[23:53] <prolopsi> was the sphere story apocryrphal
[23:53] <prolopsi> or actually real
[23:53] <Kelvandil> what story?
[23:53] <@wrath__> sphere of safety is broken
[23:53] <@wrath__> and locked out some person
[23:53] <prolopsi> supposedly the nuclear fuel they were using were spheres
[23:54] <prolopsi> and maybe some other dangerous, critical hardware
[23:54] <prolopsi> but they didn't look dangeorus otherwise
[23:54] <prolopsi> so they just had a rule that anything sphere-shaped was presumed dangerous
[23:55] <prolopsi> and there was a ban on non-dangerous spheres to prevent false positives
[23:55] <@wrath__> !name=the spheres
[23:55] <Datatog> Snare the Skies {G} |Instant| Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains reach until end of turn. · AVR-C,Vin,Leg,Mod,Ext,Std,Cla,ISDBC,NewStd
[23:55] <Seeker> I have never heard that one before
[23:55] <Seeker> doesn't mean it's false
[23:55] <Draconis> nuclear fuel would generally be rods I think?
[23:55] <Draconis> actual nuke cores would be spherical
[23:55] <Seeker> they used pure platinum as a doorstop iirc
[23:55] <Rylinks> depends on the nuke
[23:56] <Seeker> the devil's core was spherical but that is literally all I know about nukes so
[23:56] <prolopsi> One weapons scientist explained to me how he breached security at Los Alamos simply by bringing a sack lunch into the plutonium facility. He left his lunch on his office desk and stepped out for a minute. He came back to find a commotion. A security officer informed him that the orange he left on his desk was, in fact, a classified object.
[23:56] <Seeker> lol
[23:56] <Seeker> NO ORANGES
[23:56] <prolopsi> He learned that any spherical object became a nuclear secret once it passes over the line demarcating the secure from the open areas of the laboratory, as it could be taken as a model for the plutonium pit that drives a nuclear weapon.
[23:56] <Draconis> did you hear what he said next
[23:57] <Draconis> ORANGE YOU GLAD I DIDN'T BRING AN APPLE
