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- KuntaKinte, on 10/12/2007, -15/+428that must have been rad
- supermajic, on 10/12/2007, -78/+373In Soviet Russia, particle beam accelerator strikes you
- klown256, on 10/19/2007, -2/+273Damn, I was expecting him to have some type of super power.
- Leonichol, on 10/12/2007, -3/+272He does! "The left half of his face was frozen, due to the destruction of nerves, and does not age."
'Non-ageing left of face' - the 70s Russian version of marvel superpowers. - AllnightChemist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+222At least he didn't cross the streams. That would've been bad.
- Yashar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+154Who would ever think that the fountain of youth would be a particle accelerator?
- hotboxing, on 10/12/2007, -8/+147"The beam measured about 200,000 rads when it entered Bugorski's skull. ... 600 rads is enough to kill a person,"
Holy crap, I wonder what super powers he secretly has.
i think surviving something that over 150x more than the amount to kill someone is already superpowery enough - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+135Im not gonna say pics or it didnt happen, But 'The left half of his face was frozen, due to the destruction of nerves, and does not age' and he is still alive today... that'd have to be interesting to see.
- andresthor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+126picture of the guy
http://www.gd-info.km.ru/images/ifva/%C1%F3%E3%EE%F0%F1%EA%E8%E91.jpg
from the article pryanick posted below. - victorguttmann, on 10/12/2007, -1/+114Imagine it... a bunch of neutral superheroes...
- Dundasbro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+109Twoface?
- GMorgan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+96What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?
- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+83My guess is that most wrinkles are caused by movement over long periods of time (ie smile lines etc). I guess if you never move one side of your face (which is probably covered in scar tissue), it looks like it doesn't age.
- Sharkee, on 10/12/2007, -6/+87"The beam measured about 200,000 rads when it entered Bugorski's skull. ... 600 rads is enough to kill a person,"
Holy crap, I wonder what super powers he secretly has. - InferiorWang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+71The goggles! They do nothing!
- poracious, on 10/12/2007, -1/+72"Tell my wife I said... Hello."
- SultanTravi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+66Wikipedia is a great source of information. Just make sure what you're reading is true by checking the sources.
- stou, on 10/12/2007, -0/+45My old boss (high energy research physicist) said that it was quite common to put your eye ball in the beam line for low power particle accelerators back in the early days... to find the beam spot. Apparently the fluid in the eyeball (vitreous humor) acts like a scintillator... ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation )
- DrawingTheSun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+41this is sourced
- TheAkolyte, on 10/12/2007, -3/+40First Rasputin, now this!
- theOster, on 10/12/2007, -10/+44allnightchemist
i'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing, what do you mean, "bad"? - walkerj, on 10/12/2007, -3/+36He's seizure man!: http://www.explosm.net/comics/190/
- techotter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31the "that must have been rad" comment, is a pun on the word rad, which is a unit used in the article. the other comment is just stupid.
- dotMH, on 10/12/2007, -3/+31I'm from Finland, the most neutral country in the world and I can easily tell you it's sausages whence the neutrality cometh from.
- Masterrer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27Article with pictures of the guy:
http://www.gd-info.km.ru/science/iz23j98.htm - arjie, on 10/12/2007, -3/+30Puerile idiots. Replacing the image on a wiki. Bet you feel like leet haxx0rs, eh? Ah well, revised back anyway, and there's always the history.
- noreturn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24^Exactly. Think permanent botox.
- pryanick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21http://www.gd-info.km.ru/science/iz23j98.htm
from the newspaper "Известия" 23.01.1998 - briangig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21except he got it right in the head...
- bioskope, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21Anatoli Get Angry, Anatoli smash!!! Anatoli hates puny capitalists
- dungbeetle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19I'm intrigued about the no-aging part. Does anyone have any exterior info about what would cause this or has this guy really uncovered something useful?
- Tonyisbad, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20In comic books he would of became Comrade Red Proton a champion for the socialist republic and the defender of the Communist Party and their ideas. With super powers like shooting red communist power beams from his eyes, self propelled flight, super strength, and a bunch of other stuff. His signature line when he beats a capitalist scum would be "Dos Verdones Comrade"!
But in reality getting struck by a particle accelerator beam almost kills you. Another white line on the board for how fiction/comic books are way better than reality. - GiggleStick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17chicken is right. This is a well known result of people who have strokes or other conditions that cause paralyzation of one side of the face in relative youth.
- RichGC, on 10/12/2007, -6/+22"The left half of his face was frozen, due to the destruction of nerves, and does not age."
It would have been interesting to see a photo of this, but I was unable to find any photos of him. - JoeCool1986, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14They should totally market this.
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Get your body zapped for $10,000 and never age again!
Warning: side effects include seizures, chronic pain, loss of nerve tissue, and death - sofaKing812, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17I thought those pics would be a lot more gnarly. Oh well.
- davidleeroth, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18In case anyone's interested, I added his name in Russian (Анатолий Бугорский)
В советском союзе.... :) - Easty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13No superpowers :(
- hooksie, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16Bury your comment? If you insist...
