No.



Unrelated:



(Context for future readers: Pope Leo XIV won the popularity contest this morning.)

 

Wieners Circle is a popular, and very old-school, hot dog restaurant down near Lincoln Park.




Translation:

"He has eaten our dogs"

 

OMG, they really are this stupid

https://substack.com/@londongeeza/note/c-115598766

 

Here's another one

https://substack.com/@londongeeza/note/c-115482888

 

I haz teh trauma from watching these kitties

 

 

Mothers come in all shapes and sizes.

Happy mothers' day.

 

I like this.

https://substack.com/@denzien/note/c-109078554

 

 

A friend and I flew out to Spokane to grab a Chebby and drive it home to Detroit.
10 states, 4 national parks, 3500 miles, no issues, no tickets.

Was a good time, highly recommend.

 

I can't imagine spending 3,500 miles behind the wheel of a Corvette, but apart from that, it sounds like a blast.


Unrelated:

On August 19, 1961, a Volvo PV544 crashed into the HSwMS Bävern in Lysekil, Sweden.

This was the first recorded collision between a car and a submarine. The driver of the submarine was not ticketed.



Photo by Hans Johansson.

 

I was trying to generate paint schemes and a theme for the Lemons car I am building and AI generated this picture with a random cat.


So much wrong here, but seems appropriate for the thread title.

 

I once heard that the designers of the original Boxster liked the front so much they used it again at the back. But that's really something. It's on par with the upside down car that was in Lemons a long while back!

 

May 21, 1946 - Physicist and chemist Louis Slotin was performing an experiment at Los Alamos, New Mexico with what was later named the demon core, a 13.7 lb core of plutonium. A core was used at the very center of a nuclear weapon, and in the case of an implosion-type weapon, when properly imploded within a bomb - it creates a nuclear explosion. The core was scheduled to be used during the Able shot of Operation Crossroads which took place on June 30, 1946.





The experiment was to induce the first steps of a fission reaction by carefully placing the plutonium core between two beryllium spheres kept separated by the skill of a technician holding a screwdriver. As the technician maneuvered the screwdriver, he could induce criticality, but he had to be very careful - one slip could result in a prompt critical reaction that could induce lethal radiation. The danger of this procedure earned it the nickname of "tickling the dragon's tail".






At 3:20PM at Los Alamos, Slotin's screwdriver slipped and the beryllium spheres completely encapsulated the plutonium. Observers noted a blue flash of air ionization and a heat wave as Slotin instinctively jerked his hand to throw off the top beryllium sphere - ending the reaction. Not long after as Slotin left the building, understanding he just received a fatal dose of radiation, he vomited - a clear sign that the exposure had been intense. Nine days later after suffering from the agonizing affects of acute radiation poisoning, Slotin died. One medical expert described him as receiving a "three-dimensional sunburn". He was later buried in his hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

 

“You know, we probably could have done that differently.”
Very unfortunate for Louis, but I suspect that a lot of progress comes from trying not to repeat a horrible blunder.

 

As usual, the most brilliant scientists in the world don't have any common sense.

This is obviously something that could have been done mechanically from completely different room, shielded from radiation.

 

I guess it cuts both ways. We have very few evil geniuses, but probably because they blow themselves up before they can threaten the world.

 

 

Only two of the things in your picture above have actually occurred.

Wild cat walks away in disgust: