OH, SHIT, MY BUTTERFINGERS!"

It's the nuclear physicist version of playing chicken.

@@IceMetalPunk They melted off...

I love you for this

@@ttsmoove :)

@MrsFoxAkimbo You must be fun at parties.

@MrsFoxAkimbo Wow... that was really be best you had, wasn't it? I'll give you a 4/10. You got me to reply at least.

@MrsFoxAkimbo Jew afro? No insult here, I'm genuinely confused what you're referring to.

In an even dumber way, with more people present

Scientists are a weird breed sometimes

And that is how new things are learned. All true explorers know they might really screw up and may even die. Doesn't stop exploration; never has, never will.

We're monkeys with iPhones and guns

@@PronatorTendon They're mostly peaceful.

Unfortunately there is no safe word to turn off radiation sickness.

@Donalld Allhands LMFAO EW

😂😂

Oops, right?

🔵

@Bill Haggard this seems like a far better way to go tbh

I'm surprised nobody in the lab beat him up after such a fatal mistake.

It would be hard to do it, but I would probably have asked for a gun and prepared my self to end it there. The death by radiation is to cruel for any to suffer

@@combinationova1400 quicker and just a graphic

@@youtubesucks3882 they were nerds. They probably beat themselves up

Smartphone cameras are recent technology bud.

so true

I don't think most people would actually believe there are cameras at every event. I dont believe the footage is real when watching a documentary on Pompeii unless it's of dead bodies and a destroyed city

@@destroyerarmor2846 OP is talking about the scientists, they're referring to the dude who made the doc. The KZfaqr man. But maybe I misunderstood the comment??

@@destroyerarmor2846 as if smartphones are the only cameras that exist, they've been around for ages.

Also the most gangster way of saying "I accept my fate."

I mean, a few months earlier he watched what happened to his friend after the same type event. What else could he do or say?

My thoughts exactly

My Great Grandfather said that when he saw one of the nuclear bombs being dropped. He was way outside the city and the blast radius. He saw one little dot drop out of a plane and essentially said, "Well. Sh*t." And then went back inside. He couldn't be bothered. He was notorious for being a somewhat emotionless grump.

Back in the 90’s my uncle was put in the hospital for an ailment. He was in his mid 80’s. He was told he was close to the end. His brother came to visit him. The dying brother said to other “well there is a beginning a middle and an end to everything... guess I’m at the end”..that has stuck with me for over 24 years. Seems appropriate to share here. Pretty much the same as “well, that does it”..

That’s what alle teachers should do! Having a passion in what you teach

As certain characters in Outlast would say, there is a fine line between science and insanity.

@fairyty1 So, you'd rather follow people like Hitler and Hirohito? Interesting.

@fairyty1 I had an animation teacher who sounded like he was bored out of this world, even though he looked excited in teaching and stuff he just sounded so monotone and making even those willing to listen extremely sleepy... And every lecture he had to slam the table to keep his students awake lol.

His mushrooms had kicked in

I think if I were him i'd ask the other guy to use that last brick and just bash my skull in and get it over with. I couldn't bare the wait to my death

@@FarmerDingus he wanted to his death to be useful to science tho

I feel like the radiation would be more of a felt affect rather than fear

@@prussiaball1871 yeah but those few days all i would think is "please just get it over with. The wait is unbearable."

“I just died”

Lmao

Spicy lego

Am I a bad person for laughing at this?

Well he is an actual scientist

@@prussiaball1871 also the video was based off an essay

@@ryanhernandez8324 that he wrote

@@prussiaball1871 wait, it's the same guy??

@@ryanhernandez8324 Kyle Hill is, in fact, Kyle Hill

To be fair, that is really important information both for the research and for the individuals to know about.. and if you left it even for a few minutes before returning you may not have the exact locations anymore to work from. Plus the danger period was only for a fraction of a second, and the core would have been mostly harmless again by the time anyone took just a single step

And, they could still carry radiation on themselves. There's no fun in being a walking radioactive material. Stupid mistake, but at least it didn't take more lives than the ones of the ppl close to it

Proceeds to throw chalk at them

“Gentlemen, synchronize your death watches”

Huh, that also works for Caustic from Apex.

because we have the power of a god but the intelligence of an ape

@@nicewords252 and the dangerous part of nuclear material is invisible, unscented, makes no sound, has no taste, and you can't feel it until it's to late. Its destructive forces cannot be detected by our 5 senses.

@@nicewords252 monke

It's as close to a cursed eldritch artifact as exists on Earth.

Because exploitive people make money telling stories that way, and the general population doesn't want to listen to dispassionate, rational explanations.