i would never subtweet a fellow podcaster but how do u not know oak ridge TN was the planned headquarters for the manhattan project and eventually hosted the three uranium enrichment facilities that provided the necessary fissile material for the little boy bomb. everyone knows that - ThreadSky

lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com • 83 days ago

i would never subtweet a fellow podcaster but how do u not know oak ridge TN was the planned headquarters for the manhattan project and eventually hosted the three uranium enrichment facilities that provided the necessary fissile material for the little boy bomb. everyone knows that

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lethaljorts.bsky.social•83 days ago

lol, i had the same thought listening to that

spencerwoody.bsky.social•83 days ago

real ones know about gaseous diffusion of uranium hexafloride

nilbog3000.bsky.social•82 days ago

They had to melt down 14,000 lbs of silver in Fort Knox to make all those cyclotrons first

incelwashington.bsky.social•83 days ago

You said a bunch of big scary words there.

Trump broke another campaign promise by allowing your words to proliferate .

They are pro-birth, not life.

ouisequitur.bsky.social•83 days ago

just because you're a sneaker review pod is no excuse

goodkid-saadcity.bsky.social•83 days ago

what is this, amateur hour

burriscommaben.bsky.social•83 days ago

I came across this at the exact moment Molly asked Robert why newt Gingrich was talking about the Nazis invading Tennessee

burriscommaben.bsky.social•83 days ago

would be thrilled if you were talking about something else and my post is complete nonsense

lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com•83 days ago

it would be a pretty crazy coincidence for two podcasts to overlook it in one week

battynatty.bsky.social•82 days ago

imagine if every podcast overlooked it, everyone would be in on the coverup

snapdeus.org•83 days ago

Fissile material for why don't you have a seat over there? Now what exactly is "the bomb?"

analogy.bsky.social•83 days ago

I think a lot about the nun that broke into the DOE facility there often!

arsenalgodyoutuber.bsky.social•83 days ago

argenben.bsky.social•82 days ago

You subtweeted who?

proudheretic.bsky.social•83 days ago

I find that people tend to view the south as a monolith in which nothing innovative or scientific ever happens, it’s just hills full of uneducated hicks.

uneasywriter.bsky.social•83 days ago

It’s a great disguise when you think about it.

policegazette.bsky.social•83 days ago

Just like everyone knows the Police Gazette invented the newspaper sports department, which means every sports department since (ESPN?) is a lineal descendant of the Gazette.

Just sayin'.

one-underscore.bsky.social•83 days ago

who among us did not read kate brown's "plutopia", a riveteing and enlightening comparison of life in soviet and america nuclear cities, and come to understand how the fear, bureaucracy, and secrecy of the arms race gave rise to strikingly similar tragic lives under different economic systems?

quietwyatt.bsky.social•83 days ago

When will they be held to account?!

badgerlock.bsky.social•83 days ago

Those dorks aren't even from Oak Ridge

nilbog3000.bsky.social•82 days ago

They were all assassins in the Phoenix program in Nam

socialistdogmom.bsky.social•83 days ago

sorry, that’s just not my business

pucksherburn.bsky.social•82 days ago

Those Manhattan project guys weren't little or weird enough to be on hour radar. It's ok.

socialistdogmom.bsky.social•82 days ago

they were big weird guys and i don't want to have anything to do with that much math

clowdcole.bsky.social•83 days ago

The secret city still living up to its name!

iwriteok.bsky.social•83 days ago

i am fairly certain i said in the episode that the nuclear program started somewhere in Tennessee

connermadeitout.bsky.social•82 days ago

You can't keep embarrassing us like this Robert

iwriteok.bsky.social•83 days ago

i just relistened and yes! i said the nuclear program was headed somewhere around there before los alamos! i am innocent of these allegations.

carthurkennett.bsky.social•82 days ago

Robert, we love you in spite of your faults

tinydonkey.bsky.social•83 days ago

My "I actually do know that the US nuclear program started in Tennessee" T-shirt is generating a lot of questions. Most of which are answered by the shirt.

socialistdogmom.bsky.social•83 days ago

no it’s me. i’m the one who didn’t know. is that the place where cillian murphy had those tense conversations with albert einstein? i wasn’t watching very closely.

socialistdogmom.bsky.social•82 days ago

also, just for the record: the guest on the show is "the podcast idiot," that's the role! the guest doesn't have to know stuff. i'm just there to vibe. i'm only responsible for knowing stuff on my own show.

