#therac-25

[90frogsinatrenchcoat]

*goes on a rampage about the therac-25 and how fucked it was that no one was paying attention to that shit*

[actual-corpse]

Therac-25: *exists. Injures many*

Engineers of the past: aw damn. Better not put to much faith in software. It might override its safeguards and kill people! Thanks for the lesson Therac-25!!

Self aggrandizing software bitches: Self driving cars! Remove human error! No mechanical input!

Therac-25: wait. Have you learned NOTHING FROM ME?!

Self driving car enthusiast: We give the robot moral tests to make it choose between killing a baby and a grandma!

Any person with a lick of sense: Just.... Just drive off the road if you can... Bro!

Car bitch: THE CAR STAYS ON THE ROAD! THINK OF THE TROLLEY PROBLEM

Engineers: WE SOLVED THAT!

Another insulting name that I'm using in place of people like Elon Musk: YAY TECHNOLOGY! HUMANS ARE WEAK AND OBSOLETE I AM GOD!

[naomiknight-17]

At the Ultrasound/x-ray clinic like

Don't think about the Therac-25 Don't think about the Therac-25 Don't think about the Therac-25

[theracs25]

[thewandererh]

my chemistry class started our nuclear chem notes and i’m………….…….

(<-hyperfixated on corium for a ted talk assignment, binged kyle hill, made new ocs to use nuclear chemistry in speculative robotic function, researched plutonium for 6 hours straight, probably going to make a demon core plush)

…………………………………………….going a little nuts…

featuring : me, pluto(nium), therac-25, WIPP’s nuclear spike field, uranium, and ack 🐥👍

^^^ the plutonium sketch came from math a few hours later but it’s the only other art that matches the RRRRAAAAAAA’s dimensions so plop there you go. i had ‘laundry day’ by cavetown in my head and it came to me. wonderful <33

i did infact take a bite out of the page in the middle of class. it came from not knowing how to express my autism about the subject. i didn’t swallow it ofc….. just a little silly

[lillazyboithings]

I promise I am still alive and doing art, I just haven't gotten the motivation to kick start posting again 😔

But here are some drawings I made, one for biology, and one from my chemistry notes (as you can see, I do not know how to organize my notes)

Also have some other miscellaneous drawings

[bringmefoxgloves]

saw x possible spoilers

Thank you Star ( @starlightsailfish​ ) for getting the screencap, and all the Sawtuals for listening to my infodump on radiation incidents in Mexico! 

But this particular trap? The one for the woman who faked being cured? She’s being exposed to a radiation therapy unit. 

You can just see the arm of it, down below, turned upside down. Right side up, an older model could look like this:

I believe the glow of the orange is from radioactive decay. Exposure to unshielded radiation, which as most people already know, creates terrible burns from weaker short exposure, and unrecoverable sickness and burns that lead to death from powerful exposure. Either way, she’s in for a rough time.

Based on the real life history of radiation therapy units becoming incidents of widespread contamination (The Ciudad Juárez cobalt-60 incident and the 1962 Mexico City radiation accident come to mind) from being not so closely guarded or maintained, (in Mexico itself, no less!) I think it is absolutely possible for John Kramer to get his hands on a unit, if not from the practice that deceived him, for curing his cancer. Which these units are used to treat. 

[mizuthe-cat]

new documentary

radiation related malpractices this time

[theearthmagicguy]

Yeah, I found a job offer from Indeed for some fuckin executive level position.

Also a work from home radiology... can't remember the specifics, but I remember being spooked about the concept of a remote operated THERAC.

why is it that i put in "entry-level" on linkedin and they show me jobs that require degrees and previous experience in the field. i am being trolled by a cruel algorithm

[clarabaguette]

Therac 25 pilled

[osakanone]

Therac-25 is one of those things where, if it were in a novel, people would call it unrealistic. It’s horrifying in the extreme.

So the article is neat, but read the comments:

Yeah.

[recruitersdni]

It's them. Autism and ADHD.

[tmbgaresuck]

I'm going to a tmbg concert soon just to see how bad they are in person

well that's stupid. That's a big risk and you are giving them money (encouraging them). I heard they took apart an old Therac-25 and rebuilt it to maximize audience deadly radiation exposure so that many people can suffer and die. And you will be in the venue and will be affected, no matter how much you hate them

it's just kind of stupid

[ottomozersoccer]

had a lot of fun rating each other's hear me outs on booth game and me and another guy were going hog wild over the therac-25

[samoverhere]

Me when the higher dose of beta radiation then at chernobyl

[lesbiananya]

therac-25 being brought up in your twoshot makes me so happyyyyyyyy i fucking love fascinating morbid horror like that and i’m so glad anya is just as autistic about radiation and science as i am 💚

hehe thank you! 🌈 i'm really glad you enjoy the radiation references in my fics and that the twoshot is so well received too!

that's a fascination i have too... nuclear history (especially about accidents/disasters) is one of my special interests, so that fic in particular was very personal in a super specific way... 🥹 really glad to hear it's a fun litle read!