Los Alamos National Laboratory Researchers Accidentally Blow up Building with a Cannon

You know, you build something like this -- you put in long man hours, you work out the kinks -- and then you just want to see what it'll do.

I bet Linda Moulton Howe moved to Albuquerque just to keep an eye on the lab

LOL

"let's take this baby out back and see what it will do..."

got vid ?

Bang!

Technician #1: "Hu?"
Technician #2: "What the f*ck?!?"
Technician #1: "Did you let the cannon on ?"
Technician #2: "Hu? maybe ?"
Technician #1: "Dumbass, now it probably overheated and
blowed up"
Technician #2: "Damn!!"
Technician #1: "Don't worry, Georges did the same thing last year and the whole coumpound was filled with Nitrous Oxyde, what a laugh we had ..."

it's SO hard to find good help these dayz .

Civil war cannon? Yeah... We jus blew dat buildin apart oveerr. my bad. Coming to a hood near you.

'you were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!'

If you knew how deathly boring Los Alamos was, you'd know exactly why these guys were shooting off a canon.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

You have to be kidding! This is just insane. PhD's playing with things they do not understand... they had to have gotten approval from such a thing from safety. How far down the ladder will the blame go?

Something smells and it ain't black powder.

tax payer money at work. the least we deserve is a video!

These are the same brainiacs who used to nuke each other "by accident."

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

"On August 21, 1945, Harry K. Daghlian, one of Slotin's close colleagues and a laboratory assistant, was performing a critical mass experiment when he accidentally dropped a small tungsten carbide brick onto a 6.2 kg delta phase plutonium bomb core.[13] The 24-year old Daghlian was irradiated with 510 rems (5.1 Sv) of neutron radiation.[14] As the young man spent the next 21 days in the hospital, slowly succumbing to radiation sickness, Slotin spent many hours with him.

On May 21, 1946, Slotin and seven other colleagues performed an experiment that involved the creation of one of the first steps of a fission reaction by placing two half-spheres of beryllium (a neutron reflector) around a plutonium core. The experiment used the same 6.2-kilogram (13.7 lb) plutonium core that had irradiated Daghlian, later called the "Demon core" for its role in the two accidents. Slotin grasped the upper beryllium hemisphere with his left hand through a thumb hole at the top while he maintained the separation of the half-spheres using the blade of a screwdriver with his right hand, having removed the shims normally used.[2] Using a screwdriver was not a normal part of the experimental protocol.

At 3:20 p.m., the screwdriver slipped and the upper beryllium hemisphere fell, causing a "prompt critical" reaction and a burst of hard radiation.[9] At the time, the scientists in the room observed the "blue glow" of air ionization and felt a "heat wave". In addition, Slotin experienced a sour taste in his mouth and an intense burning sensation in his left hand.[2] Slotin instinctively jerked his left hand upward, lifting the upper beryllium hemisphere and dropping it to the floor, ending the reaction. However, he had already been exposed to a lethal dose (around 2100 rems, or 21 Sv) of neutron and gamma radiation.[14] Slotin's radiation dose was equivalent to the amount that he would have been exposed to by being 1500 m (4800 ft) away from the detonation of an atomic bomb.[15]

Not surprising since the exotic weaponry that took down the Twin Towers on 9/11 was most likely from a place like Los Alamos.

Notice the question in the article that asked why in the world would they have such a weapon in the first place.

This thread is useless without pictures or video.

Maybe they were cooking up some new elements to substitute for tungsten as in tungsten plated gold bars for bankster elitists.

gordon freeman was late to the test chamber again

Well at least they did not find the highly classified documents laying around the meth trailer like last time...

You just know someone said "hold my beer and ya'll watch this!"......

Awesome.

"That's what happens when you let rednecks play with antimatter."

+5 internets to whoever names the source of the quote!

EPIC

Watch out---be safe out there

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

I think they should take ALL their old cannons away from them.

See, even the gooberment cant cook meth with out blowing up.

Well: now, this is the damndest thing I've heard in a while.

Blew the doors right off. Not even my late cousin "XXX" was that dumb!

"HOLY SHIT, GEORGE! We're fired!"

No pun intended.....

Ohhh, this is just great. And, it's also where our tax dollars go.

This is just great!



PS: And I'm willilng to bet that they were NOT fired....

magnetic fields are a big problem captain.

a gun that acts like a cannon?

wtf is that?

testing a gun which acts like a Civil War cannon.-quote.

wtf?

sounds like a cool addition to my future job catastrophies and coverups thread

Well,at least Slotin was weeded out of the shallow end of the gene pool before he could do more harm to others.

What an absolute tard.