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WCDT - July 11th to July 15th, 2022 (strips #4826 to #4830)

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St.Clair:
And in the case of the SL-1 experimental reactor, it was probably something like "Rod's jammed again, let me just--"

cesium133:

--- Quote from: hedgie on 15 Jul 2022, 10:13 ---In some circles, one’s last words might be things like “hold my beer”, or “check this shit out”.  For scientists, it’s “I wonder what happens if…”

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"Just hold the two parts apart with a screwdriver, it'll be fine."

Pseudowolf:

--- Quote from: hedgie on 15 Jul 2022, 10:13 ---In some circles, one’s last words might be things like “hold my beer”, or “check this shit out”.  For scientists, it’s “I wonder what happens if…”

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I reminded of Jon Stewart saying that he thinks the last words spoken by humanity will be "Hey! It worked!"


--- Quote from: cesium133 on 16 Jul 2022, 02:02 ---"Just hold the two parts apart with a screwdriver, it'll be fine."

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I don't know. That seems more like engineering.

hedgie:
As Randall Munroe pointed out, “the wiki page for physics major redirects to engineer”[1]

[1] Oblig xkcd

ankhtahr:

--- Quote from: cesium133 on 16 Jul 2022, 02:02 ---"Just hold the two parts apart with a screwdriver, it'll be fine."

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That one took a short moment, but oh boy did it land!

And the next thing you know, somebody throws you a piece of chalk and tells you to mark where you're standing.

(click to show/hide)The infamous Demon core and the associated criticality incident during the experiment which was nicknamed "tickling the dragon's tail":

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