The folks exposed died a few days after. So it wasn’t instant. Very slow and horrible probably as all their organs and cells died at a molecular level and skin fell off.

So damage over time and can not be healed. Would be accurate.

1d65 radiant damage per day in perpetuity

i’m fun! You just need to be technically accurate when you’re having fun smh.

Now to be fair, i do have an autistic interest in nuclear power, so i know more than the average person. But like, it only makes it funnier :)

What’s not fun about starting a fire in the middle of a battlefield?

If you tried to make one the size of the moon, it would blow up a bit past the time you got it to the size of an atomic bomb core. Or, if you did it slowly enough, it would go critical but stop being pure enough to explode.

i mean, maybe?

I don’t actually know how the physics would scale up to that size, would probably cause all kinds of havoc.

It was used in hundreds of experiments, two of which killed the respective operator and injured others.

2nd guy was asking for it. Poor, dumb, bastard.

My favourite thing about that story remains that even if everything had gone to plan and he hadn’t fully dropped the second half , it would still just be a couple of dudes with PhDs only slightly irradiating their own junk.

“just a prank bro”

Didn’t they all have to stay in the same hospital room/area too? You’d be getting grilled for that till you die

Oh, for sure, the screwdriver was a “hold my beer” moment. The brick, though, I gotta disagree. While it was an unfortunate accident, we knew enough about radiation at that point to know even tiny accidents could delete you. Playing Legos around something I know could kill me in an attempt to ease it to the point of maybe almost killing me just sounds like a slightly better thought out way of asking someone to hold my beer