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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton)

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The Cenobite of Sharing The Black Blood of the Earth and Steins of Science guy. Everyone’s friendly internet laser safety officer and health physicist. Happy to answer Antarctica questions. www.funraniumlabs.com

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · Nov 23

Because sometimes I need a reminder of how to step back from the brink and maybe you do too. DON’T BECOME A WAR THUNDER FORUMS VICTIM! www.funraniumlabs.com/2011/12/life...

Hard Life Lessons from the Land of Q Clearances - Funranium Labs

In an ongoing effort to share helpful things in life about topics other than delicious coffee & beer, I want to take a moment to discuss something that effects all of us, every day. First, let us revi...

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 14m

Mmm, NewBev

Won’t be enough time next weekend to go.

Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 2h

May tonight be the night!

Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 2h

There totally was one! But he was a postdoc they’d stolen valor from. He’s since gotten out of the astrophysics game because:

1) Colleagues made him continually angry.
2) He’d like to be paid money so his family can eat.

Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 2h

The astrophysicist crew Harvard sent our way at Pole had us seriously wondering if we should do the blood test from The Thing.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 2h

And astronomer is not an astrophysicist. Astronomers are like bird watchers, but for stars. Harmless, generally quite pleasant. ;)

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 3h

And some of them, somehow, have advanced physics, chemistry, and engineering degrees. I will never forget the YEC who quite literally had a Chart of the Nuclides staring him in the face as he explained the half lives are fine but the isotopic abundances were set Day 1.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 3h

Not new at all.

Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 3h

You see, there’s this entire department on campus but there are some VERY CHOICE individuals there.

Also, there’s Harvard.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 3h

METAPHOR

Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 3h

A have known faaaaar too many in my years.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 3h

“If I see a pattern, there must be something systematic. If there is a system, I can reduce it to math and maybe control it.”

This is a VERY OLD thought process.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 4h

This is a funnier variant of the traditional one.

Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 6h

I know. That would be why I said SEE ALSO as not much had changed. The memorial is a somber place.

The entry sign for the Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial

Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 7h

I am here to help.

Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 7h

I hear that you appreciate discovering things.

Shrek at the controls of an airplane heading for two nearly identical tall buildings.

Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 8h

Oh no!

But they will be back, right?

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 8h

A world of wonderous weirdness lay before you! I look forward to you posts on AboveTopSecret.

Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 9h

My god, did a very old Coin Rant joke of mine FINALLY land?

Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 12h

[searches desperately for something nice to say]

It’s got a great soundtrack! Way better than the soundtrack from Morbius. Why, the soundtrack might outsell the movie!

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 13h

‘Tron: Ares’ grossed $14.3M in the film’s domestic opening day

That’s less than ‘Morbius’

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 14h

You have found a way off the karmic wheel due to shame.

Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 14h

The pattern seeking behavior of humans can go a bit funny. Pareidolia lets some people see faces in clouds or the floor tiles. Other people…that.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 15h

515.

The men’s section of the Western Wall. In the foreground there is a man seated watching his sons have a ruckus. In the far right is the barrier that separates them from the women’s section. One woman is peeking over to see what the hell is going on the men’s side.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 15h

Them: Did you see this whackadoo shit? Who comes up with this?
Me: Are they an astrophysicist or mechanical engineer?
Them: ummm [reads closely]...aerospace.
Me: Close enough.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 15h

Think about how for decades, one of the ingredients of a crackpot was: retired engineer.

Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.

They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 23h

I need to know this gin INTIMATELY come January.

Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 1d

No way, that’s super unsafe with all the gin.