70bpmhiccups.bsky.social•82 days ago

Yea, that's the whole point of it. Robert gets a guest on and you react to the terrible person he's taking about.

dancow.bsky.social•82 days ago

it's so funny when people get mad at the "You're Wrong About" podcast because they don't realize its entire schtick is for one host is to be ignorant so that the other host can educate them

pershing48.bsky.social•83 days ago

Oak Ridge is mentioned but never appears in Oppenheimer. They still have a ton of government research labs and big detectors there. I visited in undergrad.

lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com•83 days ago

that was princeton ok look its not a great movie but everyone should read the best work of nonfiction of the 20th century the making of the atomic bomb by richard rhodes thats my only point here

kitkatgirl.bsky.social•82 days ago

Oh no- the girls are fighting! 😉

socialistdogmom.bsky.social•83 days ago

i think the week we recorded that i was mostly reading material about nazi wizard blood magic, i’m kind of busy

hobgoblinjesus.bsky.social•83 days ago

Nazi Wizard Blood magic is the type of thing Musk will add if he buys DnD

jimdavisonline.bsky.social•82 days ago

vouch

kuriva.im•82 days ago

for more on Einstein's relationship with Princeton you can watch the biopic "I.Q.", released 30 years ago this month
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.Q._(film)

intense.wiggling.me•83 days ago

Subskeet might of been targeted at @socialistdogmom.bsky.social. In which case, how dare she.

just-slothlike.bsky.social•82 days ago

you also said 'go have sex with newt gingrich and get secrets from him' which does not sound like sound advice

fsudono.bsky.social•83 days ago

The Hawk Tuah girl got that wrong in her latest pod? Smh

lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com•83 days ago

really shameful that she didn't even mention the oak ridge x-10 graphite reactor failed to produce enough plutonium for fat man but did provide enough to proof of concept its design

goodkid-saadcity.bsky.social•83 days ago

we have *standards* for a reason

cranfath3r.bsky.social•83 days ago

Well, thanks for listening to the Niko and Chris Bears Post-Game Wrap-Up Show anyway

eclaire.bsky.social•83 days ago

When we would go to oak ridge for rowing training when I was in school there are still big signs every fifty feet along the river saying not to fish because the water is radioactive and yet my teammates still feel in

calvinallegedly.bsky.social•83 days ago

"Go oak go broke" Oppenheimer when trying to get his govt funded flat in New Mexico

krinkle.bsky.social•83 days ago

wait so that band that sings elvira is named for uranium enrichment facilities?
they sing "my heart's on fire" and then their home town burns hiroshima

step-mother.bsky.social•83 days ago

next you’re going to tell me they don’t know anything about the purex process for plutonium extraction

cowardlylyons.bsky.social•83 days ago

I actually worked in oak ridge in a department of their government for a year it was kinda funny they really are trying to steer away from using the atom as a symbol on logos and things😬💀

jeffrush.bsky.social•83 days ago

Just assumed "material for the little boy bomb" would be a story about the catholic church sex scandal.

steinkobbe.bsky.social•83 days ago

This is about my latest podcast titled "oak ridge TN was NOT the planned headquarters for the manhattan project and did NOT eventually hosted the three uranium enrichment facilities that provided the necessary fissile material for the little boy BOMB" isn't it

castlecanis.bsky.social•83 days ago

Big fan of the pod but the titles are a bit unwieldy.

90sslowjamz.bsky.social•83 days ago

Also there are too many breathing and mouth noises imho

oakzy.bsky.social•83 days ago

everyone knows that

arcadiaberger.bsky.social•83 days ago

Whenever someone mentions Oak Ridge, I think of the physicist given a tour of facilities at Los Alamos, Hanford and Oak Ridge after the war who said, "Ten years ago, I said to build an atomic bomb, you'd have to turn an entire country into one big industrial plant."

He looked around.

"Called it."

crackth3skye.bsky.social•83 days ago

The LPOTL boys would have known that.
(Actually they probably wouldn't have despite doing a whole Manhattan Project series)

mkfraser.bsky.social•83 days ago

I am shocked when I meet people who don’t know this. Under a rock they be livin.

harry-lewiston.bsky.social•82 days ago

this led to the rise of the so-called Oak Ridge Boys--singing mutants known for their love of Elvira

archergorgonite.bsky.social•82 days ago

The real Oak Ridge Boy

nilbog3000.bsky.social•82 days ago

This is probably still an official secret so I’m informing the FBI

shake1n1bake.bsky.social•83 days ago

People don't always know that the USS Indianapolis (of Jaws and Navy Boot Camp fame) was returning from delivering components for the "Little Boy" bomb when it was torpedoed and sank.

charltonlack.bsky.social•83 days ago

Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. We’d just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes.