OT: Well, Thank God They Won...
The woman allegedly posted on social media that, if the Utes lost Saturday's game, she would "detonate the nuclear reactor that is located in the University of Utah causing a mass destruction," according to a police affidavit obtained by KSL. Police said in the affidavit that the woman had information about the reactor and had attended classes in the same building it is located.
Question for our MGoNERS -- did anyone call in any threats on the Phoenix Project reactor? And, more importantly, was it attached to any sports-related outcome?
September 22nd, 2022 at 12:15 PM ^
Nice try, NSA
September 22nd, 2022 at 12:29 PM ^
Check out the WWII portion of Don's bio:
September 22nd, 2022 at 12:52 PM ^
Life is different when you grow up in war time. Word to Ukraine and our enlisted who are reasonably representative of income, but not at all wealth.
Would that everyone served, or at least the understood the sacrifice of others.
Thanks for pointing this out.
September 22nd, 2022 at 3:10 PM ^
I’ll serve to save you $0.50/ gallon, so your full sized pickup truck can go to Walmart.
September 22nd, 2022 at 3:31 PM ^
I served so you could have the freedom to post backhanded political jabs online. You're welcome.
September 22nd, 2022 at 4:43 PM ^
I call bullshit. But if I'm wrong--and I'm happy to be--you're a better man than just about every other servicemember I know, who joined to look out for their friends, for the women, for the paycheck, and to blow shit up. I thanked one of them for his service once and he promptly told me not to thank him; Uncle Sam thanked him twice per month.
September 22nd, 2022 at 3:28 PM ^
We were acquaintances. Don was a nice guy, very funny in person.
September 22nd, 2022 at 12:24 PM ^
It says she was booked and released. So does this mean authorities are admitting she was never really a threat if they just let her walk freely afterwards? If so, does their case lose some strength considering even the authorities didn’t taker her seriously?
September 22nd, 2022 at 1:53 PM ^
Apparently it was a 100kW training reactor for students and her access to it amounted to that she knew it existed and took some classes in the same building it's in. Plus, it's not like there's a big red button on the side that says "press here to blow up." She obviously wasn't a serious threat, but the strength of her case is more of a legal issue that I cannot speak to.
September 22nd, 2022 at 5:30 PM ^
Do they have a Big Board?
September 24th, 2022 at 4:26 PM ^
No, and they are contributing to the Mine Shaft Gap.
September 22nd, 2022 at 11:52 PM ^
Ah so it’s not an ACME brand reactor
September 22nd, 2022 at 2:24 PM ^
book and release, aka, 'no bail' or 'release on personal recognizance' is the new thing in parts of the criminal justice world. it is not a comment on the case, is generally based on the severity of the charges (apparently threatening to detonate a nuke facility is a non-serious offense?). and depending on the jurisdiction, not much short of first degree murder and/or a parole hold will keep someone locked up. i make no comment on the wisdom or lack thereof to this approach. i'm just the proverbial mail man, i didn't write the letter, so to speak.
KH, that was funny
September 24th, 2022 at 4:29 PM ^
Joking about "detonating" a reactor is not a serious crime. Reactors do not "detonate." It would be far more serious if she'd threatened to shit on the University President's desk.
I see this case dying a fairly quiet death.
September 22nd, 2022 at 12:30 PM ^
She sobered up.
September 22nd, 2022 at 12:37 PM ^
this is the most likely scenario
September 22nd, 2022 at 12:41 PM ^
Did you say "utes"? What is a ute?
September 22nd, 2022 at 1:59 PM ^
That's youuuuuths, your honor.
Joe Pesci was such a versatile actor. He could do Vinny Gambini in My Cousin Vinny, Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas, Harry Lyme in Home Alone and Joey LaMotta in Raging Bull.
September 22nd, 2022 at 2:22 PM ^
Runs the gamut from A to B.
