Man Arrested For Trying to Split the Atom at Home

[Ghengis John]

... I am baffled wondering if this guy was a genius or a moron.

I must also concur. He seems the very image of the baffled, absent-minded scientist, diligently working on his experiments but inept at everything else.

Still, considering he turned himself in can we not be too hard on the guy?

 

[kebab4you]

... I am baffled wondering if this guy was a genius or a moron.

I must also concur. He seems the very image of the baffled, absent-minded scientist, diligently working on his experiments but inept at everything else.

Still, considering he turned himself in can we not be too hard on the guy?

"Turned himself in" looks more like he contacted the radiation authorities just to be sure he didn't fuck up his newly bought kitchen.

 

[Moriarty70]

According to reports, when arested the man stated in a loud voice "You'll pay for this, you'll all pay. No one understands my genius. Mwahahaha, mwahaha."

I'm just wondering if this is Sheldon's long lost father/uncle?

 

[Gerhardt]

... I am baffled wondering if this guy was a genius or a moron.

I must also concur. He seems the very image of the baffled, absent-minded scientist, diligently working on his experiments but inept at everything else.

Still, considering he turned himself in can we not be too hard on the guy?

One of my favorites quotes is form Tomorrow Never Dies
"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."

 

[Matt Oliver]

man is ridculous to the 134354389785943725th power.

 

[Creepybard]

I'm really glad this guy did it first, that was gonna be my next personal project...

 

[Pinkamena]

This guy sound awesome. I've always waned to build a small nuclear reactor, but it's hard to find materials.

 

[lacktheknack]

Only two years? Sweden is light on atomic crime. Being caught with fissionable materials in the US would net you a much longer stay in a Fed facility.

it was only 1 atom. no one would miss it...

Would anybody miss the one town it would take with it?

I don't think splitting one atom = nuclear explosion.

I think splitting the atoms in a chunk of unstable uranium = nuclear explosion.

 

[Sir Shockwave]

Okay, who else here that visits That Guy with the Glasses wants to see Nash do this story now asides me?

 

[Xan Krieger]

This is one of those cases where the criminal needs to be hired because if he can do it at home without a proper multi-million dollar lab who knows what else he can do?

 

[captaincabbage]

... I am baffled wondering if this guy was a genius or a moron.

And thus the basis of this entire thread is laid bare.

OT: Seriously, way to go guy, six more months and I presume he would have made a giant robot to be powered by his mini-reactor.

 

[Hatchet90]

It sounds like a distant relative of Dr. Strangelove to me. I would love to meet this guy!

 

[Stalydan]

I heard he was in mid battle with a semi-aquatic egg-laying mammal of action when they caught him. Well that or I've been watching too much Disney Channel

 

[Davichu]

Only two years? Sweden is light on atomic crime. Being caught with fissionable materials in the US would net you a much longer stay in a Fed facility.

it was only 1 atom. no one would miss it...

Would anybody miss the one town it would take with it?

I don't think splitting one atom = nuclear explosion.

I think splitting the atoms in a chunk of unstable uranium = nuclear explosion.

I have to agree, the explosion wouldn't be that big with one atom, maybe part of his street, the residual effects could be more troublesome though.
The Chernobyl problem was a two-stage explosion that only blew up the plant, and that was a fair bit of unstable uranium, but the residue went across half the planet.

 

[jonyboy13]

Wait, that's illegal? *goes to clear the kitchen*

Would be amusing if they let him go and he'll split it.

 

[Da Orky Man]

Everyone knows that nuclear physics is a gateway mad science. If they didn't stop him, he'd eventually move on to cloning, super-serums, doomsday devices, and trying to kill Superman.

Don't tell everyone! I don't need more competition.

 

[Byere]

Sweden is really piling in the weirdness this week...

First we have news about the Millenium Falcon at the bottom of the ocean, now a guy building a nuclear reactor in his kitchen.

I'm waiting to see what comes out next

 

[Arkynomicon]

Oh those silly countrymen of mine.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

0_0 Whaaaaa...

The guy DOES realize that if he DID split the atom in his kitchen, it would have blown up his whole town? What the hell was he thinking?!

Wait...needs punctuation...

What the hell! Was he thinking?!

 

[DazBurger]

Only two years? Sweden is light on atomic crime. Being caught with fissionable materials in the US would net you a much longer stay in a Fed facility.

it was only 1 atom. no one would miss it...

Would anybody miss the one town it would take with it?

I don't think splitting one atom = nuclear explosion.

I think splitting the atoms in a chunk of unstable uranium = nuclear explosion.

I have to agree, the explosion wouldn't be that big with one atom, maybe part of his street, the residual effects could be more troublesome though.
The Chernobyl problem was a two-stage explosion that only blew up the plant, and that was a fair bit of unstable uranium, but the residue went across half the planet.

You know... The first many many times that the Atom was splitted, it was by a jewish-german women, who diden't even knew that she had actually managed to split the atom before several months later she did it.
And that weren't just single atoms she was handling.
No explosions of any kind, she just discovered that she now had two different elements and a minor loss of mass, which had been converted into energy.