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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What about sigma particles?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The premise is wrong. Alpha particles are thicc, so one should say that alpha males have thicc d**ks. ๐Ÿ˜Ž

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They can only be penetrated by JD-rays

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Sounds like mediocre BBQ sauce

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is clearly evidence that Jimmy Neutron is the peak male form

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

He does have the most penetration power according to this source...

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Proof that alpha males can't hit themselves out of a wet paper bag.

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (4 children)

idiot here. can someone explain to me how come neutrons can't penetrate concrete compared to lead.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If you throw a ball at a brick wall it will bounce. If you throw a ball into a ball pit it will be slowed down and stop

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Neutrons need something that provides them with lots of chances to have interactions. Water is good too. What blocks neutrons may not block gamma and vise versa. To block neutrons and high energy particles like cosmic rays that actually have mass to them you need something like a crash barrier.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Same. Aren't neutrons capable of crossing the entire planet unless they directly colide with another particle?

[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

I reckon you're thinking of the neutrino which rarely interacts with matter.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I believe you're thinking of neutrinos. Neutrons love bonking into things, and they're really good at it. Too good; if the thing they're bonking is too big they'll just keep on bouncing, so you gotta bounce them off small stuff. Concrete has lots of small stuff bound up in it, so while there's better shields (borax and paraffin slurry is a classic one) there's few cheaper or easier to make shields than concrete.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Neutrons are just so bonked up

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Oh oops. I did mix them up.

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

that's very interesting, thanks.

[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Can I be a zeta male? I'm not even male, I just think zeta is a cool Greek letter.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If zea started on T, you would be zeta already

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's why I take a T blocker ๐Ÿ˜Ž

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Stronger than concrete and lead

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Ok we'll call you Zeta Jones from now on

[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What about z-ray? It's two more than x-ray.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you have to ask, you can't afford it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

"I've been shitting pancakes ever since"

[โ€“] [email protected] 70 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (3 children)

So practically no integration with any human being?!

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Hermit life

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You mean interaction right? ...right?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

What I want to write versus what my phone wants to write...

[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

You're goddamned right.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago