1242: Scary Names - Revision history

DKMell: links, wording

2026-01-25T23:19:10Z

links, wording

Potatocakethrow at 19:44, 25 January 2026

2026-01-25T19:44:06Z

Potatocakethrow: Added refrence to the new comic

2026-01-25T19:43:47Z

Added refrence to the new comic

82.132.245.89: /* Trivia */ Redone to go to the mushroom(-family) page, not a disambiguation page (that does primarily suggest the fungi-family page, but with additional link-following needed).

2026-01-23T16:32:54Z

‎Trivia: Redone to go to the mushroom(-family) page, not a disambiguation page (that does primarily suggest the fungi-family page, but with additional link-following needed).

Amateurautist: /* Trivia */ added a link to the Wikipedia page for "destroying angel"

2026-01-23T16:11:35Z

‎Trivia: added a link to the Wikipedia page for "destroying angel"

98.146.183.226: /* Explanation */

2025-10-14T20:34:23Z

‎Explanation

Chronotix: /* Table */

2025-07-14T07:53:10Z

‎Table

172.69.23.209: /* Explanation */

2025-02-23T03:11:55Z

‎Explanation

172.71.30.253: /* Trivia */

2024-11-02T04:23:15Z

‎Trivia

172.68.71.145: /* Trivia */

2024-11-02T04:10:00Z

‎Trivia

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 |{{Nowrap|{{Hs|j !}}87%}}
 |{{Nowrap|{{Hs|h !}}73%}}
-|A subcritical mass of plutonium that was involved in two separate fatal incidents at Los Alamos laboratory in 1945 and 1946. In both cases, the core was accidentally placed into a configuration where it went supercritical and exposed an experimenter to fatal doses of radiation. The second is more notable, where Louis Slotin held two halves of a beryllium neutron reflector apart with a flat head screwdriver which slipped, suddenly causing the contained plutonium core to become supercritical and delivering a fatal dose of radiation. This is later referenced in [[2593: Deviled Eggs]] and [[3198: Double-pronged extension cord]].
+|A subcritical mass of plutonium that was involved in two separate fatal incidents at {{w|Los Alamos National Laboratory}} in 1945 and 1946. In both cases, the core was accidentally placed into a configuration where it went {{w|supercriticality|supercritical}} and exposed an experimenter to fatal doses of radiation. The second, more notable accident occurred when physicist Louis Slotin held two halves of a beryllium neutron reflector apart with a flat head screwdriver which slipped, suddenly causing the contained plutonium core to become supercritical and delivering a fatal dose of radiation. This is later referenced in [[2593: Deviled Eggs]] and [[3198: Double-Pronged Extension Cord]].
 |-
-|{{Nowrap|{{w|Calorimeter#Bomb calorimeters|Bomb Calorimeters}}}}
+|{{Nowrap|{{w|Calorimeter#Bomb calorimeters|Bomb Calorimeter}}}}
 |{{Nowrap|{{Hs|h !}}67%}}
 |{{Nowrap|{{Hs|b !}}28%}}

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 |{{Nowrap|{{Hs|j !}}87%}}
 |{{Nowrap|{{Hs|h !}}73%}}
-|A subcritical mass of plutonium that was involved in two separate fatal incidents at Los Alamos laboratory in 1945 and 1946. In both cases, the core was accidentally placed into a configuration where it went supercritical and exposed an experimenter to fatal doses of radiation. The second is more notable, where Louis Slotin held two halves of a beryllium neutron reflector apart with a flat head screwdriver which slipped, suddenly causing the contained plutonium core to become supercritical and delivering a fatal dose of radiation. This is later referenced in [[2593: Deviled Eggs]] and [[3198: Double-pronged- extension cord]].
+|A subcritical mass of plutonium that was involved in two separate fatal incidents at Los Alamos laboratory in 1945 and 1946. In both cases, the core was accidentally placed into a configuration where it went supercritical and exposed an experimenter to fatal doses of radiation. The second is more notable, where Louis Slotin held two halves of a beryllium neutron reflector apart with a flat head screwdriver which slipped, suddenly causing the contained plutonium core to become supercritical and delivering a fatal dose of radiation. This is later referenced in [[2593: Deviled Eggs]] and [[3198: Double-pronged extension cord]].
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 |{{Nowrap|{{w|Calorimeter#Bomb calorimeters|Bomb Calorimeters}}}}

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 |{{Nowrap|{{Hs|j !}}87%}}
 |{{Nowrap|{{Hs|h !}}73%}}
-|A subcritical mass of plutonium that was involved in two separate fatal incidents at Los Alamos laboratory in 1945 and 1946. In both cases, the core was accidentally placed into a configuration where it went supercritical and exposed an experimenter to fatal doses of radiation. The second is more notable, where Louis Slotin held two halves of a beryllium neutron reflector apart with a flat head screwdriver which slipped, suddenly causing the contained plutonium core to become supercritical and delivering a fatal dose of radiation. This is later referenced in [[2593: Deviled Eggs]].
+|A subcritical mass of plutonium that was involved in two separate fatal incidents at Los Alamos laboratory in 1945 and 1946. In both cases, the core was accidentally placed into a configuration where it went supercritical and exposed an experimenter to fatal doses of radiation. The second is more notable, where Louis Slotin held two halves of a beryllium neutron reflector apart with a flat head screwdriver which slipped, suddenly causing the contained plutonium core to become supercritical and delivering a fatal dose of radiation. This is later referenced in [[2593: Deviled Eggs]] and [[3198: Double-pronged- extension cord]].
 |-
 |{{Nowrap|{{w|Calorimeter#Bomb calorimeters|Bomb Calorimeters}}}}

