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So I guess it turns out that Homer Simpson was more realistic than we thought... all the way through to only avoiding nuclear accidents through sheer luck.
by crooked-v 4y ago
So I guess it turns out that Homer Simpson was more realistic than we thought... all the way through to only avoiding nuclear accidents through sheer luck.
- surement 4y agothe book Command and Control by Eric Schlosser highlights many closer calls than this and is very good reading, if a bit disconcerting
- fragmede 4y agoIf by avoided you mean physicists Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin dying from acute radiation syndrome (Demon Core), then yeah.
- quickthrower2 4y agoHomer is safer. He chucks a single rod out on the street in the opening scene, keeping it separate from the rest. At work he is lazy, so by doing nothing, he is not combining rods together.
- TMWNN 4y ago>At work he is lazy, so by doing nothing, he is not combining rods together. And whenever he is required to do something, disaster occurs. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErwV24Bskyw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErwV24Bskyw>
- Tangurena2 4y agoLike Y2k remediation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWPdBhlsBYI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWPdBhlsBYI
- tragomaskhalos 4y agoMore Simpsons prescience: I believe it is Lenny who observes, when Homer is running for the office of town garbage collection supremo, "Eh, Homer's a great nuclear safety technician, but I don't know if I trust him with my garbage".