In the first accident there were no half-spheres, the neutrons were being reflected back using bars of tungsten carbide placed around the exposed core.
Wiki photo from a recreation of the first incident:
In the second accident, a year later, the reflective material was the two beryllium half-spheres. Shims were used to ensure the two halves were never fully closed, which would trigger the nuclear chain reaction.
Supposedly, this guy liked to show off and had done this demonstration a dozen times in front of different audiences, wearing jeans and cowboy boots and using his screwdriver instead of the shims.
Some report that Fermi told the guy and others that "they would be dead in a year" if they kept doing that... and voila.
The good thing is that he at least was hunched over the core, so he mostly shielded everyone else in the room from the worst of the radiation by absorbing it himself. 9 days later, he was dead. The guy closest to him was in the hospital for several weeks with severe radiation poisoning, but at least survived but died fairly young, in his 50s, which may or may not have been related...
That was hilarious. Also kinda spooky to think that, if Japan hadn't surrendered, Demon Core-kun would have been the 3rd nuke dropped over them.
The cartoon only covers the second story arc though, the one with the screwdriver.
In the first arc, the core is "nude" and they're stacking neutron-reflecting bricks around it to bring it close to criticality. A scientist drops a brick by accident on top of the core and boom, blue light and you're dead (takes 2 weeks for your body to notice though).
I feel you, I've spent so long grinding drivers licenses and playing absurd cups like that. Unfortunately not many options, and even Motorsport was... meh.
Project Cars 2 is a frequent recommendation, but it's delisted. Then there's mods for other games, like automobilista 2, but not official. I wouldn't expect much from AC Evo either, with how the launch was basically online-mandated and the series not having much of career mode...
Ah I missed that, sorry. But that's hilarious, I can imagine the Republican-level mental gymnastics that many democrats are now required to pull off so they can still support Cuomo.
Fair point, but I'll raise the counter argument that they were trained with a lot of internet data, where people slapping each other is the norm, and that seems suspiciously absent from AI interactions...
You really took the bit between your teeth blaming the lycan there, didn't you Mr Fox. The lab guys are pulling teeth to get the results, but we'll soon know who's bite marks are on that girl who bit the bullet. You wouldn't be lying through your teeth now would you? Because I'll sink my teeth into you and bring you down if it's the last thing I do...
Push comes to shove, you don't need to buy a new car, or a new PC or a new smartphone. Even new clothes, or specific foods, you can do without any of those by replacing them or buying 2nd hand or just not having them.
Medicine is not the same. You cannot afford to "not buy it", in most cases, without severe or even fatal consequences, so tariffs are absolutely useless.
Prices will just get shifted to the end user, as they always are. It's especially egregious when it comes to medication because the prices are already hyperinflated and there're closely orchestrated monopolies that prevent price competition.
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And that's just the ones who decide to settle down...