#Nuclear Engineers

[elektrostantsiya]

Arabelle - GE steam turbine for nuclear power plants ☢️🏭⚡

😻/😻/😻/😻

[anthurak]

You know one of the main reasons we should see polycules in fantasy stories? Consider settings where the ‘Power of Love’ is a real, tangible force.

Now just imagine the POWER a fully realized polycule could have.

Like we’ve seen just how much power can be generated by the love between a hero and a love-interest.

Now imagine if we take the love between the heroine and her GF, then add onto that the love between the heroine and her rival-turned-lover, AND the love between the rival and the aforementioned GF who are estranged childhood friends who have finally admitted their long-repressed feelings for each other.

Just turning a couple into a throuple potentially TRIPLES the number of potential love-generating links.

And that’s just with three people in a polycule.

A four-person polycule? That’s SIX times the potential power.

A five-person polycule is TEN times the power.

A six-person is FIFTEEN times.

You can see how this can get nutty VERY quickly.

Heck, imagine if in such a setting, the idea of polycules is initially ridiculed out of some belief that ‘love’ is some finite resource and a polycule is merely dividing up that power.

Only for the protag-polycule to prove this notion DEVASTATINGLY wrong.

[highladyluck]

It is a cardinal rule of WoT that if you try to drop something in the ocean, it won’t even make it into the water before it gets into the hands of the very last person you want having it.

[solidwater05]

I thought too hard about Among Us and now I have serious concerns regarding that reactor

[divorceblogger]

people should stop acting surprised about nuclear manetheren theory on that poll you’re personally hurting me by acting surprised about nuclear manetheren. what do you mean that the books hinting at a nuclear weapon analogue wasn’t your first idea when you read the series. the cats have six toes which is a phenotype that’s highly specific to the two rivers. the population in that region is isolated, sparse, and highly scattered with no resources being devoted to its commercial development by the reigning monarch. a high energy event carried out during a battle preceded the deaths of most of the local population. shadar logoth, the closest ally to manetheren, rotted from the inside from an inexplicable, invisible sickness which no one in the city survived, and it continues to kill most people who venture within its walls when they come in contact with the Evil Wind.

[bathylychnops]

christopher.. guy who is impossibly irradiated and deadly to touch but being such a good sport about it

[lolathepeacocklord]

She is but a baby what do you want from her

[literallymechanical]

Beryllium? I hardly know 'em!

I think I mentioned this in passing a while back, but it's an interesting anecdote and deserves its own post.

So you know that story about how during WWII, John W. Campbell – editor of Astounding Science Fiction Magazine – figured out that something fishy was going on at Lost Alamos when all the nuclear physicist readers changed their delivery addresses to New Mexico at the same time? My dad did something similar the 1980's.

He's a doctor, and he was doing his residency at [HOSPITAL REDACTED]. Over the course of a few months, he started getting patient after patient in acute respiratory distress, lungs chock full of weird granulomas, all of whom worked at [DEFENSE CONTRACTOR REDACTED].

At first, the patients were reluctant to share info about any occupational exposures. But once you've been choking on your own lungs for a while, disclosing a tidbit of Secret information suddenly doesn't seem like that big of a deal.

They all regularly worked with large quantities of beryllium.

(All y'all nuclear engineers in the room just realized exactly where this is going lol)

A few facts:

Beryllium is HIGHLY toxic. Even small exposures can cause a condition called berylliosis – all the symptoms mentioned above.

The concept of "workplace safety" had yet to be invented in the 1980's.

Beryllium is used as a neutron reflector in nuclear research.

So. That's how my dad figured out that [DEFENSE CONTRACTOR REDACTED] was working with fissile material just outside town lmao

[spyglassrealms]

HOLY FUCK, LIVERMORE LAB ACHIEVED NET POSITIVE FUSION

[nucleqr]

surely he has to see the irony in him saying this to karlach of all people, yeah?

[alangdorf]

(sorry for leaving y’all in suspense I was grocery shopping) Surprise!! I accidentally got into Len’en like two weeks ago. Whoops! I got ideas for cool drawings to do with each of the BPoHC shrine team members (and you-know-who, ofc, but that one might be… weird lol), but Tsubakura gets to go first cause theirs is the simplest; just greyscale + red color scheme with a split background and the pose is mostly random (maybe they’re squishing Tsurubami’s little eye thing? Idk). Very pleased with how everything worked out; the line for the eye is exactly where the dividing line for the background was and the way I managed to make the vest corseted while not changing the ribbon placement is just perfect. Although I did make their hat smaller out of the aforementioned cowardice also that thing is hard to draw

[masterj]

"Legalize nuclear bombs" - Thomas

[lomotunes2008]

I'm looking through my Steam screenshots and I found some pretty wholesome ones from about 6 months ago

And then of course there was a nuclear explosion that killed everybody (Except Henry because he was already in his shed)

(TW: Dead Edward)

The explosion somehow embedded Thomas into the ground so that's fun

That was certainly something

[starburst2000]

@sexy-trains-the-musical @oriionpaxx behold! My nuclear-powered engine!

Urania!!!!!!

She used to be a diesel engine, but got streamlined and later converted into a nuclear-powered engine. Parts of her makeup and clothes glow in the dark.

Despite her pretty face and physical aspect, she works as a hospital train around the rural parts of Central Asia.

She's got a lukewarm friendly relationship with Greaseball, while Hashimoto and Turnov are scared shitless of her... for known reasons.

She's also got a series of components, like Electra. They're: Radio the Communications Car, Gamma the Sterile Car, Xenia the Hospital Car, Thaïs the Medical Car, Galena the Surgery Car and Lazarus the Morgue Car

[toxictaicho]

Dyatlov

pencils, markers

Saw a meme with professor Kodama from Pokémon and was like "Looks like if Dyatlov was anime guy." So here he is.

[wormheamer]

ugh artfight looks fun but i don't have enough ocs for other ppl to attack... just like one little creature with very vague lore (brought into the afterlife with awareness beyond its means) i've never talked about

ig those are just the consequences of not doing art for a while. don't reaally wanna resurrect the characters i had as a larva, interests have diverged too far since then