Badabinski

I was concerned about what happens when someone accidentally throws away a device with a fresh battery, but this:

The BV100 harnesses energy from the radioactive decay of its nickel-63 core. The two-micron thick core, sandwiched between two 10-micron thick diamond semiconductors

makes me feel a bit better. That really isn’t much radioactive material. Still, it’d be good to see some environmental impact studies done in some worst case scenarios.

It’s not a VR game by default, although I think there’s a mod or a VR version or something.

I love the thing about the bees. I remember doing the exact same thing multiple times. I eventually learned that you should leave them on the catwalk on the side of the ship and then run to grab them once the ship is leaving (since you’re safe as long as you’re on the ship somewhere, you’ll just be teleported inside with whatever you’re carrying).

Also, the airhorn is great. I think I like the hairdryer even more because it’s louder, and I think it’s fun that you can recharge it to get more VRRRRRRRs out of it.

Huh, sounds like a neat twist on the accelerator driven subcritical reactor. I’ve no idea what the viability will be, but it also seems like a nice way to generate useful isotopes for nuclear medicine and shit.

EDIT: ah, it’s actually a pretty old idea, it predates the accelerator reactor concept by quite a bit.