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Anatoli Bugorski stuck his head inside a particle accelerator (2020)
- jimmoores 6y agoThere has been several articles about this man recently. I come away from them wanting to help him financially. I feel if you're going to publish an article about him, and make money from adverts on your website, you have a responsibility to try and help this man. If not it's just exploitation.
- shadycuz 6y agoSame feeling. Does he speak English? Maybe we could create a go fund me.
- pfortuny 6y ago(2020) mods.
- stubish 6y ago"He struggles to pay for his epilepsy medication, since the city cut budget to the institute and his former workplace. In 1996, he applied for disabled status but his application was rejected." Site... amusingplanet.com
- wcerfgba 6y ago> Unknown to Bugorski, the accelerator was still running, and the warning lights that would have alerted Bugorski of the hazard had been switched off during a previous experiment, and had not been turned back on. I'd love to know why a safety mechanism like this had an off switch, and under what circumstances that off switch is to be used. I feel like safety mechanisms should be always on, since they exist to prevent us from making mistakes when we forget things?
- qubex 6y agoActually the light bulb that was supposed to be on to signal that the beam was on had burned out that very day.
- helge9210 6y agoBecause light bulbs were expensive and in deficit and people were cheap and plenty in USSR.
- hellbannedguy 6y agoIn 1978 two light bulbs wired in parallel could not be a lunch bill even in Russia.
- helge9210 6y agoYou don't understand, how planned economy works, do you? If you were given N lightbulbs at the beginning of the year and all of them went "pop" or were "taken home", you won't have more until next year, no matter what. And by "you" here I mean support person, responsible for putting spare lightbulbs into sockets. The scientist's performance assessment on the other hand is not tied to support supply chain troubles. He must continue with experiments and must use "hidden reserves" (disable safety system) if necessary.
- voteskip 6y agonot great, not terrible
- helge9210 6y agoTo add context for readers spatially or temporaly (too young) outside of USSR: there was a frequently used saying "We do not have irreplaceable people". Death of a person had neutral to positive effect in Soviet state value system. The smarter the person is the more positive the effect.
- fest 6y agoAllegedly, similar logic was applied to development of weapons- the designed lifetime of some was deliberately capped at a few hundred rounds because "soldiers won't last longer".
- golergka 6y agoThat would be logical for USSR culture, but it's completely at odds with AK family reputation — these rifles are said to be one very durable with minimum maintenance.
- helge9210 6y agoNow during Ukraine-Russia war after storages of Soviet weapon were opened in Ukraine, some series/years of AK assault rifles were dismissed outright as unusable. Quality and reliability weren't controlled for in USSR. Only sheer numbers.
- rytis 6y ago> Quality and reliability weren't controlled for in USSR. That's a very strong statement. Could you elaborate on that a bit more please?
- helge9210 6y agoThere were no penalties in USSR for doing half-assed job (unless someone died because of it, and even then not always). Everyone had a right to work. Even if you're fired (which almost didn't happen), you'll have another shitty job with the same shitty pay in no time. No incentives for quality.
- klondike_klive 6y ago>gastrointestinal track I've seen 'tract' and 'track' confused so often that I wonder if the latter is taking over as standard use, and me shaking my gnarled fist at the skies. cf. "Phenomena" instead of "phenomenon", "bias" instead of "biased", etc etc
- beowulfey 6y agoerr... is "phenomena" not the plural of phenomenon? and isn't "biased" the past tense (or adjective) form of bias? totally agree with gastrointestinal track being wrong though, that's a definite error! EDIT: I searched google and the first result for phenomena was (under "People Also Ask") "What is an example of a phenomena" which is probably the kind of nonsense you are referring to..
- _Microft 6y ago> isn't "biased" the past tense (or adjective) form of bias? This form is called "participle" if you are curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participle
- foobarbecue 6y agohttps://youtu.be/JTslqcXsFd4 https://youtu.be/JTslqcXsFd4 covers a bunch of these (no homophones though since it seems to be about speaking rather than writing).
- interestica 6y agoShaking your fist? Literally? Or literally?
- elliekelly 6y agoTwice this week I’ve seen someone mention how they were going to “sus out” $thing and I can’t help but feel like Among Us has forever changed the spelling of “suss” and conflated “suss” with “suspicious”.
- elliottkember 6y ago
- type0 6y agoThere's a video about his case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD4J5VUwiAs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD4J5VUwiAs called "What happens if you put your head in a particle accelerator?"
- hyperman1 6y agoI’d expect the inside to be a vacuum. Isn’t the air causing trouble or energy loss for the beam?
- ygra 6y agoAs described in Kyle Hill's video about the incident, the proton beam crosses through air in a room to reach various instruments and that's where it was accessible to a curious head poking in.
- barbegal 6y agoI'm guessing he was working on an experiment where the proton beam exits the vacuum chamber and interacts with a sample and some detectors outside of a vacuum. https://www.isis.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/Chipir-technical-information.aspx https://www.isis.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/Chipir-technical-informati... shows an example where a neutron beam exits into a shielded block house where experiments can take place. In this modern particle accelerator access to the block house is controlled by digital and mechanical interlocks to prevent such an accident occurring.
- yummypaint 6y agoAs one would imagine, interlocks on modern accelerators are much better. Things like room radiation monitors combined with switches on motorized doors only closable from outside help alot. This way exposure is only possible if someone else accidentally closes you in, and there are very loud klaxons that warn you when beam coming through is imminent. Getting into a target or radiation area when the accelerator is powered on requires taking a key from the console which blocks the beam at an early stage before it is accelerated.
- cafard 6y agoA biology professor I knew long ago had done a summer internship at a physics lab on Long Island. She said that some of the physicists would align the particle beam from a cyclotron by placing an eye behind the target and waiting for the retina to fluoresce. She later heard that some of them developed cataracts earlier than one usually does.
- Ma8ee 6y agoThat sounds like the joke in the laser lab I did my PhD in: some alignments you can only do twice.
- ineedasername 6y agoThis is the sort of thing that LOTO locks a are used to prevent from happening.
- mothsonasloth 6y agoThis story was also getting pumped up on my Youtube page a couple of days ago. A funny coincidence?
- tenderfault 6y agoEveryone whispers "Dr. Manhattan"
- nickkell 6y agoThis is a rehash of the referenced wired article, which itself is much older (1997). Hopefully he managed to get social welfare payments since then.