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HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

Nuclear fission Memes

Posts tagged with Nuclear fission

How Should I Cut Fruits Now?

Physics Science
3 months ago 9.2K views 0 shares
How Should I Cut Fruits Now?
The kitchen: where nuclear physics goes to die! This poor kid spent years terrified of accidentally triggering Armageddon while cutting an apple. Like their knife was somehow the world's most dangerous particle accelerator. "Mom, I can't make a sandwich—I might destroy Cincinnati!" The beautiful irony is that you'd need equipment worth billions and a PhD in nuclear physics to split an atom, but here they were, wielding a butter knife with the caution of someone disarming a bomb. The childhood fear scale: monsters under the bed (3/10), the dark (5/10), inadvertently causing nuclear holocaust while making fruit salad (11/10).

Bad Uranium, Sit!

Chemistry Physics Science Materials
6 months ago 16.4K views 0 shares
Bad Uranium, Sit!
One of these elements is not like the others! While copper gives us pretty blue fireworks and sodium dazzles with yellow, uranium decided to go full mushroom cloud. Talk about an overachiever in the periodic table family! This is what happens when you let radioactive elements participate in the Fourth of July - they don't just light up the sky, they vaporize it. Chemistry teachers be like: "And this is why we keep the uranium locked up during lab demonstrations." Nuclear fission: when your firework display needs its own exclusion zone.

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