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 ==Trivia==
-*In the ''[[What If? (book)|What If?]]'' book, in the book-exclusive article "No More DNA", this graph is shown redrawn with "{{w|Destroying Angel}}" added to it, with both its Approximate True Scariness and Approximate Apparent Scariness at an off-the-chart 110%. Destroying Angel is the common name for ''Amanita bisporigera'', a poisonous mushroom which causes irreversible damage at the cellular level in a way the article uses as an analogue to the scenario of a person's DNA being removed. Other items in the chart have also moved positions – most noticeably, Nuclear Football has moved right to a 120% Approximate True Scariness.
+*In the ''[[What If? (book)|What If?]]'' book, in the book-exclusive article "No More DNA", this graph is shown redrawn with "{{w|Destroying angel}}" added to it, with both its Approximate True Scariness and Approximate Apparent Scariness at an off-the-chart 110%. Destroying Angel is the common name for ''Amanita bisporigera'', a poisonous mushroom which causes irreversible damage at the cellular level in a way the article uses as an analogue to the scenario of a person's DNA being removed. Other items in the chart have also moved positions – most noticeably, Nuclear Football has moved right to a 120% Approximate True Scariness.
 ==Transcript==

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 ==Trivia==
-*In the ''[[What If? (book)|What If?]]'' book, in the book-exclusive article "No More DNA", this graph is shown redrawn with "Destroying Angel" added to it, with both its Approximate True Scariness and Approximate Apparent Scariness at an off-the-chart 110%. Destroying Angel is the common name for ''Amanita bisporigera'', a poisonous mushroom which causes irreversible damage at the cellular level in a way the article uses as an analogue to the scenario of a person's DNA being removed. Other items in the chart have also moved positions – most noticeably, Nuclear Football has moved right to a 120% Approximate True Scariness.
+*In the ''[[What If? (book)|What If?]]'' book, in the book-exclusive article "No More DNA", this graph is shown redrawn with "{{w|Destroying Angel}}" added to it, with both its Approximate True Scariness and Approximate Apparent Scariness at an off-the-chart 110%. Destroying Angel is the common name for ''Amanita bisporigera'', a poisonous mushroom which causes irreversible damage at the cellular level in a way the article uses as an analogue to the scenario of a person's DNA being removed. Other items in the chart have also moved positions – most noticeably, Nuclear Football has moved right to a 120% Approximate True Scariness.
 ==Transcript==

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 On the chart, things toward the right are scary/dangerous/very bad, while things toward the top ''sound'' scary without ''necessarily'' being scary.
-Note that [[Randall]] uses similar diagrams in both [[388: Fuck Grapefruit]], [[1501: Mysteries]] and [[2466: In Your Classroom]], which also contain different items. The first two also have an extra point, and the last two extra points mentioned in the title text. Only the first and the last comics points are also off the chart, whereas for the second the description of the point is too long to fit on the chart. Extra info outside the chart is also used in the title text of [[1785: Wifi]], but this is a line graph.
+Note that [[Randall]] uses similar diagrams in [[388: Fuck Grapefruit]], [[1501: Mysteries]] and [[2466: In Your Classroom]], which also contain different items. The first two also have an extra point, and the last two extra points mentioned in the title text. Only the first and the last comics points are also off the chart, whereas for the second the description of the point is too long to fit on the chart. Extra info outside the chart is also used in the title text of [[1785: Wifi]], but it is a line graph, not a scatter plot.
 ===Table===

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 ===Table===
-*This table list the entries from least to most scary, including the ''entry'' mentioned in the title text.
+*This table lists the entries from least to most scary, including the ''entry'' mentioned in the title text.
 *To begin with it is sorted from most scary name to least scary name.
 **The assigned percentage values assumes a linear scale and assigns ''flesh eating bacteria'' with the point (100%, 100%).

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 |{{Nowrap|{{Hs|k !}}95%}}
 |{{Nowrap|{{Hs|a !}}4%}}
-|A network packet that induces a {{w|broadcast storm}} or network meltdown. It is an analogous reference to the {{w|Chernobyl disaster}}.
+|A network packet that induces a {{w|broadcast storm}} or network meltdown. It is an analogous reference to the {{w|Chernobyl disaster}}, but otherwise has no relation: one did not cause the disaster, nor does it concern literal packets of radioactive material from Chernobyl.
 |-
 |{{Nowrap|{{w|Kessler syndrome|Kessler Syndrome}}}}