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   Anime Wong (elliptica@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 08:13:32 JST Anime Wong
   "Fermi's a wimp"
   
   *crowd cheers
   
   "Fermi's a wimp. You all know it folks, I've always said it. Always said it. Fermi IS a wimp. He was all "You need to use the shims Dr. Trump." Shims! Can you believe this guy? It's Beryllium. The same stuff in your microwave. Beryllium. Beryllium! You can just hold it with your hand and a screw driver. Takes five seconds. Shims... Can you believe Fermi?"
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 08:20:28 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     Anime Wong (elliptica@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 08:22:28 JST Anime Wong

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     • BowserNoodle ☦️
     @BowsacNoodle He got what he deserved. He was quitting and was training someone else how to do it the wrong and very dangerous way.
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 08:24:26 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @Elliptica I'm curious why they even messed with cores at all. Did they not have the equations down yet for energy outputs?
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     Anime Wong (elliptica@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 08:34:36 JST Anime Wong

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     • BowserNoodle ☦️
     @BowsacNoodle I'm not sure about what they were specifically testing for, but there are lots of reasons to do it, and they still do sub critical tests today (youtube.com/watch?v=bGf4-ZOjyVY).
     
     Biggest reason is to make sure it works. The hardest part with making one is the purity needed of the sample, too much or too little reactive material would make the whole thing a very expensive dud. So they were checking that it was inline with what they expected, and the specific core they were using is one that they more or less knew worked, probably to form a baseline.
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