[Kelseecat65]

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[deanmine]

Originally Posted by Kelseecat65 ↗

Contribution to the thread by Kelseecat65:

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thank u for contributing to this...

[Kelseecat65]

I didn't think this photo went thru from my phone. This is a more recent photo of the gentleman I found.
He does not look too bad for what he has been thru!

[Kelseecat65]

Originally Posted by deanmine ↗

thank u for contributing to this...

I was hoping you wouldn't mind the additional photo! I never heard of this man before, so it was a very interesting post to read!!

[gscottdg]

Is he wearing handcuffs?

[deanmine]

Originally Posted by gscottdg ↗

Is he wearing handcuffs?

I think thats the generic picture pose used in mother russia

[HeadlessHorseman]

I wonder how many others the Russians have put in there to study since this happened.

[LadyCPlum]

I'm freaked out right now because I just literally read this story in a Ripley's Believe It Or Not book I have.....literally a few seconds before I came on the page!

[deanmine]

Originally Posted by LadyCPlum ↗

I'm freaked out right now because I just literally read this story in a Ripley's Believe It Or Not book I have.....literally a few seconds before I came on the page!

thats kicks ass, glad to be apart of it

[commondenom]

So with all the recent news about the Large Hadron Collider, many of you may have this nagging question: what, exactly, would happen if you stick your head in the particle accelerator?

Well, actually, we know the answer to that because someone did stick his head into a particle accelerator. Here's the story of Anatoli Bugorski:

Bugorski, a 36-year-old researcher at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Protvino, was checking a piece of accelerator equipment that had malfunctioned - as had, apparently, the several safety mechanisms. Leaning over the piece of equipment, Bugorski stuck his head in the space through which the beam passes on its way from one part of the accelerator tube to the next and saw a flash brighter than a thousand suns. He felt no pain.

From what we know about radiation, about 500 to 600 rads is enough to kill a person (though we don't know of anyone else who has been exposed to radiation in the form of a proton beam moving at about the speed of sound). The left side of his face swollen beyond recognition, Bugorski was taken to a clinic in Moscow so that doctors could observe his death over the following two to three weeks.

Over the next few days, skin on the back of his head and on his face just next to his left nostril peeled away to reveal the path the beam had burned through the skin, the skull, and the brain tissue. The inside of his head continued to burn away: all the nerves on the left were gone in two years, paralyzing that side of his face. Still, not only did Bugorski not die, but he remained a normally functioning human being, capable even of continuing in science. For the first dozen years, the only real evidence that something had gone neurologically awry were occasional petit mal seizures; over the last few years Bugorski has also had six grand mals. The dividing line of his life goes down the middle of his face: the right side has aged, while the left froze 19 years ago. When he concentrates, he wrinkles only half his forehead.