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Tired: tickling the tail of a sleeping dragonWired: tickling the dragon's tailInspired: licking the cloaca of a dinosaurIre'd: realizing a DOI no longer works so I can't confirm a quote by Feynman in contextHired: Fixing wikipedia's entry on demon corehttps://t.co/L6ohE1bFCR
"During the nine days before he died, he insisted that his physical state be continuously documented so that the effects of radiation could be used for scientific purposes."https://t.co/35eRNMD1h2
"The lasting lesson of Slotin's death remains that human beings perform the procedures that make up science, military and industry and with human participation comes a fallibility and unpredictable element that with nuclear power can turn tragic very quickly."
Funny looking screwdriver."It's not an easy balancing act, as the coils require a huge amount of subtle voltage adjustments, up to thousands of times per second, to successfully keep the plasma confined within magnetic fields." https://t.co/IBXL2mXW44
What an interesting meme."Twisting the Dragon's Tail"https://t.co/1ikBsmFUs4
Found it referenced in the description of that video."Dick Feynman, who was present, started to chuckle and to say that this is just like tickling the tail of a sleeping dragon." — Professor Otto R Frisch, January 1969 Physicist, the Manhattan Project. https://t.co/6fz1zIcsbq
"The scientists knew that the core was unstable, though now they had the opportunity to measure just how close it was to going critical and how, with different techniques, it might be brought even closer." https://t.co/GZPC7dFEwp
"physicist Richard Feynman reportedly said that the experiments were “like tickling the tail of a sleeping dragon.” With the ever-present possibility of being roasted by radioactive dragon fire, the “Tickling the Dragon’s Tail” experiments continued." https://t.co/7VLCS4dlWj
Found the possible source (retelling?) of that quote by Frisch, in a declassified(?) document.Note this claims Otto R. Frisch 'was told' that Feynman chuckled. Hearsay."Experiments with the Dragon Machine"doi: 10.2172/876514 https://t.co/B0yx7xU9wP
The blue color is because of the "Cherenkov Effect" according to this video YouTube recommended to me.https://t.co/GiWnVjg74u
“you know these buildings aren’t going to be around much longer.” https://t.co/iDTSXAlBP3
"The events of this day produced the chief wellspring of every kind of modern-day political and cultural anxiety, cynicism and depression. At that moment, humankind was forced to grow up, whether we knew it or not."https://t.co/RrS9WfUZrb https://t.co/Up1qmR0Qla
