i kept seeing this idea in several fanfics and it just stuck with me: that Bucky has always been a big nerd for anything sci-fi. there are stacks of books on his nightstand and more crammed in the shelves of their apartment, asimov, frank herbert, douglas adams and so on and he always carries a beaten up paperback with him to read in between briefings
For any of you who are writing ‘across the pond’-here is a little guide I put together of some common differences between British and American English!
that’s actually exactly where you want to keep a nuclear plant. When nuclear plants are built they are put by large bodies of water so that they have a constant water supply as well as a radiation sink should they catastrophically fail. the key to making meltdowns manageable is shielding and distance
Distance is important because radiation obeys the inverse square law. That is, if you double the distance, you only get ¼ the radiation. If you were four feet from a radiation source that put you in a 600R/ hr field, but immediately jumped back to 8 feet away, you would only be in a 150R/hr. As you can see, the exposure drops off VERY fast with distance.
Shielding matters because different particles (the “radioactive bits” that radiation describes) can’t penetrate certain things. alpha particles (the most numerous particles as well as the weakest) can’t penetrate more than a sheet of paper, beta particles cant penetrate more than a few mm of aluminum, but gamma rays (the powerful, deadly particles) need a lot of lead, though they’re half lives are short and they’re are very few gamma emitting particles. neutron radiation, the thing most people worry about, is easily contained by substances containing hydrogen (two metres of water will stop all but the most energetic neutrons).
The ocean just happens to have the perfect combination of great distance and shielding, and areas of it that experience spills often only see their rads increase by a just few integers or decimals. The sun increases and decreases local rads more significantly than that. This is why places like Chernobyl are worse off than Three Mile Island, where almost all of the radiation dissipated into the sea. Hell, that’s why the immediate land around Fukashima is uninhabitable while it’s coast has practically normalized.
This is why nuclear power plants are designed and built by people who understand nuclear physics rather than by smartasses on twitter.
the thought of aziraphale being in Crowley’s flat and seeing that fucking statue every single time he’s there. like hi crowley, oh there’s the statue of us fucking that you thought was subtle enough to be an intimidation tactic but is clearly just a product of your sexual frustration and 6000 years spent pining. lovely. shall we eat at the Ritz today?
What if it was a mutual purchase that they bought while drunk one time at an auction because they both thought it would be hilarious, and now a few hundred years later it’s still in Crowley’s flat because they have an unspoken competition over which of them will mention how awkward it is first
For anyone else who was initially confused like I was lol
That scene where he is forced to kneel… just look at his face omg he looks SO DONE with everything (it’s hot ngl) anyway this is my fav bucky edit (🔉sound on)
(credits to imthemoon on Youtube, this is from a crack marvel video they did) (it’s funny cause i found the best bucky edit hidden in a crack video lmao)
ALSO, don’t try posting this on instagram cause they’ll delete it for copyright of the song -_- i’ve already tried lmao
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