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Scarlet sends a message but is not sure Castel received it.

Get the clue-by-four ready, Scar.

We'll, that's one of the most skillful conbackations I've seen lately.

(It's sort of like a confrontation, but it hits you from an unexpected angle.)

It makes sense, though... the kitsune are associated with Japan, so it's only reasonable that Scarlet might be familiar with akido.

She’s expecting an awful lot of Cas.

These are like, 15 year olds tops right?

I could wager Scar is trying to act more mature than she really is with all of this, and it might bite her in the butt.

Yea poor Scar is taking her life in her own hands with this one. Tampering with anothers emotions is akin to trying to defuse a nuclear weapon. In this case both figurative and literally.

It's not hard to defuse a nuke . . .

getting one to go off is hard!

--FreeFlier

FreeFlier wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 9:50 am It's not hard to defuse a nuke . . .

getting one to go off is hard!

--FreeFlier

True, but the real trick is to prevent a fizzle in the process. Those are really messy and a bear to clean up.

sheik wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 2:58 pm

FreeFlier wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 9:50 amIt's not hard to defuse a nuke . . .

getting one to go off is hard!

True, but the real trick is to prevent a fizzle in the process. Those are really messy and a bear to clean up.

Squibs are the worst.

--FreeFlier

FreeFlier wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 3:06 pm Squibs are the worst.

If the guy at the demo table asks if you'd like to try working with the Demon Core, say "No." Loudly. From the other end of the football field.

Dave wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 5:11 pm

FreeFlier wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 3:06 pm Squibs are the worst.

If the guy at the demo table asks if you'd like to try working with the Demon Core, say "No." Loudly. From the other end of the football field.

But what if it's Tina asking? And she hands you a screwdriver?

Catawampus wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 5:53 pm

Dave wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 5:11 pmIf the guy at the demo table asks if you'd like to try working with the Demon Core, say "No." Loudly. From the other end of the football field.

But what if it's Tina asking? And she hands you a screwdriver?

I say "No, thank you. I don't want to end up like Shelly-1!" and I walk away.

Catawampus wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 5:53 pm

Dave wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 5:11 pm

FreeFlier wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 3:06 pm Squibs are the worst.

If the guy at the demo table asks if you'd like to try working with the Demon Core, say "No." Loudly. From the other end of the football field.

But what if it's Tina asking? And she hands you a screwdriver?

You say "YES!, but I have to wear protection..."

You can see in the second panel that the rusty gears are slowly starting to turn. Hopefully it will not take Cass as long as it did her sister.

(every time I read the title, I scramble it as 'Numb Butt'...)

Dave wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 5:11 pm

FreeFlier wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 3:06 pmSquibs are the worst.

If the guy at the demo table asks if you'd like to try working with the Demon Core, say "No." Loudly. From the other end of the football field.

That's far too close to that thing.

Fortunately, it's gone, expended in a test shot.

If you want something scary, look up the various Broken Arrows.

I'm not sure I believe the official story that #1 didn't have a core aboard.

--FreeFlier

FreeFlier wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 10:15 pm

Dave wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 5:11 pm

FreeFlier wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 3:06 pmSquibs are the worst.

If the guy at the demo table asks if you'd like to try working with the Demon Core, say "No." Loudly. From the other end of the football field.

That's far too close to that thing.

Fortunately, it's gone, expended in a test shot.

If you want something scary, look up the various Broken Arrows.

I'm not sure I believe the official story that #1 didn't have a core aboard.

--FreeFlier

The Demon Core was melted down and used in other experiments. It was never fired. They decided it was too close to criticality after poorly designed experiments killed the experimenters.

Most of the Broken Arrows involve Soviet designs; not that they're _bad_, necessarily, but generally are run at margins unacceptable to sane scientists and engineers. As for the one that dropped uranium - it probably hadn't been loaded with plutonium, because that's the last step before it being a fully active nuclear weapon. They weren't trying to fly an active weapon. The ones that bother me are the complete disappearances.

FreeFlier wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 9:50 am It's not hard to defuse a nuke . . .

getting one to go off is hard!

--FreeFlier

Depends... if we're talking about what was dropped on Hiroshima, THAT one was bloody primitive and triggered with only 2 pounds of cordite. It was rather effective.

Psht, easy-peasy...

Bookworm wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 11:39 pm

FreeFlier wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 10:15 pm

Dave wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 5:11 pmIf the guy at the demo table asks if you'd like to try working with the Demon Core, say "No." Loudly. From the other end of the football field.

That's far too close to that thing.

Fortunately, it's gone, expended in a test shot.

If you want something scary, look up the various Broken Arrows.

I'm not sure I believe the official story that #1 didn't have a core aboard.

The Demon Core was melted down and used in other experiments. It was never fired. They decided it was too close to criticality after poorly designed experiments killed the experimenters. . . .

Ah . . . the older references I'd seen had indicated it was expended in Crossroads.

Bookworm wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 11:39 pmMost of the Broken Arrows involve Soviet designs; not that they're _bad_, necessarily, but generally are run at margins unacceptable to sane scientists and engineers.

I believe that technically a Broken Arrow applies only to US weapons.

Bookworm wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 11:39 pm . . . As for the one that dropped uranium - it probably hadn't been loaded with plutonium, because that's the last step before it being a fully active nuclear weapon. They weren't trying to fly an active weapon. The ones that bother me are the complete disappearances.

Oh, the accounts all agree that there wasn't a plutonium core in the weapon . . . but at that time the core was installed in flight! It was transported in a cage, which I believe was carried in the bomb bay, and two of the crew opened an access (a complex process), installed the core, closed the weapon back up, and installed the detonators that detonated the explosive lenses before the weapon was set for the drop.

The official version of events says there wasn't a core aboard at all . . . I'm not sure I believe that. For one thing, they spent far too long trying to find the aircraft, and they apparently removed the cage, but left the unused detonators in place in the wreckage.

--FreeFlier