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1 posted on 05/07/2021 12:08:29 PM PDT by Red Badger
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Did he get any super powers?


2 posted on 05/07/2021 12:11:39 PM PDT by DEPcom (Floyd die from being a drug addict. Drugs kill)
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he had seen a light “brighter than a thousand Suns," as well as the gravity of the situation.

He learned about gravity, and then had a black-hole in his head.

3 posted on 05/07/2021 12:11:50 PM PDT by PGR88
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Wow!


4 posted on 05/07/2021 12:11:58 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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Astounding! What an amazing and horrifying story, yet with an ending I did not expect. What an incredible man to live through such a thing!


6 posted on 05/07/2021 12:13:44 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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kept the damage limited to an area of brain that he could live without.

From the sound of it, he needed every brain cell available right before sticking in his head.

8 posted on 05/07/2021 12:16:04 PM PDT by bgill
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He couldn’t get the microwave to come on with the door open....


9 posted on 05/07/2021 12:16:25 PM PDT by kjam22
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Ping!..........


10 posted on 05/07/2021 12:16:27 PM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
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Compare and contrast to today’s world where people get “triggered” by “micro agressions” and make sure to let everyone know with this dude who gets zapped by a proton beam, and completes his work and goes home without telling anyone.


11 posted on 05/07/2021 12:18:00 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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“Hold my vodka”


12 posted on 05/07/2021 12:19:33 PM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (CENSORSHIP = VIOLENCE)
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... a proton beam shot through the back of his head at close to the speed of light.

I hate when that happens.

13 posted on 05/07/2021 12:19:56 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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This is like an early prototype of a phaser. The setting was above “stun”, but below “kill”.


17 posted on 05/07/2021 12:23:47 PM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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“several safety mechanisms had also failed”

Got to love Soviet era nuclear physicists and the way they they approached their jobs. And this was before Chernobyl.


20 posted on 05/07/2021 12:25:39 PM PDT by shotgun
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Did he become Dr.Manhattan ?


21 posted on 05/07/2021 12:26:05 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Assange )
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"July 13, 1978"

Interesting to think the Soviets merely wanted to observe his death, precisely because they had proof-of-concept of a proton beam as a weapon. It is 43 years later and there are still only (deeply covered-up) rare instances of, let's just say, "focused light" military testing, or the actual uses thereof.

And yet, it's a certainty -- given Moore's Law if nothing else -- that this is fully battlefield-ready but (mostly) untested in conflict scenarios.

And as David Lee Roth once said, "Ed, there's never been a weapon that hasn't been fired in anger..."

23 posted on 05/07/2021 12:27:46 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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Lock-out Tag-out fail.


26 posted on 05/07/2021 12:32:19 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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When I read the headline I just KNEW this happened in the old USSR.


27 posted on 05/07/2021 12:32:44 PM PDT by 43north (Its hard to stop a man when he knows he's right and he keeps on comin'.)
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Hold my beer?


28 posted on 05/07/2021 12:32:48 PM PDT by Bloodandgravy (Demand for racism is outpacing supply.)
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“Over the next few decades, he experienced seizures but remained functional, continued his work as a physicist, and completed a PhD.”

“The narrow focus of the beam, though it caused massive damage, likely kept the damage limited to an area of brain that he could live without.”

Proves that even people with brain damage can get a Ph.D.


33 posted on 05/07/2021 12:36:59 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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Lot luckier then those poor souls at Chernobyl. Watch that mini series. Sweet Jesus they died hard, real hard.


38 posted on 05/07/2021 12:41:09 PM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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“Weirder still, as he aged the right side of his head showed signs of aging, while the left side did not.”

If there’s not a mad scientist researching this, I’ve lost my faith in mad scientists.


41 posted on 05/07/2021 12:58:06 PM PDT by dangus
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