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Everyone is a gangster until the room glows blue (thelemmy.club)
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[โ€“] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We have this insanely dangerous and radioactive thing, and we need to move it somehow? Screwdriver goes brrrrr.

I assume everyone was wearing safety squints and flipflops.

[โ€“] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

They weren't moving it, they were lowering a reflector to bring it close to criticality without going supercritical. It's like playing Russian roulette, except the game is to squeeze the trigger on a fully loaded revolver until just before the hammer releases, and you're using a screwdriver to squeeze the trigger. Oh! And the pistol is actually a grenade.

Bang

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