The Most Insane Weapon You Never Heard About
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@commpisto5948 · 1 year ago
Oppenheimer: <b>lives the entire rest of his life after Hiroshima in immense guilt and feelings of hopelessness from the fact that he just gave humanity the capacity to annihilate itself</b><br><br>Meanwhile Teller:
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@jankowalsk767 · 1 year ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E55uSCO5D2w&t=530">8:50</a> - if THE US military responds to your idea with "that's too much bro" then you know you went a little too far.
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@Deadbeatcow · 1 year ago
Oppenheimer: <b>wracked with grief over unleashing Pandora's box</b><br><br>Meanwhile Teller: "MORE MORE MORE"
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@dindong5396 · 6 months ago
Oppenheimer: “I am become death destroyer of worlds😢”<br><br>Teller: Police steady watching me
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@roz9318 · 1 year ago
Whoever did the sound design for this episode did an outstanding job
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@Jayrehm · 1 year ago (edited)
Oppenheimer : "We built something horrible..."<br><br>Teller : "I wonder how a city would look like if we dropped Betelgeuse on it"<br><br>Oppenheimer : "What ?"<br><br>Teller : "What?"
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@elitemook4234 · 1 year ago
'Even the US military thought this was a bit much' - Now that's a phrase to send a chill down your spine
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@nickgreen4731 · 5 months ago
The thing is, Teller wasn't a bad guy - he just understood physics far better than he understood people. He genuinely thought a Doomsday Device would prevent war. He thought every human would be as logical as he was.
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@devpartap9748 · 1 year ago
the way he says "if a bomb can destroy the whole world, why even bother moving it?" had me rolling.
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@DataIsBeautifulOfficial · 1 year ago
Humans are geniuses at self-delete.
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@chrisarcher1146 · 1 year ago
As someone who once had ambitions to work in theoretical physics: Teller is why STEM majors have to be forced to take humanities courses to get their degree
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