- Xanium4332, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13BOOM! HEADSHOT.
- actionick, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14If CERN continue to blow up the magnets for their particle accelerator, everyone living in the Geneva area will be able to add to the experience..
- walkerj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12For all those people asking for pics, they're in this article.
- ragipy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13"The left half of his face was frozen, due to the destruction of nerves, and does not age."
Botox out, particle accelerators in ? - WoollyMittens, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Russia always has the most hair-raising accidents / disasters.
- HyperCog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10HOT story, but the title is wrong about him being the only person ever struck by a particle beam.
Aside from the fact that clinical accelerators commonly have two settings, one which directs the beam at a target (usually platinum) to generate high-intensity x-rays for cancer treatments and another setting to allow the beam to bath the patient directly with particles (usually electrons/beta) for other therapies, there have also been accidents resulting in injury and death.
Ed Haslam, the author of "Dr. Mary’s Monkey," interviewed Dr. John Roberts, surgeon and president of the Medical Legal Foundation. Roberts was one of the doctors who first used accelerators in the early 1960s to destroy cancer tissue, preferring it to Cobalt-60 because controlled more precisely, minimizing destruction of healthy tissue.
Dr. Roberts related the story of a man named Jack Nygard, an engineer at a company in Boston which manufactured linear accelerators, and who holds numerous patents for the technology which made possible the most powerful accelerators available before 1960. Nygard developed ingenious new commercial applications for linear accelerators, from preserving bananas to cross-bonding wood. By shooting particles laterally through plastic-laminated wood, Nygard created a new structural matrix inside the wood. The result was an ultra-hard super-wood that would never warp. It was the perfect low-maintenance solution for the bowling industry. Nygard turned entrepreneur and set up shop in the heart of the lumber industry near Seattle, Washington, where he began producing his super-wood on a commercial scale. His success continued until the day the technician running his accelerator did not notice that Jack had stepped into the wood-processing area. When the technician fired up the 5,000,000 volt machine, it was the last anyone ever saw of Jack Nygard. The beam burned him to the point of disintegration. They swept up his ashes. (Or so the story goes.)
Other reports may be found of overexposure, but this is the most spectacular I've heard of.
BTW, the Dr. Mary Sherman of the book title referenced above, was found dead with her entire left arm, half of her thorax and abdomen disintegrated, bone and all (according to the coroner's report, which I have read). The most likely cause is presumed by many to be the linear particle accelerator that she ran for a cancer research program, with much evidence that foul play was involved.
See http://drmarysmonkey.com for more on that story.
Also a short summary here: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKshermanM.htm - thetripp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10The 500-600 rad limit is when radiation kills your bone marrow. In 30 days, your blood cells die, and there's nothing to make more. I believe this was how Alexander Litvinenko died. If you get much higher than that, the radiation kills your GI tract, and you die of diarrhea/dehydration. This guy only got his head zapped, so no chance to kill the stuff that radiation really affects. At that point it is just depositing heat, which is why his face was burned.
- gllopc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9@inferiorwang: "The goggles! They do nothing!"
You beat me, and about 30 other people, to this comment.
You win! :) - MistressDee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I am a physicist, and I can only speculate how they came up with that number- it's disingenuous, but it's the only way I can see it having a Tev increase after colliding with his head. The device in question is a Synchrotron. This is a "variant" of the classic cyclotron combined with a synchrocyclotron. Thie design of such a device and the question of where in the process he got "hit" is the basis for my speculation- again, it's the only way I can visualize this happening, but I'm open to any other suggestions, assuming that the Soviets weren't lying through their teeth about it. Even so, I still question the values.... let me explain further.
A cyclotron's function is based on the use of a constant magnetic field working in conjunction with a constant-frequency applied electric field. In the case of the synchrocyclorton one but not both of these attributes is varied in "synch" with the cosntancy of the other.Tthe synchrocyclotron, syncrhonizes both of these elecronmagnetic attribues.the synchrotron.
To do this, the synchrotron is designed, like both the cyclotron and the synchrocyclotron to run a circular path for the "beam" (a really bad misnomer, but...) however it adds multiple beam initiators running around the circumference of the track and inserting (firing) particles into the vacuum of the track. each of these insertions is precisely positioned to intriduce the particle with a minumum of incidence angle to the orbital path, however, there is a "lag" that occurs at the point of insertion until the magnetic inductions accomodate the newly inserted particle. From the article, I'd assume that the gentleman in question inserted his head at one of these junctions, where the inserted particles would have been at a lower energy state before entering his head and then were accelerated on leaving it to the more expected levels of output.
So I think there's some disinginuity involved here. Basically correct facts- circumstantially wrong presentation of said facts.
I'm open to any other suggestions. - pureliquidhw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7read the comments above you. there are links to two pics.
- PacoDG, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Not sure who dugg you down, I would love to see a photo of the guy, very interesting stuff.
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