#Scientific Officer

[valyrfia]

got bored at work today waiting for someone to send some files and coded up a quick simulation for the lando/max championship battle and I’m here to calm the rumours and say that according to my calculations, lando has a 4.33% chance of winning the WDC this year. don’t get me wrong that’s still a significant number and shouldn’t be fully discounted but i hope it calms down some of the sensationalism surrounding the “lando championship charge” I’m seeing across f1 social media

[shitpostingkats]

Can I pour one out for Mrs. Fudo????

Despite also being a lead developer on Satellite reactor, she does not have the title of Dr. Fudo, like her husband. She also died when the reactor blew, but makes no appearance in the show while Yusei's dad comes prancing in from the afterlife like once a season. No one ever mentions or talks about her. The only time she ever appears in the series is in a shattered photograph in one scene. This is the best picture we have of her.

Mrs. Fudo, ma'am, I want you to know I'm thinking of you.

[diegusting]

Would you love me if I were a worm

[shannonsketches]

Putting 'geets is a cat' in my own tags has me laughing so hard thinking about how Bulma 'My Dad is an Avid Animal Rescuer' Briefs could probably circumvent Geets getting in the way during his 'I'm quitting fighting forever' phases by giving him his own little tasks to do that mimic hers

look at this little business man

[swan-of-sunrise]

Hey! I'm loving your work :) I recently got into Specs and the Flyboy; it's such a good story! I'd love to learn more about the reader's time with the OSS and how she managed to join. Did she receive an offer like Peggy did from SOE? I think this is all so interesting.

You're so sweet, thank you! I'm so happy that you're enjoying Specs and the Flyboy; I try not to choose favorites, but it's probably the series that I've enjoyed writing the most. As for Specs and the OSS, I totally plan on writing a one-shot about how she was recruited from Bletchley Park! I haven't settled on how I wanna present that particular event just yet, but I was thinking of being a little experimental and doing it through letters (not sure when I'll get to writing it, but it's for sure being planned!). Thank you so much for reading and enjoying, and I appreciate your kind words ��

[cheeeryos]

finally have some time this weekend to try to finish this stupid fic and now microsoft tells me my university account expired and I can't edit my files :/

[thepastisalreadywritten]

On 6 August 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

The explosion immediately killed an estimated 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure.

Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people.

Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of “a new and most cruel bomb.”

The Manhattan Project

Even before the outbreak of war in 1939, a group of American scientists — many of them refugees from fascist regimes in Europe — became concerned with nuclear weapons research being conducted in Nazi Germany.

In 1940, the U.S. government began funding its own atomic weapons development program, which came under the joint responsibility of the Office of Scientific Research and Development and the War Department after the U.S. entry into World War II.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was tasked with spearheading the construction of the vast facilities necessary for the top-secret program, codenamed “The Manhattan Project” (for the engineering corps’ Manhattan district).

Over the next several years, the program’s scientists worked on producing the key materials for nuclear fission — uranium-235 and plutonium (Pu-239).

They sent them to Los Alamos, New Mexico, where a team led by J. Robert Oppenheimer worked to turn these materials into a workable atomic bomb.

Early on the morning of 16 July 1945, the Manhattan Project held its first successful test of an atomic device — a plutonium bomb — at the Trinity test site at Alamogordo, New Mexico.

No Surrender for the Japanese

By the time of the Trinity test, the Allied powers had already defeated Germany in Europe.

Japan, however, vowed to fight to the bitter end in the Pacific, despite clear indications (as early as 1944) that they had little chance of winning.

In fact, between mid-April 1945 (when President Harry Truman took office) and mid-July, Japanese forces inflicted Allied casualties totaling nearly half those suffered in three full years of war in the Pacific, proving that Japan had become even more deadly when faced with defeat.

In late July, Japan’s militarist government rejected the Allied demand for surrender put forth in the Potsdam Declaration, which threatened the Japanese with “prompt and utter destruction” if they refused.

General Douglas MacArthur and other top military commanders favored continuing the conventional bombing of Japan already in effect and following up with a massive invasion, codenamed “Operation Downfall.”

They advised Truman that such an invasion would result in U.S. casualties of up to 1 million.

In order to avoid such a high casualty rate, Truman decided – over the moral reservations of Secretary of War Henry Stimson, General Dwight Eisenhower and a number of the Manhattan Project scientists – to use the atomic bomb in the hopes of bringing the war to a quick end.

