Terrifying Tales

How To Make A Nuke

Today we’re making nuclear bombs in just three, easy, legal* steps. (For legal reasons, this is all for informational purposes, we don’t condone or endorse the creation of nuclear weapons or illegal bombs, - love, Ashton). Step One: You need powerful conventional explosives or a gun-type assembly. The gun-type assembly method primarily uses a conventional explosive propellant to rapidly fire a subcritical piece of uranium-235 into another subcritical piece. Mechanism: A high-explosive charge (acting as a propellant, similar to a cannon) accelerates a uranium-235 "bullet" down a barrel to quickly collide with a uranium-235 "target." Purpose of Explosive: The explosive is used for the propulsion to bring the two pieces together, not for compression of the metal itself. The resulting combined mass is supercritical and initiates the chain reaction. Fissile Material: This method is simpler and was used for uranium-235 (highly enriched uranium or HEU). Plutonium-239 is unsuitable for this design because its higher rate of spontaneous neutron emission would cause the chain reaction to start too early ("fizzle") before the full mass is assembled. And then for your explosives: The implosion method uses carefully shaped conventional high explosives to compress the fissile core. Mechanism: A spherical shell of specially designed high explosives, called an explosive lens (or explosive lenses), surrounds a subcritical core ("pit") of fissile material. When detonated precisely and simultaneously, the explosives create an inward-moving, spherical shock wave that uniformly compresses the core. Explosive Type: This method requires conventional high explosives engineered for high-precision, symmetrical detonation. The explosives compress the fissile material, dramatically increasing its density, which effectively reduces the critical mass and transitions the core to a supercritical state. Fissile Material: The implosion design was a necessity for plutonium-239 because it must be assembled much faster than the gun-type to prevent a pre-detonation. However, it can also be used with uranium-235 or a composite core of both materials. Using implosion for U-235 allows for a more efficient weapon that requires less fissile material than the gun-type design. Second Two (this is the longest step): You need to obtain the Uranium-235, this is what can produce nuclear power. Natural Uranium is made up of two isotopes, U-235 making up approximately 0.7% & U-238 making up approximately 99.3% of uranium. Step Three. Grab your nuclear artillery shell or casing. Now you have 25 Kilograms of U-235 or 8 kilograms of Plutonium-239. So you need a nuclear device to lay your fissible material and explosives or gun type-assembly propeller in to achieve your nuclear fission chain reaction. You need to compress this material to achieve your chain reaction at a powerful enough threshold for implosion so you don’t just melt the uranium. How this crazy chain reaction works is when a free neutron strikes a fissile nucleus (like uranium-235), causing it to split and release energy and more neutrons. The complete fission of 1 kilogram of uranium-235 is equivalent to about 17.5 kilotons of TNT. So if you calculate the math you’ll have 437.5 kilotons of TNT worth of energy to explode. SOCIALS: Discord: (https://discord.com/invite/BX3jrQ4PVD [https://discord.com/invite/BX3jrQ4PVD]) Insta: https://www.instagram.com/brainjampodcast [https://www.instagram.com/brainjampodcast] Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SV47Q8 [https://open.spotify.com/show/0SV47Q8]... YouTube: @brainjampod

Terrifying Tales

SPooOoOOkYy SToRrrIeES! Yep, you heard - sorry, read - it here first! Gavin & Ashton tell their horrifyingly (long) stories to get you gripped on the latest paranormal activity. They talk about glasses I think, they also talk about their work lives, that's all I about paid attention to. Oh and of course, you'll still be learning with our copyrighted education segments because this is a semi-educational, even more semi-comedy podcast that delivers banger after banger. Did I hype this up for you? Yes? No? Okay just tell me how I did, you know where to find me. BJ SOCIALS: Discord: https://discord.com/invite/BX3jrQ4PVD [https://discord.com/invite/BX3jrQ4PVD] Insta: https://www.instagram.com/brainjampodcast [https://www.instagram.com/brainjampodcast] YouTube (we got cool animations): https://www.youtube.com/@BrainJamPod [https://www.youtube.com/@BrainJamPod] Spotify (why are you clicking this, you're most likely already here): https://open.spotify.com/show/0SV47Q8ImAgUYEZzsqYERm [https://open.spotify.com/show/0SV47Q8ImAgUYEZzsqYERm] #comedy [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/comedy] #donuts [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/donuts] #demon [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/demon] #podcast [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/podcast] #whitemen [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/whitemen]