September 22nd, 2022 at 3:44 PM ^
his girlfriend taught me everything I know about the posi-traction on the 1980 Chevy Impala
September 22nd, 2022 at 4:32 PM ^
Actually a 1963 Pontiac Tempest.
September 22nd, 2022 at 12:58 PM ^
MGoNERS. That's a new one.
I'll have to think to see how I feel about it.
September 22nd, 2022 at 1:35 PM ^
I don't really want to be an M-Goner, at least not until after the football and basketball seasons.
September 22nd, 2022 at 1:54 PM ^
Maybe some guys' wives call in the middle of the day and ask for an MGo-Nooner. That I would be in support of.
September 22nd, 2022 at 3:42 PM ^
MGoNerds more like.
Amirite?
September 22nd, 2022 at 4:32 PM ^
In my case, you are.
September 22nd, 2022 at 1:36 PM ^
And here I was thinking that in the SEC it just means more...
September 22nd, 2022 at 1:48 PM ^
I believe she can detonate the nukes just by thinking about it.
September 22nd, 2022 at 2:44 PM ^
Did you know that Hayden Panettiere was married to Wlad Klitschko? Twice? Wlad is currently serving in the Ukrainian army, btw.
I love the internet.
September 22nd, 2022 at 3:38 PM ^
i also met her at her birthday party in (yeah) ann arbor!
September 23rd, 2022 at 11:32 AM ^
Hayden Panettiere provides the opportunity to post the meme tying her to this story
Utah's pregame speech before SDSU, probably pic.twitter.com/Pyd9hkMdn9
— Waiting for the Big XII 🇺🇦 (@JFloyd314) September 22, 2022
September 22nd, 2022 at 2:02 PM ^
They shutdown the Phoenix reactor my freshman year, sadly. Never heard of any threats called in, definitely heard some other stories though. Oscillations are really interesting in nuclear reactors. Usually they decay away really quickly, but with careful adjustments, you can keep them going, but it's difficult. Kinda like trying to balance on a bike that isn't moving. One professor apparently kept them going for something like 30 hours. It was alleged that his efforts may have been aided by a choice substance or two.
September 22nd, 2022 at 6:36 PM ^
UFRs, SCHMOOFRs. This is the shit I come here to learn.
September 23rd, 2022 at 12:08 PM ^
My high school physics teacher (in Michigan) was a Buckeye. He was a great and entertaining teacher, but he had a deep hatred for Michigan (or, at least, he enjoyed playing up his hatred with us since there were a lot of Wolverine fans in the class).
The only nice thing I ever heard him say about Michigan was how amazing the Phoenix reactor was. Apparently you could look down into the reactor pool, and the blue color was one of the most amazing things he'd ever seen. (His explanation, if my memory serves correctly, is that electrons can actually get through the pool more quickly than photons--because the photons keep colliding with the things (neutrons?) in the very dense pool, whereas the electrons can move more freely. Feel free to tell me I'm an idiot if that explanation is not remotely correct.)
September 22nd, 2022 at 2:32 PM ^
Who are the MGoNADERS?
September 22nd, 2022 at 3:34 PM ^
I believe that was the Public Interest Research Group in Michigan (PIRGiM) who somehow made their way onto the registration form to obtain “voluntary” donations. Voluntary in quotes because their staff could be quite strident in the registration line, which was already an imposing task
They were removed from the registration process through petition by a group known as SCRAP.
It was all quite a hubbub back in the mid ‘80s.
September 22nd, 2022 at 3:39 PM ^
I find Neutrons sexy... their lack of charge is kind of metro-sexual and with the right critical mass I get an MGo-boner
September 22nd, 2022 at 4:31 PM ^
Your title sucks.
September 22nd, 2022 at 9:17 PM ^
Thanks, mr sparkle.
September 22nd, 2022 at 4:56 PM ^
If I can't drunkenly rant on social media about how I wish to cause a global nuclear event, then this obviously isn't the America out forefathers had intended