• FiniteBanjo@feddit.online
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      5 months ago

      If they had a Chinese villain it would get banned in China. If it had a Chinese experiment go wrong and create a hero then it might get banned in China.

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        Well, all kinds of material is banned in China, for all kinds of foolish or applicable reasons, as per the case.

        Ordinarily I wouldn’t give a toss what they do, but then again, they’ve bought in to all kinds of popular industries, so absolutely they might have a big say in that.

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    Honestly I don’t know why, but submerging a big machine just makes it look 10x cooler (in a figurative sense, in addition to literal)

    I don’t make the rules

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      Not sure about this particular experiment, but neutrino detectors are usually deep underground and trying to find a tiny tiny spark of Cherenkov radiation or other effects.
      I’m guessing the blue colour is simply paint.

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        From Wikipedia (and my neutrino physics knowledge) , the goal is to measure neutrino oscillation (neutrino charge flavour when travelling), and it seens to be a set of detector located at various distance from a nuclear reactor. The photo mostly looks like one of the reactors rather than the detector

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      Yup, pretty much the only kind of radiation we can see without melting your eyeballs.

      Fun fact, you can totally swim in that pool. Don’t go too deep but it’s cleaner and safer than your average public pool.

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          It is slightly blue, it’s just only noticeable when it gets deep enough. So yeah we’ve all been drinking blue water lol

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          Water IS blue but not enough to explain why the ocean is as blue as it is

          While relatively small quantities of water appear to be colorless, pure water has a slight blue color that becomes deeper as the thickness of the observed sample increases

          Wikipedia

          The color of the ocean is due to atmospheric scattering affecting blue light (short wavelength) more than longer wavelength.

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      Weird fact, you could technically swim in a cooling pond if the reactor is in shutdown or idle. It’s not particularly smart but also not particularly deadly unless you dive down closer to the tractor body itself.

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        A guy fell in the moon pool at a nuke I was working at. He was out less than ten seconds later. It caused a full inventory since the basket was out of the reactor and the tops of the fuel rods were exposed. Its frowned upon to the point the guy got a early layoff.