Proponents of the A-bomb — such as James Byrnes, Truman’s secretary of state — believed that its devastating power would not only end the war but also put the U.S. in a dominant position to determine the course of the postwar world.

'Little Boy' and 'Fat Man' Are Dropped

Hiroshima, a manufacturing center of some 350,000 people located about 500 miles from Tokyo, was selected as the first target.

After arriving at the U.S. base on the Pacific island of Tinian, the more than 9,000-pound uranium-235 bomb was loaded aboard a modified B-29 bomber christened Enola Gay (after the mother of its pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets).

The plane dropped the bomb — known as “Little Boy” — by parachute at 8:15 in the morning.

It exploded 2,000 feet above Hiroshima in a blast equal to 12-15,000 tons of TNT, destroying five square miles of the city.

Hiroshima’s devastation failed to elicit immediate Japanese surrender, however, and on August 9, Major Charles Sweeney flew another B-29 bomber, Bockscar, from Tinian.

Thick clouds over the primary target, the city of Kokura, drove Sweeney to a secondary target, Nagasaki, where the plutonium bomb “Fat Man” was dropped at 11:02 that morning.

More powerful than the one used at Hiroshima, the bomb weighed nearly 10,000 pounds and was built to produce a 22-kiloton blast.

The topography of Nagasaki, which was nestled in narrow valleys between mountains, reduced the bomb’s effect, limiting the destruction to 2.6 square miles.

Aftermath of the Bombing

At noon on 15 August 1945 (Japanese time), Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s surrender in a radio broadcast.

The news spread quickly.

“Victory in Japan” or “V-J Day” celebrations broke out across the United States and other Allied nations.

The formal surrender agreement was signed on September 2, aboard the U.S. battleship Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay.

Because of the extent of the devastation and chaos — including the fact that much of the two cities' infrastructure was wiped out — exact death tolls from the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki remain unknown.

However, it's estimated roughly 70,000 to 135,000 people died in Hiroshima and 60,000 to 80,000 people died in Nagasaki, both from acute exposure to the blasts and from long-term side effects of radiation.

[acebytaemin]

the fucking shitshow i experienced today…

[aldieb]

let’s crowdsource my career trajectory (note that i absolutely will not be listening to this poll. unless)

[rifleseye]

while skimming dark cybertron for some things, i do think it quite interesting that when like... rodimus, ultra magnus, and drift are All off the lost light but percy's there, command of the bridge defaults to him.

[the-jam-to-the-unicorn]

Re: Well, she can hardly say "Netflix & Chill" and "Dirty Talk" in an interview. 😄

If Ze can announce to a whole crowd he fucked his wife for the last three days, she can also say that. Equality. 🤌

That's a good point. 😂

[polaroidcats]

Friend... please enlighten us.

What does a part Veela/part house elf character look like? (And you can't just say 'Remus'.) 🤣

Hi friend I'm so glad you asked!! See it all started when veela Lyall Lupin fell in love with house elf rights activist Hope Wolfiewolf (free houself), and they had a beautiful baby boy!! Because his beauty is hard to describe I made you a very scientifically accurate drawing, hope this helps! I'll be happy to answer any and all further questions or provide more drawings, now that I am also finally also a professional wolfstar fanartist!!!

I cheated and my answer is totally still Remus Lupin, just in picture form hehe

[anguilliforme]

Theoretical semiotics is a fantastic start but we need more insane linguistic subfields that are seen as viable career paths in the star trek universe

[last-lab-on-the-hall]

How a "normal" STEM human being uses Microsoft Office programs:

Word - papers, essays, reports

Excel - graphs and tables

Power point - Presentations

OneNote - maybe some odd docs

How I use Microsoft Office programs:

Word - template emails, maybe a manuscript

Excel - All of my experimental protocols

OneNote - PDF editor

Power point - ALL MY STUFF literature notes, data screen grabs, actual processed data, things for slapping together presentations, SOPs, educational materials for the undergrads, animations, figures, actual presentations

[thespacelizard]

I got?? A job interview?? fuckin help I haven't done this shit in half a decade

[cassiefisherdrake]

Do you ever just. work with a piece of equipment that was so clearly made by a programming and engineering team who had no fucking clue how to make a halfway decent UI?

Yeah. :)))