Demons & Donuts

This Episode we..! Thank you. Are donuts demons? Are you a donut? All of these questions are questions. They won't be answered in the next episode. That's about all I got for this description, okay bye. BJ SOCIALS: YouTube: https://youtube.com/@brainjampod [https://youtube.com/@brainjampod] Discord: https://discord.com/invite/BX3jrQ4PVD [https://discord.com/invite/BX3jrQ4PVD] Insta: https://www.instagram.com/brainjampodcast [https://www.instagram.com/brainjampodcast] #comedy #donuts #demon #podcast #whitemen

The Pirate Code

ALL HANDS ON DECK! Today you landlubbers are being educated, but in a different way. We are creating the Brain Jam pirate code! Before the rules were somewhat simple - the Brains has an agenda, the co-host has their education segment as well as trying to guess the agenda, and they take turns hosting. But now mateys... we've made it convoluted! The Pirate Code: 1. The winner hosts the first episode of the next season. 2. Season themes have to be implemented into each episode, if failed to do so in some fashion the host (the Brains) loses one point. 3. The winner has a wheel, they can spin at any moment during the next season (where they choose the theme). On the wheel are point deductions and earnings. 2% chance to go to zero points, 3 point deductions that are: -3, -2, -1, and three possible point earnings: 1, 3, 5. 49%, 49% split. 4. There will be requests for season extensions, it has to be mutually agreed upon. 5. There’s a blacklist for agendas. So no: pronouns, articles, fanboys, or prepositions. 6. If we guess an agenda right, we claim one point. 7. Each cohost has one bonus guess for the agenda each season, if they guess it right they gain 2 points. If they're wrong, they lose a point. 8. You must document when the cohost mentions or activates the agenda during the recording to earn those points. 9. There is an honor system. 10. We can only guess the agenda when the topic of the episode starts. The host will say when the topic starts. 11. The cohost has only 1 challenge per season. We flip a coin, and if the verdict lands in favor of the challenger the Brains lose all their points. If the verdict isn't in favor of the co-host, The Brains' points are doubled. 12. Every episode when the topic starts, the host (the Brains) has to tally down the points they earn throughout the episode. Additionally, both cohosts calculate their points for their current point totals to see where they're at currently in the season. violated. One of these buffoons will walk the plank.. so remember, dead man tells no tales. BJ SOCIALS: Discord: https://discord.com/invite/BX3jrQ4PVD [https://discord.com/invite/BX3jrQ4PVD] Insta: https://www.instagram.com/brainjampodcast [https://www.instagram.com/brainjampodcast] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BrainJamPod [https://www.youtube.com/@BrainJamPod]

Is "Taco Soup" Actually Soup?

SHOULD "TACO SOUP" APPROPRIATELY BE LABELED IN THE SOUP CATEGORY? We talk about our lives, once again. The boys went on an another camping trip with their best buddy Fury, engaging in your casual campout activities the trio finds a mysterious bear during their trip. They also saw the newest Conjuring movie, it was.. fine. Ashton got his wisdom teeth taken out and saw Nine Inch Nails during their latest tour. Gavin has been slobbering over Silksong's game release, explaining his adoration over Hollow Night and its sequel. Finally, they debate over the semantics of what makes soup, a soup, specifically taco soup. DO YOU THINK TACO SOUP IS ACTUALLY SOUP OR MORESO A CHILI? _____________________________________________________________________________________ BJ SOCIALS: Discord: https://discord.com/invite/BX3jrQ4PVD [https://discord.com/invite/BX3jrQ4PVD] Insta: https://www.instagram.com/brainjampodcast [https://www.instagram.com/brainjampodcast] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BrainJamPod [https://www.youtube.com/@BrainJamPod]