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Collection of Demon Core memes

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Nov 21, 2024
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The earliest Demon Core

The fabled Demon Core was a radioactive plutonium sphere housed in a beryllium hemisphere. By holding the hemisphere in place with one hand and levering it with a screwdriver in the other, scientists early in the atomic era conducted extremely dangerous criticality experiments. The Demon Core killed two of them—and is now the subj…

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