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[–] 99 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Had Pierre Curie not died in an accident, he would most likely have eventually died of the effects of radiation, as did his wife, their daughter Irène, and her husband Frédéric Joliot.

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  • [–] 104 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    No true, he would've become a superhero like the meme suggests.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    The quote also mentioned Frédéric Joliot.

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  • [–] 57 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Obviously he was actually a woman, or he wouldn't have died.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Or turned intona superhero but is good at hiding it

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    What actually happened is Joliot turned into a supervilain, he killed Pierre Curie before he could become a superhero, but was ultimately defeated by Henri Bequerel, who is immortal.

    I thought this was common knowledge.

    In the meantime Irene Joliot died of the radiations, as everybody would expect.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Did anyone check Marie's grave?

    Most likely she melted into a sentient beam of radiation and is blasting all around the world, interfering with various radio signals, and science experiments, like John Bell's - just to fuck with Einstein.

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  • [–] 65 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Goddamn misogynistic radiation! Fight patriarchal particle decay!

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I don't think she got exposed to gamma radiation, she got a blood transfusion from Banner. So no, gamma radiation is still sexist.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    she got a blood transfusion from Banner

    The existence of blood transfusions implies the existence of blood cisfusions.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Banner is a gamma source iirc, especially when Hulk is out

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Maybe. But IIRC it's still not the reason she got the powers. I think it was because they were related or something, she was able to incorporate Hulk blood somehow. She didn't become She-Hulk due to massive exposure to radiation.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I would love to see a movie about her where she gets super powers instead of dying

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    And then there was that guy who ingested radium like a supplement and his jaw decayed. He was bulletproof, however. And he had laser beam eyes. It’s sort of a mixed bag.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Byers

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Wow, that was a wild read. I kept going to see if the man responsible for Radithor would get his after finding out it made him rich.

    Tap for spoilerNo legal justice but ...

    Bailey died of bladder cancer ... his body was exhumed nearly 20 years later, it was ... "ravaged by radiation".

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._A._Bailey#Death

    I guess it's a good example of Hanlon's razor, "Don't attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity"

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago*

    This does sound like a Marvel mutant? I think his name was "Furnace"? He had no jaw and his chest was flaming energy?

    Edit: That was not his name:

    Jono Starsmore, also known as Chamber, is a mutant who possesses mutant abilities including the generation and manipulation of concussive blasts of psionic energy from a furnace in his chest, telepathy for communication and mental manipulation.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    She should have been born in a comic book instead of real life.

    Classic mistake.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Maybe she should have been named Bruce. It's our strongest name!

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Now I want an issue of The Hulk where Madame Curie bursts through The Green Door as the hulkest hulk that ever hulked.

    MARIE CURIE IS STRONGEST THERE IS!

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Compound V works on women

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I mean, she is highly venerated by the scientific community, such that her research is still kept around despite being highly radioactive. Also, she was a living human being, as opposed to, y’know, a comic book character.

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