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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (3 children)

There was a guy on the net years ago who claimed that the entire universe is an electron on a plutonium atom. He made a religion out of it, wrote hymns to the atom (or, more precisely, changed the words of Christian hymns, clumsily fitting in references to plutonium atoms) and even legally changed his name to Archimedes Plutonium.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I always find it fascinating how specific those theories become. Want to believe that our universe is just some sort of quark in a bigger universe we can't know anything about? Fine. Doesn't make terribly much sense, but what does at that scale anyway? But then going on and being sure that that bigger thing must be Plutonium? Why? How?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

With a name like that I imagine his cause of death might be in the radioactive “bathtub” of a nuclear rod cooling pool

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago

That sounds like something out of a fallout fanfiction